Masked protesters fly a banner at the very top of the Empire State Building in New York City reading, “When the power of love beats the love of power, the world knows peace.”
we can stop this. not all of it, not immediately, but we can stop this. we can stop the wanton murder of animals and plants, we can heal the planet and ourselves. all the masses have to do is say no more
My people in the Philippines have been getting fucking battered with super typhoons for years, too. Drowning and towns submerged — people losing everything, including my older brother and his family from Typhoon Ondoy/Ketsana in 2009.
the biggest pride event in all of southeast asia (over 300,000 attendees) happened in one of the most conservative countries where same-sex marriage isn’t even legalized. happy pride to filipinos and their unwavering love for their people and country. mabuhay ang mga bading!
this isn’t a 100 year flood, this exact situation happened in 1988
what’s gonna happen is the high RAM prices are gonna lead to sluggish sales until the supply meets the demand
in the meantime tho, several companies who have designed their business model around releasing a new model update every year are going to find it harder to justify why their customers should pay new tech prices for incremental improvements
this could lead to a smaller version of the 1983 video game crash where consumers reject the latest versions in favor of buying up existing stock of older models
this scenario should really only worry you if your name is apple or samsung
If these heatwaves teach us anything, it’s that we need to make our cities greener. Plant more trees. Build more parks. Protect the forests we already have. We need more green spaces.
Physical media will forever be important to me. I used to collect physical media because I loved having the games, movies, and music I cared about on my shelves!
Now I collect it because I don’t trust the industry to keep any of it accessible.
A reminder that the 1994 live-action Flintstones movie literally built a massive, full scale Bedrock city out of real stone and fiberglass in a desert quarry instead of using CGI.