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Re: I invited strangers to message me through a receipt printer

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Post by fukka42 »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #59
kleinishere wrote: post #57

For the many posters recommending BPA free paper - does anyone have suggestions / a link for a reliable seller? I looked on Amazon after another receipt printer post on HN but couldn’t find anything that provided confidence in the BPA characterization. ULINE is quantities are absurd for personal use. Imagine their most be a decent alternative but never see any named.

https://www.pca.state.mn.us/business-with-us/bpa-and-bps-in-... (scroll to "Use alternative receipt paper": "Companies that offer phenol-free alternatives")

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Re: I invited strangers to message me through a receipt printer

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Post by hellcow »

contrarian1234 wrote: post #87
intheitmines wrote: post #25

If you do this be sure to buy BPA free receipt paper Handling receipt paper is what turned out to be the cause of the high BPA numbers when boba tea was tested https://x.com/natfriedman/status/1899641377002025252

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisphenol_A#Health_effects_and ... "In the 2010s public health agencies in the EU,[81][82][83] US,[84][85] Canada,[86] Australia[87] and Japan as well as the WHO[12] all reviewed the health risks of BPA, and found normal exposure to be below the level currently associated with risk." If it has some health effects, they've been incredibly hard to actually pin down..

“Normal exposure” is doing some heavy lifting in that sentence. Presumably having all your daily texts arrive on such paper wouldn’t be “normal exposure,” which if I recall correctly is handling a receipt for a few seconds a day with only your fingertips.

Re: I invited strangers to message me through a receipt printer

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Post by djhworld »

There's something quite pleasing about writing a message and living, at least, with the thought of it causing some physical action (printing) in the real world. I mean, for all we know Andrew probably ran out of printer paper hours ago so the message has gone into the ether, but it's nice to think it happened at least!

Re: I invited strangers to message me through a receipt printer

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Post by toomuchtodo »

fukka42 wrote: post #101
toomuchtodo wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://www.pca.state.mn.us/business-with-us/bpa-and-bps-in-... (scroll to "Use alternative receipt paper": "Companies that offer phenol-free alternatives")

(US-only)

Where do you need it outside the US? I will attempt to source.

Re: I invited strangers to message me through a receipt printer

#106

Post by __turbobrew__ »

jodrellblank wrote: post #99
foresto wrote: post #7

I wonder if the author is aware of the health effects of handling thermal paper. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5453537/

> be me > live in city > breathe vehicle exhaust and tire dust everyday > drink alcohol > drive to my desk job > live on ultra processed food > salt and sugar for a treat > better not touch this piece of paper - for my health > open another Monster energy drink (tm). I can sleep when I’m dead.

Pretty much. Same thing with microplastics: sure it may be bad for you, but the average modern lifestyle includes so many other things that we know are much worse (smoking, drinking, factory food, sedentary, soda, …)

Re: I invited strangers to message me through a receipt printer

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Post by Wistar »

SoftTalker wrote: post #62
aschmelyun wrote: post #32

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Worse: I worked in grocery stores for years as a cashier lol

I did too but the printers were still dot matrix with ink ribbons then.

I rarely see thermal printers at grocery checkouts. Almost all that I see are ink.

Re: I invited strangers to message me through a receipt printer

#108

Post by brailsafe »

CaptainOfCoit wrote: post #93
brailsafe wrote: post #68

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> we'd use the outside of the can as where you put anything with fire, you don't have to turn it inside out to be able to smoke out of it. This is what I pictured, but now I'm curious how you'd use the inside of the can.

Some stoner-engineering could hook up two cans with each other, one is the cup you use for burning the material and the other one the "water-passageway". Obviously not recommended as there is plastic liner on the inside, but in that way you could use the inside :) Basically a bong in two pieces made out of two cans.

genius

Re: I invited strangers to message me through a receipt printer

#109

Post by brailsafe »

scotty79 wrote: post #84
brailsafe wrote: post #67

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I mean... the weed was going to get smoked, it was definitely the receipt that was the foreign invader here.

The fact that you did something intentionally doesn't automatically make it less of a mistake.

Yes it does

Re: I invited strangers to message me through a receipt printer

#110

Post by DANmode »

NemoNobody wrote: post #92
derwiki wrote: post #49

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I really have fallen for impermanent art. I display slide/color positive film on my windows. Yup they will fade and that’s totally ok.

Huh, that's very interesting. I've always considered Art to be timeless, bc it is, all of it. Davinci did a lot of cool stuff but the Mona Lisa made him the most famous person and I really don't see that changing. I have a painting hanging over my head rn whose artist died in the 1680s - the painting is over 100 years older than the Declaration of Independence and was brought over here on a ship with sails that took…

Most humans literally do that last part.
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