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I love our society. Always chasing after solutions to things that aren’t really problems. Ban straws. Ban glasses of water. Ban cow pee. Forget that none of tho

I love our society. Always chasing after solutions to things that aren’t really problems. Ban straws. Ban glasses of water. Ban cow pee. Forget that none of those things here make any material difference.

Mtinie 8y ago
Completely different situations in this case. This isn’t banning cow urine, it’s solving a co-mingling problem with real economic costs and jusristictional concerns.
markstos 8y ago
Single-use plastics is a big problem. It gets solved by chipping away it from a lot of different angles. Plastic straws are one piece of the problem. My family loves straws and brings steel straws when we go out. No big deal. No one is banning steel straws. The only hit I get when I search for "ban glasses of water" is this post. Perhaps you referring to bottled water? That's another piece of the single-use plastics problem. Shifting away animal agriculture is one the top solutions for climate change ( https://www.drawdown.org/solutions-summary-by-rank https://www.drawdown.org/solutions-summary-by-rank ). So yes, cows and all their poop and pee are a very real problem. I don't think moving the piss around differently is nearly as a good solution as breeding and killing fewer cows, though!
- UncleEntity 8y ago
  > The only hit I get when I search for "ban glasses of water" is this post. Used to be when you went to a restaurant they would automatically bring a glass of water to your table. Then "they" decided this was a bad thing so now you have to specifically ask for water if you want water.
  - Pharmakon 8y ago
    I go out to eat at least twice a week, and I’ve never run into this. It sounds like the Daily Mail fed Grandpa Simpson LSD and wrote down whatever he mumbled.
    - aidenn0 8y ago
      I live in the 8% of california that just recently went from "drought" to "abnormally dry" and water only upon request is normal here.
      - Pharmakon 8y ago
        Fair enough, but that’s just one state out of fifty, and in the context of a wider world as well.
    - UncleEntity 8y ago
      > It sounds like the Daily Mail fed Grandpa Simpson LSD and wrote down whatever he mumbled. Or Mother Jones? And I heard about it much sooner than the linked article, think maybe back in the '90s. https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/07/california-drought-restaurant-policy/ https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/07/california-d...
  - DonHopkins 8y ago
    But now you can have as many free glasses of cow pee as you like!

Mtinie 8y ago

Completely different situations in this case. This isn’t banning cow urine, it’s solving a co-mingling problem with real economic costs and jusristictional concerns.

markstos 8y ago

Single-use plastics is a big problem. It gets solved by chipping away it from a lot of different angles. Plastic straws are one piece of the problem. My family loves straws and brings steel straws when we go out. No big deal. No one is banning steel straws. The only hit I get when I search for "ban glasses of water" is this post. Perhaps you referring to bottled water? That's another piece of the single-use plastics problem. Shifting away animal agriculture is one the top solutions for climate change ( https://www.drawdown.org/solutions-summary-by-rank https://www.drawdown.org/solutions-summary-by-rank ). So yes, cows and all their poop and pee are a very real problem. I don't think moving the piss around differently is nearly as a good solution as breeding and killing fewer cows, though!

UncleEntity 8y ago
> The only hit I get when I search for "ban glasses of water" is this post. Used to be when you went to a restaurant they would automatically bring a glass of water to your table. Then "they" decided this was a bad thing so now you have to specifically ask for water if you want water.
- Pharmakon 8y ago
  I go out to eat at least twice a week, and I’ve never run into this. It sounds like the Daily Mail fed Grandpa Simpson LSD and wrote down whatever he mumbled.
  - aidenn0 8y ago
    I live in the 8% of california that just recently went from "drought" to "abnormally dry" and water only upon request is normal here.
    - Pharmakon 8y ago
      Fair enough, but that’s just one state out of fifty, and in the context of a wider world as well.
  - UncleEntity 8y ago
    > It sounds like the Daily Mail fed Grandpa Simpson LSD and wrote down whatever he mumbled. Or Mother Jones? And I heard about it much sooner than the linked article, think maybe back in the '90s. https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/07/california-drought-restaurant-policy/ https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/07/california-d...
- DonHopkins 8y ago
  But now you can have as many free glasses of cow pee as you like!