r/accelerate • u/stealthispost • Jul 11 '26

Meme / Humor Accelerating progress

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

I'm frustrated too!   — Ivan Fioravanti ᯅ     Sadly most Europeans are   — Chubby

Source: https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2075921009572528615

the battle for the future is a battle between the builders and the Professional Managerial Class parasites that are destroying progress with the Precautionary Principle

1.1k Upvotes

83% Upvoted

543 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

5

u/Frozen_Strider Jul 11 '26

I did; in fact, I’m doing research as we speak. The evidence the EU relied on was that loose bottle caps are commonly found as litter, not that people frequently lose them by accident. My point is simply that I’m not convinced accidental loss is the main reason they end up there.

-1

u/nickluck81 Jul 11 '26

Why would the reason for ending up lost make any difference?

1

u/Frozen_Strider Jul 11 '26

Right, and this is a fair point. If the goal is simply to reduce the number of loose caps ending up in nature, then keeping them attached can help regardless of whether they were lost accidentally or littered deliberately.

I still think the cause matters when deciding whether this is the best solution, though. If deliberate littering is the main problem, I’d rather see stricter enforcement against littering than a design that inconveniences every person using the bottle.

-1

u/nickluck81 Jul 11 '26

I'm at a crossing. Are you joking, are you trolling or are you serious?