someone make news2 and we’re off

Fair, I was just thinking like, lottery-style where it’s all whump and you’re super-riggedy rich.

That’s quite a conspiracy theory you got there. Is it not possible she was wrong and then admitted it?

Billionairism is a disease.

You either give away your money or you become diseased. You or I couldn’t do it. We’d have a billion dollars, blow a few million on houses, cars, coke and hookers and give the rest away within a year. Schools, housing, mass transit, healthcare - so many good works to do.

Democrat centrists imperiled by the Left

lol. Bye!

Buh bye.

Buh bye now.

Sure, I hate doing things too.

No one imagined people would be so mercenary as to sell their country and everyone who lived in it for pennies.

Disagree

ProtoMAGA

Well said.

Indeed he was.

Anyone who’s new to watching a trump administration - I gather a lot of you were, y’know, younger the first time around - It’s important to remember: there is no bottom. Each and every new low is soon passed by an even lower low. It never ends.

Well, that’s true, but he was laundering a TON of money for some very bad people and had a hellacious coke habit at the time. Human trafficking, drug running, plus standard boring fraud and ponzi stuff.

Anyway, shit started to get a little too hot, so he agreed they would sell it for parts, stick loser investors with the bill and then do it again. And again. Worked out great for him.

I mean, that was kind of my point, but. Yeah. What that guy said.

I’m not a paper scientist, but i’m gonna guess many more plants, many times, much faster.

Ah create a political party of AI bots

On June 20, Louisiana’s ultra-conservative governor, Jeff Landry, signed House Bill 675, which dramatically restricts the ability of prisoners to seek post-conviction relief. Attorney General Liz Murrill, Landry’s close ally, had made the bill a centerpiece of her legislative agenda this session. Its passage represents a dramatic step forward in Landry and state Republicans’ broader effort to sendLouisiana’s criminal legal system back to a harsher past: speeding up executions, treating more young people as adults, and nearly eliminating parole.

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Market consolidation doesn’t explain why new materials and processes aren’t being invested in? I don’t know how it works in China, but in the US that’s a very plausible explanation. At least it’s one.

I think the pure white copy paper and other paper products that are “touched” more are also a reason. But for cardboard packaging and a lot of other uses it’s probably perfectly valid.

Hemp is said to need less water than cotton, which us said to need less than trees (there wasn’t a handy direct link) but there are many variables to consider.

However, the use of hemp in paper-making dwindled due to the prohibition of cultivating hemp in the 1930s. This prohibition was because hemp comes from the same species as marijuana. However, hemp is a different strain and doesn’t have THC - the psychoactive ingredient in cannabis Sativa.

The 1937 Marihuana Tax Act made the cultivation of hemp and cannabis illegal. Not only that, the textiles and newspaper industry used their lobbying power to end the cultivation and production of hemp.

https://www.trvst.world/sustainable-living/hemp/hemp-paper/

https://www.trvst.world/sustainable-living/hemp/hemp-paper/

Hemp is a material famous for its versatility in many countries. Industries use it to produce clothes, paper, and textiles. Hemp contains a higher percentage of cellulose, making it suitable for paper production. Also, extracting its fiber requires fewer chemicals than traditional paper.

Even though hemp is a more suitable material for paper production, today, over 90% of the world’s paper comes from wood. This still doesn’t nullify the uses of hemp paper in some sectors. Below are more example uses: (see link)