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Who’s going to remember that the Number 2 means “high density polyethylene,” which recycling centers accept, while the Number 6 means “polystyrene,” which is mostly a no go? Why put a recycle symbol when something’s basically unrecyclable?
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COP26 is probably the climate change conference of our time. And now I have my own little Elaine-branded primer on what's going on with this whole shindig. Read through to figure out what's going on, friends!
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So, unless you're under a very specific climate change-denying rock, you probably knew that there was some major world leaders' meeting going on right now that had something to do with the environment. I try to break it down.
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So the big news piece coming out of Shanghai this week was that Shanghai Disneyland locked everyone in and gave them all covid tests as soon as it got word that a visitor from the previous day had tested positive for covid once she had returned home.
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We're here in Wuhan filming a bunch of ice hockey enthusiasts who somehow managed to get set up here in the South, in a place where summertime temperatures can reach 40C.
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Basically, after a year or so of vacation vlogs and musings about ethical existence, I got monetized on Youtube off of a video I did on going on a 14-day fast...
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If you want to see this post in video form, you can check out the latest video I posted on my Youtube channel: So I got monetized on Youtube off of an experiment in fasting... now over half my followers are from a vlog I did about a 14-day fast.
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I took a trip to China's wine country, Ningxia. Here's what I found out about this new wine region upstart.
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When animals have tried multiple times to avoid bad outcomes without succeeding, they stop trying.
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On the mysterious origins of the quote "Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice."
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On one of my very many recent Youtube rabbit holes, I came across the term "rejection sensitivity" or RSD aka "rejection sensitive dysphoria" as one of the frequent symptoms of ADHD and I had one of those wtf mind is blown moments.
> Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. – Soren Kierkegaard ✉️ letter #6 There was a meme going around recently about how a lot of "Millennials," a group of which I'm firmly generationally esconced within, often feel adrift and ageless because all