This my friend, is a pint.
#environmentalist
Submitted 5 months ago by MTZ@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Good lord the capitalization choices in this make my head hurt.
MTZ@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Haha I never paid attention to it until now but yes that is atrocious.
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
Dumpy makes Memes now?
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
ReginaPhalange@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Surely you can’t be serious
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
I am serious, and don’t call me Shirley.
(Sorry, someone had to do it correctly)
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 months ago
the only “straws” i use now are the built-in straws on my water bottles. when dad was dying, he had drop-neck and bendy straws let him drink on his own. something about both being a straw and at whatever angle he needed for his mouth, since he rarely stood or sat entirely upright. he could not drink directly from a glass without burying his nose in it or spilling half of it. for me it’s not one of those “hey, now that this effects me” bullshits, it’s more “hey, now that i understand how necessary they are in specific contexts” bullshits.
if they can make a corn or paper bendy straw that functions properly, i’m all for it. until then, there are much bigger and better things to worry about than straws.
InFerNo@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
It might sound silly, but sippy cups are also an option. You can lift and drink from the cup without spilling that way
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 months ago
No, no they aren’t.
pipes@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Thank you for this perspective because I’m one of those who never saw the appeal to straws.
I just wanna say that paper straws are lined with PFAS and similar substances, I would NOT use them at all. Mark my words they’ll be banned in the EU in 20 years.
I’d rather try a pasta straw, if the metal ones are not viable. If using plastic, prefer a more rigid plastic if possible, Policarbonate (like in a Nalgene bottle) is safer than Polyethylene; or at least I would avoid them with hot drinks.
lengau@midwest.social 5 months ago
I hate that restaurants will give me (non bendy) straws even when I specifically ask to not get a straw.
communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 5 months ago
Boba is the only reason i use straws.
betanumerus@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Bamboo straws make you feel like your on some exotic, tropical island!
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Straws are to prevent ice from sliding into your face
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Plus they help keep your mustache dry!
KittyCat@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Just open wider, ice is a nice crunchy treat!
cley_faye@lemmy.world 5 months ago
As a person with skin surrounding his skull, I don’t really get why that’s an issue.
CucumberFetish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Mah lips be hurting from the big chill
PillowTalk420@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Skill issue.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I rarely use straws, only in cases where it’s more convenient enough, like when I got a liter of cola at the cinema.
Bosht@lemmy.world 5 months ago
‘Can I get uuuuuhhhh burger and ah literah cola?’ ‘Burger and liter of cola, it’s for a cop’
MrSmith@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You need a fucking glass for you water? Pussy.
Hozerkiller@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Real men dunk their entire head in a lake and drink enough water for the next week in 15 seconds.
MTZ@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Lol wat
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
Here in the house we have re-usable, washable plastic straws.
Out and about I’ll use the disposable straws because the whole turtle-death thing was over-exaggerated. (Microplastics from automotive tires are killing us, though. There are real great filters to be navigated)
I also just don’t eat out much, especially since the 2020 lockdown.
IMALlama@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Not sure how up to date this is, but synthetic fibers are the #1 source of micro plastics, followed by car tires and city dust. Car tires are absolutely a contributor and we should cut our reliance on personal transportation for more reasons than just micro plastics. In addition, we need to move away from polyester, nylon and a slew of other materials.
Most household furnishings used to be made of natural fibers. These days carpets, couch covers and filling, curtains, clothing, etc are often derived from a petrochemical. I suspect oil companies will continue to pivot into these areas to continue as we very slowly ween ourselves of gasoline.
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
This raises a big question of what the heck comprises city dust. Is there a microplastic element to concrete or asphalt? Is it just more tire deterioration? City dust is a conspicuously vague category.
WALLACE@feddit.uk 5 months ago
We have silicone ones but I don’t like them as they retain the taste of washing up liquid on them
exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
You can release some of the stuck on flavors from silicone by heating it in the oven to 250°F/120°C for 20-30 minutes.
GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
I feel like this might be an American problem, with straws being more necessary for drinking in cars, which are all too common there.
I rarely drive and basically never drink out of a straw, there’s just no point when you can drink directly out of the cup.
emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
If you want like a mixed drink or a pop out of a glass while lying on the couch or in bed a straw is useful too, thats the only time i ever use them. My fiance likes a ton of ice in everything she drinks so she uses our metal straws for everything. I still prefer drinking out a can or a bottle with a screw on cap for most things when im lying down.
rumba@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
I feel like this might be an American problem
Fast Food Nation, the paper/plastic cups are flimsy and need a lid for structure.
We get so used to it that when we eat out, we want straws.
I’ve never really cared. IF they bring wrapped straws, i’ll generally not open it and stash it in my car for the next time a fast food straw breaks. If it’s open, I use it because it seems more of a waste to throw it away unused.
There probably is some decent point to the server groping all over the outside of your glass or the dishwasher handling it, but i’m not really a germophobe.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 5 months ago
I’m unsure how much benefit reusable straws really are because at a restaurant, they’re probably gonna give you straws anyways and I don’t think they’d put unused ones back in the box, especially post covid.
zerofk@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
The only thing that comes with a straw in the restaurants I visit, is cocktails.
Flames5123@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Seattle has commercially compostable plastic straws. They feel pretty much like plastic but are kind of matte. Even the single use forks/knives/spoons from restaurants are like that. But then again we do large scale compost across the city.
Flames5123@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Seattle has commercially compostable plastic straws. They feel pretty much like plastic but are kind of matte. Even the single use forks/knives/spoons from restaurants are like that. But then again we do large scale compost across the city.
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
But how do you snort cocain with a glass? I have metal straws.
general_kitten@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
glass straws
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Had them but they fell and broke while being in a k-hole. So metal ones are the better option. Also, they are bent so they don’t roll off the mirror. Glass ones (afaik) are always straight (never gay) and roll.
DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
The only bad thing about a metal straw is the straw ceiling tile that falls on your head. Well there probably several bad things about a metal straw, not something a skateboarder can carry in their pocket.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
I’m sorry, what? Did you have a stroke?
DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
Not a stroke, autocorrect, yellow submarine 6 7.
olafurp@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Don’t you need to use the metal straws some ridiculous amount of times before it saves more carbon than the plastic single use?
Also, plastic multi use is probably better.
arschflugkoerper@feddit.org 5 months ago
That depends on the goal here. I don’t think the main benefit of removing plastic straws is a lesser co2 impact. Its less plastic garbage and environmental pollition.
beansbeansbeans@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I bought a 4-pk of glass straws for €5 and they are awesome. The rounded edge feels smooth on the tongue/lips and drinks taste better through glass than metal.
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 5 months ago
I would probably break them in a way or another
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’d be worried about breaking them if I take them places. Do they hold up well?
beansbeansbeans@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Of the 4, only one has gotten scratched to the point that I recycled it (manufacturing error methinks), but the other 3 are holding up well. I’ve had them for a little over a year.
Lichtblitz@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
The ones I’ve handled and bought are more robust than most other glassware. They can break if dropped on hard floor, but that’s normal for anything out of glass.
Agent641@lemmy.world 5 months ago
etherphon@midwest.social 5 months ago
Mmm I can still taste the metal.
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 5 months ago
Please don’t do that. A lot of garden hoses are made of junk plastic, which leaches along with metals into the water.
wabasso@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Could that be mostly alleviated by running it for half a minute before drinking?
Earwigs came out of mine once, so I always wait for those to stop coming out.
ckunr@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The brand on that hose in more expensive. eleyhosereels.com/…/5-8-polyurethane-garden-hose
Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Found the Gen X-er. Good day to you, my fellow hose-water connoisseur.
Nickelalloy@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Please enlighten me, why do u even need a straw, can’t you just drink from the cup, like in the bottom pic?
*Im genuinly wondering.
RedFrank24@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Some people can’t hold objects with any dexterity due to disabilities etc. So they use straws.
iloveDigit@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Everyone replying to you so far seems to be forgetting how you can just put a tiny hole on one edge of the lid to drink through without big ice chunks coming through
lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world 5 months ago
When your drink cup has a bunch of ice, it’s easier to drink from with a straw.
One extremely far-fetched reason for using straws I’ve heard is that it’s somehow more hygienic than putting your mouth on restaurant cups.
huppakee@piefed.social 5 months ago
it’s somehow more hygienic than putting your mouth on restaurant cups.
That is why i only get food in places with disposable plates and cutlery ;)
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 5 months ago
Many fast food cups lack the structural integrity to hold the quantity of liquid that they’re supposed to without a lid, and using a lid necessitates using a straw
Furbag@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Sure, you could, absolutely. There are times when it is convenient to have one. For example, most fast food establishments will provide you a drink cup with a lid and straw. You could just rip the lid off and drink it normally, but if you are driving (which you probably are if you are getting fast food) and want a sip of your drink, it’s a lot easier to just grab the cup and take a sip through a straw than it is to grab the open container and tilt it. Not to mention the chance you might hit a bump or brake hard and have it spill, either while you are trying to drink from it or even just when it’s sitting in the cupholder if partially full.
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
You can also use a chive leaf as a straw. It’ll affect the taste, but it’s fun to eat it afterwards
CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Reusable straws are gross. Unless you are taking a brush to the inside every time you’re kidding yourself.
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Remember when people lost it because disabled people wouldn’t be able to drink again and then they all died of dehydration after these draconian straw laws severely impacted my day
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
In all seriousness, there’s some drinks that need a straw
CubitOom@infosec.pub 5 months ago
Basically, there is very little study / regulation on pfas and other harmful chemicals on really everything. However most food contact materials (FCM) are full of the stuff. It’s almost always better to bypass and not use a single use FMCs. The more of them you remove from your use, the less you pollute and the less you expose yourself to harmful chemicals.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
it’s weird how presumably neurotypical people complain about paper straws feeling weird, but my autistic ass couldn’t give less of a shit about their texture.
do you chew on them, or what?
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 5 months ago
After reading about that lady who died because she fell on a metal straw and impaled her eye and brain I threw away my metal straws.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Iced drink tend to taste better with straw tbh, sipping from the cup mean you’re taking in watered down stuff, and also tiny ice or ice blocking the flow of the drinks.
sirico@feddit.uk 5 months ago
Just use trough food and drink in one easy to clean vessle
l_isqof@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Am I the only one still cupping my hand under the tap?
Pat@feddit.nu 5 months ago
I actually like paper straws. No texture concerns, and once you’re done? Crinkle up into a ball and chew. Like edible, paper-flavoured gum.