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4 months agoDo the math yourself. The answer is there lol.
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According to this it takes about 50 tons of PE granules to make about 40 Kilometers of clingfilm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVYpmXRHu00
Moar plastic manufacturing. Thickness of 2/10,000 of an inch. Plastic is crazy cheap and efficient compared to other methods.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp2RDu9fw6o
Plastic bags. Full roll is 348 lbs which makes 35,000 bags.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KznKNiXPFxM
If you’re wondering about crude to plastic efficiency…
It takes about 0.4 gallons of crude oil to make one pound of plastic, which means that 11 million metric tons of plastic equates to approximately 9.7 trillion gallons of oil.
https://oceanconservancy.org/blog/2021/09/24/plastic-pollution-oil-spill/
A nice copout answer from the US Government lol.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) is unable to determine the specific amounts or origin of the feedstocks that are actually used to manufacture plastics in the United States.
https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=34&t=6
This oil website even busts their chops on it lol.
This fact itself raises questions such as, “How many barrels of oil go into plastic packaging?” A question that is quite difficult to answer. The Energy Information Administration absolutely refuses to answer it, saying that it collects no data in this segment. Yet data from a few years ago, when the EIA still collected information about this, shows that in 2010 some 191 million barrels of LPG and NGL were used for the production of plastics along with 412 billion cu ft of natural gas. The liquids amount constituted about 2.7 percent of the country’s total petroleum consumption. Most of the natural gas used in plastics production was used as a fuel rather than feedstock.
Plastics production accounts for about 4 percent of global oil production. That’s according to figures for 2012, so now it may well be higher.
Some interesting glass to plastic energy efficiency info, not discounting their completely different use cases.
The total energy required to produce, package, and transport a 16 oz. PET container is 32 MJ compared to 34 MJ for a 16 oz. glass container – virtually the same. Producing a pound of plastic resin, however, uses nearly nine times the energy of producing a pound of glass. These comparisons assume the use of virgin glass.
7·4 months agoXbox controller drift
Really? That’s usually the quickest issue my controllers have with occasionally sticky thumb buttons. I’d gone through so many I just get Blue PowerA controllers now. They’re better than $200 ones for 1/8 the price, and have great warranties.
Stick drift and non optimal buttons are instant killers for any decent platformer.
11·5 months agoMalcolm frowns upon your shenanigans.
8·5 months agoGod I hate this so much. It’s especially frustrating on mobile where it takes like thirty seconds to try to get the right part of the text copied and use the fucking magnified blue dots… Ugh.
For those unaware how Health Insurance works in the states.
You can have health insurance all you want. Especially if this bill is recent, they will cover a large part of the cost, but most people are still on the hook for Usually between $1000-1500 of all healthcare before insurance REALLY kicks in. This is called the Deductible (and Out of Pocket) expense. You also pay a ‘Premium’, essentially a subscription cost that normally comes directly out of your paycheck.
For single coverage, just yourself, it’s about $1200. For family coverage, where your insurance covers everyone in your house, It’s usually double that. So ~$2,500-3,000.
So this person probably hasn’t had any bills yet this year. Once they pay about $1500 in costs, everything after that becomes (mostly) free. Depending on what you have, insurance will pay anywhere from only 80% - 100% of the cost from whatever the procedures and meds are.
Then funny part is that some places in America the cost is so high, this might be a situation where their insurance DID kick in already and their insurance is still making them pay that much. Or it’s a case where you get a bill for that much but your insurance hasn’t paid it yet… so it looks like you’re supposed to… so you do… then two months later you get a check for that amount.
It’s so. Damn. Silly. And I resent Republicans every day for it. That’s not even the Fascist MAGA Theocracy republicans. Just your stock standard ones lmfao.
Potato salad…
Span of control is always an issue. There’s a reason why it varies heavily from team/org.
21·5 months agoThe hoops people jump through to justify why this way of getting free shit doesn’t hurt anybody is nuts lol.
Trust me when I say music artists, writers, and anybody else selling their creative arts aren’t getting their money through you. Having to justify your theft by saying you’re stealing more from a nameless corp instead of the person who created it doesn’t mean shit. You aren’t Robin Hood.
You’re hopefully just stealing from someone who won’t notice because you’re hopefully too poor lol.
Sounds kinda sussy to me.
4·5 months agoAre you a knight who says Nee?
Everyone needs that neighborhood watch lady that knows what the fuck is up on the street though.
Pretty sure surveillance grandmas are meme everywhere in eastern Europe lol. Crews of like 3-4 old birds on stoops yelling at kids to quit stealing shit.
Is that a floppie in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
9·5 months agoDo not use free range pallets for anything that isn’t strictly decorative with lots of coating on it. Those things are treated to high heaven with loads of chemicals and you never know what they had on them.
Woods preservatives and methyl bromide are known carcinogens and they’re not even recommended to burn, let alone grow food in.
https://aaapalletco.com/are-pallets-safe-to-burn-answers-from-the-experts/
Eggs isn’t true. The only thing you’re buying is for sound of mind for ethically raised chickens and the orange color of the yolk specifically for things where you need that nice orange color.
Nutrients aren’t statistically significant. Taste has no difference. Especially if you aren’t eating them plain.
Bonafide Opera GX users are here!
Please tell me you look skyward, shake your fist and yell damn you!!!
1·5 months agoModels for ones made out of more brittle material like fired clay or wood?
Theyre the only people to help during actual disasters though. Good luck getting the fucking Red Cross out short of anything but a federally declared disaster.