The biggest issue seems to be around a lake of thinking. Recycling used plastics into more plastic is certainly energetically infeasible, and letting plastics escape to contaminate the environment is also unacceptable. However plastic can be recycled, or perhaps reused, into other things, notably as a partial replacement for aggregate in concrete. This process is low energy, doesn't require sorting the plastic, and actually enhances the thermal and noise insulation properties of the concrete, whilst also reducing it's overall weight. There are undoubtedly other things a stable, non-biodegradable, waterproof and hardwearing substance could be used for given some though.
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Eww, no you can't have women being superheros! They're just supposed to stand around shouting "hayelp! hayelp!" and being rescued by the burly chap in the improbable costume. Surely everybody knows that?
For the avoidance of doubt, this is very much /s
We fix it with rockets. Circularize the orbit and set it to an integer number of days that's divisible by 28.
That only gives you 364 daya per year and we need just fractionally less than 365.25. You end up needing an extra day every year, and if we want to keep midnight in the middle of the night, and extra full day every four years (except when we don't). Adding those sorts of bodges onto an otherwise elegant system would be awful to work with.
Instead, I propose we build giant rocket engines pointing straight up on the equator, and adjust the Earth's orbit until one orbit around the sun takes exactly 364 days.
Net approval at a point in time is the percentage of voters who approve minus the percentage of voters who disapprove, it's not a delta from an earlier reading.
For net approval to be negative, more people must disapprove then approve.
Terrified, confused and has no idea who the human is, but will definitely take that cuddle thankyouverymuch.
That, or having bought their first property long enough ago, and in the right place, that it's appreciated massively more than the place in the country that they've got their eye on. The property ladder is, possibly was, a thing.
First aid is what keeps the casualty alive long enough for second aid. Second aid is trained medical profesionals working in a medical setting, so a hospital or even the ambulace crew that take over after you stopped the casualty leaking too much.
As others have said, shiw that you're dependable and don't mess the vendor around. A few other points that come to mind:
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Be ready and able to confirm you have financing in place, whether that's sufficient cash or pre-approval for a mortgage.
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Know when you want to move, but be prepared to be a little flexible so they can manage their dates too.
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Know who's going to be your conveyancing solicitor, let them know you're planning to buy, and have their contact details ready for the vendor or agent.
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It'll probably be the agent showing you around, and if so they probably won't know much detail about the property, but they can usually find out afterwards.
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If you're going to make an offer, don't hang about, they'll be showing multiple prospective buyers around either on the same day or the surrounding days. If you like it, make an offer within a few hours of seeing it. You can state that the offer is pending certain information (the things the agent couldn't tell you) and the survey, but don't leave the vendor hanging.
Great now! I'm in jail!
I'm pretty sure the supreme court ruling was carefully worded to not require them to bring him back, but 'fascilitate' his return, which gave them enough wiggle room to say they wouldn't stop his return, so they were in conpliance. It was a lower court tgat required his return, the supreme court ruling overrode that.
That's a fair concern, but, as you say, concrete is recyclable, and I would expect (though I admit I haven't looked for studies) that it still would be when it has some amount of plastic aggregate. If the plastic breaks down in the concrete, the microplastics should be trapped, and will be reincorporated when the concrete is reused.
Nothing is going to be a perfect solution to plastic, we need to find alternatives to its use, but in the interim it seems sensible to find effective ways to reuse it rather than just dumping it and hoping for the best.