AggressivelyPassive

I can’t, he died 8 years ago…

That sentence had several aneurysms.

Show me a single person that uses these tools exclusively and does not care about updating their machine.

And even then: ssh does have vulnerabilities. Email clients also usually render HTML, which means they have a browser engine under the hood.

Many women seem to assume that penis and balls are attached actually between the legs, just like where their vaginas are. They are surprised, if they’re told, the whole assembly is actually more “at the front”.

The reverse is also true, BTW. A lot of boys struggle finding the vagina because from their perspective it’s waaay too low.

We barely understand our own bodies, it’s not surprising that we have problems with other sexes bodies.

There’s barely any pressure to extinguish “bad” traits, though.

If you’re the idiot who eats every berry you can find, cavemen can’t save you and your genes disappear. Modern medicine can and will save you, so you can create offspring and the berryeaters keep their proud heritage alive.

Now, what is considered “good” or “bad” is of course highly debatable, but currently we have effectively no survival pressure, the only selection is how many children you get.

Come to Germany then.

German uses generic masculine grammatical gender and the state of Bavaria just banned the practice of “Gendern”, meaning use both forms (male and female).

So you’d have to be referred to as male pretty much always.

It’s not, and it’s disingenuous to imply that this is what I wrote.

You’re building a straw man.

Then introduce a refund system. Has been proven to work in Germany for over 20 years.

And as I wrote in another comment already: these regulations are a distraction so that the real problems can be ignored. They are actively harmful.

Ask yourself these simple questions: where is micro plastic coming from? And what would be a good lever to reduce that? Bottle caps are not the answer for any of that.

So the result is barely any change in the amount of plastic introduced in the environment, the real big sources (for example the plastic wrapper around the bottles, and around the pallets of bottles) are untouched, but people (like you) become complacent, because we added those cap straps after all!

Yes, reducing even a bit is helpful, but it’s far from being free, because this exact bullshit makes people ignore the real problem. Your view is far too myopic.

It was implemented as a symbol. I described it above.

The entire idea, similar to the carbon footprint, are attempts by the fossil industry to shift responsibility away from them and towards consumers. We from BP and BASF would love to stop pollution, but you guys keep throwing away the bottle caps! So they lobby the European Parliament to enact such regulations, the Parliament can act like they actually did something and the industry can keep producing plastics.

Yes, other solutions would cost more money. But these solutions would have at least a realistic chance to change something.

Remember the straight cucumber regulation? That was demanded by the retail industry. So it’s not like the EU doesn’t enact regulations for some lobby groups.

And if you think these caps are doing anything, the fossil industry fooled you successfully.

And even that is dubious.

How many of the caps are actually reaching the ocean and is that actually a way to reduce that?

I mean, how about a European refund system? Works perfectly fine in Germany and actually makes recycling a bit easier?

These caps are empty gestures as I described above.

…then it scratches my cheek.

Why is it so hard to understand that a useless piece of plastic in your face might be unpopular?

Maybe your bottles are different, but the bottles here in Germany have a very short “leash” and are often connected to the right in two places, so it constantly pushes in your face when drinking.

If an actual problem would have been solved, I’d be fine with it, but it’s just a pointless law which only exists to create the illusion of progress and shift blame onto consumers.

Aren’t the PS symbols copyrighted/branded? I read somewhere that there’s some IP involved, so you can’t use the standard symbols.

Or sellers obviously don’t know, what their stuff is actually worth.

Some want to sell used goods for more than the new price and three times what other offers are.

The Datenelch (data moose) was actually a pretty good meme around 37c3.

https://hessen.social/@anno/111702349514780488

Generally these weird roundabout constructions used in English (not my native language). Like “I’m going forward to do X”. There’s always a bit of padding in language, but English seems to be very “paddy”.

Oh, and very non-descriptive words for very specific things. Like washer. What is a washer? It doesn’t do any washing. In German, we call these things Unterlegscheibe. A disk (Scheibe) to put (legen) under (unter) something. Says exactly what it’s doing.

Can’t or won’t?

Seriously, though, I wouldn’t be surprised, if a bunch of suicides or “retractions” are happening soon.

How about 2 million if you shut up? No? How about we publish this dirt on you? Would be a shame, if some nameless robber orphans your children.

No, since most cities are not fully air conditioned.

That’s actually what it’s called in German. Never thought about the implications of the “X evolved to Y” screens.