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Hopefully, single use plastics would be a ridiculous thing in the future, maybe they will look back at it like we look back at asbestos.
Here is a funny asbestos ad from the past
God, I wonder how many people got those and used them regularly who are now having issues because of them?
I’m pretty sure they put asbestos in basically anything back in the day.
Our ironing board had an asbestos pad at one end for sitting the iron on.
Probably not many. Asbestos is bad when it gets into the air. If it’s within an oven mitt, even if cut, how would it get into the air?
I’m afraid the answer will be air conditioning and indoor plumbing.
Using plastic to contain food. I’m always a little turned off when a takeout place uses plastic containers as opposed to the paper or foil ones. Plus it’s terrible to animals, especially marine life such as dolphins.
Most of the paper ones are plastic coated.
Single-use plastic, yeah. Things like Tupperware will stick around unless we go back to using asphalt for food preservation.
I think we’re going to see single use wax-paper or similar displace the plastic and Styrofoam for your delivery order.
I wonder if more people will go back to flip phones. Some of my younger church friends are tired of smartphones and the amount of time and energy they suck out of your life and negative energy social media puts into it, and are switching back to flip phones. It’s surprising to see young people using them.
I believe you. History is full of movements and counter-movements. I don’t know if it’s going to be such a big movement though. Social media is literally addictive. Most people are not strong, mindful or willing enough to kick the habit
I’m not a doctor.
But possibly there will be a better way to treat/cure cancer, and thus chemotherapy will be seen as similar to how we today see bloodletting or lobotomy.
Poison the cancer slightly faster than the whole organism! My dad cancer treatment gave him liver disease that eventually turned into a cancer that was way more deadly than his original cancer.
I like this one the most. Chemo can be absolutely brutal.
People probably wouldn’t believe we sold water in plastic water bottles or shopped with disposable plastic bags.
I think it might take a lot longer than 20 years for plastic to fully die down
Where I live, plastic bags and styrofoam are already rare now. Now we just have to wait for people to realize water is free.
You should go on street view and check out Asia, whenever I visited Thailand and see a backroad, there is a huge number of used plastic bottles lying next to the road.
They still get drinking water from bottles.
Weather that is the case in large cities like Bangkok I don’t know as I haven been there enough to learn.
I legitimately do not understand why so many people refuse to drink tap water. I get that an occasional bottle of water is convenient when traveling or something, but some of my neighbors seem to only drink bottled water even at home. The city will literally test your water for free if you don’t trust it for some reason.
Tap in many places has a distinctive ‘taste’ to it. A cheap filter is WAY more useful (and way cheaper) than bottled water though.
Disposable vapes…
freedom to leave our houses
freedom
Fixed it for you.
thanks 😒
US health insurance industry… Either we get single payer or all of us will be in poverty.
Well, we’ve tallied the votes and…sigh
Brother, US is never changing, you guys hate each other too much.
If there’s one thing Saint Luigi has taught us, that the Corpos hate, it’s that we can all agree we want them dead. At least a lot of people do.
They’re using our hatred to divide us, but our hatred can also unify us to demand actual change
The state of the air we breathe indoors.
And outdoors now too
I’m hoping the answer is money.
It won’t be, but I can hope.
Do you mean physical money in terms of paper/plastic/coins or money as a concept? If the latter, how would society function?
The latter.
And, star trek.
We could probably have or be close to a post scarcity society today if people weren’t so fucking greedy.
Greed was a useful trait when it was down to survival of the fittest before we developed agriculture.
After that, the usefulness of greed became less relevant over time, and I would argue that at this point, it’s counter productive.
Just saying.
Wiping our asses with PAPER.
Long live the three seashells
Nope, I can’t see this happening either, unless bides take over.
Toilet paper is actually rather effective, it is cheap, easily processed, effective enough at removing most of the crap, it does not require added water infrastructure (I would not clean my ass with grey water) and simple to teach new users
Added water infrastructure? My guy, the connection for the cistern is right there. The added infrastructure is literally a tee piece and the hose.
That is fair, though in places with unreliable water I doubt that using water to flush or a bidet would be the first priority.
This is just my experience, but that experience includes travelling through some remote areas in less developed countries. Water to wash is usually the first upgrade on the tech tree- It’s unlocked right after you dig a hole in the ground. Grinding xp to get plumbing will make life nicer, but to start with you just need to gather enough resources for a bucket.
If you happened to touch shit with literally any part of your body other than your asshole, would you be happy with just wiping it with a piece of dry paper, or would you immediately go wash it?
I have no more questions…
Btw, don’t even get me started if you have a hairy butt.
It’s like trying to wipe peanut butter out of a shag carpet.
Does your asshole touch a lot of surfaces?
Mine mostly just touch my underwear…
So you’re OK with your asshole having some shit remaining on it because it only touches your underwear?
I feel for your SO.
Ok, this is fascinating.
This thread was about wiping with paper after going to the toilet, this was not a thread about general cleanliness.
I shower every day, this obviously includes wasing my asshole.
So now, I want an answer to this question.
What in this entire thread gave you the impression that I never wash my asshole?
I stand by what I wrote, wiping after using the toilet is fine, it obviously is a temporary solution until the next proper shower, but that is fine.
I think the main takeaway here is that you recognize washing is the appropriate thing to do, but are OK with a temporary wipe until your next shower. People are saying with a bidet you don’t have to wait, you use wash each time.
I agree it’s gone off the rails and I’m partly to blame. I just don’t understand peoples reluctance to use bidets.
frankly once you go water you simply cannot go back
Chad
Social media, at least in the current form.
That’s true. They already evolved and most of us didn’t even realize. News feeds were added and gradually evolved to use information they know about is to push our buttons and affect our behavior and beliefs.
They still needed content, but with generative AI that’s no longer necessary, this is why social media companies are so invested in it.
Social media is no longer social it became a platform to manipulate people. It is much worse than traditional ways of propaganda, because each person gets their customized feed tuned to issues that are more likely to influence them.
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Car centric infrastructure 🤣 lol back in the 2020s they had to travel in slow ass crowds of cars 🤣🤣🤣 nobody liked driving but they settled for it because it was the best they had! Although I wish I could have bought Tears of the Kingdom when it was new, I don’t even want to know what cars were like.
TIL I can italicize emojis and I’m gonna try it out right now 😆
Edit: I love it ❤️
fun fact, italicised emojis work pretty much everywhere except on apple devices
Antibiotics
what do you mean by this specifically, are you talking about the way it’s just taken willy nilly, or how they won’t be as strong in the future?
C) All of the above.
I hope it will be considered insane that we pump livestock full of them as a preventative measure, rather than as a treatment, while also prescribing them for every little thing.
When our current antibiotics are no longer effective at all, I hope that we’ll be able to find new ones and that we’ll be much more responsible with their use. I hope that people in the future will be as incredulous at our current use of them, as we are of using arsenic in makeup.
