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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?

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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

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[–] sordid@procial.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago (20 children)

@chat@hexbear.net @queermunist@lemmy.ml wow i hadn't thought of that!!!! holy shit!!!! if you're gonna be like that about it, let me be incredibly specific: my future in-laws have bought like six gimmick coffee machines because they looked like interesting gizmos and i'm the first person to clean these because they think anything that has hot water on it is fucking fine i guess.
i don't understand treating polycarbonate like it's glass.
i saw everyone throwing out their reusable tupperesque containers in college when i was living with 5 other impoverished bastards because you can tell when they get a stuck-in smell and they're fucked pretty easily.

[–] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago (18 children)

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.

[–] sordid@procial.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago (16 children)

@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

[–] ikka 1 points 1 year ago

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

my guy you sound incredibly unhinged. I don't think anyone here is as emotionally invested in this thread as you are.

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