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[–] [email protected] 142 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Have protected sex even if you only have access to non-biodegradable condoms, getting antibiotic resistant chlamydia isn’t going to save the planet.

[–] [email protected] 114 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Also from an environmental perspective, having a child is about the worst thing you can do compared to...using a fucking condom lmao.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I can't recommend this highly enough if you're never planning on having a kid or if you're done having kids. I am a huge weenie when it comes to medical procedures and mine was super simple. I was sore for a few days, did my follow up, and that was it.

I still use condoms because of STDs but I never have to worry about accidentally having a kid if a condom breaks.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

it's the bees knees when you're married - cream pies all day, every day

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

One baby can go through 6,000 diapers until potty trained.

One condom vs 6,000 diapers. I think your right about the condom doing less damage to the environment.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago

Wellll

If it kills you early, it is certainly good on the climate

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Chlamydia and all other stds are biodegradable

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

or just be a based virgin and don't have sex. That would've been the funny answer.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Latex is natural rubber and is indeed biodegradable though it is slow to break down. Polyurethane condoms will probably be found in the archeological record.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I only use authentic Amish made sheep intestine condoms because they are definitely biodegradable.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

and edible.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean, true but they're better than the styrofoam ones....

/s

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

(I know you're joking but the builder in me is genuinely curious if you can make a rubber-like substance out of polystyrene)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Styrene is in the vynal family, Styrene-Isoprene-Styrene is used to make extremely expensive surgical gloves so I'm going to say yes.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Over a long enough time span... everything returns to star dust

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I, for one, am ready for the sun to consume us all.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I'm not. We need to get star lifting going, and turn the solar system into our command ship, using the sun as the engine, and structural basis.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

"So after a million years of putting off adjustment maintenance, the size of the sun has grown to critical levels and it is now too late. We will be evacuating at the next solar system in 120 [MINUS FIVE] years and diverting all available resources to emergency maintenance in the mean time. This announcement is a recording." Frickin' humans, eons of progress and can't even do eons of progress right.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago (2 children)

"If you care about the planet, be sure to cut down on this product that contributes 0.01% of all plastic waste"

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago

You need a few more zeros there.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Why use plastic condoms? Latex is good.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Latex allergy, apparently that's a thing.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

STDs are biodegradable too

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They're natural. They're from the Earth.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I start my day with a bowlful yim yum

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Isn’t all latex biodegradable? It’s cured tree sap.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes, however, it's the other chemicals they mix it with that make it not biodegradable. Thankfully there are some companies not using those chemicals now which is lovely.

Also, for those who are allergic to latex, unfortunatley the only option is polyurethene which is plastic, and as such not at all biodegradable.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Nitrile is an option as well. They don't contain the protein that triggers allergic reactions

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

That's...not how chemistry works.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Sheep intestine condoms ftw!

/s

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

This, but un-sarcastically.

Would be an interesting boost to the Sheep industry.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Classic supporter of the Sheep-Sex-industrial complex... But not the Welsh kind.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As long as it’s not still in the sheep.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

They're not as good at preventing STDs, but they're decent at preventing pregnancy.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago

Nah, they're full of microplastics these days.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Standard Deviations are not biodegradable

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

just stay a virgin guys it's really easy!!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

This is incorrect now, there are some which are.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ah... 2019... The year of the distortion memes.

You see, it's funnier because the letters are being silly.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

this is why you should do as old times and use sheep intestines as condoms

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

What is the impact on the biosphere of a single person born in the West? Isn't it something absurd like, detonating a nuclear bomb or two?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Are progesterone pills biodegradable?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

lol what a wild ride.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

HIV is not biodegradable once it's inside you

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