Think like what? Think this is just one small pice. Small enough that it almost doesn’t matter, and shouldn’t take any energy or news inches from the larger problem of plastic packaging? Because honestly, it sounds like we’re on the same page there.

Also plastics aren’t much of a climate issue. They’re part of a more broad environmental issue.

I have a hand-held basket I got more than a decade ago from Staples. I just put all the loose fruit and veg in that.

I wouldn’t limit it to plastic packaging. Micro-plastics come from all plastic.

Excellent! That should be bigger news than this little stuff.

All the more reason to advocate for it, and not be distracted by a nearly meaningless win.

I’m saying it shouldn’t be praised as a solution, but recognized as a very small step forward. Afterwhich we ramp up the pressure for real solutions.

I’m sorry.
If you want to make them, for the sake of making them. As an art project or something, that’s fine I guess.
But as a functional blanket? That seems like the worst thing I can imagine.

I do exactly the same all the time too.
Then I walk back out to my car, grab my basket, and curse silently at myself the whole way.

Which isn’t the individual single use plastic bags every single item comes in.
It’s just the one final plastic bag, all the other plastic bags are carried in.

I don’t have a problem with the move myself. I’m single, with a supermarket just up the street. I use my own hand basket for my groceries. I never even use a cart.
But this policy always strikes me a tackling the smallest, least effective part of the problem. Banning plastic packaging would be FAR more effective. But also much harder. So this is just a way for politicians to seem like they are doing something, when they really aren’t. In other words it’s pandering.

That’s why I was thinking.
“What makes this one news?”

So…
What makes this one news?

Sometimes people do the right thing, for the wrong reason. While not ideal. I’ll accept it.

We’re not talking about individual people, but whole corporations and organizations.

For example. Instance.social is shutting down. Now the whole Org needs to migrate 150 accounts to someplace else. Oh and the old posts are being deleted, can’t migrate those.

And the support community you created on there, is going away also. Again, can’t really migrate all the old posts and comments. But the FAQ documentation we put there when people asked about it, can be manually copied to the new place. So that’s something

That’s not a situation any company would want to be in. Better to have their own social home, that they control.

Hard disagree.
Running your own social media server for official accounts, so you’re not beholden to the whims of other providers, is kind of an obvious thing to do for online organizations.

That depends on how bad things need to get.

As a stepping stone to an octo-fold phone? Yes.

Don’t forget the RR workers union, and their members. It’s not just Biden

Yes.
No.
Yes.
Yes.

I started buzzing my hair down to an 1/8th inch when I was 14. Then much if it fell out in my 30s also.

I can be mad about more than one thing at a time.

But Biden trying to help some after fucking them over. That’s kind of the bare minimum. I’d say I’m only a little disappointed in that.

Yah. Eventually they got a raise, and 4 whole days of paid sick leave. They still work skeleton crews on unsafe trains, with no power over their own schedule.

Again. It’s not enough.

Rather than taking another several months it could have taken a few weeks, and they likely could’ve gotten much more.