Yeah.

I can only imagine. 🫠

That’s a result of Tokyo and the other biggest cities only separating into recyclable bottles, non-recyclable or non-burnable material (i.e. inorganics) and all the rest which is as you say incinerated.

They also have some, if not the most clean burning incenerators in the world, and they use the waste material for construction and land reclamation.

Burning plastics at very high temperatures is far more environmentally friendly than sending them to landfills or attempting to recycle them.

Nevertheless they are known for excess packaging and obviously my arguments about standardization still apply to Japan as much as anyone else.

Yes, but the main issue is how mixed the materials are in our consumables. Mixed recycling is basically bullshit. We should have more standardized packaging and more categories of separation strictly enforced. Japan does this pretty well.

You could opt in to pay extra for sorting if you can afford it sure.

And emissions need to be better taxed, and illegal dumping and discharge into rivers and such a jailable crime with big fines for businesses with accountability going right up the chain to investors.

When’s day?

Yes, unless consciousness is more than the totality of our biology and there really is a soul or something erather.

You’d be surprised the challenges some deeply inspired creators do for views.

I was linked on an R18 sub at one point. Someone else asked (for a friend of course) and I had a look (strictly for science of course). And yeah… Even in the front end. Maybe not 3 feet (that’s strictly reserved for the back end) but… Wow. Surely it isn’t worth it. Maybe it feels good? The science continues.

You’re not really selling it for me, which I guess is the point aye? 😂

What I imagine as ideal is an open-source and transparent bank and payment system that issues its own currency backed by ties to its investment portfolio that is properly regulated by its host country. i.e. you would use their currency to trade among others on the platform according to the percentage value of their portfolio that you own as measured by the currency to which you which to convert your holdings for a given purchase. You could select different tiers of risk if you’d like your “savings” to grow in value over time but experience potential dips or even loss of value if there is major market stability.

I am not an expert on such things, but this at least has real links to tangible asset worth, and isn’t based on the artificial scarcity of an increasingly unsolvable math problem.

Banks or governments as opposed to who though? There’s a reason we usually want those publicly owned and regulated institutions to handle our transactions. Obviously, it depends what country you live in, and what currency you’re talking about. But I don’t think Bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency actually solves the problem it purports to.

Why use them and not… normal fiat currency?