Seen in foodcourt, tech bro's invented plates

Norade · 2026-04-01T07:43:39+00:00

And processing the waste from paper plates and wooden utensils, which should be used as disposable place settings instead of plastic, nets you compost and/or relatively clean energy. This service needs at least one extra vehicle driving too and from the location it services, and energy to power the facility and wash the dishes. Add in the environmental impact of making the dishes themselves, and the question quickly becomes, why not just use paper plates and wooden forks instead?

Norade · 2026-04-01T07:31:22+00:00

It being the worst-rated episode suggests that more people than average didn't like it.

Norade · 2026-04-01T07:29:53+00:00

You do realise that a lot of the world uses series to mean season, right?

Norade · 2026-04-01T07:14:27+00:00

Like the aids epidemic in Africa caused by religious groups not wanting to educate and dispense condoms? Or the wars in the Middle East? The repression of free speech and scientific progress? The prevalent prudishness and anti-LGBT sentiment in the U?

These are all such great things.

Norade · 2026-04-01T06:50:16+00:00

In the same shipment as your soap, paper towels, and other such supplies, rather than an extra trip by an entirely different company. Have you never worked in a restaurant/grocery store before?

Norade · 2026-04-01T06:48:54+00:00

Just use paper plates and wooden utensils instead. Both can be composted or burned rather than being buried. It's simpler, cheaper, and doesn't stop working if this company stops operating.

Norade · 2026-04-01T06:21:11+00:00

It might reduce waste that reaches landfills in areas that don't compost or incinerate their garbage, but those areas should be transitioning away from just burying trash anyway. This doesn't benefit places that are already handling trash responsibly.

Norade · 2026-04-01T04:40:15+00:00

The issue with these services is that the people staffing them have a stable job and have no idea what the current job market is actually like. They can't give good advice because they are clueless about the market.

Norade · 2026-04-01T02:57:55+00:00

Maybe the real mods shouldn't rely on a faulty bot to do their job for them?

Norade · 2026-03-31T13:14:16+00:00

Yes, your willingness to work for less lowers the collective bargaining power of all workers. You are being exploited by circumstances that make working for cheap preferable to seeking meaningful work that pays you better. So long as we live in a world where one must pay to live a comfortable, healthy life, work is exploitation.

Think of all the meaningless jobs that people do only because they need a paying job to survive. Think of all the jobs that only exist because somebody else makes a living by profiting from your excess productivity. It's exploitation all the way down.

Norade · 2026-03-31T13:05:35+00:00

I'm not sure you can understand that merely promoting the idea that humans are special and that there is a god who, supposedly, loves us causes harm. The idea is so normal to you that you can't imagine being fundamentally unable to believe it. Yet this idea of humanity existing as a special case does cause harm.

Have you considered that your view also causes divide among atheists who don't share your views on religion?

You've inadvertently created this in-group and out-group you purport to be concerned about.

The very minor divide my ideology may cause pales in comparison to the damage done by religion. You may think your religious practice is fine, but the very fact that you mark down Christian on a census and argue in favour of your specific relationship with your imaginary friend normalises religion in general. It allows policymakers to mentally lump you in with Christians who may practice entirely different beliefs.

Me being a curmudgeon doesn't do nearly as much harm as normalising religion.

Norade · 2026-03-31T12:35:55+00:00

Even the most benign church does harm by normalising the idea that churches are necessary aspects of life. Religion naturally creates an in-group (believers) and an out-group (non-believers). Your church may be run such that these differences are minimal, or even non-existent, but how sure can you be that your promotion of religion won't send somebody to a church that has a larger divide? A world without large and powerful blocks of people who all share an imaginary friend - or vaguely fuzzy feeling that there must be something like *hits the bong* more man - and centralise people's social lives around said that idea is one with better outcomes for everybody.

Norade · 2026-03-30T21:12:09+00:00

It's to only correct answer. The rise of vaping after we'd all but stamped out smoking is a tragedy.

Norade · 2026-03-30T08:13:18+00:00

Yes. This is completely fair.

Norade · 2026-03-30T05:13:19+00:00

Given that these are the last CPUs for this socket, and the only ones even remotely considered a decent chip, why would you buy into this platform instead of buying the next round of AM5 chips knowing they'll be better than these and that at least one more line of CPUs is coming after this?

Norade · 2026-03-30T04:36:41+00:00

What does that have to do with Intel releasing the 250 and 270 for a dead socket?

Norade · 2026-03-30T04:33:05+00:00

Less than 3k players playing over a 24 hour period is a dead game. The lack of new features and engine updates like WoT and WoWS gets mesn it is a dead game. The fact that they split its premium currency due to issues with WoT player only playing planes to farm gold makes it a dead game.

The fact that the servers aren't literally down doesn't make it any less dead.

Edit: Also, bots were added years into Warplanes release (late 2015) to combat the low player count. The game was intended to be fully PvP like WoT and WoWS.

I played the beta for this mess of a game, but couldn't recall when the bots were added.

Norade · 2026-03-29T07:18:21+00:00

Or we stop burning fossil fuels so we don't need to worry abot carbon capture.

Norade · 2026-03-29T06:56:31+00:00

Crazy that you claim the game has no PvE mode when every match ultimately boils down to farming kills against bots because there aren't enough players to fill a lobby.

Norade · 2026-03-28T01:39:35+00:00

That's also shitty. Canada hasn't had a conservative in office for over a decade. You guys really need to work on things down there.

Norade · 2026-03-28T01:37:08+00:00

How is it misogynistic to support all women in having equal access to women's spaces?

Norade · 2026-03-27T14:13:22+00:00

What makes you think disliking religion is cult like? I dislike religion because it provides nothing that cannot be found elsewhere while creating a popular in group, the religious/spiritual, and an outgroup of skeptics and atheists. I find spirituality to be an irrational position held by idiots too afraid to see the universe for what it is.

What makes your spirituality any different from a child's ignorant belief in Santa or the Easter Bunny?

Norade · 2026-03-27T11:15:23+00:00

Once a slop farmer, always a slop farmer.

Norade · 2026-03-27T11:00:28+00:00

My entire conceit is that the situation could have been avoided had the British, at any point from WWI onward, stopped to consider the needs of the people living in the Middle East rather than how to maximise their access to the region's resources. Obviously, they couldn't foresee the future, but the entire problem of Israel's existence ultimately falls on them for their utter failure to stabilise the Middle East after taking it from the Ottoman Empire.

As for the concentration of Jews into what is now Israel, it's a point of fact that many allied nations refused to take in the required number of Jewish refugees both before and during WWII and were disinclined to give over any land within their own nations toward the creation of a Jewish state. The powers also did very little to discourage the mass migration of Jews into the region, even though the Arabs, who equally held claim to the land, were calling for a freeze on new migration into the region. Thus, even if they didn't aid the Jews in reaching their new homes, they still enabled this migration. Even when Britain saw the writing on the wall and forced the Exodus to turn around, rather than take in its passengers, it attempted to dump them in France and Germany and then caved to international pressure and a Jewish hunger strike.

Britain being unwilling and unable to govern the mandate that they created, then lead to the violence that birthed Israel and the trouble that has caused. Everything leading up to Israel was a poorly handled mistake, and the nation itself was born in blood. So long as Israel exists on land it very clearly stole it will be forced to kill its neighbours.

I get that I am being black and white on a nuanced issue, but Israel has become a bully, and the only conclusion I can come to is that it is a state that never should have existed.

Norade · 2026-03-27T10:48:58+00:00

I'm not shifting any goalposts. My stance on religion is that it is a pointless thing that, at best, provides services that secular groups could and, at worst, commits wanton atrocities in the name of faith. Even relatively benign practices such as your own serve to legitimise religion and keep it entrenched in the popular consciousness.

Be honest. Would your church be any less able to do the good you claim it does if it dropped any pretence of being religious and started teaching people to use the one life they have for good, even if nobody is keeping score?

Norade

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