edit: Don’t do this. Embrace modernity and don’t pollute the soil.

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    Boomers: Why don’t you kids go outside and play. When I was your age we played in the dirt for hours at a time.

    Also boomers:

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      I’ve had boers tell me that as kids they would pick up balls of tar from the street and chew it like gum

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    Tradition is to save it and use it as a wood oil so the wood will not decay after some time on the rain. Absorbs really good, doesn’t stink or stick…

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    Shit like this is why people doing home gardening, especially in areas that have been inhabited for hundreds of years, without testing the soil first give me heart palpitations. What are you eating?? I don’t know, and neither do you!

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      My neighborhood soil is laced with arsenic and lead from an old foundry that used to be nearby.

      A bunch of my neighbors grow and eat food in that soil knowing it. It boggles my mind.

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          Yea, and the response has been ‘I’ve been eating food I’ve grown here for 20 years and I’m totally fine!’

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            Just like the people that love to tell their grandparents lived a long life smoking tobacco everyday.

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              It wasn’t the smoking that didnt kill em. It was the minding their own fucking business.

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        Almost everyone I know of that gardens at home just tills the soil they have available. Gardening soil isn’t cheap and they view it as an unnecessary expense. It’s especially hard to convince people in rural areas that just using the dirt out back can be harmful.

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          When I lived in a private house with a garden, we would buy new soil EVERY YEAR. Because fuck all grows otherwise.

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      I know you can send soil to be tested by your local university extension, but how do you test for conaminents like used hydrocarbons, arsenic, lead, glyphosate-based herbicides, etc?

      I am about to embark on a hobby of composting and would like to know.

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        If your local university doesn’t test for the specific contaminants you’re concerned about you can send samples to a private lab instead, sometimes they offer more testing options. I don’t know the specifics of how each one is tested for, but on your end they usually just require you to take (and possibly dry) soil samples before sending them in.

        If you don’t have a good idea of the history of the site, it would be good to try and figure it out through your local historical society if you have one, or land records from your local records office. Whoever is testing the soil will have a better idea of what to test for if they know it used to be a mining town, or it’s 50 feet from a house old enough to have used lead paint, if it was farm land, etc.

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    The first couple times I helped my dad change the oil in his car he dumped it down the storm drain which lead to the Chesapeake.

    We don’t do that anymore.

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      I think of all the times I did that working on my cars years ago.
      It was just something you did and no one ever even blinked. Old oil, gas, brake fluid, etc, right down the storm drain.

      Now I think back and shudder.

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    My grandpa would just set the old oil filters when he would change the oil in the 3 farm tractors he owned. He did that for years and 30 years later that spot is still like blacktop. At least it’s only a 2’x2’ spot but I couldn’t imagine if he dumped the actual oil. And that’s only 3 diesel tractors twice a year.

    The thought that shops were doing it for years is sad

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          Absolutely. You never know when you might need an old car battery for torture.

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            How? Isn’t it just 12 V? Genuinely curious, because I never understood this stuff in movies…

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              That’s why it’s more likely used for fetish purposes irl, and even the maybe two in series? You’d have to ask the experts, which I’m totally not one of. Not involved in that world at all. Definitely don’t have a monthly budget for that…

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                I’ve heard of electric stimulation used for fetish, but none of the manufacturers state how high of a voltage the tools produce (at least I couldn’t find any info about this).

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              I don’t know for sure but I think it’s the current, higher voltage will bridge a bigger gap/higher resistance but a human body doesn’t have that high of a resistance and car batteries are capable of providing plenty of current (I think?)

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                Yes, but to penetrate the top layer of human skin, you need about 60 V DC, or 30 V AC. A car battery is 12 V DC…

                Edit: I got the voltages from an old ElectroBoom video and I just remembered them so I know when to use protection when working with electricity and when it’s not needed.

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    Instructions unclear, now the swing set in my back yard needs it’s tires rotated.

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    Thanks. It nice to have a reliable source to turn to when I am inspired to follow guides published in the 1960s.

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    The modern way of doing this would involve reversing the process of dinosaur bones turning into oil. So you just put into the oil-to-bone-inator and bury those bones back into the ground where they originally came from.