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Someone should invent dumpsters that you have to pay to open (unless you own it or are the garbage man). That way, stores can still profit off of freegans.

@xianc78 i WISH there was a dumpster nearby me that i could just pay a couple dollars to open or whatever. taking bigger stuff all the way over to the dump is a massive pain in the ass.

@beardalaxy I'm talking about dumpsters behind stores. Stores throw away food that doesn't meet their standards and that's where freegans get their food.

@xianc78 @beardalaxy How else would you implement dumpsters that you have to pay to open?

You think many people know how to make mechanical coin-operated mechanisms or TTL circuits anymore?

Many people don't carry coins also, so that would require putting a credit card machine on the dumpster, which needs software.

@Suiseiseki @beardalaxy
>You think many people know how to make mechanical coin-operated mechanisms or TTL circuits anymore?

I still see gumball machines.

@xianc78 @beardalaxy That is quite a simple mechanism that merely rotates - there is no hinge to lock in place and also no requirement for there to be some way to operate the mechanism without a coin (it's no good if it's difficult for employees to merely put garbage in a dumpster).

@xianc78 you're so spiteful to the homeless that you would rather they die from starvation than prevent people profitting off of garbage which they wouldn't even sell their customers...

Kinda sociopathic, tbh...

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