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Shnast t1_iyhx7c0 wrote
Reply to ‘Cleaner Air Is Coming’ as London Expands Vehicle Pollution Fee to Entire Metro Area by chrisdh79
This sounds a lot like the conspiracy theories from 2005. People warned us that the Government will seek to tax breathing itself. Carbon Tax is just another way of stealing money from individuals, it's big brother vs. the people.
Shnast t1_ivx6isi wrote
Reply to [OC] World's Largest Plastic Polluter Now 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference Sponsor by haboo213
I feel like it's time to stop producing new plastic altogether. I am sure we can get all the plastic we need through recycling everything we already have produced. Everything in the landfills. It's all so much we shouldn't really have to produce new plastic. Agree or disagree?
Shnast t1_j0fny8j wrote
Reply to New York City health inspectors issued a disproportionate number of citations to restaurants serving Asian cuisine in the early months of 2020, finds a new study by a team of researchers by thebelsnickle1991
A very 2D way of looking at that data is to misinterpret it as discrimination. Perhaps restaurants that feature Asian cuisine ARE in fact in violation of more policies than other restaurants. That would be the question. Instead of "why do they hate us" it should be "why are we getting so many citations". I imagine it's not to hard to conceive that immigrants in general will violate more health codes than others. This is not discrimination. This is a simple fact using logic. If I myself travel to a country where I don't really speak the language so well, and I was not raised there, then I can predict will great veracity that I will accidentally be violating some aspect of their policies. Due to lack of familiarity and language barrier. I would learn the hard way by getting citations. Then I would know. If I was stuck in my own way of doing things and didn't listen then I might get multiple citations. The next data point to look at would be foreign dishes and immigrant owned restaurants in general. I can bet that this category alone has a higher number of citations for the reasons I already listed. This is not xenophobic. This is logical reality. Now why might we expect to see a higher number of Asian restaurants getting citations in that sub-group of immigrant owned establishments? Simple. Because there is MORE of them. IF you grab a census of any given city and compare all the non "American food" places you'll find there is a plethora of Asian cuisine compared to the Balkans, or Nigerian themed places. This is easy peezy. Nothing to see here.