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I chewed those white foam cups a lot as a kid
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Mar 31, 2022 02:49
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TeenageArchipelago posted:so did anyone else chew on styrofoam cups as a kid? Every once in a while I remember doing that and realize why I am bad at posting No. How about plastic straws?
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Mar 31, 2022 02:49
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TeenageArchipelago posted:Was that community close to the gold mine at Yellowknife? You know, the one that has enough cyanide being kept artificially frozen underground to kill everyone on Earth multiple times over lol no, not that far north. but my aunt-in-law was responsible for the environmental consultation community outreach for a gold mine in Nova Scotia. my wife: “so like, what are you guys going to do about all the cyanide and other poo poo that the mine will need dealt with?” aunt: “oh don’t worry, we have ways to contain that now” my wife: *sends her a report about the same company poisoning the groundwater on a reservation* aunt: “oh i don’t know anything about that!”
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Mar 31, 2022 02:50
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Wonder what Peter Kalmus is gonna get up to https://twitter.com/ClimateHuman/status/1509331665457336323?s=20&t=0WBcON4Roi0Wf24EJ7TXdA
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Mar 31, 2022 02:51
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Hey fellow kids, anyone want to crime, slip in my dms
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Mar 31, 2022 02:51
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they finally turned Kalmus, huh
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Mar 31, 2022 02:52
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rex rabidorum vires posted:No. How about plastic straws? oh for sure, still chew on all the plastic straws I get. sometimes even pretend that I am a sea turtle. 99% sure that if I die from chewing on something because I'm bored it's going to be an ice cube so who cares lmao
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Mar 31, 2022 02:52
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SSJ_naruto_2003 posted:Real common in my poor community in the south? You drink your sugary drink of choice at lunch and then take bites out of the cup(gum isn't free) idk. Wasn't just a few people. chapelle bit where its the grape drink kid but there's another kid and hes like "alright... but I want that cup after you finish"
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Mar 31, 2022 02:53
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every human is born free with gum, is is called the tongue
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Mar 31, 2022 02:55
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Homeless Friend posted:every human is born free with gum, is is called the tongue 
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Mar 31, 2022 02:59
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TeenageArchipelago posted:Was that community close to the gold mine at Yellowknife? You know, the one that has enough cyanide being kept artificially frozen underground to kill everyone on Earth multiple times over I’m sorry the what
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Mar 31, 2022 03:14
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TeenageArchipelago posted:Was that community close to the gold mine at Yellowknife? You know, the one that has enough cyanide being kept artificially frozen underground to kill everyone on Earth multiple times over can you elaborate on this? googling it and missing it.
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Mar 31, 2022 03:21
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Koirhor posted:I’m sorry the what just a perfectly normal forever frozen vault of horrifying toxin we keep in the earth now what happens when we cant keep it frozen anymore you ask?? well,
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Mar 31, 2022 03:22
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Koirhor posted:I’m sorry the what silicone thrills posted:can you elaborate on this? googling it and missing it. https://www.vice.com/en/article/xd5gw7/yellowknife-is-sitting-on-enough-arsenic-to-kill-every-human-on-earth
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Mar 31, 2022 03:23
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The link title tells me it's a fun article
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Mar 31, 2022 03:25
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How do they know it will stay cold enough????
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Mar 31, 2022 03:27
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silicone thrills posted:How do they know it will stay cold enough???? lmao
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Mar 31, 2022 03:28
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we really live in just the absolute dumbest timeline/scenario/whatever lmao
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Mar 31, 2022 03:28
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A Bakers Cousin posted:The link title tells me it's a fun article it's a hoot so far quote:unregulated until 1951, when a child from the Yellowknives Dene First Nation died of poisoning from eating snow in the area
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Mar 31, 2022 04:01
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dont eat styrofoam just eat erasers like a normal person (the pink ones not the rubbery white ones)
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Mar 31, 2022 04:04
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holy poo poo that yellowknife article lolquote:“How can we ever ensure that human systems are going to continue to keep something that requires rather sophisticated engineering and monitoring to function forever, that’s just crazy,” argues Kevin O’Reilly, an activist with Northern Alternatives. “We can’t even remember how the pyramids were built 5,000 years ago. How can we know that 5,000 years from now, if there are even people on this planet, that they are going to know what to do to keep this stuff frozen? That’s just irresponsible.” "just freeze the loving earth you idiots, bing bong" re: choosing where to die in the coming apocalypse, I sincerely cannot praise the southwest enough for "death by combined dehydration and heatstroke," you can get drunk on the last of your booze and stumble outside of civilization into some really, really beautiful areas filled with hardy life that will absolutely outlive any human structure plus before everything here crumbles, you can visit biosphere 2 (a dumb joke made by dumb idealistic people about how earth is biosphere1, lol can you imagine being stupid enough to think the earth is like a spaceship and we'd have to work together to survive existing in space lol how dumb right? anyway) and see/hear firsthand how private capital tried, failed, and memoryholed living in a bubble to prepare for space, but on earth, and also how they sucked poo poo at it and failed horribly, then never tried again probably at all but definitely not on any meaningful scale. Then you can reflect on smoothbrain shitlords like musk or bezos thinking "hell yeah we're gonna fuckin live in space! sure the penalty for failure is death vs living in a closed, entirely manmade environmental system on earth, which we ALSO cannot do but that's OK because we don't need it on earth you silly goose! lol it's for space!!"
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Mar 31, 2022 04:05
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i like to watch restorations of old iron and steel mechanisms, so i guess the algorithm decided this was cool too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z979l_7EcpE nothing against this particular uploader, i'm sure you can find hundreds of similar videos. this project is totally insignificant in the grand scheme. hundreds and hundreds of meters of epoxy fibers lathed off, plus all those polishing particles, to produce one cool-looking useless vase thing. this is not a measurable percent of any small city's pollution production. the sun will rise tomorrow.
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Mar 31, 2022 05:01
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what's with the thread title? i was assured that some of us will survive
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Mar 31, 2022 05:07
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CODChimera posted:what's with the thread title? i was assured that some of us will survive no one is making it out of this alive
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Mar 31, 2022 05:13
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I started reading The End of Ice and so far I'm liking that he doesn't bullshit about best case scenarios.The End Of Ice posted:After a pause to let all that sink in, Fagre goes on to explain that the Earth has a resilient system that has been through much worse than what we’ve caused: ice ages, volcanism, etc. “So many of these things will recover,” he says of the glaciers and forests that are vanishing before our eyes. “But not in a time frame that includes humans.” silicone thrills has issued a correction as of 06:16 on Mar 31, 2022 |
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Mar 31, 2022 05:54
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Chard posted:i like to watch restorations of old iron and steel mechanisms, so i guess the algorithm decided this was cool too: I've been getting back into woodturning and yes that gnarled root + epoxy is a thing now. These turners are definitely ingesting more than a credit card's worth of plastic a week. Also in the gratuitous homeowner-grade plastic pollution category - landscape fabric. I made the mistake of using some under paths and to line compost bins. Apparently it breaks down over time and you end up removing it in pieces. My compost is probably riddled with little bits of plastic fibers now. Ah well, hopefully they won't stunt plant growth the way the aminopyralid herbicide I accidentally introduced with horse manure does.
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Mar 31, 2022 06:24
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Hexigrammus posted:I've been getting back into woodturning and yes that gnarled root + epoxy is a thing now. These turners are definitely ingesting more than a credit card's worth of plastic a week. My favorite find in my dirt in my yard was plastic aquarium pieces that must have been thrown into the woods at least 25 years ago. Im like. Idk a block from a golf course and I also find a lot of golf balls. I'm making little shrines out of this poo poo cause like what the gently caress else can I do at this point?
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Mar 31, 2022 06:40
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CODChimera posted:what's with the thread title? i was assured that some of us will survive The "us" referred to the thread's posters. Where am I gonna pick to die? poo poo, I dunno. Moving is expensive, and stressful. My family's all spread out anyway. I guess I'll just stay put and play videogames and try to be happy until I can't anymore unless some force moves me.
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Mar 31, 2022 06:59
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Hexigrammus posted:I've been getting back into woodturning and yes that gnarled root + epoxy is a thing now. These turners are definitely ingesting more than a credit card's worth of plastic a week. There's a huge municipal compost here and I went to get some for my garden because it's really cheap, supposedly it's mostly composted wood cuttings and not sewage but anyway I didn't get any because holy gently caress it was just completely full of little bits of shredded plastic. The aminopyralid stuff is hosed up too. When I lived in Oklahoma where it's super hot and dry in the summer I bought expensive bale of alfalfa to mulch my tomatoes with because it's a broad leaf and the super hosed up herbicides can't be used on it because they kill it. Plus it's a nitrogen fixer so it's good for your soil as it breaks down. Worked well but God drat it's so hosed up you can't just get a hay bale or se horse manure and use them in your garden anymore.
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Mar 31, 2022 07:02
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Chard posted:i like to watch restorations of old iron and steel mechanisms, so i guess the algorithm decided this was cool too: Looks pretty I guess. Think I prefer clay though.
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Mar 31, 2022 07:13
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Does anyone have a link to an article that I think was posted here a while back--it was a long form narrative piece describing what Earth's climate was like over hundreds of millions of years, I think working backwards, with a lot of vivid imagery?
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Mar 31, 2022 07:37
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silicone thrills posted:My favorite find in my dirt in my yard was plastic aquarium pieces that must have been thrown into the woods at least 25 years ago. Im like. Idk a block from a golf course and I also find a lot of golf balls. I'm making little shrines out of this poo poo cause like what the gently caress else can I do at this point? Put them in a plastic cylinder, dump a bunch of coloured epoxy on them, then chuck the whole mess in a lathe? IAMKOREA posted:There's a huge municipal compost here and I went to get some for my garden because it's really cheap, supposedly it's mostly composted wood cuttings and not sewage but anyway I didn't get any because holy gently caress it was just completely full of little bits of shredded plastic. I have the same problem with the seaweed I collect once a year for compost and aspargus mulch. I spend the rest of the year picking little bits of plastic from between the asparagus fronds. I've spent the last couple of days turning compost bins and screening compost. It's really demoralizing to be picking plastics out of the bins we use for our household waste. We have complete control over what goes into those bins and I'm still finding plastic bags and little bits of hard plastic in it. The absolute worst was discovering that Lipton's tea bags are plastic. I haven't found any in the dirt for a couple of years now so hopefully I got them all.
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Mar 31, 2022 07:42
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Hexigrammus posted:Put them in a plastic cylinder, dump a bunch of coloured epoxy on them, then chuck the whole mess in a lathe? Oh yeah the switch to plastic tea bags done in secret is absolutely loving insane. Imagine all the microplastics people are drinking and making GBS threads out from that. I got in an argument with my father in law about not giving my daughter tea from plastic tea bags, he simply could not believe that something so insane could exist and thought I was being dramatic, until he took a lighter to one and realized it was indeed made of plastic. He threw out all of their tea after that lol.
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Mar 31, 2022 09:50
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Xaris posted:nothing that already ITT doesn't already know but its always fun reading about arizona's impeding demise 
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Mar 31, 2022 10:24
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Stereotype posted:it's like putting a message in a bottle and sending it out to sea. you have very little chance that anyone will ever find or read it, and even if they do it would be nearly impossible to know or make any difference at all, and it is all about the symbolic action. onto a single sheet of paper you fluidly wrote "only god can make the earth warmer," sealed it into a glass vessel, and then hurled it into the ocean. except on the internet. its the same symbolism You'll find the bottle is plastic.
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Mar 31, 2022 13:46
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And the plastic is inside your brain
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Mar 31, 2022 13:49
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Eventually bacteria will solve the plastic problem like they solved the carboniferous. It's only a few million years away
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Mar 31, 2022 14:02
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Until then maybe the plastic will degrade back into a form of fossil fuel that some future civilization can discover, leading to a economic boom before also destroying their ecosystem.
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Mar 31, 2022 14:20
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The plastic eating bacteria will excrete a gaseous waste, so really we've caused climate change twice
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Mar 31, 2022 14:29
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No more ice! Twice as nice!
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Mar 31, 2022 14:30
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