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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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Like use a cheap brown paper bag and stick the label on that. Cheaper and much less plastic waste. If I wanted a pill bottle, I can buy my own.

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[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This is a terrible take because medication takers arent the source of the world's plastic issues. This take is no different than shaming people into sorting their recycling when it just gets sent to some dump in China anyway and individuals, even en masse are not the drivers of mass pollution. Also people frequently reuse medication bottles to securely store various other things and keep them around indefinitey so they are probably one of the furthest things from "the problem" whatever the heck that problem is

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I use pill bottles for mixing paint