I think it's fair to say that we can all end up regretting some of the stuff we've put online months or years after the fact.

For example, it means ActivityPub is definitely not an appealing place for young people to have their first cringe moments online.

The risk of being cancelled is higher, and I think everyone has the right to regret their past self and try to clean it up if they want to.

Stock images can be used over and over and over and over...

Why not?

So what should people in areas not serviced by public transport do?

Thank you Chad 💪💪💪

They even have a cool map that really helps visualise the scale of the network: https://wearetheark.org/map-of-arks/

Sadly even if you reject the receipt in my regular shops they still get printed, the staff just toss them instead.

A wide adoption of a digital alternative would be great. It of course opens up questions around the impact of hosting them digitally, but I'm optimistic that would cost less than all the unnecessary paper, especially if the service was hosted on renewable power.

Another win for the EU! Forcing Apple to adopt USB Type C was such a huge triumph also.

Very cool idea. It reminds me of how many receipts are printed just to be immediately tossed in the bin by the cashiers or customers. It's maddening.

Thank you for sharing this! I am currently in Vancouver, so it was especially relevant :)

I guess the summary is that paper plates cost an amount to make and are used once, whereas a ceramic plate costs a larger amount to make but can be used many times. At this point it becomes a per-use question of which is more costly from an environmental perspective: manufacturing, transporting and tossing every time vs manufacturing once and washing 150 times to pay off the carbon debt of manufacturing. It seems washing is the solution!

So what you're saying is that if companies can't use their fancy packaging, they'll have a smaller profit margin on the actual good they're selling?

The system is very fucked!