[Biosphere Collapse] 420 days of blazin' it

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Rectal Death Adept: Jun 20, 2018; by Fluffdaddy

SniperWoreConverse posted:

A powerful creature and important for salt water too

wait, if we kill all the cope pods then I can drink the ocean?

# ? Mar 24, 2022 11:11

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# ? May 25, 2024 19:40

blatman: May 10, 2009; 14 inc dont mez

Rectal Death Adept posted:

wait, if we kill all the cope pods then I can drink the ocean?

technically you can already spend your whole life drinking ocean water

# ? Mar 24, 2022 11:14

Rectal Death Adept: Jun 20, 2018; by Fluffdaddy

The ocean is salty and gross, i want it to taste like the chlorine soaked piss I'm used to

https://twitter.com/FirstSquawk/status/1506937547838345218

# ? Mar 24, 2022 13:13

JAY ZERO SUM GAME: Oct 18, 2005; Walter.
I know you know how to do this.
Get up.

Rectal Death Adept posted:

The ocean is salty and gross, i want it to taste like the chlorine soaked piss I'm used to

https://twitter.com/FirstSquawk/status/1506937547838345218

lol

# ? Mar 24, 2022 13:24

Pryor on Fire: May 14, 2013; they don't know all alien abduction experiences can be explained by people thinking saving private ryan was a documentary

natural gas, the clean alternative to coal

coal, the peaceful alternative to natural gas

# ? Mar 24, 2022 13:28

Enfys: Feb 17, 2013; The ocean is calling and I must go

mahershalalhashbaz posted:

a new kind of tiny crustacean appeared in my water tub. i looked them up and they're a freshwater invertebrate found all over the world, which have been used in asian hydroponic farming for thousands of years because they eat mosquito larvae (!!). to my great delight, they're called copepods.

forming a copepod with my climate friends

# ? Mar 24, 2022 13:59

goochtit: Nov 2, 2021

Another day, another new place microplastics are found, even if it was an easy extrapolation to make since they're in our tissues
https://twitter.com/guardianeco/status/1506958184086446091

quote:

Huge amounts of plastic waste are dumped in the environment and microplastics now contaminate the entire planet, from the summit of Mount Everest to the deepest oceans. People were already known to consume the tiny particles via food and water as well as breathing them in, and they have been found in the faeces of babies and adults.

The scientists analysed blood samples from 22 anonymous donors, all healthy adults and found plastic particles in 17. Half the samples contained PET plastic, which is commonly used in drinks bottles, while a third contained polystyrene, used for packaging food and other products. A quarter of the blood samples contained polyethylene, from which plastic carrier bags are made.

curious about those five donors tho :thunk:

# ? Mar 24, 2022 14:03

Platystemon: Feb 13, 2012; BREADS

Look for nylon.

# ? Mar 24, 2022 14:04

JAY ZERO SUM GAME: Oct 18, 2005; Walter.
I know you know how to do this.
Get up.

probably fine

# ? Mar 24, 2022 14:10

TACD: Oct 27, 2000

SniperWoreConverse posted:

you did this
start posting good poo poo

i will never betray my principles, i will not post good poo poo,

# ? Mar 24, 2022 15:11

QuickbreathFinisher: Sep 28, 2008; by reading this post you have agreed to form a gay socialist micronation.
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kramering in to ask for the microplastics post about waking up in a plastic bed, brushing teeth with plastic, unwrapping food from plastic containers and drinking from a plastic water bottle then going home in your plastic car to do it all again

tia plastic users

# ? Mar 24, 2022 16:13

SKULL.GIF: Jan 20, 2017

QuickbreathFinisher posted:

kramering in to ask for the microplastics post about waking up in a plastic bed, brushing teeth with plastic, unwrapping food from plastic containers and drinking from a plastic water bottle then going home in your plastic car to do it all again

tia plastic users

Rime posted:

I wake up and stretch, in a bed filled with plastic fibers.

Get up, my feet touch a carpeted floor, made of plastic fibers.

Open the curtains, made of spun plastic fibers.

Put on some clothes, made of plastic fibers.

The water (filled with microplastics at the source) in my tap travels through kilometers of plastic piping and tubing. I brush my teeth with plastic fibers on a plastic handle.

Make some coffee / tea in a plastic kettle, mix in some honey from a plastic container.

Pour my breakfast oats out of a plastic bag.

Throw my lunch in a plastic container, into my backpack made of plastic, head out the door. Keycard is plastic, I've lost a couple.

Hop into my truck, cab decked out in plastic, turn on the cabin heater full blast.

Head off to work.

Grind a few dozen lbs of short-chain polymer resin into the air and watch it blow away on the breeze, smiling at a job well done.

Get "home", cook some dinner out of plastic packaging.

Chill out on my couch made of plastic.

Repeat the first few steps in reverse, settling down into my semi-plastic bed for a peaceful 8 hours of slumber.

Can't wait to see what tomorrow brings! Another beautiful day on this glorious planet we call home, I'm sure. Glad I focus on living a clean healthy life!

#blessed.

# ? Mar 24, 2022 16:21

Homeless Friend: Jul 16, 2007

goochtit posted:

Another day, another new place microplastics are found, even if it was an easy extrapolation to make since they're in our tissues
https://twitter.com/guardianeco/status/1506958184086446091

curious about those five donors tho

born too early to have plastic feces, too late to have lead poisoning

# ? Mar 24, 2022 16:25

QuickbreathFinisher: Sep 28, 2008; by reading this post you have agreed to form a gay socialist micronation.
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SKULL.GIF posted:

ty SKULL.GIF

# ? Mar 24, 2022 16:38

Harry Potter on Ice: Nov 4, 2006; IF IM NOT BITCHING ABOUT HOW SHITTY MY LIFE IS, REPORT ME FOR MY ACCOUNT HAS BEEN HIJACKED

Roasting plastic toy hotdogs over a fire of burning plastic is the future

# ? Mar 24, 2022 16:41

Real hurthling!: Sep 11, 2001

when i wished to be a "poly merman" i should have made clear where the space went

# ? Mar 24, 2022 16:47

QuickbreathFinisher: Sep 28, 2008; by reading this post you have agreed to form a gay socialist micronation.
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meanwhile in chill news to say "inshallah" to

# ? Mar 24, 2022 16:54

mahershalalhashbaz: Jul 22, 2021; by Pragmatica
(and can't post for 9 days!)

SniperWoreConverse posted:

A powerful creature and important for salt water too

i scraped a jam jar lid's worth of sediment from a dried-up pond. just that tiny amount of mud (the eggs therein) has filled my tub with copepods and ostracods :unsmith:

i'm illegally planting trees up the hill trying to de-turbidify another pond (spring-fed) that's currently so opaque nothing can live in it, if i ever get it survivable in my lifetime i can rebuild its ecosystem from azolla and microcrustaceans up

# ? Mar 24, 2022 17:47

mahershalalhashbaz: Jul 22, 2021; by Pragmatica
(and can't post for 9 days!)

Enfys posted:

forming a copepod with my climate friends

it's such a good word

# ? Mar 24, 2022 17:49

The Protagonist: Jun 29, 2009; The average is 5.5? I thought it was 4. This is very unsettling.

got grilled by a new hire at the college, printed them out the earth-space battery paper as light reading

inhospitable, sterile and final indeed

# ? Mar 24, 2022 18:27

Trabisnikof: Dec 24, 2005

The Protagonist posted:

got grilled by a new hire at the college, printed them out the earth-space battery paper as light reading

inhospitable, sterile and final indeed

lol at printing that paper out

# ? Mar 24, 2022 18:39

Mayor Dave: Feb 20, 2009; Bernie the Snow Clown

Love to have detectable level of microplastics in my blood

Made of plastic
It's fantastic

# ? Mar 24, 2022 18:42

Hexigrammus: May 22, 2006; Cheech Wizard stories are clean, wholesome, reflective truths that go great with the marijuana munchies and a blow job.

mahershalalhashbaz posted:

a new kind of tiny crustacean appeared in my water tub. i looked them up and they're a freshwater invertebrate found all over the world, which have been used in asian hydroponic farming for thousands of years because they eat mosquito larvae (!!). to my great delight, they're called copepods.

Cool. I didn't know there were any copepods that went after mosquito larvae. I'm going to have to start paying more attention to the local freshwater systems. Copepods are some of the trippiest things to look at under a microscope if you get the lighting (and your dose of edibles) right.

Which reminds me, I need to get a microscope. Should have stolen one from my last job.

Copepods are vital for euphausids (krill), and euphasids are vital for everything else in the polar oceans. This being the bad news thread I have some bad news about krill production... Hopefully my addiction to kimchi (salted Korean shrimp = krill) isn't contributing to the problem. ( Everything I do contributes to the problem.)

Hubbert posted:

also

very glad that this thread is coming around to the wild world of ecological / biophysical economics

Not sure I want to go there. I despise economics even when they aren't making GBS threads up fields I actually know something about with their magical thinking voodoo. I need to figure out a way to power the house with my incandescent hatred first. Besides, I have it on good authority that only 4% of GDP is produced outdoors therefore the environment is irrelevant, Homo economusly speaking.

Torpor posted:

huh I haven�t checked the biosphere thread in a bit, let�s see what�s going on

For the full experience be sure to visit the Doomsday economics and Covid threads. Save the Extreme Weather thread for dessert.

gently caress it, I'm going to go out into the irrelevant outdoors and plant some peas. Hopefully they'll finish producing before this year's first heat dome hits.

# ? Mar 24, 2022 18:44

silicone thrills: Jan 9, 2008; I paint things

Mayor Dave posted:

Love to have detectable level of microplastics in my blood

Made of plastic
It's fantastic

I immediately started singing the song.

# ? Mar 24, 2022 18:46

FistEnergy: Nov 3, 2000; DAY CREW: WORKING HARD; Fun Shoe

silicone thrills posted:

I immediately started singing the song.

Come on Brandon, Let's Go Brandon....

# ? Mar 24, 2022 19:59

mawarannahr: May 21, 2019

copepods prey on Rotifers :ohdear:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10750-005-4290-3

# ? Mar 24, 2022 20:03

Microplastics: Jul 6, 2007; It's what's for dinner.

FistEnergy posted:

Come on Brandon, Let's Go Brandon....

Sang this to the tune of one pound fish

# ? Mar 24, 2022 20:29

Spergin Morlock: Aug 8, 2009

goochtit posted:

Another day, another new place microplastics are found, even if it was an easy extrapolation to make since they're in our tissues
https://twitter.com/guardianeco/status/1506958184086446091

curious about those five donors tho

for a moment i thought i was looking at a pile of kief

# ? Mar 24, 2022 22:47

Notorious R.I.M.: Jan 27, 2004; up to my ass in alligators

Spergin Morlock posted:

for a moment i thought i was looking at a pile of kief

same. was wondering where they got that pic of my blood from

# ? Mar 24, 2022 22:49

The Vinja Ninja: Mar 16, 2006; Sometimes, time beats you.

In todays Climate Catastrophy news,

The Heatwaves for the last 5 years have caused Wheat crops to be seriously depleated, this last year it effected china for the first time.

Now our heroic people in charge are saying its Russias fault for our crop failures, we must understand, the wheat shortages and food shortages are the wars fault, not globo-warming.
https://twitter.com/ABCPolitics/status/1507052235192254472?s=20&t=HXF9A00p9VXlsOVeZoP06A

Also General Mills mysteriously cant mill wheat anymore, must not be related to the wheat shortages.

https://komonews.com/news/nation-wo...ly-issues-costs

quote:

According to Reuters, the popular food company has already warned supply issues for its refrigerated products like Totino's Pizza Rolls and Pillsbury dough would mean consumers could possibly see empty shelves.

Anyone who has a memory better than a fish remembers our resident goon who works at the wheat-pinchers association whos coworker blamed the shortage on LAZY WORKERS AFRAID OF COVID instead of crop failures.

what a great few years!

# ? Mar 24, 2022 22:53