Does uhh.....Cuba have a big Internet hacker infrastructure?
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Hey now, we should salute McDonalds for keeping Big Beef in check. Those prices trickle down to us! /s
Hey, let's go one better. Let's require manufacturers to design product containers that don't waste product. I genuinely want to write a letter to whatever government organization oversees this type of stuff (in the US) at some point once I can figure out where, who, and gather documentation.
I'm talking everything. Salsa containers with a lip at the top that keeps all product from pouring out. Thin-necked mayo, tomato sauce, alfredo, etc. food containers that make even using a spatula and beatings difficult.
Then, lets move onto other things like bodywash, household cleaners, even the poop sprays. Airwick's poop spray is a good example. When the package is half-empty, tilting it to spray will pull the hose out of the liquid unless you rotate the container to resubmerge it. You can't even get half the product out before it is troublesome. Its whole life will be spent tilted at a 90 degree angle to spray in a toilet bowl. Why even use a hose? Oh, wait...for the profits.
More minor things, Bodywashes like Suave that switched from squeeze bottles to pumps. Most hand soaps also end up here too. The container is shaped with a dome in the bottom for structural reinforcement and the hose touches the reinforcement instead of extending all the way down to the bottom. Or every lotion bottle ever made.
Net sum, you end up with a few ounces of product that can't be used. Most people probably just chuck it and buy a new one. Just to spite them I try to use up every last drop of whatever, but it is an annoying effort every time.
The manufacturer doesn't care because the product being sold is the least expense of the entire supply chain, but think of the supply chain...
Let's talk body lotion and estimate 4oz of unused product in every lotion bottle (probably closer to 6, but even 1 adds up) and a 16oz lotion bottle.
I used AI to scrape the web for some numbers, so huge grain of salt here, but, it estimates a 40 foot cargo container and a packaging efficiency of 80%, that 37,000 bottles of 16oz lotion could fit in one container.
That's 148,000oz (1156.25 gallons, 4376.9 liters) of unused product being pointlessly shipped around per cargo container, with intent that it will be thrown away, per container. That is fuel in ships, trucks, aircraft, trains, delivery vans, peoples' cars all being burned to transport something that will never be used.
Multiply that by every kind of product line that does the same thing, it's a boondoggle of energy waste, pollution, CO2 generation, and customer ripoffery.
Mandatory changing of the design of packages for food, body, and other products could all by itself help with climate change on a planetary scale, as well as keeping the shrinkflaters more honest.
I like @Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 's comment the best, but actually, a friend once joked that, "I had a friend that could dig 60 ft holes, see, he dug 60 ft holes because the police stop digging for bodies after 50 ft." So #zerocontext to the broad Internet, but just the same, an arbitrary ridiculous number to ask!
they can buy Nestle™ distilled water
Hah, they don't waste the energy to distill it. They just pump it up from the ground on the other side of Michigan, filter it, and ship it back out. (As well as many other places where Nestle steals water.)
America specifically doesn't want to build sane infrastructure, we've gone too deep on car culture over the last century+. Going out of the way to build self-driving cars rather than running more rail (or even bus, or trolley) is a solution hunting for a problem that shouldn't exist. Especially given how much car prices have sharply increased in the last decade. Nobody will be able to afford personal transport, people will continue to use older cars for longer periods of time, or get into insane mortgage-sized car loans.
...but we want our "independence" and "freedom" dammit! .... /s
Even so, the status quo changes with EVs. You see it with dealerships/shops charging more for simple repairs, manufacturers trying to go to subscription models for basic car features.
So much of the US is car-based:
- Regular maintenance at a shop to pay for parts and fluids
- The oil industry living at its current large size (it will still need to exist even if we were all EV, until every other product that uses it switches to something else)
- Refueling at gas stations that can upsell you on impulse-buy food, drink, smoke, booze
- Gas station price wars to spur pointless driving around, pointless media attention (which causes further driving around of media vehicles), pointless arguments and chaos
- Supply chains generating every part, widget, and accessory, with the assumption there will be frequent replacement
- Training for mechanics and techs on servicing all these convoluted chemical powered mechanical systems
- Emissions testing and regulation used by municipalities as a money grab
- The engineers paid to design these machines
- Tax on fuel and other car consumables
- The aftermarket accessory market selling upgrade gizmos to customize, trick out, make louder, make more powerful, make coal-rolling
- Even parts theft like catalytic converter theft rings
Due to the extreme microclimates that form along Colorado's front range where the Rocky Mountains create weird tempests, I've long joked that we're the preview for climate change, and now everyone else gets the shipping release.
Massive floods, fires, hailstorms, land hurricanes, tornadoes, winter and summer between dawn to dusk, rain on one side of the house while sunny on the other, wind season, sandstorms in your eyes, you see it all (well, not with sand in your eyes), sometimes in the same day, sometimes in minutes.
One day a couple of winters ago, temp dropped from 40-50F down to 6F in 20 minutes. Remote-started the car to leave a place, and the dashcam recorded visibility ..... annnd snow-covered freezing cold - it was just another weird bizarre situation. The car took a hot minute to adjust to the fact that it was much colder out than it previously thought.
Rarely seems to make the national or international news, not sure why. Maybe they don't want to scare people for what's coming.
As much as Qualcomm modems rule, it'd be nice to have some competition in this space at all.
There is also a legal construct to impeach them. However, the other branches of the government would have to be capable of doing anything.
But, oh, think of all the credit card points we shall amass leading up to our demise!
What shovel would you use to dig a 60 ft hole?
All -300,000 of them.