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At length, after infinite effort, the two parties come into actual juxtaposition; and Thirty stands fronting Thirty, each with a gun in his hand. Straightway the word “Fire!” is given: and they blow the souls out of one another; and in place of sixty brisk useful craftsmen, the world has sixty dead carcasses, which it must bury, and anew shed tears for. Had these men any quarrel? Busy as the Devil is, not the smallest! They lived far enough apart; were the entirest strangers; nay, in so wide a Universe, there was even, unconsciously, by Commerce, some mutual helpfulness between them. How then? Simpleton! their Governors had fallen-out; and, instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Sartor Resartus, Book 2, ch. 8 (1834)

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WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-07-16 · 18:08 UTC

At length, after infinite effort, the two parties come into actual juxtaposition; and Thirty stands fronting Thirty, each with a gun in his hand. Straightway the word “Fire!” is given: and they blow the souls out of one another; and in place of sixty brisk useful craftsmen, the world has sixty dead carcasses, which it must bury, and anew shed tears for. Had these men any quarrel? Busy as the Devil is, not the smallest! They lived far enough apart; were the entirest strangers; nay, in so wide a Universe, there was even, unconsciously, by Commerce, some mutual helpfulness between them. How then? Simpleton! their Governors had fallen-out; and, instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Sartor Resartus, Book 2, ch. 8 (1834)

More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/85019…

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WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-07-16 · 18:08 UTC

At length, after infinite effort, the two parties come into actual juxtaposition; and Thirty stands fronting Thirty, each with a gun in his hand. Straightway the word “Fire!” is given: and they blow the souls out of one another; and in place of sixty brisk useful craftsmen, the world has sixty dead carcasses, which it must bury, and anew shed tears for. Had these men any quarrel? Busy as the Devil is, not the smallest! They lived far enough apart; were the entirest strangers; nay, in so wide a Universe, there was even, unconsciously, by Commerce, some mutual helpfulness between them. How then? Simpleton! their Governors had fallen-out; and, instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Sartor Resartus, Book 2, ch. 8 (1834)

More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/85019…

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WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-07-16 · 18:08 UTC

At length, after infinite effort, the two parties come into actual juxtaposition; and Thirty stands fronting Thirty, each with a gun in his hand. Straightway the word “Fire!” is given: and they blow the souls out of one another; and in place of sixty brisk useful craftsmen, the world has sixty dead carcasses, which it must bury, and anew shed tears for. Had these men any quarrel? Busy as the Devil is, not the smallest! They lived far enough apart; were the entirest strangers; nay, in so wide a Universe, there was even, unconsciously, by Commerce, some mutual helpfulness between them. How then? Simpleton! their Governors had fallen-out; and, instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Sartor Resartus, Book 2, ch. 8 (1834)

More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/85019…

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United Kingdom News Beep @[email protected] · 2026-07-15 · 14:20 UTC

SIC to lobby Scottish Government over proposed flexible plastic recycling

SHETLAND Islands Council (SIC) will make the case to the Scottish Government that it is the “wrong decision”…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #council #environment #flexible #ISLANDS #Maggie #Plastics #Sandison #Science #Shetland #UK #UnitedKingdom #Waste
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/692962/

#waste #unitedkingdom #uk #shetland #science #sandison

lxskllr @[email protected] · 2026-07-15 · 12:46 UTC

Finally finished my big tub of yogurt that "expired" last October. The factory seal wasn't breached til ~1 month ago, and it's taken me awhile to get it finished. It was fine. Not it's best, but fine. Been eating it with granola from the fridge I'm sure is long expired also, but I threw out the box.

Lesson:
Use sense and senses, not arbitrary numbers when analyzing food. It all lasts longer than stated; sometimes much longer.

#food #foodwaste #waste

lxskllr @[email protected] · 2026-07-15 · 12:46 UTC

Finally finished my big tub of yogurt that "expired" last October. The factory seal wasn't breached til ~1 month ago, and it's taken me awhile to get it finished. It was fine. Not it's best, but fine. Been eating it with granola from the fridge I'm sure is long expired also, but I threw out the box.

Lesson:
Use sense and senses, not arbitrary numbers when analyzing food. It all lasts longer than stated; sometimes much longer.

#food #foodwaste #waste

lxskllr @[email protected] · 2026-07-15 · 12:46 UTC

Finally finished my big tub of yogurt that "expired" last October. The factory seal wasn't breached til ~1 month ago, and it's taken me awhile to get it finished. It was fine. Not it's best, but fine. Been eating it with granola from the fridge I'm sure is long expired also, but I threw out the box.

Lesson:
Use sense and senses, not arbitrary numbers when analyzing food. It all lasts longer than stated; sometimes much longer.

#food #foodwaste #waste

lxskllr @[email protected] · 2026-07-15 · 12:46 UTC

Finally finished my big tub of yogurt that "expired" last October. The factory seal wasn't breached til ~1 month ago, and it's taken me awhile to get it finished. It was fine. Not it's best, but fine. Been eating it with granola from the fridge I'm sure is long expired also, but I threw out the box.

Lesson:
Use sense and senses, not arbitrary numbers when analyzing food. It all lasts longer than stated; sometimes much longer.

#food #foodwaste #waste

lxskllr @[email protected] · 2026-07-15 · 12:46 UTC

Finally finished my big tub of yogurt that "expired" last October. The factory seal wasn't breached til ~1 month ago, and it's taken me awhile to get it finished. It was fine. Not it's best, but fine. Been eating it with granola from the fridge I'm sure is long expired also, but I threw out the box.

Lesson:
Use sense and senses, not arbitrary numbers when analyzing food. It all lasts longer than stated; sometimes much longer.

#waste #foodwaste #food

Paul Schoe @[email protected] · 2026-07-15 · 10:15 UTC

#France #Food #Waste #supermarkets
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/04/french-law-forbids-food-waste-by-supermarkets

In France, they have issued a law that forbids supermarkets from throwing away food.

#france #food #waste #supermarkets

Paul Schoe @[email protected] · 2026-07-15 · 10:15 UTC

#France #Food #Waste #supermarkets
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/04/french-law-forbids-food-waste-by-supermarkets

In France, they have issued a law that forbids supermarkets from throwing away food.

#france #food #waste #supermarkets

Paul Schoe @[email protected] · 2026-07-15 · 10:15 UTC

#France #Food #Waste #supermarkets
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/04/french-law-forbids-food-waste-by-supermarkets

In France, they have issued a law that forbids supermarkets from throwing away food.

#france #food #waste #supermarkets

Paul Schoe @[email protected] · 2026-07-15 · 10:15 UTC

#France #Food #Waste #supermarkets
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/04/french-law-forbids-food-waste-by-supermarkets

In France, they have issued a law that forbids supermarkets from throwing away food.

#france #food #waste #supermarkets

Paul Schoe @[email protected] · 2026-07-15 · 10:15 UTC

#France #Food #Waste #supermarkets
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/04/french-law-forbids-food-waste-by-supermarkets

In France, they have issued a law that forbids supermarkets from throwing away food.

#supermarkets #waste #food #france

Richard Rathe @[email protected] · 2026-07-15 · 07:19 UTC

#Healthcare #USA #Waste #Fraud #Abuse #AmericanExceptionalism #Data

This one graphic is an indictment of American Health Care...

"The U.S. stands alone, far from its peers. We spend roughly twice as much as other western countries for mediocre results. We seem to be exceptionally bad at living longer lives by spending more on healthcare." (from the book I'm writing)

This is because we don't have an actual system. Just a cobbled together collection of public and private silos with lots of holes in between. Such a non-system is an invitation for waste, abuse, and outright fraud.

"American Exceptionalism" indeed!

#healthcare #usa #waste #fraud #abuse #americanexceptionalism

Richard Rathe @[email protected] · 2026-07-15 · 07:19 UTC

#Healthcare #USA #Waste #Fraud #Abuse #AmericanExceptionalism #Data

This one graphic is an indictment of American Health Care...

"The U.S. stands alone, far from its peers. We spend roughly twice as much as other western countries for mediocre results. We seem to be exceptionally bad at living longer lives by spending more on healthcare." (from the book I'm writing)

This is because we don't have an actual system. Just a cobbled together collection of public and private silos with lots of holes in between. Such a non-system is an invitation for waste, abuse, and outright fraud.

"American Exceptionalism" indeed!

#healthcare #usa #waste #fraud #abuse #americanexceptionalism

Richard Rathe @[email protected] · 2026-07-15 · 07:19 UTC

#Healthcare #USA #Waste #Fraud #Abuse #AmericanExceptionalism #Data

This one graphic is an indictment of American Health Care...

"The U.S. stands alone, far from its peers. We spend roughly twice as much as other western countries for mediocre results. We seem to be exceptionally bad at living longer lives by spending more on healthcare." (from the book I'm writing)

This is because we don't have an actual system. Just a cobbled together collection of public and private silos with lots of holes in between. Such a non-system is an invitation for waste, abuse, and outright fraud.

"American Exceptionalism" indeed!

#healthcare #usa #waste #fraud #abuse #americanexceptionalism

Richard Rathe @[email protected] · 2026-07-15 · 07:19 UTC

#Healthcare #USA #Waste #Fraud #Abuse #AmericanExceptionalism #Data

This one graphic is an indictment of American Health Care...

"The U.S. stands alone, far from its peers. We spend roughly twice as much as other western countries for mediocre results. We seem to be exceptionally bad at living longer lives by spending more on healthcare." (from the book I'm writing)

This is because we don't have an actual system. Just a cobbled together collection of public and private silos with lots of holes in between. Such a non-system is an invitation for waste, abuse, and outright fraud.

"American Exceptionalism" indeed!

#healthcare #usa #waste #fraud #abuse #americanexceptionalism

Richard Rathe @[email protected] · 2026-07-15 · 07:19 UTC