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Higher res matters when filming, because you can reframe scenes in editing without losing resolution when downscaling the final result.

I'm willing to sacrifice some of my valuable internet points here and be down voted to low hell.

I was going to make a comment along those lines.

They are, at the core, an ad company. Their motivation is to make money, and we are free to pay or not pay for their services.

The idea that we have a right to a non essential product for free is entitlement. They make a shit load of money, but also pay money to most content creators. Could they provide a service where they essentially just pay for costs? Sure, but no for profit Corp is going to do that, it has to make money somehow. While I'm all for peer tube, I really don't know if it's sustainable.

I wonder how many of the people who demand free access to services donate to FOSS Development.

Maybe some form of consumer co-op, where users essentially pay for operating costs, could be an option.

If it breaks down into tiny pieces its not biodegradable. The definition of biodegradable is that its chemically "processed by nature".

BTW, biodegradable does not necessarily mean innocuous. A lot of "natural" elements and compounds are toxic. Something may be biodegraded, and leave mercury as one of the resulting elements, for example.

The caveats you express are somewhat valid, but not totally correct. Printing correctly, with a food safe nozzle, path, and PLA formulation, is entirely possible. Simply printing in single layers, with a properly dialed in printer can eliminate your concerns. Medical items and implants are printed out of PLA, albeit with extreme production controls.

However, printing these single use items would be absolutely un-economical. 3D printing shines in short runs, bespoke items, like replacement part that are out of production, or which are very difficult to manufacture by other methods like injection or machining.

Its true that PLA, in unmodified form, has a much higher modulus than PP or PE, so squishiness is out of the question. What I have mentioned before is that I have bought single serve olive oil in PLA containers. From what I could see, these were injection molded and had a film top made from a plastic I never bothered to identify.

These containers were surprisingly elastic when crushed, not as elastic as other plastics, like PET, PP or PE, but much more than I had come to expect from my experience with the material. I'm going to attribute this to molding vs. extruding.

I never said that these should be produced via 3D printing, it would be both economically unfeasible, and very difficult to achieve food safety, as I have mentioned.

The process you are describing is injection molding, generally used for solid parts. In this case, a variation called blown injection molding, is used. In this case the material is injected into a mold, and then a gas is blown into the interior, to make the material stick to the inner mold, and create a cavity. Nozzles are involved, as they are used to inject the material into the mold. These nozzles can be made specifically to be food safe, with stainless steel, for example.

After Russia used North Koreans, I don't see the problem.

Remember that plane where the 1st officer locked the captain out of the cockpit and flew the plane into a mountain?

I believe the rule now is that for a pilot to exit the cockpit, a cabin crew member has to be in the cockpit, to prevent this sort of thing.

You may feel that Spain is in the same league as Portugal, but by most metrics, it's objectively not. It's one of the EU's big 4, a top 20 economy, the world's 8th largest arms exporter, etc. Not a superpower, but definitely a power.

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I don't know. As I mentioned elsewhere I'm not a chemical engineer, but I imagine that being made from starches, it may be decomposed into digestible compounds. Just guessing here.

I used to buy the olive oil containers for a restaurant I owned. They worked quite well. Small single serving cups with a peel off lid. I don't know if the lids were bioplastic, though.

I'm definitely not a polymer expert, I also have my information from what I read as a hobbyist. My take is that while PLA will compost in commercial facilities, it will eventually biodegrade in a reasonable time frame, with minor impact to nature. Better than the alternatives, I guess.