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New research aims to cut down on waste -- and consumer frustration -- with a novel approach to creating super slippery industrial packaging. The study establishes a method for wicking chemically compatible vegetable oils into the surfaces of common extruded plastics, like those used for ketchup packets and other condiments.
Source: ScienceDaily
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(Score: 2) by Knowledge Troll on Saturday August 04 2018, @04:24PM (2 children)
That kind of personality is why I believe that we not only need to have a welfare system that can support people who don't work but also that it needs to infact tolerate leaches as that is just simply the cost.
If everything has to be zero effort and they are not a savant at something so they won't have marketable skills they are going to be a serious problem for society as they become "independent" because they are going to still expect to survive with zero effort and no marketable skills. Working at McDonalds sounds hard, like you would have to get there on time at least most of the time and that they might want you to wash your hands and follow rules and stuff. Plus customers can be a serious chore to deal with.
Probably a lot easier to just steal shit from people at night while they sleep - even easier if it is people you know. Easiest if you know them well.
The instinct to survive is strong and people will do it. I don't like the idea of paying people to take it easy and not work but there are only a few options:
1) Pay them to survive comfortably so it is easier to cash government checks than start a career in crime
2) Stick them in prison so they can't commit crimes - they are not likely to be rehabilitated and there is risk of deeper integration into and reliance on criminal behavior and careers
3) Exterminate them
Option 2 sounds not very good and quite possibly more expensive than option 1. Option 3 is beyond most people's tolerances.
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Saturday August 04 2018, @06:37PM (1 child)
That's assuming they don't become lawyers or MBAs. Sure one has to put out a lot of effort for 3~4 years, but after that it's "money for nothing and chicks for free". Just living the American Dream. Oh did I leave out Car Salesmen and Bankers?
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts"- --Daniel Patrick Moynihan--
(Score: 2) by Knowledge Troll on Saturday August 04 2018, @06:44PM
At least for a good chunk of bankers I think "stealing their shit while they sleep" still fits just the scale isn't one night anymore it's since the Glass-Stegall act was repealed.