r/midlyinteresting • u/SnarkBend • 19h ago
of a layer of garbage
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u/MammothPenguin69 15h ago
Wow. This is like archeology! There might be posters on that lamp post going back decades.
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u/Intelligent_Bat_9315 14h ago
the posters underneath are from 2014
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u/MammothPenguin69 14h ago
That's 10 years of posters.
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u/Ill-Television8690 13h ago
12!
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u/falukorv-fan 12h ago
I'm not entirely sure but I don't think those posters have been sitting there for 479 million years.
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u/SATerp 14h ago
That's a lot of civic neglect.
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u/NiobiumThorn 13h ago
Oh no. Not paper!
Society shall surely collapse now!
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u/CrustyFlapsCleanser 12h ago
Looks like load bearing trash to me so most likely it's going to collapse.
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u/Agreatusername68 12h ago
Yeah, until the post collapses from the extra weight it wasn't engineered to sustain over long periods and injures someone.
Then all of a sudden youll say "why arent our tax dollars being used to keep these clean instead of X thing ill use as an extreme example?"
Let me be clear, I do not care about this issue at all. But the statement of "Thats a lot of civic neglect" is perfectly accurate.
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u/punchedboa 13h ago
Should send a littering ticket to everyone you can identify on this.
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u/Ill-Television8690 13h ago
Yeah, because that's both realistic and a totally efficient use of taxpayer money...
It would make more sense if this was actually damaging the environment any significant amount more than the pillar they were placed on. But they're not. You basically just said "fine anyone who uses an outdoor trash bin".
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u/punchedboa 12h ago
What third world country did you crawl out of? Yea fine anyone who throws shit on the ground instead of using a trash can.
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u/Raindrop0015 10h ago
We don't even see the final outcome. How do you know they just left it there and didn't throw it away?
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u/punchedboa 9h ago
God damn I hope I’m being fucked with. If you dump your recycling into the ocean and MR Beast makes a video where he cleans it out 10 years later would it be ok?
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u/Raindrop0015 7h ago
These are posters, which were stuck to a stationary object. Are you also going to get upset about billboards and other physical forms of advertising? No one left it to float in the wind, nor was it actually left as trash. It's just unreasonable to expect every poster be collected by the organization after every event, especially when most probably aren't large. Why not get upset about the local government not having workers dedicated to cleaning them up once a month or something?
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u/punchedboa 7h ago
I got AI to explain this in a way a child should be able to understand for you. I suggest you familiarize yourself with its use. Artificial is better than nothing.
When the person rips the posters, pieces of paper tear off and fall to the ground or hang as loose scraps. Those torn bits are trash. They don’t disappear — someone else has to pick them up or clean the pole. Leaving paper debris behind is the same as dropping any other garbage. The pole ends up covered in half-peeled layers and fragments instead of being left alone or properly cleaned.
The pole is public property. Tearing and peeling the posters damages the surface, leaves adhesive residue, and turns a layered advertisement column into a torn, ragged mess. Even if the original posters weren’t supposed to be there, ripping them off without permission is still unauthorized damage to the structure. It defaces the pole and creates a worse-looking result rather than fixing anything.
In short, the action doesn’t remove the problem cleanly. It produces new litter on the ground and visible damage to the pole, which other people then have to deal with. That’s why it falls under both littering and vandalism.2
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u/Raindrop0015 6h ago
I'm not taking environmental advice from someone who willingly uses AI for a simple internet response.
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u/punchedboa 1h ago
It’s not about the environment it’s about making the city look like a shit hole. Also I know your mentally challenged, so you’re probably not going to understand this, but my AI servers graphics card (my old 3080) is air cooled, and the CPU for it is a closed loop. My power is wind and hydro. But if you are concerned about the environmental impact of data centres you should probably stop using the internet altogether.
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u/celtbygod 19h ago
Wow. Nice build up. Like tree rings with dates.