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2020/04/01

Recycling Plastic is Not a Viable Business Model

We are awash in plastic
We are not recycling plastic

Here is a promising solution

https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/31/vericool-raises-19-1-million-for-its-plant-based-packaging-replacement-for-plastic-coolers/

2020/03/30

NIN Fans

Nine Inch Nails has a treat for all the fans.
Check out the site for a double album download to enjoy while you're holed up in the house.

https://www.nin.com/

2020/03/24

Caveat Emptor

This guy.

So I gotta say if you're taking advice from this guy you very well might wind up sick or dead.

Stay safe, trust the CDC and your own doctor - not this guy.

Afternoon update:

Ya, I get it, its CNN. But still, there are some really good points here.

4 Reasons

2020/03/23

Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.

Song of Solomon 8:6

Notes on Power

What happened to fairness and the middle class

* Why aren't unions a "thing" anymore?
     * unions are bad and only protect the worst workers
     * actual corruption of some union structures
     * labor laws changed - (check "The Rich Dont always Win)
     * right to work states
* The Matthew Effect
* Neo-liberal view of economics
* Offshoring
* Income tax rates structure and changes over the last 60 years
* de-regulation - or more to the point - writing the laws for business and against consumers
* socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor

2020/03/22

This Makes Sense

Why Don’t We Just Ban Targeted Advertising?

"The solution to our privacy problems, suggested Hansson, was actually quite simple. If companies couldn’t use our data to target ads, they would have no reason to gobble it up in the first place, and no opportunity to do mischief with it later. From that fact flowed a straightforward fix: “Ban the right of companies to use personal data for advertising targeting.”

Dark Shadows

Tubi TV has the first season of Dark Shadows free to stream.
Yep, this is what Im doing while staying at home to avoid COVID-19