That was one of the best.
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Mystic
We're all born mad
I kinda hate to think of a world without Paul McCartney in it.
nailer
audionerd
It would be even more out of tune.
spicer
Lunatic Member
Kind of like a whole generation crossing over.
Pio1980
AK Member
Beyoncé doing the simple uncluttered elegance of McCartney's Blackbird recently brought his songcraft to mind.
Mystic
We're all born mad
Yep.
Mystic
We're all born mad
It is beautiful. It is.
A long time ago, I realized that it's best just to let it go. Holding a grudge just tears you apart and waiting for an apology usually results in disappointment, especially since some people just refuse to admit to having said or done something wrong.
DeadRock
Ideas Guy
...and some people like being aggrieved...
nailer
audionerd
Wondering what the percentage is of Americans who are unaware someone is waiting for an apology from them. And then there is the percentage of those, e.g. John Wayne, who don't care because they perceive apologizing as being a sign of weakness.
Mystic
We're all born mad
And of those, how many are in fact owed an apology. Just wondering.
nailer
audionerd
A highly subjective debt.
DeadRock
Ideas Guy
Yeah...Harper's Index is known to include independently "interesting" data factoids (gathered from various sources) that when read as a list in its monthly entirety, can provoke thought and questions...some of which are addressed or explored in the essays, articles, dialogues in the same issue. One could hazard a proposition that Americans are an "aggrieved" people right now...rightly...wrongly or otherwise.
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Mystic
We're all born mad
The European Union exported 32.1 million tonnes of waste to non-EU countries in 2022, according to Eurostat. This is a slight decline from the 33.0 million tonnes of waste exports to these countries in 2021. Turkey was the primary destination country for EU waste that year with some 12.4 million tonnes sent there, accounting to 39 percent of the total exports of waste.
India received the second highest quantity of EU waste that year, receiving some 3.5 million tonnes in total. It was followed by the United Kingdom and Switzerland, with 2.0 and 1.6 million tonnes, respectively.
The EU agreed a deal in November that it would stop sending plastic waste to non-OECD countries from mid-2026. These rules are yet to be approved by the European Council and parliament. Critics argue this could lead to a rise in waste shipped to countries which are within the group such as Turkey, as reported by The Guardian.
nailer
audionerd
The vast majority of this waste is probably being recycled, thus creating additional waste for the importers to dispose of. In addition to the plastics mentioned in the notes, my idle curiosity is wondering what the composition of these exported wastes are.
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SolderIron
Addicted Member
UK surprises me. Doesn't seem a big a place to take in waste.
Mystic
We're all born mad
Garbage out, garbage in. Er, back.
