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Phil Landmeier

@pmcneil @opsnlops @homeassistant This is the way.

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Bread and Circuses

The ever dependable Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) with a blistering diatribe against corporate “recycling” programs...
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Plastic recycling’s origin story starts in 1973, when Exxon’s scientists concluded that plastic recycling would never, ever be cost-effective.

Exxon sprang into action: they popularized the recycling arrow logo and backed “anti-littering” campaigns that blamed the rising tide of immortal toxic garbage on peoples’ laziness.

When I was a kid in Ontario, we had centralized, regulated, reusable bottle depots — beer and soda bottles came in standard sizes, differentiated by paper labels that could be pressure-washed off. When you were done with your bottle, you returned it for a deposit and it got washed and returned to bottlers to be refilled again and again and again.

After intense lobbying from soda companies, brewers and the plastic industry, that program was replaced with curbside “blue boxes” that promised to recycle our plastic waste. 90% of the plastics created has never been — and will never be — recycled. Today, the plastic industry plans on *tripling* the amount of single-use plastic in use worldwide.

Think of the billions of human labor hours we all spent washing and sorting our plastics for a recycling program that didn’t exist and will never exist — imagine if we’d spent that time and energy demanding that our politicians hold petrochemical companies to account instead.
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FULL ARTICLE HERE -- doctorow.medium.com/dow-promis

#GreenWashing #Pollution #AntiCapitalism

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Phil Landmeier

@mraharrison @GayDeceiver Yes, well, in the U.S. anyone with a heartbeat can be elected to almost any office and that seems wrong to me given the potentially great responsibilities of public office.

After Trump was out of office I saw an interview where he was asked what surprised him when he became president. He said he was surprised that he was expected to actually lead, that people looked up to him and expected leadership. Before that he thought the president was mainly a figurehead and that the government ran itself.

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Phil Landmeier

@mraharrison @GayDeceiver Well, true. I guess I can dream. Haha.

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Phil Landmeier

@GayDeceiver In my dreams! But it could happen.

I would add to the U.S. Criminal Code: any politician or public official caught lying to the public in an official capacity. (Penalty to be determined.)

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Kurt Opsahl

Sad news - Daniel Ellsberg, the whistleblower of the Pentagon Papers, has incurable cancer. Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and Ellsberg brought much needed light on the Vietnam War. The publication of the docs he leaked in the NYT and WaPo led to a critical Supreme Court decision on freedom of the pres. Justice Hugo Black (concurring in the judgment) frames the reasons why we need a strong press, which necessarily relies on whistleblowers, shedding light on the government.

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Phil Landmeier

Florida's anti-blogging bill would attempt to restrict what we can say here about Florida's politicians:

thedailybeast.com/floridas-ant

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Phil Landmeier

@Forbes I'll bet he does it anyway, in secret.

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Mark Ruffalo

A “news” agency pushing the “big lie” knowing that it was false. You got to feel bad for the people who get their information from them. What else are they being lied to about? How many other daily lies are they being innocently fed? It’s a huge betrayal to them & the rest of us.

“Murdoch said Fox News hosts Sean Hannity, Lou Dobbs, Maria Bartiromo and Jeanine Pirro all endorsed the notion that the election was stolen.”

huffpost.com/entry/murdoch-dom

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Phil Landmeier

Oh no. This guy was the greatest ever.

apnews.com/article/wayne-short

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Matt Dagley

PEI is also banning TikTok from government devices.
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RT @InfoPEI
Province banning TikTok on Government connected devices #peigovnewsrelease princeedwardisland.ca/en/news/
twitter.com/InfoPEI/status/163

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Black Aziz Anansi :vm:

"A Republican in Florida just introduced a bill that would ban the Democratic Party from existing in the state. Registered Democrats in Florida would be notified that their party has been “canceled” and they’re now no-party voters."

floridapolitics.com/archives/5

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Phil Landmeier

@three_star_dave But only locally. Elmo's actions affect over a billion people.

Even so, I agree with you from a U.S. point of view and was going to mention the difference you point out, but didn't.

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Phil Landmeier

@cfiesler @pluralistic Another reason to stop using Google Search, which I did in 2018.

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Michael O’Grady

Calling on Cable Companies to Shut Down #FoxNews #Newsmax, #OAN

WHY?
SEDITION/RACISM/LIES

#Comcast
#Xfinity
#ATT
#CharterCommunications
#Spectrum
#DishAndSlingTV
#CoxCommunications
#Verizon
#AlticeUSA
#FrontierCommunications
#Mediacom
#CableOne

GREED or DEMOCRACY

#MOG

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Michael O’Grady

The day before Jan. 6 attack, top Fox execs discussed whether to make primetime hosts dispel election lies

Rupert understood that Fox could do something about the false claims… uniquely positioned to state the message that the election was not stolen

#MOG
rawstory.com/fox-news-discusse

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Phil Landmeier

@mog7546 Attempting to manipulate an election used to be illegal.

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Phil Landmeier

@rbreich @inequalitymedia We also need to boost immigration to help replace the millions we've lost to Covid and long-Covid.

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JonChevreau 🇨🇦

Musk’s defense of Scott Adams shows why he is misguided and dangerous theguardian.com/commentisfree/

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Phil Landmeier

@w7voa I dunno. Seems that for years now society has been giving up the most powerful motivator for people to improve: shame.

I favor not only grading papers but posting everyone's grades on the classroom door. It works.

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