- cross-posted to:
- oregon@sh.itjust.works
- cross-posted to:
- oregon@sh.itjust.works
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Can Colorado slide over and join you left coast states? We’ve been doing stuff like that too, but we’re surrounded by a sea of red.
Although, if the documentary sent back in time to us entitled Hunger Games is any indication, we’ll be the capital of the new nation, so maybe we’re fine.
Yall are absolutely honorary members of the best coast club
Y’all damn coastals with yer big fancy oceans. WE GOT OCEANS TOO WE JUST KEEP EM UNDERGROUND SO THEY DON’T SCARE MEEMAW.
Everybody knows meemaw’s ascared of the deep water. And when she gets agitated she gets to her whippin stick.
Genuinely LOL’d at your post.
But, to rebuff in some joking annoying science nerd way with a bummer fact:
YOU HAVE NO OCEANS ANYMORE. You used them all up growing corn for moonshine!
“So, large regions of the Ogallala are going to run out of water, particularly in the Southern High Plains – how are we going to embrace that and not just respond to the change?”
IS going to run out of water. Not HAS run out of water.
And we know. We been warning yall fucks for years that the aquifer ain’t filling back up and gotdangit they just keep paying us to grow corn on land that ain’t suited for growing beans. And everybody knows corn and sorghum ain’t no good for the soil neither.
Joking aside, we’ll deal with that impending apocalypse like we’ll deal with all the other ones. By pretending it isn’t happening.
Nebraska goes, “gol’ durn it! We want our water from the Platte River! It’s ours! We’re going to war with Colorado!”
Colorado goes, “Yeah, so water rarely makes it that far anymore, good luck, gg no re.”
New Mexico is like, “Yeah, all our Ogallala wells pump brine now.”
Reminds me, some of the worst drinking water I have had in my life came from those dust bowl states.
You ever read the water history stuff where back in the (I believe) 1950s, there was a plan to build 6 nuclear reactors to power a pump/pipe system to pipe Mississippi River water up to New Mexico? They decided against it, and decided, “eh, that water will run out in 50 or so years, we’ll let future us worry about that.” Checks calendar.
Best coast? Sorry, but west is worst.
West coast is the best coast!!! We got coffee, nike and ice cube and you have?
An ocean that isn’t ice cold, an actual water cycle, Bell Labs, Broadway (and off-broadway,) and better food in nearly every category. And how is coffee a west coast thing? I’m not even gonna make claims about east coast coffee being better, because coffee is pretty flatly the same across the country (though it is slightly better at the coasts, just because of freshness and being near ports.)
Washington = Starbucks Oregon = Nike California = ice cube for some reason today
I’m really just fucking around I don’t care who’s from where unless it’s Idaho
Oh yeah, it doesnt matter at all. Unless they’re a Philistine (Philadelphia resident)
That’s dope. And factual.
I just hope this doesn’t backfire like with the switch to paper bags to plastic bags back to paper to polyester bags that are actually worse for the environment back to plastic but now it’s Green™ plastic that doesn’t last for shit so we’re back to paper bags.
“In an effort to encourage alternatives to Styrofoam, the Oregon Legislature passed a separate bill in 2023 to allow restaurant customers to bring their own reusable containers for takeout or leftovers.”
Amazing how that isn’t just common practice around the world and that there are laws that actually prevent it.
Probably for food safety reasons, right? When I worked a fast food job I was told never take anything from the customer because who knows how well it was cleaned, what’s been in it, etc.
Most places have customers put their own leftovers in boxes so this isn’t a problem.
Reminds me of a friend’s story who worked at a construction market. An old lady wanted to return a toilet brush - used of course. Her reason was that “it’s not dishwasher-safe”. I don’t want to touch this lady’s tupperware, neither do I want a worker, a table or a spoon at a takeout restaurant to touch it. Tbh I want a saftey distance for all food related businesses - and myself - of at least 2m all the time to anything which has been in that dishwasher.
It’s possible she intended to use it for something else, such as scrapping food from dishes (sounds like a bad idea, but at least it’s safe hygiene-wise)
They’re about the right size and shape for some bottles
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When I had to work in person like a bitch I would bring my own metal spork to Chipotle for lunch.
Won’t they just replace it with tougher plastic that takes even longer to break down?
I think I’d rather have Styrofoam pollution. It’s almost totally air vs. a cup that’s solid plastic, less material in total. Shove some in a pickle jar with unleaded. I can jam the boxing from a 55" TV in a single, small jar. (And now you have napalm! Best campfire starter ever, especially dried into chunks.)
And of the trash I pick out of the woods and waterways, Styrofoam seems to break down faster. Yes, I know it doesn’t truly degrade, just gets smaller, but the same is true of any plastic.
All “break down” means here is to turn into extremely small micro / nano particles. With hard plastic the damage you’re doing to the environment is more constrained to one piece which you can scoop up if you want. It’s way worse if it’s turned into dust and distributed in rain water, ocean water, the veggies you eat, etc.
A solid plastic cup is at least reusable. Styrofoam cups are always single use. Breaking down faster is what makes them worse.
I go to aldis and put all my shit in a fruit or vegetable box. I don’t get more then one box because I am poor.
