this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2026

1014 points (95.1% liked)

Lemmy Shitpost

40410 readers

4249 users here now

Welcome to Lemmy Shitpost. Here you can shitpost to your hearts content.

Anything and everything goes. Memes, Jokes, Vents and Banter. Though we still have to comply with lemmy.world instance rules. So behave!

Rules:

1. Be Respectful

Refrain from using harmful language pertaining to a protected characteristic: e.g. race, gender, sexuality, disability or religion.

Refrain from being argumentative when responding or commenting to posts/replies. Personal attacks are not welcome here.

...

2. No Illegal Content

Content that violates the law. Any post/comment found to be in breach of common law will be removed and given to the authorities if required.

That means:

-No promoting violence/threats against any individuals

-No CSA content or Revenge Porn

-No sharing private/personal information (Doxxing)

...

3. No Spam

Posting the same post, no matter the intent is against the rules.

-If you have posted content, please refrain from re-posting said content within this community.

-Do not spam posts with intent to harass, annoy, bully, advertise, scam or harm this community.

-No posting Scams/Advertisements/Phishing Links/IP Grabbers

-No Bots, Bots will be banned from the community.

...

4. No Porn/Explicit

Content

-Do not post explicit content. Lemmy.World is not the instance for NSFW content.

-Do not post Gore or Shock Content.

...

5. No Enciting Harassment,

Brigading, Doxxing or Witch Hunts

-Do not Brigade other Communities

-No calls to action against other communities/users within Lemmy or outside of Lemmy.

-No Witch Hunts against users/communities.

-No content that harasses members within or outside of the community.

...

6. NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.

-Content that is NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.

-Content that might be distressing should be kept behind NSFW tags.

...

If you see content that is a breach of the rules, please flag and report the comment and a moderator will take action where they can.

Also check out:

Partnered Communities:

1.Memes

2.Lemmy Review

3.Mildly Infuriating

4.Lemmy Be Wholesome

5.No Stupid Questions

10.LinuxMemes (Linux themed memes)

Reach out to

All communities included on the sidebar are to be made in compliance with the instance rules. Striker

founded 3 years ago

MODERATORS

LillianVS@lemmy.world

WiildFiire@lemmy.world

Decoy321@lemmy.world

The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world

The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world

1014

I'm doing my part (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by Karmanopoly@lemmy.world to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

207 comments fedilink hide all child comments

top 50 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] whereitsat@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

i remember the great plastic transition of 1995. on the trek though GRAND UNION to buy macaroni salad ingredients and store brand chips, i asked my mom why there were so many plastic bottles, and she replied 'we're like pioneers' and she referenced little house on the prairie, and i still didn't understand what she was getting at, so she slapped some sense into me right in aisle 13 and i pretended i understood so she'd leave me alone for five minutes.

a few weeks ago my MD said that i have colon cancer and i assume that's from pounding cases of fruitopia when it was in vogue but who am i gonna sue? is big plastic a thing?

i tried to tell my mom it was her fault but when i tried to call all i heard was a dial tone. i thought that was weird at the time because cell-phones don't have dial tones but my therapist said i was hallucinating; she still won't prescribe me xanax.

[–] bloogoose@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 hours ago

The irony of this post using McDonald's cups isn't lost on me. Where does a their meat come from I wonder...

[–] zerofk@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I can’t remember the last time I used either of those. Real glasses and cups exist, and don’t require straws.

[–] __Lost__@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

Restaurants don't allow you to bring your own glasses in though

[–] Aarkon@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 6 hours ago

Fair point. IIRC though the primary reason for banning plastic straws was not CO2 emissions but wildlife protection, as plastic straws are (or were) the single most frequently found foreign object in the stomachs of dead sea turtles.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 26 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I'll take a PLA cup over a paper cup lined with PFAS, BPA, etc.

There should really be a law that people should be able to bring their own reusable drink cup for any drink.

[–] ironycanal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

But then they might get extra drink! Unconscionable!

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 16 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

if people knew just how little the typical fountain drink cost, cups and straws included, they would riot over the costs.

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I went to a fancy restaurant recently, the kind that charges $15 for a side salad and $30 for a plate of noodles, and the straw that broke the camels back for me was that she charged me $3 for every refill of the 12 oz of soda they give you.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

charged refills of fountain drinks is just pure exploitative robbery.

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 1 points 55 minutes ago* (last edited 54 minutes ago) (1 children)

Yeah like this is supposed to be an upscale restaurant but they’re acting like a beggar on the street. They even had the gall to charge the customer for the 3% credit card fee. I’m supposed to spend $70 a head but they can’t afford a $3 fee for the table. Unforgivable lol

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 1 points 11 minutes ago

I think larger merchants can negotiate lower swipe rates, but even 3% means they are getting more from the charge than the transaction costs them.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

It's essentially banned in Vegas because cocktail waitstaff would riot.

[–] tjhrulz@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah, I don't know if it's still true but years ago basically the cost for the cup and straw for the business was greater than the cost of the drink itself.

So if anything bringing my own container would save them a good chunk of the cost of a fountain drink.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

yeah, last time i checked the cost of the water, syrup, cup and straw were like..20 cents (this is with their economy of scale, bulk buying, etc etc), for a big 64 ounce drink. admitted that was before trump ruined the economy, but i doubt they are still not making absolute bank on fountain sales.

[–] ironycanal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 hours ago

But the branding!

[–] ironycanal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 hours ago

I have seen the amount of organizing a peaceful protest takes. I have seen how much the police charge to riot. Americans would never.

[–] derpgon@programming.dev 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

They won't, the McD machines have preset settings to dispense an exact amount of drink every time, they don't measure it by hand.

[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 hours ago

Plenty of places--many McD's included--have the soda machienes out in the dining area for customers to self-serve, probaby because the fraction of time it takes for an employee to fill the drink cost more than the soda itself.

I know a thrifty fella who knows the specific refill policy of each of the 5 nearby McDonalds; there's a lot of variation between stores.

[–] huey_m@reddthat.com 16 points 13 hours ago (8 children)

There needs to just be a blanket, punitive, 100+% tax on any and all single use plastics that are not medical devices. Obviously there's lots of other bigger environmental issues that need to be tackled but this really seems like a pretty obvious one imo.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

They'll just pass all the additional costs (plus a little extra profit because why not) onto the consumer

[–] pingveno@lemmy.world 3 points 41 minutes ago

If so, then okay. The idea is that single use plastic is used because plastic is so damn cheap. From what I understand, the precursor is basically a waste product from oil extraction. But add a small tax and it breaks the model.

A single cheap fork is less than US$0.01 on a commercial restaurant website. For many restaurants, that is easier to deal with than washing dishes. But let's tack on a $0.05 tax per single use item or $0.50 single use tax. Pass it directly on to the customer on the check.

That puts single use more on an equal footing with restaurants that are reusing dishes. Single use plastic doesn't have its true cost built in. A tax can do that in a transparent way.

[–] huey_m@reddthat.com 1 points 21 minutes ago

The point is to increase the cost of the plastics to the point that alternatives start to actually be competitive. And really, we're just making them actually pay for some of the externalities they're getting a free ride on.

If you use government to increase the cost of a thing to the point alternatives become cheaper, most businesses are going to switch. They aren't sticking with plastics out of ideology or anything... it's just cheap. And it shouldn't be.

[–] Daefsdeda@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago

Literally happened in the netherlands

load more comments (7 replies)

[–] SaintNyx@lemmy.world 11 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

Ppl have been mentioning the plastic in the paper cups but I haven't seen anyone mention that large cups used to all be Styrofoam. Some places all the cups were Styrofoam. And that was god awful for the environment. They were amazing though. Getting a giant sweet tea in a cup that never sweated was phenomenal. Shame they suck so bad.

[–] Karmanopoly@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

I remember biting the rim of a Styrofoam cup and leaving imprints of my teeth

[–] Tja@programming.dev 2 points 8 hours ago

I use a metal, glass lined, vacuum insulated cup. Awesome, doesn't sweat, is reusable and recyclable. I've used it for about 8 years now, the 25 euros have been well spent.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 9 points 12 hours ago

Paper cups used to be lined in wax. Plastic is technically unnecessary.

[–] abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 hours ago

Ironically, I think my drink from BK yesterday was paper cup and paper straw so.

load more comments