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edit: Don't do this. Embrace modernity and don't pollute the soil.

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[-] casualhippo@sh.itjust.works 232 points 1 year ago

I'm sure there will be people that take this seriously lol, PSA to others don't do this. It fucks up the land and nearby water sources as it spreads out. In the US you can be forced to replace the contaminated soil

[-] Dasnap@lemmy.world 81 points 1 year ago

I just drink mine before pissing in the gravel hole.

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[-] KnightontheSun@lemmy.world 69 points 1 year ago

When I was a yout, they had trucks with a huge tank and a sprayer on the back. The truck would drive all the country roads spraying the dirt with waste oils. This was done to keep the dust down. Smelled terrible. Miles and miles of dirt roads that ran all around by rivers and lakes.

It is crazy to think about that now.

[-] Uranium_Green@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 year ago

I'm sure you know this, but that's exactly how a town got turned in to a EPA superfund site due to Dioxin contamination, because of a fuck up over chain of command for waste oil from the creation of napalm or pesticides(IIRC?). The guy running the spraying business didn't know, which I can believe, but the company that paid for him to dispose of it should've informed him.

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[-] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

I assure you they still do that, source: my dad still lived on a back country road that they regularly tarred until they finally paved it about two or three years ago. When I lived there I hated when they did it because I had a white car and didn’t want all the oil on it since it was so hard to wash off and I had to go to the car wash every time I left the house

[-] Serinus@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

I was reading about one where the oil was contaminated with some truly terrible shit, dioxin maybe? Several people died. They turned that whole area into a Superfund site.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Times_Beach,_Missouri

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[-] billy_bollocks@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago

The solution to pollution is dilution

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[-] reverendsteveii@sopuli.xyz 123 points 1 year ago

Boomers: Why don't you kids go outside and play. When I was your age we played in the dirt for hours at a time.

Also boomers:

[-] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 year ago

Boomers: Kids these days think they can get through life by taking shortcuts

Also boomers:

[-] Techmaster@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago

I've had boers tell me that as kids they would pick up balls of tar from the street and chew it like gum

[-] Fizz@lemmy.nz 99 points 1 year ago

Put oil back where it belongs, in the ground!

[-] vsis@feddit.cl 86 points 1 year ago

So it can be extracted again. True carbon neutrality.

[-] eezeebee@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 year ago
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[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 88 points 1 year ago

I mod !soilscience@slrpnk.net

I will mail you one of those jack in the boxes with boxing glove in it if you do this.

[-] ggppjj@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

But the bone juice come out the dirt make out of holes why not bone juice back into ground for more juice later?

Recycle bone juice to dirt?

[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 16 points 1 year ago

Bone juice kills the green things and the moving things. There is a reason they aren't making more bone juice. All moving things that had it have died.

[-] ggppjj@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Ah! AHHH! GRUG FIND SMART SCIENCE NOT THINK! Green thing not have bone and it die too? How green thing die if no bone?

Uno, atheists.

[-] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Do I have to prove that I do it, or can you just mail one to me?

[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 15 points 1 year ago

Shipped.

3-5 business days.

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[-] Kotsi3P0@lemmy.ml 67 points 1 year ago

Tradition is to save it and use it as a wood oil so the wood will not decay after some time on the rain. Absorbs really good, doesn't stink or stick...

[-] zakobjoa@lemmy.world 62 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but there's stuff for that that doesn't give you eleven different cancers.

[-] Kotsi3P0@lemmy.ml 51 points 1 year ago

Ah yes, to get cancer is also very traditional, forgot to say that.

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[-] qyron@sopuli.xyz 20 points 1 year ago

Was about to mention that. But you forget to mention the half-and-half mix of oil and diesel to prevent wood rot and insects.

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[-] Itsamelemmy@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 year ago

Mixed 50/50 with diesel is what I'm using as fence stain/sealer.

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[-] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 54 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Shit like this is why people doing home gardening, especially in areas that have been inhabited for hundreds of years, without testing the soil first give me heart palpitations. What are you eating?? I don't know, and neither do you!

[-] June@lemm.ee 30 points 1 year ago

My neighborhood soil is laced with arsenic and lead from an old foundry that used to be nearby.

A bunch of my neighbors grow and eat food in that soil knowing it. It boggles my mind.

[-] Ruthalas@infosec.pub 16 points 1 year ago

While I know it's not convenient, have you considered... telling them?

[-] June@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago

Yea, and the response has been ‘I’ve been eating food I’ve grown here for 20 years and I’m totally fine!’

[-] zeroAhead@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

Just like the people that love to tell their grandparents lived a long life smoking tobacco everyday.

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[-] RegularGoose@sh.itjust.works 46 points 1 year ago

Also, heat your home more effectively in the winter by always having a bucket of coal burning in your living room.

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[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 42 points 1 year ago

The first couple times I helped my dad change the oil in his car he dumped it down the storm drain which lead to the Chesapeake.

We don't do that anymore.

[-] mkhopper@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

I think of all the times I did that working on my cars years ago.
It was just something you did and no one ever even blinked. Old oil, gas, brake fluid, etc, right down the storm drain.

Now I think back and shudder.

[-] w00tabaga@lemm.ee 34 points 1 year ago

My grandpa would just set the old oil filters when he would change the oil in the 3 farm tractors he owned. He did that for years and 30 years later that spot is still like blacktop. At least it’s only a 2’x2’ spot but I couldn’t imagine if he dumped the actual oil. And that’s only 3 diesel tractors twice a year.

The thought that shops were doing it for years is sad

[-] Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 1 year ago

So return to its source. Basically.

Oil is weird.

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[-] XTornado@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 year ago

I need the full book/magazine this comes from there.might be other nice tips.

[-] Blastasaurus@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Instructions unclear, now the swing set in my back yard needs it's tires rotated.

[-] imgonnatrythis@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago

Thanks. It nice to have a reliable source to turn to when I am inspired to follow guides published in the 1960s.

[-] TheBigMike@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago

The modern way of doing this would involve reversing the process of dinosaur bones turning into oil. So you just put into the oil-to-bone-inator and bury those bones back into the ground where they originally came from.

[-] snowe@programming.dev 14 points 1 year ago

Oil isn’t made from dinosaurs

[-] droans@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago

Sure, if you're buying the cheap stuff.

[-] ignotum@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

Oh really? So how come you can use oil to make plastic dinosaur toys?

Checkmate atheists

[-] TheBigMike@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

That's what Big Non-Dino-Oil wants you to think, so they can get all of the moneys from everyone.

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[-] vreraan@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago

I remember that 1970 shitty cartoon "Barbapapa", which proposed burying all kinds of waste as a solution.

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