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That might be true. I guess the point I was thinking of was more related to the cost of producing new vs recycling or disposing of. I think that in a lot of cases,the cost of producing new does not take into account the lifecycle of the product - it does not factor in the cost to retrieve it to be burnt, it does not factor in the cost to develop and implement technology like carbon capture. It seems that the industry that creates plastic does not pay for its proper disposal, which is why it is so cheap to make new plastic.

I think 'dispose of it properly' is doing a lot work there. I understand that for something like plastic, properly disposing it would be to chemically render it down to it's constituents rather than just landfilling it. If the thought was to burn it, well then how are you properly disposing the released greenhouse gases?

This trial is using an existing drug in a potentially novel way (before surgery as opposed to after surgery). I dont think it really lives up the original article title.

I usually use visual-line-mode and visual-fill-column-mode over hard newlines. But I've always stayed away from hard newlines because I imagined that it would make exporting to another format look janky.

Disagree there. I think most people would prefer uber over taxi for service/convenience/cost, but I doubt modern uber would be considered that different to a taxi service.

I guess the analogy in this situation would be someone taking a photo of a master artwork.

Presumably you paid for some of the trash you read, either through buying a book outright, borrowing from your library (taxes), etc?

I don't know if this would really address your comment, but clickspring [1] on YouTube has a video series creating a modern replica of the mechanism with period appropriate tools.

[1] https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZioPDnFPNsHnyxfygxA0to4R...