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Free buffet?

There is even toilet paper with ads on it. Does that count as "ads in our anuses"?

Ftr: I was talking about regular RSS feeds+MP3 downloads, not Spotify exclusives.

If you really wanted to do something about Spotify exclusives, the likely only way to do this legally is building a custom Spotify client—Spotify allows custom clients, but only for paying customers, not for free users.

It likely won't work (well), because lots of podcasts actually use Megaphone and similar services that add interest-based ads into your download. I.e. ads can be of variable length or there may even be no ads, because the podcast targets the US but you're downloading from Pakistan.

Since you pee out electrolytes along with water, drinking too much distilled water has the effect of washing out electrolytes from your body.

This is almost literally the process Coca-Cola uses for its Smartwater brand. People outside Coca-Cola have described the process of removing everything then adding it back as dumb though. I wonder why

As long as they eat their Five a Day, that is.

On the Wawa parking lot?

You know, the trifecta of big food conglomerates (especially meat/dairy/egg-focused companies), livestock/feedstock farmers, and "conservative" politicians. None of them want you eating a healthy amount of vegetables. One might reasonably add pharmaceutical companies as well, because they profit off preventable diseases. So, I guess maybe it's four horsemen rather than a trifecta.

German beer/water/juice bottles are mostly standardized. There are some massive warts in the system unfortunately: The deposit is legally mandated but the bottles are private standards. Hence breweries/bottling companies are increasingly deviating from the standard bottles for marketing reasons. And there's a separate single-use flimsy-plastic deposit system used by discount stores which is very effective at collecting bottles for recycling but doesn't foster reuse.

However, I find it ridiculous that we're transporting all that water at all even though tap water here is at least as drinkable as the bottled water.

So this is what happens when package maintainers fail to find the problematic bits during package updates. I'll be honest, after seeing how Linux package management is done (automation and semi-automation galore) and by whom (people who often don't know the programming language of the source and who don't have much time either), I am more surprised that it took this long.

Washing and reusing is much more environmentally friendly than recycling. It may be more expensive because of the current societal/legal environment but given the right incentives, it doesn't have to be.

Deposit systems with standardized containers would be my wish. And I wouldn't mind if some of the standardized containers were made of plastics.

I'd also hope for all sorts of concentrates and powdered drinks to take over. A large portion of the packaging we go through every day is actually for drinks.

Single-use bioplastics and fungi-based materials may also be part of the solution. Bioplastics would ideally be created from byproducts of other processes though.

I wish that worked for me. The armrest of my chair catches onto every bit of cable it finds slightly hanging off the table. Granted, that's only an issue because the armrest is T-shaped rather than O-shaped.

The Anti-Vegetable Coalition actually kinda exists though.

Apple, afaik, used to be doing this on-device rather than in the cloud. Not quite sure about the situation today.

On a related note: Cucumbers in fruit salad are great for moderating sweetness (or the bitterness of grapefruits). Other veg I like to put in fruit salad include lightly sweet veg like carrot and sweet potato.

Ok, I guess that's the answer then. :/

I doubt that. For one, it's not just exported foods — similar types of packaging are used at least in Japan domestically.

For two, I'd presume that in either case, domestic and export, the retail packaging is shipped within a carton within a carton and then wrapped in cling foil and placed on a palette. Iow, the packaging shouldn't need to be hardier for export, because the outer layer(s) of corrugated cardboard and extra plastic should take any occurring damage.