Barefoot Gen introduction by author Keiji Nakazawa, from the 2004 English edition.

also "ough life-saving essential medical equipment uses so much plastic" in this country you can purchase an artificial ballsack for your pickup truck

"ough watching a show uses so much electricity" on road sides there are giant electrified billboards that do nothing but show you ads

both statements can be true and bad things, they dont cancel each other out. plus i feel like using a carcinogenic material in medical equipment is a little worse than truck nuts

...pretty sure the reason plastic is used in medical equipment is *because* it's the safest cheaply-available material

I don't know very much about chemistry and materials science and the like, so I'm not the best person to set the record straight, but I feel like the plastic conversation has gone off course

Plastic is undeniably a good technological advancement that has greatly improved human lives. It straight up just has characteristics and capabilities that no other material has. Particularly in medicine it's really important to have a material that can be easily sterilized, doesn't break down or corrode when exposed to various fluids and substances, is flexible, doesn't trigger allergies, etc.

The problem is that we're using this miracle material for all sorts of bullshit that could easily be made from something more sustainable

CGI animators should unionize next. normally, their jobs would be too precarious to strike, since studios would replace them without a second thought, but if it's part of this larger general film strike, they might finally have meaningful power to better their working conditions

if CGI animators unionized, it would kill the MCU. straight up. the the entire business model is built on exploiting CGI animators

THEY ARE TRYING!!!!! SIGN THE PETITION TO GET THE DISNEY ANIMATORS' UNION RECOGNIZED

this petition is from IATSE (union), btw! it actually has credibility, unlike most change.org/etc petitions! please sign it!!

My poor lady cat has been going blind, which I realize is more frustrating for her than for me, but her screaming has increased about 200%. She’s always been chatty and good at communicating her needs, but her needs have recently expanded to “I don’t know where I am” and “I don’t know where you are.”

I was going to just leave this in the tags but no, I've seen too many people misunderstand this and it's very simple and easy to explain so I don't know why anyone who shares this fun fact doesn't use this analogy.

so if you took a few leaves and threw them into a blender and pulverize them to as fine a paste that you could they would still be green. this is because chlorophyll has a green PIGMENT in it. now I can't speak to the base color of blue jay feathers so we're just going to talk about blue macaws for this example. If you went and put a Blue macaw feather in a blender and pulverized it to the finest powder that you could you would get black powder. this is because blue macaw feathers have black pigment in them, but they reflect blue light because of a microscopic bubble texture on the surface.

to explain it further, have you ever seen one of those little rainbow hologram things? like how they'll put a holographic Crystal or sparkle pattern on like a Pokemon card?

yeah that motherfucker, if you tried to scrape the top layer of this card off to get the hologram "pigment", you wouldn't get bubkis. in fact if you scrape the top of this card very lightly, the yellow part would still stay yellow because it's yellow because it is PIGMENTED, but the hologram where you scratch it will stop being holographic. now it will still have the pigment underneath it because that is pigmented but the rainbow effect comes from a TEXTURE on the top.

you could even put these kind of holograms on chocolate, are you following? it's a texture!

it's the same reason that bubbles are rainbow colored despite being too thin to see pigment in them.

IT'S A TEXTUREEEEEEE!!!

blue pigment will always be blue, you can crush up a Rose and use the Rose goop to color something else the color of that Rose! leaves, bones, clay, rocks!! that's pigment! disturbing its structure will not change the color because its a PIGMENT!!!

but a blue macaw? a pigeon's neck? a raven's feathers? and a blue jay apparently? that's a texture.

"yeah that's how color works" NO!! bubbles are clear!!! they just happen to have a broad spectrum iridescent TEXTURE, and some bird feathers have a short spectrum of iridescence.

bird texture

HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT ABOUT HOW BIRDS CAN LITERALLY FLY LIKE HOLY FUCKING SHIT THAT'S SO COOL???? LIKE THEY CAN JUST ZOOM AND ZIP WHEREVER THEY WANT GRAVITY BE DAMNED AND THEY'RE ALSO REALLY REALLY FAST???!? COME ON GUYS I CAN'T BE THE ONLY ONE WHO THINKS THAT'S REALLY FUCKING COOL DON'T BE DESENSITIZED TO HOW FUCKING COOL BIRDS ARE

@todaysbird

Plato makes up Atlantis as an allegory and over 2,000 years later people are still looking for it. You might as well be looking for Narnia.

Plato: Luxury and unlimited power are forces that corrupt human beings and lead them to being colonialist and stupid. The gods will punish Athens if we continue to exploit others for our own gain. I have invented this society as a parable to illustrate my point because I tend to use metaphor for a lot of things.

Everyone: But where are you hiding it though

Plato: I’ve purposefully included details like a mud shoal west of Iberia that doesn’t exist and references to a volcanic eruption that we all have cultural memory of as an obvious indication that I made this up. Are you paying attention? It’s a metaphor. I’m using literary references. You can go west of Iberia yourself. It’s not there. I explained where it is and it’s not there. You all know it’s not there. Please stop it with the luxury and exploitation. That’s my main point here.

Everyone: Yeah but where is it though

Plato: Orichalcum is just a fancy looking metal. It’s kinda like fancy copper. I made it up for this fake parable city.

Everyone: So it’s magic, then.

Plato: I want Athens to be a bit more like Sparta.

Everyone: Where’s the magic metal

Plato: I just think that greed is bad, generally. We should stop doing that.

Everyone: Where are you hiding the magic metal???

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Colorized photo of Vincent van Gogh at his home in Arles in 1869.

No it isn’t you lying ass

Other ai giveaways other than the fucked up hands-

Leaves have no form or order- they’re a green mass without reasonable veins or connection points to stems. See the weird bit that crosses Vince’s arm

Same with the yellow flowers tbh they look pasted on and are all the same level of blur despite the leaves being crisply in focus, and several seem to not have stems

The metal in the window has no actual pattern and isn’t continued into the second window

The chunk of rock texture in the middle of the wood next to the window

The folds on Vince’s clothes don’t seem to fall in a natural way and seem excessive, especially on his pants.

Overall the space is… Odd. Where is he? A random corner against a plain blue wall? Why is one wall made of wood and the other has no discernible texture? Why does the stone part have that weird corner and have the foundation so high up in comparison to where Vince’s feet should be? Why doesn’t the stone wall match the geography of its base? What is the fabric thing on the lefthand side that’s conveniently the same blue as the house and jacket?

Anyway, good practice to train your eye for ai generated images

also he was 16 in 1869. didn’t have a house of his own; wasn’t living in Arles yet. he was training to work for art dealers, in The Hague

this is the only known photographic portrait of Van Gogh, age 19 (c. 1872)

a little obsessed with these I won’t lie

Artwork by Kristina Bustamente from 2014, she was a storyboard artist on Family Guy at the time!

GIRLS WITH HORNS IS ABOUT TRANS GIRLS?? I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST FUNNY DEMON COMIC

SCREAMING

I'm sorry to say this but you might actually be kind of dumb

CRYING OVER DICK.

how are there so many of these?

Now that I’ve got some dick, I’m off to bed. Nighty night

okay, so the question less “how is there so much dick in vintage comics” and more “how does melee have scans of all that dick?”

I collect dick pics. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I’m sorry for putting so much Dick on your dash today.

This is a map of the range of all giraffe species. By my count that puts them in just 16 countries out of the 54 in Africa (of which 5 are island countries with no territory on the continental mainland). That's 30%, quite a long way shy of all, and as you can see many of those countries that do have giraffes only have a tiny portion of their territory within giraffes' habitats

Wow, I knew they weren't in "every African country", but I didn't realize just how restricted their range was

Good teachers don't mind saying "I don't know" or that they need to look it up and will get back to you.

Not only that but giraffes in different areas have different patterns and it's so cool

Masai giraffes look cool af

The Masai giraffes are stuntin’ on the heauxs!

Masai Giraffe:

Reticulated Giraffe:

word poll, not about what's ""correct"" but about what has the best vibes

Op you missed rembember

i forgort 💀