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1y ago

Reject modernity. Embrace tradition.

edit: Don't do this. Embrace modernity and don't pollute the soil.

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I'm sure there will be people that take this seriously lol, PSA to others don't do this. It fucks up the land and nearby water sources as it spreads out. In the US you can be forced to replace the contaminated soil
- I just drink mine before pissing in the gravel hole.
  
  Damn it I came here to also make a oil drinking joke lmao
- When I was a yout, they had trucks with a huge tank and a sprayer on the back. The truck would drive all the country roads spraying the dirt with waste oils. This was done to keep the dust down. Smelled terrible. Miles and miles of dirt roads that ran all around by rivers and lakes.
  It is crazy to think about that now.
  
  I'm sure you know this, but that's exactly how a town got turned in to a EPA superfund site due to Dioxin contamination, because of a fuck up over chain of command for waste oil from the creation of napalm or pesticides(IIRC?). The guy running the spraying business didn't know, which I can believe, but the company that paid for him to dispose of it should've informed him.
  
  There are still places which basically make rural roads like this. They spray down a layer of heavy oil and then scatter small rock chips and recycled asphalt on top of of the sticky layer to make a roadway. Obviously it's not suitable for heavy use, but it's way faster than actually paving the surface.
  
  They still do that on sites with dirt tracks that get dusty. Only, they spray with water.
  It's pretty shitty and foul smelling water, mind.
  
  What is a "yout"?
  
  Now they just dump on waste vegetable oils or thousands of gallons of salt. So progress?
- The solution to pollution is dilution
  
  I was told the solution to pollution is to ship it to Asia so the poors there have something to root around in for treasures.
  
  pours water over soil
- This really was the advice given till the 90’s or so.
  My dad use to have a hole filled with cat litter to pour oil as that was the recommendation.
  
  I think your dad was behind the times. Mine collected and disposed of the oil properly at a waste station
- God damned roofers spilled gas on my lawn. I had to dig down almost a foot to get rid of the contaminated soil.
- edited.

Boomers: Why don't you kids go outside and play. When I was your age we played in the dirt for hours at a time.
Also boomers:
- Boomers: Kids these days think they can get through life by taking shortcuts
  Also boomers:
- I've had boers tell me that as kids they would pick up balls of tar from the street and chew it like gum

Put oil back where it belongs, in the ground!
- So it can be extracted again. True carbon neutrality.
  
  The circle of life

I mod !soilscience@slrpnk.net
I will mail you one of those jack in the boxes with boxing glove in it if you do this.
- But the bone juice come out the dirt make out of holes why not bone juice back into ground for more juice later?
  Recycle bone juice to dirt?
  
  Bone juice kills the green things and the moving things. There is a reason they aren't making more bone juice. All moving things that had it have died.
- Do I have to prove that I do it, or can you just mail one to me?
  
  Shipped.
  3-5 business days.
- Subscribed.
  
  Amazing! Hope to see you arounf

Tradition is to save it and use it as a wood oil so the wood will not decay after some time on the rain. Absorbs really good, doesn't stink or stick...
- Yeah, but there's stuff for that that doesn't give you eleven different cancers.
  
  Ah yes, to get cancer is also very traditional, forgot to say that.
  
  Most of those are also pretty nasty chemicals
  
  I'm pretty sure all of it will give you cancer.
- Was about to mention that. But you forget to mention the half-and-half mix of oil and diesel to prevent wood rot and insects.
  
  If you got a very thick oil, yeah a mix of diesel and oil is good so it would lose on viscosity and would be easier to get it on and into the wood. But today's engine oils are not really that thick and can be used without any mixing with oil of lesser viscosity such as diesel. Nowadays you can find those very thick oils mostly in tanks (military vehicles) and big machines not your everyday family car.
- Mixed 50/50 with diesel is what I'm using as fence stain/sealer.
- So you’re saying I have to take up an entirely new hobby I have no interest in just to dispose of my used engine oil?
  
  Or just bring it to Walmart.
- Can also be sprayed on your undercarriage to repel road salt & water during the winter and prevent rust, though it's not legal in every state.

Shit like this is why people doing home gardening, especially in areas that have been inhabited for hundreds of years, without testing the soil first give me heart palpitations. What are you eating?? I don't know, and neither do you!
- My neighborhood soil is laced with arsenic and lead from an old foundry that used to be nearby.
  A bunch of my neighbors grow and eat food in that soil knowing it. It boggles my mind.
  
  While I know it's not convenient, have you considered... telling them?
- People doing home gardening usually replace the soil.
  
  Almost everyone I know of that gardens at home just tills the soil they have available. Gardening soil isn’t cheap and they view it as an unnecessary expense. It’s especially hard to convince people in rural areas that just using the dirt out back can be harmful.
- I know you can send soil to be tested by your local university extension, but how do you test for conaminents like used hydrocarbons, arsenic, lead, glyphosate-based herbicides, etc?
  I am about to embark on a hobby of composting and would like to know.
  
  If your local university doesn’t test for the specific contaminants you’re concerned about you can send samples to a private lab instead, sometimes they offer more testing options. I don’t know the specifics of how each one is tested for, but on your end they usually just require you to take (and possibly dry) soil samples before sending them in.
  If you don’t have a good idea of the history of the site, it would be good to try and figure it out through your local historical society if you have one, or land records from your local records office. Whoever is testing the soil will have a better idea of what to test for if they know it used to be a mining town, or it’s 50 feet from a house old enough to have used lead paint, if it was farm land, etc.

Also, heat your home more effectively in the winter by always having a bucket of coal burning in your living room.
- Make sure to leave your gas stove on, too.

The first couple times I helped my dad change the oil in his car he dumped it down the storm drain which lead to the Chesapeake.
We don't do that anymore.
- I think of all the times I did that working on my cars years ago.
  It was just something you did and no one ever even blinked. Old oil, gas, brake fluid, etc, right down the storm drain.
  Now I think back and shudder.

My grandpa would just set the old oil filters when he would change the oil in the 3 farm tractors he owned. He did that for years and 30 years later that spot is still like blacktop. At least it’s only a 2’x2’ spot but I couldn’t imagine if he dumped the actual oil. And that’s only 3 diesel tractors twice a year.
The thought that shops were doing it for years is sad

So return to its source. Basically.
Oil is weird.
- I mean this is probably how we found it in the ground in the first place. The world goes round and round.
  
  The oil cycle. Nature is finally healing

I need the full book/magazine this comes from there.might be other nice tips.
- Here you go:
  https://books.google.co.in/books?id=myADAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA166#v=onepage&q&f=false
  
  Nice
  
  Oh great thanks 🙏👍

Instructions unclear, now the swing set in my back yard needs it's tires rotated.

Thanks. It nice to have a reliable source to turn to when I am inspired to follow guides published in the 1960s.

The modern way of doing this would involve reversing the process of dinosaur bones turning into oil. So you just put into the oil-to-bone-inator and bury those bones back into the ground where they originally came from.
- Oil isn’t made from dinosaurs
  
  Sure, if you're buying the cheap stuff.
  
  Oh really? So how come you can use oil to make plastic dinosaur toys?
  Checkmate atheists
  
  That's what Big Non-Dino-Oil wants you to think, so they can get all of the moneys from everyone.
  
  Then why is there a dinosaur on the gas station!?
  /S

I remember that 1970 shitty cartoon "Barbapapa", which proposed burying all kinds of waste as a solution.
- Out of sight, out of mind

This is not a meme. Apparently this is a difficult concept.
- With the !lemmyshitpost community shut down for now, non-memes are struggling to find a home
  
  Whoa, I didn't think you were telling the truth, why'd it shut down?
  
  Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

I mean, oil comes from the ground so I'm just returning it to its natural habitat.

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