Opera is based on Chrome, and therefore does not belong in this comparison.

Safari would be a better example.

But there is no Pepsi cola to compete with it. And there’s the problem.

Years after I married her, I discovered that my wife had partially paid for college by baking cakes for weddings and other events. Yes, she used the Cake Bible. I saw some of her Polaroid pictures she had taken of some of the cakes she had made, based on those recipes.

I kid you not, her cakes looked better than the ones shown in the book. And the ones in the book looked pretty good.

I thought the real damage of management over engineering was done when they merged with McDonnell Douglas, and it was the MDD managers who got put into all the cushy higher level jobs?

Or did that happen twice?

I think his post is correct, except that he unfortunately got M-D confused with L-M and is probably outside the edit window now.

It’s called “shrinkflation”.

Not according to my plumber. Feel free to pay thousands of dollars in plumbing bills when your pipes clog up, if you like.

We’ve had our pipes clog up, and paid thousands of dollars. Fortunately for us, it wasn’t so-called flushable wipes.

That link is a water company - they run sewer systems. Your plumber is out of touch or you're using non-flushable wipes. The two types of wipes are not made the same.

Anything other than toilet paper, which is designed to disintegrate completely in water, should not be flushed. That includes facial tissue, paper towels, and cleansing wipes. If you have modern, smooth PVC waste pipes you might get away with it but the water treatment plant won't like it.

If you have older clay or cast iron waste pipes, feel free to take your chances as GP says. I'd rather not deal with overflows and I'd rather keep my money than give it to a plumber to snake out a clogged drain line.

Let's put it this way, are any of these "flushable" wipe companies willing to insure you against plumbing costs and damages caused by their wipes?

My plumber says that there are no wipes that are actually flushable, regardless of any claims made on the packaging.

We all know about advertisements and how companies lie to us. Why would this be any different?

I’m not taking any risks with our pipes, and we’re not flushing any wipes down the drain. Only human waste and toilet paper. Nothing else. That’s the recommendation from our plumber, and I’m sticking with it.

That link is a water treatment plant company.

It’s called “The tragedy of the commons”.

You don't even need to make the punishment especially harsh.

What helps is to increase the likelihood you will actually get caught and face any consequence. It would be much better to reliably confiscate the cars of the people doing this than to randomly send a very small proportion of them to prison.

Yes it's unfortunate no one wants to live in a police state.

That’s why I sign up with virtual credit cards from privacy.com.

If I don’t like the service, then I can cancel the card. And I can limit them to how much money can be taken out per transaction, or per month, or per year, or total. Or the card could be a one-time only card. And it will be merchant locked, so if anyone else tries to charge that card, they get refused.

Now that would be a violation of federal law. I would inform the store that my wife is a lawyer, and we can have her law firm contact their law firm to discuss why they are in violation of federal law.

Then I would ask them if they want to reconsider this possibility.

Now, if you actually want to use this tactic, I would suggest you look up the federal law in question, so that you can quote it by section and paragraph. Maybe keep a printed copy with you.

Technically, they’re still a creditor, and creditors get special privileges when it comes to things like that. So, while I would refuse, it’s probably not a violation of federal law.