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While all newscasting is done by humans and all humans have biases, some sources are particularly good at avoiding spin and focusing instead on providing objective information not on tribal preconception reinforcement and narrative creation (PBS Newshour, as one example), but watching it often feels like eating broccoli so few put forth the effort and prefer the simple “ooh that makes me feel good” stuff. I also advocate for triangulating data across multiple mostly trustworthy sources (such as national defense or global economy focused sources) and forming your own views based on how they overlap and differ with one another, much like you said: On another note… dear leader will now get a new plane from Boeing in the F-47. Trump is an infant with daddy issues.

All news is worth watching. You just need to realize it's not W Cronkite's news anymore. All news these days, is infected by political spin and ideology ( just like society is ), so you need to do some leg-work for yourself in the way of critically thinking about what is presented/fed to you. Think for yourself, don't let others do it for you.

You don't seem to understand the question...

There's a guy near me that has a drive going over grass and it's great. If you put tarmac down, that's got to be worse. To reinstate that area, all you have to do is pull it up. I think the overall environmental consequence is a fair bit less than the limited leaching it's going to do.

Sounds like a great solution to me. You are finding a use for recycled materials which only makes the demand for recycling greater. I suspect using recycled milk jugs will be much better for the environment than all the fuel that would go into quarrying and transporting stone. And if you no longer want to use it you should be able to recycle the product once again.

I'm dying to get some respect here!

I liked it better when it was in a language I could not read.

You figure it out...