Interesting context thanks

what’s ricin and how does it relate to castor oil?

Petroleum sounds worse than plastic lol (I know it’s probably fine)

I’m sure industrial strength goo would not flake if you designed it for that purpose but I’m not sure if the pack of gum I bought for a few dollars in a vending machine would be of the same quality

I have a hard time believing that chewing a piece of plastic for thirty minutes would not cause you to ingest microplastics.

My students are in grade eight and can barely read Dr. Seuss. It’s not a “kids these days” things it’s a crisis

Another commenter on here was recommending chewing on soft wood. Of course you’d want to make sure it’s not treated first. Tree branches from certain trees would be more what they are talking about.

Yes, I don’t disagree, but one of the main reasons why plastics are bad for you is that they don’t break down, but natural materials seem to break down just fine generally speaking

What wee brushes are you talking about?

What’s pitch?

If you’re out hiking and forage for spruce/pine resin directly from the source: it’s still plastic.

There’s such a thing as naturally occurring plastic? I’m sure that’s not as bad for you though, right?

As far as an alternative goes for minty breath: nothing stops you from cutting out the middleman and chewing on mint leaves directly.

That’s an interesting idea.

Gatekeeping only helps keep the big tech oligarchs strong. If we want to lessen big techs influence we will need to be more welcoming here.

The sources for the blog post in point number 3 are pretty spotty. They quote Western media like the Washington Post or a former Australian official without giving the proper links or citations. The citations to some “Western” sources like Amnesty International are there but these sources are only brought in so the authors can get nitpicky about their word choices. The only solid source I could find was the WikiLeaks source from the US embassy, but that doesn’t contradict the massacre narrative because the wire could have been sent before the violence peaked. The more substantive claims rely on YouTube videos or other blog posts for their sources.

I’m not trying to be hostile by saying this; I’m willing to hear you out. But I will need a far higher standard of rigour before I’m willing to take any of these ideas seriously.

Piefed is fine too. The drama there is a nothing-burger. The tankies are just pissed off that Piefed has better moderation so they can’t troll Piefed servers the way they would like to

Interesting

I don’t think SUSE is really a large corporation

Would the water need to be desalinated if it’s only going to be cooling the equipment?

I remember there being some talk about the EU also doing this. Is it just the EU and Australia enforcing this right now?

If you’re a propagandist then there’s value in being active in niche social media networks. It makes you a big fish in a small pond, and if the social network for some reason blows up then you’d be one of the early adopters which will give you more influence. For example Ghislaine Macwell was a moderator on Reddit, but apparently also Voat iirc, which is an obscure Reddit clone that never had a big user base