4gotunameagain 6 days ago

I'm sorry for your convenience loss, but I'm happy for the environment.

Not only because of the unrestricted consumerism, but also because of the environmental costs of logistics. I too have ordered fusible resistors from aliexpress that I could not find locally.

But things I barely need, only for a small dopamine kick ? I do my best to not have a small baggie shipped from the other side of the planet for that.

And not even mentioning the effects of insatiability on myself.

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jampekka 6 days ago

The resistors to your local store have to go through logistics as well. And doing the last mile yourself is a lot more inefficient than a post service doing it.

Transport is also quite small fraction of most products' environmental costs.

1over137 6 days ago

>And doing the last mile yourself is a lot more inefficient than a post service doing it.

How do you figure?

walls 5 days ago

One guy driving a route between 100 places is probably more efficient than 100 people all driving to and from a place.

1over137 5 days ago

Ah, you're assuming the customer is driving a car. That had skipped my mind, but this story is about the USA so it's probably a valid assumption.

misja111 6 days ago

Who would have thought that Trump would bring in a policy that would benefit the environment? Also, who would have guessed that right wing governments would start buying Tesla's? Quite a plot twist ..

onemoresoop 6 days ago

It’s random dice throw. On average Trump has shot US in both feet unnecessarily.