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[FairAndUnbiased]

PLA isn't really biodegradable though, requires specific compost facilities to process. You can see people's 3D printed junk last for years and years outside in the sun.

Plastic straws are also uniquely flexible, which makes storage and packaging a breeze when compared against alternative which are usually brittle.

Ultimately this fight over packaging is just green washing. There are far more environmentally damaging things that humans do (illegal crude refining in third world countries for example) than some straws.

polylactic acid degradation isn't for the timescale of years though; it just has to beat decades to centuries.

In environmental conditions the half life of HDPE is 58-1200 years.

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[coolgod]

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DOGE has breached the IRS building

 

[antwerpery]

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The Louisiana Department of Health will no longer promote mass vaccination, the state’s surgeon general, Dr. Ralph Abraham, told state health workers Thursday.
“The State of Louisiana and LDH have historically promoted vaccines for vaccine preventable illnesses through our parish health units, community health fairs, partnerships and media campaigns,” Abraham wrote in a memo addressed to “LDH Team Members” and obtained by CNN. “While we encourage each patient to discuss the risks and benefits of vaccination with their provider, LDH will no longer promote mass vaccination.”
The directive, first reported by the Times-Picayune, came the same day anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was sworn in as secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services. It was timing that Dr. Jennifer Avegno, director of the Health Department for the City of New Orleans, said she didn’t think was a coincidence.

What does surprise me about the Trump administration is just how fast it's moving. You think it would take months to get to this point. But nope. Turns out it's not just top level government decisions. It's a bottom up grassroots movement. The average American is just as stupid as Trump and his cronies and are just waiting for government approval before they can pull shit like this, they don't need to be told or forced into it by the federal government. All they need is a greenlight.

 

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He's actually bending the knee. I'm guessing that cutting US defense spending that badly will be linked into China and Russia also entering some sort of deal to cut defense spending too, alongside some other concessions. Too bad the 180 policy flip that will happen once the Democrats get elected means that this won't be a long term policy and thus impossible for China and Russia and other countries to actually commit to.

With such a drastic move of cutting the budget in half, I think there's a very good chance that NGAD is on the chopping block. Also I really really find it funny that people still consistently treat Russia like it's some kind of superpower on the same tier as China and America.

This is a ruse. He wants to start deproliferation talks, but he himself ripped those treaties.

 

[iewgnem]

Maybe if CN reached the same number of nukes of Rus/US or military assets as US? Then maybe CN will be interested, or if US and Russia destroy their nukes or military assets to the same amount as CN?

What I'm guessing happened was: he got briefing on how badly Sentinel is doing and how they can't afford it, he also got a briefing or already know how their 1970s Minutemen missiles are mostly defunct, i.e. America is already mostly de-nuclearized, so he figured instead of going broke trying to replace Minutemen, why not negotiate disarment where we get rid of our non-working nukes in exchange for China and Russia getting rid of their working ones.

It's always been a theory that US completely neglected nuclear force maintenance after convincing themselves that history ended in 91, then you got US Strategic Command head saying America is a "sinking ship", how everyone who worked on Minutemen are dead or retired, then Biden restarting B61-13 gravity bomb development and Congress funding Sentinel at insane priority levels, in a way the fact that Trump even floated the idea of denuclearization is almost a final admission that US nuclear stockpile is mostly for show at this point.

Of course Russia and China aren't stupid and will play accordingly with this information.

 

[Hyper]

What I'm guessing happened was: he got briefing on how badly Sentinel is doing and how they can't afford it, he also got a briefing or already know how their 1970s Minutemen missiles are mostly defunct, i.e. America is already mostly de-nuclearized, so he figured instead of going broke trying to replace Minutemen, why not negotiate disarment where we get rid of our non-working nukes in exchange for China and Russia getting rid of their working ones.

In a way the fact that Trump even floated the idea is almost an admission US nuclear stockpile is mostly for show at this point.

Sentinel only balooned in costs because new silos need to be made. The missile is still delayed but costs are still under control. They can always go for TELs, but institutional inertia is huge. Also most of their nukes are on submarines.

 

[iewgnem]

Sentinel only balooned in costs because new silos need to be made. The missile is still delayed but costs are still under control. They can always go for TELs, but institutional inertia is huge. Also most of their nukes are on submarines.

Yeah I don't think you can take what they claim at face value when it comes to the question of "does America still have working nukes"

 

[Hyper]

Yeah I don't think you can take what they claim at face value when it comes to the question of "does America still have working nukes"

Can't believe we are talking such nonsense on this thread. Yes they have functioning nukes.

 

[zhangjim]

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He's actually bending the knee. I'm guessing that cutting US defense spending that badly will be linked into China and Russia also entering some sort of deal to cut defense spending too, alongside some other concessions. Too bad the 180 policy flip that will happen once the Democrats get elected means that this won't be a long term policy and thus impossible for China and Russia and other countries to actually commit to.

With such a drastic move of cutting the budget in half, I think there's a very good chance that NGAD is on the chopping block. Also I really really find it funny that people still consistently treat Russia like it's some kind of superpower on the same tier as China and America.

I think this is a trap. A large amount of US spending is spent on overseas deployments, and Trump can easily order those puppet countries to bear these costs for the US.

 

[FriedButter]

I think this is a trap. A large amount of US spending is spent on overseas deployments, and Trump can easily order those puppet countries to bear these costs for the US.

For the Americans, they are withdrawing from their global empire to cut costs. Specifically in Europe. The Russians will simply return back to normal pre-war level of spending. Then China reduction will come at the cost of halting, stopping, and slowing military modernization. Exposing China to danger and weakness which is exactly what the China hawks want.