As soon as I saw people were using metal straws as a replacement for plastic straws, I thought... that is a terrible, dumb idea. Yet people still buy them. It's pretty nuts.

There are now perfectly functional composable straws, but people still need to compost them.

Impaled through the eye, my god.

The odds of something like that happening are so astronomically low that you’re better off spending your energy looking up for falling pianos.

Or the guy that died of a rare bacterial infection that he got from using his dirty metal straw he never cleaned /s

There are also silicone and glass straws. Plus a metal straw with a bend in it may be safer than a straight one. I was expecting someone else to have mentioned silicone straws already, I'd heard of them before in other straw discussions. Had to do a search and make sure they really existed.