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Terrible for your wrists though
Also terrible for the environment. The energy cost of buying this online, the carbon cost behind the $22 + shipping, the actual carbon cost of shipping this crap. We are truly living in the most idiotic timeline.
Terrible for your wrists though
Also terrible for the environment. The energy cost of buying this online, the carbon cost behind the $22 + shipping, the actual carbon cost of shipping this crap. We are truly living in the most idiotic timeline.
Fwiw I do think that non-consumtion is a more 'real' protest than buying recycled but if you _have_ to get something
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The paper is $.01, it’s the folding you’re paying for.
No you are paying for the story that you’ll be able to smugly tell your colleagues of how much you care about the environment that you’ve purchased a recycled laptop stand, ignoring the fact that this was likely air shipped from Korea and then delivered by multiple trucks to you.
> ignoring the fact that this was likely air shipped from Korea and then delivered by multiple trucks to you.
This presupposes the economies of scale. One plane is not leaving South Korea laden with just one laptop stand and nothing else, and one delivery truck is not leaving the Fedex or UPS depot almost entirely empty save for one laptop stand destined for the consumer's house.
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Also terrible for the environment. The energy cost of buying this online, the carbon cost behind the $22 + shipping, the actual carbon cost of shipping this crap. We are truly living in the most idiotic timeline.
What would a less idiotic timeline look like?
It's foldable. It's light. It's made of recycled material. It's cheap enough.
Seems pretty smart to me.
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Also terrible for the environment. The energy cost of buying this online, the carbon cost behind the $22 + shipping, the actual carbon cost of shipping this crap. We are truly living in the most idiotic timeline.
What's the carbon cost of shipping a plastic stand? Fwiw I do think that non-consumtion is a more 'real' protest than buying recycled but if you _have_ to get something
Airflow?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The paper is $.01, it’s the folding you’re paying for.
No you are paying for the story that you’ll be able to smugly tell your colleagues of how much you care about the environment that you’ve purchased a recycled laptop stand, ignoring the fact that this was likely air shipped from Korea and then delivered by multiple trucks to you.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
No you are paying for the story that you’ll be able to smugly tell your colleagues of how much you care about the environment that you’ve purchased a recycled laptop stand, ignoring the fact that this was likely air shipped from Korea and then delivered by multiple trucks to you.
If you're going to buy a laptop stand anyway and you have the choice between A) a plastic stand or B) this recycled stand, does it make more or less sense, in terms of environmental impact, to buy the plastic stand over this one? > ignoring the fact that this was likely air shipped from Korea and then delivered by multiple trucks to you. This presupposes the economies of scale. One plane is not leaving South Korea la…
Who do you imagine thought of it this way, and how does an objection to shipping trash require you to think this way?
What normal people imagine is that a package containing this displaces a package containing something else, and that an collective shipping container of these is a shipping container that wouldn't have been shipped otherwise.
What you seem to be theorizing is that if these weren't being shipped, some other product would have been invented to take up the volume that it uses, or all other products would expand in order to fill the space. That has a burden of proof that the normal people explanation doesn't require.
Like someone else said, release the instructions.
If you want to make an environmental impact, you have to make something people are willing to buy. That's why Tesla became so successful, no one cared 10 years ago when it was a status symbol. Once it got to like $40k it sold like crack.