Yeah I RTed the other thread initially but I looked at the research about how much using a digital sensor increases accuracy of readings compared to eyeballing in the wild and it's significant Just blithely calling the digital tests "waste" is a bad takehttps://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/1301786032136835072 …
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But yeah pregnancy tests are really obviously something where there's a reason people want them to be single use instead of a "reader" where you have to take out the test strip, clean the device and replace the strip to reuse it All extra steps where things can go wrong
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I don't actually know what the stats are on how many people who use pregnancy tests are "heavy users" (i.e. people trying to get pregnant every month) vs "one-time users" (people trying NOT to get pregnant having a pregnancy scare)
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But the latter group is a substantial market, and they would have no use for a 50-pack of tests however cheap it was, and even if they're quite poor, $7 for a 2-pack (which is all they really need) is not all that much money In return for peace of mind
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Yeah so looking this over this is just really thoughtless and condescending The reusable reader has no use case The whole use case of the disposable digital reader is the "terrified teenage girl" scenario or similarhttps://twitter.com/Foone/status/1301741893852696576?s=19 …
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I mean pregnancy tests specifically are not my lane or my area of expertise or whatever But single use disposable shit in general actually does usually exist for a good reason and people tend to constantly use disposability for cheap dunks without thinking it through
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Like if you actually think about it at all telling the average person in desperate need of a pregnancy test at the drugstore that for the same money they could get a reusable reader with a pack of FIFTY pregnancy tests is incredibly fucking stupid
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My chemistry professor insisted that I rinse out glass pipettes with solvent and re-use them rather than just throwing them out. Of course the solvent was more expensive than the pipettes.
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my aunt used to own one of those shops that sells tchotchkes, useless delicate ornamental things back in the day, like a third it the merchandise would come off the truck broken, and then she'd have to go through this whole deal of getting a refund from the supplier etc etc
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i think about this every time people complain about "too much packaging" like what do you think contributes more to waste, this tiny bit of plastic and cardboard, or an entire manufactured item just thrown in the garbage
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