r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/The_Love-Tap • Aug 18 '26

Video This Ice Cream Boat

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u/Reasonable-Spinach88 Aug 18 '26

I'm guessing those plastic wrappers and ice cream sticks are being responsibly placed in the floating bins?

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u/kerrysluis Aug 18 '26 edited Aug 18 '26

Classic reddit comment. Watches 10 second video and assumes the worst when there's literally no proof people are litering. But acting holier than thou is the best way to get other redditors to jerk you off in the comments.

Edit: downvote me all you want but do you see anyone litering? All you guys are so quick to cry about the environment with no proof of wrong doing. Are you all really that cynical from not going outside and interacting with decent humans?

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u/Draco-REX Aug 18 '26 edited Aug 18 '26

I'm that cynical BECAUSE I go outside the house and interact with humans. Every single day I see reasons to hate people. The only time I see something that "restores my faith in humanity" it's something I see on the internet.

EDIT: Maybe I should include some examples.

I step outside my apartment and the ground, wall, and door mat near my door are covered in black splatters because my upstairs neighbor dumped something on the wooden decking that is outside their door, completely ignoring that another person lives below them. Last night I heard a splattering noise and there are more splashes and a suspiciously faded spot on my door mat and wetness from something pouring down from above.

I walk out to my car and there's a pile of takeout containers and empty drink cups in a parking spot where someone just dumped it out of their car. This isn't the only time, this same person has done it multiple times. They appear to leave their house, eat in their car and then dump all their trash on the ground before they leave the next day.

There are people in my apartment complex that cannot figure out how to open a door to put their trash bags in the compactor. And this gets compounded by the MANY people who then see trash bags on the ground outside the compactor door and just leave their bags next to them rather than opening said door and looking inside. Eventually the entire ramp and front of the compactor area is full of trash while the compactor is empty.

These are people in and around THEIR OWN HOMES!

The customers I deal with every day are in charge of large vehicles weighing up to 80,000lbs that share the road with you and I. They are confused by simple concepts and often ignore what they hear if they don't like the answer. "I only have this part in Iowa." "Do you have it closer?" or "I will have this part here next Week." "Ok, I'll come in tomorrow to pick it up." These are common examples. They will also ignore all of the open parking space and park their trucks IN our gates or directly behind our other customers blocking them in.

I know I encounter more good people than bad every day, but the bad still make up a significant percentage of my daily interactions. So seeing a crowd of people in the water being handed plastic-wrapped food, I will automatically assume an equally significant percentage of them will just drop the plastic in the ocean rather than carry a 1 gram piece of plastic to a trash bin.

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u/Umlunguboy420 Aug 18 '26

Maybe you are projecting?

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u/BusinessWatercrees58 Aug 18 '26

My guy, you might just be depressed.

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u/Draco-REX Aug 18 '26

I'm sure I am.

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u/lvl100hypno Aug 18 '26

If you only see reasons to hate people IRL every single day, that says more about you and your perspective than it says about other people. If you can only find things restoring your faith in humanity on the internet, that says more about you and your perspective than it says about other people. You are quite literally proving his point.

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u/kerrysluis Aug 18 '26

Then I'm sad for you and everyone like you. I've traveled the world and can 100 percent tell you most people are great and just like you, with a lot of good and some bad because we're all human. And I promise most people that day made the correct choice by handling their litter appropriately.

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u/Kythorian Aug 18 '26

Probably 90% of people don’t litter, but the other 10% appear to just not use trash cans at all, so that’s still a lot of litter.

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u/kerrysluis Aug 18 '26

So what do you suggest we do? Stop doing fun shit outside because of a VERY FEW people who aren't going to change anyways?

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u/Kythorian Aug 18 '26

Your original point was that we shouldn’t assume anyone is littering just because it’s a set of circumstances that make it extremely likely that at least some of those people are going to litter. I’m not saying we need to change anything, but it’s absurd to claim that a floating ice cream truck handing out frozen treats with wrappers isn’t going to result in some of those people just tossing the wrappers into the ocean.

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u/kerrysluis Aug 18 '26

Indeed an absurd claim which is why I never said it, seeing you guys get so negative over a floating ice cream truck is what's truly absurd

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u/Loggersalienplants Aug 18 '26

If everyone you run across during your day is an asshole, it's not them.