piccolo

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[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 days ago

You are quite dense.

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

First, your just assuming that the only use for pulpwood is toilet paper. "Wasted" is figurative with the context above.

No... i assume its all paper produced by wood pulp.

36% is small trees that could still be in the ground. Sometimes this is from those surrounding old growth, but it is commonly from out-skirting areas or the way in, and could be avoided.

In managed tree plantation, one stratgey is to plant trees very densely so the planted trees smothers out any competition. Once they get about 15-20 years, the forest is thinned, producing tons of pulpwood. Leaving the rest to mature for lumber. Some managed forests are exclusively grown for pulpwood and clear cut every 20 years, but those are less common.

Environment wise, young trees consume more CO2 than old growth forests. The downside it creates large vast monoculture forests devoid of a diverse ecosystems.

So again, its not the problem of paper production... its the lumber industry and their unsustainable practices.

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Paper Production and U.S. Forests Approximately 79 million tons of paper was produced in the U.S. in 2013. Recovered fiber accounts for 37% of the wood fiber used. Some of this fiber is lost in processing, with the result that about a third of the volume of paper and paperboard produced is made up of recovered fiber. The remaining two-­‐thirds comes from trees harvested as pulpwood, wood chips, and other residues obtained from sawmill trimmings. On a mass basis, over 65 million tons of roundwood (dry basis), or 36% of the annual U.S. timber harvest, is used each year in manufacturing paper and paperboard. When chips and other residues are considered, the percent of harvest going to paper and paperboard production rises to about 47%. Typically, more than 65% of the nation’s pulpwood harvest is derived from the Southeastern region. In recent years, this percentage has risen to over 81%. Virtually all of that harvest is obtained from privately owned forestland. Individuals and families, private investment groups, and the forest industry own 57% of forestland in the United States. These lands provide 89% of the annual wood harvest (Oswalt et al. 2014). Annual removals of wood in the U.S. are less than half the annual increment. In other words, each year forests in the U.S. grow more than twice as much wood as is harvested. The annual harvest amounts to about 1.3% of total growing stock volume. Despite, and largely because of, ongoing removals that are only a portion of the forest’s annual growth, forests in the United States are increasing in extent. Also, the volume of trees contained within U.S forests is rising steadily. Today the U.S. has more forested land than in the early 1900s. Moreover, net growth has exceeded removals for at least 6 (and likely 7-­‐8) consecutive decades.7 The result is the volume of wood stored in the nation’s forests has increased substantially over that period. Source

Noone is going to virgin forests to send logs straight to a paper mill unless they are too small for the saw mills (byproducts of clear cut logging). The logs are far more valuable as lumber. But the byproducts are chiped and sent to paper mills so nothing is wasted. Your source is completely missing that point and not directing the enegry to the real culprit. Logging in virgin forests is no doubt a problem, but noone is logging them exclusively for paper.

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Thats a lot of words for 'Selfish'

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 days ago (8 children)

Almost all paper comes from byproducts if the lumber industry or recycled. Its the processes of papermaking that have huge impacts to the environment.

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

They're upset that the protesters iq is higher than anyone in the trump administration.

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

My understanding the publican system would be analogous to the american healthcare system. So that tracks.

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

What's corporate slop

Do i really need to iterate the shenanigans of canonical?

Flatpaks support drag and drop just fine. I think you're confused?

I once installed discord as a flatpak and couldn't drag and drop files. Installed the .deb and it worked perfectly fine. I also had a lot of file permissions issues with flatpaks. I now avoid them like the plague.

The same thing Ubuntu does: reliability

And how is mint less reliable? Because it has less maintainers? So if you have a billion maintainers, then it should be more reliable? Right? Totally wont be a spaghetti mess. Unless you can actually provide metrics... we can assume windows is more reliable for having thousands of highly paid developers... by your own logic.

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Mint is based on ubuntu, and doesnt have the corporate slop. Bazzitte relies on flatpaks which is janky at best. Try explaining why you cant drag and drop in applications because they've been sandboxed....

As for fedora.... what does it offer better? Or is it just personal taste?

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Tow trucks dont have to. If they cant tow it on a free axle, they'll just use dollys.

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 weeks ago

They arent the same company. They are seperatedly operated by brothers.

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Aldi is cheaper and better quality. Also, they dont have 20 self serve checkouts ran by a single underpaid, overworked employee

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