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Cake day: September 12th, 2023
  • You’re missing the point. This app is written by outside, for-profit companies who don’t care about data security. And the app is so full of security holes that it means work email and work chat may be skimmed by people outside the organization.

    This isn’t a case of “don’t use your work phone for personal stuff.”

    This is a case of e.g. “foreign criminal organizations can potentially steal American Social Security databases.”

  • Plastic recycling is mostly a scam pushed through by petrochemical companies. Their goal was to keep making more plastic, so they pushed responsibility out to the public through a massive marketing campaign.

    The recycling symbols on plastic, with numbers in them? They don’t actually mean the plastic is recyclable. That’s an indicator of what type of plastic it’s made of. They say the information is to help recyclers, but there’s no way anyone can go through so much plastic and hand sort everything.

    Most plastic waste still ends up in the junkyard, incinerated, or in the junkyard and then incinerated.

    A lot of “recycled” plastic is recovered through corporate or industrial channels, when there are large volumes of the same type of material available.