Yes, 'n' how many times can a man turn his head And pretend that he just doesn't see? The plastic, my friend, is blowin' in the wind The plastic is blowin' in the wind
"Considering that the Pyrenees are located between France and Spain, both of which do have a plastic pollution problem, France and Spain seem much likelier sources for this particular case of microplastic pollution."
On their respective coasts, their salt operations are already taking a hit, since microplastic was detected on all the expensive 'fleur de sel' products. People trying to avoid ingesting microplastics are now more likely to buy salt from deep in the Alps.
"thanks to the prevalence of qualified programmers which carmakers are struggling to hire elsewhere, "
VW's software developer were (are?) busy developing cheating software to get around the emission laws, thereby accepting willingly the death of additional thousands of people just for greed.
"I have never, not once, cast a vote for a board member or sent in a proxy form. I just toss them in the trash. So why should I care if I have voting rights, when I don't exercise them?"
You should send a proxy, usually, they get a meal and a couple of glasses of cheap wine. What's not to like?
"Launching rockets from airplanes has been done before but the plan with Stratolaunch is to do so on a larger scale with functionally a bigger rocket. There are some advantages and some disadvantages. One major disadvantage is that there's functionally a size limit:"
In the best case, it's just a self-landing reusable 1. stage and lately, the world has noticed that this reusability feature is already built-in in the rockets of their competitors.
But perhaps they could be used to deliver SpaceX rockets to whoever buys one on Amazon?
"because phones that are legitimately obtained often still have iCloud enabled, making that phone useless except for parts. "
That's exactly why we like it. If you steal our phone, you'll have an old battery and a replacement screen and if it's mine, the screen will be cracked on top.
Including the majestik møøse A Møøse once bit my sister... No realli! She was Karving her initials on the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink"... We apologise for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible have been sacked.
First reason is that Betteridge's law of headlines says so Second reason, you can't reason with drunks, they are either tired or aggressive and can't follow directions.
Also, phone-junkies can follow a conversation an don't go ballistic if you tell them that they just Instagrammed one too much. If all else fails, you can send him a message on his phone, that will get his attention.
"It's not hard to kill cells, cancerous or otherwise, on a petri dish, a splash of vodka will do the trick. The next to impossible trick is to kill only cancer cells, while leaving healthy cells intact. "
"Flying cars make sense to me as point to point between hubs, with regular flying cars to take."
In a few years, the people who still have to drive to their jobs, will be replaced by robots and/or AI, the cars will drive themselves and if you don't have to drive to work (and shopping will be completely dead by then), so where would one drive to other than to the airport to get the hell out?
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Yes, 'n' how many times can a man turn his head
And pretend that he just doesn't see?
The plastic, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
The plastic is blowin' in the wind
"Considering that the Pyrenees are located between France and Spain, both of which do have a plastic pollution problem, France and Spain seem much likelier sources for this particular case of microplastic pollution."
On their respective coasts, their salt operations are already taking a hit, since microplastic was detected on all the expensive 'fleur de sel' products.
People trying to avoid ingesting microplastics are now more likely to buy salt from deep in the Alps.
"thanks to the prevalence of qualified programmers which carmakers are struggling to hire elsewhere, "
VW's software developer were (are?) busy developing cheating software to get around the emission laws, thereby accepting willingly the death of additional thousands of people just for greed.
It can only get better, hardly worse than now.
"I have never, not once, cast a vote for a board member or sent in a proxy form. I just toss them in the trash. So why should I care if I have voting rights, when I don't exercise them?"
You should send a proxy, usually, they get a meal and a couple of glasses of cheap wine. What's not to like?
"Launching rockets from airplanes has been done before but the plan with Stratolaunch is to do so on a larger scale with functionally a bigger rocket. There are some advantages and some disadvantages. One major disadvantage is that there's functionally a size limit:"
In the best case, it's just a self-landing reusable 1. stage and lately, the world has noticed that this reusability feature is already built-in in the rockets of their competitors.
But perhaps they could be used to deliver SpaceX rockets to whoever buys one on Amazon?
"because phones that are legitimately obtained often still have iCloud enabled, making that phone useless except for parts. "
That's exactly why we like it. If you steal our phone, you'll have an old battery and a replacement screen and if it's mine, the screen will be cracked on top.
With all their debt, they still have the best orgies.
Including the majestik møøse A Møøse once bit my sister... No realli! She was Karving her initials on the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink"... We apologise for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible have been sacked.
"Test to verify that when posting anonymously, my name shows."
They fooled you, it still shows your name. :-)
First reason is that Betteridge's law of headlines says so
Second reason, you can't reason with drunks, they are either tired or aggressive and can't follow directions.
Also, phone-junkies can follow a conversation an don't go ballistic if you tell them that they just Instagrammed one too much. If all else fails, you can send him a message on his phone, that will get his attention.
It's just that.
Please send ads with Protein products to Bezos@amazon.com
"Anyone taking bets on how long it takes for someone to start calling themselves Dread Pirate Roberts 3 assuming it hasn't happened already?"
Hopefully, it will be one using different Starbucks instead of the WIFI of his aunt with his cheap VPN this time.
Crows use tools and they have a cherry-sized brain. Even ants cut leaves and transport them to their nest, so we still have a few steps ahead of us.
...and the hole will be censured throughout China.
"15 percent of bookings happen on airport trips"
Airport parking seems to cost an arm and a leg worldwide then.
"... but they should have employed Aryans for the actual calculations and stuff, as they usually do."
Aryans like you would have used a parachute for the landing, I'm sure.
"It's not hard to kill cells, cancerous or otherwise, on a petri dish, a splash of vodka will do the trick. The next to impossible trick is to kill only cancer cells, while leaving healthy cells intact. "
So you try different kinds of vodkas.
That beast deserves a long, painful death.
"Flying cars make sense to me as point to point between hubs, with regular flying cars to take."
In a few years, the people who still have to drive to their jobs, will be replaced by robots and/or AI, the cars will drive themselves and if you don't have to drive to work (and shopping will be completely dead by then), so where would one drive to other than to the airport to get the hell out?
It's dead, Jim.
I can't even get a decent photo of my black cat.
Cities that are tethered to the ocean floor with a mineral 'anchor' are called 'islands'.
I‘m glad that I am 6 foot 2 then and not a small artist.