I assume I shouldn’t label this as OC.

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    Damn squid, is there anything your family group doesn’t do.

    And for the record, id still call it OC. Its not your photo, but you posted it first so it is “original”.

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      No, my whole family is as weird as me. I come from one long line of weird-as-fuck people.

      I have a cousin who’s got a knighthood. He’s a physicist. He also has an IgNobel prize. He cares a whole lot more about the other one.

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        Yep, that is legit awesome. If I were related to someone with an IgNobel prize, I’d be bragging about it to everyone I know. Which I suppose isn’t a lot of people, and I’m not sure how many would know what an IgNoble prize is, but I figure that is on them.

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        The scrubland that the photo is taken from is the gradual buildup between the Conglian Rainforest and the Sahara.

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    Been to Morocco a couple of times. Zoom in on the photo

    The amount of dumped rubbish is quite frankly fucking shameful. There’s a sea of plastic bags and coke bottles everywhere to the point they’re blowing all over the Sahara too

    It could be such an amazing tourist spot, being so close to Europe, but the locals treat it like a giant rubbish dump. It’s such a shame

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      5 pieces of rubbish have been circled in a field. It would not surprise me to find 5 pieces of rubbish in a field of similar size in the US.

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          The US doesn’t have a tourist problem due to it’s trash, nor do people often say generalized statements like “American locals treat their country like a rubbish dump” after finding 5 pieces of trash in a field.

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            I’ve just… never really seen trash in a field in the countries I’ve lived in. Must be an “uncivilised country” thing I’m too civilised to know about

            Glad you’ve got the Freedom©®™ to do that though

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      Yes, absolutely. Tunisia too. Time for some new religous rules that’s relevant today. It should be haram to disrespect nature.

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        It already is? It’s not a religious problem, it’s a third world country problem. People just have more important things to worry about than plastic littering but I agree it needs to be changed.

        There should be prohibitions against plastic bags in general but there’s no caliphate now, so it’s not a monolith that sets the rules.

        Edit: i would also like to mention that a lot of third world countries do not have the system to recycle or process plastic waste. Even if you hand them over to municipality, it gets thrown into open waste dumps and get burnt.

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      i jeard that sahara sand is practically useless for that

      or maybe that was just for concrete or something

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        It can’t be used for concrete because it’s too smooth due to erosion. Industrial sand is manufactured to have sharp edges so it holds better.

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          I heard beach sand is pretty good for concrete. Apparently there is something called sand mafias in (iirc) India which basically steals sand from beaches and sells it.

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            Beaches, rivers you name it. Flowing water makes the best kind of construction sand.

            In bangladesh, the sand mafia have literally eaten through making rivers extra wide.