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Kwyndig posted:Did they really used to not give two shits about the environment? No. Sweden didn't get any kinds of environmental regulations until 1966. Before that, you could just release industrial waste into rivers and bury barrels of mercury under your parking lot. Otoh, old batteries were zinc, manganese oxide, graphite and ammonium salts. None of these compounds are very toxic.
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Word. I did a look for superfund sites near me on a whim and two within 30 minutes or so more or less amount to “lol we’ll just bury this in the basement and put concrete over it” and “lol we’ll just dump this in a field”.
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there's a megachurch nearby that just finished construction. it's on a Superfund site. it works as a fun metaphor in at least two directions.
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There was a town in Missouri that had to be closed because they guy they hired to oil the roads was using used motor oil mixed with the waste from a dioxin plant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Times_Beach,_Missouri
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Iron Crowned posted:I had no idea that Boston was built on an island Technically it's a penensula surrounded by landfill, but there are islands in the harbor.
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Neito posted:Boston used to handle it's trash by putting it on an island in the bay and letting the tide come in, whereby it would magically vanish.
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Kwyndig posted:Did they really used to not give two shits about the environment? Oh abso-freaking-lutely. Prior to the Earth Day/environmentalism movement in the 1970s, it was extremely common to just dump poo poo (sometimes literal poo poo!) wherever and no-one gave a poo poo. Some rivers were so polluted that they could literally catch on fire. Things have gotten better, but these days it has moved from "don't give a poo poo about polluting in general" to "don't give a poo poo about polluting if it only affects minorities." So, ya know, a lot of work still needs to be done.
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Urban Planning Lifehack: Dump your trash in the lake and eventually you’ll expand the city’s borders onto some brand new coastline made of trash! Then, on one of those trash extensions, build a plant that takes in sewage, unleashes microbes to devour the poop, and then dries and packages those tiny critters full of digested human poop so you can dump them on your garden! 
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Warbird posted:Word. I did a look for superfund sites near me on a whim and two within 30 minutes or so more or less amount to “lol we’ll just bury this in the basement and put concrete over it” and “lol we’ll just dump this in a field”. My local superfund site is a leaking garbage dump. It's situated next to a mine. There's a modern garbage dump on the other side of the mine. The town's drinking water is pumped from that mine. I left my water cooler behind when I moved and switched back to tap water. https://maps.app.goo.gl/L5xMYD2rTi6WWnDz5 axolotl farmer posted:Otoh, old batteries were zinc, manganese oxide, graphite and ammonium salts. None of these compounds are very toxic. Sure, those things are fairly safe Until you put them in a fire! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_fume_fever
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My favorite Can hack https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_rkf7phJg9B1r0uzl6.mp4
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belongs in the OSHA thread goddamn
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In addition to providing you with a slightly wider opening for your drink it also functions as a handy lip and tongue remover.
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I want to see them try and drink it, because grabbing it from the sides will basically immediately crush it now, and touching any part of the top will almost certainly injure you. What a fun hack.
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It's clearly a video by the same people who did countless countertop nachos and toilet ice cream videos. They were never meant to be real hacks.
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I think those things are supposed to turn the lip over so it's not so sharp? But it doesn't look it. I did buy one of the
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Nettle Soup posted:I think those things are supposed to turn the lip over so it's not so sharp? But it doesn't look it. Maybe I should get a new one of those, the two I have had so far have been more effort than using a top-in can opener. Oddly the least effort can opener I own is a p-38 I picked up on a whim, but that's an emergency option.
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I've watched a lot of 5 minute crafts but this was the first with a safety warning The hack 
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maltesh posted:Oddly the least effort can opener I own is a p-38 I picked up on a whim, but that's an emergency option. I've forgotten which  company has picked up where Swing-A-Way left off but their can openers are just majestic and you can get them at any American grocery storealternatively a vintage S-A-W (they last forever)
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Busket Posket posted:Urban Planning Lifehack: Dump your trash in the lake and eventually you’ll expand the city’s borders onto some brand new coastline made of trash! To be fair to the city, it’s that or just keep getting drunk. Besides, that smell while driving over the Hoan is a major part of the city’s rich background (in doing stupid poo poo)
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Empty Sandwich posted:I've forgotten which iirc it's ez-duz-it , my dad has a swingaway that's probably older than I am and I keep meaning to grab an ez-duz-it but for some reason I never remember this when i'm in a position to actually order one.
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Zeth posted:it's ez-duz-it
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Yeah, the only way they could get more is if somebody figured out how to print animated gifs onto cardboard packaging
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Empty Sandwich posted:I've forgotten which
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maltesh posted:Oddly the least effort can opener I own is a p-38 I picked up on a whim, but that's an emergency option. Me too, coincidentally. 
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Zeth posted:Yeah, the only way they could get more
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SubponticatePoster posted:When my mom died I took the SAW she'd had for god knows how long, it's still better than any can opener I've purchased.  ?
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maltesh posted:Oddly the least effort can opener I own is a p-38 I picked up on a whim, but that's an emergency option. Get a Gangy, works the same way as a P-38/51 but bigger. 
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Everyone knew to stay the gently caress out of the kitchen when mom was cooking 
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Phanatic posted:Me too, coincidentally. That's actually a bottle opener.
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Atticus_1354 posted:That's actually a bottle opener. Everything's a bottle opener if you practice
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https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_rkompbM6Ek1uk10e9.mp4
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King poo poo right there.
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There is absolutely nothing stupid about that lifehack.
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another non-stupid lifehack https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_rkxyjsOZNN1qigfjt.mp4
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Does that flashing sign say "fuckers_ at the beginning of the video?
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folgen, it's telling you to follow the car
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Folgers. It’s telling them to have a coffee break
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Paladinus posted:It's clearly a video by the same people who did countless countertop nachos and toilet ice cream videos. They were never meant to be real hacks. Oooooooh how wrong you are. Those things exist and they're marketed to craft beer drinkers. The lovely knockoffs cut the rim off, the slightly less lovely ones leave the rim on for support. 
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Ha, one of the more basic supermarket lagers in Japan has a version that does this, too. I thought it was pretty clever when I saw the commercials--I haven't tried it myself, though.
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What the hell
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