Look up on fish and the consequences of microplastics on water animals. From starvation to sex change, microplastics wreak havoc there.

Just because you as a single consumer may not seem impacted by microplastics does not mean it's alarmism to suggest that it's a really bad phenomenon.

> This MSN "article" seems oddly out of place on HN.

Maybe there's something sinister going on: I suspect the shoe sole industry what with these huge foots and all. It'd make sense since Covid people are walking less. Maybe the sole industry caused the lab leak?

I'm just asking questions.

Maybe it's like that. But they're drunk. Which means they are very supportive but quite unreliable and have a short memory.

I've caught Claude making the gravest anti pattern mistakes using Elixir and trying to get it to correct them makes the whole thing worse.

It's ok for smaller scoped stuff but actual architectural changes come out worse than before more often than not.

This is how you start something and get progress.

More lanes on the highway are not progress.

so fossil fuel is too fucking cheap. this is arbitrage with our environment, it fucks me up.

what the poster mentioned did not sound like a balanced exchange of ideas was about to happen...

thats a wild take... isnt this exactly the purpose of a dictionary: to reflect the words used in general language usage?

Right, the definition should reflect general usage. Did the general usage here just coincidentally change days after a Republican appointee used a word in a hearing? That’s a heck of a coincidence! No, what happened was that liberals used their control over putatively neutral institutions like M-W to advance their position in a political dispute.

I'm very curious how you happened to have, seemingly at the ready, a cite to a 5.5-year-old Fox News piece.

I have a very good memory for anything I’ve read.

It gives you more things to buy, doesn't it? That does not necessarily translate to a better life.

I believe OP is saying that while QoL is great in the Netherlands, it has an upper bound. I suppose that he has access to resources that could provide an ever higher QoL in other countries. For example, in the USA, QoL can be good if you're a millionaire and gets better as you acquire more resources.

Unfortunately, there's no QoL lower bound in the USA, either.

Look up why it was called SARS-2 in the beginning (and most of all what SARS was) and you're going to understand a lot more why they reacted how they did...

You took those trillions literally, it's not meant like that. It's a general observation on how abstract the measuring is.