Talcosis

Pronounced: Schlipght

I think it’s a standard figure 8 but with one side pulled through into a slipknot.

Not sure if that has a specific knot name. Knowing sailors, it’s probably something that sounds like a drunken slur.

Probably not profitably.

The hard part is calculating location. GPS shuts off at that speed (specifically so people couldn’t build GPS guided missiles)

Keep in mind that the US military is a giant welfare program. Sure, it’s a lot of money, but a lot of that money is keeping the last vestiges of manufacturing alive in bumfuck nowhere, Middle America, where they still weld tanks together.

Capitalist ruling class or not, I’ve lived in the USSR and I’ve lived in the US. Same people in both places. Neighbors are generally decent folks, cops are insecure assholes, and rich/powerful people got there by screwing people over.

Nah, the rich and the powerful are the rich and the powerful in every society because of a psychopathic ability to step on others.

In the Soviet Union, the average person wasn’t really much more prosocial than the average person in the US. The people with any sort of power ranged from skeevy fuckers to open psychos. Just like in the US.

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I get called a western fascist for saying Ukraine is right to resist invasion, and I get called a Russian bot for calling out genuinely russophobic slurs.

It’s the internet. There’s only ever two sides.

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I think “go back to reddit” is Lemmy for “go fuck yourself”

No, you simply listed a bunch of stuff that’s coated in plastic and insisted that it’s not plastic.

Reminds me of this time I went to a plastic conference and watched the organizer cut the mic from a presenter and kick him out for showing evidence plastic recycling wasn’t real.

Wild to complain about goalpost moving and then using checks notes corrugated boxes as an example of non-plastic coffee cups.

I do remember using tree resin in coatings. It was part of the polymer of course, but we did write bio based eco friendly on the label.

Ok. Find me a single product that’s coated in 100% wax. Not one that’s coated in 98% plastic with a 2% wax additive.

Yeah…but that’s not how wax coatings work. Waxes do in fact get polymerized into a coating. Wax itself is pretty weak. And soluble in grease.

Okay. And then what happens when your <1000 mw wax polymerizes into a surface coating?

Because if I take 10 trillion cups of water and freeze them all into one block, that’s a damn good approximation of a glacier.

So in the context of packaging none of that is true. The real difference between wax and plastic is that plastic has a higher molecular weight. No specific cutoff, it’s mostly just vibes. Some packaging folk add a second criteria: wax melts, then burns, while plastic just burns.

Using your definition of wax, you’re pretty much living in the 17th century. Nowadays, wax comes from oil, and is usually the exact same polymer as the plastic packaging on the next product over. But with slightly smaller molecules.

Edit: I forgot grease barrier. Old school compostable biodegradable wax dissolves in grease. You don’t want that.

…what do you think is the difference between wax and plastic…?