i can't shake the feeling that this is utterly insane
but then there are probably a lot of technical innovations that only happen because we are continually making new stuff. After all, life itself uses planned obsolescence and thats how evolution happens. And I guess that in itself would justify disposable culture, but only if the disposal and recycling were also a large part of the plan. Which I get the feeling they are not.
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mutated monty, Mon 28 Sep 2015, 22:37,
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Meat is recyclable
Plastics? Not so much.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Mon 28 Sep 2015, 22:43,
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then why did the people at the recycling depot give me such nasty looks when i brought in that dead kitten?
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there's only so much raw materials there before we have to start mining the rubbish dumps
I hear that someone struck a rich 'ET' seam in new mexico
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drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Mon 28 Sep 2015, 22:44,
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We are part of the problem:
every day we demand fresh youtubage that requires ever expanding energy-hungry data centres.
Post GC links and save the planet.
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Mon 28 Sep 2015, 23:22,
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heard a doc on radio 4 a year or so ago
fink it was that evan davis fella talking to rich folk. some guy in charge of a data centre in nw uk near liverpool (couldn't reveal location for security reasons) claimed it consumed the same amount of energy as nine nhs hospitals per day. business matters?
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artifus is doing it all wrong, Mon 28 Sep 2015, 23:41,
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