Shaving is an example of how consumer products extract more money

Re:Shaving is an example of how consumer products extract mo... by justinator on Saturday May 07, 2022 @11:56AM (#31295603)

>They have their uses. I wouldn't try frying eggs in a cast iron, for instance (technically you can, but it requires an absurd amount of oil).

It requires proper seasoning. Once you got that, egg away!

>Also, claiming that they "seem to be poisonous" without any qualifiers is a little misleading. To my knowledge they're only poisonous during manufacturing (ie. the precursor chemicals) and when they get too hot.

Agreed - they're not poisonous to use, but the manufacturing chemicals used to produce them are, and those chemicals are often dumped into the environment - they're also known as, "forever chemicals", which reek some havoc on well: us.

https://www.ewg.org/what-are-pfas-chemicals

>Why are they only superficially convenient? They seem pretty convenient to me.

The plastic waste they produce still have the inconvenient problem of what to do with them. Like many conveniences, the problem is just offloaded to someone else.

https://money.cnn.com/2015/03/04/news/k-cups-keurig-inventor...

Some feel microplastics in our blood stream is a worthy compromise to easy-to-make coffee.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/24/micropla...

I dunno much about TVs (I've never owned one), but sounds like subscription over ownership which, grumbles over Adobe

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Re:Shaving is an example of how consumer products extract mo... by gruez on Saturday May 07, 2022 @12:33PM (#31296086)

>The plastic waste they produce still have the inconvenient problem of what to do with them. Like many conveniences, the problem is just offloaded to someone else.

>https://money.cnn.com/2015/03/04/news/k-cups-keurig-inventor...

>Some feel microplastics in our blood stream is a worthy compromise to easy-to-make coffee.

If you're in a first world country with proper garbage disposal, those k-cups most certainly aren't contributing to the problem of microplastics. Where I live they basically get landfilled. Kind of hard for that to end up in my veins when they're buried underground.

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Re:Shaving is an example of how consumer products extract mo... by justinator on Sunday May 08, 2022 @05:32PM (#31308327)

Well is plastic waste a local environmental problem, or a global environmental problem? Is reducing waste in total not a good thing to strive for?

When do we all stop saying, "not my problem" when it comes to single-use, disposable items like this?

"20 years ago was the best time, second best time is now", kind of scenarios.

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