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Sharpiemarker, in Even soil needs a little TLC sometimes.

Staring Shia LeBouf

craftyindividual, in Even soil needs a little TLC sometimes.

Must be rich to waste such precious soup. Not dirt pour.

camelbeard, in Buying a new car is not better than keeping an old one

Here’s another “fun” fact, with every 3 miles you drive you will polite about 1 straw of microplastics from the cars tires.

Yoinkle,

Source?

Elivey, (edited )

You know how you have to buy tires every few years because they “go bald”? As in, they’ve lost that material that was once tread? That material isn’t just disappearing, it flies off the tires in the form of tiny particles that are in the air and water. It’s actually really toxic too, way more than other plastics. Fun fact EV tires are even more toxic.

Source: I work in a toxicology lab studying microplastics.

UFODivebomb,

While notable: That wasn’t a source on the particular fact cited.

camelbeard,

I responded somewhere above in the conservation.

It was something I heard this professor say in a podcast and there was also a newspaper article about it.

This English items doesn’t say the straw bit, but it does say 4KG of microplastics during its lifetime

theguardian.com/…/car-tyres-are-major-source-of-o…

After some Googling, a car tire will last about 50K miles. After 50K miles it has lost 4KG of microplastics. A car has 4 tires so 16KG.

16000 grammes per 50K miles, is almost 1 gram per 3 miles.

First Google result Straws on average weigh so little—about one sixty-seventh of an ounce or . 42 grams

Yoinkle,

Yes I know that, but I’m asking for your source for your claim of those exact numbers.

camelbeard,

It’s an article from a Dutch professor, unfortunately paywalled

fd.nl/…/autobanden-de-grote-vergeten-vervuiler

On his linked he summarized some points

nl.linkedin.com/…/carlo-van-de-weijer-961998_auto…

Google translated

Column FD

  • In the Netherlands, a total of around twenty million kilos of tire grit in various degrees remains in the environment every year.
  • **A car threw the equivalent of a plastic straw’s worth of microplastics out the window every five to ten kilometers. **
  • You cannot remove microplastics from the water with a well-intentioned ocean filter.
  • Time to start working on more sustainable or, better, biodegradable tires.
Elivey,

Here’s a fun fact because I work in a lab that studies micro and nanoplastics:

Of all the plastics we have studied, tire particles are THE FUCKING ABSOLUTE WORST. They leach all sorts of nasty shit.

Doods, in Police be like

Some cop was trying to use his position as a cop to get 5 free loaves of bread, and the bakery guy was like: “Hey person’s name get the camera, and post it titled ‘the police stealing from citizens’” and the cop was like : “yeah, uhh… escapes with his partner”.

BonesOfTheMoon, in Me this morning

For some reason I always thought it was Spirit of Halloween, and I don’t know where I got the of part from, but it sounds better.

Omega_Haxors, in The protein shake just doesn't spark the same joy

If all it takes is one slip up for your diet to fail, you’re not dieting, you’re starving yourself.

rotopenguin, in Bone-her
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g8phcon2, in Lemmy might, MIGHT have a small bias towards the left

except of course no government can regulate a Freed market.

If we truly Freed the market of government controls the workers could ownership of the fruits of their labor and the laws of supply and demand would regulate the market naturally

UnexploredEnigma, in Bone-her

doot doot

Prunebutt, in Buying a new car is not better than keeping an old one
Getawombatupya, in when someone starts reminding me how old some of my favorite things from when I was younger are

RIP Danger Doom

StarshotJohn, in 10/10
@StarshotJohn@lemmy.world avatar

Nice

pewgar_seemsimandroid, in History

olny the Navajo didn’t get fucked over

g8phcon2, in Paying rent in capitalism is not so bad with this simple trick

Isn't the title redundant? Is their any other economic system where one has to pay rent?

thisonethatone, in Paying rent in capitalism is not so bad with this simple trick

Top notch calligraphy there.

ivanafterall,
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Glad you like it. The oldest one did the sign. Shall we say $1?

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