According to this website (https://www.condorferries.co.uk/plastic-in-the-ocean-statistics) 33 billion pounds of plastic enter the ocean each year.

So in the same timeframe that ocean cleanup extracted 25,000 pounds, 2.5 billion pounds were dumped.

I’m not saying its not a worthwhile exercise, but that’s depressing.

I gotta be honest. Knowing that Justin Trudeau is concerned doesn’t make me feel any better.

This is a further development of international relations brokered by President Trump. Its interesting because Morocco recognises Palestine and supports a two state solution as per this article: https://www.timesofisrael.com/morocco-increasingly-struggles-to-balance-israel-ties-with-support-for-palestinians/

Rabat officially supports the establishment of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza, with East Jerusalem as its capital.

I mean, like how an exhausted aerosol can is ‘definitely not explosive’.

Just an exhausted rocket stage. Definitely not explosive.

In six months time Americans will be posting pictures of snow and saying “tell me again about how the globe is warming”

And still they had to hedge themselves in their title by saying ‘reportedly’

Reportedly? You couldn’t find confirmation of this?

Unlike all the other religions, where women are always treated well.

Because of all the advances over the past generation from email to AI have all combined to make the economy at least twice as productive as it was 30 years ago but we aren’t seeing any benefit.

The years of leisure workers get at the end of their career should be increasing, not decreasing. Where are all the productivity gains going?

“Oh, but people are living longer” OK, but we’re also generating twice as much wealth over our careers than the generation before us, and instead of more retirement years or shorter working weeks all we see is billionaire pricks buying up media conglomerates.

Good luck to the French people. Keep it up. Get angry.

Remember 2010 when everything was perfect?

When you think about it, anything could be classified as a possible carcinogen.

You get the option to run the program

I once looked outside. Could I be sued for observing a public space?

This is the first advertisement I’ve seen on lemmy.

The article doesn’t say they were illegal immigrants, did you make that part up?