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Re: A laptop stand made from a single sheet of recycled paper

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Post by larodi »

calmbonsai wrote: post #78

I'm reminded of similarly useless "sustainable cardboard furniture" that came out about a decade ago. On the positive side, kudos to whomever in marketing/pr at the design firm got this useless product so much press. This is just the sort of "win" that a design consulting shop loves to have for actual briefs that lead to real moving-the-needle revenue. One example would be SmartDesign's modular slip-on "S-Grips" that…

indeed useless, you can use arbitrary anything - a book, a notebook, the earpods, the wallet -> all work. besides the thing blowing wind does not make much real difference it seems.

Re: A laptop stand made from a single sheet of recycled paper

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Post by bombcar »

analog31 wrote: post #167
jdietrich wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>When I looked into it, it basically meant that it was made from beat up ugly strawberries That's true for basically all processed food that contains fruit or vegetables, for obvious economic reasons. The stuff that looks good goes to the supermarkets who care very much about shelf appeal, the rest goes to the processors who absolutely don't.

Oddly enough it now means that canned tomatoes are better than fresh.

Part of that is you can can a tomato right when it is most ripe and ready to be eaten, whereas if you're shipping it to a store, you ship it unripe and hope it ripens somewhat on the way.

Re: A laptop stand made from a single sheet of recycled paper

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Post by leptons »

Suppafly wrote: post #70
andrei_says_ wrote: post #49

It blows my mind that stands like this one as well as keyboards are designed with an incline requiring constant tension in the wrists. The natural position of the fingers when typing is below the wrist not above it.

They are meant to be used with an external keyboard and mouse, you don't need a stand to use a laptop normally.

Except in the 5th photo they show someone using the laptop's touchpad while on the stand.

This seems very uncomfortable to me as resting your hands on the pointed edges of the folded paper seems like an awful user experience.

Re: A laptop stand made from a single sheet of recycled paper

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Post by tonyedgecombe »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #147
kbelder wrote: post #132

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I can't stop my wife from cleaning everything we put in recycling. Not just a rinse-off, but completely and immaculately cleaning them. Sometimes in the dishwasher. I think the net environmental benefit of our recycling may be below zero.

I couldn't convince my mom to stop washing the recyclables. Fortunately, our municipal sanitation department recently published an informational video on proper recycling procedures, in which they explicitly tell people to stop wasting water on cleaning the trash.

I always clean ours, with the water left over after I have cleaned the dishes. As far as I can see it has zero environmental issues and means the bin doesn't smell.

Re: A laptop stand made from a single sheet of recycled paper

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Post by tonyedgecombe »

kijalo wrote: post #137
snowfarthing wrote: post #118

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I have concluded, as a general rule of thumb, that if something costs more to recycle than to produce naturally, it is probably more harmful to the environment to recycle it than to create it fresh and dispose of it properly. There are certain exceptions to this -- nickel cadmium batteries come to mind -- but for things like this, the question isn't "is it more economic to produce it new than to recycle it?" so much…

I think 'dispose of it properly' is doing a lot work there. I understand that for something like plastic, properly disposing it would be to chemically render it down to it's constituents rather than just landfilling it. If the thought was to burn it, well then how are you properly disposing the released greenhouse gases?

On the other hand if a pound of plastic being burned offsets a pound of coal then that is probably better for the environment. We are nowhere near not burning anything so I'm largely OK with incinerators.

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Post by amyames »

dogma1138 wrote: post #14

If whoever did this cared about recycling they would just tell people how to do this. If the people who bought this cared about recycling rather than having a virtue signaling conversation starter they wouldn’t have bought it. This is insane, the carbon value of $22 is high enough without the garbage of shipping this crap all over the country and possibly the world.

Whoever did this doesn’t even clean their computer, it’s disgusting!

Re: A laptop stand made from a single sheet of recycled paper

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Post by ziml77 »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #168
osrec wrote: post #163

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In a lot of cases, that's how it works in nature too though. Visual appeal on the tree/bush is a big part of what attracts an animal to a fruit. It's just how we're built.

Right, but animals aren't as picky as humans - they'll eat anything that isn't rotten (and then some animals actually prefer rotten stuff). Meanwhile people will avoid buying veggies that look off even if there's no risk to health or taste involved. I suppose this is because most animals in the wild are always couple hours away from starvation and just can't afford being picky eaters.

I think we've had the luxury of training ourselves to only identify the best looking produce as safe/tasty. I doubt it's ingrained in our nature, which is to say, if you're raised in a situation where you can't be as selective, I suspect you'll see a lot more produce as perfectly fine.

We definitely don't (generally) turn our noses up at various forms of rotten milk or the liquids of fruits rotten enough to be alcoholic.

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