just used a papery straw at the local food court for the first time. unusable 2/3rds of the way through my drink. i cannot believe this thing passed any kind of sane quality control testing 🤔
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hail the cardboard melting straws
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Plastic straws as Girardian sacrificial scapegoat
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is this really an environmental thing???
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Frustrating that we really just don’t have good materials for straws other than that one shitty plastic. Even bioplastics tend to be too brittle or don’t deform enough
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> "nobody had ever thought about it twice."
I have had this lament about the design of most things, for many years. To the point where I find myself saying "almost nothing is actually designed."
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agave plastic straws have a weird texture but they work great. sad they’ll never catch on because they’re not a hairshirt
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I tried a pasta straw recently. Literally raw pasta in a tube shape. Worked pretty well. No taste, didn't fall apart. Unsure if it actually makes any sense considering we can eat this material though.
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