You remember these glasses from your last trip to #France, I guess.

[bascht@social.yakshed.org]

@jwildeboer ghasped at the price and it took me way too long to notice the "lot of 6" — that's actually reasonably priced

[slotos@toot.community]

@steve @jwildeboer @dascandy If they last forever, I won’t need to replace them under any other economic system.

[jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net]

@slotos They do break, given enough force But there are still billions of people that do not have them in their inventory, so enough possibilities for them to grow a sustainable, workers oriented business @steve @dascandy

[gurre@mastodon.nu]

@jwildeboer oooh. This makes my list of policies I'd make law if voted planetary governor: workers get first dibs to create a worker cooperative if they want before vulture capitalists can have a go.

[nicolegoebel@digitalcourage.social]

@jwildeboer I love colorful glasses. No risk of mixing up at parties.

[marcel@waldvogel.family]

@nicolegoebel @jwildeboer
As long as you still have enough brains to remember the color 🫣

BTW: Do you know where to get then in Switzerland?

[jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net]

@marcel https://www.intergastro.ch/marken/duralex/ @nicolegoebel

[jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net]

@frauxirah https://www.intergastro.ch/marken/duralex/

[maker@secretbearsociety.org]

@Gurre @jwildeboer maybe drop them a line to know about their resellers. For example Manufactum is a German company shipping internationally (they have the Picardie model in various size)

Https://www.manufactum.com/french-bistro-glass-a43848/

[denkster@mastodon.nl]

@jwildeboer remember how Duralex started, early '70 ties?
Making glass to absorp the huge amounts of surplus heat from the nuclear reactors..

[jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net]

@denkster Duralex was founded in 1945, not the 1970s.

[whreq@hsnl.social]

@jwildeboer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJd7wwmrfvc

[piiiepsbrummm@chaos.social]

@Maker @Gurre @jwildeboer
Manufactum was founded by someone supporting the right-wing extremist German party AfD (and previously others, IIRC). It is now part of the Otto empire.

I think purchasing there would contradict the spirit of the story.

[maker@secretbearsociety.org]

@PiiiepsBrummm @Gurre @jwildeboer waaaaaaaat, that’s horrible! I had no idea about this (side note: how can I find out about those things?)

[jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net]

@whreq Thank you for sharing! Now we know what the numbers on the bottom mean

[jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net]

And here's a video (in French) telling the story and showing the people and the factory via @whreq (it also explains the mystery of the number on the bottom https://hsnl.social/@whreq/113297874659983802

[schroedingershund@social.vivaldi.net]

@jwildeboer

Worth mentioning that theire iconic glasses (yep, that well known design is theirs) are also famous because of the special treatment during melting and forming which makes Duralex glasses almost unbreakable in common situations (dropping a glass from the tabletop will leave you with stains from the contained liquid but not with shards from the glass)

[jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net]

@schroedingershund Yes, it's tempered, not annealed glass (and I mentioned that in a few replies https://www.onedayglass.com/annealed-vs-tempered-glass-difference/

[piiiepsbrummm@chaos.social]

@Maker @Gurre @jwildeboer

The founder:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hoof

The publisher:
https://www.dw.com/de/finis-germania-und-co-rechte-vordenker-und-ihre-verlage/a-39787337

I didn't find an article with the donations just now. IIRC it was more than five years ago.

[koalie@w3c.social]

@jwildeboer heh, for what is worth, when I looked at the site today, the first thing on display was a warning that due to demand the delivery was likely going to be impacted and they thank people for being patient!