Oh, I like to have a special individual thing with each person to make them feel appreciated, eg:
- the pez thing
- let them suck it out
- cum with the force of 1000 suns in their general direction
- empty a bottle of coke into my pp & volcano the things out
- special docking procedure where the mints are transferred to their pp
- a sniper like situation where they get a mint into their mouths from a great distance without seeing me
- let them draw from a special collection of valentine mints with messages (one or two handed)
- one jumps on my pp that then shoots out the mints
- I let the mints out at the urinal so they are waiting for them there
. . .

Agreed.

It's also why the extreme change you described was so small.

Imagine a world without cocaine, vast, continent-covering amounts ...

It's not the CEO, it's the shareholder class (and the system).

CEOs are just lapdogs with a job.
Shareholders dictate what CEOs (management board) objectives are. Is usually profit. If their job was to maximise wages, CEOs would try anything to achieve that.

Ppl will really think CEOs that affect profit by 0.01% are the issue, not where the vast profit goes, and why is profit king above all else (human lives & ecosystems included).

In landfills things stay buried if/until they can't get washed away. That's how microplastics get out, but bcs of the filtration of the ground that is very very slow.

And paper actually decomposes, usually with bacteria or other oxidation precesses. Plastics don't really do that. If they did there literally wouldn't be a microplastics problem. Something that smol would "decompose" basically immediately.
(Before bacteria ate celuloze trees would litter everything, basically a catastrophe, and then they became fossil fuels bcs there was nothing to decompose it.)

But it's a hella convenient way of thinking that plastics in a landfill aren't a problem.
Unlike cellulose, plastics do degrade into microplastics.

Yay for fibre!

I can hardly imagine the last few decades without it.

Reading horror stories on the internet about downloading games for a day feels like reading about a starving village without roads.

Same with GSM data (we had GPRS, UMTS, etc about when they came out). Or the price of an SMS in late 90s/early 2000. Imagine not having unlimited SMS as a teen.

It's wild that rich, developed countries lacked basic infrastructure, and then they overpaid sooo much for it.

Western & south Europe (not exactly all countries) has fibre in like remote villages.

Well, sorta - in some markets labels can also just be fake (or even in regulated markets I'm sure there can be "mistakes"), but in a lot of them the tags are just describing one (main) fabric.

So a plain shirt made from 100% cotton can be stitched together with a plastic thread. Or have elastic collar (ie plastic).
(Not to mention that you basically can't get any data on die method used. Or exact fabric characteristics, like thread length. Or weave type. Etc.)

I'm most comfortable if the tag lists like 5 separate 100% items (eg ingredients of the main fabric, of the pocket liners, of buttons, of elastic bits, etc).

Everything is designed to fatigue you out & monetise your actions the most.

But with a lot of clothing you just can't get non-plastic bits at all - like winter clothes, footwear, etc.

Even more depressive most/all such items have some pfas outer layer (like a teflon or teflon-like coating so it's more hydrophobic/oleophobic & the water & dirt slides off). But we all breathe it in & it just stays there.

... and then there are ppl who worship clothes made from 100% artificial materials bcs they are "high tech" & have "good performance".

You can't recycle them (very poorly at best, with extra harmful byproducts).

And landfills are not built like nuclear waste storage facilities.

Everything around us is 'the environment'.

Confined-ish. Rain will still wash it further eventually.

All fossil fuel (+many other) plastics = microplastics eventually.

But my og reply here was just making that point - that within our lifetime most of the microplastics we will breathe & ingest comes from clothing, tires, and food-adjacent plastic products.

The legal basis for 'illegally cute'.

You are right, I was trying to reference this in a petty attempt at humour