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Plastic pollution draws federal and global attention

resource-recycling.com
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How on Earth is Elon Musk’s SpaceX facing bankruptcy?

thenextweb.com
4 points·by Clockface12·5 वर्ष पहले·2 comments

New Zealand Becomes First Country in the World to Fully Legalise Drug Checking

vice.com
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Clockface12
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AI? They are quoting Wikipedia articles in those little pop-ups.
Clockface12
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Well said. :D
Clockface12
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The older you are when you smoke, the worse it is for you. Smoking in your twenties is far less harmful in terms of its likelihood to cause cancer than smoking in your forties, fifties, or sixties. The damage gets worse with every decade of your life.

Just stop. In five years' time, you'll wonder why you didn't stop sooner.
Clockface12
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It's professinalized American-style fundraising. It's an accepted part of US culture. The whole system of US politics works like that. People in the rest of the world often don't understand that.

https://campaignsandelections.com/industry-news/how-american...
Clockface12
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Might as well search in Wikimedia Commons directly ... at least you know that you can use whatever you find there (even if attribution may be required in some cases) ...
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The title sounds hopeful, and nature's resilience is indeed amazing, but the article also explains how the plastic debris enables coastal dwellers to cross oceans and become invasive species at the other end of the earth, while also competing against existing open-ocean rafters.

Basically, plastic is bad news. It's amazing that things have gotten so far and there is still, as far as I know, no sign of the plastic pollution trend reversing.
Clockface12
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The endowment is $100 million the other $200 million is foundation assets – including (these are last years June 2020 figures)

$71 million cash

$95 million short term investments

https://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AWi...
Clockface12
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Yeah. Absolutely infuriating if you specifically use quotes and you get all sorts of dross not containing what you're looking for. Clearly they have figured out in some way that giving the end user what they want does not maximise income.

Google News too has become flaky. Often does not find stuff you know is there, or finds it one day, but not another. Hrmph.
Clockface12
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This is like Gresham's law, only for information: bad info driving out good.

The same applies to Wikipedia sometimes, which, being free, achieves a degree of visibility and ubiquity (across search engines and voice assistants) it doesn't always deserve.