Ban All The Things!

33 Replies to “Ban All The Things!”

1. Looks like Fuji didn’t make a big enough donation to the DemocRats. Bummer, photographers.

2. What’s the EPA limit on vinyl chloride in ditches?

   1. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think the correct procedure with all the phenol isopropylated phosphate should be to ship it all to the White House lawn for a controlled burn.

      1. They should also bottle the water from East Palestine and put it in the water coolers at the EPA (and the FDA while they are at it) and the White House. They would love the rainbow sheen.

         1. Rainbows are so gay, Mayor Pete told me.

3. We’re at the point where someone is going to propose a stop to using sodium chloride to de-ice roadways because it kills the weeds along the berm. Probably the only thing stopping that now is ignorance of the perpetually offended. They haven’t made the association just yet.

   1. Alberta doesn’t use salt on their roads.

      1. Calcium chloride which is – tada- a salt. I think they might still use some sodium chloride.

         1. I stand corrected.
            Looks like Edmonton is even starting to use sodium chloride.

   2. Di-Hydrogen Monoxide is also another mass killing poison, still waiting for its ban.

      It’s lethal to all age groups. Where are the mass protests? Greenpeace needs to get right on that!

      1. It is lethal if you drown in a bathtub after 2 shots to the chest while committing suicide in Arkansas.

   3. I recall there was a push to stop using sodium chloride in seattle because the runoff would go into the pacific ocean…

   4. They should stop using salt (by substituting it) because of the immense damage caused by corrosion to cars and infrastructure. And there’s also environmental damage.

      1. Substitute with what?

         1. Urea. Pig-Piss. They use it at the airports.. When we would bring the planes into the hangar, the smell was unmistakable. It smells like the stairwells in the parking garages and under the bridges, downtown. Oh wait, its high in nitrogen, like fertilizer, which is baaaaad for the environment!

            The problem isn’t so much the film for cameras, as we have pretty much gone digital by now, but for the professional type films, like the kind they use for doing NDT exposures onto, using x and gamma ray photography. While even medical images are done mostly by detectors, instead of film, these days, it’s pretty hard to slot a rigid detector plate in and around piping etc. on, say, a nuclear installation or area under inspection in an aircraft wing, or other tight area.

         2. Unicornium

         3. Brine is being used in some areas of Ontario.

4. Oh..”But none of those restrictions seem to apply to any level of Government”..Says I in imitation of the Manitoban Bureaucracy.
   And CSA.
   And our Yellow Striped Street Gang.
   And of course all our Progressive Comrades out there.
   Especially the Media Party of Can Ahh Duh.

5. 30-40,000 tons of salt each year in AB.

   https://www.calgary.ca/roads/conditions/snow-ice-salt.html
   Edmonton too.

   I’ve always favoured the Fujifilm Velvia films and thought their colors were best, and the reason I bought into the Fujifilm digital cameras too.

   1. NEVER buy a used car from road salt locales. Nasty business that salt on the undercarriage and engine. Wanna make an aluminum block engine look like shit? Drive it through salted roadways. Sayyyy … I sure hope those EV’s with undercarriage battery arrays are well protected from the salts.

      1. Get any snow lately Kenji?

         Well, you just ruled out the Canadian auto market!

         In truth, typical road salt is ineffective when temperatures drop below -6C. It makes no sense for the Prairie provinces to be using much salt beyond the shoulder seasons.
         In BC, the coast gets salted heavy, the interior, not so much.
         Morontariowe is notorious for its crazy use of road salt, out here it’s known to NEVER buy a vehicle from there, not that BC is much better.

         1. Only in the Sierra … been dumping again this week. They just spread gravel … which isn’t much fun either … mainly for the new immigrant (and soy boy) drivers who have NO IDEA WHATSOEVER how to drive in the snow and on slick roads.

         2. The last time I went to Montreal I was amazed that all of the vehicles were white. No colour options available in Quebec?

            Salt, salt, salt.

      2. It’s called undercoating and it works.

         1. Actually oil spray is better, use an oil that don’t eat rubber.
            Ever notice old clunkers that leak oil, any areas coated in oil are rust free.

      3. Hmm, aren’t salts also conductive and make water even more so?
         Ohhhh Mommma!!
         🙂

6. Calcium Chloride is way worse

7. I was wondering if it’s another step to make all information digital?

8. What if I told you that your outrage over a regulation is not in and of itself persuasive, and that you actually have to make a serious argument for a different rule?

   1. Whoosh.
      Keep up the good work.
      Heh.

   2. we don’t care what you say.

9. L – “Promise me son, when you grow up. Never move to or visit a place that bans Fujichrome 100 Professional.”

10. Beet juice is an effective alternative to salt alone because it lowers the freezing point of water to as low as -20 degrees. Salt only prevents water from freezing at temperatures of 5 degrees or higher. Salt also bounces from the roads; adding beet juice lowers the bounce rate from 30 percent to 5 percent, reducing the amount of salt used on the roads. With the new product, the Arboretum is using nine times less salt, saving nearly $14,000 in material costs.

    https://www.deeproot.com/blog/blog-entries/deicing-with-beet-juice/