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Wait what sites are down? Just checked the ones I normally use and they’re fine?

Also, just to say, I think there’s this big learning curve with torrents cause people aren’t straight forward with others ask for advice (told what not to do rather than what to do) and there’s also just too much fear mongering about viruses.

Bots can’t watch videos anymore? Anti-droid discrimination

How’s Proton for privacy?

Not an expert but Duck Duck Go browser is decent afaik. Happy to be corrected though. Brave browser is one I use a lot too but I think it has some AI stuff now, though I believe you can turn it off

• Plastic is a good insulater
• plastic is a safer material
• plastic is more cost effective for necessary single-use objects like syringes and other medical equipment.
• plastic is more malleable, easier to mould and twist into useful shapes

Wider use of plastic pre-dates “wars for oil” and metal and timber are commodities that imperialists want to control just as much. They just have better control over those than they do oil right now.

Capitalism results in just as much human misery with regards wood, metal and glass production as it does plastic. There’s no ethical consumption under capitalism because there’s no ethical production under capitalism.

Dunno how we’re supposed to get by without plastic. Basic things like water bottles, any cups or utensils you might give a baby or young child. Plastic has been a really important technological advancement. We can’t exactly start giving kids glass bottles. Metal and wood are also not great replacements. Microplastics and plastic poisoning are definitely convos we need to have but the solution is not as simple as “stop using plastic”.

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