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BIG-DICK-BUTT-gently caress posted:As someone who grows trees as a hobby, I'll say that growing from seed isn't really worth it on a production basis. It's Immensely satisfying when it pans out but it can take 1-2 years to really get going and it's probably 4-5 years before you can relax and say "it's gonna make it ". Just so much that can go wrong at the early stages, can be very discouraging to see months or years of work fail. quote:that said, there's NOTHING like the pleasure of having a big mature tree that you grew from seed. Absolutely nothing.
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# ? Apr 10, 2022 11:53 |
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# ? May 25, 2024 18:11 |
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Rime posted:Quitting my job has only given me infinite free time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3Z4yW60I2w
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# ? Apr 10, 2022 12:11 |
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how much micro plastics to trees eat
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# ? Apr 10, 2022 13:30 |
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are there microplastics in my fresh maple syrup? there loving are, aren't there
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# ? Apr 10, 2022 15:53 |
That Spooky Witch posted:thos fuckin ducks are rapists Lustful mallard attacks orifice
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# ? Apr 10, 2022 15:56 |
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i wonder if those plastic eating bacteria will ever take off because that could be a really successful niche for an organism
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# ? Apr 10, 2022 15:58 |
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If I was a kid my number 1 job choice would be plastic eating bacteria
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# ? Apr 10, 2022 16:00 |
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Stevie Lee posted:are there microplastics in my fresh maple syrup? there loving are, aren't there what material is the bottle made of birch trees have been observed absorbing microplastics up through their roots http://www.sci-news.com/biology/birch-tree-microplastic-10574.html posted:New research led by the Leibniz Institute for Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries shows that individual microplastic particles with diameters between 5 and 10 μm can enter the root system of the silver birch (Betula pendula), a species of tree native to Europe and parts of Asia, from the surrounding soil. don't know about maples but regardless there are a ton of points during the chain of events from harvesting to bottling where microplastics could conceivably slip in there. best bet is to assume your syrup is majority plastic at this point
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# ? Apr 10, 2022 16:04 |
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mahershalalhashbaz posted:bless you. do the children survive in their new homes? Well I did it for the first time last year and the babies still seem to be thriving. About 1.5ft tall. I might end up moving then again later when it's big enough to be a proper guerilla planting and survive. Probably next to a golf course. I bought some corylus cornuta last year which is native to my area but I've never seen it before. They're thriving. Going to be a visual break between mine and my neighbors house when they get bigger. Once they start putting out some nuts I'll be guerilla planting them all over lol. And I'm sure the squirrels will too
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# ? Apr 10, 2022 17:22 |
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Rime posted:Been trying for days to write a big long classic style post about how and why I'm so depressed, largely by having to continue existing in this interminably liminal state of affairs and society, that I was seriously considering just calling it quits and killing myself last week - but I can't even manage to scrape together a shitpost longer than this bland one-liner anymore. I almost never post, but I have been reading your posts for years, you would be missed by more people than you realize.
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# ? Apr 10, 2022 19:18 |
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Cletus Van Damme posted:I almost never post, but I have been reading your posts for years, you would be missed by more people than you realize. co signed this Rime. you more than just about anyone made me realize how bad things are actually getting/are. you really have helped. please stick around. we gotta post through it. I was feeling particularly down last night and then I got really high and read this thread and it helped.
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# ? Apr 10, 2022 19:28 |
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Stevie Lee posted:are there microplastics in my fresh maple syrup? there loving are, aren't there Cabbages and Kings posted:I was thinking of this thread when I was doing a lot of my maple syrup stuff this year just because of how much loving plastic is involved. Plastic taps, plastic drop lines, plastic main lines -- none of this stuff is intended to last especially long (1 / 5 / 15 year, respectively). I would assume a lot of the filter media used now is woven plastic poo poo.
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# ? Apr 10, 2022 19:33 |
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Cletus Van Damme posted:I have been reading your posts for years, you would be missed by more people than you realize.
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# ? Apr 10, 2022 19:33 |
LionArcher posted:co signed this Rime. you more than just about anyone made me realize how bad things are actually getting/are. you really have helped. please stick around. we gotta post through it. I was feeling particularly down last night and then I got really high and read this thread and it helped. This thread owns because you can just scream into the void when you need to about how loving stupid everything is and no one will try to tell you that actually Iceland just opened the world's largest atmospheric carbon capture plant and
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# ? Apr 10, 2022 19:50 |
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IAMKOREA posted:This thread owns because you can just scream into the void when you need to about how loving stupid everything is and no one will try to tell you that actually Iceland just opened the world's largest atmospheric carbon capture plant and
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# ? Apr 10, 2022 20:01 |
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i throw a battery into a sewage drain every time someone mentioned the carbon capture plant, all about that healthy balance
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# ? Apr 10, 2022 20:09 |
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whats so stupid about the carbon capture plant?
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# ? Apr 10, 2022 20:15 |
Communist Thoughts posted:whats so stupid about the carbon capture plant? Atmospheric carbon capture consumes a massive amount of energy compared to releasing carbon from fossil fuels. You could use the energy it takes to capture one cars worth of carbon to power ten cars (that's a wrong number, I don't know the real number but it's greater than one which is all that matters). It's a dumb boondoggle that allows politicians to talk about net zero by 2050 and delay the inevitable. It does nothing to smash capitalism, rather it's a completely bullshit form of magick the hope of which has convinced people that capitalism can be sustainable. It's just the stupidest loving thing ever and i hate it
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# ? Apr 10, 2022 20:20 |
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Rectal Death Adept posted:i get real sad sometimes but then i think about how geese will get hosed up by climate change too and those smug pricks kind of deserve it when you really think about it same but other humans
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# ? Apr 10, 2022 20:26 |
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Communist Thoughts posted:whats so stupid about the carbon capture plant? In isolation it's just a demonstration, a tiny grain of a smidgeon of a mote of a quantum of what a full scale response would entail. It allows for a rough quantification of just how much more would be necessary to begin to attack the GHG problem at scale. In short, it demonstrates just how far off a market-based approach is to actually doing something of consequence Still, 4500 TWh is only like about a fifth of all the world's generated power per anum? It could be (?) done under a global centrally planned project that dwarfed every historical mega protect ever, maybe
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# ? Apr 10, 2022 20:26 |
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yeah the issue isn’t DAC as a concept the issue is using DAC as an excuse to keep burning fossil fuels. if we waved a magic wand and replaced our society and economy with one that actually addresses climate change, first we’d stop using fossil fuels etc and then we’d end up doing DAC just to reduce the extant CO2.
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# ? Apr 10, 2022 20:43 |
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Trabisnikof posted:yeah the issue isn’t DAC as a concept the issue is using DAC as an excuse to keep burning fossil fuels. technically planting several trillion trees is sort of DAC so sure i guess
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# ? Apr 10, 2022 20:47 |
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Yeah that carbon capture plant is like 1 / 10,000,000th of what we need to even be neutral after we are already beyond the point of no return. People are going to crack jokes about it after it was presented as not only THE WORLDS LARGEST but a hopeful solution. It's like walking into a burning house with a thimble full of a special material it took a year and a billion dollars to create. You conduct an elaborate demonstration on how a few drops of your special fluid can put out all of the fire on little timmy's arm. Everyone then stands around in the fire shaking hands because the concept of potentially fighting it has been established. There is a comical gap between tech demo and practical solution and the latter is being claimed simply by the existence of the former. It only works if you not only ignore the uselessness of it but lie to yourself about the scope of climate change itself. Rectal Death Adept has issued a correction as of 20:54 on Apr 10, 2022 |
# ? Apr 10, 2022 20:51 |
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Trabisnikof posted:yeah the issue isn’t DAC as a concept the issue is using DAC as an excuse to keep burning fossil fuels.
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# ? Apr 10, 2022 20:54 |
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We can always pray to the volcano gods to give us a supereruption in order to help cool the earth, I'm thinking that we should give that a try before we get too invested in this "green energy" fad
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# ? Apr 10, 2022 21:05 |
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:DAC as a concept is not exactly great either - the second law of thermodynamics guarantees that. Most of the atmosphere isn't carbon, it's like searching a swimming pool full of marbles for the green ones. Yeah but the energy cost of not going carbon negative is almost certainly higher. That’s just how hosed we are. Of course instead we’re going to remain carbon positive and just claim on paper we aren’t
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# ? Apr 10, 2022 21:08 |
Trabisnikof posted:Yeah but the energy cost of not going carbon negative is almost certainly higher. That’s just how hosed we are. Lol after COVID it wouldn't surprise me if they just shut down all the co2 monitoring stations if it weren't tech that normal people could get on their own
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# ? Apr 10, 2022 21:11 |
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We recently spent some time in the NICU and it totally crack pinged my wife about the sheer scale of single-use plastic waste we’re actually generating. The world around us is so uniformly inundated with plastic that we simply normalize its presence as a given. We throw it in the blue “plastics” bin in the park and ignorantly proceed along our pointless journey thinking it somehow all works out, or simply never think about it. But being in an intensive care unit you begin to see the underbelly. Every single tool, tape, tube, lead, wipe, syringe, every widget, (almost) every *thing* is made of plastic encased in plastic. Every piece that touches anyone or anything is entirely single-use and sterilized in a plastic wrapper. Sure there are occasional glass or metal tools, those also come wrapped in plastic. All of this plastic is immediately thrown into a plastic garbage bin lined with a plastic garbage bag. That bag is hauled off by the cleaning lady on a plastic trolly. There is no feigned posturing about recycling. This is all trash. Biohazard plastic trash. Then take the mind bending amount of plastic trash my one baby produced each day… Times every patient, in every hospital, in every part of the world. lol, lmao
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# ? Apr 10, 2022 21:14 |
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Communist Thoughts posted:whats so stupid about the carbon capture plant?
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# ? Apr 10, 2022 21:14 |
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I saw someone point out that if we could run everything in reverse, i.e. having cars that sucked CO2 out of the air, dropping it off at gas stations, where it was mixed with other materials and pumped into the ground, the levels of CO2 in the atmosphere would be a problem of such immense scale that it would still take decades to fix They wrote it better, but still
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# ? Apr 10, 2022 21:18 |
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mahershalalhashbaz posted:yes! science is only just really figuring out how a forest works, there's a complex mechanism involved with evaporation and temperature control and water cycling where the aquifers only function properly if there are plenty of trees over them lol gently caress
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# ? Apr 10, 2022 21:18 |
TeenageArchipelago posted:I saw someone point out that if we could run everything in reverse, i.e. having cars that sucked CO2 out of the air, dropping it off at gas stations, where it was mixed with other materials and pumped into the ground, the levels of CO2 in the atmosphere would be a problem of such immense scale that it would still take decades to fix Reminds me of slaughterhouse 5 where Vonnegut describes the war only in reverse, can't post it because I'm on my phone and too old to do tricky stuff like copy paste from different browser tabs on the stupid touch screen
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# ? Apr 10, 2022 21:22 |
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TeenageArchipelago posted:I saw someone point out that if we could run everything in reverse, i.e. having cars that sucked CO2 out of the air, dropping it off at gas stations, where it was mixed with other materials and pumped into the ground, the levels of CO2 in the atmosphere would be a problem of such immense scale that it would still take decades to fix A Russian troll farm posted:Viewed in reverse, a billion and a half cars are all driving backwards, sucking in dirty air through the tailpipe, compressing all of the pollution into the densest possible form and storing it, and pushing out clean air from a vent in the front. When the tank is full, they back up into a station which sucks up the compressed pollution and stores it. A truck regularly comes to bring it to a plant where it is combined with other pollutants being sucked out of the air, and a series of pipes brings it far away to remote places, where it is pumped deep underground and safely hidden away. With this unprecedented collective effort, this dead world will one day be teeming with life
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# ? Apr 10, 2022 23:05 |
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If carbon capture worked so well, why did none of those clean coal power plants succeed? That seemed like a perfect use of carbon capture technology, capture the emissions as they are produced by a dirty power plant. I know they tried carbon capture but we can see they didn't succeed by the fact clean coal is no longer talked about
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# ? Apr 10, 2022 23:27 |
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the biosphere's epitaph will read: "drive it like u stole it lol"
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# ? Apr 10, 2022 23:35 |
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God Hole posted:birch trees have been observed absorbing microplastics up through their roots now that’s the kind of ridiculous nightmare I’m here for
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# ? Apr 10, 2022 23:35 |
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Marenghi posted:If carbon capture worked so well, why did none of those clean coal power plants succeed? Because carbon capture only makes sense after we’ve gotten rid of all the fossil fuel plants
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# ? Apr 10, 2022 23:39 |
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mark immune posted:the biosphere's epitaph will read: "drive it like u stole it lol" "May the evolved invertebrates forgive us."
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# ? Apr 10, 2022 23:44 |
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that's the one, thank you
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# ? Apr 10, 2022 23:49 |
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# ? May 25, 2024 18:11 |
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Rime posted:No, I'm not seriously considering suicide today. Same. The plan now is just to weatherproof the house, amp up the farm and garden, and try to build better links with our community. I have no idea what else to do.
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