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yes, asian and african rivers produce 95% of ocean plastic but nobody asks where the plastic comes from. plastic recycling is a scam. always has been. the industry knew since 1974 it “cant be justified economically” they funded the recycling campaigns anyway because the alternative was banning plastic. only 5-6% of US plastic actually gets recycled and europe isnt better. the EU exports 1.1 million tonnes of plastic waste per year, 3 million kg leaving every single day. 31% goes to turkey, 16% to malaysia, 13% to indonesia, all labeled “recyclable” most plastics cant even be recycled to begin with (thousands of types, different chemical properties). and for the few that can, the output is lower quality and more toxic than virgin plastic. you literally degrade the material each cycle until its worthless. so what happens to the other 95%? western countries ship it to southeast asia and africa under the label “recycling exports” with the receiving countries promising to recycle it in their stead for a price, but those countries dont have facilities either. so they burn it or dump it in rivers. every 20 minutes, a 10-tonne truckload of plastic enters the ocean in indonesia alone. it may look like indonesians pollute more but that’s because we ship them our garbage and they have no infrastructure to handle it. china used to absorb it all. when they banned imports in 2018, the west just redirected to countries with weaker regulations. malaysia, vietnam, philippines. the map below shows the result. you sort your trash so you feel like youre helping, the plastic goes on a boat, gets burned in a village without emissions controls, poisons their air and water, flows into their rivers, enters the ocean, and in your food and water. you feel good about the plastic you recycled and never think about it again but you end up eating it anyway. then we ban straws and plastic bags and call it environmentalism

Indonesia's military is RAZING 2 MILLION hectares of Papua's irreplaceable rainforests—the LARGEST deforestation project on Earth—for a greedy sugarcane mega-farm, dooming 42 dazzling Birds of Paradise species (with 1 in 5 already on the brink of EXTINCTION) and wiping out biodiversity hotspots FOREVER! 🐦🔥 Ignoring Sumatra's nightmare: Over 1,500 DEAD in Asia's deforestation-supercharged floods and landslides, with Sumatra losing 4.4 MILLION hectares of forest since 2001—turning rain into RIVERS OF DEATH! 🌧️☠️ This eco-genocide fuels climate chaos—RT if you're FURIOUS and demand a HALT! #PapuaForestMassacre #DeforestationDisaster #BirdsOfParadiseInPeril ft.com/content/27a6bd…

wow. Microsoft wants to use AI to wipe out all C and C++ code by 2030 and replace everything with Rust. Their new “North Star” metric: 1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code. Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Galen Hunt writes in a post on LinkedIn. “My goal is to eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030. Our strategy is to combine AI and Algorithms to rewrite Microsoft’s largest codebases. Our North Star is ‘1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code.’ To accomplish this previously unimaginable task, we’ve built a powerful code processing infrastructure. Our algorithmic infrastructure creates a scalable graph over source code at scale. Our AI processing infrastructure then enables us to apply AI agents, guided by algorithms, to make code modifications at scale. The core of this infrastructure is already operating at scale on problems such as code understanding.” --- Source Linkedin post linkedin .com/posts/galenh_principal-software-engineer-coreai-microsoft-activity-7407863239289729024-WTzf/

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