• FireRetardant@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    What bothers me is some of my friends heard about plastic recycling being fake and immediately assume all recycling is fake. So now they don’t even try to recycle normal cardboards, papers, and metals because “recycling is a myth”.

    • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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      29 minutes ago

      That’s what happens when people get lied to, they stop believing everything, not just the lies.

      Lying to the public does insane damage.

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      1 hour ago

      A Pyrrhic victory is still a victory.

      counts useless numbers in a spreadsheet representing useless pieces of paper as society collapses around them