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EmperorHenry, to memes in alternative to trees
@EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Well Trees don’t make as much money for rich people who own everything and Trees make hot days more comfortable for homeless people

Octopus1348, (edited )
@Octopus1348@lemy.lol avatar

We just have to remove the roof from that thing so it won’t be shadowy, and make a wall in the bottom so it can’t be used to lay down.

Honytawk, (edited )

I think it has more to do with the fact trees require more maintenance, like raking up leaves and fruit, and having to saw off branches.

Also those roots can break pavement and pipes.

EmperorHenry,
@EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Well of course, you can’t give working class people any money for working, you can only give them a slave-wage. That’s why all manufacturing was outsourced to very underdeveloped countries when NAFTA was first put into place.

You can easily get away with exploiting people who have no other choice but to work for a dollar per year, but it’s much more difficult to do that to someone’s neighbor in their community.

Witchhatswamp,

You really think those massive, experimental water tanks won’t require more maintenance, because you have to trim trees once ever few years? Or because their roots might grow too much?

bi_tux,
@bi_tux@lemmy.world avatar

For now, no. In the near future, probably

zalgotext,

Ok, I like trees as much as the next person, and much prefer them over these algae tanks.

But what about these “massive experimental water tanks” do you think will damage the infrastructure beneath and around it like tree roots do?

Madison420,

Algea is a much much better oxygenator with lower maintainence, people don’t seem to notice how fast cities can kill trees.

EmperorHenry,
@EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

even so, I bet the billionaires were ecstatic about how it doesn’t give any shade on hot days

Natanael,

My first thought is you can embedd this inside buildings rather trivially

Cato_the_Posadist,

Walls made out of these would be cool

evranch,

And the oceans are incredibly vast, so they provide most of the world’s oxygen! Obviously it’s hard to get a precise number but 50-70% is the accepted range.

There are many reasons to plant trees in the city but local oxygen supply isn’t one of them. Mostly trees look nice, and make people feel better by their presence. They also have a significant cooling effect, something a steamy tank full of warm algae definitely won’t help with on a summer day.

Madison420,

Local oxygenation is important, conversion at the source pretty much always is.

Moreover it doesn’t at all imply in lue of trees and importantly oxygenate at the same rate day and night since they’re independently lit ideally 24/7/365.

Perhapsjustsniffit,

We keep killing the ocean then asking why we need those stupid plants.

frezik,

You don’t need to put algae in cities. They can be basically anywhere to absorb CO2.

Trees in cities tend to be carefully chosen for the environment. Are we in a climate where we need to put salt on the road in the winter? Choose trees that can tolerate some salt in the ground.

optissima,

Maybe stop putting salt down in winter??? Who does that still they need to stop.

brik100,

As much as it sucks, until we reduce the need for cars, northern rural areas are going to need to use salt for roads to be usable. Of course, if global warming gets worse it won’t be an issue

sukhmel,

Besides the already stated fact that global warming will only make winters worse, there are better ways like cleaning the snow (ok, that’s radical) or using abrasives like sand or gravel.

eltimablo, (edited )

Clearing the snow doesn't fix the ice that snowplows leave behind and gravel/sand is a straight placebo. That's why the roads get salted/brined.

bufalo1973,
@bufalo1973@lemmy.ml avatar

“Global warming” doesn’t mean warmer winters. It means extreme summers and winters and nothing in between, with a global temperature raising.

Madison420, (edited )

My major metropolitan City kills New trees literally every year.

Anticorp, to memes in european stereotypes

They’re almost an equivalent price now, thanks to taxes on cigarettes.

Gordon,

Was gonna say, I don’t smoke but I was in upstate NY and a guy gave me a $20 to grab him a pack of smokes from a corner store while I was running in to grab a snack, and I thing I got like $1 and change back. I was appalled.

AnUnusualRelic,
@AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world avatar

Can people be banned from buying cigarettes?

TheBloodFarts,

Yup. Gotta say though, it works. I’ve backed down from impulse buying a pack on several occasions because I didn’t want to drop $20 for 30s of satisfaction

AngryCommieKender,

My cigarettes cost me $0.04.21 each, but when I smoked I rolled my own with a Top-O-Matic. An entire month worth of smokes still would only cost me $42.

AnUnusualRelic,
@AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world avatar

$0.04.21? But at 1:05.21, how much more expensive would they be?

What’s the inflation like in your location?

AngryCommieKender, (edited )

Well, the inflation is the same as it is everywhere else in California, but I actually already inflated the price.

When I quit, the price was $0.03.42 per cigarette or $35 a month. I tended to smoke and give away around 1000 cigarettes per month when I smoked.

At $0.10.521 per cigarette, that would cost me $105.25 a month.

force,

only $42 / month

jesus christ as if i needed even more reason not to be addicted to nicotine

jivandabeast,

That’s … not that much tbh. If you were to go to the bar with your friend once a month you could easily pay double, the cost of like two movie tickets and popcorn, etc etc

hemko,

That’s really cheap. A pack a day can cost you over $300 month depending where you live

stebo02, (edited ) to starwarsmemes in I have the playground 🛝
@stebo02@sopuli.xyz avatar

You underestimate my enjoyment !!

inson1, to privacy in Just received my Torproject Donation Merch!

@Pantherina from what materials is the t-shirt?

Pantherina,

Cotton. Probably child-labor / Uigur neoslavery bs…

euphoric_cat, (edited )
@euphoric_cat@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

wait that is a shirt? can we see it a bit better?

edit: holy shit they have a hoodie as well? but DAMN its $500… :c

Pantherina,

Maybe if I am motivated I post a pic with me in a week or so haha

lorez, to memes in soak and jump hump

Are you new here, soak?

Cwilliams, to privacy in Just received my Torproject Donation Merch!

Tor merch is fire 🔥

Pantherina,

No shit I believe FOSS projects investing in PR and corporate Design like that are on a very good path. Things need to look shiny today, KDE & Opensuse icons, wallpaper contests, this is so nontechnical but attrackts lots of attention.

boatsnhos931, to memes in alternative to trees

Young drunk me would love to throw a brick at one of these…I don’t know why but it looks very tempting

ChiefSinner, to memes in soak and jump hump

Gross

QuodamoresDei, to memes in alternative to trees

What about a nice shrubbery?

JTheDoc,

And then another shrubbery, only slightly higher so you get a two layer effect with a little path running down the middle.

RememberTheApollo_, to memes in european stereotypes

Which stereotype refuses punctuation?

goldgate,

Same stereotype which has a bad school system.

Mr_wright808, to fuck_cars in same bed length

Woah woah woah leave my kei trucks out of this theyve done nothing wrong

CADmonkey, to fuck_cars in same bed length

When my little 4-cylinder truck wore out in 2021, I looked so hard for one of the little kei trucks. But all of the ones I could find were $20k, or they were $15k and needed a lot of work to be driveable. And none of them were within 200 miles of my location.

I ended up with a used base-model F150 which only cost me $12k. It had 81k miles on it. As near as I can figure out, it started life as a rental truck for a hardware store called “Menards”. It has an 8ft bed, no carpet, no power locks, no power windows, no back seat, no touchscreen, and no color LCD screen in the gauge cluster. I use this truck for a small farm that my wife and I run, so it doesn’t get driven every day.

Im still looking for a kei truck, though.

Anticorp,

That’s a pretty great deal on an F150. Nice!

CADmonkey,

It was half the price of the next cheapest truck on the lot, and the next cheapest truck had twice the miles. But the next cheapest truck had all the whiz-bang fancy electronics, instead of being four wheels and a truck bed.

tty5, (edited )

Try carused.jp - they’ll find you a truck matching your requirements, arrange shipping and even customs.

I recommend Suzuki Carry da52t 4x4 - you should be able to get a low mileage one for 5-6k all in.

CADmonkey,

The Suzuki Carry is the one I really wanted. I’ve a soft spot for tiny suzuki vehicles.

Every time I mention not being able to find one in early 2022, people come along to show me where I can get one now. The issue was, I couldn’t find one when I needed it.

tty5,

If you still want one as indicated in the comment I responded to contact carused with what you want and they’ll notify you when it’s available

reluctantpornaccount,

I think you mean carused.jp.

tty5,

Yes, fixed. Thank you

JokeDeity, to memes in soak and jump hump

Is this real? I know mormans are an extremely insane sect of an already extremely insane way of life, but this just seems like a whole new level.

CompN12,

Exmo here, I highly doubt it. There are rules against lesser forms of intamacy (petting), also this clearly violates the spirit of the law (of no premerital sex).

I could see it happening but any Mormon worth their salt would raise their eyebrow and deny it. This is on the level of holding a knife in the middle of a street and getting somebody to bump people into you, it’s not murder, right?

If you wanna talk crazy let’s talk about how you can figure out somebody’s secret name if you know the first time they went through temple endowment. Or how bigfoot is technically canon.

Goblin_Mode,

… I would like to hear more about this secret name…

RippleEffect,

I wanted to hear about Bigfoot being canon

TheFriendlyArtificer,

Same!

I’m an atheist. But I’d be willing to listen to any door to door Jesus salesman who talked about the salvation of bigfoots.

Kuvwert, (edited )

It’s real. How widespread it is, that’s the question. Anecdotally I personally know of three real life instances of this, and several alleged.

ryathal,

It’s just another version of oral/anal doesn’t count.

jaschen, to fuck_cars in same bed length

No clue why people buy kei cars from Japan when they can pick up the left hand drive version of the kei cars from Taiwan.

Bluescluestoothpaste, to memes in alternative to trees

Trees don’t generate large profits this quarter, obviously.

DragonTypeWyvern,

They do for a landscaping company…

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