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Submitted ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • spongeborgcubepants@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It was a typo, he meant: No, more plastic!

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    • Astronauticaldb@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Lionel Hutz, Esq

      Free consolation? No, money down!

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      • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Better get rid of this bar association sticker too.

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  • beliquititious@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t understand why some books are wrapped in plastic at all. Like is it to protect the cover? Prevent people from reading it at the book store? Some weird contract with a vendor that requires a percentage of books be wrapped? A quirk of the shop that printed the book?

    It makes zero sense.

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    • theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Probably so they can be stored carelessly in dirty warehouses that may or may not control for humidity

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      • FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Used to work in a warehouse that did exactly this, can confirm drove a forklift loading pallets of books on trucks and “humidity control” meant closing the bay doors that didn’t have trailers backed in so the snow wouldn’t blow inside.

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      • Venator@lemmy.nz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Probably also in case the shipping container leaks or has some termites or something?

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    • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Warehouses are dirty.

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      • beliquititious@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Aren’t books shipped in boxes though? I guess maybe a printer might palletize the books and find it cheaper to not wrap the whole pallet?

        It still seems like the individual book is the wrong place to focus on protecting it from damage it might incur in transit.

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    • Chev@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Both is correct. But the second one is less about reading and more about making a crease. People who buy new books, want to be the first ones to read it. If they wouldn’t care, they would just go to the library.

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      • todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Them: *lists 4 options*

        You: “Both”

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    • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Agreed.

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  • ChillPill@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s a typo, it should read: “No. More plastic!”

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I shouldn’t have this ALA logo here either

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  • DrSleepless@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    He’s right about sleepwalking into oblivion

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  • db2@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Plot twist: it was corn starch based.

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    • Quill7513@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      that’s still bad though. it requires petroleum based processes to grow the corn and then convert the starch into a plastic like substance when the book could have just not been shrink wrapped. i get that you’re joking, and i’m being pedantic, but not enough people realize bioplastics are not the solution, they’re a gap measure, like EVs, and i’m usingeyour comment as a soapbox

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      • HowManyNimons@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Bioplastics also cause contaminated petroplastic recycling batches, are difficult to compost (my city, like many cities, does not have the facility), and release methane when breaking down in a landfill.

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      • kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I guess they could have been wrapped in bulk, but I wouldn’t say you can ship books around without any protection.

        It could have been an e book though

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      • mlg@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        What about cellophane?

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  • HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh I see, they mistaken thought the title was “No, MORE Plastic!”

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    • Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They’re saying Boo-urns!

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  • rmuk@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Image

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  • henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Plasticccc

    Aye, but it’s based on a real treasure chest!

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  • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How did he pick out the publisher… Just whoever was offering the best deal?

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    • umbraroze@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The way publishing industry has been for a very long time, authors (especially first time ones) don’t get to pick whoever pays the best deal. Just whoever pays the first.

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      • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The author doesn’t get to pick who can print his book? Or do you mean he has no real choice because he’s got bills to pay?

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    • Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No. He’s that one unique author who looked for the worst deal for his work.

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      • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Or terms he finds acceptable

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  • Sam_Bass@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Transparent paper just does have the same luminosity

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  • bluewing@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No. More. Plasticccc? Whelp, there goes my new hip and wheel chair and pain here I come!

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    • Dragonstaff@leminal.space ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I dunno, friend. Maybe the title doesn’t contain the entire contents of the book.

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      • bluewing@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The title most certainly doesn’t contain the whole book. But it does contain the whole belief of the author.

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    • kogasa@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Somehow I doubt hips and wheelchairs are among the top offenders

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      • bluewing@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Well, stop and think about all those plastic medical devices that get used. Everything from syringes to hips, to air tubing, to the packaging of sterilized surgical instruments. That’s a metric carp tonne of plastics. There are a LOT of life threat level safety devices that use plastics also.

        We probably don’t need to bottle soda pop or water in plastic bottles, but the use of plastics will never go away.

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    • pugsnroses77@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      wouldnt you want to argue for the reduction of consumer plastic, then, so the rest of this super limited resource can be saved for medical and scientific purposes?

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      • bluewing@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I did mention that plastic water bottles and other such consumer level disposable plastics aren’t really required. Though the alternatives are much heavier and often bulkier than their plastic counterparts. Making them more difficult and costly to ship. And yeas, that includes basic food stuffs.

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