whispers you’re eating polymers. The bad part of gum.

It’s the same statement with extra steps. To pretend otherwise is to be willfully ignorant.

If you eat celery or beans, I’ve got bad news for you

Your first link is about micro plastics, and they even say not all brands have them. So if a product is made of plastic and doesn’t always contain micro plastics (which are found in the air and water and soil and foods), then…polymers might not actually be plastics sometimes. Or in gum, many times.

Also silk, wool, cellulose, protein

Polymer != Plastic. Plastic is a polymer, but not all polymers are plastic. Wtf is this source.

To be fair, the line between those two is pretty thin. One does imply the other. You drawing a gulf between them is silly to me.

That’s not what blue collar/white collar crime is

What is this referring to?

Based on your response, I’m guessing you didn’t read about the history of the phrase that I linked, which explains what it meant and how it was used in the early, mid, and late 20th century. As well as the 21st century.

Just because you think something means something doesn’t mean it’s true.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/bleeding-heart-phrase-origin-meaning

The word’s always been pretty straightforward. I’ve never seen it mean anything performative. It’s always just a soft and empathetic person to a harmful degree.

… because you connected it to the internet. Don’t do it if you don’t want it to happen bud.

If you’re on the winning side, yeah they do

I don’t think “blame” is the right word here. They’re/we’re looking for reasons for how things ended up the way they did.

IMO it’s unhelpful at best and harmful at worst to look at the data and the people analyzing it and approach it as a blame thing - or even to assume it’s a finger pointing game. The facts are that the voting strategies of certain groups of people changed this election. The important thing moving forward is to understand who changed and why they changed, because then those things can be addressed.

And yeah, DNC leadership is either dumb or actively malicious because they keep pushing failed ideas under a false banner.

Why should we know this

It’s an insult for being to sympathetic/empathetic and soft.

Ultimately meaning that if push came to shove, a bleeding heart would be so caught up in caring that they would fail to make a tough decision.

That’s not what those terms mean or why they are used as insults.

And, generally speaking, a few ethnic/gender groups changed their voting strategies this election, while others didn’t. The articles calling out different demographics are pointing out reality. Those shifts affected the results of the election.

That’s why they are being pointed out, instead of pointing out that one group did exactly what was expected of them and what they did last time, and the time before, and the time before…

So I’d challenge you that it’s not recriminations or gross, it’s simply pointing out what changed and how it led to us being in our current spot. You can’t fix things/change course without understanding where you are.

…yes? But, as all people and legal systems agree, there are times when murder is legal and endorsed.

It is definitely an awesome looking critter though

This isn’t true: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoatzin

… Since Archaeopteryx had three functional claws on each wing, some earlier systematists speculated that the hoatzin was descended from it, because nestling hoatzins have two functional claws on each wing. Modern researchers, however, hypothesize that the young hoatzin’s claws are of more recent origin… A similar trait is seen in turacos, whose nestlings use claws on their wings to climb in trees.