this is an example of defamiliarization, where something totally normal, conventional, and ordinary - like honkwiching - is taken and described as something that sounds weird and foreign
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
Truuuuuuuueeeeeee, other large sources of food waste:
- Restaurants. The fact that the rich expect restaurants to have every article on their menu available at all times means every restaurant has far more food than they need and throws a lot of that shit out.
- Big inhuman organisations with intense bureaucracy. Think hospitals, schools, prisons, refugee camps and the army. Organisations that provide food for a very large group of people but are not allowed (and/or can’t be bothered) to give that food away if there is too much of it.
Some of the most spectacular food waste I’vepersonally witnessed was an army training camp that threw away 250 sealed lunchboxes because the training ended one day early, and a refugee center than threw away over 100 loaves of bread while people in the center where hungry because regulations stated that every refugee got two slices of bread for breakfast.
And I’m supposed to feel guilty about half a tomato rotting in the garbage? Nah, that’s not food waste. That’s just life.
Shifting the guilt to the consumer is an intentional marketing ploy. The same was done when soda companies switched from bottles to cans
Originally soda machines had a place for you to return your bottle which the company would collect, sanitize, and re-use. Consumers paid a deposit when they bought the soda, then got it back when they dropped the empty bottle in the slot. Bars and restaurants also had to pay the deposit and redeem the bottles for a refund
Then companies decided it’d be cheaper to use disposable aluminum cans. Soda is something people often consumed in public places like parks and in front of stores. Increased public trash led to a litter problem. Environmentalists pressured the soda companies to fix the problem by bringing back the deposit and recycling programs. Instead, the companies started anti-liter campaigns that placed the guilt wholly on the consumer
This was decades before curb-side recycling existed. Recycling plants were few and far between, and consumers would have to save up cans then cart them to one of these facilities to recycle them, which few individuals had the time and transpiration to do. The ad campaigns led to people demanding more public garbage cans, which did reduce liter, but those were purchased and maintained at city expense and the contents went to landfills. It also led to the general public believing littering and landfill problems rested squarely on the shoulders of consumers even though the corporations had a perfectly good recycling system that they could have continued
Big business wants you to blame yourself and each other for problems they caused, and they’d rather spend money on guilt shifting ad campaigns than use that money for something good
even though doomfist is clearly a master tactician who can think quickly and find openings and weaknesses in his enemies in seconds and is said in his bio to be charismatic and intelligent, how long do you think it’ll be until the fandom reduces him to a hot-headed, angry mess who just likes punching things
I give it three days, though probably less.
I’ll never see Doomfist as a punch happy villain because of what I saw in his trailer. To me, Doomfist is a smart villain. I love the way he takes out Tracer.
Tracer is able to dodge the car Doomfist throws at her.
In this brief moment he sees that Tracer has the superior speed and agility, but the drawback is that her attacks are nothing to him. In the last frame of this gif you can tell Doomfist has figured out how Tracer moves and how she does it.
He swipes at her. We’ve seen how Doomfist attacks. His punches are direct, straightforward, and precise. To make a swipe is not something he would do without purpose. That swipe was his way of forcing Tracer to evade by using her blink ability. When she teleports, Doomfist doesn’t look to where she was in confusion. That’s something mindless goons do. Instead, he immediately reaches for where he KNOWS Tracer will reappear and without hesitation destroys her chronal accelerator. He knew this is the source of her power.
The detail of him just standing there as she flickers out of time is amazing. Doomfist doesn’t care about the fallout of his actions. He saw an opponent he needed to beat, he figured out her weakness, and he took advantage of it. Tracer has fallen, and like Doomfist says at the end of his trailer, she will now be forgotten.
this person breaks it down really well and like if you’re having a hard time figuring out how you should write doomfist it wouldn’t hurt to read breakdowns like this and thinking about how his actions in this video reflect on his characterization and personality
like winston, doomfist is very smart and very large and knows how to use both
I am Silver Tongue, I am an artist. I have many characters and you can check out my art in the art tag. I occasionally practice witchcraft though I don't do anything too complicated. I am girl 2 and don't know what else to put here.
