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Cake day: September 1st, 2024

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  • I honestly find this complain ridiculous.

    I don’t see the issue in carrying an empty plastic bottle around. It weights nothing, and, when crushed, takes no space. There are countries like Japan where there aren’t many garbage bins on the streets and people carry their garbage around until they find one.

    There are a bunch of societal rules that started like this. Thirty years ago, most people would still throw their used batteries into the regular garbage bin, would dispose of used oil anywhere, or would happily have a smoke while watching their children at the park. Nowadays no sane person would do either of those. Things change. Get on with the times.


  • I was finished with a bottle of water and threw it into a trash can. Had there been a recycle bin, I would have placed it there. I was being reprimanded and scolded by someone less than half my age that honestly expected me to carry it until I could find a recycle container.

    I think you’re in the wrong here. Two reasons.

    First, finding the proper trash bin for a bottle requires zero effort. You’d likely find one on your way anywhere.

    Second, people “less than half your age” are right to be more concerned about the environment, since they will have to deal with the absolute clusterfuck previous generations are leaving them with.


  • I’m really curious about what’s precisely wrong with taking the bus, but even more, recycling. Because I would understand if schedules and bus stops are not at all convenient, but recycling takes no time or effort at all, and I doubt Seattle is doing anything that no other city had been doing for many years now.



  • I’m a born and raised Spaniard who lived there for over 35 years, and was beaten up by cops at least once. I think I know a thing or two about the system.

    You said that in Spain people have the right to protest freely against the government, yet the ley mordaza proves that’s not all true, e.g. https://www.es.amnesty.org/en-que-estamos/blog/historia/articulo/ley-mordaza/

    But regardless of all that, there’s an even more solid proof that removing anonymity on the internet is a bad idea in the current Spanish climate: La Liga has been threatening individuals and companies for well over a year now, with the help of the courts and the inaction of the government. Somehow, they had access to internet users’ personal data, and have been sending out letters requesting payment for alleged “pirated content distribution and consumption”. They have pressured ISPs to throttle and even block entire blocks of IP addresses. They have sued people for libel because of insults towards their current president.

    My point here is that, if a sports corporation could do that when people are still able to be “anonymous” online, how can you guarantee that Spain wouldn’t devolve into a full fledged corporate fascist state, where those with money have the effective power to target dissidents for the pettiest reason, if anonymity were to go away?