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Those shitty little cups cost more than regular cheap-o coffee, generate more waste, many involve running incredibly hot water through cheap plastic (I’m sure t

by fiblye 6y ago

Those shitty little cups cost more than regular cheap-o coffee, generate more waste, many involve running incredibly hot water through cheap plastic (I’m sure that’s great for our health), and have a weaker flavor. There’s zero benefit to it. Frankly, the cups deserve more hate. Companies sold people a clearly inferior product and people keep buying them despite them being objectively worse than any other common coffee brewing method. Sure, there are plenty of bad things out there, like abandoned fishing nets trashing up the ocean and coal polluting our air. But you can’t get your mom to do anything about that. You can get her to buy a $5 coffee can and make something better than a disposable coffee pod.

epanchin 6y ago
They’re aluminium.
bradleyjg 6y ago
Or course it’s on your mom—because those old people have no environmental awareness and need to be constantly educated by their ethically superior children. Why aren’t you going after the people posting Machu Picchu and Angkor Wat selfies to insta? Not as much fun to be a scold when there are real social consequences? If there’s one thing I hate about contemporary culture it the puritanical self righteousness.
- fiblye 6y ago
  People do complain about that. But people usually concerns themselves with the actions of people closest to them. Meeting someone and calling them an asshole about a vacation they took once 3 years ago is a different level than telling a good friend or family that they’re wasting gas or buying shitty, harmful coffee. The one thing I hate more than anything is whataboutism that aims to stall any sort of progress. The “we can’t criticize anything because we still have another problem and only self-righteous people want to better things and appropriately handle things on a per-case basis” crowd is really just pure tedium to deal with.
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  - bradleyjg 6y ago
    Try worrying about the plank in your own eye some time. The results might surprise you.

by fiblye 6y ago

epanchin 6y ago

They’re aluminium.

bradleyjg 6y ago

Or course it’s on your mom—because those old people have no environmental awareness and need to be constantly educated by their ethically superior children. Why aren’t you going after the people posting Machu Picchu and Angkor Wat selfies to insta? Not as much fun to be a scold when there are real social consequences? If there’s one thing I hate about contemporary culture it the puritanical self righteousness.

fiblye 6y ago
People do complain about that. But people usually concerns themselves with the actions of people closest to them. Meeting someone and calling them an asshole about a vacation they took once 3 years ago is a different level than telling a good friend or family that they’re wasting gas or buying shitty, harmful coffee. The one thing I hate more than anything is whataboutism that aims to stall any sort of progress. The “we can’t criticize anything because we still have another problem and only self-righteous people want to better things and appropriately handle things on a per-case basis” crowd is really just pure tedium to deal with.
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- bradleyjg 6y ago
  Try worrying about the plank in your own eye some time. The results might surprise you.