There is currently one China. It just goes by the name Taiwan. The CCP is as Chinese as my local takeout.

Best thing Putin has done, in his entire life, is help grow NATO. Pity it had to come from actual war and not just saber-rattling.

My favorite quote on fanaticism applies here:

“Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim” - George Santayana

You’re not going to hurt my feelings by using words improperly lol

We’re talking about astroturfing, so yes it is quite literally the difference.

You’re not guaranteed a place where your opinions are the only ones expressed, ever in life.

TikTok is significantly larger and more worth it then lemmy

I do in fact disagree with you, yes. I am not, however, paid for it

Your company has a vested interest in pushing sustainable disposable single use bags over reusable bags, your data is biased

This is not accurate. We could pivot to totes within 24 hours.

In fact, I argue in favor of legislation promoting totes like one comment away.

Even better, let’s start making reusable totes in the US and cut that ratio down, so this is no longer true.

I can say, with insider knowledge, that the reusable packaging industry could start cranking out totes any time, should demand (or, better, legislation) prove sufficient.

Wouldn’t hurt the industry at all, either, as sustainable single-use packaging - much of which is shifting to paper -is heavily on the rise

Sustainable packaging has almost unlimited growth potential and is seeing massive private investment, and we should leverage that market to curb both pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.

Assuming it is picked up and dropped, the fediverse is completely unchanged. That’s my point.

User adoption here is also “basically zero.”

Lemmy is a rounding error in population versus larger sites. It’s a walled garden.

You cannot weaken the fediverse more than the near-total lack of adoption that already exists.

Tell that to the astroturfers simping for FB/Threads…

No one is astroturfing lemmy. People who disagree with you are not paid actors. They just disagree with you.

I don’t disagree, I just thought that was a fun fact.

I work on sustainable packaging, and it’s something not a lot of people think about. The company is extremely passionate about supply chain efficiency (both as a cost and as environmental impact), so it’s something that comes up with us pretty regularly.

Fun fact:

In terms of total greenhouse gas emissions, you’d generally have to use around 400 disposable bags made from sustainable products to equal one reusable tote.

This is because the vast majority of those totes are imported from southeast Asia.

This is why I think that Israel shouldn’t allow a power vacuum. “You break it, you fix it,” and this war has broken quite a lot.

I prefer D:OS 1s story and played-through world to D:OS 2’s, but D:OS 2 has a lot more polish. Both are excellent games and worth your time.

I’m not concerned. Facts are facts and there most assuredly will be Palestinians in 1, 5, and 20 years - ideally in their own country for the first time ever.

Yes - give them their own country for the first time in human history.

Inshallah.

Strong disagree.