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		fastandslow on March 27, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Daniel Kahneman has died But it never stops at "this thing we want to encourage is obviously good with absolutely no downsides". After all, floss is a single-use plastic, generally made of PTFE, the production of which requires all sorts of nasty forever chemicals.

Retric on March 27, 2024 [–]

You can buy biodegradable PTFE & PFAS Free dental floss made from natural ingredients.

Or even go old school and use a teeth-cleaning twig etc.

fastandslow on March 28, 2024 | [–]

It's gonna be hard to include all of that in your eye-catching, behaviour-nudging poster.

Retric on March 28, 2024 | | [–]

And thus the advertising industry.

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