Post #3288631

2026-06-07 11:34 UTC

@s10n@mastodon.social @matt@oslo.town (Mind you, the latter doesn’t have to be the case. So it does make me wonder how much of it is malicious compliance. If not, it’s just bad design. I refuse to believe that you couldn’t comply with the regulations and design a bottle that is ergonomic to drink from.)

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@cstross@wandering.shop 2026-06-07 11:42

@aral@mastodon.ar.al @s10n@mastodon.social @matt@oslo.town I suspect a more ergonomic solution to the bottle-top problem hasn't happened because it would cost more than this minor irritant. Not necessarily in materials but in the cost of re-tooling production lines to use it. Compare drink cans of today with those of 50 years ago and there's a night-and-day improvement in ergonomics *but* it needs whole different production lines to fill the cans that didn't require a "church key", and later a ring-pull, to open them.

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@oscherler@tooting.ch 2026-06-08 06:39

@aral@mastodon.ar.al Both this regulation and the one about plastic straws are probably the result of lobbying by the oil and plastic industry, to make us hate ecologists using laws with an anecdotal impact on the environment but a real annoyance factor. @s10n@mastodon.social @matt@oslo.town

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