Notices by Christopher Lemmer Webber (cwebber@octodon.social)

@MagicBoson I visited a site in a slum in India where I saw firsthand people handling recycling processing of plastics, handling corrosive chemicals without protection. The person walking me through the area explained that while the factories they were working for in theory demanded that the workers use protective gloves, they were also given a mostly impossible to meet with care and protection quota, so everyone knew that protection was mostly not used.

I should clarify: by "even of the stuff that can be recycled, most isn't", I mean "even of the stuff that is correctly put in the recycling bin and could, in theory, be recycled, most isn't", even then.

Overview of how much (or rather, little) is recyclable in terms of plastic, and just how much (about 250 pounds *per person* *per year*... more than the average person's weight in plastic per year) https://apps.npr.org/plastics-recycling/

Though, the article doesn't make as clear: even of the stuff that "can be" recycled, most isn't still. We need to end our addiction to disposable plastics before it ends us.

(You might want to click the "reader view" for this article.)

It's been a while since I wrote an `if __name__ == "__main__":`

@emsenn Um... do you know what neighbor did that? Sounds like an animal cruelty case.

@nolan AMP's rewriting of stuff to be hosted by Google specifically in a way that increases their surveillance, with *pressure* to do so in exchange for a boost in traffic that will absolutely go away anyway once they've forced the entire ecosystem to move over to it, is a sure sign of monopolistic behavior that Google deserves to get hit with an antitrust lawsuit for more than anything else I've seen so far.

@nolan AMP's rewriting of stuff to be hosted by Google specifically in a way that increases their surveillance, with *pressure* to do so in exchange for a boost in traffic that will absolutely go away anyway once they've forced the entire ecosystem to move over to it, is a sure sign of monopolistic behavior that Google deserves to get hit with an antitrust lawsuit for more than anything else I've seen so far.

@nolan that one!

@nolan fuck AMP tbqh

@timecowboy I really enjoy these comics!

I think the bottom left panel on this one's text is a bit misphrased? I'm guessing it's meant to say something like "How's it going back there, Beetle?"

@mala @graydon Maybe it continues to not be the best forum to try to discuss this, but I tried to put some of my own thoughts on this in the "Freedom of speech also means freedom to filter" section of OcapPub https://gitlab.com/spritely/ocappub/blob/master/README.org

But, maybe you all are right that this is best discussed over another medium that isn't 500char restricted posts. (And yet I thought the conversation above was pretty good, all considering!)

@louis I appreciate what I think you are trying to say, though it's not so easy to shake off:

- I have clinical depression; reasoning about how it's irrational, even about how I'm making a positive social impact, doesn't seem to make it go away (even though fears of the opposite makes it worse). More about my depression: https://dustycloud.org/blog/on-hackers-and-depression/
- Today's source of stress is about family members I don't want to cut off; that makes it complicated.

I was feeling fairly stressed and depressed today, but I had a *very* nice call with Mark S. Miller discussing ideas for his upcoming keynote for ActivityPub Conf, and it has me so excited that I am in a much better mood now!

@brennen I actually think the Beyond Burger is better, but I'm glad to see the Impossible Burger more widely available!

@electret Putting aside the *particular* issue of ethics at hand, sadly I wish I could say it were so but I don't think that trying to behave ethically makes one happier. The people I know who actively work to behave ethically tend to seem to have more depression issues; I think this is partly because trying to pay attention to how broken the world is and trying to fix it can be demoralizing... even if it's the right thing to do.