Conversion of properties from one use to another fucking sucks.

I have worked in many industrial buildings that were converted to offices, and none of them had much in the way of human considerations.

I’ve lived in office to residential conversions, and while habitable they had many caveats. From utilities literally carving out spaces in rooms, odd shaped rooms, pillars in the middle of spaces, hallways barely big enough for an adult, poor lighting and little to no accessibility. The contrast between living in a purpose built residential building is black and white.

Buildings are built for a purpose. Once they are no longer needed for that purpose, tear them down and replace them with what is needed.

Retrofits allow the landed gentry to continue making money on their assets with minimal additional investment, at the expense of those using those spaces (which is never the owners)

We said the same thing about corks.

NZ (and Australia?) doesn’t really do corks any more. For sparkling wines, yes. But I’ve not touched my bottle opener in years.

We also sell (some?) wines in PET bottles, but they’re usually single serve/hotel-minibar bottles so not mainstream.

If there’s a cost incentive to the winery, and no impact of quality to their product, I think they’ll slowly push for a change.

But first, they’ve got to ascertain it won’t affect the product.

Had nothing but problems making rice in my instant pot. Either it’s too hard, or too soft.

Tried different salt amounts, different water ratios, rinsing, draining, using the rice mode, using the manual mode.

Never had perfect rice from it.