Hmm, when did California lose it and start using plastic bags again at grocery stores? The pandemic? For awhile there I thought everyone was using (at the very least) beefier recycled plastic bags instead of throwaway plastic, but apparently someone lobbied someone so people are just buying more disposable plastic bags (at 10 cents a shot) in my neighborhood. 😢
(Nope... I do not go to the grocery store much, LOL).
@miah That still happens here... although styrofoam is supposed to be banned, but I suppose that there is also an underground supply of styrofoam from surrounding states.
@n1vux@MsMerope Yep, they're still taking #5 here! They don't like black plastic, however, which is fairly necessary for the hydroponics experiments i have in back (to block light). That said, I think I'm just adding to the landfill with those, as I have been painting them to prevent plastic breakdown... (hydroponics is not very sustainable, although it is highly efficient and effective for growing... :-(
Hmm, at least half of the engineering school alumni magazine for the school I went to is a fawning article on the "lifetime contributions to the world" of the wealthy individual who bought naming rights to the engineering school 20 years ago. Seems a little much... 🤔
@me_valentijn Yep. It appears they have decided the alumni magazine is not "here's what some of the 10,000+ folks who have graduated have done in the world" but "here's articles on the people who have given us the most money, you can give money too and be fawned over"
@me_valentijn Used to be "here's the interesting research our professors are doing", "here's stories on a recent grad / mid-career grad", "these alumni passed away/got married/etc."... instead now it's "our donors are great, here are fawning articles about the donors, you can donate here"
🤔 BBC article which appears to have been written in a creative writing class, LOL ...
Keywords: fortune teller , sandy beaches, wild sex parties, Europe’s biggest swinger community, former secret service officer and police officer, "being able to speak to the dead", "remarkable ventriloquist skills", "it all comes down to sex in a town with a lot of it already."
Hmm, left an empty nuc (small box) at a property with a beehive and a swarm flew into it and moved in yesterday or today, LOL. Had bees scouting my bag, so left an Amazon box baited with a single frame, in case there are others around... #beekeeping
@melanie "Vermiculite was discovered in the mountains near Libby in 1919, and vermiculite mining quickly became the dominant industry in town. The mineral, which has many commercial uses, from acoustic tiling to insulation, is perhaps most widely known today as the small white bits mixed into potting soil. ... When WR Grace & Company acquired the mines in 1963, they were producing 80% of the world's vermiculite. However, the strain of vermiculite being mined was heavily contaminated with a number of asbestiform minerals that have come to be known as Libby amphibole mix." https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(17)30048-6/fulltext
"Coal seam fires, which can smolder underground for years before coming to the surface, pose a threat to firefighters due to the noxious gases they emit and the potential for burned ground below them to collapse. They are virtually impossible to extinguish and carry over from year-to-year smoldering under the snow cover. " #coal#wildfire
@ai6yr Yep. Not a major problem (so far) but it happens. At the moment the Popovitch Creek Coal Seam fire accounts for 88 percent of the area burned things haven't really started yet as not much hot dry weather yet: Memorial Day to 4th of July typically the prime time for wildfire starts.