there’s a big difference between “food waste” as in “farmers destroy tons of food to avoid exceeding quotas” or “supermarkets throw away this much edible food because it doesn’t sell”
and “food waste” as in “it is not actually within the capacity of humans to perfectly predict and track household food consumption, so a certain amount of food per household inevitably goes bad and has to be thrown out every year”
the idea that food waste is the product of thoughtless consumers rather than corporate greed is really insidious
When someone disagrees with you online and demands you prove your point to their satisfaction by writing a complete and logically sound defense including citations, you can save a lot of time by not doing that.
Bro, I’ve known you for twelve seconds and enjoyed none of them, I’m not taking homework assignments from you.
today I learned that no one knows who really created Digimon and the person who’s credited with it may not be a real person
this is fucking me up bc “we thought humans created it in the 90s but we’re discovering that it maybe created itself” is both a textbook horror plot and the canon of the digital world in like every iteration of the franchise
Fun stuff to add to this:
Tamagotchi and Digimon canonically take place in the same universe. This includes them sharing the same language:
There’s at lease one known Tamagotchi that fell into the Digital World and mutated into a Digimon in order to survive:
AND there’s repeated use of Tamagotchi iconography in Digimon:
Some other fun stuff to keep in mind. According to the anime, the first time Digimon were witnessed in the real world was the Highton View Terrace in 1995, but Digimon weren’t seen again for a long time afterward. But in late 1996, a UFO crashed into the Sumida River, carrying with it Tamagotchi that had fled their home planet after it had become drunk and uninhabitable. The Tamagotchi devices built by a professor and his assistant converted Tamagotchi into data and allowed them to live in Earth’s atmosphere. Bandai picked up the project and started mass producing and selling Tamagotchi as toys for kids. It was nearly a year later when we suddenly got the Digimon virtual pets, using the same framework as the Tamagotchi devices.
Now, I’m not saying that Digimon and Tamagotchi both actually exist, have taken over Bandai, and for years have been using the company as a way of spreading themselves around the world and keeping themselves alive. I’m just saying that’s one conclusion you could probably come to from this information.
