In DC. My state has been fighting harder against this stuff than almost anyone else.

They don’t teach the classics in school anymore.

I don’t know why they didn’t use that tagline in 1986.

Holy shit man, I’m not talking about you, I’m talking about the OP, and the anti-straw rhetoric that it’s referencing. You seem to be looking for reasons to be angry, I’m out.

Jesus, you presume too much.

Point to where I said not to do anything. My whole point was not to just stop at straws and find more ways to avoid plastic.

Maybe spend less energy on literal strawmen.

Look, all I’m saying is that straws probably aren’t the #1 source of discarded plastic, and it seems like focusing on one thing like that results in more performative than substantive change.

I didn’t make any such “observations”, or even claim that it doesn’t vary by location. I’m just pointing out that your approach ignores a lot of much larger plastic masses. It’s ok for identifying some obvious opportunities, but I’d hesitate to call it definitive for the purposes of establishing the most impactful strategy.

I’m not sure if people’s unmindfulness is responsible for a larger share of waste than indifference, but maybe?

Yeah, not everyone can do it, but I have no reason to doubt that most can, but we’re really getting hung up on a single example here, people.

How about deodorant? How many people use deodorant in a cardboard container instead of plastic?

Yeah that’s a reasonable expectation. I’ll just start a massive study to see if people use so many straws that it outweighs every other use of plastic in their life. You’ve totally got me there. Congrats.

Edit: That was sarcasm. The burden of proof that straws are the most impactful discarded plastic is on you, not on my skepticism of it.

KFD, surely?

Anecdotes aren’t a great way to measure this. Observations like this are variable by location, and ignores the much larger mass in landfills or unrecycled stockpiles.

My hair is also excessively oily, and I wash it daily with bar shampoo.

How much plastic is in a bottle of shampoo vs a straw, even averaged by day?

The straw thing seems like such an inconsequential place to start over things like switching to bar soap and bar shampoo to avoid using so many plastic bottles.

It’s the same reason they want the electoral college to overrepresent rural voters, but only that demographic group gets special treatment.

Indeed: Wilhoit’s Law

What awful syntax?

Ffs bash uses echo "${filename%.*}" and substring=${string:0:5} and lower="${var,,}" and title="${var^}" &c. It doesn’t use $ for assignment, only in expressions.

True, but we’re losing it much faster lately.

Micromanaging individual stocks is super risky and basically a full-time job.

What’s with this “first” narrative? Is CNBC trying to encourage more?