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tempest@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Honestly I don’t give one shit about the paper straws. I wonder if the people who don’t like them let their drinks sit for hours and chew on the straw till their soggy. Every paper straw I’ve had has lasted the length of time it takes me to drink the drink.

Still banning those things but not fucking everything else in the supermarket that is packaged in plastic is such a massive and stupid waste of everyone’s time and effort. Such an imperceptible inch forward they almost deserve no praise at all.

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howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I wonder if the people who don’t like them let their drinks sit for hours

Yes

and chew on the straw till they’re soggy

No

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- tempest@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  What is it about flat warm soda that appeals to you?
  
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  - howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    It’s not that warm flat sodas appeal to me, but rather that carbonated drinks are painful to drink too quickly. If I have a paper straw, it’s also going to be accompanied by a meal, which takes time to eat. Also, if I’m getting a more interesting drink like a smoothie, slush, boba, etc, then I usually get something fairly large to enjoy over a long period of time.
    
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derpgon@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It is always “Look, we are actually trying to help the climate” types of government. Helping to build sustainable shit? Put money towards developing open, essy to implement, and easy to service standards? Nah, we will pay a billion dollars towards some bullshit that will be forgotten in a year and 80% (if not more) of the cash will be pocketed by billionaires (to use towards lobbying either against shit that will lose em money or shit that will make em money) because the contract was overpriced.

Fuck humanity, seriously. I just wish we will get a revolution before we burn to a crisp.

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Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It was a surprisingly fast change, to the extent that I wonder if they weren’t planning something along those lines as an industry wide PR stunt or lobbied industry takeover already. Or maybe paper straw machines are just really easy to setup.

It does show that widespread lasting change is possible. Even if it’s just a single step, we won’t get anywhere if we stop taking them.

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- tempest@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  The reality is more like there are just a few massive suppliers for restaurants. Sysco just offers paper straws and removes plastic ones and every establishment just orders a different SKU the next week.
  
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  - Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    The manufacture of straws on that scale can’t be simple to ramp up though. Maybe they just speculated correctly on paper utensil production capacity?
    
    Either way, there are opportunities for fast large scale change out there.
    
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