brianary
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- Comment on Shh 1 day ago:
Holy shit man, I’m not talking about you, I’m talking about the OP, and the anti-straw rhetoric that it’s referencing. You seem to be looking for reasons to be angry, I’m out.
- Comment on Shh 2 days ago:
Jesus, you presume too much.
Point to where I said not to do anything. My whole point was not to just stop at straws and find more ways to avoid plastic.
Maybe spend less energy on literal strawmen.
- Comment on Shh 2 days ago:
Look, all I’m saying is that straws probably aren’t the #1 source of discarded plastic, and it seems like focusing on one thing like that results in more performative than substantive change.
- Comment on Shh 2 days ago:
I didn’t make any such “observations”, or even claim that it doesn’t vary by location. I’m just pointing out that your approach ignores a lot of much larger plastic masses. It’s ok for identifying some obvious opportunities, but I’d hesitate to call it definitive for the purposes of establishing the most impactful strategy.
I’m not sure if people’s unmindfulness is responsible for a larger share of waste than indifference, but maybe?
- Comment on Shh 3 days ago:
Yeah, not everyone can do it, but I have no reason to doubt that most can, but we’re really getting hung up on a single example here, people.
How about deodorant? How many people use deodorant in a cardboard container instead of plastic?
- Comment on Shh 3 days ago:
Yeah that’s a reasonable expectation. I’ll just start a massive study to see if people use so many straws that it outweighs every other use of plastic in their life. You’ve totally got me there. Congrats.
- Comment on DOdodo DODO DOdodo DODO Dodododo DODO DODOOOOO🎶🎵🎶 3 days ago:
KFD, surely?
- Comment on Shh 3 days ago:
Anecdotes aren’t a great way to measure this. Observations like this are variable by location, and ignores the much larger mass in landfills or unrecycled stockpiles.
- Comment on Shh 3 days ago:
My hair is also excessively oily, and I wash it daily with bar shampoo.
- Comment on Shh 3 days ago:
How much plastic is in a bottle of shampoo vs a straw, even averaged by day?
- Comment on Shh 4 days ago:
The straw thing seems like such an inconsequential place to start over things like switching to bar soap and bar shampoo to avoid using so many plastic bottles.
- Comment on 🎶 picture this we we're both butt naked banging on the bathroom door 🎶 4 weeks ago:
Now that’s a guy who likes curves!
- Comment on Resources 1 month ago:
I can tell you’re really proud of these replies, but I’m afraid they don’t actually make sense.
You were hoping to prove a logical implication (if P then Q), but you feel it was disproved since the premise didn’t happen. However, “not P” doesn’t actually prove anything about the implication.
Anyway, no one is really accomplishing anything constructive here. Good luck!
- Comment on Resources 1 month ago:
If it’s not compelling enough for you to read it to support your position, why would I read it?
- Comment on Resources 1 month ago:
So you didn’t read it either? Interesting.
- Comment on Resources 1 month ago:
It looks to me like that same feeling toward any population concerns are the clear sentiment of the op, even if they don’t state it so openly. I guess you didn’t see that? No sense trying to beat this to death, we’re seeing different things.
- Comment on Resources 1 month ago:
It’s a diversion to another topic. No thanks.
- Comment on Resources 1 month ago:
Why are you asking me?
- Comment on Resources 1 month ago:
I thought maybe someone was capable of answering a reasonable question to support their position, assuming they had already read the article. Apparently I have to do that work for them?
- Comment on Resources 1 month ago:
Not everyone has equally arable land.
- Comment on Resources 1 month ago:
It’s not my job to make your point. You don’t get free labor.
- Comment on Resources 2 months ago:
Why?
- Comment on the wolves inside me 2 months ago:
This is Crazy Jane from Doom Patrol.
- Comment on Resources 2 months ago:
Does this assume instant, frictionless transportation of goods?
- Comment on Resources 2 months ago:
Antinatalism is a strawman slur against anyone that questions the viability of infinite growth.