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TactiFailon A New Blend of Rock and Plastic Is Forming on a Portuguese Island

The planet will be here for a long, long, LONG time after we’re gone, and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, ’cause that’s what it does. It’s a self-correcting system. The air and the water will recover, the earth will be renewed. And if it’s true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new paradigm: the earth plus plastic. The earth doesn’t share our prejudice toward plastic. Plastic came out of the earth. The earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place. It wanted plastic for itself. Didn’t know how to make it. Needed us. Could be the answer to our age-old egocentric philosophical question, “Why are we here?”

“Plastic… asshole.” -- George Carlin

TactiFailon Google has made Usenet archives impossible to search

I always feel like I missed out on a pretty exciting era whenever I read about Usenet. I envy those who have strong memories around comp.* and wish that I could have been a part of it.

TactiFailon Pirate needs 200k video views to avoid being sued

I've always been a fan of alternative forms of punishment. A guy in my highschool got caught slipping envelopes containing glitter into lockers. Innocent enough prank, but some parents freaked out as this was post-9/11. Instead of suspension, he was told he needed to hand-write a page-long apology to each affected student, and would be denied field trips and the non-mandatory assemblies until it was done. It was around 70 letters he had to write, it only took him a few weeks, and the point was made.