Alright, I’ll level with you. What annoyed me was your use of “obviously” and “abundantly clear”. Please consider where you are right now and what medium you’re using:

• you might be anywhere in the world with a completely different experience and culture than me
• you are communicating on a medium where your intention can only be judged by the words you write in the context they are present. no facial expressions, no emojis, no tone of voice, nothing else

So things aren’t as “obvious” as you make them out to be.

Now that that is out of the way, you are still downplaying the role Germany plays in plastic pollution. 810 thousand tonnes is far from a negligible amount to export per year. No matter how you spin it, Western countries still consume and waste obscenely more than non-Western countries. They do terribly in carbon consumption too.

I can appreciate the “at least we aren’t doing as bad those other guys” ( imagine the brag “hey we gassed only 600k Jews, they gassed 2M, we’re so much better!”) , but it’s still 810 thousand tonnes exported to countries that cannot deal with even their domestic plastic waste. If the headline were “Germany dumped 810 kilo tonnes of plastic waste into the ocean”, that would sound no better than the “UK dumped 675 kilo tonnes of plastic waste into the ocean”. Of course, if we just say “exported” it seems cute and maybe even economy boosting. “We gave Malaysia a few megatonnes of plastic and they just dumped it into the ocean! Bad Malaysia, bad!”

Being able to export the waste to a country that a) doesn’t produce even half as much and b) cannot deal with it, doesn’t make up for however much you recycle (or claim to recycle) in your own country. It’s a cop out.

USA getting smoked, top kek

“so what’s a little bit more?”. Yeah, great point.

Obviously that doesn’t make a difference to the country receiving 810k tonnes of trash.

wHy aRe ThE pOoR CoUnTrIeS pOlLutInG sO MuCh??!1???11

Because we export our fucking plastic there to absolve ourselves of the responsibility. Exporting waste to third-world countries should quite simply be banned and I’m glad at least the EU will do so.

The EU has agreed to ban exports of plastic waste to countries outside the group of mostly rich OECD nations by November 2026, yet half is still being sent to those destinations. Much of the remainder goes to Turkey, now the largest recipients of European plastic waste.

With the ban approaching, there are concerns that all exports could be redirected to developing OECD countries such as Turkey, as well as parts of eastern Europe, which lack the capacity to manage higher volumes.

Then they can finally shut up about “most pollution to seas some from these 3 Asian countries” and walk in their shoes for a while. Even the UK is suffocating under their waste and it’s being dumped everywhere. Tough to blame immigrants when you’re doing the polluting and it ends up in your own backyard.

But the people will find a way to blame immigrants anyway. Anything to avoid taxing the rich and their wealth.

Yes, sent to countries that can’t process it and just dump it in the sea. “not a lot”

So what does this all mean? Is a time machine just around the corner?

Sadly, no. Our experiment is fully explained by standard physics.

But it does show that negative dwell time is not an artefact. However paradoxical it may seem, it has a directly measurable effect on the atomic cloud that the photon traverses. And it reminds us that there are still lands to discover on the odyssey that is quantum research.

I was awaiting on an explanation… now I’m just left wondering.

Maybe the US will suffer greatly and the rest of the world have to come off of the US addiction, but the world might actually be brighter afterwards.

Impressive that in corporate USA this is even a possible outcome, but the decision makers aren’t going to pay anything. This is all corporate money going to the government, none of their personal assets will be touched. This is a taste of justice. It isn’t justice.

I’m surprised CEOs in the US can sleep safely with all the injustice they are doing.

Fuck that. Everybody in a decision making capacity at that company should have their assets seized to restitute the victims. This way, the company is all they lose i.e no more job, but all the money they made from it, all the assets they could acquire, the wealth they could acquire, stays. Nobody’s going to have a bad sleep over this.

Are you purposefully not quoting the most enraging part?

Early in Tuesday’s hearing, Arleo asked lawyers why Sackler family members were being allowed to pay over 15 years. She was told it was because they had to sell other businesses to secure the cash. The judge offered a different reason. “They’d rather pay it from future money than pay it now,” she said.

It literally is the cost of doing business.

By the end of Trump, it’s doubtful anybody will be doing stuff to appease him.

Money gets to anybody’s head, European, Asian, or USAian.

Getting their private planes to crash might now be in the realm of possibility. Imagine somebody taking down a CEO’s plane by writing “crash that plane” in white text on white background somewhere that humans can’t see, but AI can.

Don’t worry, it’ll get to rail soon enough :)

EVERYONE

Why allow humans to invest? Retirement funds will be managed by AI agents, like it or not.

Gen Z? By 2040 I doubt there’ll be anything to retire to. Max 2050.

Oh yeah, that’ll get em going! They can make it a vacuum and finally have their hyperloop.