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CoachDom, (edited ) in We hit one third of boomers being dead in the last few days.
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WTF are Keanu Reeves and Madonna doing there 😃

AllonzeeLV, (edited )

Madonna - Born 1958

Keanu - Born 1964 so boomer of the cutoff year.

It’s not my countdown clock, but all the images they chose are of the baby boomer generation, chronologically.

CoachDom,
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I get that I just thought its supposed to be dead by boomers up there

saltesc,
AllonzeeLV,

I concede the point, the argument, and my very life.

May Keanu have mercy on my soul.

Got_Bent, in Cookie experiments

Does baking powder mean lots of it or none of it?

Annoyed_Crabby,

Usually the recipe call for baking soda, i assume for this one they replace baking soda with baking powder?

LinkOpensChest_wav, in Cookie experiments

I would happily eat each and every one of these experiments, for science

Municipal0379,

For science!!

rockSlayer, in We hit one third of boomers being dead in the last few days.

2039 is the half-life of the boomer generation, assuming all of them were born in 1964 and will live exactly 75 years

letsgo,

That’s not what half-life means. Half-life comes from radioactive decay and is the time for half the atoms in a sample to decay. After half the atoms have decayed it takes another half-life for half the remaining atoms (a quarter of the original sample) to decay. There’s some fancy maths you can do to convert a sample size of 85 million with a half-life of 75 years into the time it takes for the last atom to decay but at an estimation of about 27 half-lives that’s 2025 years.

Maybe that’s the real problem with boomers: their multi-thousand year lifespan!!

trk, in We hit one third of boomers being dead in the last few days.
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Almost good enough odds to do Rookery in UBRS

CraigeryTheKid,

just don’t touch the eggs!

wesker, in a miniature vase made on a potters' wheel, glazed and fired (cat for scale)
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That would look excellent on the ground.

frosty,
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Said every cat ever.

OpenStars,
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It would be such a shame if something were to… happen to it, don’t you think?

AFKBRBChocolate, in I got the #1 kumquat in my bag

I have never seen kumquats in the store. We have a small tree, so we get more than we need and I’m unlikely to buy any, but I’ve never seen them.

Also, is that typical of the way they look where you are? Ours look like these.

Catoblepas,

In citrus fruits sometimes ripe fruits will turn orange and then turn green again (either all over or in patches), it’s called regreening. It’s usually due to either chilly night temperatures or high UV exposure, so the same tree might produce completely orange or orange and green or completely green ripe fruit all in the same year.

Kumquats are taxonomically weird and may or may not be citruses, so I’m not sure that’s what’s happening in the OP, but I would guess it probably is.

AFKBRBChocolate,

It wasn’t as much the color as the shape I was commenting on. OP’s looks like a ball, but I’ve only seen them oblong (I’ve heard that “quat” means something like “pear shaped”).

Catoblepas,

My bad, based on the pic I thought you meant the color!

jqubed, in a miniature vase made on a potters' wheel, glazed and fired (cat for scale)
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It looks like that vase is about to be destroyed

papalonian,

Next post: a very small pile of glazed clay pieces (uninterested cat for scale)

Empricorn,

This is my new favorite comment ever.

ThrowawayPermanente,

Cat giving you prison yard eyes for scale

SpaceNoodle, in Pudding used to come in cans

And now they come in disposable plastic that’s poisoning the entire biosphere. Progress!

MaxVoltage,
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nah mate its always been HOME MADE what are you on about yall don’t have a pudding sock?

SpaceNoodle,

I have a clootie, that’s pretty close

lurch,

toothpaste used to come in metal tubes too. not even long ago. it’s like they saw everyone else was polluting and they wanted in too smh

argh_another_username,

Nivea Cream used to come in aluminum cans, then they changed to plastic. Recently they announced that they would come back to aluminum. We can still buy in plastic, though. I think it depends on the market.

Mamertine,

Not only that, they advertised recycling to push public opinion that it was okay to switch to plastic, because plastic is recyclable. But they didn’t tell us, it’s never going to be economicaly viable to recycle plastic toothpaste tubes.

rigatti,
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It’s not economically viable and you can only make lesser quality plastic out of it.

yacht_boy,

Yeah, but those metal tubes were awful. I have been brushing my teeth with Tom’s of Maine for decades, and I remember how much I hated those metal tubes. They always split open weeks before the tube was empty and then they’d leak and make a mess and I inevitably wasted a lot of product. When Tom finally sold to whatever corp and they switched over to the plastic tubes that don’t leak and let me use all the toothpaste I paid for, I danced a little jig.

oatscoop, (edited )

Your comment made me have a flashback to my dad getting irritated at me for squeezing the middle of the toothpaste tube.

You’re only supposed to squeeze the far end of a metal tube – pushing product from the very end to the opening. Then as it gets empty you fold/roll up the flat bit at the end. You can even even buy “wringers” designed to assist with that.

AA5B, (edited )

But it’s not that simple. Back then no one recycled the can and all too many wouldn’t now. The can itself was heavier and not as effective. Plastic truly is a wonder material for packaging / it does a better job of keeping things fresh, is more convenient, and saving that weight, saving the energy going into making a can, saving the weight for shipping, is all a benefit of a plastic. We don’t have anything that works nearly as well

We all need to face the idea that convenience items like pudding probably shouldn’t be sold at all, especially with how easy instant pudding is

yacht_boy,

The group think around here is so crazy. Should we be using less single use plastic, especially the thin films? Absolutely. But the environmental impacts of mining all that metal and making all that glass to replace plastic with, plus the added energy for transporting the heavier packages and the cost of increased spoilage and product lost to dented cans and broken bottles, dwarfs the negative impact of the plastic replacements.

AA5B, (edited )

Also, I haven’t seen enough research on where environmental plastic comes from. While they’re are some benefits to just using less plastics, less packaging where we can, it would be much better to focus on the larger sources

Realistically what I’ve seen for larger sources of microplastics is:

  • industrial waste
  • tire dust
  • clothing

I already have a lint trap on my washer outlet and see there are a few filters meant to trap much of the manmade fibers that come off in the wash, to dispose of in the trash rather than back into the environment with treated wastewater. I have no idea whether that would actually be helpful but the filters aren’t that expensive, and it’s one of the few options under my control.

Increased standards on industrial waste cleanup are always a good idea. However a lot of this may be in undeveloped countries

If laundry is a significant source of micro plastics in the environment, we need to figure that out and add filters or something

We really really need to figure out something with tire dust, since it will continue to get worse as more people can afford personal transportation. I did read one article about filtering runoff near roads making a big difference but it was light on details and I’ve only seen something like that once

yacht_boy,

I actually work in the wastewater industry and from what I’m reading, a properly functioning sewage treatment plant already captures a very high proportion of microplastics. This widely cited study noted above 98% removal efficiency at one plant.

We’re already at approaching 2 log (99%) removal without actually trying to. It doesn’t seem improbable to me that with a few relatively modest tweaks to the system we could get 3 log removal (99.9%). Getting to 4 or 5 log removal is likely where things will get really expensive and challenging. But for now, a 2-3 log removal is probably good enough to focus on other sources like tire fragments/dust that typically pass directly to receiving waters with no treatment at all.

AA5B,

Good to know, thanks. While I don’t know how my system does with this , the treatment facility is new-ish and was supposed to be state of the art.

But then we’re back to needing to know more about the sources of environmental microplastics, then figure out how to cut them

bitwolf,

I wonder how well PLA would work for food storage. I learned it’s made with beets and can break down very quickly.

mastefetri,

This is why we need a plastic tax. If it was even slightly more expensive to use plastic they would switch back to metal or glass in a heartbeat.

corsicanguppy,

You mean plastic coated tin for the metal option.

It’s baby-food glass jars or plastic somewhere.

dual_sport_dork,
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Correct. The steel cans are lined with plastic. Aluminum cans are as well for some products.

RagingRobot, in Pudding used to come in cans

Gross. Idk why. It just seems gross lol

Dead_or_Alive,

Pudding in cans was the best, it just tasted better. Juice in glass containers was also amazing. Plastic changes the taste and leaches microplastics into our bodies.

I’m really hoping we as a society get plastic out of our products.

bitwolf,

I got so heated watching one of the congressional hearings where I girl asked Congress to ban single use plastics.

The politician was so condescending and finished off with “we need a solution before banning”.

America had the solution before plastic… Cans and bottles.

macaroni1556,

While I 100% agree with you on the glass, and a can doesn’t change the flavour as much as plastic..

Small cans have this smell (I guess skin oils reacting with the outside metal?) that you can’t ignore when you eat right out of the can

Dark_Arc,
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Literally never have understood why a type of container makes something gross to some people.,.

Same thing with color of something. I mean, I at least get that in terms of color X is associated with Y… Just seems strange to me.

cheeseburger, in Pudding used to come in cans
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Remember the Benji movie where the kids used a pudding cup to try to catch him. Man, I wanted one of those pudding cups so bad.

Marcumas,

I remember these from Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure

rob_t_firefly,
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They could never have repaired the antenna on their time machine with plastic pudding cups, that would have just been silly.

FullOfBallooons, in Pudding used to come in cans
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wellee,

No joke I just watched this episode which is what made me google pudding cans lol

Prestron,

Use my pen knife my good man!

qbus,

Monorail monorail

Orbituary,
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I hated that. And can openers just made things worse.

LemmyKnowsBest, in Pudding used to come in cans

You unlocked a core childhood memory. It must have been sometime around the late 1980s pudding started being sold in plastic containers and I forgot they had ever been in cans.

OhmsLawn,

Same. Fruit cocktail, too.

corsicanguppy,

Ohhhh. Fruit cocktail.

Also, in the army it was the pouches of fruit salad or pears. If you lucked out and got that in your box, you could trade for a lot to the poor sap who got cherry pie and “lung in a bag” isn’t doing it for them.

S_204,

I just popped open a can of fruit cocktail for the kids yesterday. It’s a 350ml can, not a single serve. We portion into mini mason jars.

pseudo,
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Oh ! I misunderstood the post. I thought it was about powdered pudding being most variety in the stores. There is still canned pudding and fruit coktail in France but also some in plastic.

quams69, in Pudding used to come in cans

Distributed by del monte tomato company, wild

5redie8,

Tbf Del Monte distributes all sorts of fruit/veggie related stuff, at least nowadays (In the United States). Used to go nuts for their peach cups when I was a kid lol

psion1369,

Before I read anything on the can, I was expecting tomato pudding.

Heisenburner, in Pudding used to come in cans

That doesn’t go with the song at all

GladiusB,
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You know what song it goes to. The bar was much lower back then.

tja,
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I don’t know which songs you both mean.

Wizard_Pope,
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Rock around the clock I think

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