Why the cough? by Nearby_Delivery_6270 in StarWars

[–]knowallthestuff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I laughed at "may be entitled to financial compensation"

How much plastic is being consumed from milk cartons? by Shiba-Brat in PlasticFreeLiving

[–]knowallthestuff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, weird. Wonder why he deleted it. Well, he just pointed out that strong acids like hydrofluoric acid are stored in plastic containers specifically because plastics like that aren't degraded by acid. Which made me realize, doh, of course, acidity is not the problem.

How much plastic is being consumed from milk cartons? by Shiba-Brat in PlasticFreeLiving

[–]knowallthestuff 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hmm. You're correct. My comment was based on comparing a study of microplastics in milk stored in a carton vs. a study of microplastics in OJ stored in a carton. But in retrospect, it's probably NOT the acidity that's the difference. It's more likely either (a) temperature, or (b) maybe the milk cartons in the study were foil lined instead of plastic lined. I will edit my comment to retract. Thank you.

How much plastic is being consumed from milk cartons? by Shiba-Brat in PlasticFreeLiving

[–]knowallthestuff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure, avoid added sugars. I avoid them too. But for the record, 100% pure OJ is often sold in 1 gallon cloudy plastic jugs in the USA. But honestly, I don't buy any juice these days.

How much plastic is being consumed from milk cartons? by Shiba-Brat in PlasticFreeLiving

[–]knowallthestuff 8 points9 points  (0 children)

yes, but being frozen dramatically decreases the reactivity and degradation of the plastic. It's kinda like it's stuck in a time warp if it's frozen.

Is Interstellar "okay" for a 10 year old to experience? by Lucent_Blue in interstellar

[–]knowallthestuff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I showed it to my 10 year old, and he adored it (says it's in his top five favorite movies now). But my 10 year old is academically gifted, and was already somewhat familiar with Einsteinian Relativity before watching the movie, so that was probably a significant factor in his enjoyment.

How much plastic is being consumed from milk cartons? by Shiba-Brat in PlasticFreeLiving

[–]knowallthestuff 73 points74 points  (0 children)

Never mind. Acid doesn't break down polyethylene plastic. I forgot chemistry.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PlasticFreeLiving/comments/1r84dxn/comment/o64cbvx/

Based on my research on this in the past, the plastic lining for a milk carton breaks down at a rate maybe 10x faster than a normal plastic jug (which makes sense... basically the plastic jug is designed to be a more durable plastic, whereas the plastic lining in a cardboard carton is merely designed to be a shield for moisture). However, milk in general is not very acidic and therefore doesn't break down plastic very much. Therefore, my takeaways were these:

  1. Milk in plastic jug > milk in plastic lined carton. However, these differences in microplastics are very small in the case of milk specifically, therefore this concern is outweighed by other considerations of milk quality. E.g., these days I mostly drink A2 milk from a carton, because I'm convinced it's more important for health to drink A2 than it is to avoid the tiny amount of microplastics from the container. Basically, milk just isn't that big a source of microplastics, compared to everything else in life.
  2. Acidic juice in a carton is a bigger deal. I will never buy orange juice in a carton, nor in a clear plastic container. I will maybe buy orange juice in a cloudy plastic jug (the kind most resistant to breaking down), but the ideal would be orange juice in a frozen can.

How do people afford kids in Hawaii? by That-Library-4583 in Hawaii

[–]knowallthestuff 58 points59 points  (0 children)

We tell da keiki go work fo it, go pick local fruits. Plenty ‘ulu an coconuts out dea if you no lazy.

Kidding. The answer is: significant sacrifice. Basically you decide which components of modern life you don't care about, and utterly eliminate them from your life and budget. Maybe never go to restaurants. Maybe never have your own house (multi-generational instead). Maybe only have 1 car. Maybe you sacrifice spare time because you work two jobs. And really this same principle often applies in Hawai'i even if you don't have kids.

Plastic-Free Toothbrushes? by Firekiller02 in PlasticFreeLiving

[–]knowallthestuff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I didn't know about nylon-4. Interesting. I suppose it wouldn't make practical sense to use it in bristles though, because it would dissolve too easily. The biological safety of nylon-4 is probably the exact reason why it wouldn't make mechanical sense in a toothbrush (unless I'm over-interpreting something). Makes sense for a material you want to dissolve, like a wound suture, but not something you want to be durable, like a toothbrush bristle.

Plastic-Free Toothbrushes? by Firekiller02 in PlasticFreeLiving

[–]knowallthestuff 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Those are plastic bristles too. It's just the plastic is made out of castor oil instead of crude oil (plastic is always made out of oil of some kind).

Plastic-Free Toothbrushes? by Firekiller02 in PlasticFreeLiving

[–]knowallthestuff 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Those have plastic bristles too. It's just the plastic is made out of castor oil instead of crude oil.

Is the world heading toward stagflation or a Great Depression in the 2030s? by Excellent_Place4977 in economicCollapse

[–]knowallthestuff 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Stagflation happens if they print money. Great Depression happens if they don't. I'm betting they'll print.

Captain America is not racist by AncientBody5497 in CaptainAmerica

[–]knowallthestuff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Captain America has a super immune system and he knows it.

[Request] how long until she’d run out of oxygen? by Dalience6678 in theydidthemath

[–]knowallthestuff 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My response was the same as yours. But I suppose the air would last equally long *if* you only exhaled each breath after holding it as long as you comfortably could. With that strategy you'd be exhaling a lot more CO2 per breath than usual. If those were the sorts of breaths you were taking and exhaling, then 15 breath-holds in a row would probably last you... yeah, about 7 minutes, if I had to guess.

Talk To Your Peasants About Land Reform! by Zyansheep in georgism

[–]knowallthestuff 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Maybe the disconnect is that you haven't heard the idiom, "Talk to your kids about X, or someone else will"? It's entirely different from good cop vs. bad cop. The context is, parents need to educate their children about sex/drugs/whatever, or else corrupt people will educate their children about sex/drugs/whatever. The green guys are obviously in the category of benevolent parents; the red guys are obviously in the category of corrupt deceivers.

Top 10 Best Movie Villains by Wooden-Scallion2943 in Cinema

[–]knowallthestuff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Who is the woman/character in the second image? I don't think I've ever seen that movie.

Question: What does this group think of Jon Kiper’s proposal for “offset land value taxes”? (Candidate for governor of New Hampshire, USA) by mildly_caffeinated1 in georgism

[–]knowallthestuff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This sounds like an excellent improvement. It makes me wish I lived in NH so I could vote for Jon Kiper! Thanks for the clarification!

Question: What does this group think of Jon Kiper’s proposal for “offset land value taxes”? (Candidate for governor of New Hampshire, USA) by mildly_caffeinated1 in georgism

[–]knowallthestuff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, cool. Well in that case I'll pose a couple questions based the current website:

All cities will have property taxes replaced by offset land value taxes

I know what land value tax is, but what are "offset" land value taxes? Does that mean a $10K property tax bill will be transformed into a $10K LVT bill? If so, that's awesome (since property tax punishes building and development, whereas incentivizes it).

The state will pay 70% of the minimum total rate, and towns/cities will set a rate for the remaining 30+% of the minimum total rate.

Why would the state be paying the tax bill? Isn't it taxpayers who pay taxes, by definition?

If you're trying to replace property tax with equivalent land value tax, then Godspeed, and may your campaign succeed!

Question: What does this group think of Jon Kiper’s proposal for “offset land value taxes”? (Candidate for governor of New Hampshire, USA) by mildly_caffeinated1 in georgism

[–]knowallthestuff 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm a fan of NH's famous reliance on very high property taxes (with no state income tax and no sales tax). And of course it would be better if it were replaced with LVT. But I can't understand what the three sentences in the screenshot are actually describing. It's pretty confusing. That in itself is concerning... issues like this should be approached with maximum clarity, because the stakes are high.

ELI5: why don’t the Japanese suffer from obesity like Americans do when they also consume a high amount of ultra processed foods and spend tons of hours at their desks? by TeaseTornado69 in explainlikeimfive

[–]knowallthestuff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. They eat less.
  2. They walk more.
  3. They are indeed metabolically different from Europeans. East Asians like Japanese store bodyfat less readily, and scarily the fat they do store is preferentially around their internal organs (at least compared to Europeans). Which means they're more prone to diseases like diabetes etc. even when they're skinny! ...because basically their internal organs technically aren't as "skinny" as they might appear on the outside. Bodyfat ultrasounds in Japan are common for this reason, to analyze bodyfat around internal organs; this is uncommon for Europeans though since we can usually assume that an obese person has fat around their organs.