ObtuseDoorFrame
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- Comment on Please tell me 3 days ago:
Yeah! All aluminum cans have a thin plastic lining. So do soup cans. They’re still both better than plastic packaging, but it just shows how difficult it is to completely remove plastic from your life.
I drink a lot of beverages that come in aluminum cans so I am reaaaally hoping that they have less microplastic risk than 100% plastic packaging does.
- Comment on Please tell me 3 days ago:
They have excellent iced tea, too. They’re sweetened with agave nectar, so the whole 20 ounce can only has like 6 grams of sugar and isn’t too sweet.
- Comment on Please tell me 4 days ago:
Liquid Death isn’t bottled, it’s canned. They’re whole gimmick is “death to plastic” which is a little ironic considering that aluminum cans have a plastic lining.
Still, it’s a great product. They’ve eliminated 99.9% of the plastic, so I think the slogan still works.
- Comment on Why do people hate coldplay? 5 days ago:
I don’t “hate” Coldplay, I nothing them. I don’t care for their sound at all, but am routinely forced to listen to it in stores. I resent being forced to listen to music, but don’t hate the bands themselves.
The stores who play ten songs on a loop can go fuck themselves, however.
- Comment on The dreaded she's typing icon 1 week ago:
Sometimes telling someone to “calm down” is actually appropriate, but mostly it’s straight up gaslighting. If someone reacts negatively to hearing that, they very likely have a good reason. This meme is borderline misogyny.
- Comment on Steam now generates three times more revenue for Capcom than PlayStation 2 weeks ago:
I agree, but they have no incentive to do so when gamers buy it anyway. People need to vote with their wallets.
Call of Duty sales suggest this isn’t happening.
- Comment on Happy No-more-USA Day 2 weeks ago:
Fair enough. I work weekends so I haven’t been able to attend any of these yet, and was surprised I can finally go to one. You seem to base your opinions on first hand experience.
- Comment on Happy No-more-USA Day 2 weeks ago:
Hmm. Yeah, maybe. It just seems too easy to ignore the weekend protests. Everyone who has power and money are elsewhere on Saturdays.
- Comment on Happy No-more-USA Day 2 weeks ago:
They’re finally doing one on a weekday? Excellent. I like the concept of these protests but they seem so trivial when they involve people pretty much just hanging out with signs in front of empty government buildings. Having it on a weekday means disrupting business and work schedules. Don’t let them ignore you.
- Comment on Happy No-more-USA Day 2 weeks ago:
No, they need to be on weekdays. They need to disrupt business and be visible. Weekend protests in front of empty government buildings are worthless.
- Comment on Costco changed the bag to plastic!! 2 weeks ago:
Okay, so this one frisbee company disputes the countless articles published with sources about how plastic degrades when it’s recycled and… you expect me to just go with that instead of NPR articles.
I doubt the demand for frisbees is high enough to be an encompassing solution for our plastic problem, but I like the idea.
- Comment on Costco changed the bag to plastic!! 2 weeks ago:
I would think that could work from a structural point of view, but they would have to seal it somehow to prevent more microplastics from being created. Plastics aren’t often used as a building material because of toxic off-gassing, but of course this would be outside which would mitigate the issue.
Asphalt is one of the most recyclable materials in existence, when they tear up an asphalt road they just melt it down and pour it back on. If there was plastic involved it would probably interrupt this process.
But I’m not expert. Maybe it would work.
- Comment on Costco changed the bag to plastic!! 2 weeks ago:
Uh huh. I have also watched videos and read articles supporting what I just said. Scotch tape is a great example because it’s so brittle… almost useless for any application other than temporarily taping paper to something. It shows how weak plastic gets when it’s recycled.
- Comment on NEW SUBCLASSES CONFRIMED!! | Guild Wars 2 Expansion 6 3 weeks ago:
Huh. They said they were done with subclass expansions. At least as an engineer main I’ll get another shot at a subclass I don’t hate after the abomination that is mechanist.
- Comment on Costco changed the bag to plastic!! 3 weeks ago:
Into what? Scotch tape? 2 by 4’s for decking material? One can only make so much of those things before the low demand is met.
Like I said, almost none of it gets recycled because the resulting products are too weak. Not only that, but plastic “recycling” is one of the primary ways that micro plastics get into our bodies.
- Comment on Costco changed the bag to plastic!! 3 weeks ago:
No. This is a myth perpetuated by huge companies who create a lot of single use plastic.
There isn’t a type of plastic in existence that can be recycled without degrading in quality. A plastic bottle cannot be used to create a new bottle. This is why less than 5% of plastic waste is actually recycled.
- Comment on [Official Art] Sibling Portrait - a Plague Tale: Innocence 3 weeks ago:
The ending of the sequel fucked me up for weeks. Absolutely brutal.