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2026-08-15 01:36 UTC

@tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org This is what I’ve been hearing from certain quarters. Similarly, some friends assert that they never buy napkins, they just use paper towels. Americans, I’ve learned, are kind of self-righteously weird about paper products. It’s the same amount of paper whether you blow your nose in it or use it to wipe spaghetti sauce off your face, but for some reason we shy away from purpose-built products. I love it!

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@tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org 2026-08-15 16:05

@iBlame@kolektiva.social In my case, yankee poverty and mostly long habit. It's paper you load up with body goo then flush/pitch. Its also as ephemeral as a disposable product can be without even the kleenex box. Which I don't find objectionable or anything. We buy hardly any disposable products. Shit like baby wipes are offensive, obvious plastic garbage american product and I'm judgemental as shit about people who buy them and use them like they just disappear or something. Its more old yankee than modern hippy or whatever. Lazy convenience waste is criminal. Im not completely consistent. We use too much disposable plastic food shit in the fridge. Plastic trash bags. Its tough. I hate it all.

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