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I was a redditor pre Eternal September.

The point of Eternal September is that it happens all the time, so when was that?

In which context does someone get a circumcision mid teens?

When you leave the frankfurters for too long on the pan.

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Agreed, I would add that the good-intentioned politicians only see the medium term benefits of avoiding terrorism and don't consider enough that the system they are building may be used by future governments against democracy. It's a kind of democracy cockiness to think that institutions will prevent power abuse and that democracy will always prevail.

The European carbon tax is doing pretty doing good at making the European energy system greener by making fossil fuels less competitive. Renewables are now very competitive.

If the taxes are redistributed to help the poor buy more sustainable product it may work.

Yes some of the products have extremely functional uses, but for the rest of it

Don't you think most plastic products are used because it's convenient?

I fight against it, but it is hard to not recognize how a plastic bottle is much lighter than any other bottle material, how convenient it is to get a plastic bag at the shop when you forgot yours, how convenient it is to get a ready meal in a cheap plastic box instead of an expensive and/or heavy washable container that you may have to bring back etc. Even compared to paper bags, plastic bags are more resistant, lighter and more compact.
There are probably much more similar convenience uses in the industry.
Plastic is mostly used because it's convenient, not because of a big plastic conspiracy.

So to solve the issue, we need states to make it expensive enough that people will overcome the inconvenience. Making people pay for plastic bags at shops works very well, for example.

I speak as someone horrified by the over-abundance of plastics in Japan. Some fruits have 3 layers of plastic around, even bananas come in plastic bags, because modern Japan is all about looking clean and being convenient, zero fucks given to ecology.

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It's not specific to Reddit, you'll see that in any community, probably because we are social animals.

Green energy that could go to higher priority sectors like decarborning housing, food production and transportation . Carbon free doesn't mean no ecological impact, of course it's better than fossil fuel, but it still a lot of ressources extracted and place taken over nature (which is the first cause of biodiversity loss). So ideally we should only destroy so much for essential needs.

The hack was performed by a 13 old Kenyan using ChatGPT to avenge his father, traumatized for life after being exploited by OpenAI to label images containing torture and pedophilia.