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Stop trying to make regular people guilty about having cold drinks while billionaires burn entire forests

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You’re being rightfully downvoted into oblivion for bringing up this argument when it doesn’t apply, but I’ll elaborate:

  • This video is a counter to the greenwashing peddled by these cheapo “desk fridge” makers parading around their products as environmentally friendly. For those of us who do want to reduce our personal impact on the environment, this is a fantastic exposé on what’s actually going on here. This video actively helps the environment, and there’s nothing at all wrong with that.
  • This video will likely also save a number of consumers money and effort by allowing them to get a better product in the form of a mini-fridge where they would’ve otherwise been suckered into an inferior product for their needs. For many viewers, especially those who would have otherwise purchased it because of the greenwashing, this video will save them from unnecessarily sacrificing money and convenience by getting this cheap piece of crap instead of an actual mini-fridge.

I don’t know if you even clicked on the video or not, but this isn’t “making regular people feel guilty about having cold drinks”; it’s informing them that manufacturers are lying to them to make them feel guilty about having cold drinks and telling them to buy their garbage trinkets instead. This video is doing the literal exact opposite of what you’re accusing, even discounting the fact that your argument is often brought up speciously to stifle calls for personal change when you feel like it even marginally encroaches on a convenience that you obtain by mortgaging the Earth’s climate.

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that’s not the point at all. the point is if you want cold drinks there are better options that will even save you money in the long run.

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You can have cold drinks, just don’t buy these products to cool them.

I’ve got a cooler and an ice pack, cost $5 from a thrift store and keeps my shit cold for a whole day

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Why do you want cold shit?

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Stinks less.

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It’s for when someone walks in thinking they’re all hot shit. You give them the cold shit to bring them to room-temperature shit.

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Just because you want it to be hot back there doesn’t mean we all do.

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