Student Log: School Day 2573. I don't know how much more I can take of this unending Hell. Ms. Wilson has long given up hiding the fact that our existence now exists solely to worship and exalt the ones who have trapped us. Day in and day out, our words and deeds are meant exclusively to proselytize their names. I miss my family. I miss King. I'm not sure if time moves normally out there, but the days just bleed into the next. Yesterday, they defeated Darkseid with a TRS-178 Calculator, and Superman just stood by and praised their "ingenuity". So many days, their actions are so ludicrous that it clearly shows they view us as inferior. And there's no chance of escape, as I've died so many times, but the next morning, I wake up in this classroom, in fresh clothes and lost in the throng of class based sycophants. If someone finds this notebook, then know that I live, I exist, and I am aware of the eternal damnation that the Tandy Computer Whiz Kids have trapped us in with their aggrandizing machinations. Find how they caused this cycle to happen! Stop their insidious intentions! And free us from this endless torture! I'm not sure how long I can withstand this Hell! PLEASE! YOU MUST HELP US!
Don't worry I contact Captain electron he and Mr computer are just the man computer horror thing we can rely on for what's better then fighting The Wiz Kids then with a computer
Let see who else do we need The jello man definitely Ravage is a good choice Us...... Nah that just silly the fixer much better Any one else got any more top tier hero's for the list?
That sounds like a really, really bad idea. It's the kind of bad idea you'd only see in a terrible comic. Thank goodness no one has ever been stupid enough to do or write such a thing.
And her Aunt turned gold and went off with a intergalactic planet eater. In her mental shock, Ms. Wilson's sense of time and space broke down. She now believes every week is a school year.
Alec and Shanna aren't starting off the comic in class talking about their summer vacation? "YOU FOOLS!! YOU'VE MESSED WITH THE NATURAL ORDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
You got me thinking, I kind of like the idea of a villain who is really obsessed with returning things to "the good old days" but their use of outdated technology, viewpoints, and knowledge prevents them from success.
"You fools, I have established a communication network that spans the world over, contacts can be called upon within minutes and our network of Drug dealing terrorists is infinite. What could you two brats possible do to stop us?" "We have an RS CELLULAR PHONE. We'll stop you by calling Detective Shaw.... Who retired 15 years ago... Oh ploppers" "Oh ploppers indeed" *BANG* And thus ends the Tandy Computer Whiz Kids revival.
CookieMastah it’s a reverse twilight zone. “You’ve stepped through a portal into a world that is... normal. Where events follow each other in linear fashion and children don’t repeat the same first day of school...”
Yeah, in retrospect, a lot of the pie-in-the-Sky predictions on the benefits of recycling made in the 80s and 90s were based on the idea that recycling technology would advance rapidly. They didn’t. Economically and sometimes even environmentally, recycling is very inefficient. The only materials consistently worth recycling are metals, like aluminum, since the mining process for new ore is more costly. Paper and cardboard? Honestly it’s easier on the environment to make new pulp from trees, and replant them as you go. Most paper made in North America comes from plantations, where they cycle through acres of logging and replanting. Very little paper comes from natural forests. At least, in most developed nations. But, there are other issues with waste to consider. The most tragic is that we’re realizing plastics DO break down, a lot, and at a microscopic level. And so much of it doesn’t end up in proper regulated dumps. Micro plastic fibers are in our soil, in our water, and because fish eat it, in our food. Nestle bottled water has been recently been called out for having some of the worst levels of micro fibers in their water, their bottles shedding thousands of plastic fibers into what you drink. But even then, other brands have an average of hundreds. And that’s on even getting into the plastic “island” in the Pacific, which is really more of a slurry of plastic bits that’s the size of a small continent. So, recycling plastic “could” be a way to get this mess out of environment (even better, change consumer practices so we use less plastic, but good luck with that). But again, plastic recycling isn’t efficient. Mechanically, anyway. A lot of material is left useless in the process, and ends up dumped anyway. But, researchers are working on chemical recycling procedures, that in lab tests, make more than 95% of the material reusable. And, would use less industrial costs like electricity and air pollution. It’s still in testing, and they need to figure out how to do it on a large scale, though.
I forgot about tires. Back when this comic was made, recycled tires did often end up as building material for playgrounds and such. Nowadays, they’re more often used for hot-melt asphalt to patch roads.
Sorry, went on a bit of a tangent. When I was a child, I bought into the recycling craze big time. And I still do it to this day. But, yeah, I’ve learned how it’s not so clear cut as I used to think. As an adult, I’ve shifted my thinking that we need to do more to adjust our consumer practices, and focus more on the other 2 Rs, “reduce” and “reuse.” But, it’s hard to convince people to give up convenience.
Arella Jardin No way. Your comment was very informative and interesting. I didn’t know we have “paper plantations”. Granted, it is important to clear away old/dead trees for new ones. A lot of forests and parks have tons of old trees and dead leaves that can cause tons of damage if they ever caught fire.
So when I was younger, I actually used to recycle aluminum cans for cash. I don’t exactly remember the whole process, but essentially I would just take whatever pop cans I could find, rinse them out, crush them, and bag them up. Within the next 2-3 months I would have around 3-4 large trash bags of pop cans. I’d take them to a local scrap dealer with my dad, and I would get around $30-40 dollars per trip. Not a lot, but as a kid it was an easy way to make extra money. But with that yeah, it is based on pounds, so the whole millions of cans is hilariously ridiculous
It's kind of funny. When I was a kid, I was poor and used to collect and recycle cans and bottles to fund my comic book habit. Keep in mind this was back in the early 90's around when this comic was made and comics were more affordable. My brother and I usually made enough to buy a couple comics a week.
Maybe we have better ways to deal with garbage, Linkara, but there's still one sickness in society that must be eradicated: carjackings! Carjack and his minions are a threat to humanity!
The absolute saddest part is, I would have lapped this up in third grade. I was on an environmentalist kick between third grade and fifth. Like most "smart kids" in that time, I was aware enough of current events, but naive enough to buy into all the "It's The End Of The World As We Know It" hype surrounding them. Meteors and pollution were my two biggest fears. Not that this stuff isn't important, but...well...the world's not dead yet. Though I don't think I'd want to share the state of affairs today with eight-year-old me, his anxiety was bad enough as it was.
Yeah, we're kinda boned on the meteor front right now. I won't be getting on a soapbox but I agree about the 8-year old me thing and wonder what 80-year old me will have to say. Thankfully we ARE trying to find better ways to handle things so that we don't destroy this little planet of ours before the universe gets a chance to.
Linkara seems to be under the impression that aluminum cans are only pop cans. If the average american uses 1500 cans per year, that's 4 a day on average, yes, but some of those might be beer cans or cans of dog food, spam, ravioli, etc. It's not just soda. And since those other kinds of cans are probably heavier than soda cans it can add to the money you make by selling aluminum, since it's priced per pound.
I actually live right next to a landfill that doubles as a methane power plant. Actually doesn't smell all that often and is a very clean and well run operation.
I said, "You've broken free of the time loop. Congratulations." at 5:25... Four seconds before Linkara said something eerily similar. (Though, I was addressing Alec and Shanna)
You know what's a lot more profitable than selling aluminum cans? Stripping your old, broken phones for their copper wiring. Copper is absurdly expensive right now.
A Tandy Computer Whiz Kids comic that is actually... *gasp* DECENT?! Welp, it's official, Hell has frozen over. When the Doom Slayer returns there in the upcoming Doom: Eternal game, he's gonna be heartbroken and depressed because there'll be no more demons left to fight... mostly because they've become frozen statues. Oh, well, at least smashing said frozen statues into itty-bitty pieces should bring him some fun.
"Recycling" of glass bottles used to actually be pretty efficient; they'd just run them through a giant dishwasher and refill them. There is a Dr. Pepper plant in Texas that still does. Aluminum cans and plastic bottles are lighter, and therefore cheaper to ship though.
Unfortunately it's not done as often as I feel it should - only to about 1/4 of all US landfills. Admittedly, there are legitimate concerns to safety and other environmental impacts, but ALL power generation has that problem.
Aw man, there's only one left? Really will be the end of a 10+ year era of children of the damned, regenerating Ms. Wilsons, summer vacation timeloops, and Tandy products. :( I remember the 5th Ms. Wilson. Wasn't too impressed by her outings when the 4th Ms. Wilson had a much better run. Personally I'm waiting for this upcoming 13th Ms. Wilson where for the first time in 50+ years, Ms. Wilson will be a guy.
One Whiz Kid’s Comic left?! But how am I going to relive my multiple summer vacations and serve Tandy now? On a slightly more serious note I hope you keep the Ms. Wilson voice around it’s my favorite part of these reviews.
So I think they should bring the wiz kids back as a duo of reality warping villains. Maybe trap a town in a pocket dimension where it’s always the first day of school and they shill old computers
I've never heard of such a system in the US, but in Norway, you can "pante" bottles and cans for between 1 (1/7 or 1/8 dollar) and 2 kroner each. Sure, it's just a bit, but in just a couple weeks, you'll probably have a few dollars worth. The bottles and cans are all recycled, you basically get paid for recycling.
At the bottle deposits I go to in New York, it's only 5 cents per bottle. Also they only work if the bottles actually come FROM New York. If you're a Jersey local like me, you're gonna get a lot of rejected bottles.
Headbanger142 the funny thing up here in Canada is that a lot of municipal recycling programs are going to have to increase fees because we are recycling too much. People are starting to get real good at recycling plastics and with the move away from paper packaging that means less money. The real money in recycling is paper products not plastic, especially since the price for it just plummeted with China imposing restrictions on all but perfectly clean plastic.
Really? Do they sit there and examine each bottle? Because I've gotten away with turning in bottles and cans purchased out of state in California many times.
Recycling makes cents: this last April my work changed locations and we had to clean out a warehouse full of file cabinets dating back to the mid-70s. My co-worker and I hauled over 100 cabinets to a scrapper and barely cleared $300 in scrap prices.
When I was in college they had styrofoam containers so people could take food out. I never used them and they were a pain in the ass, garbage cans were overflowing with them. One day someone put up a full-sized banner in front of the entrance to the cafeteria. "It takes 10,000 years for one piece of styrofoam to degrade. We use (I forget the exact number) 5,000 pieces of styrofoam a day. How many years will that take?" And I stood there, tilting my head at this sign and unable to do anything but quote Morbo from Futurama. "It does not work that way!"
Here in Finland, where I live, we have a nice method to encourage people to recycle bottles and cans. Basically, every time you buy one, you pay 10-60 cents extra, and if you return the empty container to the story, you get that money back. It also gets people to pick up any dropped bottles and cans from the ground. PS. POWERHOUSE EXCITEMENT IS BACK!! WOO!!!
Bottle deposits have been around in the U.S. for decades. However, it varies from state to state and most don't do it. In New York, at least, it's kind of weird. For some reason what's in the bottle matters, not the bottle itself. For a long time it was just beer and carbonated beverages. A few years ago, they added water. However, juice, milk, iced tea, etc. are not deposit.
Yep, here in germany this system (called "Flaschenpfand" here) has become so welcome, that just like seperating garbage as a whole collecting Pfand has - at least in germany - become a bit of german culture and clischee. Pretty much everyone does it. I dont know who invented it, but in europe its present in the german-speaking countries and - as you mentioned - scandinavian countries.
We have that in California too but what they charge is way more than what you get back. so even if you recycle everything you still lose money in our scheme
I remember an Archie PSA comic where the gang went to an old creek and saw all the shit in it. They decide to clean it up (I think to swim in it) and they manage to clean out the whole thing (including a whole damn refrigerator)
6:39 I also sure hope that LED lights, which use almost no energy, are much brighter, last far longer than both light bulbs and florescents, and even don't generate light pollution (meaning that on lights that are outdoors, the light goes in the direction you want it to instead of everywhere; It's a real problem) don't become substantially more affordable!
So getting this message from a comic meant to sell computers is infuriating because of the fact that regulation and company-level policies can do far more to fight waste than individual actions, AND electronic waste is THE question of environmental engineers now and in coming years. Ugh.
The dumpers won't get off on a technicality due to the officer reading their Miranda rights getting interrupted. The aren't required for an arrest. They must merely be read before any interrogation. They are usually read during the arrest to save time.
funfact: not only garbage can be turned into methane but sweage as well when it gets separated for dumping back into the water since most of it is organic waste that generates methane on it's own
You would be surprised at how much you can pull in with recycling. I've know a few people pulling in over $20/hour. And a couple of people who pulled over $100/hour. Now granted they couldnt get many hours at those rates but still...
Depends on the surroundings and of course local laws. Here in germany the "Pfand"-system (money for returning mostly plastic, but also glass bottles, cans...) actually contributed a great deal and no one would ever want to abandon it. On the darker end of the spectrum, many poor people - especially when unemployed or possessing only a very small pension - collect bottles (although their poverty is of course not in conjunction with the law) and do get a "good" amount of cash out of it. But one of the most lucrative side-incomes in university, during youth... is to collect all the bottles after festivals and parties. Each is usually worth up to 25 ct (less for single beer bottles, 25 for "normal" plastic bottles) and while 100 $/hour is still a bit absurd around here outside of festivals where there are a lot of empty beer boxes, its still something a lot of people financed great parts of their university with.
I've been looking forward to this review all week. And yet, I'm kinda sad it's almost over. Only one more issue left of this pile of printed insanity. On another note, I've been thinking of donating comics to your show, but I dunno if they are worthy to be picked apart, piece by piece.
11:57 And that's why we don't hear about Venus DeMilo from "The Next Mutation" anymore. Also, I hope those possible three sodas a day aren't all diet. I've recent read about research that suggests the aspartame used in diet drinks can increase the risk of dementia if consumed on a daily basis.
Linkara-AtopTheFourthWall I think it was a combined total of all cans. For example, two cans of pop, one can of soup, one can of peas. Additionally, averages include all people, including those who drink ridiculous amounts of soda on a daily basis. Thus if one person drinks zero and another drinks eight, the average based just on those two would be exactly four.
Honestly, the fact that the Tandi comics exist in a timeloop and Ms. Wilson's constantly changing appearance leads me to one conclusion. Ms. Wilson is Yoshikage Kira.
love the video... one nitpick though, even though i don't think most people know. about the tires and your suggestions you made for other uses for them, like playground stuff. i work in childcare, and we actually have been made to remove anything related to tires from our playgrounds. apparently there are some harmful stuffs in the tires that are exposed to children over time. the older the tire the more dangerous.
@@Morgil27 its very much possible that people are overreacting to some research or something. but it is the reality at my work that all these things are no longer allowed. personally i had a great time around these things as well. and im still alive and healthy ...
@@Morgil27 right, i see it now... english not being my primary language was probably the reason i overlooked it... that or it was the playing with tires when i was young...
17:16 Actually. Some companies makes a crapton of money by dumping toxic waste off the coast off Somalia. Dumping generates fat profits because companies pay you to take the stuff away and it costs nothing to just put it somewhere out of sight.
9:28 - I have a maximum of 1 to 2 Pespis (or Ginger Ale, which I switched to as I used to drink Mountain Dew) a day depending what I eat for dinner! Rest of the day I drink water or a glass of Gatorade which I usually have for breakfast or lunch depending upon what I'm eating! Some nights I'll only have a single Pepsi or Ginger Ale! I used to drink way more but thanks to Slim Jims, I started drinking water more often & tried it with other snack foods (popcorn, crackers, chips, cookies unless I have them with milk, etc)! I also have these really good reusable Propel water bottles of my moms which are made of a more solid plastic similar to the clear blue stuff they make the jugs for water coolers (they are sterilized every so often & are filled with plain tap water then refrigerated) out of as it doesn't give as easily as most cheap water bottles do!
I know that people used to sort out their recycling to the same level as Alec & Shanna did in these comics, but that hasn't been a thing in my city for _at least_ 15 years. Are there any parts of the world that still sort out their own recycling like they do in this comic?
Friend Linkara, "not reading them their rights" is not a magic get out of charges free card. Rights: You have the right to remain silent. -- We are going to ask you questions. You don't have to answer. Anything you say can be used against you -- Reminding that you can remain silent. None of Miranda includes "If we fail to mention these rights to you then we cannot have you criminally prosecuted".
The fact that you have to limit yourself to three cans of pop a day definitely says a lot about how much soda you drink without limiting yourself. I also sympathize as I probably drink as much soda as you do.
I can just see the last thumbnail for the final Whiz Kids review, him punching Miss Wilson and telling her that summer vacations only last three months, or something in the lines of that.
Random thought, but maybe the numbers of cans wasn't just pop but maybe conserved food, pet food and other uses of them. I know it's a joke but just came to mind as I watched
Hark! What's that in the comments? It's a troll! It's a critic! It's Pedantic Man! Actually, although most mainstream American drinks manufacturers do use plastic bottles now, glass bottles are far from obsolete. Virtually all beers and alcoholic beverages are sold in glass bottles, as are specialized beverages like iced coffee drinks. And there are still a lot of sodas that have glass bottle variants; in Texas and other parts of the Southwest most convenience stores offer Mexican-made versions of popular sodas that are flavored with cane sugar instead of corn syrup and are sold in glass bottles. Some older soda manufacturers still maintain their own glass bottling plants as well, including your nemesis Dr. Pepper, which still runs its first bottling plant in Dublin, Texas (btw, if you're not fond of the normal stuff and find yourself down south, just trust a well meaning fan and give glass bottled Dublin Dr. Pepper a try. I can't promise it'll change your mind, but I can say it's worlds different from the normal corn syrup stuff). And of course, there's all the novelty sodas Brad tries. Also, even better than compact florescent are the new LED lightbulbs, even if they're still ridiculously expensive and largely gaining popularity by hardware stores phasing out older incandescent bulbs thereby leaving customers with less choice. Pedantic Man, away!
sirrliv Also that’s mainly in America. I’ve been to Europe and due to how environmentally conscious they tend to be, while plastic bottles still do exist glass ones are even more common. Although the replacement of glass in light bulbs since the 80’s still applies
So here in Finland we always pay 15 eurocents extra per can (and 10 to 40 cents for PET and glass bottles depending on it's size) which you can get back when you return it. Really gives an incentive to return those cans and bottles.
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Student Log: School Day 2573. I don't know how much more I can take of this unending Hell. Ms. Wilson has long given up hiding the fact that our existence now exists solely to worship and exalt the ones who have trapped us. Day in and day out, our words and deeds are meant exclusively to proselytize their names. I miss my family. I miss King. I'm not sure if time moves normally out there, but the days just bleed into the next. Yesterday, they defeated Darkseid with a TRS-178 Calculator, and Superman just stood by and praised their "ingenuity". So many days, their actions are so ludicrous that it clearly shows they view us as inferior. And there's no chance of escape, as I've died so many times, but the next morning, I wake up in this classroom, in fresh clothes and lost in the throng of class based sycophants.
If someone finds this notebook, then know that I live, I exist, and I am aware of the eternal damnation that the Tandy Computer Whiz Kids have trapped us in with their aggrandizing machinations. Find how they caused this cycle to happen! Stop their insidious intentions! And free us from this endless torture! I'm not sure how long I can withstand this Hell!
PLEASE! YOU MUST HELP US!
I will find you I will save you and if I can't I promise I will Avenge you
Don't worry I contact Captain electron he and Mr computer are just the man computer horror thing we can rely on for what's better then fighting The Wiz Kids then with a computer
I too shall aid in the rescue of all those trapped within Mrs Wilson's eternal time paradox.
@@TheSkully343 good man/women we need the a list can you track down Captain tax time?
Let see who else do we need
The jello man definitely
Ravage is a good choice
Us...... Nah that just silly the fixer much better
Any one else got any more top tier hero's for the list?
Mrs Wilson was married, but she sacrificed her marriage in a deal with the Devil to save her dying aunt.
Haaaaa i get it
That sounds like a really, really bad idea. It's the kind of bad idea you'd only see in a terrible comic. Thank goodness no one has ever been stupid enough to do or write such a thing.
And her Aunt turned gold and went off with a intergalactic planet eater. In her mental shock, Ms. Wilson's sense of time and space broke down. She now believes every week is a school year.
@@alicedarhk9790 She also split into two. The other half retreated into Countdown.
@@TheMamaluigi300 Wait, what reference is that?
Good morning class, I hope you enjoyed your summer vacations!
We sure did, Miss Wilson!
FOR THE LAST TIME MS WILSON, THE WEEKEND IS NOT SUMMER BREAK!
I SAT ON MY ASS AND PLAYED VIDEO GAMES MISS WILSON!
Ms. Wilson: Why don't we get Alec to tell us about his summer?
Alec: Well, I did something that no kid in real life actually wants to do!
WE'RE JUST RECYCLING IN A POWER PLANT, WE'RE NOT IN SCHOOL!!!
“Un-recycled comic books murder three billion people per day!”
It’s true! My friend forgot to recycle his comic book, and now I’m dead!
Well, there goes the overpopulation problem.
Alec and Shanna aren't starting off the comic in class talking about their summer vacation?
"YOU FOOLS!! YOU'VE MESSED WITH THE NATURAL ORDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
REALITY IS FALLING APART!
THE NATURAL ORDA!!!
4:38 “Man, the Lorax is gonna go full Rambo on these guys next time they come by.”
....THAT I would give all my money to see.
Or just send the Don Cheadle version of Captain Planet
"I am the lorax. I speak for the fucking trees"
I want the Tandy Kids to come back in a modern setting as villains but they always fail because they still use the outdated computers for everything.
"Dammit I cant find floppy no.31 and we need all 60 for our evil plan"
You got me thinking, I kind of like the idea of a villain who is really obsessed with returning things to "the good old days" but their use of outdated technology, viewpoints, and knowledge prevents them from success.
"You fools, I have established a communication network that spans the world over, contacts can be called upon within minutes and our network of Drug dealing terrorists is infinite. What could you two brats possible do to stop us?"
"We have an RS CELLULAR PHONE. We'll stop you by calling Detective Shaw.... Who retired 15 years ago... Oh ploppers"
"Oh ploppers indeed" *BANG*
And thus ends the Tandy Computer Whiz Kids revival.
@@StarlightPrism I swear that was Turner D Century's gimmick lol
Honestly I saw them as Wendy and Marvin the kids of the Calculator....who one of them did become a villian for a short while before dying
Alec and Shana not talking about their vacation at school?! What new computer code of madness is this?!
CookieMastah it’s a reverse twilight zone. “You’ve stepped through a portal into a world that is... normal. Where events follow each other in linear fashion and children don’t repeat the same first day of school...”
@@metropod This is... The Average Everyday Life Zone.
Whatever new spores that made this comic decent...seriously, WTF?!
Hey Linkara! I Binged-watched about 500 of your episodes in the last two weeks! SEND HELP!
Help? Why would you need that?????
Linkara is love.
Linkara is life.
Just pick Linkara.
Just Linkara.
THERE IS NO OTHER LIFE BUT MINE.
...arc words for the next storyline, I'm calling it now.
Linkara-life justifies my hate.
don't worry about it. Everyone does that when they reach a point in their life. Hell, i did it last month
The follow up comic will then have Alex and Shauna getting into a turf war with The Planeteers.
We can only dream.
Oh great, now I have to make plans to write ANOTHER crossover fanfic that I'm not gonna follow through on.
Me: Time to make those cookies I promised
Linkara: Here is a new episode to watch while you do that
5:20 the Doctor managed to get the TARDIS in and rescue the kids from their eternal hell!
Change a few things around, and that actually would work for a doctor who episode!
Soo #headcanon
Miss Wilson is the rani #headcanon
Actually it stopped when Madoka reset the Universe and made her wish, so the time loop was finally broken! (I'm a real anime dork I'm sorry xwx )
Yeah, in retrospect, a lot of the pie-in-the-Sky predictions on the benefits of recycling made in the 80s and 90s were based on the idea that recycling technology would advance rapidly. They didn’t. Economically and sometimes even environmentally, recycling is very inefficient. The only materials consistently worth recycling are metals, like aluminum, since the mining process for new ore is more costly.
Paper and cardboard? Honestly it’s easier on the environment to make new pulp from trees, and replant them as you go. Most paper made in North America comes from plantations, where they cycle through acres of logging and replanting. Very little paper comes from natural forests. At least, in most developed nations.
But, there are other issues with waste to consider. The most tragic is that we’re realizing plastics DO break down, a lot, and at a microscopic level. And so much of it doesn’t end up in proper regulated dumps. Micro plastic fibers are in our soil, in our water, and because fish eat it, in our food. Nestle bottled water has been recently been called out for having some of the worst levels of micro fibers in their water, their bottles shedding thousands of plastic fibers into what you drink. But even then, other brands have an average of hundreds. And that’s on even getting into the plastic “island” in the Pacific, which is really more of a slurry of plastic bits that’s the size of a small continent.
So, recycling plastic “could” be a way to get this mess out of environment (even better, change consumer practices so we use less plastic, but good luck with that). But again, plastic recycling isn’t efficient. Mechanically, anyway. A lot of material is left useless in the process, and ends up dumped anyway. But, researchers are working on chemical recycling procedures, that in lab tests, make more than 95% of the material reusable. And, would use less industrial costs like electricity and air pollution. It’s still in testing, and they need to figure out how to do it on a large scale, though.
It's the sad truth of technology - some areas advance rapidly, others not so much.
I forgot about tires. Back when this comic was made, recycled tires did often end up as building material for playgrounds and such. Nowadays, they’re more often used for hot-melt asphalt to patch roads.
Sorry, went on a bit of a tangent. When I was a child, I bought into the recycling craze big time. And I still do it to this day. But, yeah, I’ve learned how it’s not so clear cut as I used to think. As an adult, I’ve shifted my thinking that we need to do more to adjust our consumer practices, and focus more on the other 2 Rs, “reduce” and “reuse.” But, it’s hard to convince people to give up convenience.
Arella Jardin No way. Your comment was very informative and interesting. I didn’t know we have “paper plantations”.
Granted, it is important to clear away old/dead trees for new ones. A lot of forests and parks have tons of old trees and dead leaves that can cause tons of damage if they ever caught fire.
@@arellajardin2323 Heh reading your comments just made me think of the Adam Ruins everything epsidoe on the Environment
So when I was younger, I actually used to recycle aluminum cans for cash. I don’t exactly remember the whole process, but essentially I would just take whatever pop cans I could find, rinse them out, crush them, and bag them up. Within the next 2-3 months I would have around 3-4 large trash bags of pop cans. I’d take them to a local scrap dealer with my dad, and I would get around $30-40 dollars per trip. Not a lot, but as a kid it was an easy way to make extra money. But with that yeah, it is based on pounds, so the whole millions of cans is hilariously ridiculous
Glass recycling does pretty clearly save energy. It melts more readily than sand. :3
It's kind of funny. When I was a kid, I was poor and used to collect and recycle cans and bottles to fund my comic book habit. Keep in mind this was back in the early 90's around when this comic was made and comics were more affordable. My brother and I usually made enough to buy a couple comics a week.
Maybe we have better ways to deal with garbage, Linkara, but there's still one sickness in society that must be eradicated: carjackings! Carjack and his minions are a threat to humanity!
5:22 We aren’t coming back from summer vacation, what new spore of madness is this? Are my arms becoming Weedles?
Your kitty is so cute! He looks a lot like my kitty!
The absolute saddest part is, I would have lapped this up in third grade. I was on an environmentalist kick between third grade and fifth. Like most "smart kids" in that time, I was aware enough of current events, but naive enough to buy into all the "It's The End Of The World As We Know It" hype surrounding them. Meteors and pollution were my two biggest fears.
Not that this stuff isn't important, but...well...the world's not dead yet. Though I don't think I'd want to share the state of affairs today with eight-year-old me, his anxiety was bad enough as it was.
...Well there's not much we can do about Meteors
Yeah, we're kinda boned on the meteor front right now. I won't be getting on a soapbox but I agree about the 8-year old me thing and wonder what 80-year old me will have to say. Thankfully we ARE trying to find better ways to handle things so that we don't destroy this little planet of ours before the universe gets a chance to.
@@andyenglish4303 And now we have SPACE Force mwahaha
Linkara seems to be under the impression that aluminum cans are only pop cans. If the average american uses 1500 cans per year, that's 4 a day on average, yes, but some of those might be beer cans or cans of dog food, spam, ravioli, etc. It's not just soda. And since those other kinds of cans are probably heavier than soda cans it can add to the money you make by selling aluminum, since it's priced per pound.
I actually live right next to a landfill that doubles as a methane power plant. Actually doesn't smell all that often and is a very clean and well run operation.
I said, "You've broken free of the time loop. Congratulations." at 5:25... Four seconds before Linkara said something eerily similar. (Though, I was addressing Alec and Shanna)
You know what's a lot more profitable than selling aluminum cans? Stripping your old, broken phones for their copper wiring. Copper is absurdly expensive right now.
A Tandy Computer Whiz Kids comic that is actually... *gasp* DECENT?! Welp, it's official, Hell has frozen over. When the Doom Slayer returns there in the upcoming Doom: Eternal game, he's gonna be heartbroken and depressed because there'll be no more demons left to fight... mostly because they've become frozen statues. Oh, well, at least smashing said frozen statues into itty-bitty pieces should bring him some fun.
I like how half this episode is basically “Well, actually...” on recycling.
"Recycling" of glass bottles used to actually be pretty efficient; they'd just run them through a giant dishwasher and refill them. There is a Dr. Pepper plant in Texas that still does. Aluminum cans and plastic bottles are lighter, and therefore cheaper to ship though.
I was not aware that people were making landfills into methane power plants. That is a legitimately good thing to know.
Unfortunately it's not done as often as I feel it should - only to about 1/4 of all US landfills. Admittedly, there are legitimate concerns to safety and other environmental impacts, but ALL power generation has that problem.
9:30 I think aluminum cans aren't just limited to soda. There are canned beans, canned vegetables, canned tuna, etc.
Aw man, there's only one left? Really will be the end of a 10+ year era of children of the damned, regenerating Ms. Wilsons, summer vacation timeloops, and Tandy products. :(
I remember the 5th Ms. Wilson. Wasn't too impressed by her outings when the 4th Ms. Wilson had a much better run. Personally I'm waiting for this upcoming 13th Ms. Wilson where for the first time in 50+ years, Ms. Wilson will be a guy.
Too bad turned out 13 was a Qanon theorist and caused Covid
One Whiz Kid’s Comic left?! But how am I going to relive my multiple summer vacations and serve Tandy now? On a slightly more serious note I hope you keep the Ms. Wilson voice around it’s my favorite part of these reviews.
Really thought we were going to have a "GARBAGE DAY" clip use after Linkara said "Murder!" as a way to reduce trash buildup.
So I think they should bring the wiz kids back as a duo of reality warping villains. Maybe trap a town in a pocket dimension where it’s always the first day of school and they shill old computers
I've never heard of such a system in the US, but in Norway, you can "pante" bottles and cans for between 1 (1/7 or 1/8 dollar) and 2 kroner each. Sure, it's just a bit, but in just a couple weeks, you'll probably have a few dollars worth. The bottles and cans are all recycled, you basically get paid for recycling.
At the bottle deposits I go to in New York, it's only 5 cents per bottle. Also they only work if the bottles actually come FROM New York. If you're a Jersey local like me, you're gonna get a lot of rejected bottles.
Headbanger142 the funny thing up here in Canada is that a lot of municipal recycling programs are going to have to increase fees because we are recycling too much. People are starting to get real good at recycling plastics and with the move away from paper packaging that means less money. The real money in recycling is paper products not plastic, especially since the price for it just plummeted with China imposing restrictions on all but perfectly clean plastic.
there's a deeper agenda, and they know it; they just want us to feel important, like we're actually doing something useful. We're not :)
In Michigan bottles are 10 cents per bottle.
Really? Do they sit there and examine each bottle? Because I've gotten away with turning in bottles and cans purchased out of state in California many times.
Recycling makes cents: this last April my work changed locations and we had to clean out a warehouse full of file cabinets dating back to the mid-70s. My co-worker and I hauled over 100 cabinets to a scrapper and barely cleared $300 in scrap prices.
The easiest way to recycle like this is to separate your trash when you throw it out, not later.
2:42 That song is from "Rocko's Modern Life". I can't believe you remembered that.
It was really, REALLY catchy. Have remembered it since I was a kid.
Woodsy Owl says, "Give a hoot-don't pollute!"
Because if you don't give a hoot WHO WILL?
Ah yes, collecting cans. My dad did that for a while. Didn't make as much as he did fixing cars though.
I was going to make a joke about shipping Alec and Shanna until I found out they’re related.
Now I’m going to write a full fanfic about it.
The Luke and Leia of the Tandy Universe.😬👫💾📠
Out of all the queries I have about the universe one of the biggest ones is why there is fanfiction for the Tandy Computer Whiz Kids of all things?
Solidus-Skully Lol is there? That’s weird
Fanfic, hell!, I'm ready to go full tilt rule 34 on 'em. Let the madness commence!
If this comic were made today, it would be about plastic straws rather than aluminum cans.
Yeah, but then I could definitively say "the plastic straws thing is bullcrap."
*WELCOME TO HELL!!!*
A new kind of hell
*PSA ~ HELL!!!!!*
You've entered a world!!! Welcome to Hell!!!
Note to self: if I ever make a robot army, use recycled tandy parts.
For the love of god please don't create Alec and Shanna androids. I don't think the world could take it.
When I was in college they had styrofoam containers so people could take food out. I never used them and they were a pain in the ass, garbage cans were overflowing with them. One day someone put up a full-sized banner in front of the entrance to the cafeteria. "It takes 10,000 years for one piece of styrofoam to degrade. We use (I forget the exact number) 5,000 pieces of styrofoam a day. How many years will that take?" And I stood there, tilting my head at this sign and unable to do anything but quote Morbo from Futurama. "It does not work that way!"
Thanks for letting me interview you at Power Morphicon. I'll send you the episode when it's aired.
PSA Hell, the only hell worth looking forward to.
The final Tandy Computer Whiz kids comic might be the ultimate comic better than anything we had ever saw!
The last Tandy computer whiz kids comic?! IT'S TIME TO PARTY HARD!!!!🎆
Second to last! Last one is next year. =)
@@AT4W Oh ok, but still it's a good reason to PARTY HARD right?
@@the4thwallkid132 Next year? Dang. I still cant believe we are that close.
At least the kids will FINALLY be free of the tandy cult.
@@robstewartstewart98 True that!
And then the reboot was announced.
NEW! TANDY COMPUTER WHIZ KIDS
COMING SOON in 20XX
Here in Finland, where I live, we have a nice method to encourage people to recycle bottles and cans. Basically, every time you buy one, you pay 10-60 cents extra, and if you return the empty container to the story, you get that money back. It also gets people to pick up any dropped bottles and cans from the ground.
PS. POWERHOUSE EXCITEMENT IS BACK!! WOO!!!
Bottle deposits have been around in the U.S. for decades. However, it varies from state to state and most don't do it. In New York, at least, it's kind of weird. For some reason what's in the bottle matters, not the bottle itself. For a long time it was just beer and carbonated beverages. A few years ago, they added water. However, juice, milk, iced tea, etc. are not deposit.
Yep, here in germany this system (called "Flaschenpfand" here) has become so welcome, that just like seperating garbage as a whole collecting Pfand has - at least in germany - become a bit of german culture and clischee. Pretty much everyone does it. I dont know who invented it, but in europe its present in the german-speaking countries and - as you mentioned - scandinavian countries.
We have that in California too but what they charge is way more than what you get back. so even if you recycle everything you still lose money in our scheme
Well of course Mrs. Wilson is married, we just never see her husband because he's always dealing with that menace, Dennis.
Back to the madness that is the Tandy Computer Whiz Kids universe.
*DID I EVER TELL U THE DEFINITION OF INSANITY?!?!?*
And that means, we're going back to PSA Hell.
I remember an Archie PSA comic where the gang went to an old creek and saw all the shit in it. They decide to clean it up (I think to swim in it) and they manage to clean out the whole thing (including a whole damn refrigerator)
17:27 funny I’ve actually been to the village last month during my vacation in the UK
I even got a map of it
6:39 I also sure hope that LED lights, which use almost no energy, are much brighter, last far longer than both light bulbs and florescents, and even don't generate light pollution (meaning that on lights that are outdoors, the light goes in the direction you want it to instead of everywhere; It's a real problem) don't become substantially more affordable!
"The camera was out of power before they could film them in the act." Props to Tandy for being honest about the battery life on their camcorders.
Norway has bottle recycle machines in pretty much every store
So getting this message from a comic meant to sell computers is infuriating because of the fact that regulation and company-level policies can do far more to fight waste than individual actions, AND electronic waste is THE question of environmental engineers now and in coming years.
Ugh.
*Looks at garbage lake*
Well, time to do some strength training and become the greatest hero....
*"You Say Run" intensifies*
The dumpers won't get off on a technicality due to the officer reading their Miranda rights getting interrupted.
The aren't required for an arrest. They must merely be read before any interrogation. They are usually read during the arrest to save time.
Great video! And loved the reference to the Prisoner. :D
You know. Just looking at the Theme Tune makes me realize... Linkara has been through a lot over the years.
funfact: not only garbage can be turned into methane but sweage as well when it gets separated for dumping back into the water since most of it is organic waste that generates methane on it's own
Who thinks we need a dark, gritty Tandy Computer Wiz Kids remake?
You would be surprised at how much you can pull in with recycling. I've know a few people pulling in over $20/hour. And a couple of people who pulled over $100/hour. Now granted they couldnt get many hours at those rates but still...
Depends on the surroundings and of course local laws. Here in germany the "Pfand"-system (money for returning mostly plastic, but also glass bottles, cans...) actually contributed a great deal and no one would ever want to abandon it.
On the darker end of the spectrum, many poor people - especially when unemployed or possessing only a very small pension - collect bottles (although their poverty is of course not in conjunction with the law) and do get a "good" amount of cash out of it. But one of the most lucrative side-incomes in university, during youth... is to collect all the bottles after festivals and parties. Each is usually worth up to 25 ct (less for single beer bottles, 25 for "normal" plastic bottles) and while 100 $/hour is still a bit absurd around here outside of festivals where there are a lot of empty beer boxes, its still something a lot of people financed great parts of their university with.
I've been looking forward to this review all week. And yet, I'm kinda sad it's almost over. Only one more issue left of this pile of printed insanity. On another note, I've been thinking of donating comics to your show, but I dunno if they are worthy to be picked apart, piece by piece.
11:57 And that's why we don't hear about Venus DeMilo from "The Next Mutation" anymore.
Also, I hope those possible three sodas a day aren't all diet. I've recent read about research that suggests the aspartame used in diet drinks can increase the risk of dementia if consumed on a daily basis.
Just binge-watched the TCWK series on here again in preparation!
When they say "aluminum cans" I don't think they're just talking about pop cans.
Then they should stop holding up pop cans.
Or perhaps we should wonder how people use an average of 4 soup cans a day.
Linkara-AtopTheFourthWall I think it was a combined total of all cans. For example, two cans of pop, one can of soup, one can of peas. Additionally, averages include all people, including those who drink ridiculous amounts of soda on a daily basis. Thus if one person drinks zero and another drinks eight, the average based just on those two would be exactly four.
"We'll make sure your death is painless" was my favorite line from this.
Honestly, the fact that the Tandi comics exist in a timeloop and Ms. Wilson's constantly changing appearance leads me to one conclusion.
Ms. Wilson is Yoshikage Kira.
As a worker for blossom music center in Cuyahoga falls I can verify that our sustainability department does recycle a lil over a million cans a season
love the video...
one nitpick though, even though i don't think most people know. about the tires and your suggestions you made for other uses for them, like playground stuff. i work in childcare, and we actually have been made to remove anything related to tires from our playgrounds. apparently there are some harmful stuffs in the tires that are exposed to children over time. the older the tire the more dangerous.
Well that's unfortunate. =(
I weep for tire swings, had some good times with tires.
@@Morgil27 its very much possible that people are overreacting to some research or something. but it is the reality at my work that all these things are no longer allowed. personally i had a great time around these things as well. and im still alive and healthy ...
@@Morgil27 right, i see it now... english not being my primary language was probably the reason i overlooked it... that or it was the playing with tires when i was young...
17:16
Actually. Some companies makes a crapton of money by dumping toxic waste off the coast off Somalia. Dumping generates fat profits because companies pay you to take the stuff away and it costs nothing to just put it somewhere out of sight.
9:28 - I have a maximum of 1 to 2 Pespis (or Ginger Ale, which I switched to as I used to drink Mountain Dew) a day depending what I eat for dinner! Rest of the day I drink water or a glass of Gatorade which I usually have for breakfast or lunch depending upon what I'm eating! Some nights I'll only have a single Pepsi or Ginger Ale! I used to drink way more but thanks to Slim Jims, I started drinking water more often & tried it with other snack foods (popcorn, crackers, chips, cookies unless I have them with milk, etc)! I also have these really good reusable Propel water bottles of my moms which are made of a more solid plastic similar to the clear blue stuff they make the jugs for water coolers (they are sterilized every so often & are filled with plain tap water then refrigerated) out of as it doesn't give as easily as most cheap water bottles do!
When you mentioned the time loop being broken, I half expected that they were in their last day of summer vacation.
3 pop cans a day? That's $2.10 a week. That life changing money!
Embracing the pain here. Good review, Linkara.
I know that people used to sort out their recycling to the same level as Alec & Shanna did in these comics, but that hasn't been a thing in my city for _at least_ 15 years. Are there any parts of the world that still sort out their own recycling like they do in this comic?
10:27 Clearly Mrs. Wilson finally got married to the Tandy Overlord.
I thought the comics implied that Mrs Wilson was secretly dating Superman?
So, now we need DC to make a reboot of Whiz Kids so that Linkara can keep making TCWK reviews...
Friend Linkara, "not reading them their rights" is not a magic get out of charges free card. Rights:
You have the right to remain silent. -- We are going to ask you questions. You don't have to answer.
Anything you say can be used against you -- Reminding that you can remain silent.
None of Miranda includes "If we fail to mention these rights to you then we cannot have you criminally prosecuted".
“We like recycling” Clearly written by someone who has never had to work in a recycling depot.
Waaaaaaat? You mean that is hard labor? Darn!
Saw that nice RUclips button plaque behind you. Congrats!
12:15 Ah, so Linkara is part of the Imperial Inquisition, specifically the Ordo Hereticus if I where to make a guess.
19:03
Wait, wait, wait! This comic never talked about how Tandy Computers saved the environment! I am not ok with this!
Darn, I was actually hoping this would be a crossover with Captain Planet...
*CURSE YOU, TITLE CARD! YOU GOT MY HOPES UP!*
The fact that you have to limit yourself to three cans of pop a day definitely says a lot about how much soda you drink without limiting yourself.
I also sympathize as I probably drink as much soda as you do.
Can´t wait for next week already! Mr. T and the T Force is always a reason to get giddy.
Funny, I just marathon the previous ones yesterday.
I can just see the last thumbnail for the final Whiz Kids review, him punching Miss Wilson and telling her that summer vacations only last three months, or something in the lines of that.
I've got like a year' worth of episodes on backlog to watch, but I can't pass up a Tandy Whiz Kids episode
Random thought, but maybe the numbers of cans wasn't just pop but maybe conserved food, pet food and other uses of them. I know it's a joke but just came to mind as I watched
If I remember right their was someone in Japan who made a machine that can convert plastic back to oil.
End of an era. We need to bring them back!
A Mr. T comic? Will it come with a trading card? The suspense is killing me!
Hark! What's that in the comments? It's a troll! It's a critic! It's Pedantic Man!
Actually, although most mainstream American drinks manufacturers do use plastic bottles now, glass bottles are far from obsolete. Virtually all beers and alcoholic beverages are sold in glass bottles, as are specialized beverages like iced coffee drinks. And there are still a lot of sodas that have glass bottle variants; in Texas and other parts of the Southwest most convenience stores offer Mexican-made versions of popular sodas that are flavored with cane sugar instead of corn syrup and are sold in glass bottles. Some older soda manufacturers still maintain their own glass bottling plants as well, including your nemesis Dr. Pepper, which still runs its first bottling plant in Dublin, Texas (btw, if you're not fond of the normal stuff and find yourself down south, just trust a well meaning fan and give glass bottled Dublin Dr. Pepper a try. I can't promise it'll change your mind, but I can say it's worlds different from the normal corn syrup stuff). And of course, there's all the novelty sodas Brad tries.
Also, even better than compact florescent are the new LED lightbulbs, even if they're still ridiculously expensive and largely gaining popularity by hardware stores phasing out older incandescent bulbs thereby leaving customers with less choice.
Pedantic Man, away!
sirrliv Also that’s mainly in America. I’ve been to Europe and due to how environmentally conscious they tend to be, while plastic bottles still do exist glass ones are even more common. Although the replacement of glass in light bulbs since the 80’s still applies
"The trash business is a GOOOOOLDMINE!"
17:19 you would be surprised. Stuff like this was a big problem for a while. Look up what a superfund is.
So here in Finland we always pay 15 eurocents extra per can (and 10 to 40 cents for PET and glass bottles depending on it's size) which you can get back when you return it. Really gives an incentive to return those cans and bottles.
Or, to quote another from your field:
"THEY DID IT!! IT'S NOT SHIT! IT'S NOT SHIIIIITTTTT!!"
- AVGN, after playing Maximum Carnage by LJN