corpo_punisho

"Political noise" is completely subjective. There was a time within the last 10 years when claiming "White supremacists are a serious problem" got you branded as a SJW.

Does Texas really need to flip blue if the country transitions away from the electoral college? The arguments being made for doing so recently have quite a bit of sense when you think about it.

How has the influence of lobbying been counteracted in other cases?

COVID is incredibly dangerous primarily because of how it is spread, not primarily because sick people are taking up hospital beds.

The pandemic is first and foremost a health issue, not a resource issue.

Mirror how it succeeded in Maine.

> You dont quit an addiction, you replace it with something else

Not true. Some things are habit forming, like cigarettes or really fun books or games. The same is true for social media. All addictions must start at some point.

That doesn't mean the plastics industry should be able to pass off their materials as recyclable. This is is a good move by California.

Why were they allowed to change their symbol to resemble the recycling symbol?

For various reasons. But without our individual reason, the alternative is not misery. We can come up with other reasons. Or just do without reason (such as when we satisfy natural drives).

The only alternative to religious thinking is misery? That sounds very much like religion insisting upon itself, like when they claim that without the fear of god we would all be savage and immoral. It's nonsense, really.

But there were a few absurd reductions in what you said, including the idea that the prevention of suffering is tenable yet somehow nihilistic.

Would it not be more sustainable to focus on spreading joy instead of preventing suffering? That way you won't drive yourself crazy focusing on the negative aspects of humanity.