Well fuck the UK but lolz at 4chan. Once, long ago, they were a place to watch faces of death type stuff. And it went downhill from there.

or both

I never had money or a science degree. I just watched Cosmos as a kid, devoured documentaries, and read articles on wikipedia all day.

I was kind of indifferent to rule breaking at the sub level but always careful to avoid rule breaking at the site level and not one of my appeals was ever upheld.

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I agree

When recycling first started where I live, we had multiple bins. Paper, and i want to say metal/glass and plastic. Plus garbage and yard waste. But I’m refering to the fact that paper by itself faces additional sorting prior to recycling.

So like a Pioneer plaque but spelling out in pictogram form particle physics and nuclear decay

I was agreeing with your “not just one type of plastic” comment

I was talking about weight vs mass

For day to day life, weight and mass might as well be the same. I love science and astronomy but I’m not buying a pound of lunch meat at the deli counter to take into space.

To me, kilometers and miles are in a similar class; I don’t have a reason to prefer one over the other. Same with kilos/pounds. Even though a kilo is more than double a pound, it’s used to measure the same kinds of things. As with Centimeters/inches, quarts/liters, yards/meters.

Metric seems to do better at measuring very small things, or very precise things, but lacks middle measures that help with day to day life like Ounces and Feet. If there was a metric foot, like a quarter or third of a meter, it would be more useful. Same if there was a metric ounce, lets say 25 grams (an actual ounce is slightly over 28 grams).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nuclear_waste_warning_messages

People have put alot of thought into this exact topic and there’s no easy answers

Biggest misconception by far. You can’t just “melt it down” like you can with glass or aluminum or steel

In most countries, recycling paper only made financial sense if they shipped it to poor countries or used prison labor so it could be inexpensively sorted thru. Traditionally it was China, but they stopped accepting it. And letting microorganisms do what they do consumes less resources like electricity and less industrial chemicals.

Any plan that starts with “if people would just”, they in fact will probably not

They’re also fascist countries where the government can and do set strict limits on content without concern for rule of law or the will of the people.

I mean, testing showed it generally got the point across even if people didn’t understand why it was dangerous

Someone wished Trump would die of disease (and didn’t get banned), I wish him a long life and lots of suffering from disease so reddit banned me for advocating for violence (they’d been targeting me)

Important to note that recycling some things makes sense, like metal. And recycling glass makes sense but sanitizing and reusing bottles makes alot more sense. There’s also been a push to compost as much paper product as possible since that makes way more sense than recycling paper. Our green bins now take any brown cardboard with no tape and pizza boxes.