This is very likely the only time the AC expresses any interest in the problems of the disabled, when it is an excuse to say "fucking liberals". If someone were to suggest that laws require restaurants to keep a supply of plastic straws for the disabled the AC would probably post to denounce those "fucking liberals" imposing snowflake requirements on "the market".
The free floating anger that Republicans tap into. Teach the stupid to blame everything on a target group, and it is amazing what you cen get them to do.
Anyhow, it remains that the gyres of plastic and the mechanically degraded forms are indeed a problem, no matter the political inclinations of any one person.
I am not a modern Republican because I point out that blaming the usual targets will not fix the problem. We can't clean this up by New York or Tennessee banning plastic drinking straws.
New York and Tennessee are not the problems. Filthy disgusting people with nasty trash habits in a few countries are the problem. But the problem is that the people who are doing this are not allowed to be the defined problem.
But it isn't a race problem. It's a problem of people with horrible habits.
So is your nose. You can expect that if you don't clean an object, it'll get dirty, and fun things will grow on them. Most of those fun things you had introduced via your lips.
This may not really help with cleanup but we can at least agree that developed nations are 100% responsible for this plastic mess.
This is as wrong as it gets. Exactly where did you get that idea?
I know the UN has been putting out a lot of information that is trying to walk a tightrope, but with implied blame being white Usians. But they know exactly where the problem's sources are, And they aren't here.
Fact is, as much fun as it is to blame everything on us, it takes cognitive dissonance worthy of a senile Fox viewer to blame the problem on who they are trying to blame it on.
It doesn't fit their racial narrative, because the people doing this are not "white" whatever that is.
Which is screwed up, because it is a problem of people being disgusting filthy pigs, not a problem of skin pigmentation.
So if you like, scream at that guy in Nebraska because he's at fault in your world. But don't you dare pick on the people throwing that plastic in rivers they use as a trash dumps.
Just don't expect any results. He's not the problem.
It's even better to fight the problem at the source: don't dump it in those rivers. Or still better, fight the problem at the source: don't make single use articles from material that lasts for ever. With that out of the way, let's think about what we could do about the plastic that's already in the oceans. I heard a young guy from the Netherlands is working on something...
Given that almost all of the ocean plastic comes from China and Africa, if the US and Europe made all plastic packaging illegal, it would have no effect on the problem. It is probably better to talk to the people that are causing the problem.
The problem isn't plastics, it is what some people do with them.
Paper packaging involves cutting down trees. If the packaging needs to be structurally sound, it needs to be first use.
Glass takes a lot of energy to produce
And if people just threw their paper packaging and glass in the river, that would cause a problem as well.
Y'all need to talk to the people that cause the problem, not scream at some guy in Nebraska who probably recycles plastic anyhow.
Simpsons? One of my moms friends used to work on the Sea Shepherd. This is how people can protect the environment. Set up a non profit and go off to sea and fight the ignorance, hate and misery against Mother Earth created by white privilege.
I trust that you are being sarcastic or ironic rather than stupid. Almost all of the ocean plastic comes from China and Africa.
I'm more of an environmentalist than most in here, but banning plastic straws in 'Murrica is virtue signalling, and the problem being caused by "white privilege" is about as wrong as you can get.
Doh! I'm worthless tonight. I wrote:
"But now, the Republican party is staking it's future on the 35 percent of Americans who are their base. I realize that a minority candidate can become president due to a quirk in our system, but last time I checked, you have to win more than 50 percent."
What I meant to write was:
"but last time I checked, you have to win a majority in all the other races."
You kidding? The GOP establishment hates Trump as much as you do..
If the organization doesn't stand in a person's way, if they enact all that he demands, then their hatred, for all it's internal sound and fury, signifies nothing.
I do not disagree that the GOP establishment hates him. But it is an interesting bit of brinksmanship they are playing. If say, his Supreme court nomination swings the vote, and Roe V Wade goes down in flames, the holy base loses on of their hot button issues.
As an independent voter, at one time I was a reliable vote for Republican candidates. But that was at t ime when science wasn't a bad word (remember President Bush Senior, who called himeslf the Environmental President without irony? Remember when the Republican party did not try to weld religion to thye government?
But now, the Republican party is staking it's future on the 35 percent of Americans who are their base. I realize that a minority candidate can become president due to a quirk in our system, but last time I checked, you have to win more than 50 percent.
They are no longer quite sane, and have a leader who they allow to lead them unimposed that is even more kookoo for cocoapuffs. But until they stop him, they are him.
You need to tell the Republican Party, who doesn't oppose him, and I've been seeing a lot of Republican Candidates braying about how they "Stand with Trump."
The party has changed in a remarkably short period of time to reflect whatever Trump wants them to reflect, and to do his bidding,
And remember, they purged their party of moderate candidates, so looks like a lot of conservatives will soon have to conform or be cast out.
If Obama threatened China with tariffs, you would have jumped up and down and peed your pants a little.
China has been abusing trade due to the West's "asleep at the wheel" style of management for a long time.
I'm an independent, and the party doesn't mean much to me.
Nope, anti-competitive laws and taxes are terribly regressive, and very counterproductive.
It is why I call y'all crypto-conservatives. You have been groomed for so long that you can go against your core principles and become the very thing you hate. And your pavlovian grooming won't even let you see the 180 degree course change you just took.
Interesting to see how the taxes are always bad crowd are giddily cumming in their pants at this - to use your style.
Sure, if you pay close attention to what they're doing (tariffs, imposing regulations on states to protect corporations in defiance of the 10th amendment, record H1-B labor imports, etc, etc). But if you don't care about policy (or only care about the two big wedge issues, gun control and abortion) they're still on point. They still use rhetoric of low taxes & small government.
Remember though, Republican politicians do not care about wedge issues other than maintaining them as wedge issues. If abortion becomes illegal, it is no longer any use. And gun control especially. Not only is it a wedge issue, but a lot of Republicans get foreign money laundered by the NRA funneled to them.
C.I.A. N I G G E R S at HAARP using their megawatt HF neuro-transponder in a vile effort to effect the rise of the Antichrist and to erase the world's remaining 1.44MB floppy disks.
i work on an e-commerce website, 40% of our business comes from mobile. We can't ignore that no matter how much i personally hate browsing on the phone.
That's why I design to look good on any platform. But sheesh, going to a website that shows up as a couple words because the font's are screwed up and everything is too damn big is enough to get me to go elsewhere. And in most cases, I'm not going to install an app. The few times I tried that the results weren't much better. And if I'm giving a company personal info to monetize or weaponize, the least they could do is not look like crap while doing it.
The "web designers" I've seen are just print page layout designers now doing web design, with little functional knowledge of how a web page operates, and little interest in mobile layouts.
That could explain a lot.
It isn't like layout skills are not needed, but there is a whole lot of html coding that makes it work properly.
Gotta agree. Don’t know if the fundamental issue is actually ”mobile” or just “dumb designers”... but mobile sites usually suck.
And “responsive” sites mostly seem to take that bad mobile ethos and force it on everybody, including desktop browsers. In any case, I guess that’s at least equal-opportunity suckitude...
I gotta go with dumb designers. I'm a half dumb designer, and I manage to make the sites I run look good on whichever platform you are on.
I suspect these hotshots do not check out their pages except on the computer they design them on. I check my sites out on phone before I publish.
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They have an easy replacement with paper straws, and theyâ(TM)re small enough to be generally unrecylable. Ditching them is a good idea.
Perhaps there can be gourmet paper straws made from rain forest wood. Ducking now.
conform or be cast out.
Now I'm just waiting for Alex Lifeson to say "Subdivisions!".
I was hoping someone would catch that.
Not to mention banning straws is actively fucking over people without the motor-skills necessary to drink from a glass.
Nobody is banning straws. .
Correction: http://www.foxnews.com/politic... https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0... https://www.fastcompany.com/40...
Yes, there is a lot ov virtue signaling going on, while the countries that are doing the actual plastic pollution continue unabated.
For me, it is a matter of whether we want to pat ourselves on the back, perhaps give out friend of the earth trophies, or actually fix the problem.
Banning plastic straws in the US is simply not going to accomplish anything.
This is very likely the only time the AC expresses any interest in the problems of the disabled, when it is an excuse to say "fucking liberals". If someone were to suggest that laws require restaurants to keep a supply of plastic straws for the disabled the AC would probably post to denounce those "fucking liberals" imposing snowflake requirements on "the market".
The free floating anger that Republicans tap into. Teach the stupid to blame everything on a target group, and it is amazing what you cen get them to do.
Anyhow, it remains that the gyres of plastic and the mechanically degraded forms are indeed a problem, no matter the political inclinations of any one person.
I am not a modern Republican because I point out that blaming the usual targets will not fix the problem. We can't clean this up by New York or Tennessee banning plastic drinking straws.
New York and Tennessee are not the problems. Filthy disgusting people with nasty trash habits in a few countries are the problem. But the problem is that the people who are doing this are not allowed to be the defined problem.
But it isn't a race problem. It's a problem of people with horrible habits.
So is your nose. You can expect that if you don't clean an object, it'll get dirty, and fun things will grow on them. Most of those fun things you had introduced via your lips.
You can get your lips inside your nose?
It comes from China and Africa because we send our garbage there, not because they're using so much plastic on their own.
Right. They pay us for the plastic, then just throw it in the river for the lulz.
Coolest freaken story ever, bro!
You are like a Republican trying to explain how trickle down theory works. Only the narrative of "evil white people" is your touchstone.
but with 5 billion new pounds of plastic ending up in the Pacific every year, they're gonna need a whole lot more booms.
It will be a booming business.
This may not really help with cleanup but we can at least agree that developed nations are 100% responsible for this plastic mess.
This is as wrong as it gets. Exactly where did you get that idea?
I know the UN has been putting out a lot of information that is trying to walk a tightrope, but with implied blame being white Usians. But they know exactly where the problem's sources are, And they aren't here.
Fact is, as much fun as it is to blame everything on us, it takes cognitive dissonance worthy of a senile Fox viewer to blame the problem on who they are trying to blame it on.
It doesn't fit their racial narrative, because the people doing this are not "white" whatever that is.
Which is screwed up, because it is a problem of people being disgusting filthy pigs, not a problem of skin pigmentation.
So if you like, scream at that guy in Nebraska because he's at fault in your world. But don't you dare pick on the people throwing that plastic in rivers they use as a trash dumps.
Just don't expect any results. He's not the problem.
It's even better to fight the problem at the source: don't dump it in those rivers. Or still better, fight the problem at the source: don't make single use articles from material that lasts for ever. With that out of the way, let's think about what we could do about the plastic that's already in the oceans. I heard a young guy from the Netherlands is working on something...
Given that almost all of the ocean plastic comes from China and Africa, if the US and Europe made all plastic packaging illegal, it would have no effect on the problem. It is probably better to talk to the people that are causing the problem.
The problem isn't plastics, it is what some people do with them.
Paper packaging involves cutting down trees. If the packaging needs to be structurally sound, it needs to be first use.
Glass takes a lot of energy to produce
And if people just threw their paper packaging and glass in the river, that would cause a problem as well.
Y'all need to talk to the people that cause the problem, not scream at some guy in Nebraska who probably recycles plastic anyhow.
Most of the plastic in the ocean comes from a handful of rivers. Put the giant trap in the mouths of those rivers, and you'll catch a lot more.
Yet the plastic shaming is aimed at the US and Europe.
Its like looking under a streetlamp for your lost keys when you know you didn't lose them there, but hey, the light's better.
Simpsons? One of my moms friends used to work on the Sea Shepherd. This is how people can protect the environment. Set up a non profit and go off to sea and fight the ignorance, hate and misery against Mother Earth created by white privilege.
I trust that you are being sarcastic or ironic rather than stupid. Almost all of the ocean plastic comes from China and Africa.
I'm more of an environmentalist than most in here, but banning plastic straws in 'Murrica is virtue signalling, and the problem being caused by "white privilege" is about as wrong as you can get.
"but last time I checked, you have to win a majority in all the other races."
You kidding? The GOP establishment hates Trump as much as you do. .
If the organization doesn't stand in a person's way, if they enact all that he demands, then their hatred, for all it's internal sound and fury, signifies nothing.
I do not disagree that the GOP establishment hates him. But it is an interesting bit of brinksmanship they are playing. If say, his Supreme court nomination swings the vote, and Roe V Wade goes down in flames, the holy base loses on of their hot button issues.
As an independent voter, at one time I was a reliable vote for Republican candidates. But that was at t ime when science wasn't a bad word (remember President Bush Senior, who called himeslf the Environmental President without irony? Remember when the Republican party did not try to weld religion to thye government?
But now, the Republican party is staking it's future on the 35 percent of Americans who are their base. I realize that a minority candidate can become president due to a quirk in our system, but last time I checked, you have to win more than 50 percent. They are no longer quite sane, and have a leader who they allow to lead them unimposed that is even more kookoo for cocoapuffs. But until they stop him, they are him.
It's a tariff not a tax.
Sincerely, Sarah Huckerby Sanders
Almost got me there!
Trump isn't a Republican.
You need to tell the Republican Party, who doesn't oppose him, and I've been seeing a lot of Republican Candidates braying about how they "Stand with Trump."
The party has changed in a remarkably short period of time to reflect whatever Trump wants them to reflect, and to do his bidding,
And remember, they purged their party of moderate candidates, so looks like a lot of conservatives will soon have to conform or be cast out.
If Obama threatened China with tariffs, you would have jumped up and down and peed your pants a little.
China has been abusing trade due to the West's "asleep at the wheel" style of management for a long time.
I'm an independent, and the party doesn't mean much to me.
Nope, anti-competitive laws and taxes are terribly regressive, and very counterproductive.
It is why I call y'all crypto-conservatives. You have been groomed for so long that you can go against your core principles and become the very thing you hate. And your pavlovian grooming won't even let you see the 180 degree course change you just took. Interesting to see how the taxes are always bad crowd are giddily cumming in their pants at this - to use your style.
Sure, if you pay close attention to what they're doing (tariffs, imposing regulations on states to protect corporations in defiance of the 10th amendment, record H1-B labor imports, etc, etc). But if you don't care about policy (or only care about the two big wedge issues, gun control and abortion) they're still on point. They still use rhetoric of low taxes & small government.
Remember though, Republican politicians do not care about wedge issues other than maintaining them as wedge issues. If abortion becomes illegal, it is no longer any use. And gun control especially. Not only is it a wedge issue, but a lot of Republicans get foreign money laundered by the NRA funneled to them.
A tariff is not a tax, and has, in fact, been constitutionally supported for much longer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariff_of_1789
Well then you disagree with Trump himself - He calls it a tax.
Anyhow, looks like the Republican party is on to a big thing according to you. Just call everything tariffs
Yeah. They are poopy-heads. Haw haw. 4-year-olds applaud your insight
As you prove.
So you're saying... Trump is a Democrat and we should support him, since he's against the GOP?
Here is what I am saying. Republicans tell us they are against taxes. Trump puts tariffs on Chinese good, which ar exactly taxes.
Republicans have always consiudered Russia a mortal enemy. There is only one world leader that Trump has not had a word of dissent for. Putin.
There are others. And the Republican party has not lifted one finger to disagree witrh him.
And as former George W Bush said If you are not with us, you are against us.
Core values of the Republican party have been usurped, And the spiineless cowards of the Russian fifth column do not block it, so they support it.
If you are a Republican you are pro Trump. If you do not opppose a person who eliminated your party's core values, You have adopted those values.
Any questions now about what I am saying?
C.I.A. N I G G E R S at HAARP using their megawatt HF neuro-transponder in a vile effort to effect the rise of the Antichrist and to erase the world's remaining 1.44MB floppy disks.
You know, that's actually pretty darn funny.
Amazing how Trump has transformed the Republican party into being everything they used to be against.
i work on an e-commerce website, 40% of our business comes from mobile. We can't ignore that no matter how much i personally hate browsing on the phone.
That's why I design to look good on any platform. But sheesh, going to a website that shows up as a couple words because the font's are screwed up and everything is too damn big is enough to get me to go elsewhere. And in most cases, I'm not going to install an app. The few times I tried that the results weren't much better. And if I'm giving a company personal info to monetize or weaponize, the least they could do is not look like crap while doing it.
The "web designers" I've seen are just print page layout designers now doing web design, with little functional knowledge of how a web page operates, and little interest in mobile layouts.
That could explain a lot.
It isn't like layout skills are not needed, but there is a whole lot of html coding that makes it work properly.
Gotta agree. Don’t know if the fundamental issue is actually ”mobile” or just “dumb designers”... but mobile sites usually suck.
And “responsive” sites mostly seem to take that bad mobile ethos and force it on everybody, including desktop browsers. In any case, I guess that’s at least equal-opportunity suckitude...
I gotta go with dumb designers. I'm a half dumb designer, and I manage to make the sites I run look good on whichever platform you are on.
I suspect these hotshots do not check out their pages except on the computer they design them on. I check my sites out on phone before I publish.