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[victusinveritas]

[glryb2gd]

[cctinsleybaxter]

The left is on board with 'the general public isn't willing to go up against millionaires and billionaires because they hope deep down that they themselves might one day be wealthy, ' but within leftist circles I'm constantly seeing and knowing people who're unwilling to go up against copyright law or making media completely free, and I swear to god it's because they hope they themselves might one day be full-time big-name artists who would be "robbed" by such a system

[svdaily]

Do it for you. Your success is yours even when nobody's clapping.

[loveoftia]

[msw33]

[byler-alarmist]

Do people know most paper receipts are harmful to their health?

I'm going to get up on my soapbox for a minute, but do people realize how pretty much everyone is being overloaded with endocrine disruptors like BPA/BPS on a near-daily basis??

I don't think many people understand that ever since most of the world transitioned to thermal paper receipts (cheaper than ink), almost every receipt you handle from the gas station to the grocery store to the Square terminal printer at the local co-op is coated with Bisphenol-A (BPA) or its chemical cousin Bisphenol-S (BPS).

These chemicals have not only been proven to cause reproductive harm to human and animals, they've also been linked to obesity and attention disorders.

Not sure if your receipt is a thermal receipt? If you scratch it with a coin and it turns dark, it's thermal.

BPA/BPS can enter the skin to a depth such that it is no longer removable by washing hands. When taking hold of a receipt consisting of thermal printing paper for five seconds, roughly 1 μg BPA is transferred to the forefinger and the middle finger. If the skin is dry or greasy, it is about ten times more. 

Think of how many receipts you handle every day. It's even worse for cashiers and tellers, who may handle hundreds in a single shift. It is also a class issue, since many people who work retail and food service are lower-income and will suffer worse health consequences over time from the near-constant exposure.

Not only that, receipts printed with thermal ink are NOT recyclable, as they pollute the rest of the paper products with the chemicals.

People don't know this and recycle them anyway, so when you buy that "green" toilet paper that says "100% recycled"? Yup, you are probably wiping your most sensitive areas with those same chemicals (for this reason, I buy bamboo or sugarcane toilet paper as a sustainable alternative to recycled paper).

This page from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has some good links if you want to learn more.

As consumers, we need to demand better from our businesses and from our governments. We need regulation of these chemicals yesterday.

If you are a buyer or decision-maker for a business, the link above also contains a shortlist of receipt paper manufacturers that are phenol-free.

If you work at a register, ask customers if they want a receipt. If they don't and you can end the transaction without printing one, don't print one!

As a consumer, fold receipts with the ink on the inside, since that's where the coating is. Some more good tips here.

And whatever you do, DO NOT RECYCLE THERMAL RECEIPTS

[flyingprivate]

Courtesy: Ali Behnam-Bakhtiar

[drchucktingle]

Doc, is there anywhere we can purchase your ebooks other than Amazon? I would love to support you and your work without giving my dollars to the big bad Bezos corp. Thank you for doing what you do!!! <3

this is great question buckaroo. amazon has way of STRANGLEHOLD on self publishing not just ebooks but also way of print on demand (chuck once went to whole trouble of setting up books to print with separate print on demand company and then a few months later amazon BOUGHT THE OTHER COMPANY what the heck). so way of self publishing is wonderful in some ways and in others it is very much locked down by amazon.

there is small answer though, which will hopefully one day turn into BIG ANWSER. i am sorry to always be harpin on buds preordering CAMP DAMASCUS but i will say this:

chuck trotted to traditional publishing for many reasons but VERY BIG REASON was because of how many buckaroos have asked question you are asking right now. ironically in this particular business going to BIG PUBLISHER is only way to get your books into SMALL BOOKSTORES and goal of chuck was to have my writing in independent bookstores so buds like you could buy them. right now i have deal for my horror novels but SUCCESS of this deal will speak to the future of tingleverse distribution.

so for right now amazon is only way to get tinglers but if you would like to help chuck keep pushing away from that in the future there is concrete way to help with is to preorder camp damascus WHICH YOU CAN ALREADY DO THROUGH ANY INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE. the better this book does (and way of first week sales is big part of this which preorders count towards) the more opportunities i will have for wider distribution.

thank you for question bud LOVE IS REAL

BUCKAROO EDIT: also wanted to edit to add it even helps if you request from your library which most libraries let you do online. so if you have book already or cannot afford that is other important trot

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[svdaily]

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