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Is it worth closing the lid on a toilet before flushing?
  • I mean, we still CLEAN our toilets when they're still just visibly stained with hard water or whatever causes rings and whatnot, so I can see the feeling better about being a huge component

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    Is it worth closing the lid on a toilet before flushing?
  • Ah the ol "it's not 100% effective and guaranteed to work so you should actually do nothing about it" argument...a true classic in any situation

    Seriously though...I never even considered all the splashing and I'm a grown ass adult :/ happily my and my daughters toothbrush live in the kitchen

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    Aaron is no longer considered as cofounder by reddit. He fought for free speech.
  • I don't participate in any threads I just read nosleep lol

    Actually I don't read any threads other than bestofredditorupdates because I don't trust the fodder of people that stuck around either!

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    In all that is wrong with recycling to begin with, do I even need to put cardboard and paper into recycling; or does it just break down easily in all the garbage?
  • Well other plastic bags are .03 - or the produce bags without handles are - I've shopped around, but primarily on Amazon since I have Prime, and the shipping costs elsewhere kill me

    It's so effing hard to be 'good'

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    In all that is wrong with recycling to begin with, do I even need to put cardboard and paper into recycling; or does it just break down easily in all the garbage?
  • That was my take away with what they were saying in a broad sense - making more and more and more paper is unsustainable not matter what. Reforestation is still hard on the creatures dependent on the original environment...monoculture destroys economies (only for poor people, obviously) - in the end, no matter what, creating new paper products on a whim is selfish, greedy and avoidable

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    In all that is wrong with recycling to begin with, do I even need to put cardboard and paper into recycling; or does it just break down easily in all the garbage?
  • Thank you - I knew there would be more pieces to investigate but I wasn't sure what questions to ask - based on the price ($.07 each) I thought they might be a little too good to be true....I'll see if they still hold up!

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    Is there any evidence that Reddit has suffered at all from the exodus to Lemmy?
  • I had finally joined Twitter to see if there was anymore political people to find out about. Something like a week later Musk bought it and I deleted it.

    I'm not even this huge like omg I hate musk. I don't think I even have musk related comments. I just don't trust big loud billionaires. Especially ones that made big deals about being too broke to help out with internt for Ukraine much longer while flying to moons and buying soapboxes and just generally being shitty

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    Is there any evidence that Reddit has suffered at all from the exodus to Lemmy?
  • I go back for /nosleep all the time - the quality of the rest of the site has frankly dropped drastically.

    People are still rioting so to speak, content just seems weak - as in I haven't been on popular really since I joined lemmy, certainly not in weeks. Who can really trust those that didn't care to be all that interesting?

    The politics page is boring. The headlines say nothing. Seriously - maybe subtle now, but clear enough for a good chunk. At the very least, this didn't just go away

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    In all that is wrong with recycling to begin with, do I even need to put cardboard and paper into recycling; or does it just break down easily in all the garbage?
  • Oh for sure, anti-consumption is always important to remind. The packaging is out of control...and what paper does in terms of pollution - well I've simply had to come to terms I can't control these garbage bags at the top, I can only control myself and do my best.

    One thing I have found that I love is land-fill biodegradable bags for my customers. Paper, as meantioned, makes me wary, so when I found these I was pretty happy. They seem legit and they're inexpensive

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  • Edit to say - I'm really glad I asked my stupid question. I was so jaded by the con artists in recycling I forgot that when done right there's so much good - and still loads of consequences to not finding a place to reuse the paper products. I'm not huge with using packaging - and thanks for all the thoughtful answers :))

    I found myself wondering this as I got annoyed at the plastics industry and their stupid propaganda, as I do everytime I go to recycle something. But anyway, I had been thinking I'd heard something about people going to 'mine' landfills for metal because people weren't recycling and it's 'bad for the environment' and 'filling up 'landfills'

    Bitch Please. I can see the dollar symbols on your pupils from here.

    So it made me think, paper and the such breaks down quickly. Food too. The huge drives for community composting efforts and cardboard drives for schools etc - It's really all a matter of the fact we can re-use it all easily. Metal is worth money, used again and again, as it was straight from the earth. Just that plastic. Which is all but unrecyclable, save some clear/semi-clear containers.

    But without the cardboard, my bin is pretty empty. It's like recycling exists just to pretend plastic can be.

    Edit - I should add in my area if the recycling the plant receives is tainted in anyway they just toss it. The whole load. So unrecyclable plastic? Dirty? Wrong material? Gone.

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    Hurricane Sandy roller coaster in the sea.
  • Why isn't this giving me a severe case of the thalassophobias??

    I think it needs to be a little deeper..gotta melt a few more glaciers I think

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    Arizona Republican refers to Black Americans as 'colored people' in House floor debate
  • Problem is, when you let people like him slide when he's playing his little games, the games keep getting a little more grand. That's all it is to him. And now he gets to go "What??" When knows damn well semantics matter. He knows the little republican signals matter. They all know what they're doing.

    Stand back and stand by

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    If intelligent life is found in the universe will it change religion(s)?
  • Two words hold a lot of weight these days it seems... Fake News

    If need be, God need not die, it's all just Fake News. Heck one day it might even just disappear.

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    A long read but it made me think of all you weirdos on c/reddit, so I'll share it with you
  • I read every word and couldn't have written it better myself. It's a perfect letter to every nasty money hoarding dragon out there...the grinches stuck in time that never reform. Just take and take and take, glad that we rebuild, because it just creates more to take

    Been on the internet a long time myself...earliest chat I can remember is something called PowWow? We could see each other type in real time...same thing as the writer though...no bad memories...just kinda talked to whoever :)

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  • I think my habit of reading /nosleep is what kept me from deleting my account...but I don't need an account to read and find authors. Sooooo...thanks for the reminder Reddit and ModCoord

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