You’re talking about two different ways to screw the environment. One is the rampant plastics pandemic, the other is carbon emissions. Paper straws are meant to combat the first, not the second.

What’s magical about that once-a-year limit? I find that quite a lot already.

I wish Amazon didn’t treat their employees so shittily. But I really don’t want to find out which of the stores around me have the thing I want and go there by bus. Even without prime the tickets are more expensive than shipping.

Children of divorced parents are more likely to get divorced when compared to those who grew up in two-parent families – and genetic factors are the primary explanation, according to a new study by researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University and Lund University in Sweden.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/10/171004151226.htm

If we’re talking tags, then I’m with you. But graffiti like this is more art than you find in a gallery nowadays. I’ll take that any time. http://youthincmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Graffiti.jpg

https://youthincmag.com/how-to-make-a-legal-career-as-a-graffiti-artist

I couldn’t find anything scientific specifically about cigarette ash, so I’m just reasoning from common sense.

Part of the problem of filter tips are heavy metals. I hypothesize that not all the metals are converted to gas and sucked into the filter while the cigarette is lit. Therefore there must be heavy metals remaining in the ash. These seep into the ground and ground water, whether the ash starts out on a parking lot or in a park.

If that’s dangerous to plant life depends on the plants living there. Tobacco, for instance, seems to handle them well (that’s how the metals get into the ash in the first place: tobacco sucks them out of the ground). “[S]ensitive plants growing in sites with heavy metals exposure show altered metabolism, growth reduction, and reduced biomass production and reduced yield.” [1]

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-41552-5_4

Great analogy. I’ll admit I thought you had a stroke mid-sentence.

If your doctor doesn’t know you by name, you should consider yourself happy. When you’re walking on the street and your doc recognizes you, I pity you.

No, you’re right. When I create a meme, I also post a German version.

I do have a problem with the ash. But I’ll admit that it’s more a conscious one than the emotional antipathy I feel towards the buds. The buds you can at least pick up and discard. But once the ash is on the ground, the pollutants are irretrievably in the environment.

Of course, they’re just greedy bastards. It’s not like there were too few doctors for too many patients.

Every minute you’re waiting your doctor is caring for someone else.

What makes you think the toxic heavy metals suddenly disappear when the cigarette is lit?

Good point.

I am well-aware that Christianity isn’t self-consistent. This was luckily part of my religious education in school and my edition of the Bible even points out contradictions.

To be honest, the title is only there to feign a discussion, since I didn’t want to be too overtly anti-religious.

I’m not well-versed in philosophy, so I don’t know what’s commonly defined as ‘altruism.’ If you define it as ‘exclusively working for or giving to another person’, then you’re right. But what if we defined it as ‘exclusively working for or giving to the commonwealth’?

It’s the obligation of whoever makes a claim to support the claim, not of those who doubt it.

Gramps got dat bling before it was the shite.

The degree of variability describing temps in Celsius

I don’t know what you mean by that.

It would go a long way to provide a changelog so we could appreciate whatever work went into the update. Looking at you, steam.