Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Business Insider" channel.

Yes. Bleaching is a big deal in paper products, too. One of the reasons paper plants are so nasty is so paper towels, facial and bathroom tissue will maintain perfect whiteness on shelves, indefinitely. Makes inventory management much easier, but I'd buy yellow paper all day, if it were environmentally friendlier, as would most people, if made aware.
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@sendthis9480 Petro-plastics are very cheap to make for packaging. But for ME as a consumer, I'd rather pay a few cents more for something more sustainable and biodegradable.
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@thomasblanc3457 I got the impression that Japanese horse archers were equal or superior to Mongol horse archers. But the Mongols were a culture of horse archers (and whomever they conquered and incorporated along the way). The only horse archers amongst the Japanese were the Samurai, who were highly trained and experienced, but undoubtedly fewer in number than the Mongols. I think weight of numbers told the tale of the encounters they did have. If the Samurai struggled 1-on-1, it was because their sword technology wasn't up to snuff in the first encounters. They got SERIOUS about steel after 1274 AD. I wouldn't judge the Samurai of the 12th and 13th Centuries by the handful who maintain a pale copy of Samurai traditions, today. Even if they still make really good swords and bows, the lifestyle and constant condition of war haven't been replicated for centuries. If I had to guess, I'd guess that the English war bow was probably the best bow of all time. But the actual number of men who were proficient and STRONG enough to put them to full use in the 15th Century were quite a lot less than the Mongols could put in the field, and with their horse-archer tactics, the ability to dictate when and where battle would take place, I think the Mongols would've made short work of Henry in Normandy (Agincourt).
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@theworkethic Give it a couple years. Elon will be dodging the bill for battery disposal, along with all the other auto makers, and the government will bail them all out. All the worst pollution is government-approved, i.e., government-mandated, as force is what government is and does.
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@logosrisingbear It is kind of insane. For the manufacturers and OS vendors, it's also rather predatory, even malignant, when on the one hand, the consumer is shamed every day for their carbon footprint or other nonsense, but the products available are PURPOSELY wasteful. It's criminal, or at least amoral.
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Too bad there's so much good content put out by this trash organization.
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@thebandofbastards4934 They wouldn't go out of business. They just wouldn't be able to grow obscenely large and rake in obscene profits. It's terrible for the people and the planet. I kind of need a smart phone for work, but I'm ready to go back to a flip phone. It's nice to have mobile coms, but that phone should be the last thing you're fussing with 90% of the day.
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