XPost: comp.os.linux.misc   
   From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 10/12/2025 04:09, c186282 wrote:   
   > On 12/9/25 22:30, rbowman wrote:   
   >> On Wed, 10 Dec 2025 03:38:46 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> They charge for each plastic bag you get on the exit cashier, and they   
   >>> encourage people to buy reusable bags. Thus, we have to enter the shop   
   >>> with empty reusable bags. It is their doing, not ours. Well, government   
   >>> regulation, actually. Pushed by the EU.   
   >>   
   >> They encourage people to use them in the US. I have several but seldom   
   >> have them with me. Besides, the plastic bags come in handy when cleaning   
   >> the litter box.   
   >   
   >    USA, outside the People's Republic of California, we   
   >    get so many plastic bags we can barely deal with them.   
   >    Some supermarkets have bins for them ... but the   
   >    regular trash service doesn't want them.   
   > Supermarkets now cfharge a pooit for them and the same for non displsable   
   ones so peole got used to pringing the min diusposable iones nacck in.   
      
   Of course *everything* you buy comes in a plastic bag, wrapper, or other   
   container.   
      
   (actually I have about 10 porcelain and earthenware dishes that were   
   sold containing paté: Great for making individual pies in. The paté now   
   comes in plastic...)   
      
   --   
   “People believe certain stories because everyone important tells them,   
   and people tell those stories because everyone important believes them.   
   Indeed, when a conventional wisdom is at its fullest strength, one’s   
   agreement with that conventional wisdom becomes almost a litmus test of   
   one’s suitability to be taken seriously.”   
      
   Paul Krugman   
      
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