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=== Recycling blues ===
=== Recycling blues ===
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As a result [of failed plastic recycling efforts], our municipality has dropped recycling collection to every other week, and in February they will stop accepting…glass? I just watched them recycle glass on Time Team. They were doing it to explain why it was so rare for archeologists to find glass, because broken glass items were invariably recycled.
As a result [of failed plastic recycling efforts], our municipality has dropped recycling collection to every other week, and in February they will stop accepting…glass? I just watched them recycle glass on Time Team. They were doing it to explain why it was so rare for archeologists to find glass, because broken glass items were invariably recycled.


* [https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/how-china-ended-the-lie-of-recyclable-plastic/188940/4 Comment] by user Ratel @ Boing Boing
* [https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/how-china-ended-the-lie-of-recyclable-plastic/188940/4 Comment] by user Ratel @ Boing Boing
=== A Mob Boss, A Garbage Boat and Why We Recycle ===
* [https://www.npr.org/2019/07/09/739893511/episode-925-a-mob-boss-a-garbage-boat-and-why-we-recycle A Mob Boss, A Garbage Boat and Why We Recycle] @ NPR


=== Hair styles and phrenological examinations under the Third Reich ===
=== Hair styles and phrenological examinations under the Third Reich ===

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Online diary of Karl Jones for Thursday January 14, 2021.

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Recycling blues

As a result [of failed plastic recycling efforts], our municipality has dropped recycling collection to every other week, and in February they will stop accepting…glass? I just watched them recycle glass on Time Team. They were doing it to explain why it was so rare for archeologists to find glass, because broken glass items were invariably recycled.

  • Comment by user Ratel @ Boing Boing

A Mob Boss, A Garbage Boat and Why We Recycle

Hair styles and phrenological examinations under the Third Reich

"Evolution algorithm of hair styles and phrenological examinations under the Third Reich recapitulates phylogeny of evil."

Man is a constellation

Man is a constellation.

From a distance, his brightest stars appear to illuminate a myth.

Man is a constellation.

Let's Not Be Strangers

Teen boy, raised as vigilante, kills strangers in a strange town.

Strangers raise his bail: two million dollars.

Now strangers object to this boy making White Power signs in a bar.

I say let him make White Power signs anywhere he likes.

Show this teen vigilante making White Power signs on television, on the news.

Show us ourselves, America.

Let's not be strangers.

Let's Not Be Strangers

Quondam

Quondam

Quondam Anonymous

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