For every company where I have felt the need to read their terms of service and privacy policies beforehand, only once have I felt comfortable enough to go ahead and use their service.

The other twenty or so times? I have backed out. Usually I email the company first for clarity, which has always resulted in them dodging and dancing around their terrible terms and privacy practices.

It’s great to be informed, but the real solutions needed are regulations and consumer protections. Being informed just results in me never using 99% of software or services.

The characters’ eyes look soulless and haunting, which kind of ruins the cute vibe for me.

Yes I know. Part of the problem is that it’s a global industry, which is why I said “as a whole”. One company or country could make a recycled plastic bottle, another company could buy it and ship it to another country to be used in a product, and finally sent to another country to be sold to consumers.

Most people have no idea what any country’s regulations and standards are on recycled plastics quality & safety, and they aren’t going to think about it or research it before they make a purchase.

Perhaps a better Public Service Announcement might be: if your government doesn’t generally care about your health, don’t buy recycled plastics for food or clothing use in your country.

Hey, this is 2025; you forgot your /s…I hope.

Just don’t eat them!

…and don’t think about how many tons the Lego company produces in a year unless you want to cry.

This is a PSA that as a whole, the plastics recycling and packaging industry isn’t well regulated, and all those plastic drink and soda bottles at the grocery store that now say “Made with recycled plastics”? You have NO idea what type of plastics are in there now or the level of decay, and neither do the manufacturers.

Do not drink out of, eat out of, or wear anything that is made from recycled plastics.

Recycled plastics encountered in the world should be assumed to be toxic unless you know for certain they aren’t, and should not be considered fit for food use, medical use, or prolonged human contact.

and the media just repeats it as if nothing of any note is going on.

Mainstream media at least. Thankfully, Arstechnica and The Verge have been shouting from the rooftops at how unconstitutional and fascist the trump regime is being.

Why are you assuming their genitals would be the same as yours?

This graphic is missing the (de)evolution in phones when manufacturers unnecessarily started putting holes and notches in the screens.

#StopPuttingCutoutsInMyFuckingDisplays #BringBackBezels

And it will be on a prepaid card and you’ll need to sign up for a google account to get the card.

That’s what Equifax did to people. Made them create an account and fork over personal details to get the settlement payout.

A settlement Equifax had to pay over stolen data. Oh the irony.