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I am becoming more conservative…we have to return to the old ways…let’s go fight Nazis in the streets
Me too. I’m conserving far more resources now than when I was younger. Heck, when I was a kid, I never recycled; then I became more and more of a recycler, and now I’m big into “reuse is better than recycling!” I fix when I can, rather than tossing and buying new. I’m waaay more conservative than when I was a kid.
And, like you, I’m ready to go out and kill Nazis, just like my granddad’s did.
Got any advice on reusing all the pill bottles I have from being broken?
I’ve looked into places that reuse them for pills but there’s like one ministry that takes them and I’d need to ship…
Totally nice bottles without labels and you can’t just take them back to the pharmacy or something…??? The fuck.
I refuse to put them into recycling, they won’t be… so I’m just sitting here with 100 or so bottles just… taking up space…
Give em a good wash and use them as seed containers, whether for single plant species or for mixes
Thanks, that’s a good use :)
I actually already have dozens for that sort of thing (as well as beads and other craft supplies, and screws and other construction-type supplies). I’ve been broken for a hot minute (have taken meds most of my life), so I have so many pill bottles. So many.
But maybe I should go ahead and keep them for my farm. I might need real organization. Fuck. Can I hire someone for that…? Fuck.
this is what i do! it works really well.
Nope. Utterly stupid. Pharmacies aren’t allowed to refill bottles you bring in, they’re often enormous compared to what they contain, but they’re also awkwardly small for any around-the-house use. Even if you superglued a bunch together for an improv screws and nails container, they wouldn’t hold many.
I’m sure someone’s found a use for those, but I think for the most part it’s just shit that’s going to end up in our brains eventually.
Have to agree all around.
Intensely frustrating.
SLPT: get prescribed bigger pills. My twice a day horse pills come in an impressively large bottle.
Old pill bottles would work fine for spices! Or… Buy pills in bulk, and then divvy them up into the smaller bottles. Or, if they are the orange bottles, put little LED lights in them for a warm diffuse ambiance.
I wish I could get my pills in bulk but I can’t. I get three new bottles every 90 days like clockwork. Sometimes I even get more! Yay!
I don’t have enough spices for them. Especially since I keep my spices in sealed glass. But if I didn’t that would be a great use!
The light idea is interesting, but you have to really like orange light, and I don’t ;)
Small screws/nails/ikea bits, seeds, extra pin-backs or pushpins when the shit container they come in inevitably breaks, weed, q-tips, sewing kits, some vets/humane societies, art AKA makin Injection Molded Robots
Even after finding out that Recycling is mostly bullshit? You still do it? I mean, I’d do it if I could ensure it was actually happening, but in most places it simply doesn’t and goes to the landfill anyhow.
Glass and metal recycling do happen as far as I know but yeah plastics is mostly bs
To add to that; paper recycling is pretty damn good too. I try to buy products that use paper/cardboard packaging and products that use recycled paper.
I thought they don’t really recycle a lot of paper goods from residential waste streams due to contamination (grease and the like)…? That’s why direct-ship companies are worse for the environment than big box retailers (also the fact that they get them in big boxes rather than a tiny box just for you)
Personally I just save all my paper products (except highly inked or laminated) and grow mushrooms on them. Free food rather than landfill, the ultimate recycle.
Oysters love cardboard and paper, or basically any wood product. Most other fungus does not take to it as readily, so it’s a really easy culture to keep going :)
Despite doing recycling where I live, they explicitly do not recycle glass. Safety hazard, maybe?
The high melting point of glass makes it inefficient to recycle since we don’t get enough of our power from renewables yet.
Recycling itself isn’t mostly bullshit, plastic recycling is bullshit. If you look into it, most mass-produced products made of “recycled” plastics are actually made from in-factory plastic waste, which companies do for literally everything since it’s just a waste of money not to use offcuts in the next batch of pretty much anything. Now, instead of just mixing those offcuts into new batches, they simply hold onto them until they have enough for a whole batch, and now they can legally call the product “made of 100% recycled material” even though it’s still essentially made of virgin plastic. Paper, glass, and aluminum are all pretty heavily recycled in most places.
Cut plastic out of any facet of your life that you can, but it’s such a small amount of plastic compared to corporations, even in places you wouldn’t expect. Honestly anyone whose worked in the backroom of a grocery/department store knows just how much plastic goes into wrapping pallets to be stored on shelves, only to have throw that plastic away the next day for stocking, then re-wrapped again.
That’s not even getting into all the plastic that’s in our clothes. If it’s not acrylic, it’s polyester.
Yeah, my guess for the top sources of microplastics are #1 tires, #2 textiles.
You utterly skipped over the part where I claimed that I’m a “re-user is better than recycling?” Why? Just to take a dig at recyclers? On a joke comment?
I have to give it to you: you’re committed to your crusade, that’s for sure.
Ironically I’m heading from the USA to the heart of Germany but as a coward.
I’ve only gotten more progressive as time goes on because of all [gestures vaguely] this.
I was libertarian in my 20s.
Now I’m 40 and –
ARISE, YE WORKERS FROM YOUR SLUMBER…You have nothing to lose but your chains!
I’m gonna be 40 next month and I just keep moving further into anarchism.
Yeah! It is super interesting!
Hand signals and direct voting.
Super hard to filter out the BS though.
That’s the lie they told themselves when they found out they were pieces of shit and not being young and dumb.
Makes it palatable.
At least they had an incentive to vote the cons in back in the day, because (I think) the fiscal policy was working for the boomers as they continues to gain wealth throughout their lives. So if they just wanted to fuck over the have-nots, there was at least a reason they could give.
But how can they expect the younger generations to vote for pieces of shit when none of it even gives us more money? They want to be the elites while forgetting that the “bread” that accompanies the “and circuses” is pretty crucial in suppressing the masses. Hungry people start wheeling out the guillotines pretty sharpish if it looks like they’ll be staying hungry.
First paragraph is basically the explanation I’ve heard first-hand for this “truism”.
I’m a former Trump supporter. I will never support Republicans or MAGA ever again after all they’ve done. So I’ve aged but I’ve become more progressive and open minded, not more conservative.
What changed your mind?
It was Trump’s mishandling of the pandemic that got me started questing things, the rise of the anti-vax among his supporters and the violence that happened after the election. Then over the four years I started to change my mind about more and more things and repeatably realized I was wrong.
I’m 46; the older I’ve gotten the more socialist I’ve become.
I think the prevailing idea at the time was that you would become more conservative as you accumulated wealth and property, and while I can’t confirm or deny that I would be more conservative if I were as wealthy as my parents were when they were my age, I can attest that the accumulation of wealth and property on which this notion is predicated has not happened for myself and my peers.
Is it any wonder, when told that we will own nothing and be happy by people who have never worked a day in their lives, that we want to burn it all down and piss on the ashes of those who oppress us?
People don’t become conservative as they age, they become conservative as they accumulate wealth which in the past has typically correlated with age. Once they have wealth they want to protect it.
Nowadays people don’t accumulate wealth as easily so it takes longer before they develop more conservative views if at all.
It’s an “I got mine, screw everyone else” tendency.
I think i became more liberal because im no longer an uneducated dumb ass teenager edgelord.
I see memes like this all the time though I’ve never actually heard that outside of memes.
Personally, I used to be more conservative when I was younger and more naive (and being conservative was less vitriolic).
I believe it comes from misunderstood studies that find out that people tend to become more conservative as they age, but the studies aren’t about the political meaning of conservative, but about our behavior of tending to avoid risks and seek stability as we age.
Same.
I went from middle (trying to reason with it) to left with:
“Maybe businesses are what saves us because the government continues to fail us” to “Star Trek was a dream scenario. We’re headed towards cyberpunk.”
I had a civics teacher tell the class that once. He also fed us a bunch of other conservative bs.
I had a co-worker tell me that if I was a Republican before I was 30 I was heartless and if I was a Democrat after 30 I was brainless. I was 20-something at the time.
I am still what’d I’d consider liberal but will admit I’ve gotten a bit annoyed with the Democratic party in recent years.
They’re just so goddamn ineffectual. No way I’d vote for the other side, but holy shit can they please stop it with the unforced errors? Just go back to courting the working class with economics and then lobster them into social change.
“Don’t assume I’ll follow you on your vile path to moral decadence.”
I have become more conservative as I grew old, but not the kind of conservative these racist bigoted fucks talk about.
I’m all for personal freedom. Everyone should be given the opportunity to live their lives as they see fit.
The government’s only duty should be to provide equal growth opportunity to everyone regardless of ethnicity, gender, whatever.
Education, Health, Safety (both economic and physical).
