The US and Canada apparently wanted to be special, again.

I’d expect them to stay sane and use prestressed concrete ones like the rest of the industry. Steel might make sense in some situations.

As far as I understand it comes down to recycling rates: In countries like Germany where there’s mandatory deposit on one-use plastic bottles it’s a definitive win, in other places the situation isn’t as clear-cut. PET bottles can be recycled very well provided you have a clean recycling stream, which the deposit ensures.

Still, beer in plastic bottles is a travesty, it’s generally deposit glass bottles over here (some brewery-specific, many many many generic though the crates tend to be specific). Cans at least won’t spoil the beer, but are also more annoying deposit-wise as you have to take care to not crush them in the wrong way or the machine won’t be able to read the code.

Side note: Apparently our whole traditional glass recycling is cooked, too much stuff that shouldn’t be in there in there that spoils whole batches. And very difficult to educate people about it or filter things out automatically, sure, ceramics can be filtered out, but drinking glasses of the wrong type of glass messing up the whole chemistry? Forget it. The good news is that crushed glass makes excellent aggregate, I’ve even heard of some places using it to top up beaches.

Donations are a tiny fraction of Mozilla’s income. Firefox and related projects are their money earners for their actually charitable projects, pulling in at least half a billion or so a year.

Not saying that the CEO pay is adequate or something, but your take is literally ignoring the article you yourself quoted.

It’s not a thought exercise but a modelling discipline.

It’s systems thinking and if you think it’s terrible then because it’s terribly good at getting rid of excuses. “Oh but you see the intent of the prison system is to reduce crime, never mind it doing the opposite, move along, nothing to see because intent is all that matters”.

Men should be ashamed that women typically seem to want to pick a bear over themselves

Shame is an individual thing. Men, plural, is a whole bunch of people. Why should I be ashamed for the actions of people that aren’t me?

…and just to be clear here: I’m not even arguing that we shouldn’t battle this one out between the genders. But collective punishment is against the Geneva convention and I really don’t like to stay quiet when people commit war crimes.

If it’s alexithymia or such I hope you have trusted people in your life you can ask about random people.

On the flipside if that kind of thing is due to being on the schizo spectrum I can say with personal authority that yes it’s very much possible: Figures it’s not that I can’t do it it’s that I had a life-long habit of actively avoiding tuning into random people, the resonance being so strong that their neuroses get me all cramped up and swamped with random shit requiring clean-up after the fact. But deep dives aren’t really necessary for a threat radar what you’re primarily looking for is their attitude towards relating on eye level, whether there’s an inferiority/superiority thing going on.

but the problem is that we can’t know which men are evil.

It’s very much possible with these things called emotional intelligence and empathy. Used in combination they allow you to walk in another’s shoes for just a split second and see where their mind is.

Nono you’re not allowed to judge the man individually. You’re required to judge before you see both the man and bear so that we get a properly over-essentialised judgement how else are we going to propagate in- / out-group divisions.

But nobody is purposefully “wedging a stick” between allies and enemies.

The purpose of a system is what it does.