Miles O'Brien

Damn, that bait is so obvious, a newborn fish just looked at me like I was crazy for thinking it would fall for it.

The planet will be just fine. I’d wager that life will continue, the earth will still be filled with living creatures for a long time to come.

It just won’t include us. Or most of the things we care about.

Every time I hear someone complain about a single tiny piece of plastic on the ground or someone uses slightly more than needed cling wrap, all I can think of is the couple of warehouses I used to work in a couple jobs ago.

Everything comes on pallets wrapped in about a dozen layers of cling wrap. 8-10ft tall pallets.

Every box gets opened, the items pulled out of a large plastic bag, each item wrapped in its own plastic bag.

Those items get put in other boxes, stacked on a different pallet, and wrapped in another dozen layers of plastic wrap.

The pallets get moved to a temporary spot for a few hours, then someone comes up and curs all the wrap off. Moves the boxes onto 4 other pallets, and each of those goes to a separate forklift driver who puts them on shelves.

When the item leaves, it’s placed in plastic bags, then a box, then goes on a pallet that gers wrapped in a dozen layers of plastic wrap. Onto the truck for shipping elsewhere.

They have a truck that comes twice a day to replace a shipping container filled with plastic.

So much plastic, every day, all day, they only close for Christmas and 4th of July.

Am I still going to use anything but plastic wherever possible? Sure. Am I still going to pick up that piece of plastic and put it in the recycling bin? Absolutely.

Companies suck and will blame you for their shitty treatment just like every abuser does.

I’ve been seeing a lot of comments on lemmy, youtube, various forums and 3d printing sites, of people promoting bambulabs printers lately.

I’m not saying they’re definitely paying people or having employees go make comments pushing their products, but I do have a foil hat on standby…

I’m content with my own ender 3 setup with some modifications in an enclosure but for a split second, I actually considered Bambu for my next printer.

They killed my desire completely with all their proprietary shit.

Let me use whatever I want to use with the thing I own, or get completely fucked. Preferably by a cactus, but pineapples are an okay substitute

My dog: STICK! CHOMP

He excitedly murdered my first maple when we planted one out front.

The replacement is doing quite well, though!

Here’s how I imagine this will go

People: Hey, that company isn’t following the laws

Politician: oh no, I’ll look into it

Company exec: yeah we don’t want to follow the laws, so we won’t.

Politician: well, I asked them nicely but if I actually do anything to punish them, then they won’t give me money anymore so my hands are tied.