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same reason lions are called lions, and tigers, well tigers.
both will eat you, but you'd hope that the guy trying to get the attacking beast off you isn't the fella from the circus which his whip and chair if it's a tiger. (A picture of Sigfried & Roy would be the better choice.)
Flu shots don't fix corona, you'd want the doc to inject the correct magic juice in or not?
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I used to work in a genetic company and some intelligent person asked this very question of one of the doctors working there.
The answer was and you may not be satisfied with it - "convention".
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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GuyThiebaut wrote: The answer was and you may not be satisfied with it - "convention".
Once it is declared that it is a mere convention, I am perfectly happy with it.
Telling someone that their Eternal Truth is a mere "convention" can be very upsetting to them, even with insignificant details.
Like when I (many years ago) helped this lady, who had been using Word Perfect for years, to learn to use MS Word: When I explained the the button with the printer icon, she objected fiercely to that way of working: "You must agree that using the F7 key for printing is much more natural!"
Or dress codes: In several countries, you are required by law to expose certain parts of your body when in public, but to cover other parts. Saying "Sheesh, it is just a convention" and throwing away your swimsuit on the beach will be met with far stronger reactions than just "He is not behaving according to established conventions".
OK, even the fiercest "correctionists" are not threatening to call the police, even if you wrongfully describe Corona symptoms as a flu. But it goes far beyond "a mere convention" reactions. Such as when I ask what distinguishes flu viruses from non-flu, and one answer concludes "Doctors are idiots, eh?" To me, that is a quite emotional reaction to the questioning of a convention. To me it says, Don't you ever dare to touch that convention!, at the same level as Don't you ever dare to drop your swimsuit at our beach! if I ask for the real justification for the swimsuit requirement.
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...it sounds like you were not satisfied with the answer 
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I am not an expert, but I guess the difference is like getting hit by a tree while passing by, or getting hit by someone with a tree:
The first can happen because there's bad wheather, the other can happen, because you asked a silly question. But in both cases, the symptoms are the same 
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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Some restaurant chains have replaced their plastic straws with a version that looks/feels/tastes like cardboard because, I'm told, sea turtles end up with those straws in their stomach. Or some such. The inside of these cardboard straws seem to be lined with something that isn't cardboard because, I'm assuming, cardboard itself would otherwise absorb the liquid and start decomposing immediately.
Only, the cardboard straws do start to decompose before I can even finish my drink, and I end up with pieces of cardboard and whatever that coating is, in my stomach.
Somehow I'm not thinking this helps me. But then, I'm sure that sort of thinking is wrong, because the goal isn't to help me.
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Stop buying the drinks, or stop using the straws...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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You don't drink when you eat at a restaurant?
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From a glass or a demi-tasse I do!
From a cardboard / styrofoam cup full of chemicals? No ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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I'll keep an eye out for the guy who brings his own glass at a restaurant.
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Most restaurants provide them, normally without my making any special request ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Even my 3-year old grandson can drink straight from a cup or glass.
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Why would anyone want such a thing?
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The restaurant Blaze Pizza doesn't even offer straws. Instead they have lids that you sip from. Yup, that's right, adult sippie cups.  And it is still difficult to get much out when there's a lot of ice.
Kelly Herald
Software Developer
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Such drinks should be banned for ecological reasons. Ice and plastic are both a huge waste of energy.
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Long ago in a country far away, we grew up only knowing straws made of waxed paper. Yes, they weren't perfect but at least we did not pollute the environment with plastic. I look forward to their return when we finally come to our senses and ban plastic straws forever!
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I also remember them regularly collapsing.
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As I said, they weren't perfect but they were usable and not plastic.
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So you are not old enough to remember when straws were made of straw...
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I am old, not ancient! 
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We used to dream of a straw made of straw...
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Bird bones are hollow.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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