Post #1569307
2025-11-15 21:40 UTC
@tubetime I imagine a day when we are mining landfills for discarded vapes, pregnancy tests, and electric toothbrushes for MCUs to keep society going. Why yes, I did graduate high school in the 1980s, why?...
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@ozzelot@mstdn.social 2025-11-15 23:01
@arclight @tubetime No such ideas were part of my education in my country and time, but I imagine such scenarios nonetheless, perhaps for my twisted love of postapocalyptic fantasies and technology with little apparent use in some given era.
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@oldguycrusty@mastodon.world 2025-11-17 20:20
@arclight @tubetime I think the people in what we used to call '3rd world' countries already do that. Those are the places 'we' (rich coutries) send our e-trash for recycling... https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gvq1rd0geo https://ourworld.unu.edu/en/toxic-e-waste-dumped-in-poor-nations-says-united-nations https://esmartrecycling.com/blog/countries-impacted-by-e-waste #ewaste #stopEWaste