The problem is that a lot of large places don’t want to accept cash. It is easy for small places to use cash because the owner is likely running the register. When you get to mega corporations, it is easier and cheaper for them to pay the credit card fees.

Maybe, but I’m also seeing more men going straight to the toilet stall to pee even though there are several urinals open. And even then, they should lift the seat.

I’m not surprised. Iran’s control over the Strait of Hormuz was a way to pressure the USA to quit attacking Iran, but the USA isn’t one of the most impacted countries.

Even if the USA ends up agreeing to Iranian control over the Strait, the other countries in the Middle East might not and it is unclear if the USA could prevent a continuation war with these countries. That said, a defense alliance without the USA could potentially lead to a removal of American bases from the region as agreeing to the removal of American bases could be a way to satisfy Iran’s need for security without requiring these countries to accept a tax on their oil shipments.

Go through the counter argument, what would it take to keep it?

From what you’re saying, you’ll likely need to rent a storage facility for that. They’ll advertise low rates initially, but I’d expect to pay over $100 a month unless you constantly move the stuff across different storage facilities. Then, if you move out of the area, you’ll need to bring this with you.

Once you have a cost to keep it, it will be far easier to justify getting rid of it.

People who hover hover because of people who hover.

And new seats even have a bump out so you can use your feet.

I’m waiting for when one country signs a contact to allow patrols where the company gets salvage rights to all trespassing ships illegally fishing within their waters.

A 600 calorie a day diet is not SOP. The USA had entire ships dedicated to creating ice cream in World War II as a way to keep morale and calories up. A lot of DoD research has gone into ensuring that troops get the calories they need to stay at peak combat effectiveness.

If sailors are on 600 calorie a day diets, there has been a near catastrophic breakdown in the supply chain to the aircraft carrier.

High speed rail is usually credited to Japan.

You didn’t like the smooth draw of a candy cigarette as a kid?

Land based plants exist in an arms race between access to sunlight and water/nutrients. They have to physically occupy two separate areas. In contrast, water based plants only need to occupy one location, the water closest to the surface. Since there is no evolutionary advantage to starting to grow tall, water based plants don’t grow as tall.

Seaweed grows large, but it doesn’t need the kind of rigid structure trees have.

It helps when a lot of the senior leadership gets killed off, including the assets.

It is also hard to revolt at the beginning of a war without being treated by the rest of the country as traitors.

Yeah. The system can be very successful in certain cases even if it only pushes recycling.

My statements were made in the context of a maximalist scenario. Every container sold is made to be reused and recycling is seen as a failure. In a maximalist scenario, I see a lot more breaking down in a way where a beverage industry like beer standardizing on a bottle size wouldn’t.

But a lot of container-deposit legislation as mentioned in the Wikipedia article pushes the container into recycling programs, not reuse.

Yeah, it isn’t impossible. However, I expect there would be a radical rethink of food supply chains. This would likely include more grocery stores adopting the Aldi/Trader Joe’s model of fewer brands and selection of product since the cost of differentiation gets borne more by the store. There would likely be an increase in public markets with several vendors as each vendor is effectively a brand of food.

I think enshittification will hit and don’t grocery stores will either stop offering container sanitization as a service or will start selling the service independently and incorporating the higher cost in shelf products. Grocery stores operate on thin margins, so I expect this cost to get transferred to consumers somehow.

I also think a lot of existing companies will fight this tooth and nail as their bottling and canning lines provide a massive barrier to entry for competition. I also think a lot of customers will fight this since it radically changes how they shop.

Ok, but even communist run systems wouldn’t require the massive sorting system of hundreds of different types of glass jars. At best, they’d force standardization so there are only a few jar types in the country and make all labels easy to remove.

However, what most likely would happen is everything is going to be bring your own container and the shoppers are going to be responsible for cleaning the old jars.

Glass jars aren’t reused because of the infrastructure required to reuse them. The only glass I can think of which is reused outside of the point of sale are soda and beer bottles, and that is only usually at restaurants which will collect the bottles they use to ship back.

Outside of a massive sorting facility in every supermarket generating no value for the store owner, the only other way to ensure bottle reuse would be subscription delivery like milk used to be or hyper focused stores which only sell a few products like how grocery shopping used to be.

How is this more expensive than the Slate?

Yeah, but when Brian McManus from Real Engineering made a video which somewhat defends Kurzgesagt in their issue with YouTube, it shows that the filter issue isn’t just a problem with Kurzgesagt.

The technology for scan while you shop is already a decade old. The problem is that you’re still going to have to deal with publicly seen pricing signs which will make personalized pricing outside of coupons impossible.