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ikanreed posted:The "environmentally friendly" paper straws restaurants use are lined with so much plastic to keep them from getting soggy, I bet they actually increase the amount of plastic being dumped into the environment. I mean I doubt it
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ikanreed posted:The "environmentally friendly" paper straws restaurants use are lined with so much plastic to keep them from getting soggy, I bet they actually increase the amount of plastic being dumped into the environment. That's not wax? Seriously?
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Cerekk posted:59 oz half gallon, also gently caress the poor thats super hosed up
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Jul 31, 2023 18:50
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Jelly posted:This makes me angrier than anything in this thread. Like how is this legal? You can't redefine a measurement system. They're not redefining anything. They just now sell a carton of milk that is 59 ounces. As long as it's labelled as such, perfectly legal. lovely for no good reason, but legal. I haven't seen it in milk, but most of the ice cream containers are now slightly less than the typical size. "Pint" ice cream is normally 15 ounces for example.
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Triikan posted:They're not redefining anything. They just now sell a carton of milk that is 59 ounces. As long as it's labelled as such, perfectly legal. lovely for no good reason, but legal. "Half gallons" of ice cream have been 1.5 qt for a while I've been to bars that have 12 and 14 oz "pints" and they actually call them pints instead of relying on the historical/colloquial understanding of size to mislead without technically lying to you. "It's just a term for a glass of beer" --an actual thing said to me with a straight face
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Jul 31, 2023 19:10
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Not the right thread at all
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Jul 31, 2023 19:27
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blunt posted:Regardless of which non-apple phone you buy, make sure you deactivate iMessage before you move your SIM/number to the new phone, else you won't get txt messages until you do (which will suck for trying to log back into apps). Noted, thanks!
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Jul 31, 2023 19:30
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Yeah and also give it a few days to catch up, don't disable imessage and then transfer the sim 5 minutes after.
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Jul 31, 2023 19:33
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Outrail posted:That's not wax? Seriously? It used to be wax. It doesn't have the texture of wax in the one I just used
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Jul 31, 2023 19:59
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ikanreed posted:It used to be wax. It doesn't have the texture of wax in the one I just used Vestigial environmentalism.
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ikanreed posted:It used to be wax. It doesn't have the texture of wax in the one I just used Can we use them as candles?
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A ton of wax nowadays is paraffin wax, i.e. it's made from fossil fuels, is not biodegradable, and is generally not great for the environment. This includes waxes used for cheeses (much to my chagrin), and also candles (which is great because paraffin wax gives off toxic fumes when burned)
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Jul 31, 2023 20:15
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anonumos posted:Vestigial environmentalism. It's the original definition of "virtue signaling" before the conservatives grabbed that term. A corporate entity attempting to attain a brand of something positive, through entirely token efforts and a lot of marketing. You should, as a general rule, assume everything marketed as environmentally friendly is worse for the environment.
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Jul 31, 2023 21:21
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https://youtu.be/0sJkhhZWkWo
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Corporations figured out a long time ago that it's cheaper to say that they're being green rather than actually putting in any effort. One ad that still makes me angry months later was when Lidl put a huge poster ad outside their store saying how much plastic they're saving by removing the plastic forks from their single serving salad bowls. 1. Who put the fork there in the first place? 2. The container itself is still made of plastic, and considerably more than how much was used for the fork.
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Jul 31, 2023 21:39
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On that note I just wanna say gently caress paper straws. Like who the hell thought of that? Make the cup paper and let the straw be plastic. Saves more plastic and also my straw doesn't dissolve in my mouth.
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Jul 31, 2023 21:43
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Guys, they don’t give a single hot gay gently caress about the environment, they do things like removing forks because it saves them a bit of money. They’d remove the bowl and paper straws and cups too and just throw the food in your face if they could spin it as environment-friendly.
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There's been a lot written about how corporations learned from the downfall of the tobacco industry and how they need to get out ahead of public backlashes to steer the conversation. So oil companies make commercials talking about their bullshit green energy initiatives and the plastic packaging industry more or less made up the idea of recyclable plastics to assuage people's guilt. They're not trying to convince anyone. They just want to introduce enough doubt that people go, "Eh, that's probably enough." And for the record, plastics can be recycled but they almost never actually are even if you put them in the correct bin.
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Jul 31, 2023 21:49
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Adults shouldn't need to use straws.
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Every job application requires creating an account on the company's Workday instance now, I'm applying for jobs and I have like 200 new Workday accounts
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steinrokkan posted:Adults shouldn't need to use straws.
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steinrokkan posted:Adults shouldn't need to use straws. How else am I supposed to look sultry while drinking my Mountain Dew 64oz Big Gulp?
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Jul 31, 2023 21:52
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Biplane posted:How else am I supposed to look sultry while drinking my Mountain Dew 64oz Big Gulp? Just lol if you're not butt-chugging straight out of the soda fountain imo
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deep dish peat moss posted:Every job application requires creating an account on the company's Workday instance now, I'm applying for jobs and I have like 200 new Workday accounts This is the absolute worst and the company that built Workday should be burned to the ground
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DoubleT2172 posted:This is the absolute worst and the company that built Workday should be burned to the ground Somehow it has something to do with payroll where I work 
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deep dish peat moss posted:job application uggh jobsearching  last time I had to do it I had to start using a burner email because of the torrent of spam that would flood in after 20 or so applications, did you really think somebody could or even would want to buy your crap when they are out of the job you idiots.
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VikingofRock posted:A ton of wax nowadays is paraffin wax, i.e. it's made from fossil fuels, is not biodegradable, and is generally not great for the environment. This includes waxes used for cheeses (much to my chagrin), and also candles (which is great because paraffin wax gives off toxic fumes when burned) THANK YOU, as you can imagine I’m very much a candle person and paraffin wax is in loving everything and some companies will pull this “oh it’s a blend” when it’s majority paraffin. It’s worth spending the extra money on soy wax a thousand times over.
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Jul 31, 2023 22:30
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I like how Ziprecruiter alerts you when your application gets viewed because it really highlights just how few people posting jobs on ziprecruiter actually view the applications they receive.
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Someone gave me a thumbs up on zip recruiter once. They didn’t call but I got a thumb. Gonna put it on my fridge.
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I have a conspiracy theory that boba tea was a plastic industry psyop in response to the environmental backlash against straws: getting lots of people hooked on a tea that requires a straw to drink.
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Jul 31, 2023 23:09
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If you're going conspiracy, self-dissoving straws are just another part of anti-human hostile architecture along the same lines as fast food companies specifically using seating designed to be uncomfortable
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Bodyholes posted:I have a conspiracy theory that boba tea was a plastic industry psyop in response to the environmental backlash against straws: getting lots of people hooked on a tea that requires a straw to drink. More places need to allow you to bring your own cup. I'll bring my own reusable metal boba straw, but it feels pointless when the cup is plastic and effectively unrecyclable.
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blunt posted:Regardless of which non-apple phone you buy, make sure you deactivate iMessage before you move your SIM/number to the new phone, else you won't get txt messages until you do (which will suck for trying to log back into apps). You can also do it from web if for some reason you forget or don't know. https://selfsolve.apple.com/deregister-imessage/ And logging back into apps will actually work fine because phone number 2FA relies on SMS. It's only Apple users trying to send you iMessages that won't fall back to SMS, so you won't receive the message because as far as the server is concerned it delivered it successfully as iMessage.
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My new thermostat had a default setting that ignores your temperature target if it thinks nobody is home. Like, "oh you just touched my screen, let me get started on that, just 15-degrees of cooling left to go!"
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emSparkly posted:On that note I just wanna say gently caress paper straws. Like who the hell thought of that? Make the cup paper and let the straw be plastic. Saves more plastic and also my straw doesn't dissolve in my mouth. The intention was good but, boy-howdy, you better start using it quick because eww.
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386-SX 25Mhz VGA posted:Something that might actually work would be putting up huge signs that say “Straws available by request for children and disabled people” "Sir, we can't offer you a straw, but we do have reusable sippy cups for sale"
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I think the thing that makes the self-checkouts at local grocerystore good is that it's like 99% scan a bar code. It only uses a scale if you're buying fruits or vegetables by the pound, otherwise it's just put everything on conveyor, scan, put it back in you cart, repeat until you are no longer stealing. There are still cashiers but they're mainly for people with fucknormous orders/kids/boomers who do not like change. I was using a metal stray with flexible segments before covid, I should get back into the habit of using that.
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Volcott posted:I think the thing that makes the self-checkouts at local grocerystore good is that it's like 99% scan a bar code. It only uses a scale if you're buying fruits or vegetables by the pound, otherwise it's just put everything on conveyor, scan, put it back in you cart, repeat until you are no longer stealing. There are still cashiers but they're mainly for people with fucknormous orders/kids/boomers who do not like change. Buying booze too. IDK the Kroger stores here were already trying to transition to self-check-primary for like 2 years before COVID, then kicked it into overdrive and then the Albertsons all started installing self-checks. The closest Smith's to my house locks up all the toiletries at like 7PM and is pretty much self-check-only after 5 until 10:40, when they kick your rear end out. I do live in the hood, though, and that change was primarily a crowd control one (3 out of 5 times you go to that store someone is yelling about "just take it back, I didn't even want it!" at security).
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FFS! self-checkout is fine. I'm only buying for myself and maybe two days out. I'm in and out like a duck mating.
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I live in CT so all the good hooch is in a different store, but if you're getting beer they usually have to call over a manager because "watch the self-checkouts" guy is usually underage.
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