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Fortunately, woodland creatures don't hire lawyers

  • Challenge accepted

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  • FUCK YOU, MORON

    (Is that better?)

  • Brandolini's law - Wikipedia

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  • This is only a thing because people forget or ignore the burden of Truth.

    If you go against the accepted idea the onus is on you to prove why it's true.

    Next time someone comes at you with a stupid opinion, do what we did decades ago, and laugh in their fucking face.

    Make morons afraid again

  • Great mainstream social media post

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  • That and anything even possibly AI generated

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  • Your Truck is Stupid Big

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  • Lol. That's not even big compared to some of the ones around here. The thing has a moderate leveling kit to give it more ground clearance. Douche nozzles around here easily stick on 6 inch leveling kits. Heck, I've seen guys take F-650s or comparable, and turn them into pickups.

    I don't get it.

    I have newer honda pilot, and that thing is a boat. I only like it because kids + hockey means I need a fair bit of storage space, and it's great in snow. I drove a Mazda 3 before kids, and was plenty happy in that.

  • But his soul goes marching on!

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    Political stance

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    That email could have been a fistfight

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    Science

  • you are not separate from nature. everything you do to hurt the world hurts you too.

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  • Sorry, couldn't hear you over the roar of this mulcher...

  • Jet fuel can't melt stinky beams

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  • Stop. Please, sir. The joke is already dead!

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    Admins please

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    Jet fuel can't melt stinky beams

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    Shifting Baseline Syndrome

  • rural americans will drive past a coal-fired power plant, in their five mpg ford truck, to go to a small town city council meeting and complain about how environmentally destructive solar panels are

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  • That's a valid concern, but they use dry cask storage. If you inter these casks underground, you can redirect any water that may seep into the storage chamber or use an impermeable cover over the casks. We do this a lot with mining wastes.

  • rural americans will drive past a coal-fired power plant, in their five mpg ford truck, to go to a small town city council meeting and complain about how environmentally destructive solar panels are

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  • I'm not saying its not harmful, but it does drop in risk over time, and it is concentrated. In comparison, one waste rock dump I'm dealing with is about 237 ha in size, and contains 21 million tonnes of ML/ARD generating waste rock. Another mine I know will contain 3 billion m3 of tailings in their tailings storage facility.

    Dealing with any waste is not cheap, though the level of effort is smaller with nuclear than traditional mining wastes. If you store the waste in engineered drums/cells etc. which are water tight and stick them underground, after siting the storage location well, you're in pretty good shape.

    I won't contest nuclear plant upkeep.

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  • We are on (what feels like) our 8th spring thaw

  • FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!

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  • Straight to all my veg ecologist friends

  • FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!

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  • Green Alder has entered the chat, and it's here to fix both nitrogen, and your fucking wagon

  • rural americans will drive past a coal-fired power plant, in their five mpg ford truck, to go to a small town city council meeting and complain about how environmentally destructive solar panels are

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  • Damnit, Stabby, I was trying (not very hard, mind you) to work.There's a lot of back and forth going on in this thread, a lot of it around environmental impact of coal, and land uses. I'll try to clear some of this up. At worst, you'll just get my ramblings on the topic.

    1. Nuclear energy. I largely agree with @arrow74@lemmy.zip. Nuclear has a shitty stigma, and that really precludes it from being even a transitional energy source, particularly in North America. While the wastes live forever (essentially) they are concentrated, and after a century or so, they are generally similar to other toxic wastes (e.g., primarily alpha and beta radiation), and if properly stored, are pretty safe. I'm not a nuclear expert, however, so this is more of an opinion than anything, though maybe a bit more informed than the average schmoe (though schmoe I am).

    2. Coal mining - historically, very destructive, no land use planning, just let the pit fill on its own, Metal Leaching and Acid Rock Drainage (herein: ML/ARD) issues. ML/ARD issues arise when you have metal and sulphur bearing rock that's exposed to atmosphere over time. Sulphur oxidizes, drops pH, and leaches metals out of the rock. This can occur sometimes at neutral pHs but it's less common and dependent on the metals in the rock. If you just leave the pit to fill on its own, it takes a long time, and you're more prone to ML/ARD and water quality issues as a result. If you actively flood the pit, you can largely avoid these issues, but you still need to model, check, and monitor your future water quality so you don't have a pit full of toxic crap. Usually, if water quality is poor, they can use semi-passive treatment (e.g. in pit bioreactors) or actively (water treatment plant) treat water until water quality is good enough to release to the surrounding environment, once the pit's water elevation reaches whatever target they have set out for it.

    @MythicalMenace@slrpnk.net points out how mining companies are often required to put money back into the towns around them. This is part of social closure of the mine, so they don't leave behind ghost towns. Generally, though, it doesn't work. Towns need another source of employment once the mine shuts down, but we're largely starting to see mining companies be required to have some sort of social transition plan in place for workers and people connected to the mine.

    2a - Mining wastes @grue@lemmy.world yes, coal wastes can be toxic, this links back to ML/ARD I mention earlier. Tailings are crushed (usually to sand sized) rock that's been processed - they usually have faster ML/ARD onset due to their smaller particle size -> increased surface area. @SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world also tied to ML/ARD and water management -see #2 above

    3 - coal plants: not much to add here, but they are often a source of metal deposition (via dust, fly ash), and radioactivity (radon in rock).

  • Separating from Canada Would Be an Economic Disaster for Alberta

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  • That's a fair point, about blocking pipelines. BC is in the same boat in that regard.

    Oil is a tough one - it's a very valuable resource but it's got a big stigma tied to it due to GHGs and spills. I wish we were collectively doing more about climate change, rather than just using it as an argument when it suits us, but that's beside the point

    On the whole, we need to be a lot more collaborative. Western resentment is real, and somewhat justified, but you don't cut off your arm to spite your finger

  • Separating from Canada Would Be an Economic Disaster for Alberta

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  • Because we are a country, and patriotic people, not Patriots™ support people in other parts of the country. It's not AB vs QC or the east - we are unified.

    Also, please stop downvoting this guy. Maybe an unpopular take, but it's central to the broader discussion and directly tied to the article itself

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    WOAAAAH YEAAAAHAAHH!

  • Separating from Canada Would Be an Economic Disaster for Alberta

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  • All of it, I hope. I would much rather pay for education than line the pockets of megacorps.

    Do you know how much the reclamation liability is for the oil sands? 200 billion. We have 2 billion saved to clean it up. That works out to $41,200 in cost per man, woman, and child, but sure, let's focus on $650 per person.

    I would put money on oilsands companies shuttering their mines once or becomes clear there is no way to get product to market, or that it's much more expansive to do so. Shell already did this when OPEX costs got too high. TOTAL also pulled out.

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  • I think you are thinking of Vinegaroons - they spray you with acetic acid. AFAIK, amblypigids skewer their prey on arm spikes

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  • I know this, and you know this, but MEME

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    YOINK!

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    Negative role model, if you ask me

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    The redcoats are coming

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    New template just dropped

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    The Look™

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    Role models

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    OP plays it safe at work

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    Twilight

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    A wank to remember