ECU
2006 T1n 118 Sprinter
I was there in 1969. also stopped at Brennan's mailbox. Didn't go to the house.Oh, ECU, I am ashamed of you.
The Spaceship of My Dreams
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Green Maned Lion
Der Unverbesserliche.
wanderingkiwi
2006 118” SHC
Every religion got it wrong.
Heaven isn’t clouds and cherubs, some forever-abode of peace and celestial high-fiving for the righteous.
Nope.
It's a stainless steel spaghetti junction that smells like industrial milk and sin — a rollered pathway for XXL blocks of aged cheddar. There’s a divine cadence to it all — slice, weigh, wrap, repeat — culminating in the sacred union of mind, body, and sativa cheese melts.
Here are god's messengers in blue uniforms and white hairnets, a mechanized legion of the mildly underpaid. Even the Renaissance got angels wrong.
The creator theory is all about making us mortals feel chill about the big D right? Instead of lights out, you have the calm certainty that eternity is slip-resistant, OSHA-compliant, and very, very cheesy.
I'm gonna need a bigger van.
Green Maned Lion
Der Unverbesserliche.
I've tried their ice cream, recently. It wasn't bad, but loaded with HFCS, Soy, and Canola, none of which were claimed to be GMO free, so they are probably loaded with Round-Up. Which means my wife can't eat it, and I should probably avoid it.
AK_Sprinter
Well-known member
Good cheese 🧀 and fun area!
I presume you made it out to Cape Meares Lighthouse, the Octopus Tree, and Cape Kiwanda? Cape Lookout has a nice walk to stretch your legs.
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Lagom
Panic in Detroit
We used to hunt pheasant near Theresa, WI, and would stop in the Widmer Cheese co. As we passed through town.
The sales counter was right in the production area, with open vats and wooden curing racks right behind. Food production was not so highly regulated in the 60’s.
wanderingkiwi
2006 118” SHC
I made it to Devil's Tower.
The canaries are still alive — the government is lying about the spilled toxic nerve gas!!!
Please pass the mershed perterters.
The canaries are still alive — the government is lying about the spilled toxic nerve gas!!!
Please pass the mershed perterters.
wanderingkiwi
2006 118” SHC
Why yes, yes I will! Long live Canada… and every dodgy decision made without cell service.
Green Maned Lion
Der Unverbesserliche.
I love when I see you posting in here. It usually presages a fascinating story, a beautiful photograph, or both.
But dude, what I want to see, really want to see, is your T1N somehow doing a burnout!
The_D
passenger awd
preferably with motorcycle on the backI love when I see you posting in here. It usually presages a fascinating story, a beautiful photograph, or both.
But dude, what I want to see, really want to see, is your T1N somehow doing a burnout!
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wanderingkiwi
2006 118” SHC
Another one from my Superfund porn collection.
Scientists call it one of the most toxic bodies of water in North America.
The tourism board calls it "a must-see attraction!"
That's peak America right there.
Extract copper from the earth.
Sell the copper. Ignore the crater. Label it “economic growth.”
Then, when the mine fails and the pit fills with acidic, metal-laden water... build a gift shop!
The Berkeley Pit isn’t just a reminder of how we've molested the planet, it's a preview of capitalism’s final form: Rather than heal the wound, we brand it, fence it, and charge the public ten bucks to stare at a bowl of chemical soup.
If we can turn ecological collapse into a tourist attraction, then maybe there’s hope after all.
Not for the planet, obvs.
But for the merch.
"Yeah, the airstrip’s a bit of an interesting one, eh... got these high-voltage lines right at the end of it. When I’m loaded up, can’t quite clear em, so I’ve gotta fly under them... then it's a hard right, lining up. Left hand is on the money handle. As we come into the box, we just fly the line, checking mirrors, making sure the porridge is flowing nicely."
Ag pilots are about as close as blue-collar gets to fighter pilots. Their machines rasp like WWII fighters, skimming fields at 140 miles per hour before performing steep banked turns to avoid the tree line. They're completely bad arse to watch. Especially when they wiggle their wings to say hello.
Loading my bike onto a boat, train, or plane always yanks the same primitive levers in my brain. The buzz of being transported somewhere exotic and, not to sound neurotic, the trace anxiety of surrendering control.
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ECU
2006 T1n 118 Sprinter
What should they do? Fill it with nuclear waste? I mean, it is 'filled in'.
marklg
Well-known member
Admittedly, there have been lots of Superfund cleanups of similar, maybe smaller sites.
Other countries like China and India are where we were in the 60s, where you can't see 1/4 mile and the rivers catch on fire. We have come a long way. They will eventually catch up. They have stopped accepting some of our worst throwaways.
Regards,
Mark
jcmadeintheshade@gmail.com
Well-known member
Give a hoot! Don't pollute!
Too late!
Too late!
wanderingkiwi
2006 118” SHC
I meant it more as a pointed, cynical riff on a familiar stereotype, The US is a machine that turns catastrophe into a brand experience.
Having said that, the water is highly toxic and through remediation it's improved slightly from the days when it used to kill thousands of migratory birds. Ideally it needs to be drained and filled in, however the scale is such that’s not viable, no-one is willing to foot the bill for that. So it just stays.
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Green Maned Lion
Der Unverbesserliche.
Ok, I'll bite. I live in a Superfund site. I mean literally, look it up. Roebling Steel is one of the original sites.
So, lets say they drain the site, and fill it up. What do they do with what they drain? Are they going to put it onto a rocket and shoot it at the sun? Supposedly they 'cleaned up' one of the sites near my house. I watched them at work. They just dug up the earth, turned it over, and put it back. Do you think I should drink the water coming out of my tap, now? Grow a vegetable garden in my backyard? Do you want to eat the first harvest?
The land is ruined. I'm not at all arguing its not toxic; it's absolutely toxic. Should we pack up all the land and deliver it to some sucker third world country so they can die from it? You can't get rid of the toxins. They exist, and will continue to exist. To expend the money needed to try to properly deal with all this shit would bankrupt every nation on Earth. And we are not going into the toxins they are producing now! Go to an American grocery store; almost every food item for sale has been sprayed with toxins that we are still producing, en masse, for the purpose of spraying on American agricultural output so we can poison ourselves.
Every old toxin that has been discontinued hasn't been replaced by a safe non-toxin; it has been been replaced by a new toxin that has not yet been designated one yet. Do you really think you are safer in a house with fibreglass insulation than one with asbestos?
Why not make toxicity a beautiful thing to behold? It makes as much sense as everything else!
ECU
2006 T1n 118 Sprinter
I worked on research on such problems. I'm amazed that the water has been retained. Many times, it finds bedrock and underground streams to pollute.
Even infilling it with soil/stuff would drain water out of the catch basin created.
Frankly, this looks like a great site for Waste Management.
MASTER THIRD EYE
Endeavor To Help Others
Yeah, another whinging Aussie keyboard warrior spewing anti-capitalist drivel from the comfort of a country built on stripping the land for coal, iron ore, and uranium while lecturing the rest of us. Spare me the faux-outrage over a decades-old mining pit when your own backyard has open-cut scars visible from space and rivers poisoned by tailings.
Berkeley Pit bad because capitalism? Mate, every single command-economy hellhole from Soviet Aral Sea disaster to China’s toxic rare-earth lakes makes your “preview of capitalism’s final form” look like a paddling pool. State-owned enterprises and central planning have racked up a far bigger body count of dead lakes, dead rivers, and dead people than any private mine ever did.
But sure, America turns a hazardous legacy site into an educational attraction with safety barriers, monitoring, and public access – that’s somehow worse than just fencing it off and pretending it doesn’t exist, or worse still, letting it keep killing wildlife unchecked like so many “socialist paradise” wastelands.
Peak hypocrisy: a foreigner from a resource-export nation that still blows up aboriginal sacred sites for profit calls an American remediation effort “branding the wound.” At least we charge ten bucks to teach people what not to do again. What’s your superfund doing – selling postcards of the Great Barrier Reef while it bleaches to death?
Keep collecting your porn collection of selective outrage, clown. Capitalism didn’t create the pit; bad regulation did. And capitalism, under actual American governance (including that pesky Republican EPA you lot love to ignore), is the reason it’s contained, studied, and turned into a cautionary classroom instead of an ongoing catastrophe.
An example of the flexibility of capitalism when ideologues like you can’t handle it.