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Post by verelo »

mrbonner wrote: post #405
verelo wrote: post #176

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"It is so unsanitary." Is it really that bad? As in, so bad it justifies the amount of waste the alternatives produce? I'm sure it's not the worst thing you deal with on a daily basis i.e. door handles are pretty gross.

If this is OK for you, I guess you are also OK with strangers double-dipping shared sauce dishes. It's funny that this turns into a Seinfeld episode "The Implant" :) "Timmy to George: That's like putting your whole mouth right in the dip! From now on, when you take a chip - just take one dip and end it!"

Nope! And i never share drinks either. But i think there’s a big difference between what we touch and what ends up in our mouths.

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Post by tgsovlerkhgsel »

masklinn wrote: post #267
tgsovlerkhgsel wrote: post #103

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> what a bad idea the phone charger thing was The correct approach there would have been telling the industry to get their shit together and agree on one standard (and then mandate that, not "that or an adapter" like what they let Apple get away with), under the threat that otherwise they'll make a standard for them.

That's… exactly what the EU did, minus the legal mandate or adapter ban steps? > In June 2009, many of the world's largest mobile phone manufacturers signed an EC-sponsored memorandum of understanding (MoU), agreeing to make most new data-enabled mobile phones marketed in the European Union compatible with a to-be-specified common EPS. All signatories agreed to develop a common specification for the EPS "to allow for…

Doing "exactly that" but minus the legal mandate or adapter ban is like making "exactly" a cup of coffee but without the coffee or water. And then throwing the cup out 5 years ago, too.

Without the legal mandate and adapter ban, they might as well have done nothing. To this day, there are two common connectors for Android phones (Micro USB and USB C), a different connector for iPhones (Lightning), and proprietary connectors for most feature phones.

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Post by lsc »

scotty79 wrote: post #364
lazerwalker wrote: post #337

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I recall doing a science project in middle school where I did double-blind taste tests of tap water with a half-dozen brands of bottled water (in a place with decent-tasting tap water, FWIW). IIRC, people showed no statistically significant preference for Evian or other fancy bottled water over the local tap water. That isn't to say that there's no taste difference, but that preferring a specific brand of bottled wat…

Exactly my point. There are differences in taste and you recognize the taste of apecific brand or specific tap once you learn it. But tastes vary so much that you couldn't tell random tap from random bottled.

sure, but buying random bottled water is probably about as common as buying a random brand of cigarettes. People have preferences.

Re: Coffee Cups Are Next

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Post by lsc »

yissp wrote: post #361
lsc wrote: post #282

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I am pretty sure that you could tell the difference between a brand of water that is distilled + minerals added and a brand of water that was not distilled in a blind taste test, especially if you drink mostly water. I think there are even pretty big differences, say, between the tap water in Santa Clara and the tap water in Milpitas, for example. I mean, If your argument is that bottled water is wasteful, I'm not di…

Santa Clara water is very hard, I definitely notice a day difference as well. I think Milpitas gets it's water from Hetch Hetchy which is apparently very high quality.

really? huh. I have a pretty strong preference for santa clara water, but that might be me confusing it with the Milpitas smell. I mean, there are a lot of good places to eat in Milpitas, but the Milpitas smell just really puts me off.

Re: Coffee Cups Are Next

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Post by seer »

DoreenMichele wrote: post #221
seer wrote: post #212

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A genuine question - can’t you buy a stack of plastic bags and just bring some of them with you? When they introduced the ban on plastic bags in my country, it was more a ban on supermarkets selling them alongside your normal purchase, but you still can buy a stack of a few hundred in speciality shops, and just use that. And if you forget to bring your own you can always buy the pristine reusable ones at a small cost…

One of the issues is that most disabled people are also poor. Their disability simultaneously imposes extra expenses and tends to limit earning capacity. Most of the replies here are genuinely not interested in understanding the reasons this stuff is a hot button topic in disabled circles. I'm basically being grilled on the assumption that: A. I'm too stupid to have thought of any obvious solutions being proposed her…

It’s sad to hear you had such an awful experience. I think every society that introduced allowances for the disabled has been better of as a whole for it.

I was thinking with my engineering brain for a simple and obvious solution to a simple and obvious problem. So sorry if that came out as a something dismissive.

But yeah looking from so far away it seams California has much bigger problem than plastic bags...

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Post by dharma1 »

caf wrote: post #50
dharma1 wrote: post #39

What's the best reusable travel mug you've used? Easy to wash, good looking, lightweight, durable. Those stainless steel double wall ones any good?

Easily this one: https://www.thermos.com/drink/mugs-tumblers/genuine-thermos-...

bought one, thanks! 50 year warranty, now that's what I like to see with products

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Post by WheelsAtLarge »

dannyw wrote: post #332
Scoundreller wrote: post #196

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But what bags do you use in your wastebaskets???

I just buy a plastic bag. Wait. I’m not sure if this whole thing reduces any plastic or pollution...

It does help. The real problem with plastic is that it's ending up all over the environment. It's very easy for plastic to fly/fall into areas where no one can access it or is managing it.

Sending plastic to landfills at least keeps the plastic in one place away from polluting the whole world. It's not an ideal solution but it helps.

Yes, getting rid of plastic is best but containing it to one place even if you have to use plastic bags helps.

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