no offense to older people in chat, but why do so many older USonians try to overuse appliances or reusable containers with worn out plastic in contact with food?
is this a worldwide issue? my hypothesis was they got introduced to them as wonder materials of the future. even plastic sponges get reused when they clearly have molecule-deep filth in every crevasse
You could try calming down just a hair. Youre coming off as a bit hostile for no real reason.
I grew up poor. Government cheese poor. My folks reused everything they could. Plastic bags that loaves of bread came in were reused. Even when stuff was obviously not in good shape. People also werent as cognizant of the dangers of microplastics etc. also, old habits die hard.
To be fair I was teasing, I understand if their jimmies are rustled. 😌
Also I totally wash out empty plastic jars and use them as dry storage totes for all sorts of stuff (only dry no-heat storage, of course), no way am I going to buy a big 64oz jar for idk dry beans or whatever when I already have a perfectly good empty peanut butter jar!
@Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net it's just very pedantic and condescending to assume i don't know people are reusing what i referred to as "reusable containers". that doesn't mean "reusable for forty years".
i think some of the assumptions about this come from stuff being introduced as a replacement for another material that's more sturdy. maybe my answers lie in archived marketing materials
Yeah, im the one being pedantic and condescending here. Definitely.
Hope you woke up in a better mood.
i've never understood people who immediately turn to psychoanalyzing other people over the first few messages they saw them send online, but it really does seem to come out of a desire to condescend to other people. especially since it now comes with the insistence i'm not only brushing up on gentle people with my posting, but i'm doing it out of anger and distaste for others
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@ikka@lemmy.sdf.org okay random person who has showed up to scold me and reiterate they have decided i am "unhinged" based off 3 comments. got anything to share other than the sheer horror of coming across multiple sentences being used to clarify apparent misunderstandings? (the insanity!)