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    They do deposit returns where I live. So you get them cents back for every can. There are people that make a couple of hundred bucks a month picking cans out of the ditches. There's like what? $50 in this picture? Either way he could have those gone in an hour for free if he knows a homeless person.

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      We have that in Ontario, and as a kid my cub/scout troop would go around town and ask people to give us their empties as a fundraiser. We'd return them and use the money to buy camping supplies and stuff.

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      Hey buddy! We never did this in scouts but that's such a good idea. When I was in college my roommates and I could have used such a service. I actually just posted that there are people making a living off of combing the ditches and parks for empties. Bottle/can returns is a whole economy.

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        If your country had the German Pfand system where you pay 25 cent more per can and get it back if you return it, this would be expensive....

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        In Mexico City people would bring plastic bags with them and return glass bottles immediately, and just drink Coke out of plastic bags with a straw.

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          They do deposit returns where I live. So you get them cents back for every can. There are people that make a couple of hundred bucks a month picking cans out of the ditches. There's like what? $50 in this picture? Either way he could have those gone in an hour for free if he knows a homeless person.

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          Hes going to melt them down for parts

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            They do deposit returns where I live. So you get them cents back for every can. There are people that make a couple of hundred bucks a month picking cans out of the ditches. There's like what? $50 in this picture? Either way he could have those gone in an hour for free if he knows a homeless person.

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            They do not do deposit returns here anymore, but even so, most neighborhoods I've lived, people come look through the recycling for aluminum cans to scrap. So I would set them on the side in a tote instead, it was always such old people, moving slowly down the road with a rolling cart. This neighborhood is apparently too bougie for that, even though as far as I can tell we still are never more than 2 blocks from at least one homeless person.

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              In Mexico City people would bring plastic bags with them and return glass bottles immediately, and just drink Coke out of plastic bags with a straw.

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              Coca Cola(tm) and Micro Plastics(tm) are a match made in heaven.

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                I used to be a programmer and now I fix cars professionally, I feel like half of my professional life has been gazing upon some ancient work of dark magic and cussing loudly because I know I'm about to have to go in.

                The line between jank and wizardry is sometimes blurry. The best magic has a little bit of jank in it, and the worst jank is sometimes a little bit magical.

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                I used to be a programmer and now I fix cars professionally

                How does that happen, if you don't mind me asking?

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                  I used to be a programmer and now I fix cars professionally

                  How does that happen, if you don't mind me asking?

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                  Lost my job around 2017 and it was real difficult to get a new one in the tech sector without a college degree. I lucked in to the one originally through professional connections. No such luck the next time after I got downsized.

                  So I ended up working at my local auto parts store to make ends meet in the meantime, and figured out that I actually really like fixing cars. It exercises the same sort of problem solving capacity but the problems you solve are usually a little less arcane. Made a few new connections including a guy who worked at an actual garage, got offered a position at that garage if I wanted it, and the rest is history.

                  I still dabble in programming as a hobby, but I enjoy working with my hands and the feeling of fixing a physical object is more fulfilling to me than fixing software. So here I stay (for now).

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                    Coca Cola(tm) and Micro Plastics(tm) are a match made in heaven.

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                    Well, if it was out of an aluminum can, it would already have microplastics from the plastic liner inside every can 😄

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                      Reminds me of my hermit uncle who used to clean the beer cans off of his floor with a rake before we would come visit.

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                      I bet that smelled fantastic.

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                      • 4grams@awful.systems4 [email protected]

                        That looks like my play through of a fallout game. For some reason it amuses me to no end to make a random, huge pile of found alcohol, in game.

                        I’m humbled by this man doing it in real life.

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                        I finally have a use for one of those empty houses in Sanctuary. I'm going to try and fill it.

                        Thank you random internet human.

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                          Hes going to melt them down for parts

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                          Saving up for a new crankcase

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                          • skullgrid@lemmy.worldS [email protected]

                            The best magic has a little bit of jank in it, and the worst jank is sometimes a little bit magical.

                            if it's jank, and it works, it ain't jank.

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                            If it's jank and it works, it's jank and you're lucky

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                              They do deposit returns where I live. So you get them cents back for every can. There are people that make a couple of hundred bucks a month picking cans out of the ditches. There's like what? $50 in this picture? Either way he could have those gone in an hour for free if he knows a homeless person.

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                              I used to collect cans over the summer with the high school soccer teams to raise money. There's more than fitty there

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                                I bet that smelled fantastic.

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                                The man smoked 3-4 packs of cigarettes a day, so that's all you could smell. Thankfully we didn't have to sleep there. My parents would have us stay at the motel/grocery/gas station/bar/restaurant/video store/boat rental/fish license place in town.

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                                  But "autism didn't exist back in my day" right?

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                                    I used to be a programmer and now I fix cars professionally, I feel like half of my professional life has been gazing upon some ancient work of dark magic and cussing loudly because I know I'm about to have to go in.

                                    The line between jank and wizardry is sometimes blurry. The best magic has a little bit of jank in it, and the worst jank is sometimes a little bit magical.

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                                    I just gave up and used copper RTV on the uneven collector pipes on a flat 4 engine. There was no way to properly align the left and right headers to the collector besides just fucking cranking on the bolts as a clamp held them in alignment.

                                    I felt shame for that one, and it’s off to the inspection station Monday now that it doesn’t leak. But you can see the Rtv sticking out. I give it a summer before it fails again. At best.

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                                      I just empty them, put them in a crate, then every monday empty the kitchen crate into my garage sack. When they're full i take 'em up to CDS

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                                      No stink, bugs, etc.?

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                                        “Left a couple of cases of empty alcohol bottles on the floor for a month….”

                                        “Then I got roaches from it! That’s how I knew my neighbors had cleanliness issues.”

                                        …….?

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                                        https://old.lemmy.world/comment/17371048

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                                          i got rid of my coffee machine and switched to instant - explaining why would probably make you sick.

                                          I have a French press so I don’t have to worry about brewing roach coffee.

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                                          that's exactly what i use now when i'm not just lazy and drinking instant

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