• @MoonlightFox
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    118 hours ago

    Great! Fur is unecessary, and creates unecessary suffering.

    Fur isn’t even close to being necessary, wool, cotton and plastic/chemicals is more than good enough.

    • @kurwa
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      45 hours ago

      Fur is unnecessary and plastic is too.

      • @sga013M
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        105 hours ago

        plastic is not unnecessary - it is genuinely wonderful, we just have to learn to use it only for stuff which is meant to stay, and not just single use and throw

        • @kurwa
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          73 hours ago

          Plastic based clothing sheds micro plastics over time, especially when you wash them.

          Maybe plastic has its use cases, but it should be a lot more narrow and contained. If we could use alternatives that don’t last forever it would be a lot better.

          • @sga013M
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            52 minutes ago

            I never said plastic should be used for clothing, though I am not saying it should not be used. I justt have not studied enough about it. My naive guess is that in general clothing made out of “only” plastic may not be comfortable due to other reasons (surface finish, general stiffness and flexiblity, permeability and what not). And Micro plastics is not a problem unique to plastic (well maybe micro “plastic” is unique to plastic if we are being pedantic), basically all materials undergo abberation, and resultant micro tears or fractures result in micro debris for all products - ceramics, metals (less for metals due to some other reasons, what you usually get corrosion products) and plastics. And in general all these micro “things” are harmful to us, some more some less (due to the fact that we are not isolated, we have intakes (breathing, feeding, drinking, and general absorption, and then eventual accumulation - which may result in damages, for example, absestos, is basically micro silica, binds alveoli). In fact (not very rigorus statement, more of a statement on whole classes instead of extreme cases) among these micro “things” - micro plastics would likely be least harmful because of “almost” inert nature of plastics

            Though I completely agree with your narrow part (contained is not necessary due to above stated reasons, basically it is unavoidable). And I also agree with your part of alternatives that don’t last forever, and clothing, or packaging in general is indeed the best use case for this

  • @[email protected]
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    1610 hours ago

    That’s fucking great news. If there ever was a time I wish Finland copied something from Sweden, this is it.