Every breath you take starts playing on the background…

Yeah, sorry I just read the article and found the answer, they tag the videos to train their AI.

Also why is Meta watching that footage?

We’re getting mates with lid here now, think they really made to drink wine, but I guess everyone use them without the lid because it would be impractical to get the lid of everything you’re going to pour water. I know it would get on my nerves quickly.

Oh yeah absolutely they are! We take pride on the scars we got from the straws and hot water.

Really tho, that’s not a bad idea, but it would be a whole other drink, and it would lose a lot of things that make mate what it is for us, firstly the sharing, with traditional mate you can share because you only get a small amount of water, when you drink it all you give it back to the owner, and while it is gross it really bonds you with the people you’re sharing with. I personally don’t do it anymore and It’s becoming rarer, but it was common sharing on a big group even with people you didn’t really know, like friends of your friends. It even it’s considered somewhat rude to turn down if someone offers you to share. With the cup I think people would be a lot more aware of the grossness of sharing it, so they’ll continue to drink with straws.

Also the act of pouring the water is a ritual (even a skill or an art) that makes you pause what you’re doing every time you want to drink, and some people find this helps them to refocus, you can’t do this on the cup.

And finally you would be a pariah and be deported if the traditionalist catch drinking mate that way.

The way we use it is, every time you want to drink you pour a bit of hot water from a bottle to the gourd (mate) that is almost filled with yerba mate (dried and milled leafs) to make the infusion, the straw has tiny holes to filter the water. A sippy cup lid would make you to get a lot of yerba on your mouth.

So you sip the straw until you get all the water, and as you almost constantly are pouring new water it’s impractical to have a lid. Many people leave the bottle with the cap always open for convenience and walk around with the bottle tucked under their arm.

We got things like this where the colored part is the gourd

I have not tried it but the purists will despise you for using them.

As an uruguayan can confirm this is the reason, and to avoid getting the straw sent down your throat, also to avoid spilling boiling water over someone else.