camelbeard

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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

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  • 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.
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

camelbeard,

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

camelbeard,

Trains are good for short distances, like going to work.

When you compare trains to planes, why would you take a train for a long distance journey? It takes much longer to get there and it’s also more expensive.

camelbeard,

Ukraine is a sovereign nation that got attacked by another country.

Palestine just carried out a horrible attack on Israel. Plus the history of Israel and Palestine is totally different. It’s just apples and oranges. I’m not claiming in any way Israel is right here, but Hamas is definitely scum of the Earth.

camelbeard,

Also just looking at history isn’t going to solve anything. If that was the only solution we can just get any map remove all borders everywhere and discus how to draw them based on history. We all know this is just going to be a never ending discussion because it just depends on what snapshot in time (of the world) you take as your truth.

camelbeard,

Exactly this, our first computer came with msdos, if you didn’t wanted to type commands in a terminal, you couldn’t play games. If you didn’t wanted to learn how to setup your soundcard for every game, the game had no (or super crappy) sound.

It’s not about understanding tech at all. I work in a software development team and have a pretty deep understanding of how a lot of tech works. But I never owned an Apple device, so I can’t tell you basic shit about a how use iOS.

camelbeard,

Also it’s just an American thing, I’m in Europe but never really had anything pumpkin spice.

I have had pumpkin soup but apparently the spice doesn’t taste like pumpkin.

camelbeard,

Same here, but Netflix is going to increase prices again, so that might be the final straw to ditch them for me

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