There are people involved in the entire process who genuinely care about the fairness of the electoral process. Many elections also have international observers though I don’t know if this one had them.
If the election was truly rigged there would be credible evidence for it and the supreme court which has many judges with a Republican bias would make a ruling based on that.
As the other comment says the election is indeed rigged in the favour of the bourgeoisie. It’s hardly worth getting mad about which faction of the bourgeoisie won unless you have material interest in Republicans winning. Regardless it is not healthy to delve into baseless conspiracy theories.
From the oversimplified summary I know of, first crude oil is made to undergo fractional distillation to separate its components. The part that is used for plastic manufacturing consists of reactive hydrocarbon compounds like naphtha, ethylene, propylene etc. It isn’t until polymerisation and condensation that we get inert polymers which we call plastics. So the byproducts are much better than plastics in terms of longetevity (spell check isn’t helping here).
If those byproducts weren’t being made into plastic, would it be easier or harder to handle their environmental impact?
Definitely easier. Though the best thing would be to work on reducing the obscene quantity of crude oil that is processed so that oil companies can turn profits.
Plastic has a lot of properties that are desirable for packaging. I’m sure there are many of those properties that can be reproduced by analogues if those analogues are produced at scale and thus cost-efficient. What do materials scientists think would be harder to get right?
I don’t know much about this topic but I feel phasing out plastics would not only require finding alternative materials to replace plastics, but also altering the modes of distribution because the current modes are completely centred around plastic usage. For example, maybe bringing your container to the grocery store and getting it filled with milk instead of buying milk in plastic bags (as people do in Canada).
Element gets a “good” on ease of use but IME using multiple clients is a pain in butt with the way encryption keys are handled. Lots of people complain about not being able to read some messages in an encrypted room I am in. I understand if it’s a limitation of them not storing your keys on a centralised server (unless you opt for it I think) but it makes it very difficult for normie friends.
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of the VPS and to show the code and make changes to it, he used …
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I have been reading about people setting up a cron job to do fstrim
on their SSDs on a daily/weekly basis.
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