Friday, October 30, 2015
i understand how this is an issue in smaller municipalities.
but, toronto should have these facilities. it's not to take away from the story, or anything. but, i remember learning that the blue bin here in windsor takes these cups, and being a little surprised by it, then realizing my expectations were backwards. if we can do it in windsor, it can - and should - be done elsewhere and in toronto & ottawa, especially.
you can't trust businesses to do anything. it's disappointing. but, it's foolish to think they're going to change anything. it's really something the city should be doing.
www.cbc.ca/news/business/marketplace-tim-hortons-starbucks-coffee-cups-recycling-1.3278648
but, toronto should have these facilities. it's not to take away from the story, or anything. but, i remember learning that the blue bin here in windsor takes these cups, and being a little surprised by it, then realizing my expectations were backwards. if we can do it in windsor, it can - and should - be done elsewhere and in toronto & ottawa, especially.
you can't trust businesses to do anything. it's disappointing. but, it's foolish to think they're going to change anything. it's really something the city should be doing.
www.cbc.ca/news/business/marketplace-tim-hortons-starbucks-coffee-cups-recycling-1.3278648
at
22:32
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
hey - it worked in canada.
and, this would help our new prime minister rather dramatically, too.
and, this would help our new prime minister rather dramatically, too.
at
02:33
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
i think there's a lot of truth to this. what i think is that addiction should be studied from an essentially existentialist perspective: it all breaks down to a feeling of pointlessness, and the only serious way to get over it is to develop some kind of subjective sense of meaning in the face of overpowering objective meaningless.
but, it's making a category error in declaring that social connections are healthy, and non-social connections are not. conquering addiction is only going to be a social process for extroverts; for introverts, the socialization could even be at the root of it because being social is perceived as a stressful burden and addiction is a way out of it. it's also trivializing the physical effects of physical addiction, which sends the wrong message; it may be true that any addiction can be overcome with enough focus, but that doesn't mean it isn't really hard. people coming out of the hospital do go through withdrawal. they don't tend to become addicts, but they do have to struggle with it for a period. and, it suggests that the vietnam vets just came home and never gave the drugs a second thought - which is demonstrably false.
when i was in university, a lot of my remaining high school friends started experimenting with cocaine. we'd always partied with "soft" drugs, but it wasn't until that point in our early 20s that anybody started talking about "hard" drugs. i watched people take it, i hung out with them when they were on it, and i turned it down a lot - but i never had the slightest interest. the sole reason is that i was focusing on school and didn't want to deal with the possible consequences of withdrawal when i was trying to study. if i was working in a mall, like they all were, i probably would have tried it. i had focus and ambition that made me disinterested, but studying math is anything but a social experience.
today, i live on disability and there's nothing really stopping me from being drunk and/or stoned all the time, except that i don't want to be because i can't focus on recording music when i'm trashed (despite the misperception). this is not social either, it's just having a goal that takes precedence - it's getting over the existential angst and the understanding of objective meaningless and honing in on a goal i've determined is valuable to me.
so, this is kind of getting the right point, but it's spliced with a blinding political perspective that wants to blame everything on liberalism's focus on individualism, which, if not adjusted for, is going to perpetuate the same sorts of problems. it is true that if you force individualism on extroverts, they will become disconnected and turn to ways to fill that void. but, it is also true that if you force community interaction on introverts, they will turn to addictions to escape the pressure of it. the key is in recognizing the underlying issue in both scenarios: that what people need to reject the logic of addiction is something that drives them, as individuals - which may be greater community integration, or may be more greater means of individual expression, depending on the individual's personality.
but, it's making a category error in declaring that social connections are healthy, and non-social connections are not. conquering addiction is only going to be a social process for extroverts; for introverts, the socialization could even be at the root of it because being social is perceived as a stressful burden and addiction is a way out of it. it's also trivializing the physical effects of physical addiction, which sends the wrong message; it may be true that any addiction can be overcome with enough focus, but that doesn't mean it isn't really hard. people coming out of the hospital do go through withdrawal. they don't tend to become addicts, but they do have to struggle with it for a period. and, it suggests that the vietnam vets just came home and never gave the drugs a second thought - which is demonstrably false.
when i was in university, a lot of my remaining high school friends started experimenting with cocaine. we'd always partied with "soft" drugs, but it wasn't until that point in our early 20s that anybody started talking about "hard" drugs. i watched people take it, i hung out with them when they were on it, and i turned it down a lot - but i never had the slightest interest. the sole reason is that i was focusing on school and didn't want to deal with the possible consequences of withdrawal when i was trying to study. if i was working in a mall, like they all were, i probably would have tried it. i had focus and ambition that made me disinterested, but studying math is anything but a social experience.
today, i live on disability and there's nothing really stopping me from being drunk and/or stoned all the time, except that i don't want to be because i can't focus on recording music when i'm trashed (despite the misperception). this is not social either, it's just having a goal that takes precedence - it's getting over the existential angst and the understanding of objective meaningless and honing in on a goal i've determined is valuable to me.
so, this is kind of getting the right point, but it's spliced with a blinding political perspective that wants to blame everything on liberalism's focus on individualism, which, if not adjusted for, is going to perpetuate the same sorts of problems. it is true that if you force individualism on extroverts, they will become disconnected and turn to ways to fill that void. but, it is also true that if you force community interaction on introverts, they will turn to addictions to escape the pressure of it. the key is in recognizing the underlying issue in both scenarios: that what people need to reject the logic of addiction is something that drives them, as individuals - which may be greater community integration, or may be more greater means of individual expression, depending on the individual's personality.
at
02:15
Location:
Windsor, ON, Canada
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