Mind, washed ablank. Like a canvas, illustrated. I thought I could forget, yet I remember. Stories I owe... I might not want to visit. And again, I close my eyes...
Oh look, it’s why I DESPISE “if you’re neutral in situations of oppression, you’re on the side of the oppressor”
Nah brah I’m trying to figure out who’s oppressing who and I’m not gonna decide this by coin flip just because your ass likes to yell GOTTA GO FAST
Also some (many) issues are complicated and can’t be boiled down to “one side is oppressing the other.” And even when it does boil down to that it’s not always immediately obvious who is in the wrong. Or there are multiple facets to the issue so “choosing a side,” no matter which one you pick, will involve moral compromise on your part.
“Those who are neutral have chosen the side of the oppressor” is a psychological tactic designed to manipulate people into supporting whoever yells the loudest at them, or whoever reaches them first.
And, ironically, this is a great tactic for oppressors. They paint a horrifying and distorted caricature of what their opposition represents, point at it and say, “You don’t want to support that, do you? Then you HAVE to join us and pledge your undying loyalty, or else you’re supporting that by default.”
the only bad part about going to the zoo is hearing adult men confidently tell their kids or gfs objectively incorrect information about the animals we’re looking at and having to remain silent. do u know the restraint it takes to say nothing when a grown adult man tells someone “falcons are in the same family as eagles” next to me? no babygirl. no.
fyi falcons are not closely related to other birds of prey (hawks/eagles/buzzards). falcons are actually parrots that minmaxed for a glass cannon dps build.
tumblr’s exactly like an ancient forum. It’s just a bunch of people in robes sitting around saying shit like “Cannibalism… is equal to Sexual inter-course” and another guy disagrees and goes “Not true; however Plushies get hurt when you throw them off the bed as they have Souls” and everyone nods and that’s the accepted metaphysical truth for the next few days
Let’s make this post even longer because I have even more images saved. Next up, we got:
Tsutsumagushi Disease
Chikungunya Fever!
MERS
Pertussis (whooping cough) with a horrifying (almost body horror) headpiece and flute
Dengue Fever, the image of which literally made me stop breathing for a moment when I first saw it
Japanese Encephalitis (as… idols, maybe?)
And Zika Virus (so pretty! and for what???)
And some higher res images of the ones from the video (Legionnaires’ Disease, Viral Gastroenteritis, and Rubella). Unfortunately, I could not fit Rabies because of the image limit.
The lime disease mech is definitely supposed to be a tick
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….
