zaire the bored genderfucka reminder that the language you use matters and "sideloading" is a term made up by the enemy
it's called installing software
"sideloading" is digital "jaywalking". you're still just crossing the street but the corpos have made up a word to make you look bad for it
apophis@soop also "littering" before versus after non-biodegradable disposable consumer packaging became the norm
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Morgan ⚧️@Gorfram @apophis @soop makes perfect sense to me. When you throw an apple core outside the car, it'll just become dirt indistinguishable from the surrounding dirt, or maybe an apple tree. At worst, the impact is pretty neutral. At best, you just planted free food for the public on the side of the road.
Plastic litter is, at best, an eyesore until it gets cleaned up. At worst, it kills wildlife. Or lowers sperm rates in people who drink from the closest fresh water supply. Etc etc
Plastic litter is, at best, an eyesore until it gets cleaned up. At worst, it kills wildlife. Or lowers sperm rates in people who drink from the closest fresh water supply. Etc etc
@raphaelmorgan @Gorfram @soop exactly
worst thing that can happen is that the fruit is an invasive species (or carried one and that wasn't half a worm its ass just looked like that) but that's a nonzero risk for any import
worst thing that can happen is that the fruit is an invasive species (or carried one and that wasn't half a worm its ass just looked like that) but that's a nonzero risk for any import
@apophis @soop @raphaelmorgan Another potential problem is that, if large numbers of people consistently leave organic trash in a given place, wildlife will come to depend upon it as a food source. This can lead to wildlife overpopulation & to “nuisance” behavior.
However, only one of those is a problem to anyone but humans; and both go away if the humans go away.
Very much unlike the situation with plastic waste.
@Gorfram @soop @raphaelmorgan it'll be a problem to whatever else those particular critters eat, and the rot and the poop is going to be very unfriendly to a lot of other things, but still not quite the same forever problem