LengAwaits

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[–] LengAwaits 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

WRT the first panel, I feel that way too.

That said, is this ragebait?

[–] LengAwaits 1 points 3 months ago

They do! They're where I leave all of my used motor oil, dead batteries, and bedbug-ridden mattresses.

Come on. Just because you can subvert their policies by dropping stuff there indiscriminately doesn't mean you should. Most of them say, right on the bin, that they're for donations of clothing and shoes only.

[–] LengAwaits 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Does honesty exist on a spectrum, in your view? If not, have you ever met an honest person?

[–] LengAwaits 6 points 3 months ago

We recommend four widely applicable high-impact (i.e. low emissions) actions with the potential to contribute to systemic change and substantially reduce annual personal emissions: having one fewer child (an average for developed countries of 58.6 tonnes CO2-equivalent (tCO2e) emission reductions per year), living car-free (2.4 tCO2e saved per year), avoiding airplane travel (1.6 tCO2e saved per roundtrip transatlantic flight) and eating a plant-based diet (0.8 tCO2e saved per year). These actions have much greater potential to reduce emissions than commonly promoted strategies like comprehensive recycling (four times less effective than a plant-based diet) or changing household lightbulbs (eight times less).

^https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa7541/pdf^

[–] LengAwaits 1 points 3 months ago

Too bad more people didn't have their minds changed by Paine's "Agrarian Justice". What a banger.

[–] LengAwaits 21 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

The trick is to pack up a big box full of stuff and give it to them all at once so they don't have time to look through it and refuse it.

They absolutely will refuse things they know they'll have a hard time selling, and trust me they have unique insight into what people want and don't love the idea of warehousing unsalable merchandise. Many Goodwill location's FAQs acknowledge that they refuse to take certain things. Salvo has a whole page dedicated to why they refuse certain things.

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