Those types have been attacking “woke” cartoons this whole time. There’s a lot of stories about writers getting push back from executives for having independent female protagonists and being forced to shoehorn romantic or maternal aspects in like with Pirates of Dark Water.

Sometimes though, a whole “woke” show gets made, but then it becomes the butt of jokes like Captain Planet.

The only person I can think of who deserved people backing off of was Stephen Fry when he “defended” Rowling. Really, he only asked people to back off of her and didn’t comment on any of her ideas. He had too much of a history of political commentary and activism that carried more weight then a comedy show. I decided to sit on the fence regarding Fry.

Last year or so, he commented that Rowling was a lost cause. I’m guessing up to that point, he had been trying to reason with her because he knew her personally. He’s never not been an alley.

They’re laying the ground work to officially start their own religion.

Maybe they did get rid of him and what we’re seeing now isn’t the same person who ran off to Africa way back.

No, the choice between safely biodegradable tires vs petro tires is a separate discussion from better pubic transit to reduce the need for those tires.

A few things I’m going to point out though.

1. It’s not the run off into streams and into drinking water that’s the likely point of intake. It’s the air we breath, epically in cities or along major highways where people are intaking the plastic.

2. Don’t assume that just because something is natural means that it is completely harmless. Plenty of natural compounds are toxic.

3. The family of compounds that we need to be concerned about the most is PFAS. It is a synthetic, but it’s because it’s a forever chemical and doesn’t metabolize out of the body.

The first and easiest step would to remove the PFAS and create safe alternatives. It’s a weird Catch 22. It needs to be durable and long lasting so it doesn’t blow out on the highway, but it also needs to be weak and biodegradable so organic systems can break it down. EVs, even the EV busses, need even more durable tires as the torque is higher.

Even if you got wide spread train adoption, people still need to get to those trains and bikes still have rubber tires. Busses use less rubber compared to cars per person, but it’s still not zero.

Connecting mircoplastic from runoff seems like a wasted effort. What do you do with it afterwards? Burn it? Try and recycle it? Plastic is hard to recycle. Better to keep the most harmful plastics from being created in the first place.

He made 4 specials bashing trans people. He didn’t fail a purity test. He failed the thoroughly mixed test. Between the trans “jokes” and calling his audance poor for booing Musk, he’s clearly a class traitor.

And he called his audance poor when they booed Musk.

I mean, yes. But that’s a different discussion.

There are actual safety concerns with tires. Modern ones are much, much less prone to blowing out on the highway.

It’s much easier to switch to clothes not made of plastic then it is to replace what we make tires out of.

The vast majority of my media is stored locally and works offline. I’d probably get a couple more hard drives for more backups.

I just use Grayjay and a few open source apps.

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I try not to think about Hasan, but he comes across as the next Maher. He’s more right then wrong for the time being, but eventually he’ll get stuck on some issue and refuse to budge.

Only if you don’t think China drove over their own citizens in 1989. Why do you think any of these countries are being honest about themselves? What’s in it for them to be honest about their past actions, current actions or plans for the future? They’re not your friends.

Ever notice how the “West’s” opinion on China softened with the rise of Tiktok or when Hollywood started chasing the Yuan?

No, it’s a summary. You can try to quantify individual acts and weight them against each other, but people aren’t going to agree about values and even if you could really figure out which one is worse, you wont achieve anything. It’s dark gray vs dark gray and your eyes aren’t good enough to differentiate between the two. I do know enough to not swear fealty to either country.

Isn’t what you’re bring “all or nothing” anyway. US is bad, so China is good is just another black and white world view. Both can be bad. Both can be engaged in propaganda.

Your mask is slipping.

Real choking in any capacity, skilled or otherwise is dangerous. Simulated/RP choking, especially in porn is fine. Which one of the two are they trying to ban?