It’s shit like this that makes me want to never use another Google app or service.

What possible justification is there for storing history of calculations in a calculator app?

I keep looking at maps and wondering how Ukraine haven’t been routed and cut off in enemy territory with no supply lines. What they’re doing seems borderline insane but more power to them!

Seems like a fair and reasonable response to a cartoon.

The religion of peace strikes again.

This. Make the bastards chase you.

They don’t need one. No enforceable copyright law.

It’s fucking gross.

I’ve no idea how they convince themselves they’re going to get away with this sort of shit.

If that is their thing, I’m sure they could find any number of people willing to play around with consensual non consent instead of destroying someone.

Why has a Hollywood celeb gotta be out there raping? Why? I just don’t understand.

It’s from Monty Python and the holy grail and if that is news to you, this could change your entire life.

Go ahead and make that list if you’re so inclined. On par with Pulp Fiction? Come on. This has got to be good.

Nice.

1. I use starlink - I paid for the hardware on the ground, the rest of it is in space. There is no other internet out here.

2. We have no public services, I have to drive to them or provide them myself. No water, no sewage.

3. The power is generated 36km from my house and the cost of gold plating the grid to get that power is disproportionately reflected in MY power bill so that those in the city 200km away can have electricity.

Can I ask what demographic you fit into that you seem to sincerely believe the world would keep functioning if everyone lived in cities, and that with your obviously limited exposure to how the world works, you believe you have it all figured out?

Are there no longer gorgeous girls in Russia? Where did they go?

Looks like fuckcars is leaking again. You know that place where every single human being in the world lives in a major city?

It’s a 2 hour round trip in a car for me to get groceries dude, but I’m out here growing trees. What do you do?

The sum total of 33 actively degassing volcanoes in the world results in 60,000,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions per year without undergoing any eruption.

We could use a little ice age to go with.

Were you aware before or after viewing that shapeshifting was an allegory for being trans?

Oh without a doubt. I have no idea what sort of store trader joe’s is, but I’d imagine whole foods stores and others who want to look like they give a fuck would do their due diligence on the supply chain. In which case absolutely paper is better than plastic! It’s renewable and doesn’t stick around forever.

Obviously plastic causes a whole bunch of other problems but using it for bags literally does save the rainforests in a roundabout sort of way.

Corporations being corporations, very few are going to spend the extra money to offer you FSC certified paper bags sourced from a well managed, renewable plantation. They are going to buy the absolute cheapest product available that they can slap their logo on.

The inevitable consequence of that choice is that those bags likely come from a country with little to no regulation of their forest industry. In all likelihood those ultra cheap bags are either a) made from irreplaceable old growth forest that was then burned to cinders and turned into a palm oil plantation.

Or b) made from low grade timber imported from the other side of the planet. When this timber arrives, it and everything else in the hold are completely and utterly black with mould. All good though, you can just blast it with a mixture of industrial bleach and a cornucopia of the harshest chemicals imaginable before draining and allowing that entire slurry to wash into the river, which then flows to the ocean.

Now you can make paper!

Even where I live in Australia, we’ve rapidly shut down sustainable state forest logging for hardwood. These decisions were made on emotion, but essentially out of a desire to do good. It’s just unfortunate that the people making that series of decisions doesn’t really understand the consequences of their actions.

We do not have anywhere near the amount of sustainable plantation required to service the needs of our local paper making industry. Further still, you can’t make quality paper out of plantation pine alone: you need hardwood.

There’s massive investment into hardwood plantation timber over the next few years. Unfortunately we are looking at 30 years of buying our bags from countries where there are no standards, and no hesitation to pump chemical slurry into the ocean or cut down old growth forest to make shopping bags.

So yeah, I’ll take the plastic thanks. I’ll re-use it as a bin liner before it goes to landfill but at least it isn’t burning sludge diesel in TWO directions as the ingredients are shipped around the world and it didn’t pour a thousand litres of filth into the ocean or tear down an old growth forest.

Wait until they find out! Man, they’re going to have to re-write the entire book.

Real godly behaviour. I’m sure she’s super pleased with this.