Synthetic rubber is not plastic. It is from petrochemicals but not the same chemical substance.

Woke activists have already said that they are willing to annihilate and scorched-earth and salt-the-fields if DEI ESG woke things arent put front and centre into video games.

So maybe we dont need people who actively hate video games and gamers to be in the video game making industry. The woke can go be part of Hollywood leave the gamers alone.

Maybe we need a new study of "Forever chemicals" and "Short-term chemicals" and "Long-lived chemicals" redefined and not use confusing terms like "microplastics" for anything polymerised. DNA is a polymer but we dont call people microplastics.

Sure we might have microplastics and microrubbers inside our brains and balls.

Imagine confusing Tigers and Lions and claiming BIG CAT micro-pussies are causing problems all over the world!!!

Tigers are different and Lions are different. They are big cats but different species have different habitats and habits.

So dont mix Plastics and Rubbers when they are chemically different and may have different manufacturing processes.

Was that really hard to understand ?

Again there is a difference even when you say synthetic rubber,

DO NOT MIX AND CONFUSE RUBBER and PLASTIC.

Rubber === mixture of ISOPRENE and ELASTOMERE polymers ( naturally occurring from Latex/rubber trees but 50% naturally produced and 50% synthetically produced from petrochemicals)

Plastic === mixture of various Ethyl,Propyl,Poly-Propyl Polymers mainly derived synthetically from petrochemical sources ( may or may not be combined with elastomere for rubberized properties).

So MOST MODERN Industrial processes are DIRTY and HEAVILY POLLUTING.

Dont confuse Rubber and Plastic manufacturing and lump it into a single problem unless and until you have definitive and REPRODUCIBLE PROOF THAT PROBLEMS ARE COMMON TO BOTH.

Exactly. We need more and better peer-reviewed and vetted studies. Is rubber pollution exactly same as micro-plastics? Or is it 80% the same effects? Is it the same effects due to the same chemicals? Is it similar due to the same processes and not necessarily the end-product material ? Many many questions that people don't seem to understand and just blindly trust whatever some "latest study shows ....." bullshit that has been going on for a very long time.

No one should force any operating system on you. It is your personal choice and space.

Linux nerds might argue that their Vim/Emacs/Nano workflow is the bestest/fastest/etcetc but none of them will truly wish you to switch without your willingness in the process.

Corporations like Microshit and Duh'Apple do exploit their users and customers.

Consider Louis rossmann and others why Apple suxs.

Vulcanized RUBBER tyres shed PLASTIC microparticles .... hmmmm something sounds very rubbery and not at all plasticky..... i truly wonder what it could be .....hmmmm......

Edit: "Is rubber considered a plastic? Although materials such as rubber, textiles, adhesives, and paint may in some cases meet this definition, they are not considered plastics."

Here is a Scientific study MIS-CONSTRUING Rubber as a Plastic AND MAKING ASSUMPTIONS WITHOUT PROPER EXPLANATIONS !!!!

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5664766/

This is the problem with Scientific studies, Media, Reporting and bunch of people running with studies that make a lot of FALSE ASSUMPTIONS WITHOUT TELLING YOU THE FULL FUCKING STORY.

I'm not even American and I constantly see Lemmy users dunk on me for saying Biden/Harris are corpo dems who don't have policies most people wanted. That DNC and democrat politicians will be to blame if Drumpf wins.Not voters. Not independents. The Party and the Party Leaders.

Republican voter base is most likely to have the motivation or resources or both to go to the voting booth to vote for Drumpf. All other voters need a convincing reason to lose out their paycheck to go vote at risk of losing their job. Dems and Kamala are to blame. Not the voters.

Obama was and is and always will be a centrist playing the role of a leftist. Romneycare watered down with extreme Republican ramrodding torpedoeing their own policies into Romneycare-lite and Obama still went with it. That's some of the reasons why people hate hate and really hate corpo dems and their nominees. Either voters get turned off or turned away or turned against.

Kamala and DNC are to blame for this mess.

Not American.

I remember when I said Biden is elder abuse and Kamala is a corpo dem and maybe this time round if the dems lost DNC AND Kamala are to bear the full blame and responsibility for the loss. Not the voters. Not independents. The DNC and Every Single Democrat Politician. Directly Responsible For This Loss. DNC should be dissolved.

Only Republicans / GOP on one side and Independents on the other side until a new Party for the people and Of the people emerges however long that it may take or may be in forming.

No I don't think it is because "woman" but rather "obvious awkward disingenous hello there!fellow kids!" Reasons why McCain wasn't nominee Kerry failed and many other reasons. Bernie would have won. Just sayin'. But too late now innit. It's not old guy or woman. It's how the dems campaign with zero and negative conviction benefits or reasons for voters to go vote. Not copium but sad reality. Most people live paycheck to paycheck. If your policies don't align then they won't risk their life for you.

And climate change doesn't reduce the grocery bills or stop inflation. Just sayin'

Get shots, pay health insurance. Dont get shots, life insurance pays your loved ones.

Macabre and sadly true.

Cool! I might give that a try instead of the Ventoy i use regularly. Thanks for the info !

I use Ventoy regularly but im too lazy to setup Grub2 on a USB and load up isos.

Not sure who these Ventoy fanbois or bros are.

Yup Ventoy does hide binary blobs and has some dodgy devs and code. Use at own risk.

Also I dont have any sensitive stuff. So mostly Ventoy is used to install playground server isos and stuff. Not much use for it otherwise.

At the expense of employee benefits, shareholder value/payouts, public interests, competition, everyone and everything ,except M$ board & C-suite , lost money.

I wonder how Microsoft feels about XBox and other things. Gaining marketshare by throwing money at it is an absolutely viable strategy for companies that can do it.

AMD doesnt need to price-cut to compete here. If AMD could make OpenCL and similar projects more successful than CUDA and nVidia, which requires time,money,investment in people,talent, etc etc. then AMD might in 2 or 3 years have a viable alternative to compete.

Author Robert A Heinlein ?