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a reasonable society would base their entire economy around this
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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….
Nobody else has any excuse.
GLORIOUS NERDERY Lego edition
okay, so here's a new info post from the top.
the problem: tumblr is extremely extremely in debt. the current model is not profitable. this is why they are trying to turn the site into a shit clone of every other social media site, so they can attract new users and their money.
solution: not a ton of people can afford a long-term subscriptions like ad-free. however, many of us CAN afford $3 to inflict crabs on another unsuspecting user. (and those that can't, can still enjoy crabs everywhere)
the idea: in the grand traditions of mishapocalypses and goncharovs and tumblr users' obsession with [random inconsequential thing] Days, we create a fund drive/holiday on July 29th, dubbed Crab Day. buy your friends crabs. buy your enemies crabs. blaze posts. post memes. change ur icon. whatever. actually put your money where your mouth is and show @staff that there actually IS profit motive to listen to the current users about what we want this site to look like. (and yes, that means accessibility features too. we currently have zero leverage to demand these features. let's change that.)
i don't know if this will actually go anywhere. worst case scenario, a few of us have fun, tumblr gets a small amount of money, and nothing changes. best case though, we actually provide incentive to keep our stupid hellsite unique.
oh shit, thank you to the person who blazed this! ^^ i really hope the idea catches on, it really could be a lot of fun.
this is so fucking funny, tumblr is like "pwease we need money so so bad"
life actually gets better when you leave the house consistently btw like im serious
if you don’t know where to go, just wander! go to the store and don’t buy anything, go to the library just to sit and do whatever you were going to do at home, go to a park and just walk around/sit outside for a bit (weather permitting, of course)
just put some headphones in and walk around the block a couple times if you really have nothing else to do, just getting a bit of air and change of scenery is so good for you
me the first few weeks of forcing myself to go on daily walks (it gets better tho)
i really need tumblr to learn the concept of “if you physically cannot do this then this post is not talking about you” because jesus christ.
@a-spectacular-pigeon you get it.
Absolu-fucking-lutely. My physical inability to go for a wander is one of the most mentally devastating things that has happened to me, as much as I pretend I’m just an antisocial goblin….I now have a habit of being inside. The last time I WENT outside was for a doctors appointment 6 weeks ago.
There are ways I can go outside, it is just difficult and it is something I need to push myself to do. It is one of the reasons I feel better in the summer, I have a pool outside and can go out and be ACTIVE in it and it makes me feel better.
It is not ableism, as rhe beautiful bastard pigeon says…this is a real problem, it is not ableist to discuss how healthy leaving our space is.
When I say I’ve been literally obsessed with these granny hexagon sweaters lately, I’m absolutely not kidding. I made this one for my friend Rachel, who absolutely loved it, thankfully. She gave me a list of colors for yarn that she was interested in for a sweater, and none of them are actually in this yarn, but I found it and went “Rachel will love this”, so I sent her a photo of it along with all of the other yarns I had found that actually matched the colors she gave me, and this is the one she chose! I’m so glad she did, too, because it’s an absolutely perfect color selection for her, and suits both her and her personality perfectly. However, these photos make me incredibly sad, as they absolutely do not capture the true colors of the finished item, which are far more vibrant.
For this sweater, I continued using the alterations I made to the PassioKnits tutorial linked in my first sweater post, namely altering the structure of the granny stripe sections ever so slightly, and knitting the cuffs of the sweater. I also (accidentally) chained two in the front corners on the sweater border, making them longer and pointier than the other two sweaters I’ve made so far, but I actually like the look, and there weren’t so many rows on the border that they warped the corners too badly, so I decided to leave them as they were instead of ripping and redoing the border. I used approximately seven skeins of Red Heart Super Saver Stripes in Fruity Stripe, a US size K crochet hook for the body, US size I crochet hook for the border, and US size 8 knitting needles for the cuffs of the sleeves.
(P.S. peek under the cut for Loki’s opinion on this sweater)
Creepiest monster thing alive: moves like that
this little girl: 😊☺️😄😄☺️😊🤩
This is so cute omg my heart is going vrooom vroroooooom
PERIOD DRAMA APPRECIATION WEEK 2023 | Day 3 (July 5th): Favorite Costume Design → Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2012-2015) [Costumes by Marion Boyce]
