Real :3 I don't understand people who litter
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I just like looking at your crack when you flex to pick up my litter
It is a nice crack from what I've been told :3
Yeah, it's literally free to not litter. If you have the tiniest shred of care inside, you can just not do it, at no disadvantage.
Back when I was in school we used to have a day where we would go outside and pick up trash, and I knew someone who'd litter with the reasoning of "it doesn't matter, because I'll be picking it back up on that day anyway". Which to me never made much sense as a reasoning, because you're still gonna be walking to school surrounded by all the trash the rest of the year?
Anywho, it's not related to anything you said, but it just reminded me of it
It would make sense if you littered on that day only, before the pick-up, and only if it wasn't light enough to blow away.
it's because the metric system is superior in every way
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WRT the image and not the text - don’t do that. Goods are replaceable, humans are not
I’m wondering what this person is even doing or how they got there. And what their plan is.
The only thing that I can think makes sense is this picture was taken half way through this operation, someone else is driving, they started where the trailer was relatively vertical and stable, and as they moved forward up that incline the trailer started to tip. And then the guy died? I don’t see how this ends well.
Maybe the load was already stabilized, even at that angle, and the photo is just for show?
It is important to not do that.
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Sometimes, I put other people's trash in my pocket until I find a trashcan
One of my biggest gamble wins: Guy in van at a stop sign threw an empty cigarette pack out of his car window right in front of the path of my bike, I picked it up and tossed it back through his window right into his lap as he's mid-way through lighting. His surprise breaks not into anger but a self-effacing chuckle, and he shrugs his shoulders at me in acknowledgement. Do not try this.
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I was going to type this and I saw your comment. Glad I’m not the only one.
Littering is fucking gross and people who pick up trash are heroes but let's also consider how much of that trash generation was ever necessary or even convenient in the first place. If your consumable product has two or three layers of wrapping, or even one if that layer is of marginal utility, then maybe we should be rethinking our use of those things until the people who are manufacturing them are convinced to the same degree. I think that if something's packaging can possibly be fully recyclable for a typical municipality (I say typical municipality because a lot of "recyclables" are only such if you have expensive and advanced processing facilities to make them so) then it should be, and if it's not then there should be taxes or fines associated with those exceptions.
Reduce. Reuse. Recycle are quoted in that order for a reason. For some reason we humans don't want to think. Put burden of recycling on someone else and call it a day without wondering if it's actually recycled. Yeah we are a scourge to the environment.
Governance isn't "someone else", it's all of us organized. We've already bought into the propaganda of rugged individualism, by design it doesn't work, all it nets is the self-loathing that I don't think you realize you're now uncritically projecting onto your entire species without even considering that I might fundamentally disagree with such cynicism, or how bad it kneecaps the discourse. I'm not interested in circling the drain with people trained into preoccupation with personal sin, there are real things that can be done to cut off the problem at the source. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle must be aimed by our collective effort at concentrations of power.
... and then after a few days find it in their laundry :P
Nothing pissed me off like a city with no trash cans when I still smoked cigarettes and carried the butts with me. Walked for blocks and blocks with no place to dispose of them responsibly. Fuck you, Berkeley.
We have plenty of trash cans with ashtrays, and people still litter and throw their cigarette butts everywhere. Humans are just gross.
A lot of cities have been convincing themselves through selective mckinseyshit studies that removing trash cans makes people litter less, because those cities don't want to pay for updated cans or sanitation service. Which completely neglects the majority of people who don't litter, do use trash cans, and pay a lot of tax money for government services like sanitation.
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Can we mention the people who either leave the dog shit on the pavement or pick it up, put it in a bag and hang it from a tree?
The streets here are full of shit, I get like 10% is probably human but it's not hard to pick up after your dog.
Most parks even have a dog shit arena so there's not really any excuse
pick it up, put it in a bag and hang it from a tree
dog shit arena
wat did i just read
re the first part:
People often hang poop bags from trees along walking trails.
my assumption is that it's because they don't want to carry it the rest of the walk, and will pick it up on the way back. that's my assumption because I do this myself on private trails, and I do something similar on public trails very occasionally (I just hide it better, and I don't forget)
what I don't understand is how people both put it in a tree where it is visible and forget to pick it up on their way back
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There's an annoying trend where people hang the bags of dog shit from branches of trees, not sure why. Probably so they're not carrying a bag of dog shit until the next bin?
Dog shit arenas are sandy areas in parks that are fenced off so dogs can be exercised off the lead, but humans being humans just let the dogs shit in there and just leave it
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Dog shit is one that I'm on the fence about. I guess on pavement, it's pretty useless, but on dirt, that shit nourishes and keeps the cycle going. So I have mixed feelings about sealing it away in plastic and sending it to a landfill with enough other poison that the nutrients probably stay out of the cycle for a while.
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People that don't do this are no better than animals, complete savages who can only ever be made to do right by the threat of legal punishment. They are bad members of society and we would be better off if they died.
Yeah, I was going to say that this is the bare minimum of public decency, if you don't think this is normal behavior you are a plague on this earth.
That's most people in Japan, since trash bins are so rare
On the one hand, I'm proud that my son does this,. On the other hand, I need him to empty his pockets before they go in the wash, because even with a pre-wash check we only have an 80% success rate.
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You're welcome. I don't like to litter.
And on the other end of the spectrum are complete fungal encrusted fap socks like the guy that comes into my job (dry cleaning counter) with their entire wardrobe of work clothes, with 1-2 cigarette butts in each pant pocket that I have to wear gloves in order to detail his shit over a trashcan cause he's just that much of a needledick.
His job probably has smoking rules so he can't dispose of them properly, but still, empty your pockets motherfucker!
What kind of “work clothes” would you put cigarette butts in the pockets but then also require dry cleaning? Do you have an idea of where this guy works?
He has the name of the place in a patch on his shirts, but I haven't seen him in a while (knock on wood) and don't remember. Only that it's some blue collar thing. Maybe electrical? Mechanical?
And he wants it all dry-cleaned ? He should go to the fluff-n-fold instead if it's just blue collar gear with the cover-alls and such.
I wish I had a fluff-n-fold when I was at the fish farm, as downtime in town was short. But, then again, some poor Laundromat would have to suffer all my fishy smelling gear!
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i'm about to type the most privileged sentence imaginable: i wear male pants and i don't use the pockets. i got reasons i'm not going into but i carry a bag and that bag has bags in it for trash. i'm not getting my good bag dirty i got places to go.
Me when I eat a piece of candy or mint and pocket the wrapper because it didn’t originate from the restaurant I’m seated at. xD
Thank you for acknowledging my efforts. Sometimes my pockets become the trash can because I forget to get it out.
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why do people even use straws!! they're not necessary; even if we just ignore the waste factor, it still tastes way better, and if you use ice, it's colder ( my personal fav reason )
while we're at it, lids are only needed like half the time, when you are transporting the drink
plus Paper straws are disgusting!! i say abolish the straw!!
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I'm pretty sure if we did a study, there would be a huge correlation of assholes destroying the planet to people who litter and don't put their cart back. Send those people to mars=utopia on earth?
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