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Cake day: August 5th, 2023
  • SirSamuel@lemmy.worldtoaww@lemmy.world•This is a PAINTINGEnglish
    5·
    1 month ago

    {{{{hugggs}}}}

    to accomplish a goal everyone needs two things, the desire, and the circumstances. Desire is internal, but circumstances are usually out of our control. It sounds like your circumstances are challenging. You might not be able to do what you wish you could, but you’re still beautiful. I didn’t know you, but I bet your tastes are killer

  • SirSamuel@lemmy.worldtoaww@lemmy.world•This is a PAINTINGEnglish
    11·
    1 month ago

    Man I really feel this

    I like this quote from Ira Glass, which sometimes helps:

    Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer

    There’s more, but this is the core bit. It helps me because when I’m spiraling I can at least remember, yeah, my tastes are killer. My tastes kick ass

  • SirSamuel@lemmy.worldtoScience@mander.xyz•Transparent paper-based material can hold boiling water and degrade in deep ocean in under a year
    4·
    3 months ago

    I think you missed the second part of my response.

    Lemme spell it out more explicitly. The majority of voting humans will not accept a world without single use plastics. This is because they are dumb as shit. If an alternative is presented that is functionally the same the masses will more readily accept a ban on petroleum based single use non-biodegradable plastics (paper replacements are not functionally the same. see paper straws). Now I don’t want to get bogged down in pedantry, so let’s keep this broad.

    Packaging materials, coffee cup lids, shrink wrap, the list goes on. The world is addicted to cheap throwaway plastics and they will need to be weaned off or the petroleum lobby will just rile up the majority and regulation will fail. This is what I’m saying. Will the alternative have it’s own problems? Absolutely. The hydrophobic coatings they’ll put on food containers will give people cancer. Your scenario at the top is very probable, or something like it. But good luck convincing them to jump straight to sustainability.

    Hell, I’m typing this on a device made of materials mined by children and assembled by political prisoners. And when it breaks, I’ll go buy another, because I need it to work. If you’ll excuse me, I’m gonna go drink until I’m not thinking about this anymore