So much plastic ๐ข
this post was submitted on 25 Jan 2025
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I wish we had a plastic tax. Everything is wrapped in so much unnecessary plastic.
NJ had a single use plastic bag tax. To get around it companies increased the thickness of plastic bags and gave it for free. Apparently the thickness is what separated a single use bag with a reusable one. Politicians are clowns ๐คก.
It's supposed to be a game of cat and mouse, but right now the cat isn't even trying. I think what's needed is some sort of 'living legislation' that constantly updates to close loopholes that stakeholders find in it. Iirc this should be possible in common law systems with deliberately vague laws whose interpretation keeps getting updated by court cases.
Wasn't that the idea behing the Chevron doctrine? Leave the specifics up to experts rather than bamboozling Congresscritters about details.
Same up in Connecticut. I have so many crappy "reusable" plastic bags from Target pickup orders during the height of the pandemic. I can't bring myself to get rid of them because they're "reusable", so I use them to hold donations for the thrift store and get rid of them that way. I also use them as packing material.
I have other, nicer bags I use when I go to shopping.
Politicians are clowns is what you said while it was companies skirting the spirit of the law by exploiting a loophole.
Amazing that is your take
Imagine writing laws as a job and leaving such an obvious loophole.
Yes, politicians are clowns.
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Unfortunately, the plastic tax is enacted in terms of climate upheavals, and levied upon the poorest people in the world, usually in some other nation entirely rather than the originator.:-(
That's, why we need a monetary plastic tax to discourage its use.
Except "we" (imperial nations) don't want to pay that, generally speaking.
Notably, some places do think of such things though, and do have such taxes in place. Though conservatives are now in charge in many places in the world, so these are the local hold-outs against an overwhelming global trend.
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Have yourself a smoke and a coke
I prefer a cigar and a waffle
Flapjack and a cigarette?
Bong and a blintz?
There's no pleasing you Mr. Powers
I literally read this in his voice
Hoagie and a Stogie
I take my waffles blue
I don't know why but Coke and a smoke sounds better to me
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You've heard of Elf on a Shelf...
Is that Rocco from Boondock Saints? I didn't remember him looking that haggard in that scene.
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Those sized Coke's are $3 where I live. That cigarette doesn't look like it's worth $2 tho.
With the cost of ciggies in Australia, that seems like a straight up bargain. The typeface makes it look like a Woolies product.
Coke and a smoke. Cant go wrong with that combo tbh.
Pilot's breakfast lol.
Wrong coke...
They didn't want to sell the cigarette separately or a cop would show up to stand on their neck.
Damn, that's expensive. Is this a gas station?
I'd bet money it's an Australian Woolworths (it can still be a woolies at a servo though). Just pointing it out since AUD $5 โ USD $5
3.16 USD
3.01 EUR
Good point. IIRC Australia also has relatively high tobacco taxes, right?
Yeah an ever increasing tax on durries. From memory a deck is upwards of $50 for 20 - probably more since I've not been on the darts for a long time now.
We've also got a massive issue with disposable vapes and black market durries now too!
Damn, that's a lot! The $5 cig-and-coke makes a lot more sense like that, that's $2.5 per cigarrette.
I used to buy 40 at the golf club (unmonitored vending machine) as a kid, selling loosies for $1. Margins were great back then.
It's a woolies, and you could buy 2 and a half cokes for that price.
Yes, and that would be expensive for a single bottle (though servos are pricier), but we can't see what the actual special deal is. The cigarettes are obviously placed as a joke.
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This looks very much like an Australian service (gas) station called Coles Express. $5 is pretty average for this deal which is typically a 600ml Coke and a Chocolate (candy) bar of your choice. These darts look to be added as a joke. I could be way off, but that's what it looks like to me.
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Was grocery shopping earlier and the guy behind me at the checkout had only a frozen pizza and a pack of chocolate bars. I'm now imagining that to be the guy's dinner. ๐ฅด
Been there
What if that's all he could afford?
Very healthy
Smokin' & drinkin'.