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Colloquial term for "Reverse vending machine" (collecting bottle deposit) (feddit.nl)
 

I'm looking for a term people would use on a day to day basis for the machines where you return empty bottles/cans and earn your deposit back.

Wikipedia calls them Reverse Vending Machine but my Anglophone friend and I don't believe that's a term people would use on the street.

ChatGPT says the most commonly used term in the UK is "Bottle Return Machine" or "Bottle Return" but I can't find sources on the web for that.

TIA!

How many people will not push the button at traffic lights because of Peter Pannekoek? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Don't they give feedback? If they are the capacitive button kind, I see them with a red light on top that tells you you've pressed it. "wachten" or something lights up.

How many people will not push the button at traffic lights because of Peter Pannekoek? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

heh, same :) Though sometimes an idiot has smeared their milkshake on them or similar

How many people will not push the button at traffic lights because of Peter Pannekoek? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

but theirs isn't! Apparently federation is working :) and yes, I now realise that Not Just Bikes has an orange logo and the YouTube channel often talks about The Netherlands but I didn't mention his show is Dutch.

How many people will not push the button at traffic lights because of Peter Pannekoek? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Help, I can find no other meaning for CBD than cannabidiol.

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How many people will not push the button at traffic lights because of Peter Pannekoek? (www.youtube.com)
 

In his old year cabaret show, Peter Pannekoek stated the buttons near crossings don't actually do anything, they're just there to just pacify people. I'm fairly certain they in fact do work, though for cyclists they're mostly redundant: the magnetic loops in the road surface detect cyclists. Only for lightweight carbon bikes a manual button is still useful.

Am I correct in my assumption?

So, what do you think about Lemmy/kbin so far? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Good point, valid concern! I hope existing (real) communities (from existing subreddits or elsewhere) can have leaders pointing users to a specific Feddit community. What would be even more awesome, is if communities could be merged: that way we could 'repair' in a sense, fragmentation that happened naturally without losing the users and content that one of the communities already amassed.