Deeming Regulations have been released!!!!

[stols001]

I was not grossed out, I thought it was pretty cool... LOL. Then again, I DID (with my best friend) boil up a dead bunny rabbit we were in science and we wanted to disarticulate and reassemble the bones, like dinosaurs.

I was in HS.... My best friend and I left too much meat and hair and stuff. We were boiling it in the kitchen.... Her mommy was unusually peaceful most of the time but like, she FREAKED. We spent a long time burying first the bunny, then the pot. The mom was REALLY intense about the pot getting buried.

It was still an experiment I don't regret I mean the bunny died of natural causes, I think.. My best pal was not what you'd call SUPER prosocial ALL the time.

Anna

 

[Bronze]

Unruly neigbors, maybe?

Never thought of boiling my neighbor's head.

 

[Brewdawg1181]

I was not grossed out, I thought it was pretty cool... LOL. Then again, I DID (with my best friend) boil up a dead bunny rabbit we were in science and we wanted to disarticulate and reassemble the bones, like dinosaurs.

I was in HS.... My best friend and I left too much meat and hair and stuff. We were boiling it in the kitchen.... Her mommy was unusually peaceful most of the time but like, she FREAKED. We spent a long time burying first the bunny, then the pot. The mom was REALLY intense about the pot getting buried.

It was still an experiment I don't regret I mean the bunny died of natural causes, I think.. My best pal was not what you'd call SUPER prosocial ALL the time.

Anna

Holy Fatal Attraction, Batman!

 

[Eskie]

Never thought of boiling my neighbor's head.

Now you have a Sunday afternoon project to keep you occupied!

 

[Alexander Mundy]

They were taking our recycle and dumping it in the landfill with all the other garbage till they got caught.

Same here about 15 years ago, big news story. Since then there is little recycling that happens here.

 

[englishmick]

Any idea whether they actually recycle batteries? Or send them to the third world to be burned in bonfires.

 

[MacTechVpr]

Any idea whether they actually recycle batteries? Or send them to the third world to be burned in bonfires.

Million dollar question.

(Mebe somebody ought'a have thought bout this 'fore we started subsidizing co's using' up gazillions of 'em every 5-yrs for "clean" electric cars. Not that we've got all that lithium layin around an all.)

Sorry for the late edit.

Good luck.

 

[stols001]

Well we've got bunch of nuclear waste in leaky drums just sort of hanging out because no one knows what to do with it (as we make more) so my guess is batteries are "Big in Japan" or in some waste hole in Canada (isn't that big. like battery factory place..

I like to think David Foster Wallace was prophetic in some ways, so sit down, read Infinite Jest laugh, cry, muse..... As our industrialized society slowly implodes on itself. (Also, the beginning is the end and various equally plausible endings are tucked away in the footnotes so don't skip them that amnoyed a lot of people but it is, in some ways, a choose your own adventure book they're just all BLEAK but those are the mysteries of that book, so well,. enjoy.)

Sometimes (I am pretty sure) this is our biggest addiction of all and we are ALL doomed to it.

Because let me tell you. when I read the Laura Ingalls Wilder books I did NOT want to go back in time to experience them I was more like, "The darn KID gets like a CORCOB doll and the OTHER sister is BLIND?"

Some of the candy sounded alright, but there was (I personally feel) way too much of it... And if you read some of Ms. Ingalls LATER books (like she fails to farm with her husband and one of her kids died in childbirth?? Well, I forget exctly but the writing was BLEAK.

I mean good read and all but I was like,. OH thank god I am just READING this, not living it and if kindles were a thing back then you BET I would have been using it. Etc..

Yesh this is starting to make me feel bad.

But. excitement over reading a MAIL catalogue? For reals?

That is problematic also the freaking LINE from the house to the barn due to the tragedy of the snow and they lose some KID at some point. Said kid almost dies just by forgetting to hold on to the string.

I have driven through Ms. Ingalls stomping grounds though, and well, we were low(er) powered then so we were listening to the radio and it was a show about mosquitoes larvae and what to do about them. I still retrain a LOT I'm afraid and they can live through like, total Drought for like 5 years.....

I kind of felt a little like Laura and every gas station we were at. I searched for a Weekly World news.. The closest I got was a Penthouse Letters but the kid was five, and with us in the car. LOL.

Anna

 

[englishmick]

Million dollar question.

(Mebe somebody ought'a have thought bout this 'fore we started subsidizing co's using' up gazillions of 'em every 5-yrs for "clean" electric cars. Not that we've got all that lithium layin around an all.)

Sorry for the late edit.

Good luck.

I looked it up and found this. Article was a year old.

A Look At The Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling Industry And Companies | Seeking Alpha

The history of Li-ion battery recycling
Less than 5% of spent lithium-ion batteries are recycled today. The reason for why it has not been widely practiced in the past is mostly due to poor economics. The following quote from a 2011 article helps explain why:

Recycling lithium-ion batteries is an incredibly complex and expensive undertaking that includes:

• Collection and reception of batteries;
• Burning of flammable electrolytes;
• Neutralization of hazardous internal chemistry;
• Smelting of metallic components;
• Refining & purification of recovered high value metals; and
• Disposal of non-recoverable waste metals like lithium and aluminum.

The process is economic when a ton of batteries contains up to 600 pounds of recoverable cobalt that’s worth $40 a pound. The instant you take the cobalt out of the equation, the process becomes hopelessly uneconomic.

Source

Battery University quotes:

The reason Li-ion battery recycling has previously been uneconomic is the complexity and low yield of recycling. The retrieved raw material barely pays for labor, which includes collection, transport, sorting into batteries chemistries, shredding, separation of metallic and non-metallic materials, neutralizing hazardous substances, smelting, and purification of the recovered metals. It is often cheaper to mine raw material than to retrieve it from recycling. Lithium from recycled batteries is commonly used for non-battery applications, such as lubricating greases that are found in WD-40 and other products, rather than batteries.

 

[Lordron's_Drag]

Umm what the hell is a book. Is dat one Dem dealys with picatures

 

[Lordron's_Drag]

And I'm fairly certain wd 40 is fish oil cause they develop it for astronaut to de condisate electric components

 

[Lordron's_Drag]

Water displacement number 40

 

[newyork13]

Funny about the recycling of plastic bags. My waste hauler won't take them. But, all of my local food shops do. I've wondered it they really recycle them or if it's just something to make me feel better and they then toss them into the trash.
The other odd thing is that in Europe (in Italy, at least) the only plastic bags you get in shops are biodegradeable. Wouldn't that solve at least a bit of the issue?

 

[Zazie]

Sorry that LA was the state Louisianna not the city. Oh and a nutria rat is not a normal "rat" but more like a beaver. They can get up to 24in long and average 15lbs in weight with a max weight of 37lbs. If you wake up in the middle of the night with one of these on your bed, I doubt you are going to just shoo it away. You will probably be going for a gun and a clean pair of underwear.

Those look like capybaras!

 

[NolaMel]

Those look like capybaras!

I thought the same thing!

 

[zoiDman]

Let's see what we got.

National 21+ ... Check
No Flavors including Menthol ... Check
No Online Sales ... Check
$100,000,000 in User Fees ... Check

Yeah, that's about it.

Pallone Introduces Comprehensive Legislation to Address Youth Tobacco Epidemic

 

[440BB]

Good lord. I suspect the misinformation campaign may have given this a real possibility of getting passed.

 

[zoiDman]

Good lord. I suspect the misinformation campaign may have given this a real possibility of getting passed.

Honestly, I would be Surprised if it Didn't pass the House.

Now the Senate, it it's current form? I dunno? Maybe a 50:50 change of passage. And if it got to Trump's desk, I'd say there is 70+% chance he would sign it.

 

[zoiDman]

Good lord. I suspect the misinformation campaign may have given this a real possibility of getting passed.

BTW - I believe this is the As Introduced text of Pallone's bill.

Dropbox - Youth Tobacco Epidemic Act of 2019 _ Text.pdf

 

[Philabos]

Well, we all knew it was coming.
I would expect it will become law unless some politicians want to be hung with the "you don't care about our children" tag.
At least they don't ban the act of vaping - yet.

We are a small group, no political consequences for them.
And the promise of more taxes. What could be better.