It’s a bit of a shit show in Australia.

Each city is responsible for it’s own waste management. Mine has 3x channels: green waste for biodegradable anything, recyclables, and everything else.

The recyclables are a furphy though because, you can put anything plastic or paper in them, but ofc it’s really only the PET plastic and the cardboard that actually gets recycled - the rest just goes to land fill.

We have a separate system for specific PET bottles vendors charge $0.10 per bottle, and you can return the bottles to a collection place to get that back.

We did have a separate system for soft plastics like plastic bags or whatever but that pretty much just wasn’t viable.

Rant triggered: we’ve aparently stopped single use plastics like takeaway boxes, plastic bags, and plastic cuttlery, but IMO that’s really just a fig leaf for companies that ship products in plastic packaging. It really shits me.

Additional rant: producers of plastic products like garbage bags have started this bullshit “ocean plastics” thing. They claim 50% or whatever of their bullshit bags are made from “ocean plastic” which they define as recycled plastic obtained from any community within 50km of the ocean (the vaaaast majority of Australians) which has no other plastic collection program. So basically… they charge city councils to disappear their plastic waste and then charge idiots to buy their “ocean plastic” garbage bags.

Actually I think they want to publish numbers about Australian Migrant Crime to stoke the same kind of divisive politics here in Australia.

Fair point.

Yes, but will any of Trump’s supporters really care what may be in the original documents if a doctored set released by the administration provides cover?

I haven’t understood the fight for the “release of the Epstein files” since the start.

What’s to prevent them releasing fake documents?

As if this administration would ever release information detrimental to Trump or any other republican in favor.

The coming release will include nothing of substance about republicans.

I’ve been using Linux for a long time and I don’t know any of this really.

Basically, home directory is for everything, unless some instructions say some other path.

The fact that the American public doesn’t care about this is pretty much what has allowed Trumpism to arise.

Probably not that much honestly.

The resource intensive part is the initial training.

Tuning later is much less so.

Here they’re pretty great with welfare stuff.

Once my neighbour warned me about robots with lasers invading or something, and was talking to someone who didn’t exist.

I called the po-po, who showed up and talked him into going to the emergency department with them.

I bumped into his mum a few weeks later and she thanked me for calling the police. She said he’d been having a psychotic break or something.

It was definitely a thing at school in the 80s.

I was listening to a podcast about this.

Basically if things get toxic enough that the oligarcs become dissatisfied, you can unseat a dictator.

The tariffs were initially on track to do this in May or so, but someone expressed their dissatisfaction to Trump and he listened.

Boycotts have a potential to make a significant impact, but I don’t think Americans have the collective will to implement one in the current climate.

I don’t have your faith.

Nothing in the last decade has given any indication that the US has the ability or inclination to deal with this.

Yeah im suddenly a bit lost.

I was hoping to by a 78 series truck / ute in 3 or 4 years. Every time I see one i marvel at them.

Now that dream is ruined.

Yeah it really is.

Im getting a bit nutty about it. Every time someone mentions starlink I rage a little bit and its hard to resist a rant.

People have been talking about “post scarcity” since forever.

Yes, in the far distant future people will be able to have things they need and not have to work. AI will also exist in that future.

However, I don’t think anyone believes that future will arrive in the next decade.

I’m not saying Trump doesn’t have dementia, but I don’t feel like this outburst is really evidence of that?

He doesn’t like women. Doesn’t like journalists. Doesn’t like smart women. Doesn’t like being asked questions.

His base loves this stuff. No one is going to hold him accountable. He can say anything he likes with impunity.

What do you mean “what if”? Of course thats what they’re going to do.

I’ve been saying this since the start. The Trump administration will never release anything damaging to Trump.

They’ll just release some fairytale. They’ve had months to get it in order.

What about all the safety tech?

This isbprobably a philosophical question that i dont know the answer to, but its still a waste.