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Ruffles the mekanik

I’m gonna stop counting the days cause i can’t draw stuff every day consistently anyway lol I keep saying this every other drawing but im really happy with this one haha

cad-comic

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Studying sustainability has taught me that the answer to things like “is it better to use paper or plastic bags?” always ends up being something like “we would need to perform an extremely in depth study on the entire life cycle of both types of bags from virgin material collection to product recollection, compare things like amount of product each type of bag can carry, material usage per bag, how frequently double-bagging is occurring, and take into account a ridiculous number of factors down to the fuel efficiency of the trucks that transport them and even after all that we would have to try to find a way to compare whether the higher carbon emissions of producing and transporting paper bags is better than the fact that the plastic bags will be plastic bags for the next thousand years. And at the end of the day all this research would ultimately not be particularly useful because our waste collection streams in the US are so fucking bad it’s depressing.”

And then someone will ask about reusable bags and you’d have to do the study again only to reveal that you need to use the reusable bag like a couple thousand times to offset the carbon emissions it takes to make the reusable bag and make it worth it over disposable bags and that’s not taking into consideration bags breaking before then or being forgotten about completely.

The answer always leads to “it’s incredibly complicated but our current practices are so terrible we would need a full scale restructuring of our economy and practices to such a degree that can literally never happen because our government is lobbied by the people who make money off of said unsustainable practices.”

So the answer to “paper bags or plastic bags?” is that we need to destroy capitalism

iheartvelma

When you look at things from a systems perspective, you find cruft - old inefficiencies based on bad science or limited data or assumptions that are no longer true.

“Paper or plastic” elides the real questions, like:

Why do I have to own a car to drive to a big grocery store?

Why can’t I live in walking distance to a small grocery store?

Why can’t we all use cargo bikes?

Why am I behind the wheel of a large automobile?

How do I work this?

Is this my beautiful house?

Is this my beautiful wife?

Would I be better off living in a shotgun shack?

Am I right, or am I wrong?

My God, what have I done?

guooey

collection

ms-demeanor

Well well well, if it isn’t the consequences of me saying “sure, no problem” several weeks ago and forgetting about it in the intervening time.

ms-demeanor

I apparently volunteered to dogsit a husky for a week.

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She has commandeered Tiny Bastard’s desk nook and bed.

ms-demeanor

Normal images to text your cousin.

catfindr

plushav

SEMO Softminis Mallard Duck

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how she likes to use her face to come in

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denburrito

Hello

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those is mcdonalds jeans?

ynfynytscrolltbh

Fun fact: those McDonald’s jeans are part of the standard uniform here in Colombia. I’ve tried at least 16x to ask where they source them, if I can buy them from the manager, even going McDonald’s not to order food but just to ask for the jeans. I asked someone high up in their marketing dept here to see if maybe they know which company sourced them, and still couldn’t get my hands on a pair. Apparently employees only get one pair per year. They’re slightly high-waisted, they taper very slightly, they’re always kind of high water at the bottom, and they’re the perfect light jean color. They’re not stiff, they’re not that stretchy, they’re the perfect denim material. They come with a cloth belt that’s either yellow or turquoise, and the stitching on the M is almost sensual. I will not give up

lolt64

theres a hourse in the dirve through

lazyleafeon

[image description: a comic starring and narrated hornet from hollow knight. In the first page she says “I fell asleep in the beasts den where my mother used to lie, and dreamt that I was back at the white palace.” She goes from lying in the beasts den, to staring out a palace window.

The second page reads, “I was looking for something in my old room, although I couldn’t remember what, but I ended up in throne room instead, and found the corpse of a cowardly creature.” She leaps into the air with her needle, and finds the corpse of the pale king sitting on his throne.

The third page reads, “when I had reached my room, I found the hollow knight seated at the window.” The hollow knight is pictured at the window, covered with the infection. Hornet narrates, “their shallow breathing gave way to the infections light, and I woke up at my mothers grave.” End ID]

family reunion