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  • The caps was a problem yes. Not just littering, but also in sorting for recycling, where they’d often end up in the wrong place.

    It obviously depends on where and how it’s done, but the thing I’ve heard is that due to (the lack of) weight and size the bottle caps would end up in the paper badges, which would ruin the paper from being recycled. It’s better if it follows the bottle. PET bottles (including caps) are shredded, washed and used for new bottles.

    Same thing happened to the pull tabs on aluminium cans. Those used to be separate too.



  • I feel the same way about Charles Bukowski. I can read, understand and appreciate the books without liking the guy. He also paints himself in a negative picture, but the thoughts are still worth considering or just knowing of. Whether or not it’s intended, I think it’s okay for litterature to provoke the reader to think that the author is wrong or plain crazy, because at least it makes me think about stuff instead of just entertaining my existing views.

    I did read Lila 25 yeas ago, but I hardly remember it. It’s been a long time since I last read any books at all. Perhaps I ought to give it a second chance.


  • It’s worth a read.

    I think it’s often frowned upon for being somewhat of a naive juvenile pocket philosophical rambling, or the dairy of a madman, but I’d say that it introduces some valid points about the concept of quality that you can then think about yourself.

    It’s definitely on my top 10 list of books. Not because it’s great, but because I can often relate to it in miscellaneous situations even 30 years after reading it.




  • bstixtoMemes@sopuli.xyzI'm ready for it
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    4 days ago

    Retirement age was recently raised to 70 in Denmark, but I’m honestly not even that pissed off about it, because I think it might finally be the key for people to understand and act upon something that is much more important:

    Retirement is not and has never been the carrot on a stick that excuses wasting most of your life on working.

    There’s no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for those who choose to endure 50 years of wage slavery. The cake is a lie, and if you didn’t get it before, you’ll surely get it now that the promised retirement is getting pushed further and further away. Fuck retirement. You’ll likely never get to it, so you need to live now.

    You need to make your life worthwhile through the entirety of it. If that life includes paid work, you need to make paid work worthwhile.

    Sure, it’s a lot of work in itself to make the conditions for your paid work better, but we have to start demanding just that and it’s really easy to get started: Join a union.








  • bstixtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldIs it wrong...?
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    5 days ago

    Masks or not, they’re going to get themselves killed.

    At some point, someone will resist being abducted and take one of them out. A mask doesn’t stop a bullet.

    It just hasn’t happened yet.

    How many of them will be brave enough to show up for work the next day?