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FFS, can humans not just keep creating plastic crap that'll ruin the planet. Make your own wooden spoon and you have a beautiful object created with your own ha

FFS, can humans not just keep creating plastic crap that'll ruin the planet. Make your own wooden spoon and you have a beautiful object created with your own hands.

sgt 2y ago
But how would that wooden spoon simulate salt?
- lm28469 2y ago
  I don't even get how we came to this point. Anyone uttering this question should reconsider their entire life choices... Is the end game of humanity shitty chat bots, half assed autonomous cars and salt simulating spoons? Is this what people dream about these days? We're pathetic
  - alejoar 2y ago
    A huge percent of the population can't take food with salt because of medical conditions. This would be a quality of life improvement for them. You can still eat as much salt as you like, not need to feel pathetic.
    - lm28469 2y ago
      Huge percent you say? Feel free to post a source How much of this huge percent are people with bad eating habits and who over used salt for decades in the first place? We should stop half assing solutions for symptoms when all we have to do is eat properly in the first place, diet coke doesn't solve diabetes, magic salt simulating spoons don't solve decades of bad choices.
      - Fraterkes 2y ago
        Being fat is uncomfortable, lowers your life-expectancy and is something many people feel embarrased about. In movies and popular culture fat people are overwhelmingly shown in a negative light (stupid, greedy, impulsive). All of which is to say: there are many many negative incentives for people to "eat properly" and obesity is still very common. Telling people to just get more disciplined is obviously not working. (Also, obesity and addiction more generally has a large genetic component, so try to have some empathy)
        lm28469 2y ago
        > Telling people to just get more disciplined is obviously not working. Ok so the solution is to give them a plastic spoon that simulates salt, which solves nothing, gotcha... > there are many many negative incentives for people to "eat properly" and obesity is still very common. And there are infinitely more incentives for food companies to make you fat and addicted at all cost, and many incentives for the pharmaceutical industry to have fat and unhealthy people they can sell "cures" to.
  - helloplanets 2y ago
    Pretty sure yours is the more common take, rather than the opposite. Or at least a view that is very well represented by just about any news outlet. There's also a popular comedy movie about it. So, you're not exactly going against the grain here.
  - matthewmacleod 2y ago
    I just can’t imagine getting so angry about someone who needs to keep their salt consumption down having access to a tool that helps them.
  - Evidlo 2y ago
    I assume you're aware of the following and are being willfully ignorant: - landed on the Moon - industrialized agriculture to support a population orders of magnitude larger than otherwise possible - eliminated smallpox, polio - invented penicillin which has saved hundreds of millions These are just the ones off the top of my head
    - t-3 2y ago
      All the examples you used are from about a human lifespan before our time. Not really anything people alive now have any connection or conscious appreciation of.
    - lm28469 2y ago
      > industrialized agriculture to support a population orders of magnitude larger than otherwise possible Which destroyed our soils and allowed us to grow so out of proportion that in 200 years of industrial revolution we're slowly coming to the conclusion that we might have destroyed our home planet...
ratmeadow 2y ago
Apparently an unpopular comment but I commend it for having the ability to step back and think "wtf are we doing", which far too many people seem to lack. You've gotta admit that a spoon which adds salt flavour is an oddly superficial use of technology... is it really a good solution to a real problem?

FFS, can humans not just keep creating plastic crap that'll ruin the planet. Make your own wooden spoon and you have a beautiful object created with your own hands.

sgt 2y ago

But how would that wooden spoon simulate salt?

lm28469 2y ago
I don't even get how we came to this point. Anyone uttering this question should reconsider their entire life choices... Is the end game of humanity shitty chat bots, half assed autonomous cars and salt simulating spoons? Is this what people dream about these days? We're pathetic
- alejoar 2y ago
  A huge percent of the population can't take food with salt because of medical conditions. This would be a quality of life improvement for them. You can still eat as much salt as you like, not need to feel pathetic.
  - lm28469 2y ago
    Huge percent you say? Feel free to post a source How much of this huge percent are people with bad eating habits and who over used salt for decades in the first place? We should stop half assing solutions for symptoms when all we have to do is eat properly in the first place, diet coke doesn't solve diabetes, magic salt simulating spoons don't solve decades of bad choices.
    - Fraterkes 2y ago
      Being fat is uncomfortable, lowers your life-expectancy and is something many people feel embarrased about. In movies and popular culture fat people are overwhelmingly shown in a negative light (stupid, greedy, impulsive). All of which is to say: there are many many negative incentives for people to "eat properly" and obesity is still very common. Telling people to just get more disciplined is obviously not working. (Also, obesity and addiction more generally has a large genetic component, so try to have some empathy)
      - lm28469 2y ago
        > Telling people to just get more disciplined is obviously not working. Ok so the solution is to give them a plastic spoon that simulates salt, which solves nothing, gotcha... > there are many many negative incentives for people to "eat properly" and obesity is still very common. And there are infinitely more incentives for food companies to make you fat and addicted at all cost, and many incentives for the pharmaceutical industry to have fat and unhealthy people they can sell "cures" to.
- helloplanets 2y ago
  Pretty sure yours is the more common take, rather than the opposite. Or at least a view that is very well represented by just about any news outlet. There's also a popular comedy movie about it. So, you're not exactly going against the grain here.
- matthewmacleod 2y ago
  I just can’t imagine getting so angry about someone who needs to keep their salt consumption down having access to a tool that helps them.
- Evidlo 2y ago
  I assume you're aware of the following and are being willfully ignorant: - landed on the Moon - industrialized agriculture to support a population orders of magnitude larger than otherwise possible - eliminated smallpox, polio - invented penicillin which has saved hundreds of millions These are just the ones off the top of my head
  - t-3 2y ago
    All the examples you used are from about a human lifespan before our time. Not really anything people alive now have any connection or conscious appreciation of.
  - lm28469 2y ago
    > industrialized agriculture to support a population orders of magnitude larger than otherwise possible Which destroyed our soils and allowed us to grow so out of proportion that in 200 years of industrial revolution we're slowly coming to the conclusion that we might have destroyed our home planet...

ratmeadow 2y ago

Apparently an unpopular comment but I commend it for having the ability to step back and think "wtf are we doing", which far too many people seem to lack. You've gotta admit that a spoon which adds salt flavour is an oddly superficial use of technology... is it really a good solution to a real problem?