I can’t tell you where or how to activate to help solve this. There are politicians, groups, and activists pushing for this in so many ways. I can tell you when, though.
everyone hates orange until they actually see her in context. “oh it’s such an ugly color, too bright!” look at sunsets and autumn, look at campfires and deserts. she’s the most beautiful and special part of the scene. now apologize.
This is why I dislike looking back on the past as if everything has been constantly improving to get us to where we are now
Our cement isn’t as strong as the Romans, our steel isn’t as strong as Damascus steel, we cannot replicate the beauty of a Stradivari violin, we’ve already lost some of the technology that flew Apollo and Gemini to space
And when I live out a suitcase I have to sift through a pile of stuff like a neanderthal
I don’t think that this is a very good way to view the past, things have changed, but a lot of them have changed for a reason and we often tend to view the past through rose tinted glasses. That’s not to say everything that’s being used now is an improvement, but that’s usually not a function of not knowing how, but rather a function of companies doing whatever they can to cut costs and do things cheaply.
To go down the list, many types of concrete we have now is stronger than roman concrete, which we do know how to make thanks to recent advancements in materials fields and research. However, roman concrete has some self-healing properties that coupled with a mostly ideal climate have made it very long lasting. Roman concrete is more durable, but it isn’t stronger. It also doesn’t work well in every climate, and there’s reasons to use it or not to use it.
Damascus steel was great for it’s time and all that, but several types of modern steel well outperform it in any category. Plenty of people have also made modern recreations of Demascus steel, so we can still do that if we feel a need to.
Stradivari violins aren’t actually better instruments than other well-made violins. That’s a long held myth that’s been disproved time and time again by blind experiments from all the way back in the 1800s. In fact, a number of studies have shown that audiences tend to prefer modern violins for having better sound carrying quality. Expert players can’t actually tell apart when playing either. The idea that Stradivari violins have some magic to them is mostly marketing.
We also haven’t really lost technology from the Apollo or Gemini missions. While hardware has been discarded, it’s because it wasn’t useful anymore and for stuff that was useful, most of it was preserved. Almost none of the previous technology would fit in to modern plans and materials, so most of it wouldn’t be of much use anyways. Technology has advanced, and methods of travel have to advance too. Even space travel.
Finally, that motherfucker above would be literally worse than a backpack to have to live out of. It’s a steamer trunk, which means it’s meant to be stored for a long period as you took a steamboat somewhere. They’re very heavy, and good luck trying to get anywhere with that.
If you actually want a suitcase that turns into a dresser, those already exist in the modern day and they’re much easier to use and they don’t weigh 30 lb.
Again, this isn’t to say that everything is rosy in the modern world. But that has very little to do with inability, and a lot more to do with a the profit motives of companies not aligning with the idea of giving people the best possible thing that they are capable of creating. We have the ability to be doing better. It is not beyond us.
some of y’all with printed copies of fanfiction are going to die someday and your books will end up at the secondhand book shop and someone is just going to innocently pick up blorbo/shitto enemies to lovers and when i think of it this way let’s keep printing fanfiction
not going to lie the mature post filter on text posts on my phone is about as useful as a censor bleep in a song where the starting and ending sounds of the word are still clearly audible
man im so glad they put this community label here so i can’t read what it says unless i hit that button. so glad i can’t see any part of the post right now
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