Again, most of those are targeted attacks on individuals. E.g. student mad at X person and gets revenge.

Much different from the columbine-like terroristic ones. E.g. killing anyone and everyone they can.

The overlap between “chemtrails” and “fluoride in the water” and “epa bad” is pretty high. It’s actually kinda odd.

Fair enough, there’s potential for landfills to leak.

But if its between that, dumping it in the ocean, or exporting it, the landfill wins.

I read the snippets and abstract. I’m not seeing how these micro plastics are getting out of the landfills.

Environmental risks of microplastics in landfills

In landfills, microplastics are not standalone pollutants. Generally, such tiny particles can adsorb various harmful chemicals due to its large specific surface area [54].

Never knew that!

In this case, microplastics generally served as the vector for migrating adsorbed pollutants including heavy metals, antibiotics and other pharmaceutical and personal care products [55].

That’s scary, microplastics can absorb and spread pollutants!

But I’m not seeing anything about how they’re getting out from a landfill. I even read a few of the referenced articles. But nothing about if or how they’re getting out.

How does buried plastic cause microplastics to leech everywhere?

Weathering (sun, exposure, abrasion caused by plastic being moved by wind and sea) is a significant part of microplastic formation.

Quite honestly, going to a landfill seems so so so much better than the alternative: going into the environment and oceans, turning into microplastics and getting into food chains.

At least landfills are contained. Bury the shit until we have the tech to deal with it.

Some day, between the plastics, nutrients from organics, e-waste, landfills are going to be a goldmine.

And there were a not trivial number of bots.

I bet money there are farms of fake accounts, waiting for the right day when the fediverse is mainstream

100% agree, feels like what Reddit was before/during the digg migration. And I love it.

Even if Reddit never dies and there’s no “great migration”, I’m happier here.

It does make me sad how much internet history we’re losing. Lot of smaller niche subs are still very established on Reddit and probably wouldn’t survive moving (yet).

We have a unique opportunity. Hitching ourselves to the same corporate social media we’re trying to avoid is counterproductive.

We don’t need everyone and their cousin to be federated. There’s plenty of other social media if you want that experience.

And Reddit was just screenshots of Twitter/insta/FB

Start posting the content you want to see. That’s the magic of the new beginning.

If they ask their best engineers to do something evil, most of them will quit. Why work for an evil corp when you can work almost anywhere you want?

Same reason Microsoft engineers stuck around despite antitrust, anticompetitive behaviors, EEE attacks. Same reason people are still working at any evil company.

Also, I’m sure a large portion of their engineers are on a work visa, so they really can’t just up and leave.