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OttoVonNoob @lemmy.ca

1y ago

We lost four men on the last expedition...

Cross post 196

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Why wait for climate change when you can just pick off chunks and bring them to a desert -__-
- If you look at their current sourcing it's fine. They're not cutting apart glaciers, they're gathering it from parts that have calved and will just melt apart regardless.
  Greenland has a right to sell their natural resources as much as anyone else, and the sad thing is this admittedly ludicrous enterprise is more profitable for less environmental damage than most things.
  
  The problem is all the carbon that is emitted to transport the ice from Greenland halfway around the world for no other reason than bullshit marketing.

...ice which has never been polluted by any human being.
shows picture of human being polluting said ice
- Why is his face so punchable
  
  omg I never noticed that, yea he defo has a face that looks like it would be a punching face in cliche cartoon scenes. I don't mean it as an insult just an observation lol

- Literally and on purpose, because it's profitable

Guess I'll post this again:
I put this in the cross post, bit figure it belongs here, too:
While ridiculous, there's interesting context here.
Greenland has little to no economy
The ice is mined from ice that has already broken away from the glacier, thus not reducing any more than nature has already
Cargo ships bringing frozen food used to leave empty, now that same fuel is used to transport ice back instead of going to waste
The founder has always dreamed of a sustainable economy for Greenland
He is conflicted about how his work to do this in a sustainable way is being taken
Lots of gray here.
The whole conversation, including how the ships are already there, details on economy, etc, are in this thread: https://lemmy.world/comment/6556590
- Thanks, that's an interesting balance.
- Cause vs correlation, and untrue. There is no economy because there is only fish. The population dwindles because of immigration. As for flying the ice, that does not happen. Read the link.

This is going to be how the zombie virus comes about. Someone ingests a million year old virus that becomes infectious and boom, we got new COVID.
- COVIID
  
  COVID 2: Synaptic Boogaloo
- We already had a novel one, so is the next one going to be neo COVID or cyber COVID or what? Or just new COVID, like new Coke?
  
  Vanilla Cov.
- I for one welcome our new puzzle solving robot overlords.

Mmmm it's like playing the lottery but if you win you get to be patient zero for the ancient virus that ends up wiping out humanity.
- That's why I only drink 151 on the rocks.

Gimme that ✨prehistoric bacteria✨

So while the rest of us are worrying about shrinking glaciers, Dubai is actively ice mining glaciers and shipping them to the middle of the desert so rich people can have fancy cocktails. Out-fucking-standing.
- No, this is exported by Greenland.
  They're using only chunks that have already separated, transporting it on outgoing cargo ships that are already empty and it becomes one of the few export products for Greenland.
  Weird idea, but there are a few redeeming points if you look at the full story.
  
  Okay, that's a lot less troubling than I expected. Thanks for the clarification.
  
  I'm cool with it in that state. But my concern here is that while it starts out innocent, if demand increases, it's only a matter of time until they start mining it and chartering more ships to transport it. Especially in an economy like Greenland's.
  This same pattern has been followed a thousand times in the past. Lots of instances of abusing our natural resources start out innocently.
- It's okay, I can only imagine the 10,000 year old bacteria those guys are gonna be drinking with that ice when it thaws, it all balances out.
  
  *100,000 year old bacteria. It's never infected any human being!
  
  ooh, i loved that episode of Stargate!

It's environmentally friendly because they don't waste energy to freeze the water. It's already frozen! /s

"Yeah our ice is mined in... uh... Greenland. That will be $200"
"Dumbass"

- https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/oct/19/next-pandemic-may-come-from-melting-glaciers-new-data-shows

Had to ask myself what kind of bars they even had on Dubai. Apparently they don't take the alcohol thing as seriously as I thought.
- It's Dubai bro..

“Yeah, I’m still drinking what used to be piss, but at least it wasn’t human piss. Because ewwies. Right, barkeep?”
Barkeep: (two thumbs up) (how the fuck should I know)
- Also barkeep: Looks behind and realises they can't remember which box is the expensive ice.
  
  Also also barkeep: Remembers they froze some of their piss earlier and lost track of it.

My bar serves water wayyy older than that.

So this is how the Arctic plague begins

Is this the most ridiculous bullshit I will read all day?
I sure hope so, but I doubt it...
- It is not, but only because I read quite a bit of ridiculous bullshit. I'm looking at you, Congressional Republicans.

Look at that punchable face, just waiting to become 3x its current size

Full of heady goodness

My COVID senses are tingling. I'm hoping for something small to ruin the parade like maybe just Jurassic diarrhea. But if it's a new generic mamalian HIV super big that spreads through water, we'll be in big trouble.

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