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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2018-05-08 12:00 pm
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[personal profile] cmcmck 2018-05-08 11:14 am (UTC)(link)
I happen to know Sarah and she's nothing like disgusting!

(Anonymous) 2018-05-08 12:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Ditto, but no one was calling her disgusting, they were calling out the person who called her a man, and calling them disgusting.

--Rachael/woodpijn

(still not letting me post with LiveJournal OpenID, but thanks for allowing anon posts)
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[personal profile] cmcmck 2018-05-08 12:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Granted, but having been through the same mill myself, I know there are those who think that way and the TERF comments by those who know way more about who we are than we do rather shout it out, do they not?

Also, hello yourself! :o) I'm no longer on LJ because reasons I'm sure you're aware of!
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[personal profile] sravakavarn 2018-05-08 03:16 pm (UTC)(link)
The arguments against calorie count posting in the US by people who also argue the market is a means of transferring information have always confused me to no end.
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[personal profile] skington 2018-05-08 05:00 pm (UTC)(link)
As usual, BBC news infuriates me by merely reporting rather than investigating.

The government says it wants to get rid of single-use products like wet wipes, and wants to encourage wet wipes that don't contain plastic and can be flushed. The article says wet wipes contain biodegradable plastic, but an industry spokesperson says that wet wipes save water (probably true), and are biodegradable.

Well, are they or aren't they? If the industry's response is “these things are already biodegradable, no need to ban them”, surely you should either investigate that in greater depth, or call them out for being liars? Not just print their statement and move on?
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[personal profile] haggis 2018-05-08 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
There's a massive difference between biodegradable and flushable. I don't honestly think it's possible to make wet wipes flushable.

Toilet paper is flushable because it dissolves when wet and as a result, it doesn't block sewers or inlet screens at a sewage treatment works. Wet wipes cannot dissolve when wet or they would turn to mush on the packet. If they are biodegradable, they should eventually degrade into mush but by that time, they have reached the sewage works, been removed by the screens and sent to landfill.
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[personal profile] skington 2018-05-08 10:35 pm (UTC)(link)
See, that's far more informative than half of that BBC article - thank you! But there's still the issue with why they let the spokesperson say “they're biodegradable” when the rest of the story said ”they're not”.