Picture of a person holding up a truck. The truck is labeled "Society" and the person "People who put trash in their pockets until they find a trash can"

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[–] 81 points 8 months ago (17 children)

Real :3 I don't understand people who litter

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah, it's literally free to not litter. If you have the tiniest shred of care inside, you can just not do it, at no disadvantage.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Back when I was in school we used to have a day where we would go outside and pick up trash, and I knew someone who'd litter with the reasoning of "it doesn't matter, because I'll be picking it back up on that day anyway". Which to me never made much sense as a reasoning, because you're still gonna be walking to school surrounded by all the trash the rest of the year?

    Anywho, it's not related to anything you said, but it just reminded me of it

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  • [+] -22 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (10 children)

    Downvote this comment if you jerk off to My Little Pony cartoons 5 times a day.

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  • [–] 31 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    No I don't think that's right.

    I like to eat junk food. I often make a pizza from my freezer. I like to eat chips. I do not litter.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    I eat junk food. I treat my body like a trash can. Doesn't mean I treat the environment I live in the same. I share that environment with other people. While I may be trash inside, I don't extend that where it intrudes upon other people. I care more about others than myself. My environment is spotless, I am not.
    I think you are wrong.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    That is not true at all. If it was, I would litter everywhere, and my body freak, health-obsessed adopted sister would never have thrown plastic wrappers cheerfully out the window of the car. (She does not do that any more, we trained her to give a shit. Hard upbringing, from which our adoption lifted her.)

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  • [–] 31 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    WRT the image and not the text - don’t do that. Goods are replaceable, humans are not

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    I’m wondering what this person is even doing or how they got there. And what their plan is.

    The only thing that I can think makes sense is this picture was taken half way through this operation, someone else is driving, they started where the trailer was relatively vertical and stable, and as they moved forward up that incline the trailer started to tip. And then the guy died? I don’t see how this ends well.

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  • [–] 18 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Maybe the load was already stabilized, even at that angle, and the photo is just for show?

    It is important to not do that.

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  • [–] 29 points 8 months ago* (3 children)

    Sometimes, I put other people's trash in my pocket until I find a trashcan

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    One of my biggest gamble wins: Guy in van at a stop sign threw an empty cigarette pack out of his car window right in front of the path of my bike, I picked it up and tossed it back through his window right into his lap as he's mid-way through lighting. His surprise breaks not into anger but a self-effacing chuckle, and he shrugs his shoulders at me in acknowledgement. Do not try this.

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  • [–] 23 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

    Littering is fucking gross and people who pick up trash are heroes but let's also consider how much of that trash generation was ever necessary or even convenient in the first place. If your consumable product has two or three layers of wrapping, or even one if that layer is of marginal utility, then maybe we should be rethinking our use of those things until the people who are manufacturing them are convinced to the same degree. I think that if something's packaging can possibly be fully recyclable for a typical municipality (I say typical municipality because a lot of "recyclables" are only such if you have expensive and advanced processing facilities to make them so) then it should be, and if it's not then there should be taxes or fines associated with those exceptions.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Reduce. Reuse. Recycle are quoted in that order for a reason. For some reason we humans don't want to think. Put burden of recycling on someone else and call it a day without wondering if it's actually recycled. Yeah we are a scourge to the environment.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago*

    Governance isn't "someone else", it's all of us organized. We've already bought into the propaganda of rugged individualism, by design it doesn't work, all it nets is the self-loathing that I don't think you realize you're now uncritically projecting onto your entire species without even considering that I might fundamentally disagree with such cynicism, or how bad it kneecaps the discourse. I'm not interested in circling the drain with people trained into preoccupation with personal sin, there are real things that can be done to cut off the problem at the source. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle must be aimed by our collective effort at concentrations of power.

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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago

    ... and then after a few days find it in their laundry :P

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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Nothing pissed me off like a city with no trash cans when I still smoked cigarettes and carried the butts with me. Walked for blocks and blocks with no place to dispose of them responsibly. Fuck you, Berkeley.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago*

    A lot of cities have been convincing themselves through selective mckinseyshit studies that removing trash cans makes people litter less, because those cities don't want to pay for updated cans or sanitation service. Which completely neglects the majority of people who don't litter, do use trash cans, and pay a lot of tax money for government services like sanitation.

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  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago (10 children)

    Can we mention the people who either leave the dog shit on the pavement or pick it up, put it in a bag and hang it from a tree?

    The streets here are full of shit, I get like 10% is probably human but it's not hard to pick up after your dog.

    Most parks even have a dog shit arena so there's not really any excuse

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  • [–] 19 points 8 months ago* (7 children)

    pick it up, put it in a bag and hang it from a tree

    dog shit arena

    wat did i just read

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    re the first part:

    People often hang poop bags from trees along walking trails.

    my assumption is that it's because they don't want to carry it the rest of the walk, and will pick it up on the way back. that's my assumption because I do this myself on private trails, and I do something similar on public trails very occasionally (I just hide it better, and I don't forget)

    what I don't understand is how people both put it in a tree where it is visible and forget to pick it up on their way back

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    It could be a message so they put a garbage bin there.

    Where I live there's a park where they removed all the bins and it made people put the poop bags where the bins were. Now the city is asking people not to litter but they will also put some bins back.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    one of the giant bins (with a huge underground container) in my area has a sign that explicitly says no dog poop on it

    like wtf why would you put a massive green-lidded sealed trash container at a park next to the sidewalk for the street and then tell people not to put dog poop in it‽

    I'd much rather my taxes go towards more trash cans and pick up service in my area then making intersections twice as big as they need to be and the upkeep related to that. It's absolutely wild that in my 40 km an hour neighborhood an intersection is like eight cars wide with a huge turning radius for the giant trucks that don't go into this neighborhood anyways because they can't make the first corner into the side street

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    There's an annoying trend where people hang the bags of dog shit from branches of trees, not sure why. Probably so they're not carrying a bag of dog shit until the next bin?

    Dog shit arenas are sandy areas in parks that are fenced off so dogs can be exercised off the lead, but humans being humans just let the dogs shit in there and just leave it

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    Dog shit is one that I'm on the fence about. I guess on pavement, it's pretty useless, but on dirt, that shit nourishes and keeps the cycle going. So I have mixed feelings about sealing it away in plastic and sending it to a landfill with enough other poison that the nutrients probably stay out of the cycle for a while.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago

    That's most people in Japan, since trash bins are so rare

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    People that don't do this are no better than animals, complete savages who can only ever be made to do right by the threat of legal punishment. They are bad members of society and we would be better off if they died.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    On the one hand, I'm proud that my son does this,. On the other hand, I need him to empty his pockets before they go in the wash, because even with a pre-wash check we only have an 80% success rate.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    You're welcome. I don't like to litter.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    i'm about to type the most privileged sentence imaginable: i wear male pants and i don't use the pockets. i got reasons i'm not going into but i carry a bag and that bag has bags in it for trash. i'm not getting my good bag dirty i got places to go.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    And on the other end of the spectrum are complete fungal encrusted fap socks like the guy that comes into my job (dry cleaning counter) with their entire wardrobe of work clothes, with 1-2 cigarette butts in each pant pocket that I have to wear gloves in order to detail his shit over a trashcan cause he's just that much of a needledick.

    His job probably has smoking rules so he can't dispose of them properly, but still, empty your pockets motherfucker!

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    What kind of “work clothes” would you put cigarette butts in the pockets but then also require dry cleaning? Do you have an idea of where this guy works?

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    He has the name of the place in a patch on his shirts, but I haven't seen him in a while (knock on wood) and don't remember. Only that it's some blue collar thing. Maybe electrical? Mechanical?

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    And he wants it all dry-cleaned ? He should go to the fluff-n-fold instead if it's just blue collar gear with the cover-alls and such.

    I wish I had a fluff-n-fold when I was at the fish farm, as downtime in town was short. But, then again, some poor Laundromat would have to suffer all my fishy smelling gear!

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    Worst part is the last time he was in, he was bitching that we "ruined his shirts". After inspection, my supervisor realized that the only shirts we "ruined" had a particular business patch that was different from the rest, making us presume it was poor quality glue or some shit.

    Oh and he always humble bragged that he was putting it on the company card each time. 🙄

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    Me when I eat a piece of candy or mint and pocket the wrapper because it didn’t originate from the restaurant I’m seated at. xD

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago* (3 children)

    semi-related

    why do people even use straws!! they're not necessary; even if we just ignore the waste factor, it still tastes way better, and if you use ice, it's colder ( my personal fav reason )

    while we're at it, lids are only needed like half the time, when you are transporting the drink

    plus Paper straws are disgusting!! i say abolish the straw!!

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    In some third world countries it's standard to use a straw with a can due to rodents urinating on cans and drying in that little lip area.

    Stick to glass bottle sodas...

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    thank you for reminding me of my privilege in society and how silly my little issues are... not being facetious

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    Not to jump on you, but we have steel straws for a paralyzed relative. They can't drink without assistance unless they have a conveniently placed container with a straw; even then, something like a soda can is impossible for them to drink out of without a straw.

    But yes, paper straws are garbage and plastic straws are generally unnecessary.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I do this always, and even for my spliff ends (we call the cardboard bit a roach here) in a pocket ash tray.

    It really bugs me when I find a rather nice smoke spot, lovely nature area, and upon my third or fourth visit there is just rubbish everywhere.

    Folks have cleaned the areas, only to find them in such a state in practically no time at all.

    I wish people would take more responsibility with their rubbish. It literally takes only one pocket, or a small otherwise unused compartment in my bag. It's ridiculously easy to not litter!!

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    If I threw all my trash on the side of the road id be there also.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    I'm pretty sure if we did a study, there would be a huge correlation of assholes destroying the planet to people who litter and don't put their cart back. Send those people to mars=utopia on earth?

    😃

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    Sadly, it's negated ten times over by all those who litter.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    On my days to exercise I'll pick up trash around my block on my cool down walk. If it's 3 miles out I'm likely to not pick it up given I'm typically on a run at that point.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Heck, I sometimes pick the trash I find laying around to toss it on the proper place

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    When I was a kid, I used to have a runny nose all the time. By high school, I started carrying a tissue box, trash bag, and hand sanitizer around in my backpack.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    This was me today. Also I'm visiting China and man is it clean (at least where I am)

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    First thing I see, on the way to mount a greenhouse, right after I put an used peanuts back in my pocket.

    Palantir?

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  • [+] -7 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    Littering in certain spaces is a counter-gentrification force that reminds people of the waste in our society. Change my mind

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago*

    I hate that in capitalism, if a community takes care of their streets, and make a safe an loving place, they are rewarded by higher rent.

    Labor profiting from what I call existential labor (benefiting from the labor tenants do just by existing)

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    You are the trash that litters our streets if you think that littering is in any way justifiable.

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  • [+] -7 points 8 months ago (1 child)
    1. That's not a very convincing argument.
    2. ...within the context of what I said that would be a compliment? Thanks, I guess.
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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago

    Fine, asshole. Someone will clean up that trash, the town may end up paying someone to do it which may increase the tax burden driving out poor residents resulting in gentrification. There. Asshole.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    On what basis do you think littering is a counter-gentrification force?

    It seems to me all it does is depress property values to make it more attractive for gentrification.

    It's not like the people buying up properties, bulldozing them, and building condos for massive profits can't afford to push the litter to the next neighborhood.

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