You can, but you may have to bounce around servers a bit to find one that works. I’ve had good luck with servers in Norway (not 100%, but better than other countries).

I agree, but I have to say I’m not familiar with the attitude that prompted him to write this. It sounds completely bananacrackers to me to go into a store and ask to throw something away that has nothing to do with that store. And when it comes to hiking, I feel like everyone knows that everything that comes in with you should leave with you. (But apparently not?)

The interesting part to me is his implication that the world might feel better without public garbage cans. I think if people really would take care of their trash, that’s absolutely true… but there’s enough litter already WITH public garbage cans that I struggle to imagine it going well.

These things fall into two categories—stuff that you buy because the quality is unquestionably higher than alternatives, and stuff that may or may not be a little bit better than alternatives but that you have strong, minimally-rational feelings about.

I find the second category more fun to talk about, so I offer up the fact that this is a C&H [sugar, US based] house. Once my wife brought home some other sugar, and I complained until the bag was gone.

I’m neither a writer nor a scientist, but there’s a copy of this on my bookshelf and I wish I could lend it to you: Deadly Doses: The Writer’s Guide to Poisons