It looks like the cumulative total of plastics produced by the 80’s was around 2-3 trillion billion tons, whereas now it’s probably more like 20-30B.

http://ourworldindata.org/grapher/exports/global-plastics-production.png

Don’t worry, I won’t try to help you again.

I’m not the one living in a fascist dictatorship, blaming the people who saw this coming decades ago, numbnuts. You are!

Maybe you should take a break from sniffing your own farts and try to learn from history, instead of repeating 2016 and 2024 all over again?

Your anger is on a completely irrational level. I don’t understand trans mentality, because I don’t feel like a man or woman — I just feel like me — though I want what’s best for them (the same as anyone) but referring to someone in the 3rd person makes me feel like I’m referring to someone with schizophrenia or multiple personality disorder. There’s even an old Seinfeld episode about a guy that refers to himself in the 3rd person and comedy ensues, because nobody does that.

Just because culture and language doesn’t fulfill your requirements or align with your expectations, doesn’t mean that the people of that culture or language are malicious and hateful towards you. The world is not required to bend to your feefees. Hell, the only reason I don’t care about pronouns is because I struggle to remember names… People tend to get offended when you forget their names as it is, now I have to add another dimension I’ll undoubtably fuck up… I can accept trans people being the way they are without giving a fuck, but apparently I can’t expect the same acceptance for my brain being the way it is, and if I don’t dot my I’s and cross my T’s as you see fit I risk being called a bigot, so fuck me I guess…

So… your argument has no evidence or basis in reality, beyond the anecdotal from your own experience on Lemmy/SM?

All you’ve done is provide another datapoint for why Liberals have helped turn America into a fascist dictatorship… Living in a manufactured reality based on feefees and propaganda instead of empiric evidence…

Then the application should encrypt the data saved to the db.

I can’t think of any scenario where it would make sense for the db to handle encryption.

It’s pretty funny that it still turned out to be the best Star Wars film since the OG trilogy.

Every “conservative” is a closet narcissist. The only difference is they now feel comfortable tearing the mask off and no longer hiding behind the presumption they possess empathy or want what’s best for other people.

Encryption is usually implemented in the server or client code. Why do you want the database to handle encryption?

I’m not American, and I’ve advised people to vote blue no matter who for over 20 years, so as a foreigner watching America slide towards fascism for decades I can tell you, American liberals are just as much to blame for fascism as the uneducated morons brainwashed by it.

Both parties have been destroying the working classes economic mobility for almost 50 years. Just because 1 party is worse than the other that doesn’t absolve either of their sins.

Yet now, at the final hour, you blame a phantom left for not biting the pillow, as though that would’ve changed the multi-decade fall of the empire.

I tell ya what, though. Just cry harder and blame the left. It’s worked for fascism!

Emshittification is required to bleed the stone dry.

Exactly… don’t blame the billionaires, oligarchs, or the criminally corrupt political class… don’t blame the 70 million fascists, or the 100 million people who completely ignore politics… or the Democrats who fail to motivate all of them and maintain unwavering support for a genocidal ethnostate… or the 60 million neolib centrists who insist on supporting the lesser of two evils, and reject “radical change” after the 5th “once-in-a-lifetime” crisis in a decade.

Blame the phantom protest voters, without evidence, instead… THIS IS ALL THEIR FAULT.

The “protest voters” are basically “the jews” or “immigrants” scapegoat for liberals. At least you get to enjoy the smell of your own farts while the fascist coup proceeds unabated.

Stop acting like laws can fix fascism. Half of everything Trump, the GOP, and every lobbyists, have ever done is criminal and breaking dozens of existing laws. Laws only matter if they’re enforced, otherwise they are chains utilized by fascists to delay an appropriate counter-response.

The only thing that will fix fascism are general strikes large enough to damage the economy and make the capitalist/political class shit they’re pants, or violence. None of these psychopaths are going down without a fight.

Plus climate change and ecological collapse have a good chance of killing hundreds of millions, potentially billions if multiple feedback loops compound — not to mention fascism and world/resource wars — so why would you risk subjecting your children to a potential depression era famine and austerity, becoming canon fodder, or subjected to big brother grade authoritarianism?

Also there’s a reasonable chance automation could replace a majority of the human workforce in the next 50-100 years, so why risk your kids living a life of destitution, at best, otherwise dying at the hands of bourgeoisie killbots?

That’s because they only support “democracy” when it is ruled by a corporate oligarchy. Neolibs will not abandon neoliberalism when it becomes unpopular, they will abandon the illusion of democracy; just like conservatives did.

Every neolib corporate-whore government knows that the best way to quell the growing antisemitism Is to equate judaism with a genocidal, colonialist, religious nationalist, fascist nation state… and if you don’t agree, they’ll persecute you for your empathy!

This is American fascisms version of “died by falling out of a window”. They’re making it obvious they can disappear you if you become a problem for them; maybe even implicate you in CP to destroy your life before they take your life.

The fact that D’s refused to release any of this strongly indicates Epstein island was an intelligence honeypot. How does the west feel about their “democracies” secret police enabling and protecting pedophiles as part of intelligence gathering and information warfare? That would be worse than any common war crime IMO.

Just another example of the externalities of capitalism. Because housing is focused on maximizing profits for the few, instead of housing quality and security for the population, the already extorted renters spend 10x more on energy, which also means dramatically more spend and e-waste for bespoke/temporary appliances, and the greenhouse gas emissions required for all of it.

Not just years. Decades! At least 45 years now.

The fascist facilitation party will not be taking suggestions. Neoliberal “centrism” is a core component of the fascist coup.

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