This is the right answer, and plastic recycling is basically a scam.

There's a lot of scamminess around plastic recycling but not all of it as a scam. See here for example:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.letsrecycle.com%2Fpr...

(free but login-walled).

You can see what the price per tonne for various plastics out of the MRF (industry lingo: material recovery facility, i.e. the plant that takes in DMR (dry mixed recyclables) and outputs bales of various materials at various grades of purity).

Natural HDPE (which is almost always milk bottles here) sells for a decent price, which means there is actual genuine demand for it. It's worth separating off and worth recycling. It's currently 450 per tonne, compared to 1200 per tonne of very recyclable aluminium cans. PET bottles are still saleable but not as good.

A lot of the packaging waste is marginal. And that's the stuff that's listed. Anything not listed is incinerated, it's not price tracked because no one wants to buy it to extract anything, and there's a lot missing such as all layered packaging like tetrapak.

This is also the stuff you would chuck in the recycling bin which is almost exclusively packaging waste. If it's not packaging waste and it is plastic outside of specialised cases, it's not recycled.

genitalia

You are so obsessed with genitals: you keep on bringing it up in threads where it's not on topic. Why do you feel the need to always comment on people's genitals?

You keep trying to claim it's other people but you're the one who keeps bringing the topic up. I think people might rightly be concerned about a genital-obsessive such as yourself making decisions based on genitals rather than, merit. There's no way you manage to separate your online obsession from your actions AFK.

There's a certain kind of person, the type who will not ever shut up about "woke" who are absolutely obsessed with gender etc and drag it into every single thread no matter what. Please stop.

Is it obvious?

Humans are excellent drivers of they don't do anything wrong. The problem is that humans do an awful lot of things wrong. You can't ignore the safety problems of drink driving.

Drink can make people incredibly oblivious, and as you say criminals exist.

You can't wish away criminals and drunks when examining the safety of driving.

find me an example of a pedestrian literally rolling across a person's hood and having that person continue to drive totally oblivious that it happened.

You mean like a hit and run from a drunk driver?

Plus, why does obliviousness matter? The outcome for the pedestrian is the same either way.

I'm not going to defend cruise but...

Tell that to the pedestrian who got dragged because the self driving's cars sensors didn't detect them bouncing off the hood.

Are you telling me no human driver has ever mown down a pedestrian and just kept on going? Look, if you cherry pick the worst self driving vehicles and compare to the worst humans, well humans aren't going to come out well.

Can this be done with C++? I tried decades ago and gave up.

C++ has always been able to do this. I've been using C++ since the mid 1990s and it's always been able to do that.

For everyone else, "Yes, change is scary".

Ha, well that's a bit of a biased take. When are they going to learn change is not "scary". Needless change is just annoying, especially when there are real Android usability flaws that they are not fixing, but instead endlessly fiddling with the UI in ways that make little usability difference but nonetheless require relearning where the obscure options are again. To what end?

Hey Android devs, why can't I mute the volume on a video call, still? I say still, except some asshat actually wrote code to block volume going to zero in that one particular case for no reason but to vex users. Why can't I select text from a message to copy just the text I want? Why can I only copy the whole message, then paste the whole thing into some sort of editor, then just select and copy the bit I want? Why do I have to jump through absolutely insane hoops in order to do basic stuff?

But instead they dismiss change as "scary", in order to invalidate the genuine, real complaints people have behind pure childishness. I'd switch in a heartbeat if Apple weren't even worse in their own ways.

And you don't have any idea why. With an ROI of over 3000, it is a phenomenal investment. It's just reflexive smashing things up at this point.

Why do people need a label?

Why do you feel the need to, well, label the description as a "label"? Nouns are useful...

We can quote that British doctor from Jerome's "Three men in a boat, nevermind the dog".

I'm glad there is another fan of the book here!

Look at fucking white people...you ask their ethnicity and they give you a rambling TED talk about what type of white they are (ummm...yeah, my great, great, great grandma on my mom's side was welsh, but my on my dad's side....)

As a non American, this is one of the entertaining things about America. Firstly, no one's just American and second, no one has English ancestry. It's one of those funny cultural quirks like when a British person says something is "interesting" meaning "possibly the stupidest thing I've ever heard".

Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't, I suppose I was feeling either more energetic or annoyed.

FWIW, I don't expect to reason him out of hist position, since as you say you can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into (I like that phrase). I don't want his to be the only word on the topic.

Unfortunately no one loves teams and will volunteer to take yours.

Right so you basically sealioned the class to death and the instructor had to drop the topic in order to actually have some chance of teaching the class.

This does not mean you were in and way correct.