Plastic Chair Disrespecter

Anti-plastic, anti-communist, pro-American. 🇺🇸 Plastic chairs must be destroyed. Follow me for daily tips on plastic-free living!

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Plastic-free Tip #408:

If you can't avoid plastic, minimize it.

Plastic leaches into objects over time, so moving food from plastic containers into wood, glass, or metal containers will mean your food absorbs a little less plastic.

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After being fired from CBS, former “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley yesterday said that “new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified.”

Those are remarkable claims for which Pelley presented no evidence. Indeed, it would be extraordinary for CBS to demand such things of a correspondent, either verbally or in writing, given the reputational risk to the network.

A more likely explanation is that Pelley disagreed with someone at CBS and then declared a difference of opinion to be a demand to lie. Support for this interpretation comes from the fact that he claimed Tuesday that CBS’s new management, led by Bari Weiss, was trying to kill “60 Minutes,” something for which he also did not provide evidence.

Moreover, the accusation makes no sense. CBS Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss took the job to rebuild CBS News, not to wreck it, and a ruined “60 Minutes” would hurt her. Paramount’s owners did not pay billions for the network to burn its best asset for spite. So the simpler reading is that Pelley is the one stretching the truth.

Doing so appears to be a habit for Pelley. He told The New York Times, “I have been in combat in Afghanistan. I have been in combat in Iraq,” but being in a combat zone as a journalist is not the same as being “in combat.” The remark is yet more evidence of Pelley’s propensity to exaggerate to the point of lying.

For decades, mainstream liberal journalists have displayed remarkable levels of arrogance, even as they get major stories wrong.

Consider the case of CBS News’ former anchor Dan Rather. In the fall of 2004, two months before the election, Rather presented documents purporting to show favoritism in George W. Bush’s National Guard service. Experts called them forgeries. CBS apologized: “We made a mistake in judgment, and for that I am sorry,” Rather said. On air, he added, “I want to say, personally and directly, I’m sorry.”

But then, a decade later, Rather told Variety he still stands “100 percent” behind the report and reframed the apology.

Or consider NBC’s Katie Couric. In her 2016 documentary “Under the Gun,” editors inserted roughly eight to nine seconds of silence after she asked Virginia gun owners how to keep guns from felons and terrorists without background checks, making them look stumped. The raw audio revealed that they answered immediately.

Couric’s first instinct was to defend what she did, saying she was “very proud of the film.” Only after sustained backlash did she apologize.

In her 2021 memoir “Going There,” Couric admitted she cut Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s harshest anthem-kneeling comments from her 2016 interview. Ginsburg had said kneeling players showed “contempt for a government that has made it possible for their parents and grandparents to live a decent life, which they probably could not have lived in the places they came from.”

NBC’s “Meet the Press,” in the spring of 2020, aired a clip of Attorney General Bill Barr that omitted part of his answer, misleading the public.

When Catherine Herridge interviewed Barr for CBS Evening News, she asked what history would say about his decision to drop the case against a former National Security Advisor to President Trump, Michael Flynn. The Obama administration’s FBI had illegally targeted Flynn for entrapment and prosecution. Barr replied that ”history is written by the winner. So it largely depends on who’s writing the history.”

"Meet the Press'" anchor at the time, Chuck Todd, said on air that Barr “didn’t make the case that he was upholding the rule of law. He was almost admitting that, yeah, this is a political job.’” But “Meet the Press” had left out the second part of Barr’s answer to Herridge, in which he said, “But I think a fair history would say that it was a good decision because it upheld the rule of law.”

The safeguards the journalism profession built against error did not work when it mattered. The corrections, the editors, the fact-checkers, and the standards desks all sat in place while the press got the border, trans medicine, climate, the sixth extinction, Russiagate, the Hunter Biden laptop, Covid and much else wrong. Gerth described how reporters sought to “shoot the messenger” rather than grapple with evidence contradicting the Russia collusion narrative...

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@Hangincurve1 @continetti @PirateWires BS. What do you think the majority of the legacy mainstream media was doing for Presidents Obama and Biden in for 12+ years?

Conservatives had Fox, progressives had literally every other TV outlet in America. It got so bad that their journalistic standards went to hell.

[Matthew Continetti @continetti]

This take from the @PirateWires Daily 👇

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@LuneAliza @redban @grok Steve Jobs was never a technologist. He couldn't even do basic coding or hardware engineering.

He was a marketer.

To paraphrase Bill Burr, Steve Jobs yelled at the nerds to make the technology happen, and then he yelled at the designers to make it look cool. That's all.

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@shagbark_hick Having spent some time living in a blue state like New York (but not necessarily New York), I have to wonder why you bother staying there.

You're being robbed blind by taxes to fund people who would probably hate you. Why not move to any one of a dozen better states? 🤔

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@MrMarkW67 @BillboardChris Yeah. Only after he was arrested, indicted, and dragged through court for months, when he shouldn't have been in the first place if anyone had half a brain.

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@alphafox "Happy Pride Month to [GROUP]," implying that they're gay, is an angle of attack that has been badly underused. There's so much potential for poasting.

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@MrMarkW67 @BillboardChris Also note he is in Vancouver, Canada, one of the places where wokeness is particularly bad. They'd power+privilege his ass straight to jail

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@MrMarkW67 @BillboardChris The anarcho-tyranny spreading throughout the Western world is why he needs police. If he defended himself (which he has every right to do), he'd end up in jail.

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This is something Tom Clancy understood, and you see it play out in things like Jack Ryan.

You have the intelligence operatives who actually make things happen, the analysts who figure things out, the direct-action guys who hit hard targets, and then the bureaucrats who fuck everything up all the time.

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@LibertyCappy Can you imagine what would happen to the poor, dumb girl who breaks the heart of a boy with six older sisters? 😱

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Japanese scientists created a plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours—no microplastics left behind. Made from plant-based CMC with salt-sensitive bonds, it breaks into harmless nutrients.

[📹 RIKEN CEMS / Univ. of Tokyo]

[Plastic Chair Disrespecter @PlasticChairDis]

Plastic-free Tip #407:

Suitcases are essential for travel, but modern suitcases are almost always made of plastic to some degree.

Aside from outright buying an eco-friendly suitcase, you could also buy a metal suitcase and replace the liner with one made from natural fibers.

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Plastic-free Tip #406:

Coming into contact with plastic is unavoidable when flying on a plane; the interior of an aircraft is covered in it.

When you're at your home or hotel, change out of your clothes and take a shower to cleanse yourself of any latent microplastics!

[Plastic Chair Disrespecter @PlasticChairDis]

Please help settle an argument between myself and a special woman in my life.

You make a cup of coffee and drink it. You decide that you want another cup of coffee, so you:

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Key highlight: the 2022 Greenwood Park Mall shooting.

The mall 100% had a "no weapons" policy. A spree shooter violated it. Fortunately, Elisjsha Dicken also violated this policy, and stopped the shooter before he managed to hurt or kill a large number of helpless people.

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If I see a "no guns" sign on a private business, and it does not have metal detectors and/or armed guards, I ignore it.

Because anyone intending to cause harm certainly will.

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@selentelechia You would need "shallow depth" anchors that go directly into the wall. Unless you want to hire a guy, your best bet would be to take out the doors and experiment.

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@Noahpinion What exactly are the rabbits here for?