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@chat@hexbear.net @queermunist@lemmy.ml wow i hadn't thought of that!!!! holy shit!!!! if you're gonna be like that about it, let me be incredibly specific: my future in-laws have bought like six gimmick coffee machines because they looked like interesting gizmos and i'm the first person to clean these because they think anything that has hot water on it is fucking fine i guess.
i don't understand treating polycarbonate like it's glass.
i saw everyone throwing out their reusable tupperesque containers in college when i was living with 5 other impoverished bastards because you can tell when they get a stuck-in smell and they're fucked pretty easily.
You could try calming down just a hair. Youre coming off as a bit hostile for no real reason.
I grew up poor. Government cheese poor. My folks reused everything they could. Plastic bags that loaves of bread came in were reused. Even when stuff was obviously not in good shape. People also werent as cognizant of the dangers of microplastics etc. also, old habits die hard.
To be fair I was teasing, I understand if their jimmies are rustled. 😌
Also I totally wash out empty plastic jars and use them as dry storage totes for all sorts of stuff (only dry no-heat storage, of course), no way am I going to buy a big 64oz jar for idk dry beans or whatever when I already have a perfectly good empty peanut butter jar!
@Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net it's just very pedantic and condescending to assume i don't know people are reusing what i referred to as "reusable containers". that doesn't mean "reusable for forty years".
i think some of the assumptions about this come from stuff being introduced as a replacement for another material that's more sturdy. maybe my answers lie in archived marketing materials
Yeah, im the one being pedantic and condescending here. Definitely.
Hope you woke up in a better mood.
They might literally think that polycarbonate is glass, or at least not understand how its different. Some people are just really incurious.