2018 Statistic of the Year: 90.5 Percent of Plastic Waste Has Never Been Recycled (bbc.com) 162
Two of 2018's best statistics from the Royal Statistical Society are about the environment. "The winning international statistic of the year was 90.5% -- the proportion of plastic waste that has never been recycled," reports the BBC. "And in the UK category, the top stat was 27.8% -- the highest percentage of all electricity which was generated by solar power." From the report: A panel of judges picked the two winners, along with several highly commended statistics, from more than 200 nominations. Entries for 2018 were submitted earlier this year. Judges on the panel included Dame Jil Matheson, former national statistician -- the top adviser to the government on official statistics, as well as RSS president Sir David Spiegelhalter, BBC home editor Mark Easton and the Guardian's U.S. data editor Mona Chalabi.
The environment and plastic waste has repeatedly made headlines in 2018, and "single-use" -- referring to plastic waste -- was named the word of the year. Other highly commended statistics include:
$1.3 billion: the amount lost from the value of Snapchat within a day after Kylie Jenner tweeted: "Sooo does anyone else not open Snapchat anymore?"
85.9%: the proportion of British trains that ran on time -- the lowest for more than a decade
40%: the percentage of Russian men who do not live to the age of 65
64,946: the number of measles cases in Europe from November 2017 to October 2018
82%: the percentage of all British retail shopping that is still in-store rather than online
16.7%: the percentage reduction of the number of Jaffa Cakes in the McVities' Christmas tube
6.4%: the percentage of female executive directors within FTSE 250 companies
The environment and plastic waste has repeatedly made headlines in 2018, and "single-use" -- referring to plastic waste -- was named the word of the year. Other highly commended statistics include:
$1.3 billion: the amount lost from the value of Snapchat within a day after Kylie Jenner tweeted: "Sooo does anyone else not open Snapchat anymore?"
85.9%: the proportion of British trains that ran on time -- the lowest for more than a decade
40%: the percentage of Russian men who do not live to the age of 65
64,946: the number of measles cases in Europe from November 2017 to October 2018
82%: the percentage of all British retail shopping that is still in-store rather than online
16.7%: the percentage reduction of the number of Jaffa Cakes in the McVities' Christmas tube
6.4%: the percentage of female executive directors within FTSE 250 companies
Popcorn time (Score:5, Funny)
Environmental protection, public transport, women... I'm sure this will be a quiet thread, nothing controversial there.
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Obvious trollbait is obvious.
Yes, the article is trollbait.
Nice to know the BBC is continuing the divisive, intersectional, fundamentally racist "progressive" PC tradition, "Asteroid will destroy Earth, women and minorities most impacted!" stories.
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Sarah Jeong, is that you?
Re: Popcorn time (Score:1)
What does Venezuela have to do with operational "Socialism" ? Are you confusing the random mouthing of the resident kleptocratic dictatorship with say, what countries like Norway or Finland consider "Socialism" ?
I laughed because I knew it was another failed petrostate and without American military might, would never have a lasting government.
Turns out I was right, and like Chile and Panama, they eventually will get CIA'd
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Environmental protection, public transport, women... I'm sure this will be a quiet thread, nothing controversial there.
Did you miss the part about the reduction in Jaffa Cakes?
HARRRUMPH!
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Did you miss the part about the reduction in Jaffa Cakes?
HARRRUMPH!
Reducing the number of Jaffa Cakes in a box should be illegal!
- unless of course you are reducing the number by taking them out of the box to eat them.
Forget the NHS- I want a National Jaffa Cake system, "free" Jaffas for all!
Re: Free the Jaffa (Score:2)
"Indeed." - Teal'c
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Nothing compared to those ridiculous Toblerone though.
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>Did you miss the part about the reduction in Jaffa Cakes?
I read that line, and thought - I'm sure those words have meaning to someone, somewhere.
Re:Popcorn time (Score:4, Insightful)
Well it is too bad most of the discussion on these topics goes into the Stupid Oversimplification category and/or just being Cruel and Heartless, and if the topic is really hard to swallow, then we go into conspiracy theory how it is a made up problem by the "Other"
We have these problems that shouldn't be ignored, however people don't want to hear about the side effects that can happen from their view. However we need to fully understand these complex problems to help work out a solution. I doubt for problems so large and complex there are going to be many Win-Win solutions. However we can get a Win and a mitigated lost where the value of the win is greater then the lost. But we can't just discredit the people who will be effected by such a solution.
Lets say we switch for our morning coffee Styrofoam cup, to a paper cup, much greener solution, but the coffee cools down quicker, and it is hot to hold the cup. So lets add that corrugated ring to make the cup easier to hold. We still get a greener solution, and we lost a cup that will keep coffee hotter for longer, but at least we solved the too hot to hold. So it is a mitigated lost, also being that most people will drink their coffee before it gets too cold anyways and the difference between the two will effect a smaller number of people. It isn't a Win-Win but we looked at the solutions and found that there were flaws, some being more serious then others, so we fixed what we can to accommodate the losses, and we end up with a net benefit solution.
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Re: Blokkeerfries (Score:2)
And the phrase of the year is "fookin pencil" as in "Three men! With a fookin pencil!"
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"insensitive cloth" ???
Never hear that term...
Re:Thanks, America? How about China? (Score:3)
Maybe you are not aware of China's environmental record?
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Good point. Counterfeiting is so bad there that infants have died from malnutrition because they even counterfeit baby formula. Thats a special kind of fucked up right there. A few years ago they found one of their pork producers was dumping dead pigs in their rivers. Hundreds.
Re:Thanks, America? How about China? (Score:4, Insightful)
We are. And we're deathly afraid of the time when the average Chinese has the same environmental footprint the average American has.
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Asia, Africa Cause 90% of Plastic Pollution in World's Oceans
https://www.acsh.org/news/2018/07/26/asia-africa-cause-90-plastic-pollution-worlds-oceans-13233
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Asia, Africa Cause 90% of Plastic Pollution in World's Oceans
https://www.acsh.org/news/2018/07/26/asia-africa-cause-90-plastic-pollution-worlds-oceans-13233
Lots more issues with China. For example, China is driving animals into extinction by paying poachers for things like elephant tusks, and rhino horns.
I could go on. Environmental issues are not high priorities with China.
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Incredibly cunty, given that Chinese medicine is a load of fucking shit.
At least with homeopathy one rhino horn would be enough to last forever.
Put water in aluminum cans, no plastic bags (Score:2)
That would probably do a lot to stop single use plastic consumption.
You may have to carbonate the water.
Maybe we need some sort of biodegradable plastic?
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Some US cities have already banned or taxed single use plastic shopping bags.
Single use plastic bags have also been banned in the entire state of Hawaii.
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Dasani already makes their bottles out of recycled plant waste. I was reusing the same 4 bottles for a month at a time, refilling with filtered water, until another report came out indicating I was at higher risk of ingesting toxins by doing that.
No good deed goes unpunished.
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Dasani already makes their bottles out of recycled plant waste. I was reusing the same 4 bottles for a month at a time, refilling with filtered water, until another report came out indicating I was at higher risk of ingesting toxins by doing that.
No good deed goes unpunished.
Make certain you get your minimum daily requirement of Bisphenol-A.
Glass is probably the least troublesome water storage material.
This might make you cringe, but locally we have some springs, typically near the tops of mountains, that have some of the most wonderful water you've tasted. Unfiltered, fresh out of the ground. People come from miles around to fill jugs of drinking water.
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I was reusing the same 4 bottles for a month at a time, refilling with filtered water, until another report came out indicating I was at higher risk of ingesting toxins by doing that.
Simple solution: Use a glass bottle.
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I use them for sports but maybe some other material. Metal always has me concerned for similar reasons.
Re:Put water in aluminum cans, no plastic bags (Score:5, Interesting)
Funny how that plastic can sit on shelves and hot trucks for months without releasing toxins, but if you refill it and drink the water that day the concentration is high enough to be deadly.
Also, funny how the hawkers of a product that is nearly free but is packaged for several dollars a gallon don't want you using the free product.
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Biodegradable plastic exists. It's just way more expensive to produce than regular plastic.
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That would probably do a lot to stop single use plastic consumption.
You may have to carbonate the water.
Maybe we need some sort of biodegradable plastic?
The biggest problem regarding plastic is that the recycling/trash aspect of it is coming from two areas. China and Africa. But outfits like the UN are busy yelling at the USA and other first world countries.
We could drop our plastic waste to zero and it would make no real difference.
We could freaking ban plastics, go to all glass and metal and cloth and paper bags, and percentage wise, almost no difference.
It is quite fashionable to lay all problems at the feet of the first world, and especially that
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I think water has to be carbonated for an aluminium can to work.
The cans need that pressure inside them hold up.
Plastic Waste (Score:3, Insightful)
I like to think I'm a fairly environmental conscience person but I can't bring myself to care about most plastic waste. As long as it's properly disposed of in a landfill I just don't care. We have enough space for landfill to last at least a couple hundred years and at that point we'll probably be disintegrating our trash..
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The problem about plastic is not the part that remains on land.
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Well the two of us can certainly agree on that but there are plenty out there who have very strong feelings about plastic going into landfill.
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Re:Plastic Waste (Score:5, Insightful)
Today's landfills are tomorrow's robotic mines. Labor is just too expensive now.
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I like to think I'm a fairly environmental conscience person but I can't bring myself to care about most plastic waste. As long as it's properly disposed of in a landfill I just don't care. We have enough space for landfill to last at least a couple hundred years and at that point we'll probably be disintegrating our trash..
But ... but ... it will just lay there and do nothing!
Oh ... yeah, I can't be too bothered about it either.
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Even if you ignore the problems with landfill, there are other issues.
Plastic waste gets into the food chain. It gets into places where animals live and kills them. A lot of it is simply not properly disposed of.
And even if we fixed that, it's better to recycle plastic than it is to create new plastic in many cases. Less energy and pollution required. It would be even better if we avoided creating some of that plastic in the first place, and make the stuff we did create easier to recycle (less dye, using th
Not Ever Recycled? (Score:2)
I recycle a lot - it's a mandatory law in these parts. I'm sure that I personally send in more than 10% of my plastics for food containers etc.
BUT --- does this 90% include Childrens Toys? Cell phones, the dashboard & engine cover of my car? Meaning... Long term items that I'm still using?
Since this has been the year of anti-plastics I've been mentally monitoring my plastic usage. Food comes wrapped in it, toys, parts of my toilet, carpet fibres, ethernet cables, my laptop, keyboard, monitor etc
64,946 (Score:2)
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The anti vaccine crowd is strong. Even in Europe.
There are doctors that encourage concerned mothers: "If you feel uncomfortable, just don't do it. Chances your child gets it (now) is only 1 in 10,000" ... But if it gets it as an adult later there are concrete chances of life time damage or even death.
They argue: it is less healthy for the mother and the child to fire fears, than having the child get the disease.
I'm lucky, I'm old enough to have suffered through all those "child sicknesses" during my early c
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First, that number is meaningless without knowing what it was in past years. Actually I guess that could apply to all numbers. But second, it is the only number not represented as a percent.
It was 17,584 the same period the year before. So to represent it as a percent: measles cases increased 369% from the period (Nov 16 - Oct 17) to (Nov 11 to Oct 18).
Also, apologies to Stella McCartney. I meant to curse Jenny McCarthy but got them mixed up.
Act locally (Score:2)
Worry about things you can do, not about those you can't change.
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It also doesn't make sense to recycle plastic simply because it's cheaper to make new plastic. The best thing you can do with used plastic is mentioned in this article:
http://sciencenordic.com/why-s... [sciencenordic.com]
Spoiler: burn it for energy.
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Idiot very much? ... you have the ready made plastic just there and only need to melt it into a new form.
Obviously recycling is cheaper
Who or what to blame ? (Score:1)
I can't say about Canada, US or other countries, states or provinces but I know in Québec we got 2 big major problems. The first one is everything that is about our recycling system is just too old. From infrastructure to systems. Its old and not even up to date. So they need to update everything to have better recycling systems. Multiple times in the last year we had to do major dumping in the St-Laurent River. tons of waste in nature. This kind of behavior and decision is simply unacceptable
companies
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Why are PLA-based bio-degradable plastics not more popular?
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HAD TO dump in the River? Wait, what?
When I go to Montreal I notice huge funding for public art displays and potholes that can consume a subcompact car. This seemed, ummm, shortsighted before you mentioned dumping waste in the River. Jeeze.
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I get it... (Score:4, Insightful)
...the point is to leverage western guilt into recycling their water bottles or some shit.
But isn't the BULK of ocean plastic waste pollution (90%+) coming from 10 rivers? (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stemming-the-plastic-tide-10-rivers-contribute-most-of-the-plastic-in-the-oceans/)
2 are in Africa, 8 are Asian. The Yangtze alone dumps more than all the other rivers/sources combined.
Let's be objective then: wealthy suburban Starbucks customers could literally throw every scrap of plastic they use into the ocean directly, and they wouldn't even tickle the needle vs the megatonnage pouring from these 10 rivers. Carry all the stupid stainless-steel straws you like, you're at least giving people an idea of a cheap dumb gift they can give you at Christmas...but you're not doing *anything* for the environment.
So these sorts of public flagellation programs - if they're produced in English, basically - amount to nothing more than virtue-signaling guilt-assuagement.
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Yup. But remember, those conditions are entirely the fault of straight, white men.
Re:I get it... (Score:5, Informative)
If you read the article you've linked carefully, those 10 rivers account for 93% of the plastic waste entering the oceans from rivers. But they only account for ~25% of all plastic waste entering the oceans. About 73% comes from sources other than rivers if I did my math right.
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Then this article will set everyone straight. American produces 0.9% of all mismanaged plastic waste entering oceans. Cites are provided within the article.
https://www.earthday.org/2018/04/06/top-20-countries-ranked-by-mass-of-mismanaged-plastic-waste/
The 19 countries that produce more waste account for 82.2% of all mismanaged plastic waste entering oceans. Almost all of those 19 countries have an access point to those 10 rivers.
How does that strike you?
Yeah but isn't that because (Score:4, Insightful)
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Poverty is relative.
E.g. monthly earning in $US is meaningless. So is GDP etc.
And then again "rich" white people fly into "poor" countries and produce plastic waste. Thailand had 35.38 million visitors 2017. Population 70million. Obviously tourists only stay a few weeks.
Thai people produce a huge amount of plastic waste, probably easily 10 times as much as a german. And so do tourists coming here.
Even my GF who lives rather frugal, produces here more than 10 times the waste I do in Germany.
Poverty is not relative (Score:2)
a. Not having consistent access to basics required for a decent human life (Food, shelter, education, healthcare & transportation).
b. Being able to be forced to do things you don't want to do because you don't have access to those things (join the military, sell drugs, prostitution, work a job you hate that's also dangerous, etc, etc).
Poverty is when you don't have enough resources to live a good life and that others with access to those resources can force you to do
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Well you can start by not exporting your waste to these rivers to be dumped. Also doing something about a general problem rather than pointing at someone else and saying "but look they are worse" is not virtue-signalling.
Negativity bias much? How about the good news? (Score:3, Informative)
There's an interesting quirk in human psychology that makes negative facts and news seem more salient than positive ones [wikipedia.org]. For media that thrives on reader attention (and that's both new and old media), this naturally leads to more emphasis on the negative.
I think this is a bias worth noting and pushing back on. The world is pretty far from perfect, but there's also huge helpings of good news all around us.
Most of these (Daesh not withstanding, but threw them in just because they were really vile) follow the same pattern: slow but steady progress. It's hardly clickbait -- in fact these are not even specific events you can point to, they are trends seen on the scale of decades. And on the scale of decades, the world is consistently becoming a less-bad place.
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(Score:3) ?
Good news doesn't sell, especially on /. Sarcasm is best, or just plain angry diatribes. Vile, vulgar, vapid verbosity might up your Score. But Good News? Someone here will find a dark side to the best news. Is there any popular forum where good news is welcome? Still it was nice of you to try.
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There are, but sadly the market for good new on the internet is like "Little boy surprised by neighbors with boy" or "firefighter rescues women from fire, finds out she was nurse at his childbirth".
Good news on the scale of civilization-level progress over decades, not so much. . .
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So citation to the data collected and analyzed by the experts in a given field is now 'flim flam'?
I mean, who do the CDC think they are pronouncing on public health?!
Vodka (Score:2)
Wow, my goodness. Imma stop stereotyping shots of vodka as something manly Russians do.
Talk the talk, walk the walk... (Score:2)
Sometimes one really doesn't understand. People talk about reducing plastic usage, but then they do just the opposite. Recent example: There's a particular brand of cat litter that I usually buy. Cat litter is basically fancy dirt, nothing special, and this brand packed it in a paper bag, which was fine. I went to buy another bag last week, and: they've changed to a heavy-duty plastic bag. WTF?
I now buy a different brand of fancy dirt...
Not necessarily a bad thing (Score:5, Interesting)
Plastic originates from oil, and has the chemical form (C2H4)n for polyethelene, C2H3-x for PVC and polysyrene. When we bury it in a landfill, each C there is carbon which has been sequestered back underground, not combusted with atmospheric oxygen to produce CO2. In that respect, its resistance to biodegradation is a good thing, since it prevents bacteria in the landfill from converting it into CH4 (methane) and CO2. In a landfill locked in the form of plastic, that carbon is well and truly sequestered.
Unfortunately, TFA does not make a distinction between what percentage of plastic ends up in landfills, and what percentage in the natural environment. I'm also curious if the incineration process is high enough in temperature to yield atomic carbon (soot), or if it converts the carbon into CO2. I'm guessing the latter since that yields more energy, helping defray the cost of incineration.
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3/4 of all movies are remakes. So in other words, pretty much every movie worth making has already been made.
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3/4 of all movies are remakes. So in other words, pretty much every movie worth making has already been made.
Alternately, 3/4 of all producers could be turned into Soylent green with zero negative impact to society.
Re:Other interesting statistics (Score:4, Funny)
Alternately, 3/4 of all producers could be turned into Soylent green with zero negative impact to society.
Yeah, except for all the saturated fats and cholesterol and alcohol and antidepressants/opioids in their system that you'll be consuming. They should call it Soylent yellowish brown.
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I would be more concerned about heavy metals ... full soylent jacket?
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Talk about made-up, on the spot, fake-ass statistics.
68.4% of sexual assaults against women went unreported
If they are unreported then you cant do the math on them dumbass. How do you know if there were only 17 or 17,000? The only thing worse than a pansy-ass liar who hides behind AC postings is a pansy-ass liar that isnt even smart enough to make his lies at least somewhat believable. Lets hope Darwin comes along and removed you before you fuck the planet up further by reproducing. Its a shame your mom mis
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You're an idiot. It's not only feasible to obtain statistical data on unreported crimes, but it's a fairly common practice, and very easy to do. These don't quite jibe with the OP but they're close.
https://www.rainn.org/statisti... [rainn.org]
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If they are unreported then you cant do the math on them dumbass.
*You* can't do the math, dumbass.
If I have a TV show inviting females who got sexual assaulted, gathered via FB or mouth in the street, or activists web pages and I ask: who of you did report the assault, and from 100 woman only 32 raise hands; obviously 68% were unreported.
Idiot ...
I know 4 woman who either got raped or nearly raped. Only one reported it. Sure: small sample size ...
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Thats not a statistic you idiot. Thats a poll. No nobody would ever just go on your show to merely ‘raise awareness’ of assault and ‘for the cause’ show up and go along with your raise of hands survey that was thrown ar them on the spot. The best anyone can say is that its ESTIMATED thst half of all sexual assaults go unreported. Of course those statements also included cases of statutory rapes where both teens were consenting and also did not report it. Lumping teenage sex into the
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I don't argue about the report, I argue about your dismissing the numbers and talking bullshit.
E.g. a poll is not a statistics, aha. And if you make a statistics and your data is from a poll, what is it then?
The USA are the only country I know about that has this retarded definition of "statutory rapes" ... what the original numbers include, who knows ...
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Whats worse is a 18yo who has a 17yo g/f can find himself forever on the registered sex offenders database. He will never be able to live within 1000 yards of a school, daycare, or church. Do you know how hard it is to live outside 1000yards of one of those in the bible belt? Within 1000yds of my house is a public elementary school, a public middle school, a private religeous school k-12, a daycare, and 3 churches. We dont even categorize them like class 4 vs class 1. Forever the persons life is ruined. It
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Well, in Europe sex like that is legal.
Legal age is 14 if both are under 18, and 16 if one is over 18. Give or take a year depending on country.
If it is not rape, it is not rape, but well, it is punished. Or can be. But basically only if one feels offended, or the parents are. There is no automatic prosecution, unless it is truly child abuse, then the state attorney would prosecute it. In other words: if a 14 year old girl wants to f***k her 15 year old BF: the parents can not even forbid it. That is illega
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I'm not an american, but you have the constitution, so if you want to do gun legislation you need to change the constitution. Unfortunately that would mean that (ban)trigger-happy/omniphobic people will take it very far from any common sense legislation. People keep calling semi automatic guns assault weapons for fuck's sake.
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I'm not an american, but you have the constitution, so if you want to do gun legislation you need to change the constitution.
That would be a good step, but unrealistic. Any constitutional amendment requires 3/4 of states to ratify it. There are a lot more low population, rural gun-friendly states than there are larger population states that are less friendly to guns.
Even if a large majority of the population wanted the constitution changed (and I'm honestly not sure what % want it changed), it wouldn't happen. There are too many sparsely populated states that don't want "gub'munt tushin' ma guns". You're not going to see a gu
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I think gun-control proponents are more likely to get their way by examining the phrase "A well regulated Militia".
They can examine that phrase all they like; it doesn't have any bearing whatsoever on the actual restriction placed on the government, which is simply that "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed".
Even if it were restricted to the Militia, that wouldn't do much: the Militia [cornell.edu] includes every able-bodied male citizen between 17 and 45 years of age, plus females who are members of the National Guard. Trying to restrict firearm ownership to the Militia is basically equivalent to bar
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They can examine that phrase all they like; it doesn't have any bearing whatsoever on the actual restriction placed on the government, which is simply that "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed".
Even if it were restricted to the Militia, that wouldn't do much: the Militia [cornell.edu] includes every able-bodied male citizen between 17 and 45 years of age, plus females who are members of the National Guard. Trying to restrict firearm ownership to the Militia is basically equivalent to barring older male citizens and all females who are not in the Guard from owning weapons. I'm sure that would go over real well...
That is your interpretation, and other people have other interpretations... hence my point it comes down to the interpretation of whoever is in the supreme court. Many people would interpret the law as meaning, that whereas they intended to allow guns, they also intended the use of them to be regulated and not just for lone-wolf ownership and application.
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If you can reinterpret the meaning to be anything that isn't referenced in the language, what is the point of a constitution?
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they also intended the use of them to be regulated and not just for lone-wolf ownership and application.
On the contrary. It recognizes the lone wolf's right to have his gun, and for him to form a well regulated militia in order to protect a free state, without a government permit. They didn't exactly define "well regulated". It must have been self evident back in those days. You know, that, and other words like "reasonable" and "speedy" (especially that one, when internet lag was really serious, ping times
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Trying to restrict firearm ownership to the Militia is basically equivalent to barring older male citizens and all females who are not in the Guard from owning weapons. I'm sure that would go over real well... ...
Strangely that is how it is done in civilized countries
Re: Other interesting statistics (Score:1)
100% of your statistics are politically derived, and therefore are just part of the bullshit mix.
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That's a pretty loose definition of "gun violence" you're using there. ALL Firearms deaths in the USA, including suicide, didn't happen that often. Or were you counting "gun violence" to include "someone pointed a gun at someone else"?
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That's a pretty loose definition of "gun violence" you're using there. ALL Firearms deaths in the USA, including suicide, didn't happen that often. Or were you counting "gun violence" to include "someone pointed a gun at someone else"?
I don't know the source of his statistic or whether it is accurate or not; however being a victim of gun violence doesn't have to mean death. If you are shot in the leg or the arm for example, you will most likely survive. I would suspect a large number of victims of gun violence don't actually die.
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You have a better chance of dying in a car than by gunshot.
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Or were you counting "gun violence" to include "someone pointed a gun at someone else"?
That obviously is gun violence, so why do you ask?
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93% of workplace deaths were men.
This is the America we live in.
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Its a feel good attempt at making people think they are actually doing good by recycling. Much of my neighborhood has given up on recycling for a lot of stuff. Around me most just put out garbage and not recycling containers. Our disposal company has over the years become more picky about what they accept as recyclable material. Its getting harder to find companies making products that will buy the raw material and many are getting finicky about the quality. Last I read only around 30% of what is received is ever recycled properly. Maybe its time to reconsider all the plastic we use rather then trying to recycle something nobody wants.
I'd much prefer we went back to paper and cardboard... at least if someone fails to recycle them then it at least decomposes pretty quickly if left to the elements. Naturally, this would depend on sustainable forestry techniques to be "Better"... which might actually serve as a carbon sink if we add to the woodlands we already have to grow paper.
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If Snapchat is relevant to you, you've heard of Kylie Jenner.
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When I was a kid you could buy a soda for a quarter stand outside the store and drink it then get the refund and buy a few pieces of penny candy.
Now not only do they not give you the refund on the bottle and there hasn't been penny candy for years, but if kids are standing out in front the store they get hassled and asked to leave.