You appear to be arguing that even if microplastics are present in the environment it’s not a problem. That’s a brave stance to take given the wealth of information to the contrary.

Even if they did break down it’s bad. Plastics have additives in them which are used to improve their material properties. These additives include BPA and PFAS (and similar). We know that these compounds cause problems in humans and the environment. So if they were “easily digestible by the body” that would absolutely be a big problem.

There’s no world in which “nothing will be harmed” by plastic decaying. Some people even argue that conventional plastics are less dangerous in landfill than bioplastics because at least they don’t release dangerous by-products like microplastics or “forever chemicals”.

They don’t break down completely in landfill. They just turn into microplastics.

Despite claims to the contrary, PLA does usually break down into microplastics. It’s possible that under certain conditions (such as those found in industrial composters) those microplastics might be broken down into starches and consumed by bacteria, but most teabags will just end up in landfill and won’t break down beyond microplastics.

ISO uses a weird separator ‘T’ between the time and the date. eg. 2018-04-01T15:20:15.000-0700

RFC3339 can have a space instead which is a bit more readable: eg. 2020-12-09 16:09:53+00:00

They recently passed a law which said you could install picture hooks “within reason” without being penalised by your landlord. Prior to that if you installed a picture hook you’d likely be charged for the cost of re-plastering the wall when you left. Although they wouldn’t actually re-plaster it, they’d just charge you as if they had and then the next renter would have a picture hook so lucky them.

But major mods like installing a TV mount are totally out unless you can negotiate it with the landlord somehow. If you did it without permission it’s grounds for eviction and a loss of your bond.

Pretty much none allow it in my country.

Is that even possible? I thought it was randomly forcing the change to Windows 11 on Windows 10 users anyway.

MS lost a very similar anti-trust case in the EU in 2010 about IE being part of Windows.

History repeats itself, apparently.

And it’s only a few years ago that court action stopped them from doing this same thing with IE.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/mar/02/microsoft

…follows the settlement of an anti trust case by the European Commission, following a complaint filed by Opera in 2007. That alleged that Microsoft was illegally bundling its own browser into Windows, giving IE an unfair advantage, because users have to actively download other browsers.

Not to mention that portland cement has severe environmental impacts of its own.