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What's something that's taken for granted that occasionally makes you think, wait wtf? (feddit.uk)

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For example, Britain's national mapping organisation's brand is associated in our national consciousness with going to a small shop in a quaint village to get a map showing how to walk up a mountain. It's called Ordnance Survey. If that sounds like Artillery Research to you, that's because the project started because the king wanted to know how to accurately bomb Scotland.

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[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 month ago

Water. Fresh drinking water straight from the tap.

And yet I'm seeing lots of people in the UK start to buy bottled water. Worse: canned water.

The shittification of public services in favour of private products is a creep I'm not paying enough attention to

[-] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 month ago

I agree with the overall sentiment; but there is no way in hell that canned water is worse than plastic bottles.

Aluminium is infinitely more/easily recyclable than plastic, and has a much lower negative impact on the environment.

But to reiterate, filling up your own bottle from the tap is preferred - but if you have to buy water in a container: can > bottle

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

I agree that metal is better than plastic, but it feels like they're trying to categorise water with soda as a commodity

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