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SKULL.GIF posted:Once you take the Plasticpill you never go back gee thanks for telling me now, oh well
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Oct 13, 2021 03:26
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SKULL.GIF posted:Once you take the Plasticpill you never go back Reading Death by rubber duck was what pinged me back in the day. It covers all of the above and more - the example around what happened with T-fal was an extremely angering one.
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Oct 13, 2021 03:29
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You guys spend so much time thinking about how to shoot our trash into space when we have so much trash and it takes so much rocket fuel. Well, you're not thinking like an engineer. If gravity is an obstacle the answer is obviously to cool our planet's core and reduce the gravitational pull so we can more easily shoot trash rockets into the sun. I don't know why it takes me to come up with the solutions for this stuff. e: If that's not enough we could try fracturing it into multiple pieces for good measure. I don't think we really need much of that eastern hemisphere or whatever. Cup Runneth Over has issued a correction as of 03:39 on Oct 13, 2021 |
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Oct 13, 2021 03:37
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just build a mountain of trash that reaches through the stratosphere and throw stuff out/off the planet and let the sun's gravity do the rest
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Oct 13, 2021 03:42
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don't mind me just building a space escalator into the side of trash mountain so we can baseball pitch garbage bags into the void
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Oct 13, 2021 03:46
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oh no the garbage bags have returned after going through an elliptical trajectory around the earth who could have seen that coming??? (the garbage bags are a metaphor for carbon)
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Oct 13, 2021 03:57
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i hate when you go to toss your bag of trash into space and the drat bottom gives out mid-throw!!
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Oct 13, 2021 04:08
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The simplest solution of "generate less trash" continues to evade the modern consumer mind. 
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Oct 13, 2021 04:15
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Rime posted:The simplest solution of "generate less trash" continues to evade the modern consumer mind. The reduce part of reduce recycle reuse is degrowth which makes number sad. Number's happiness is humanity's most sacred value. Don't oppress the sole worldwide religion.
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Oct 13, 2021 04:21
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we don't need a space elevator if we do those anti-alien "weapon" ""designs"" of detonating nukes in deep pits underneath giant plates to launch them into orbit we just put our trash on the plate. Boom, orbit.
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Oct 13, 2021 04:25
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maybe i should patent the orbital nuclear trash tube idea before elon musk steals it and makes 90 billion more dollars
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Oct 13, 2021 04:28
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just throw all that poo poo in the ocean. we are really good at doing that already and if it is going to boil, who cares?
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Oct 13, 2021 04:40
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holy poo poo how have we not seen this before we've had thermonuclear weapons for most of a century now we could just pile up a shitload of trash around some decamegaton nuke and blow it up it's perfect i'm patenting this
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Oct 13, 2021 04:58
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Sylink posted:Same, I'm a dumb millenial who rents his parents' house. Though maybe in the next few years if some plans work out never move out. enjoy the garden i saw my first christmas beetle in about 5 years yesterday. not sure why i'm seeing it in october though. lmao https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-27/where-have-all-the-christmas-beetles-gone/10669820 lol
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Oct 13, 2021 05:07
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Rime posted:The simplest solution of "generate less trash" continues to evade the modern consumer mind. Careful, if you keep saying this people might call you a fascist.
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Oct 13, 2021 05:09
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i dropped my thing in the right colored bin what the gently caress more do you want from my you loving gently caress
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Oct 13, 2021 05:12
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Deep Dish Fuckfest posted:holy poo poo how have we not seen this before we've had thermonuclear weapons for most of a century now we could just pile up a shitload of trash around some decamegaton nuke and blow it up i wonder what radioactive microplastics would do to something that ingested them we should find out
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Oct 13, 2021 06:03
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I'm reading a book on jellyfish and the author is going on a little tangent on corals. Apparently corals have survived ocean acidification and global warming before and we see them emerge onto the fossil record after ocean acidification events. A scientist the author interviews posits that some coral (particularly in the red sea) will likely survive past the end of the century. Ocean acidification means that they cannot build structures that act as habitat for thousands of fish but the polyps themselves survive and will begin building structures after the oceans return to a suitable pH. So if we are able to keep global warming under 10 degrees then in tens of thousands of years the ocean might have coral reefs again. Crack Ping
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Oct 13, 2021 06:05
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Complications posted:i wonder what radioactive microplastics would do to something that ingested them if nothing else nuclear medicine and imaging people would be happy their job's easier
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Oct 13, 2021 06:08
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Leroy Diplowski posted:I'm reading a book on jellyfish and the author is going on a little tangent on corals. Apparently corals have survived ocean acidification and global warming before and we see them emerge onto the fossil record after ocean acidification events. Which book? I know a coral guy who could use some good news.
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Oct 13, 2021 06:12
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nomad2020 posted:Which book? I know a coral guy who could use some good news. It's called "spineless". I read about the red sea corals in another book as well. It's pretty cool from an adaptation standpoint but it's still pretty sobering to think of how dire even a best case scenario is.
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Oct 13, 2021 06:21
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SKULL.GIF posted:"Much of the content within Trasande et al's latest study is demonstrably inaccurate," wrote Eileen Conneely, ACC's senior director of chemical products and technology. She added the study lumped all phthalates into one group and failed to mention that the industry says high-molecular-weight phthalates like DINP and DIDP have lower toxicity than other phthalates. Somehow I'm not reassured. Reminds me of the old saying that there's a limit to the number of rat turds that can be present in the grains used for your breakfast cereal. That limit is not zero. Especially since the rats seem to be the ones setting the limits here. Rime posted:The simplest solution of "generate less trash" continues to evade the modern consumer mind. We recently switched from garbage cans and blue boxes to automated pickup wheelie bins in black/blue/green. Three sizes, default is the medium, you pay extra for the large and the smallest black garbage bin gets you a yearly discount. A number of my neighbours have upgraded to the largest size and still haul it out for pickup every two weeks like clockwork. I'm kind of impressed. We only need the smallest bin because I diligently sort out our plastic bags to be sent off to Turkey and burned on the beach.
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Oct 13, 2021 07:43
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silicone thrills posted:Careful, if you keep saying this people might call you a fascist. he truly is goon thanos, he wants to just snap away half of the trash, and with it, half the profits!
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Oct 13, 2021 09:30
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silicone thrills posted:yep this loving guy. i hate him "opportunities for improvement are everywhere!" So the problem is loving massive, got it.
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Oct 13, 2021 09:51
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SKULL.GIF posted:Once you take the Plasticpill you never go back yeah its bad but at this point it's like the white rabbit reading the list of alice crimes just unfolding infinitely. just another tick on the chalk board on a long line of poo poo we've hosed up permanently.
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Oct 13, 2021 11:03
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Lostconfused posted:That's because people just cut them down again. Planting trees would have to be a massive global and long term effort to show any results. but for funsies we've dug up hundreds of millions of years-worth of 100000 petragiga tons of carbon that was nicely sequestered. tree's kinda have a somewhat net-zero cycle overall in that at best it'd be taking out carbon from previous burnt trees and poo poo but when they die they mostly decay back into co2. also we've destroyed and used up almost every acre of land for human habitat and farming. and then climate conditions leading to increasingly worse prospects for tree growth and actually turns out photosynth cycle is getting way worse. like yeah maybe we could 'engineer' (lol) some new trees that grow faster in harsher and more extreme-tolerant conditions and plant it writ large and it would drop co2 a little bit, but then they mature and eventually stall or die and decay back. assuming we razed all our cul-de-sac tract houses + mega ag farmland and gave back all the land to nature (lol) still should be done to provide some semblance of habitat for whatever meager critters are remaining.
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Oct 13, 2021 11:10
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https://twitter.com/hausfath/status/1412974177292742658?s=20 hmm
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Oct 13, 2021 13:14
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cant wait to go fury road larping in the northwestern wastelands with ma bratnas
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Oct 13, 2021 13:17
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Leroy Diplowski posted:I'm reading a book on jellyfish and the author is going on a little tangent on corals. Apparently corals have survived ocean acidification and global warming before and we see them emerge onto the fossil record after ocean acidification events. The biosphere sustained 90%+ diversity destruction several times from cosmic catastrophes on a power scale humans thankfully may never reach like the permian event asteroids and extreme temperature cycles, and bacteria, plants, fungus, algae, insects, anelids and simple ocean organisms like plankton corals and jellies lived through all that as always it's not so much a "life on earth" problem as a "all currently existing complex life on earth, including us" problem, and the way we handling this i bet you can add a few zeroes to that tens of thousands
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Oct 13, 2021 13:29
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uniquitous plastics in consumer products and the food supply poisoning everyone? -- that's okay, I'll keep eating that garbage
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Oct 13, 2021 13:55
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Broken Box posted:uniquitous plastics in consumer products and the food supply poisoning everyone? -- that's okay, I'll keep eating that garbage 
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Oct 13, 2021 14:02
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Even if some humans somehow survive the eco collapse, there's gonna be that scene from Wall-E where he finds a plant, except instead of going on an epic adventure to make sure it survives the human is just going to take a big bite(and then probably spit it out) and then keep rummaging through the trash
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Oct 13, 2021 14:31
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https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg8yj8/ted-cruz-says-bitcoin-mining-can-fix-texas-crumbling-electric-grid What even is this? Is Ted Cruz suggesting that they pay individual bitcoin miners to shut down their operation during an energy crises in Texas? Does that mean bitcoin miners can effectively hold the state and electric company for a ransom? What even is that thing about renewables? What the gently caress is this?
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Oct 13, 2021 14:44
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I'm really sick of hearing "oh climate change doomsday scenarios will just scare people into doing nothing." No I'm pretty sure assuring people, that "there is a chance, we CAN fix this" is lulling them into a false sense of complacency. The planet has cancer, and the only thing done so far is drinking a lot of kale smoothies.
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Oct 13, 2021 16:30
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It's going to scare people into swallowing the poison pill climate change solutions from on high, which are just poorly disguised fascist social control and bottom-to-top wealth transfers. Here are some headlines, you've seen some of these already: How warm do you really need to be? How much food do you really need to eat? How much water do you really need to drink? How much air do you really need to breath? How much smoke is bad for you, really? Do you really need shoes with soles? Do you really need sweaters with sleeves? Do you really need to see your dying relatives? Do you really need to choose where you live? Do you really need to travel? Do you really need an education? Do you really need a pet? Do you really need to hike? Do you really need to be compensated for socially useful labor? Do you really need sunlight? Do you really need more living space than a bedroom?
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Oct 13, 2021 16:33
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I've written a lot about this in the old thread. I don't know if people require more elaboration or not? You should be paying attention to things like this here: https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/10/investigative-reports/wall-streets-takeover-of-nature-advances-with-launch-of-new-asset-class/
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Oct 13, 2021 16:50
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White Rock posted:I'm really sick of hearing "oh climate change doomsday scenarios will just scare people into doing nothing." https://twitter.com/MrMatthewTodd/status/1447832590350700547 Unfortunately, we already hit the iceberg and we're drowning in the cold dark sea. But other than that he's correct
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Oct 13, 2021 17:16
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lollontee posted:cant wait to go fury road larping in the northwestern wastelands with ma bratnas The Expanse future implies that humanity at some point managed to collaborate enough to occupy the solar system.
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Oct 13, 2021 17:18
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AnemicChipmunk posted:https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg8yj8/ted-cruz-says-bitcoin-mining-can-fix-texas-crumbling-electric-grid Demand Response, the idea of paying big electricity users to shut off during peak loads, is a good idea for a more flexible grid. Because unlike a hospital or a neighborhood, a steel recycler has a very specific price point where turning off their arc-furnace to save the grid will be worth it. In a post-market economy, a multi-criteria value analysis could replace pricing for prioritization. So of course, because we live in a collapsing empire, instead we're wasting electricity on materially worthless electronic tokens and then paying the token-makers extra when our grid is collapsing to suspend wasting energy for a few hours.
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Oct 13, 2021 17:34
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https://twitter.com/Independent/status/1448310556667138063 https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1448315162096775170
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