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Cake day: November 19th, 2024
  • Alexander@sopuli.xyztoMemes@sopuli.xyz•I'd never do this obviously
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    24 days ago

    Hah, when I lived in the US, I was 100% certain that if a road has limit, I can always, in worst imaginable conditions, just nail it and go with limit (I lived down south, ok, in Texas, but traveled all the thing).

    Now in Europe this is absolutely not the case. I don’t mean Autobahns even, just regular roads in Finland are, well, just slow down if not sure, ok?

  • Alexander@sopuli.xyztoClimate Crisis, Biosphere & Societal Collapse@sopuli.xyz•[Plastic mulch] promised better harvests. It may be hurting the soil instead.English
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    1 month ago

    I hate all the plastic I find in farmland. It’s everywhere, my place looks like forest paradise until you start looking closely to find all the archeology. Some new plastic was always thought to be a marvel of farming, every decade had its new things few of which actually worked and none turned out to be good long term (which is weird for people believing that they own the land, nevermind soviets who only pillaged it - this curse is universal). Now it’s hazardous waste that’s impossible to sift out, only geology and microbial evolution have any chances to take care of it some time (beyond my timescale).

    Historically, one of the first uses for synthetic plastic (if not the first use) was farming rope for baling, that was made from metal before that, and metal badly was needed to murder people in WWI and similar conflicts of the time. That was the first fact I learned in polymer chemistry course long time ago. The course was full of synthetic plastics knowledge, and had almost nothing on celluloze- or protein-derived biodegradable material topics, and I guess that’s big part of the problem, other than whole deal being started from bloodshed and hypocricy.

    At least it’s some form of carbon sink; it shows that we can indeed bind carbon longterm at large scale… if we wanted to.

  • Alexander@sopuli.xyztoMemes@sopuli.xyz•who are you?
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    2 months ago

    There is nothing subjective here, it’s knowledge of biochemistry and manufacturers use of good practices. Of cousre, this is impossible on large scale production, yet you could be sure that your local milk providers milk will just become something else upon curdling, and your local butchery vacuum sealed bags are as clean from pathogens as their line and are good far beyond expiration date, but will change. And that things were stored correctly and are not blooming with thermophiles inside. I do not mean nutritional content, I only address industrial labeling and its purpose. And things that could not possibly be regulated, and have to rely on community (in many forms, from “lets love each other” to “I will break your face if you burn me, pal”). Eating expired stuff is an act of trust, whether it is trust to chance and supernatural, or trust of community that builds cultural value, is a whole different question.

    Then you can always inoculate food yourself before expiration, but then it counts as cooking I guess.