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Dgar May 7, 2023

For those wondering, ′′how did i do it?":
I boiled 10L of water, added 2 tablespoons of vinegar, 1 teaspoon of sodium bicarbonate, two cups of coke, and half cup of lemon juice, then stirred well. Waited 3 minutes, put the pan in the solution for 45 minutes, then added a quarter cup of chlorine bleach to the mixture. Then I brushed it with a firm toothbrush and put it back into the liquid for another 25 minutes. I took it out, rinsed it, and it looked exactly the same, so I threw it away, and went and bought a new one.

Edit: Please don’t actually make this concoction! The resulting mixture may produce poisonous gases! This toot is a joke, the pictures are not even my pans. I didn’t throw any pans away. Following these directions, despite the fact it probably won’t do anything useful, would be fucking stupid and you may win a Darwin Award.

@dgar Next time donate it. There are Goodwills and Salvation Army stores
f*ing everywhere. There's a poor person out there who knows the formula, is willing to put on the elbow grease, and will keep it out of a landfill.

Yeah, I get it. I'm not impressed.

@janisf @dgar I'm just guessing here, but I think the whole thing was made up for comedic effect.

costrike May 7, 2023

@davep @janisf @dgar I'm stating it as fact.

Janis May 7, 2023

@davep @dgar I know, but we're just laughing at our throw-away culture, then, and I can't lie, that pisses me off. We've got a myriad of solvable problems that can aptly be addressed by mass cognition on the full life cycle, (including sourcing), of of the products we buy, and eventually dispose of.

I don't want to rob anyone of their sanity laughter. What I need to do, ethically, is be one voice in the sea of cacophony that says if enough of us engage, there's still hope.

@pineywoozle ‘s #3WordNote May 7, 2023

@janisf @davep @dgar If you’d made your reply even mildly silly and still made your point it would’ve been more effective. Humor motivates and is remembered. Chiding in response to humor may make you feel better but it diminishes your goal. - ex I did all that and mine looked worse!!! 😉 Then I remembered I had some Muratic acid. Stupid interweb hacks, I could have had lemonade & a clean pan.😜

Janis May 7, 2023

@Pineywoozle @davep @dgar No, it wouldn't have. I've tried it a million times.

Thanks for the advice, though?

@pineywoozle ‘s #3WordNote May 7, 2023

@janisf @davep @dgar You may not have seen an immediate effect but I guarantee you humor sells everything better than any other approach.

Janis May 7, 2023

@Pineywoozle @davep @dgar When I need to sell, I'll sell.
When it comes to volunteer engagement, outrage has a better track record. There are good things to be anxious and angry about. It's an untapped, if not bursting energy source for a whole slew of us.

@pineywoozle ‘s #3WordNote May 7, 2023

@janisf @davep @dgar LoL Ok. I still disagree but no biggy.

Janis May 7, 2023

@Pineywoozle @davep @dgar It depends on the situation of people you're trying to engage. We've got a despair epidemic in the US. People are feeling incredibly ineffective. You can't cajole your way through that. It's tactless, insensitive, and exacerbates the problem. Too many people *need* to tap into their anger to use it productively, and they need to know it's not a bad thing to be, and act, pissed at things in which they can make a dent.

That's hope.

@pineywoozle ‘s #3WordNote May 7, 2023

@janisf @davep @dgar Still disagree about the motivating effect of chiding. Get engagement with humor then engage their anger. Even the limited responses you got kind point out that you didn’t engage their anger about your cause simply at you for throwing ice water on much needed humor.

Janis May 7, 2023

@Pineywoozle @davep @dgar So, I think it's a biggie. Otherwise I wouldn't be here with my angry ass hanging out as an open target.

@pineywoozle ‘s #3WordNote May 7, 2023

@janisf @davep @dgar I ment our disagreement over the most effective way to get a productive response.

Janis May 7, 2023

@dgar You can buy muriatic acid at the hardware store, btw. Yes, I'm poor.

Andy in Indy May 7, 2023

@janisf @dgar Goodwill rarely sells stuff that needs fixing or heavy cleaning. They don’t have to; people throw away plenty of perfectly good stuff.

Janis May 7, 2023

@naptowncode @dgar Ours does.

Andy in Indy May 7, 2023

@janisf @dgar I'm just saying, any time I've volunteered to sort donations I see plenty of stuff that I'm like "really? you won't even try to salvage this?" and I get told "Nope."

Janis May 7, 2023

@naptowncode @dgar Yeah, it can be pretty bad. I tend to donate to our local veterans' donation center, they do a better job with that kind of thing. Imagine what might happen if we all started donating to that end and pressuring these orgs, you know, just because we can.

Andy in Indy May 7, 2023

@janisf @dgar To the point of the original joke, there's a lot of nonsense in "DIY" culture that people want to believe in order to feel better about buying so much cheap disposable crap and abusing what we buy.

Janis May 7, 2023

@naptowncode @dgar Your earworm for the day: look for... the union label....

"What are you going to do with what you know now?" - Dario Calmese

Janis May 7, 2023

@naptowncode @dgar "Have to" to what end? Keeping its employee training program going? maintaining donations? It's a non-profit. It doesn't have to be there at all.