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LadyButterfly she/her piefed.blahaj.zone LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone
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MyBrainHurts piefed.ca MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca
Joined: 2025-09-22
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Wait, then what's she going to use for her coffin?

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Catoblepas lemmy.blahaj.zone Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2023-06-13
#3 · Quote Reply

What horrible 19th century plague do you think the subject of this painting was dying of?

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SpaceNoodle lemmy.world SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-14
#4 · Quote Reply

Which one, paper or plastic? The good ones, or the small ones, or the regular ones, or the big ones?

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BillyTheKid2 lemmy.ca BillyTheKid2@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-11-03
#5 · Quote Reply

I unironically want them. No more plastic bags where I live, so I'm running on reserve. I only have a few years stockpile left.

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pH3ra lemmy.dbzer0.com pH3ra@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2026-06-18
#6 · Quote Reply

"They were never used as I kept forgetting them at home, so to my great-grandchildren I leave this mountain of semi-decomposed disposable bags I never threw away just in case"

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starik lemmy.today starik@lemmy.today
Joined: 2026-06-19
#7 · (edited) Quote Reply

If they were checked for holes first, that’s a useful collection.

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Successful_Try543 feddit.org Successful_Try543@feddit.org
Joined: 2024-06-22
#8 · (edited) Quote Reply

What horrible 19th century plague do you think the subject of this painting was dying of?

Unfortunately, Wikipedia (French) doesn't provide any information regarding the illness the (already 2 hours dead) woman had been suffering of. If she didn't die from a 17th century disease, it could also be a post partum death.

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adarza lemmy.ca adarza@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2024-05-29
#9 · Quote Reply

If they were checked for holes first, that’s a useful collection.

we also have to pull the local supermarket ones out and use them first, because they're made of a different plastic that turns to flakes and powder after a year or two.

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k0e3 lemmy.ca k0e3@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-03-03
#10 · Quote Reply

Does she have any ziplocks? That's where the real value is.

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Theatomictruth lemmy.dbzer0.com Theatomictruth@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2024-12-06
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What horrible 19th century plague do you think the subject of this painting was dying of?

Tuberculosis

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raman_klogius ani.social raman_klogius@ani.social
Joined: 2024-06-22
#12 · Quote Reply

2 is 1, 1 is none.

There should be 2 plastic bags of plastic bags. 1 to hold clean food safe bags, the other to hold non clean bags to line the garbage baskets.

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freebee sh.itjust.works freebee@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-08-27
#13 · Quote Reply

I unironically want them. No more plastic bags where I live, so I'm running on reserve. I only have a few years stockpile left.

You mean the very thin single use ones? What do you need them for and can't you buy them? Can't you use other kind of bags?

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AmyAye nord.pub AmyAye@nord.pub
Joined: 2026-06-16
#14 · Quote Reply

People don't use them as trash bags for small trash cans?

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SourDragon lemmy.world SourDragon@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-07-21
#15 · Quote Reply

Hell yeah! I do love me some garbage that has yet to enter a landfill!

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colourlessidea sopuli.xyz colourlessidea@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2024-07-24
#16 · Quote Reply

Which one, paper or plastic? The good ones, or the small ones, or the regular ones, or the big ones?

Yes

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colourlessidea sopuli.xyz colourlessidea@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2024-07-24
#17 · Quote Reply

I upgraded my parent bag to a box, ha

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BillyTheKid2 lemmy.ca BillyTheKid2@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-11-03
#18 · Quote Reply

You mean the very thin single use ones? What do you need them for and can't you buy them? Can't you use other kind of bags?

Yeah I use other bags for other things now. I used cloth for groceries and instead of reusing the grocery bag, now I buy plastic garbage bags...

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Janx piefed.social Janx@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-12-19
#19 · Quote Reply

You mean the very thin single use ones? What do you need them for and can't you buy them? Can't you use other kind of bags?

can't you buy them

I mean, that's the point; you didn't have to. Never had to think about it, they were just there and free, accumulated from the groceries I brought home. I used them for small trashcan liners and to clean out the cat litterbox.

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SCmSTR lemmy.blahaj.zone SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2023-07-24
#20 · Quote Reply

Oh hell yeah! They don't make those anymore!

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SCmSTR lemmy.blahaj.zone SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2023-07-24
#21 · Quote Reply

I unironically want them. No more plastic bags where I live, so I'm running on reserve. I only have a few years stockpile left.

I have the new plastic bags, here. The ones that are supposed to replace the old ones, but are just THICC plastic and cost $0.10-$0.50 each. You'd think I'd go "oh wow, more robust, is better!" But it feels so much less guilt free and so not only do I not get them as often, but don't use them because it would be wasteful if I did use them, and they're still a shitty "disposable" plastic bag and not trustworthy for important stuff.

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mrgoosmoos lemmy.ca mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-03-24
#22 · Quote Reply

People don't use them as trash bags for small trash cans?

well we did until they made us buy a heavier duty product that takes way more resources to get inside my house

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freebee sh.itjust.works freebee@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-08-27
#23 · Quote Reply

Yeah I use other bags for other things now. I used cloth for groceries and instead of reusing the grocery bag, now I buy plastic garbage bags...

I reuse plastic packaging of things I buy for trash. Plastic bag from toilet paper fits the trash can perfectly

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Whats_your_reasoning lemmy.world Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-09-22
#24 · Quote Reply

People don't use them as trash bags for small trash cans?

I used to, until my state made stores stop giving out plastic bags.

Now I have to buy trash bags. But I go out of my way to buy compostable ones because buying single-use plastic to replace double-used plastic would defeat the point of all of this.

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Stupidmanager lemmy.world Stupidmanager@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-30
#25 · Quote Reply

People don't use them as trash bags for small trash cans?

I ran out of my bags last year, but that was the whole purpose of them

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I_am_10_squirrels beehaw.org I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org
Joined: 2023-06-03
#26 · Quote Reply

If they were checked for holes first, that’s a useful collection.

I live life on the edge, I don't check for holes before I pick up the dog doo

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Fmstrat lemmy.world Fmstrat@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-04-27
#27 · Quote Reply

What horrible 19th century plague do you think the subject of this painting was dying of?

Her kids singing baby shark just out of frame.

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BillyTheKid2 lemmy.ca BillyTheKid2@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-11-03
#28 · Quote Reply

I reuse plastic packaging of things I buy for trash. Plastic bag from toilet paper fits the trash can perfectly

That's a really good idea.. I didn't think to use the tp bag.

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BillyTheKid2 lemmy.ca BillyTheKid2@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-11-03
#29 · Quote Reply

I have the new plastic bags, here. The ones that are supposed to replace the old ones, but are just THICC plastic and cost $0.10-$0.50 each. You'd think I'd go "oh wow, more robust, is better!" But it feels so much less guilt free and so not only do I not get them as often, but don't use them because it would be wasteful if I did use them, and they're still a shitty "disposable" plastic bag and...

Yeah it's interesting to see it all change. Ups and downs.

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iocase lemmy.zip iocase@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-05-11
#30 · Quote Reply

The reusable bags mandated in my country are now just even more wasteful disposable bags... Especially when they're made out of this plastic that goes brittle and dry rots over time. Eventually the bag can't hold anything without ripping so it needs to be thrown out. Sometimes in less than a year...

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