where is the food?
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I’ve been iffy about posting this one, it’s not at all like what I would prefer to make. So…obviously this isn’t just a trans allegory. I mean I would love to be able to be a nightmarish eldritch creature of flesh and metal, but that’s not the main point of these renderings.
I’m tired of insatiable greed dominating the world. I’m tired of being squeezed for more and more while making less and less. I’m tired of not even being able to help everyone I care about, let alone my broader community.
Imagine having an incomprehensible amount of wealth and choosing to increase it further instead of making lives better. I will never understand billionaires or our corporate overlords.
The machine will make this work.
(via saul-tortellini)
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My favouritest sport fact ever is that in 1990s 2 cardiac surgeons watched an f1 race to save the lives of countless kids. The Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH) kept losing the lives of patients after successful heart surgeries. Specifically the 10-15 minutes after a bonefide clinically successful surgery patients would die:
And so the two surgeons filmed a handover after heart surgery and sent it to the Ferrari pitcrew who were told to critique and improve handover process
And from this:
we got this:
The error rate during patien handovers dropped from 30% to 10% with the F1 informed protocol.
I literally love this fact so much because being an pitcrew member is such a thankless job because theyre underpaid and overworked mechanics and they literally saved lives in this instance.
I love this!
And it that it wasn’t a one and done.
The doctors went to the race tracks to watch the car changes and the pit crews went to the hospitals and watched a live transfer and offered suggestions and they kept working with them to improve.
After there was a successful improvement of the most vital metrics of a handover of a patient from surgery to ICU, the pit crews also worked with other hospitals for other procedures and it’s now a whole thing of trying to apply the specialized, streamlined and speedy teamwork and nonverbal coordination of pit crews to other high-risk fields.
This is a perfect example of how two very different fields of knowledge meeting can make a huge leap forward in progress.
(via tauforged)
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This is amazing, and I’m embarrassed to admit something I never considered.
The public restroom is almost inarguably THE WORST possible place to ever have to ‘feel your way’!
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Why does nobody’s ‘Ghibli-inspired’ TTRPG ever look like this?
people like the aesthetic of ghibli and don’t like to think about the anger behind it. You see this when people do ghibli mash ups of things like zelda too.
For Nausicaä, Miyazaki very deliberately made the insects unmarketable, ugly, coarse, inhuman, and scary as opposed to something cute that sings and dances that you could get cute plushies and toys of (I’m sure that exists, but not to the extent of say, totoro). By the end of the movie, you realize the monsters are merely animals that serve the ecosystem, and they do more good for the world than the people who think they’re doing good by eradicating them.
In the US there was a huge push to hunt wolves. Aside from their pelts which could be sold, they’re also killing monsters. They’ll eat you, and your children, and they’re competition for those sweet innocent deer that you also want to hunt for leather and food. Hunt the monsters down.
Except getting rid of them had horrible consequences. The deer population exploded which resulted in starvation and mass migration of wildlife.
The thing is wolves don’t have morals. They don’t lie, steal, cheat, or ponder the consequences of sin. They have feelings and empathy, but they don’t bare ill will to their next meal. They don’t twist the knife in their victim to make sure they feel it. They simply need to eat to live, and that involves killing, and so they kill, and because their lives depend on it, they kill as efficiently as possible, and the deaths, while violent, are quick as opposed to starvation. They don’t have the convenience of going to mcdonalds to remain blissfully unaware about the murder they’re consuming. They kill because they have to kill when they have to kill.
And that’s more or less what Nausicaä is about. It’s not about a princess saving the world and watering her plants and studying while lofi music plays. It’s anger directed at man’s indifference and unwillingness to understand nature, and I cannot stand the anger being wallpapered over for aesthetic.
You don’t really love a field of flowers if you think the insects that inhabit them need to exterminated, and you don’t really love a forest if you’re not livid that people only see value in them once they’re chopped down.
(via saul-tortellini)
