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That doesn’t make sense though, it’s much easier for me to throw away a bike in a large public trash can than find my nearest water body and go through the trou

That doesn’t make sense though, it’s much easier for me to throw away a bike in a large public trash can than find my nearest water body and go through the trouble of making sure it will sink.

peteradio 4y ago
But you will never cross paths with a landfill right? People do continue to cross over the river again and again. Discoverability bias.
- bagacrap 4y ago
  I see more dumpsters than rivers
  - peteradio 4y ago
    The dumpster has to be completely filled to emit evidence of a disposed bicycle, that is beside the point ... Why would anyone write an expose on bicycles being disposed of in a public dumpster. The absolute numbers to give a fuck are entirety different and don't even point the same direction on the moral compass. An expose on dumpster bikes would be like why aren't people throwing more bikes away in dumpsters sounds more like a shitty Seinfeld routine. "Why aren't there more bikes in dumpsters? You never see em! Meanwhile everybody's dumping into the river! There's a dumpster right there!" It's obvious befuddled nonsense which does not admit the intentional flow of trash away from the placement and the inability of a bike to flow in a river. End of discussion have good weekend EVERYONE!
basedgod 4y ago
what the river doesn't ask questions. doesn't judge you. doesn't rear it's ugly head of spatial conformity when your bike doesn't fit. it merely politely swallows whatever you put into it, wherever you are, leaving you free to go about your day vs the municipal trash can, where you'll be fined if it doesn't fit, and have to lug it in way more fun to toss and dump on one last wild ride of your bike bikes don't float hth
- oynqr 4y ago
  Can you hear the ocean? It longs for your car batteries.
  - djbusby 4y ago
    Tyres. For a reef (obviously) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_Reef https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_Reef
    - reaperducer 4y ago
      I seem to remember that back in the 80's, IBM sunk a metric assload of hard drives off the coast of Boca Raton to make a reef. This was something that happened more than five days ago, so nothing came up when I did a Google search.
      - ChoGGi 4y ago
        https://www.gillware.com/hard-drive-data-recovery/hdd-burial-sea-davy-jones-locker/ https://www.gillware.com/hard-drive-data-recovery/hdd-burial...
- bombcar 4y ago
  This is why public dumpsters are probably a good idea in general.
  - nsxwolf 4y ago
    I thought I was smart by not paying Home Depot to install my replacement overhead microwave unit and carry away the old one. Then I discovered it's almost impossible to throw away a microwave. Garbage won't take it, e-waste recycling drives were always "Sorry, all full" after the first 15 minutes... I held onto that thing for 7 years until an old gypsy scrapper and his dog happened to see it while I was working in my garage. God bless him and his dog.
    - 4y ago
celticninja 4y ago
Someone will pull it out of the trash can even if it is just to free wheel part way to their destination before dumping it. Eventually someone dumps it in a body of water where it cannot be seen and if it could would be deemed unusable. It's a bit like the drunk, wall and gutter, they will bounce off the wall everytime they hit it, but once they are in the gutter they are stuck there.
Johnny555 4y ago
I've never seen a public trash can large enough to hold an entire bike, but lots of bodies of water that could hold a bike. I've only seen one bike end up in the water (a mountain bike that fell off the back of a sailboat), and it sank immediately, there was no problem making sure it sank. A commercial dumpster would hold it, but most places around here keep those locked up (either by locking the cover or keeping them behind a locked gate). Probably because they got tired of people dumping personal trash (like bicycles) in them.
- pizza234 4y ago
  Bike are very easy to get rid of, not in trash cans (I find that unrealistic, too), but because they're appealing for their individual pieces, since they're mostly generic (as opposed to appliances, which even when sold for parts, have mostly specialized components). There is always somebody that will take them to extract parts to fix/build other bikes (assuming a large enough city, and enough bike users). I've actually purchased a bike from a shop that made bikes from parts. It was a horror, but it shows that there is a life cycle that doesn't end in a river :)
raydiatian 4y ago
It makes perfect sense. Bikes at your large public trash can be easily recycled or discarded at municipal waste facility. Bikes lost to rivers lakes and oceans accumulate into graveyards. Thus the “why so many”

That doesn’t make sense though, it’s much easier for me to throw away a bike in a large public trash can than find my nearest water body and go through the trouble of making sure it will sink.

peteradio 4y ago

But you will never cross paths with a landfill right? People do continue to cross over the river again and again. Discoverability bias.

bagacrap 4y ago
I see more dumpsters than rivers
- peteradio 4y ago
  The dumpster has to be completely filled to emit evidence of a disposed bicycle, that is beside the point ... Why would anyone write an expose on bicycles being disposed of in a public dumpster. The absolute numbers to give a fuck are entirety different and don't even point the same direction on the moral compass. An expose on dumpster bikes would be like why aren't people throwing more bikes away in dumpsters sounds more like a shitty Seinfeld routine. "Why aren't there more bikes in dumpsters? You never see em! Meanwhile everybody's dumping into the river! There's a dumpster right there!" It's obvious befuddled nonsense which does not admit the intentional flow of trash away from the placement and the inability of a bike to flow in a river. End of discussion have good weekend EVERYONE!

basedgod 4y ago

what the river doesn't ask questions. doesn't judge you. doesn't rear it's ugly head of spatial conformity when your bike doesn't fit. it merely politely swallows whatever you put into it, wherever you are, leaving you free to go about your day vs the municipal trash can, where you'll be fined if it doesn't fit, and have to lug it in way more fun to toss and dump on one last wild ride of your bike bikes don't float hth

oynqr 4y ago
Can you hear the ocean? It longs for your car batteries.
- djbusby 4y ago
  Tyres. For a reef (obviously) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_Reef https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_Reef
  - reaperducer 4y ago
    I seem to remember that back in the 80's, IBM sunk a metric assload of hard drives off the coast of Boca Raton to make a reef. This was something that happened more than five days ago, so nothing came up when I did a Google search.
    - ChoGGi 4y ago
      https://www.gillware.com/hard-drive-data-recovery/hdd-burial-sea-davy-jones-locker/ https://www.gillware.com/hard-drive-data-recovery/hdd-burial...
bombcar 4y ago
This is why public dumpsters are probably a good idea in general.
- nsxwolf 4y ago
  I thought I was smart by not paying Home Depot to install my replacement overhead microwave unit and carry away the old one. Then I discovered it's almost impossible to throw away a microwave. Garbage won't take it, e-waste recycling drives were always "Sorry, all full" after the first 15 minutes... I held onto that thing for 7 years until an old gypsy scrapper and his dog happened to see it while I was working in my garage. God bless him and his dog.
  - 4y ago

celticninja 4y ago

Someone will pull it out of the trash can even if it is just to free wheel part way to their destination before dumping it. Eventually someone dumps it in a body of water where it cannot be seen and if it could would be deemed unusable. It's a bit like the drunk, wall and gutter, they will bounce off the wall everytime they hit it, but once they are in the gutter they are stuck there.

Johnny555 4y ago

I've never seen a public trash can large enough to hold an entire bike, but lots of bodies of water that could hold a bike. I've only seen one bike end up in the water (a mountain bike that fell off the back of a sailboat), and it sank immediately, there was no problem making sure it sank. A commercial dumpster would hold it, but most places around here keep those locked up (either by locking the cover or keeping them behind a locked gate). Probably because they got tired of people dumping personal trash (like bicycles) in them.

pizza234 4y ago
Bike are very easy to get rid of, not in trash cans (I find that unrealistic, too), but because they're appealing for their individual pieces, since they're mostly generic (as opposed to appliances, which even when sold for parts, have mostly specialized components). There is always somebody that will take them to extract parts to fix/build other bikes (assuming a large enough city, and enough bike users). I've actually purchased a bike from a shop that made bikes from parts. It was a horror, but it shows that there is a life cycle that doesn't end in a river :)

raydiatian 4y ago

It makes perfect sense. Bikes at your large public trash can be easily recycled or discarded at municipal waste facility. Bikes lost to rivers lakes and oceans accumulate into graveyards. Thus the “why so many”