kids in FPS games razz me for speaking too formally.

How so? Because you don’t elaborate on you will fuck their mothers?

I hardly want to reply for your aggressiveness. I don’t see how that’s been called for.

But yes, I was being serious because you explicitly excluded all bottles by “bottled beverages”. So I thought, water can be replaced by tap water (I do that personally because I don’t want carry crates that are unnecessary) but what about beer, for example? I could order kegs (no sarcasm, they start at 5 liters) but can hardly take them with me.

So, by “bottled beverages” you don’t count “returnable bottles”. Apart from that differentiation not being obvious, it didn’t occur to me because in my country almost all sold bottles are returnable, even single-use ones.

Hope that clarifies my question. Maybe next time don’t immediately jump to conclusions and make assumptions about other people’s lifestyle.

Yes (I actually live in Europe), but it cannot be reused indefinitely and needs to be recycled after about 50 uses (that’s why I mentioned the whole life cycle of a bottle). Also, glass breaks.

stopped buying bottled beverages

What’s the alternative in your opinion? I don’t think barrels and glasses are viable in every case. Serious question.

This generalization is a problem. Assessing the whole life cycle, the carbon footprint of glass bottles is problematic and plastics is a viable alternative.

You have to consider the significantly higher weight of glass increasing carbon emissions from transportation.

While plastics bottles can only be reused about half as often as glass bottles, their production is far more energy-efficient (glass production is done at temps of 1400-1600 °C or 2500-3000 °F while plastics use temperatures from 160-300 °C or 320-600 °F) which also reduces carbon footprint in basically every country.

Of course recycling has to be taken seriously and properly organized to prevent plastics just ending up in nature. But we have to balance the micro-plastics problem against climate change. We need to solve both.

It doesn’t work that way.

The bottle itself is usually made of PET which is very recyclable. The cap is made of polypropylene for its strength to prevent the bottle from leaking.

You cannot recycle PET and PP together - you need pure resin for production. So this captive closure actually hinders recycling.

Personally, I’ve never seen many caps lying around without their bottle and think the EU solved a non-existent issue.

Thanks. Now explain what he actually meant. I’m completely clueless here.

I thought you’re supposed to assume a vacuum.

Makes sense. It’s like having your personal undergrad hobby coder. It may get something right here and there but for professional coding it’s still worse than the gold standard (googling Stackoverflow).

So hot!

Not just matter but time as well. That’s what they were referring to. There is no “before time”.

Regarding your rethorical question: go find an answer and you’re sure to win the Nobel Prize.

It’s incredible to me that the bedrock of modern physics is hand-waved away

Nothing is waved away. It’s just a point the math breaks down, just like black holes. That all evidence so far supports the math doesn’t help explaining what exactly is/has been happening there.

Onfuscators probably use it though, so no spec ever will be able to get rid of this crap.

It’s really not a generational thing. Every generation has their nerds and they always are just a tiny minority.

The late Gen X/early millennials may have been an outlier because they were forced to learn to get anything working but also from those years most don’t care about tech.

BASIC. At least VB.

… around the sun.

Debian, Mint, Arch (by the way).

Had Ubuntu as my main driver for about 2 years but didn’t like Gnome and had more trouble with an Nvidia card than on Mint or Arch.

Fedora is top of my to-try-list but I’m not a distro-hopper, so who knows when I’ll have a use case.

It’s Proton VPN. Lack of IPv6 support is a downer but I wouldn’t call them shit.

Edit: maybe elaborate why you deem IPv6 so crucial? As I said: everything works just fine without.

What the fuck are you talking about? My ISP supports IPv6 just fine, but following my VPN’s advice I disable it (on certain devices at least) for privacy concerns. And it makes exactly zero difference in functionality.

Auto-“correct”. Thanks, fixed.