Yeah but you’re a citizen, you exist in a society, in a wider world, and part of that is having a duty of being informed. Avoiding the news makes you vulnerable to disinformation and propaganda. It’s also extremely privileged to be able to treat “the news” as something optional; those are people’s lives, and yeah, maybe we can’t solve it, but we have duty to bear witness and remember.
I’m sorry, but being informed is part of being a grown up.
huh? Listen, being informed is good, I try to be, but there’s a difference between “I am aware of things around me” and “I am exposing myself to terrible things all time because I have to”. Suffering isn’t noble, and if we want to make a kind world, the first place we have to start with is ourselves. Feeling like shit is not activism, it is not your noble duty, and I can guarantee feeling terrible actively hinders any real work you’re trying to do.
To tack onto this- for folks who can hyperfixate or are prone to pretty severe anxiety, it’s also extremely damaging to say “you have to be dialed into the news at all times, no matter how terrible, no matter how powerless you individually are, or you’re going to fall to The Propaganda”
Because for one- no, no you’re not. But for two, one of the biggest, one of the most necessary means of controlling and living with that sort of anxiety or (speaking personally) dealing with post-traumatic stress is managing your exposure to things that can be upsetting, things that can drive that stress way up. If anxiety can render you wholly unable to function and you’re exposing yourself to a machine made to keep you engaged 24/7 with it (and its advertising) by amplifying every Bad Thing it can find (which, sorry, no matter the source, this is how a lot of news works, it’s still a business,) you’re not going to ‘bear witness,’ you’re going to drive yourself into an early and preventable grave, helping nobody, especially yourself.
“Focus on the things you can do in your immediate surroundings” isn’t just advice, it’s a survival mantra for people like me.
Sending my love to everyone whose diet consists of chicken nuggets, plain hamburgers, macaroni and cheese, or spaghettio’s. People who can only comfortably drink soda, sports drinks, or juice, I love you. People who need to feel their food with their hands before they can put it in their mouth, I love you. I’m so proud of you all for feeding yourselves and staying hydrated. I see you, you’re valid, and you’re doing amazing.
An Undertale movie came out and there was a new character that was a recolor of Mima with purple clothes and brown hair. Undertale fans were confused about this and Touhou called it the second coming of Mima.
this is the teaser image and actual title of an upcoming horror movie, by a director who thinks cgi is overused and too fake looking already so it’s probably going to be pretty funny
This went from “funny meta joke” to actually top tier monster concept the moment I just learned that the gator is canonically made of bad cgi in-universe. It is created when laptops get dumped in the swamp. The characters will recognize that it is a CGI entity and it will presumably have powers and abilities in accordance with that.
speaking of bad cgi gator i know theres a manga out there about a girl that can summon a shark. specifically a shark from every shark movie ever and it has every unrealistic power those sharks have
I looked this up and I think the funniest part is it being intentionally categorized as an isekai, from the shark’s perspective, for having been summoned into a different genre.
They’re also shooting for 100% renewable plastic sources by 2030! All of the soft plant/leaf elements in sets right now and going forward are made out of bioplastic made from sugarcane, and they’re working on getting the regular hard plastic bricks out of that, too.
They’ve done it, actually! The full bricks are in the prototype stage now, and are expected to be 100% biodegradable without the need for a commercial compost facility. It’s very cool. Right now they’re testing the durability and playability of the bricks and seeing what needs to be revised/reworked on their final model.
So its that easy huh
Of course it is
Actually, this isn’t “easy” and is huge news. You see, Lego is absolutely meticulous about their quality control. Their standards for manufacturing are stupidly high, as are their safety requirements. You know that distinctive “click” when you pop two Lego bricks apart? They engineered that. That sound is so distinctive that it can be used to tell genuine Lego bricks from counterfeits and it’s a sound that would be based on shape and material.
Furthermore, one of the hard requirements for a Lego brick is that it must be compatible with any other Lego brick. If I buy a set today and pull a set from the 1980s? Those bricks would fit together perfectly. This requires a huge amount of precision engineering and controls on manufacturing quality. (I can’t remember the source, but I’ve at least heard that once the brick molds wear to a certain point, they’re pulled from the line and either melted down or turned into construction material for Lego HQ. Point being, no one is getting their hands on a worn Lego mold)
Recycled and non-petroleum plastics are different from other plastic. The chemistry is different. The timing and process to use them is different. This has been a reason why more companies haven’t moved to them, because there’s a drop in quality for material (so they claim).
What Lego just did is completely obliterate that argument. The corporation with some of the strictest quality control requirements for plastic just kicked the basic foundation of the “bad quality” argument out from under it, because if they feel confident enough to guarantee the same experience as using a brick from over 40 years ago, if they are confident enough that they can meet their own metrics at a huge industrial scale….
