submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by to c/memes@lemmy.ml
 

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

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[–] 233 points 3 years ago (37 children)

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

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  • [–] 69 points 3 years ago (26 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 37 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    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

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    [–] 124 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    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:

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  • [–] 99 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Put oil back where it belongs, in the ground!

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  • [–] 88 points 3 years ago (9 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 24 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    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?

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    [–] 67 points 3 years ago (16 children)

    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...

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    [–] 54 points 3 years ago* (13 children)

    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!

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  • [–] 30 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago (3 children)

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

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    [–] 46 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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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    [–] 42 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 24 points 3 years 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.

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  • [–] 34 points 3 years 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

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  • [–] 32 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    So return to its source. Basically.

    Oil is weird.

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    [–] 25 points 3 years ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 22 points 3 years ago*

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

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago

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

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Oil isn’t made from dinosaurs

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (1 child)

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

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