Post #3288632
2026-06-07 11:42 UTC
@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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@aral@mastodon.ar.al 2026-06-07 11:43
@cstross@wandering.shop @s10n@mastodon.social @matt@oslo.town Yep.
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@RealGene@hachyderm.io 2026-06-07 13:47
@cstross@wandering.shop @aral@mastodon.ar.al @s10n@mastodon.social @matt@oslo.town When I was a kid at summer camp, we all collected our pop-top ring pulls because they would be donated to a charity for kidney transplants or some other bullshit, in order to stop us dumping them on the ground.