She is correct
rowantheexplorer
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.
apurplefriend
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….
Nobody else has any excuse.
That's because in older generations, milk was framed as a stupid children's drink for children, so teens and adults didn't drink it. After all, a cool 17-year-old doesn't want to look like a BABY in front of her even cooler friends! This was especially true for girls and women of the time, who might also stop drinking milk in an attempt to lose weight.
As a result, practically an entire generation developed osteoporosis and other health problems due to a lifelong lack of Vitamin D and calcium. Ask any woman you know over 50 and she'll probably have a story like "oh yeah no one drank milk and I really regret it because a light breeze will break all my bones." For one example, my mother-in-law has a calcium deficiency that is affecting her health. But because she hasn't drank milk in like 60 years, it's both hard to get in the habit of having a glass, plus the texture is kind of gross to her since she's not used to it. Which in turn makes it harder to fix the deficiency.
So go back to the early 90s, and combine public health officials desperate to prevent another generation of vitamin-deprived kids, 90s parents looking for alternatives to soda to give their kids, and dairy farmers around the US concerned with their low sales, and you get the Got Milk campaign.
(Please note this is just me giving historical context to weird retro ads. I'm aware that there's other ways to get nutrients in your diet, and I'm not saying anyone HAS to drink cow milk specifically)
Tony Hawk's secret weapon.
Before the internet, librarians were the gatekeeper of knowledge. For your reading pleasure, the New York Public Library released a cache of queries and conundrums called in from the 1940s to the 1980s.
So the James Webb telescope just took a picture of a galaxy that is 29 million light years away.
If that wasn't cool enough NASA decided to peel away all the cosmic dust in order to see the bones of the Galaxy itself.
AND IT'S BREATHTAKING
im dying over this thread of algorithmically-generated/otherwise low-effort Kindle covers
don't forget
grossly inappropriate copy of animal farm that is on my nightstand at this very moment
...When you're getting ready to design a book cover and you're not sure what you do is going to be good enough.. it's always reassuring to see something like [all of the above].
I thought this might be fun for you to talk about because I know I love talking about my stuff, and if you don't want to talk about it I will just look it up, but since I see you post it all the time, I'll ask: What is Fallen London?
HI VERDANT OH MY GOD YES I WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT.
fallen london is a free browser game that takes place in late 1800s london after the city fell through the surface of the earth in the 1860s into a vast impossible cavern beneath the ground called the neath. the sun and other stars are essentially the gods of this universe who control what is and what isn't, and since the neath isn't exposed to sunlight, the rules of the sunlit world don't apply, which results in things such as death being impermanent and more of a minor inconvenience than anything else. in fallen london, you play as someone from the surface who comes down into the neath for whatever reasons they might have, and you fuck around and find out.
that's a very basic summary of it. there's a lot more to go over, a lot of which i don't even know yet because i haven't been in the fandom for very long, but i am obsessed with it right now (which i'm sure you can tell). there are some other fun details i could add even to that paragraph, like how it's currently the third year of 1899 because the empress decided london just wasn't going to enter the new century, and how hell is right next door and there are devils casually walking around the streets, but i don't want to overcomplicate things. it's pretty interesting, but it's also pretty fucked at times, just as a warning. this game will be a horror game if and when it wants to be
there are other games in the same universe that are paid on steam (sunless sea, sunless skies, mask of the rose) but i don't own any of those (yet) so i'm not gonna comment on them too much. sunless sea has you exploring the massive underground ocean in the neath called the unterzee as the captain of a ship, sunless skies takes place in a "possible future" where london discovers space travel and you get to explore space, and mask of the rose is a dating sim/murder mystery that takes place right after the fall of london and shows how its people react and adjust to their new lives in the neath.
also, if you've ever seen this before:
this is from fallen london's character creation screen.
also also, the stupendium wrote a twelve minute song about it, and it's one of my favorite songs ever.
i highly recommend it if you're interested :]
I feel like practicing any skill would be way more fun if I could have a lil level increase thing that pops up in front of me every time I do good like in Skyrim
“Push ups increased to level 5”
“Writing dialogue increased to level 37”
“Coping mechanisms (healthy) increased to level 18”
addicted to saying "ill definitely check that out" about things that i will definitely forget to check out
oh okay. heart steps right out of my chest and falls down the stairs
Pretend, for example, that you were born in Chicago and have never had the remotest desire to visit Hong Kong, which is only a name on a map for you; pretend that some convulsion, sometimes called accident, throws you into connection with a man or a woman who lives in Hong Kong; and that you fall in love. Hong Kong will immediately cease to be a name and become the center of your life. And you may never know how many people live in Hong Kong. But you will know that one man or one woman lives there without whom you cannot live. And this is how our lives are changed, and this is how we are redeemed.
What a journey this life is! Dependent, entirely, on things unseen. If your lover lives in Hong Kong and cannot get to Chicago, it will be necessary for you to go to Hong Kong. Perhaps you will spend your life there, and never see Chicago again. And you will, I assure you, as long as space and time divide you from anyone you love, discover a great deal about shipping routes, airlines, earth quake, famine, disease, and war. And you will always know what time it is in Hong Kong, for you love someone who lives there. And love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time and, furthermore, to win.
—James Baldwin, The Price of the Ticket
Truth
Naw, LET HER COOK!
THE REAL QUEEN OF RAP!!!!
Leaving this in the tags was criminal
by far the funniest thing you can say immediately after winning the NBA finals
for those of you who don't follow basketball, this guy is the best player in the world right now
#basketball#I LEARNED THIS LORE I LEARNED THIS LORE#DUE TO OUR STAR WARS CHAT MELTING DOWN INTO ESPN SPORTZONE#so jokic has been giving these vibes for his team's ENTIRE championship run up to and INCLUDING after the win#at the press conference afterwards (bear in mind he has just won the most PRESTIGIOUS PRIZE in all basketball)#he said to the reporter 'the job is done now we can go home 😐'#and then in the morning presser after someone asked if jokic was excited for the parade#he was like 'parade? when is parade? no no - i need to go home' and put his head in his hands#AND THEN THE PARADE HAPPENED AND THE TEAM WAS PLIED WITH COPIOUS CHAMPAGNE AND ADORATION OF DENVER POPULACE#jokic got on the mike after several Champagne (TM) applications#and said 'HELLO DENVER I KNOW I TOLD I DIDN'T WANT TO STAY ON PARADE BUT I FUCKING WANT TO STAY ON PARADE THIS IS THE BEST'#(yes that is a verbatim quote you can CHECK me on it)#that night the entire team went to a club and jokic got a round of this special plum vodka for the table#it apparently DESTROYED them all bc the next morning one of his teammates did an IG live from his hotel bed#it was super dark and you could see like half the poor dude's face smushed against the pillow#and he said in the most Sickly and Hungover Voice Imaginable#'i want you all to know...this is nikola's fault...he did this to me...#i'm never drinking again...it was that serbian shit...nikola did this to me...' (via @takiki16)
this narrative needs to be exposed to the world and not hidden in the tags. long live star wars espn sportzone chat.
#so a of all the nuggets are the hometown team so of course I gotta love them#2) obviously my brother really likes Jokic#iii. I became jokic’s fan the second I saw that interview where he was disappointed about not going home yet#he wins most relatable sportsball player imo#also he really is just STUPID good at basketball#his numbers are insane.
I love seeing list memes where someone makes a "le cool people vs le cringe" and they obviously skew it so they barely scrape by into the cool kids club
You just KNOW this dudes 5'11"