I had zero clue.

What did I just watch?

As an ASD and a wordnik, ricing is a form of food prep homogenization, reducing a lumpy medium to the consistency of rice or finer, e.g. potato ricing.

Maybe I’m missing a key element.

TBF, police will shoot white targets if they’re poor enough or insufficiently white (say someone pale with a Latin surname)

Agreed, but 1980 was the beginning of the Reagan-Bush era and massive environmental deregulation, which only got worse through Clinton and George W. Bush.

The great conservative movement killed conservation.

It doesn’t have to if we keep producing new stuff that sinks into the environment and lingers there for eons.

Once we die out, it’s going to put a damper on all the biomes trying to recover from the Holocene extinction.

Only on the presumption that we didn’t detect it and aim for solutions sooner (e.g. invent circular recycling of plastics, replace major causes of microplastics with degradeable alternatives, say, vulcanized rubber with rubber and mushrooms).

Also the society’s response in this late hour would probably be more effective than a disinformation campaign and a shrug.

#HeKnows 🧡🧡🤍🤍💗💗

According to Karl Marx (in Das Kapital ) the deregulation of industry for sake of profit is inevitable.

It’s cheaper to capture government than it is to follow regulations (which, in turn, are meant to serve the public, sometimes protect the public from industry)

Some nations are trying to make the capture process slow or difficult, but none have stopped it, and it only accelerates.

Plastic is just gray goo in slow motion.

There’s millions of Lemmings. They just occupy about a hundred bodies.

Then there’s us kids who knew it was dangerous to ask our parents for crafting supplies even for a homework assignment… heck it was dangerous to be visible at home, let alone express a need.

Superman would have rescued the passengers one by one if that’s what was necessary. Just sayin’

Plant bits with water filtered through it. An infusion.

See I didn’t know that, what with tons of herbal teas, but yeah the ones I look up seem to all be black tea + extras blended into a concoction.

Octhullpus #5, Monterrey Bay Marine Research Subdivision

IRL, your very recent bestie who pushed out your bestie-of-ten-years is the one to signal it’s time to move in. FBI has a long running pattern of deciding that someone must be a terrorist (or is a good candidate for gaslighting into terrorism) so they can conduct an elaborate sting operation, often involving replacing all the victim’s friends with FBI plants.

If you remember Kellyanne Conway’s Bowling Green Massacre, there wasn’t a massacre but some arrests, and they were of the gaslight them until they do something barely terroristy enough to get a conviction category.

I wrote a blogpiece about it in 2016, noting it was much less of a massacre thank Conway was letting on, but still quite the debacle.

Anyway, as bad as it feels being betrayed by your friend of ten years, it’s hard not to feel like a rat for having kicked that friend out for a newer, cooler friend, only to have them signal when there’s enough evidence.

It’s technically an infusion though I don’t know if that changes between hot or cold water. But I think teas are arbitrarily determined: We decided that the black tea plants are teas and the weeds next to them are not based entirely on choice.

Coke is a specific trademark connected to specific recipes. But colas are all based on the cola bean, and some decent ones that get close to Coca-cola and Pepsi-cola.

IIRC is my way of getting out of citing sources, often because I don’t remember exactly what it was, say if I saw it during a nature show on PBS or a segment on SciShow

Sometimes I don’t remember if it was AP, Reuters or Mother Jones where I got a fact or a take, but it was someplace I could probably trust. So If I remember right…

Curiously, if I don’t trust a source and can’t recall who it was, I’ll attribute it to vicious rumors or some muckraking rag or but it sounds like something FOX News would put out, so take with salt.

Coffee is technically tea, but then bay broth (a foundation for chicken soup) is also technically tea.