No, the choice between safely biodegradable tires vs petro tires is a separate discussion from better pubic transit to reduce the need for those tires.

A few things I’m going to point out though.

1. It’s not the run off into streams and into drinking water that’s the likely point of intake. It’s the air we breath, epically in cities or along major highways where people are intaking the plastic.

2. Don’t assume that just because something is natural means that it is completely harmless. Plenty of natural compounds are toxic.

3. The family of compounds that we need to be concerned about the most is PFAS. It is a synthetic, but it’s because it’s a forever chemical and doesn’t metabolize out of the body.

The first and easiest step would to remove the PFAS and create safe alternatives. It’s a weird Catch 22. It needs to be durable and long lasting so it doesn’t blow out on the highway, but it also needs to be weak and biodegradable so organic systems can break it down. EVs, even the EV busses, need even more durable tires as the torque is higher.

Even if you got wide spread train adoption, people still need to get to those trains and bikes still have rubber tires. Busses use less rubber compared to cars per person, but it’s still not zero.

Connecting mircoplastic from runoff seems like a wasted effort. What do you do with it afterwards? Burn it? Try and recycle it? Plastic is hard to recycle. Better to keep the most harmful plastics from being created in the first place.

I mean, yes. But that’s a different discussion.

There are actual safety concerns with tires. Modern ones are much, much less prone to blowing out on the highway.

It’s much easier to switch to clothes not made of plastic then it is to replace what we make tires out of.

The vast majority of my media is stored locally and works offline. I’d probably get a couple more hard drives for more backups.

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Your child yearns for the simple hobo life.

The culture of lemmy is very anti consumer, which helps to insulate it from that. If the normies started moving in, that’s when the problems start.

Someone who posts to reddit like it’s their job. They’re normally a mod for a far too many subs, repost already popular memes and probably take payments to push advertisements disguised as memes. I remember a period of time when everyone was posting weird happenings in front of their houses from their doorbell cams. The brand burn ins were always turned on.

I only really blocked power users on reddit and lemmy doesn’t have those yet. Not the same way gallowboob was.

Real people wouldn’t even notice from the streets, but rich fucks would see them from their jets and oppose it.

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They’ll just pay a drug lord to take her out and leave it be.

Freakazoid.

I picked China from skimming your comment history. Have you defended North Korea? jfc

Discredit the truth by burying it in lies. China did take Hong Kong and suppress protesters against their will. Same with Tibet. They want Taiwan but going after that right now could give Trump a just war and they’d rather see the US shoot itself in the foot in the international space. The more extreme stuff against China may just be propaganda that China itself created to discredit the more reasonable claims. The same way that the US government spread rumors about aliens at Area 51 to discredit the sighting of spyplane testing.

I think it’s your defense of China that’s getting you called a tankie.

They have to use the word Pod wherever they can. It makes it sound like a new idea.

I don’t know about that, but there are several people swilding rich people on that front. I hope Musk’s chest pops from all the HGH he’s taking.

Let people drive safely.

There were people going maskless during covid because they already caught covid and were only interested in protecting themselves.