News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Cleaning New York's harbor with one billion oysters by AshleyGrant on Monday January 21, 2019 @11:01AM (#18961188)
> The Captain-Planet-Villain model of somebody literally cackling about how much pollution they're going to release into the world today is nonsense.

And yet we have idiots in diesel trucks modded to "roll coal" cackling as they "own the libs" when they spew out soot.

Re:Cleaning New York's harbor with one billion oysters by tqi on Monday January 21, 2019 @12:02PM (#18961661)
Have you or anyone you know actually seen someone rolling coal?
Re:Cleaning New York's harbor with one billion oysters by stevenwoo on Monday January 21, 2019 @12:48PM (#18962025)
Drive SF to San Diego a few times a year and there are a few all along the route when going off the main freeway, more in rural areas, but present. See a few while bicycling through Santa Cruz mountains to west of San Jose, there's one house I regularly pass in Pescadero that has two - it only takes a few miles of driving outside of downtown Los Gatos to get to more rural areas.
Re:Cleaning New York's harbor with one billion oysters by prepend on Monday January 21, 2019 @12:25PM (#18961839)
I have a close friend who spent a lot of money so they could “roll coal” on people. Only one person, but he talks about it a lot. A lot.

He claims that he likes spewing this out onto people he doesn’t like. He’s never mentioned how awesome it is to pollute or anything. It’s the equivalent of spy hunter smokescreen.

Re:Cleaning New York's harbor with one billion oysters by ams6110 on Monday January 21, 2019 @01:27PM (#18962304)
Not uncommon in most rural areas, from my observation. I see it weekly, more or less.
Re:Cleaning New York's harbor with one billion oysters by pxeboot on Monday January 21, 2019 @01:47PM (#18962481)
I see people rolling coal several times a week here in Texas.
Re:Cleaning New York's harbor with one billion oysters by cco on Monday January 21, 2019 @12:20PM (#18961797)
Yes, pretty routine in small town rural Oregon.
Re:Cleaning New York's harbor with one billion oysters by asveikau on Monday January 21, 2019 @07:22PM (#18964913)
Some out of towner in a pickup truck did this to me in SF. I was on a Vespa.