Coffee's new status symbol is a machine without plastic

Re:Coffee's new status symbol is a machine without plastic by userbinator on Thursday November 05, 2026 @01:11AM (#50375793)

While I sympathize with the sentiment to eliminate plastic from the transport chain for anything ingestible

I don't, and this is just stupid virtue-signaling for the easily gullible hypochondriacs.

Plastics came from hydrocarbons, which make up the bulk of all living matter.

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Re:Coffee's new status symbol is a machine without plastic by amanaplanacanal on Thursday November 05, 2026 @04:40AM (#50377175)

And all hydrocarbons have the exact same health effects, amirite?

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Re:Coffee's new status symbol is a machine without plastic by userbinator on Saturday November 07, 2026 @08:41PM (#50409758)

All long-chain hydrocarbons are functionally inert. Look up what fatty acids are...

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Re:Coffee's new status symbol is a machine without plastic by faidit on Thursday November 05, 2026 @09:09AM (#50379259)

Isn't benzene a hydrocarbon?

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Re:Coffee's new status symbol is a machine without plastic by userbinator on Saturday November 07, 2026 @08:47PM (#50409787)

...yes, and compounds derived from it are naturally present in a lot of plants.

Short-chain hydrocarbons are quite reactive. But plastics are anything but short-chain, and "sentiment to eliminate plastic" just reads like the astoundingly tiring and misinformed idiotic "chemicals bad!!!1111" insanity of hypochrondriacs.

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