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[–] Oiconomia@feddit.de 54 points 10 months ago (7 children)
[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 25 points 10 months ago

And these three ladies were in a skit on the US comedy TV show Saturday Night Live which was about that thermos hype.

[–] InputZero@lemmy.ml 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Adding to that, Stanley Tumblers have become the latest status symbol for children as well as adults. So it's not uncommon for a child to get bullied because their water bottle isn't a Stanley Tumbler.

[–] devfuuu@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (3 children)

The fact that people think they need a water bottle in school is crazy weird.

[–] sour@kbin.social 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

school only having water bottle filler

[–] MBM@lemmings.world 2 points 10 months ago

... that's like the least weird part to me, how else are you going to drink?

[–] Bene7rddso@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago

They do need one, but a plastic bottle from the vending machine is good enough

[–] Yax@feddit.de 19 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Your article contains a statement from Stanley: "no lead is present on the surface of any Stanley product that comes into contact with the consumer nor the contents of the product." I don't find anything supporting your claim that the cups were "found to contaminate drinks with lead." Am I missing something?

[–] Cheesus@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

You're not wrong. They use lead to seal the vacuum. You will only be contaminated with lead if it gets damaged. Most other big popular brands moved away from lead to glass sealing years ago citing worker health and potential lead exposure if they get damaged.

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 10 months ago

Ah, so my poisonous drinking cup is only poisonous if I use it a little too rough?

[–] Bene7rddso@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago

To me it's wild that a cup mafe in 2024 contains lead at all

[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

As far as I know, they didn't show to actually contaminate drinks. There's just lead in places where it doesn't come into contact with the drink. The lawsuit is for not disclosing this information. Or at least that's how the article reads.

Edit: it was in California, where it's mandatory to say whether or not the product has lead (and probably other things) in it.

[–] devfuuu@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

This seems a good filter irl to avoid people that clearly are too addicted to tiktok.

[–] rab@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 months ago

Up until now I thought it was the same Stanley that makes tools which was making no sense to me