Don’t mind this glaring bastion of land use mismanagement

  • MsPenguinette@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    Why is everyone so angry about straws? You all acting like we made you put down your dog. Nobody said it’d solve all issues. Besides, wasn’t it about marine life and not carbon?

    • lobut@lemmy.ca
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      8 days ago

      I feel like I’m one of the few people that never really minded the paper straws.

      The Sun Life chip bags that were super loud was funny to me though.

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      8 days ago

      I mean the paper straws suck, and 100% of my straws here in Finland were going into recycling or the incinerator rather than the Pacific Ocean, so it feels like I’m putting up with terrible straws for literally no reason.

      • Gal@lemmy.world
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        1 day ago

        People here care about those? I’ve never had any issue with them even in movies where they lay in the drink for a long time. What issues do you have?

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          1 day ago

          They taste and feel gross in the mouth and get soggy. Maybe the ones you’ve had have thicker plastic coating (ironic when you think about it) than the ones in my neck of the woods. I can barely finish a burger before the straw in the drink starts getting soggy.

    • Soup@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      Oh, I don’t mind them at all, and people who do are weird for that. There’s a use case for plastic straws for people with certain disabilities but it’s rare. The important thing is that I still understand what that push was trying to do. I can be ok with the results while not being blind to the true motivations.