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  • Look into your municipality’s recycling process, see how it’s done, what the inputs are, what the total energy use is, etc, etc.

    I’d bet a year’s salary it’s far less effective (if at all) than most people think.

    “Recycle” was/is a marketing grift developed by the oil industry in the 70’s. It largely isn’t effective.

    As someone else mentioned, aluminum (and steel) are very recyclable, and are already extensively recycled in manufacturing (don’t forget that reusing scrap within a factory is considered recycling).

    Everything else largely isn’t, yet. Glass is very recyclable, but the transport costs are exorbitant, so I suspect it’s a negative for things like drink bottles, while the energy costs on most plastic recycling makes it not yet viable, from what I’ve read.

    Someday, just not today.

    If the 3 R’s, Reduce is the one that truly makes a difference.



















  • BearOfaTime@lemm.eetomemes@lemmy.worldFuck both of us
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    Thanks for the thoughtful reply.

    I’ve heard many times that revolvers or semi-auto have less recoil than the other, hence the question about slide mass/energy, as the only element I could see being different which could possibly explain why people hold this opinion.

    Do you know of any actual metrics/tests done that show this clearly? Or is it just a perception issue?

    (And yea, we’d have to agree on a definition of what we’re measuring/comparing). Do any gun magazines run proper tests occasionally to make comparisons?

    I admit my physics classes were a long time ago, but at first glance it seems felt recoil would only be marginally different between a revolver and a pistol using the same round. If anything, I’d expect the revolver to have a greater felt recoil, given the mechanics of a pistol… But I could very well be wrong.