• TipRing
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    454 months ago

    Probably wrapping and cooking our food in volatile plastics.

    • @FinnFooted@lemmy.world
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      114 months ago

      Poison the cancer slightly faster than the whole organism! My dad cancer treatment gave him liver disease that eventually turned into a cancer that was way more deadly than his original cancer.

    • @neidu3@sh.itjust.worksM
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      144 months ago

      Single-use plastic, yeah. Things like Tupperware will stick around unless we go back to using asphalt for food preservation.

      I think we’re going to see single use wax-paper or similar displace the plastic and Styrofoam for your delivery order.

  • Call me Lenny/Leni
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    254 months ago

    People probably wouldn’t believe we sold water in plastic water bottles or shopped with disposable plastic bags.

  • @MTK@lemmy.world
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    244 months ago

    Hopefully, single use plastics would be a ridiculous thing in the future, maybe they will look back at it like we look back at asbestos.

    Here is a funny asbestos ad from the past

    • @takeda@lemm.ee
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      74 months ago

      That’s true. They already evolved and most of us didn’t even realize. News feeds were added and gradually evolved to use information they know about is to push our buttons and affect our behavior and beliefs.

      They still needed content, but with generative AI that’s no longer necessary, this is why social media companies are so invested in it.

      Social media is no longer social it became a platform to manipulate people. It is much worse than traditional ways of propaganda, because each person gets their customized feed tuned to issues that are more likely to influence them.

    • @dingus@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Do you mean physical money in terms of paper/plastic/coins or money as a concept? If the latter, how would society function?

          • @MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
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            24 months ago

            Greed was a useful trait when it was down to survival of the fittest before we developed agriculture.

            After that, the usefulness of greed became less relevant over time, and I would argue that at this point, it’s counter productive.

            Just saying.

  • Like the wind...
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    4 months ago

    Car centric infrastructure 🤣 lol back in the 2020s they had to travel in slow ass crowds of cars 🤣🤣🤣 nobody liked driving but they settled for it because it was the best they had! Although I wish I could have bought Tears of the Kingdom when it was new, I don’t even want to know what cars were like.

    • @Mothra@mander.xyz
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      TIL I can italicize emojis and I’m gonna try it out right now 😆

      Edit: I love it ❤️

    • @abbadon420@lemm.ee
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      14 months ago

      It’s hard to feed large populations. If not for the current form of the food industry, we wouldn’t be able to. It’s good for a first draft, now we have to refactor (and we are slowly doing that)

  • qevlarr
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    104 months ago

    20 years is a bit short but… Eating animals will be regarded as highly immoral, “but everyone knew those animals suffered, right?”, on the same level as we now judge slavery

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          This is so weird. Do people realize animals need to eat? Why don’t we eat that food directly? Eating animals makes for less food, not more. Like how 75% of soy is cattle feed, and then vegans get blamed for deforestation for soy beans. It’s ridiculous. Willful ignorance

          • @surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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            44 months ago

            Eh, only sorta. Plenty of animals can be fed on things we can’t eat. They tried raising rabbits in NK for example because they can survive off rocky ground that wouldn’t grow crops.

            Third world problem though. First world countries could be vegetarian easily.

          • @Hadriscus@lemm.ee
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            14 months ago

            hmmm… over here cows and sheep are fed on banana leaves and some tree I cannot name. I don’t know about you but either of these don’t float my boat too well