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[–] 123_456 0 points 22 points (+22|-0) ago 

Ha. Idiots. Why the fuck would you even lock that?

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[–] ethomson92 0 points 10 points (+10|-0) ago 

aside from the censorship, i think that's either laziness or cowardice

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[–] Grunge 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

that feels so Lannister of them

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[–] 0fsgivin 0 points 16 points (+16|-0) ago 

probably a frank discussion on the economics of the recycling industry...There are some studies showing even the recycling of paper causes MORE pollution than it prevents.

When you factor in everything...The power the recycling plant needs, The gas of the work trucks, even the gas of the workers driving to work. When you start adding it all up you find out its a pointless exercise at best and possibly even wasteful.

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[–] christy 1 point 12 points (+13|-1) ago  (edited ago)

As with many green programs, they do more harm than good. My company wants me to get LEED accredited, I really do not follow the logic. All locally sourced materials from the same state because of the emissions to transport... unless you're china. If you're China you don't green points for local materials, you get green points for buying materials from the US.

New Seattle building codes: You need occupancy sensors, I'm sure we can all get behind that, right? They turn the lights off when nobody is in the room, saves electricity. IN THE SAME ROOM they now want you to have vacancy sensors... which do the exact same fucking thing. Photoelectric sensors which will dim the lights when it's bright outside... and 50% of the outlets have to turn off if nobody is in a room.. like you have your phone plugged in, go to a meeting, come back and the shit isn't charged. In my opinion, that'll just lead to people daisy chaining surge protectors from the outlets that do work making a fire hazard/overload. The new codes add hundreds of thousands of dollars to the price of a building, the parts have to be manufactured, shipped, installed, powered and so on which cancels out the supposed greenness of it.

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[–] InfoTeddy 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Uh…ELI5?

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[–] KoKansei ago 

Exactly. In a free market, if recycling saved on anything (money, resources, labor, etc.) it would be done voluntarily. The fact that some types of recycling need to be subsidized suggests they are not economically efficient and actually more wasteful than simple disposal.

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[–] Martenzo ago 

Probably like the mod said: too much post reporting going on. Basically, the mods locked it because their queue was getting spammed by people using the report button as a "super downvote". I could be wrong though. I'll admit, when I briefly skimmed those threads, I didn't see anything controversial or any drama breaking out. Could've changed when I wasn't looking.

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[–] HeavyBrain ago  (edited ago)

Because its an actually thread with no product shilling and if one of those lands on the front page it takes away a slot that could be used for product placement.

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[–] SergeantSlother 0 points 10 points (+10|-0) ago 

Aluminum Foil triggers me. Take it all down.

I didn't go down far enough to see what was controversial, what was bad about it?

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[–] PM_ME_UR_NOODZ 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

My preferred pronoun is ALUMINIUM YOU AMERICENTRIST REEEEEE

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[–] Pwning4Ever 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Seems accurate, just a bunch of people talking about how to turn metals into anions with elecrricity to be extracred with magnets.

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[–] HeavyBrain ago 

They are talking about recycling, that means you throw the foil away, but if you throw it away, how can you meak heads out of it and calim trigger on everything.

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[–] XAPHAN 0 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago 

[–]letstrythisagain_[M] [score hidden] 52 minutes ago - stickied comment This thread has been locked. It is generating a significant number of reported items, and has more than enough satisfactory responses.

Because Reddit will tell you when everyone has had their say.

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[–] HeavyBrain 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

I left for less, what really pushed me was the quarantine bullshit.

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[–] pissed 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

I don't think controversy has anything to do with it. Mama/Papa mod decided, in all their dictatorial intelligence, that enough had been said and it was time for the kids to shut-up.

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[–] stillinit 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Why are people still active over there?

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[–] dabork 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Because once you unsub from all the defaults and find some good niche subs it's not such a dumpster fire.
The defaults here are pretty bad too, there's just no censorship.

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[–] HeavyBrain 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

50% for porn the other 50% because the higboxes didnt run stalle yet.

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[–] GimmeTheUsual ago 

My understanding of Aluminum recycling was that because it takes a substantial amount of electricity to refine and create it in the first place, subsequent processes are worth it, given you are simply reclaiming and remelting the metal.

Is this incorrect? I don't get why they'd have a lot of controversy over that. As far as paper, that may be more energy put in than is worth it, but I'm not some expert at a paper mill or a recycler.

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