>invites are not environmentally friendly As opposed to the sustainability of dozens of people traveling from near and far.
Yeah, one person flying to your wedding would do much more than all the paper invites combined.
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#12For the whole pipeline, you should also connect: Tinder + your calendar app + Opentable to automate the dating process. The output of that can be the input of this.
You think it's simple, but you're ignoring all sorts of error handling and alternate process paths.
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#13Why do you need to "automate" an action you're expecting to perform, in the happy case, once in a lifetime?
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#14>invites are not environmentally friendly As opposed to the sustainability of dozens of people traveling from near and far.
I don't understand the mentality expressed in the article, where environmentalism is only observed for tiny pieces of waste that don't matter. These same people (like you mentioned) fly dozens of people on airplanes, which is so much worse. Or they have kids or don't update their home's insulation or drive a gas-guzzler. At the end of the day, there's only so much you as an individual can do (and certainly the CEO of ExxonMobil is way more complicit in climate change than Jane Doe walking down the street), but as far as carbon footprint is concerned, paper invites (which are biodegradable) are barely a blip on the radar.
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#15For the whole pipeline, you should also connect: Tinder + your calendar app + Opentable to automate the dating process. The output of that can be the input of this.
RaaS? Relationship as a Service.
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#16>invites are not environmentally friendly As opposed to the sustainability of dozens of people traveling from near and far.
Also, re: invites-
Everybody seems to forget paper is a renewable resource. Cutting and re-growing as it is practiced in the regulated world (ie. all countries with stable governments) is actually good for the environment.
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#17>invites are not environmentally friendly As opposed to the sustainability of dozens of people traveling from near and far.
I don't understand the mentality expressed in the article, where environmentalism is only observed for tiny pieces of waste that don't matter. These same people (like you mentioned) fly dozens of people on airplanes, which is so much worse. Or they have kids or don't update their home's insulation or drive a gas-guzzler. At the end of the day, there's only so much you as an individual can do (and certainly the CEO of…
The same kinds of people who admonish you for taking an elevator because it's bad for the environment, even when your legs are sore from cycling to work.
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#18>invites are not environmentally friendly As opposed to the sustainability of dozens of people traveling from near and far.
Yes and computers run on magical energy dust.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't understand the mentality expressed in the article, where environmentalism is only observed for tiny pieces of waste that don't matter. These same people (like you mentioned) fly dozens of people on airplanes, which is so much worse. Or they have kids or don't update their home's insulation or drive a gas-guzzler. At the end of the day, there's only so much you as an individual can do (and certainly the CEO of…
The same kinds of people who admonish you for taking an elevator because it's bad for the environment, even when your legs are sore from cycling to work.
I guess it's a kind of armchair environmentalism: it's easy to "go green" by switching to canvas bags (which _does_ help, a little), but then not make large, more sacrificial changes that would _actually_ benefit the environment. I don't know. It's tough, though, because to a large extent we're forced into lifestyles that are bad for the environment. You can't just decide to stop using the electricity produced by the coal power plant in your city, for example.
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#20>invites are not environmentally friendly As opposed to the sustainability of dozens of people traveling from near and far.
Yeah, one person flying to your wedding would do much more than all the paper invites combined.
and let's hope the happy couple didn't take their honeymoon on a cruise ship