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I hear you. Sounds like we're both old-timers. All I wanted was a quiet retirement, a few years of decent health before being flooded or hurricaned to death by climate change, or cancered by the toxins amply spewed into the air and water and dirt. Instead, America is being dismantled, and the response is a nationwide shrug, so I gotta "come out of retirement" so to speak and start marching again...
At one point I thought we would work our way to star trek but man things fell apart. I was part of an environmental club in college and we collect everything separately and used more profitable recyclables to subsidize less profitable ones. When community things came up the single blue bins gave me pause but they had that truck with seperate compartments and the person seperated them on pickup. ok. then they started putting it all together and claimed it was seperated centrally which gave me pause but ok. then it came out they recycled profitable things and shipped the rest to china and it was like what. then china stopped taking stuff and they started picking it all up in straight up garbage trucks. This is just one thing but it really to me just speak to how everythings went in the new millenium and yeah I sorta feel like you but also that it seems more unlikely than a star trek future seemed in my youth. But yeah want to know I resisted till the end.
That whole recycling scam — it's the same with almost anything, if you pull back the curtain. Pick any department of government, any social service agency or church, and they're all at least half bullshit. Actual audits would be a good idea, but instead we get Musk's sledgehammer.
Yeah, we were promised Star Trek, but instead it's gonna be Blade Runner.