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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most of plant based leather uses a lot of polyurethane⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My point was more that harmful chemicals in the sense of chromium salts etc. aren’t present in veg tan which, for the most part, is boiling it in a load of tree bark.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most of plant based leather uses a lot of polyurethane⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I do hobby-level leatherworking and I’m all here for real non-animal leathers but yeah, basically all of them, cactus, mango, pineapple leaf etc. all just get put on a PU backing…

  I got excited for cork leather at one point but turns out that is also either PU backed or fabric backed (which is better but doesn’t really work as a direct replacement for leather, especially structurally).

  There are a few I’m more excited for and I would love to get hold of but they still seem either experimental or used directly by the makers for their own finished products. Most are fungus based, so one is SCOBY leather, basically the big blob of microorganisms used to make kombucha can be grown in big flat sheets, dried and treated to make a leathery material but I’ve not seen many applications of it yet…

  But mushroom/mycelial leather is the one I’m most hopeful for. Not only do some of them look like real leather but the random ‘grain’ of the mycelium has the potential to ape the natural fibrous grain of leather that gives it its strength. That is the one I’m really excited for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most of plant based leather uses a lot of polyurethane⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And veg tan? I try not to use chrome tan in stuff I make for both environmental reasons and the fact its a pain to work with but we have been veg tanning for thousands of years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think so? I think ours used UniVerse whixh used UniBasic and UniQuery. I never had to use it in anger, I was mostly focused on supporting a different thing written in VB6…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I worked for a company that still supports a critical healthcare system that runs on Rocket U2 on AIX which is an evolution of PICK.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Biological Women⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno, referring to somebody as a “total weapon” is very valid here

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What was your social media path?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  MSN messenger Independent forums (like Invisonfree) Bebo Facebook Reddit Discord Matrix Lemmy Instagram (originally just for a friend to sell me stuff but I now have some more friends and communities on this) Tiktok (only used for a friend to send me things she likes)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3-bean soup⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair enough, more of a misuse as the word has kind evolved away from its original meaning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3-bean soup⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Its not mistranslated, its caffe latte but the caffe part is cut off for brevity when ordering at a coffee shop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3-bean soup⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Coffee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyone has a phase⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah its Daniel Day-Lewis

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Then use the provided scanning handset! Both are provided, just depends what you prefer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is why self scan is my favourite. Just scan stuff on your phone as you walk around, pack your bags ahead of time and the only time the staff need to get involved is age checking alcohol or painkillers, if there is some problem you had scanning something or if you get a random rescan request (which is admittedly horrible as it makes you feel like a criminal when they find the one item that didnt scan right). So much easier and faster than any of the other methods.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stellar job⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Made worse if you know the traditional divisions of Sussex that predate the Norman Conquest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Its more often rhinoviruses rather than coronaviruses or other families

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Members of far-right party organising asylum hotel protests across UK, Facebook posts show⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I bet the tattoo to teeth ratio is particularly high in that lot

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Name him.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno, Farage is scum and a lying grifter but he has a spine and sticks to his lies to get people riled up. Starmer just flip flip flops, panders to the right wing and goes back on stuff he has said previously.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Name him.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure thats Kier Starmer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Classic salad⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I seem to remember there was a subreddit dedicated to women laughing at salads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a Viz comic about that…

  Fru T. Bunn – a “Master Baker” who makes his own sex dolls out of gingerbread and then attempts to have sex with them. Often he actually succeeds, only to be discovered in the last frame by his wife and daughter (Little Chelsea – ref to the Chelsea Bun)!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the progress pride flag so poorly designed (especially the intersex progress pride flag)? Will it be redesigned?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Some think they can curry favour by thowing the bigots a bone. The ‘LGB drop the T’ group can fly under a radar for a bit by piling in on the most hated upon group but don’t seem to realise that they will be squarely back in their sights once the job is done…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's me⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I love using the phone based scan as you go systems these days. Sainsburys, asda and waitrose all have them, so much faster and easier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Whats the wrong way of crossing your legs?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's me⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I hear its all about the Labubus these days and for the life of me I cannot understand why

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Least anticipated game in history⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Parafilm representation! I love that stuff. I totally, absolutely didn’t used to completely mummify samples we sent away to the miserable dicks at our sister lab…