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[–] 86 points 2 months ago
[–] 68 points 2 months ago (23 children)

I had to look up what a woke bottlecap is. The cap is attached to the bottle. That's it.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (21 children)

    They're more annoying than they sound. Definitely not 'woke' though.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    They were at first, but now that I've gotten used to them, I actually prefer them to the unattached ones even BEFORE factoring in that they reduce plastic waste!

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    right? turns out that having the cap attached to the bottle means.. the cap is always right there and easy to close again....
    like, fuckin

    we figured this shit out more than 100 years ago

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago* (3 children)

    Isn't that worse though because now it involves metal, which is much more energy intensive to recycle

    Reasonably speaking the actual solution would be flip tops like you get on sports drinks. But presumably those are more complicated to manufacture which is why it's not done.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Ideally these bottles are recycled by just reusing them for a new product, not melted down. I've used these bottles several times over for beer. There's no need to replace them.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Even if we're for some reason melting down metal parts every time (which we don't), metal is energy intensive to recycle, but it's recyclable infinitely. Plastic is easier to melt, but only a small percentage of it is recyclable at all, and even that is only once. So all the plastic either gets burnt, or thrown out and ends up somewhere where it shouldn't, like an ocean. Both cases are way worse.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    well 1) i'm not saying it's better, just that the concept of an attached lid is not even remotely new and thus complaining about it is incredibly dumb, and 2) you wouldn't recycle a bottle like that, you'd clean it up and just reuse it as-is, only having to replace the cork itself as the rubber gets too old.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Nah, they're great. I've had to pick up bottle caps because they slipped out of my hand before.

    It's genuinely more convenient imo to have the caps attached to the bottle.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    They are not really annoying at all when you get used to them.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    They've been around for years now. I don't think I'm getting more used to how annoying they are.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I hope you know that you can extend the tether?

    Lots of people keep the cap basically "flipped up", which is a lot more annoying to use

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    That depends on the design. The most common one I encounter is fixed at two points and can't be extended without some amount of tearing, so I just keep tearing. I've never been the sort to not put the cap back on the bottle when throwing it away so it's a redundant feature for me.

    That said, in the time since this new norm came in, I've lived in two different countries, one of which had signs saying to separate the cap from the bottle at recycling recepticles, meaning you had to tear them off.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    They're calling it woke because apparently it's a directive from the EU. And in there tiny little brains anything that EU does is work. Accepting for a minute that they have no idea what the word means.

    It is annoying, but you can also just snap one of the legs of the attachment point and then it's not a problem anymore.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    I went to one of those asleep countries some time ago, where the bottle caps didn't wake up yet. A cap that wasn't attached to the bottle was annoying to me, having to hold it in the hand while I drink was pretty inconvenient

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  • [–] 97 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    How bored do you have to be to complain about "woke bottle caps"?

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago

    They love shit like this because it's tangible, everything else they worry about is either statistically insignificant to the point most people will never see it or completely fabricated so the best they have is bottle caps.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Every time someone complains about bottle caps I think two things: they never saw how much small plastic pieces contaminate environment where people spend time relaxing and not taking the garbage where it belongs; they have really weird priorities in life.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 months ago

    If the personal highlight of your party’s conference is a bottle top… perhaps you should look for a more interesting party. Or leave politics.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    People who are easily bothered are a gold mine for propagandists.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    It's the insecure who are easy targets for the manipulative psychos. That's why cults tend to target who are in emotionally vulnerable state.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 months ago

    They could just...not use plastic water bottles. Those are pretty woke overall since real men get their water from the blood of animals they consume.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 months ago

    People still bitching about the bottle caps? If it pisses them off so much, it barely takes any effort to pull the things loose.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Literally anything to keep us divided and ignoring the billionaires as they rape every one of us from behind.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    How is that a win? Have we already cured cancer and poverty that having a bottle without a cap is a win?!!!

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    TIL tethered bottle caps are a thing. I mean, I've encountered them before - but I used to think they're malfunctions.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Shes needs to get an update on her manicure instead of talking about bottle caps.

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  • [+] -7 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Based, the tethered caps suck.

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    The caps are dangling, some of them don't stay properly open, and it's more difficult to close. I'm not that bothered about soda bottles anymore but I still use an asleep one as a reusable water bottle for gym. I don't have time for that shit during my workout.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Because I don't like having a bottle cap dangling in my face when drinking, so it will be ripped off. Of course that has a 50% chance of leaving the tether attached to the rim so now you can stab yourself in the face while drinking. Now you have to rip/twist that off, too. Of course that bit can't be reattached to the bottle any more ...so into the natural microplastic cycle it goes. If they could at least fix the predetermine breaking point at the rim ... but that would require a design by people with a brain.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    What kind of bloated face do you have that it dangles in your face when drinking?

    Have you tried turning the bottle 90°?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    It's especially annoying with yogurts and smoothies. I have to lick the cap clean so I don't make a mess when it's dangling on my cheek, nose, or chin, whichever orientation is preferred.

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