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[–] 110 points 1 month ago (5 children)

How bored do you have to be to complain about "woke bottle caps"?

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  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago

    They love shit like this because it's tangible, everything else they worry about is either statistically insignificant to the point most people will never see it or completely fabricated so the best they have is bottle caps.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Every time someone complains about bottle caps I think two things: they never saw how much small plastic pieces contaminate environment where people spend time relaxing and not taking the garbage where it belongs; they have really weird priorities in life.

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  • [–] 72 points 1 month ago (24 children)

    I had to look up what a woke bottlecap is. The cap is attached to the bottle. That's it.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 month ago (22 children)

    They're more annoying than they sound. Definitely not 'woke' though.

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  • [–] 36 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Nah, they're great. I've had to pick up bottle caps because they slipped out of my hand before.

    It's genuinely more convenient imo to have the caps attached to the bottle.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    They were at first, but now that I've gotten used to them, I actually prefer them to the unattached ones even BEFORE factoring in that they reduce plastic waste!

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  • [–] 16 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    right? turns out that having the cap attached to the bottle means.. the cap is always right there and easy to close again....
    like, fuckin

    we figured this shit out more than 100 years ago

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (3 children)

    Isn't that worse though because now it involves metal, which is much more energy intensive to recycle

    Reasonably speaking the actual solution would be flip tops like you get on sports drinks. But presumably those are more complicated to manufacture which is why it's not done.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    Even if we're for some reason melting down metal parts every time (which we don't), metal is energy intensive to recycle, but it's recyclable infinitely. Plastic is easier to melt, but only a small percentage of it is recyclable at all, and even that is only once. So all the plastic either gets burnt, or thrown out and ends up somewhere where it shouldn't, like an ocean. Both cases are way worse.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    well 1) i'm not saying it's better, just that the concept of an attached lid is not even remotely new and thus complaining about it is incredibly dumb, and 2) you wouldn't recycle a bottle like that, you'd clean it up and just reuse it as-is, only having to replace the cork itself as the rubber gets too old.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    Ideally these bottles are recycled by just reusing them for a new product, not melted down. I've used these bottles several times over for beer. There's no need to replace them.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago

    I went to one of those asleep countries some time ago, where the bottle caps didn't wake up yet. A cap that wasn't attached to the bottle was annoying to me, having to hold it in the hand while I drink was pretty inconvenient

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    They're calling it woke because apparently it's a directive from the EU. And in there tiny little brains anything that EU does is work. Accepting for a minute that they have no idea what the word means.

    It is annoying, but you can also just snap one of the legs of the attachment point and then it's not a problem anymore.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 month ago

    If the personal highlight of your party’s conference is a bottle top… perhaps you should look for a more interesting party. Or leave politics.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    Anyone who's ever picked up trash on a beach before knows how many goddamed bottle caps there are. And bottles without a cap for that matter. Those two stacks could combine to form a single stack with half the items. Half of the stuff to pick up. And picking up bottles is much easier than picking up a cap. Wildlife are less likely to mistake it for something eatable as well.

    Yes I agree the caps can be a little inconvenient, but that's well worth the practical end result in my book. There will always be assholes that pull of the cap. And bigger assholes still who throw their shit into nature instead of properly recycling or disposing it. But a large amount of people are trying to make our world a little bit better, or at least prevent it from going to shit as fast as it is.

    These days people are so selfish and spoiled, even a tiny inconvenience is enough to make them behave like little children. It's sad really.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Wildlife are less likely to mistake it for something eatable as well.

    I made the mistake once of buying a string of C7-sized Christmas lights to put up on my house one year. Turns out squirrels around my house thought they were acorns or something, and literally chewed the bulb assemblies off the wire. They weren't even up for a week before I had to take them down and trash them. Now I have rope-style and mini-icicle lights that the wildlife seem content to ignore.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 month ago

    People still bitching about the bottle caps? If it pisses them off so much, it barely takes any effort to pull the things loose.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 month ago

    They could just...not use plastic water bottles. Those are pretty woke overall since real men get their water from the blood of animals they consume.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    People who are easily bothered are a gold mine for propagandists.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    It's the insecure who are easy targets for the manipulative psychos. That's why cults tend to target who are in emotionally vulnerable state.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    How is that a win? Have we already cured cancer and poverty that having a bottle without a cap is a win?!!!

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Have we already cured cancer and poverty

    For the "conservative" cancer and poverty have already been cured. "They're probably bad people who deserve to suffer, so it's not my problem." There, cured.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    Literally anything to keep us divided and ignoring the billionaires as they rape every one of us from behind.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    TIL tethered bottle caps are a thing. I mean, I've encountered them before - but I used to think they're malfunctions.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Shes needs to get an update on her manicure instead of talking about bottle caps.

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