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submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 143 points 3 months 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] 116 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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.

[–] msage 41 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Vasectomy

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 months 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 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] msage 7 points 3 months ago

I hear ya

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months 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 3 months ago

Wellll

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Chlamydia and all other stds are biodegradable

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 73 points 3 months 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 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And reusable!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

and edible.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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 3 months 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] 32 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 58 points 3 months 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 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

That's...not how chemistry works.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Sheep intestine condoms ftw!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

This, but un-sarcastically.

Would be an interesting boost to the Sheep industry.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I see you're unaware of what goes on in New Zealand...

With love from across the Tasman 😁

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago

Nah, they're full of microplastics these days.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So are STDs.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Standard Deviations are not biodegradable

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Neither is statistical thermodynamics

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Santa Domingo Airport probably isn’t as well.

I dunno. Never been to Venezuela.

Kind of an unfortunate airport code, though.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

This is incorrect now, there are some which are.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Say gex!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

sesbiab lex

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months 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 3 months ago (1 children)

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

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

Any vegan alternatives?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Are progesterone pills biodegradable?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

HIV is not biodegradable once it's inside you

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

lol what a wild ride.

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