Recent comments in /f/Maine

respaaaaaj t1_j9l7eux wrote

Yeah why mine in the richest parts of the world where environmental protection laws are strong and prevention and cleanup technology is easily accessible when you can do it in poor countries where none of those things are true but no one in rich countries gives a shit about what happens to the people there

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PleasantParfait48 OP t1_j9l5jbg wrote

My regular guys name is *Neal. I found *Neal because *Steve used to plow me, but then he texted me last storm and said "I moved away so I'm really sorry I can't plow you anymore, but my guy Neal is awesome, he can take care of you moving forward."

I'm not joking this is a verbatim text.

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indyaj t1_j9l3v3j wrote

>Maybe it’s possible the mining can be done in an environmentally sustainable way?

LOL. No. There is no such thing as mining in an environmentally sustainable way. There's mining and then there's clean up. What happens in between is devastating to the environment, real estate values, recreation, etc.

We can't have mines everywhere and there are mine-able materials everywhere. Just because we have a gas station in the neighborhood doesn't mean we need a refinery next to it.

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geomathMEW t1_j9l33hn wrote

or maybe, just maybe, the planned obsolescence of our electronic goods is afforded some blame. we would need far less of these materials if the components were built to last. we would need less mines if we did this.

personally, i make my devices last about a decade at least. and they work fine, while everyone i know need a new phone or computer every other year.

it sounds like the opposite of what youre told to do, but just never do any updates. i really feel like the updates, while you are told it is just endless security fixes, are really just there to bog down your device to require you get a new one.

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Antnee83 t1_j9kx80x wrote

What I personally love: Ask right wingers to explain, in their own words, why [whatever totally organic issue they're screaming about this week] is a problem, and what are the causes, and what should be done about it.

9 times out of 10 you'll get some permutation of the following:

"Yeah typical NPC just gobbling up what you see on CNN"

>!as if it's not hilariously ironic that ALL OF THEM WITHOUT FAIL use that "NPC" line... like an actual NPC would.!<

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