Sometimes, I wish I lacked a sense of guilt. I could make so much money conning these people…
But then if I lacked a sense of guilt, I’d be one of them.
Mood. Maybe make a bunch of money conning them and donate directly to causes they oppose?
I’d feel guilty just about the lying part to be honest.
If you don’t con them, someone else will. Although their values will usually align so there is that.
It’s not about them.
You are a good person and the revolution needs you.
Thank you.
Snowflakes. Incredibly infantile in their “freedom fries” kind of way.
Anti-woke fries.
Black Rifle Coffee, so anti-woke, you’ll go back to bed.
I hate to say it, but Dems should be trying to reclaim the word “freedom”. It makes absolutely no sense for Cons to be attached to it so strongly. We need more freedom fries and liberty toast.
I think they do, it’s just not repeated ad-nauseam and attached to everything like the Cons do. Free to be LGBTQ, free to read the books you want, free to organize labor, etc… Real, tangible, life-improving freedoms. Cons? All they want is freedom to take everyone else’s rights away. That’s their “freedom”.
But that’s the thing. The Dems want to campaign like they have for the past century, going out and making sensible campaign stops every so often. Obama was trying to change this, and honestly had the right of it - you blast your message everywhere, all at once, KEEP REPEATING IT, and shorten the general gist until it can fit in a meme.
This sincerely might be the most pathetic thing I’ve ever seen, I don’t even have words anymore
We’re almost at the “Brawndo” level of Idiocracy.
This is their version of corporate pride month merch.
I’ll stick to refilling old bottles with tap water.
You should use a reusable water bottle for that purpose though. Don’t reuse single-use plastic like that
Normally one puts used 2-liter pop bottles into recycling.
Occasionally I reuse one a few times.
Why would I buy a water bottle when I essentially have one—at times several—already?
Because even the food safe plastics are proven to leach microplastics and volatile compounds into your water?
Maybe, but such would be insufficient, IMO.
We must cease using all plastic:
plastic shopping bags, plastic textile bags, nylon, polyester, food wrap, margarine tubs, most electronics, automobiles, electric bikes, pedal bikes, definitely tires, plastic sandwich bags, tea bags, pens, chewing gum, filters, plastic pill bottles, plastic syringes, plastic in diapers, plastic in bandages, plastic in tampons, use only glass bottles for shampoos and conditioners, non-plastic combs and brushes, (most) imitation leather, plastic election signs, plastic gardening pots and trays, plastic garden hoses, plastic piping, plastic fuel containers, plastic casings for batteries, plastic electric chords, plastic in masks for the next pandemic, etc.
Nah you’re right, you should just keep using the same old sunlight-degraded Fuji bottle you’ve been using. Who cares if you’re drinking polyethylene, hell boil some coffee in that bad boy. Fuck minimizing exposure, it’s nothing to me champ, drink up.
Those go into recycling, which, IIUC, mostly go into the landfill because Toronto doesn’t rigourously enforce preparing and sorting recyclables enough.
For a while I used a 1.5 liter vodka bottle (mostly as a lark) but it got broken.
Metal containers also aren’t transparent—I like to see what I’m drinking.
If re-use of plastic isn’t the answer, then recycling is definitely not the answer.
At least 8 billion humans must stop using plastic.
Perhaps a more realistic solution would be to sterilize humanity now: that way, by 2099, the environment will start to significantly improve.
Dude he’s clearly not running this thing for years. A freshly acquired water bottle can be used two or three times over a couple of days. You aren’t going to die. When I was in Germany people reused their plastic bottles constantly. They would keep a giant bottle of whatever they wanted to fill it with in the fridge, and they would fill the smaller (used) plastic bottles, which they would wash and use few times before recycling. This is an incredibly common practice and it’s largely fine. You’re just trying to win an internet argument by making it sound like someone is digging out some crusty, crumbling years old plastic and eating the shavings for a snack.
TL;DR: reusing a (cleaned) plastic water bottle a few times before tossing it is not going to kill you.
Yeah I mostly agree with you and was largely being hyperbolic.
But really, I got a nice double-walled metal bottle awhile ago and it’s a game changer, I top it off with ice and fresh (filtered) water from my fridge in the morning and I have fresh, icey water all day. And I’m not consuming a bunch of single-use plastic in the process, highly recommend.
edit: also, apathetic accelerationist doomers piss me off
well fuck.
There’s a good chance the water into your tap comes from plastic pipes.
At all plastic is made the same
Water bottle is literally cheapest shit there is…
You can see sml pices of plastic on the bottle fraying when you buy it.
Not am expert but PVC is a bit different …
But point stands, there is just nuance to it.
We got any petro bros to clarify around?
I’m a plumber and it’s a well known fact that there is some amount of chemicals leaching into water from PVC, PEX and composite pipes. Enough to cause harm? Who knows.
Also, microplastics are in the air we breathe. It’s pretty much impossible to avoid that so I wouldn’t worry too much about re-using single use bottles. There are more important things to pay attention to if one wants to live a long and healthy life such as staying lean and excercising.
Thanks for the link.
Yes. Instead of using the bottle you already have you should buy a new bottle!
Yes. Microplastics leech into your water when you reuse a single-use plastic bottle.
Microplastics are in the air we breathe and the water you’re filling your re-usable bottle with likely comes to the tap via plastic pipes.
Moralizing people for re-using single-use plastic bottles is just virtue signaling. It’s basically impossible to avoid microplastics and if one cares about their health there are things you can do that have orders of magnitude greater impact on it such as staying lean and excercising.
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Avoidance isn’t my goal. Reduction is. Might be the same for the other commentor
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Drink out of what you want, but I like being able to scrub my reusable bottle.
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Dogs piss on dirt, so if you walk on the grass, you may as well just be drinking dog piss. Don’t demonize people for that.
Thanks, dope ass logic. Let’s just ingest more plastic!!!
Water bottle business and how boomers fell for it is microcosm of how modern America works.
Problem is now Republicans around the US are banning fluoride in our water, so who knows what else they’re going to ruin re: municipal water supplies. If they had their druthers we’d all be exclusively drinking bottled water.
Now with extra lead!
That’s just what I was thinking. It should contain added microplastics and industrial waste. And it should come in bottles made of plastic that cant’ be recycled and never breaks down. That would be the proper way to support right wing environmental policies. It would also be another “don’t get vaccinated” way for them to kill their own supporters.
Republicans will buy damned near anything out of spite.
They just keep fleecing the rubes and the rubes just keep letting them
It looks so easy 😭 I wish I had the starting capital and lack of morals to start one of these grifts.
Just print out the word “freedom” in size 72 times new roman on your printer (doesn’t matter if it won’t fit on one line) and tape it to some blank t-shirts. Go to a Republican event and sell them
New Non-Woke Freedom Shirts! Get your Non-Woke Freedom Shirts!
Well, that’s one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard of.
And isn’t in the top 10 for these guys.
Time to break out ol’ faithful
Sorry for being late boss, my car woke down.
What’s that, Nestle?
Nope, Nestle is too woke. Anything that doesn’t say “Freedom” is too woke.
Ironic because freedom is also woke.
Pumped downstream of some chemical factories on the great Mississippi river for that slight hint of deregulation flavor.
Same way grandaddy did it!
Republicans: Keep political statements out of my sports/TV/video games/etc!
Also Republicans: You can now make drinking water a political statement!
Republicans: Keep political statements that challenge my beliefs and make me uncomfortable out of my sports/TV/video games/etc!
Fixed that for you.
anti-woke water is what i call my nighttime melatonin drink
Woke water, anti-woke water; all bottled by Nestle!
