the overwhelming banality of evil

“Tuesday, the government will no longer fund the Marine Protected Areas Federal Advisory Committee run by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) or the Interior Department’s Invasive Species Advisory Committee, the two agencies confirmed”

the morale among those studying the pacific and alaskan fisheries at NOAA is pretty low at this point.

Mars belongs to the first rich man to get there, not whatever lives on it now. The universe needs to recognize this

we need to think of our great packaging and advertising industries though

It’s a religion thing

New Hampshire

making the world safe for palm oil plantations

dirty love affair with coal

def picturing the algae farms in this as too; the plastics would be largely symbolic but a nice value-add. Throw in some saltwater greenhouses, biochar soil remediation as well. Artificial oasis based on the trash economy.

also pirates, apparently

It’d be cool to move past the trope of ‘men in ships’ though: it’s so 16th century

leadership has nothing to do with accountability now though it’s pretty awesome

it all makes so much sense to them until they get the brain tumor

they don’t have mass shootings like we do

Imagine if we could use these resources to build the technology that made their use obsolete.

I’m imagining a partnership to finely grind up plastic waste and pump it back down the wells using solar power.

but if apple paid any taxes it would fail, that’s just capitalism

“innovation”

security practices lagged behind.