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.
He's probably right from an actual legal standpoint.
But he shouldn't be right.
It only makes sense to have additional laws setting a higher standard of conduct and accountability, for those making, interpreting, and enforcing laws.
As a healthcare worker, I'm a "Mandated Reporter". I could be held legally liable for Not calling the cops, if I see a kid being mistreated in the supermarket. And that makes sense to me. The nature of my job could make me liable and responsible in ways we wouldn't expect from the general population.
Yah, the 5th amendment has no carve-out for any specific jobs. But just like when a person pleads the 5th in court, you know it looks real bad if a cop refuses to turn on their camera.
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.
If Israel doesn't need the free weapons that cost us hundreds of billions of dollars, then lets stop wasting the money.
The only way is a data only SIM card.
It won't have a phone number for anyone to call or text.
Of course you can't make calls or texts either. You have to setup some kind of SIP service if you need to.
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.
The story had feeling of being written by committee. I think that was it's only real problem.
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.
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.