The children's toy has accurate geopolitical knowledge in line with the official position of the United Nations and most states on Earth including the US government's public stance
Labubus are emblematic of overconsumption in 2025 but they're also impossible to produce without a high technology base. You need to mine oil, refine it, produce plastic, produce polyester fur, produce vinyl, produce pigments, produce injection moulding and all the automated machinery around it, which means silicon crystals, wafer production, photo etching, and so on. You need to be able to produce all these components and you need custom machines and skilled workers to construct a labubu. It's a worthless garbage toy but it's also a monumental challenge to build.
In Scandinavian countries some labor unions will up and own a bunch of little summer cottages and timeshare them as a union benefit. 5 years of service with the union? Free week in the country
Yeah, there's been complaints about hogs just looking at the speedometer while keeping the drive wheel off the ground and giving fines for going overspeed
There's a lot of stuff like that. In computer science, unexpected program errors are called "bugs" because the very first unexpected program error was due to a moth getting into the punch card system of an early computer.
QWERTY layouts persist in keyboards because they were copying typewriters. Typewriters were QWERTY to reduce the risk of colliding typebars by making common letters distant from each other, an intentional inefficiency.
Until 2001, US stocks were priced in dollars and sixteenth fractions, because the US stock system was based on the 1600s Spanish system, which used pieces of eight (1/8ths of a doubloon).
Historic relic. The prior system to metric in medicine was the apothecary system and it used a standard called barleycorn as its unit. One grain of barleycorn was approx 64mg, and the standard dose of aspirin was 1.25 grains, or 81mg. Now 81mg hangs around as an in-joke.
Get RAM first before it spikes worse. I'll be real, modern games aren't that much more demanding than 10 year old games if you want those 10 year old games at ultra settings and the modern ones at medium settings. A used or refurbished GPU would suit basically anyone's gaming needs just fine nowadays.
I think the writing/narrative has no impact and is entirely secondary to the visual aspects of the films. The visual aspects are absolutely groundbreaking and seriously advanced the state of the art of filmmaking.
Like, they've got someone who's job is to build a Navi conlang, which is a wasted effort if they're all speaking English regardless, but then they're also rendering water so perfectly it's indistinguishable from reality and crossing past the uncanny valley to have fully CG photorealistic characters.
The game spends a lot of time and writing investing in the relationship between the player character and Delilah, a woman staffing another firewatch tower. At the end they both have to evacuate due to a growing wildfire, and never actually meet. Delilah is wracked by guilt over past actions, the player character is only staffing a tower because he's running from his responsibilities (wife with early onset dementia). Their trauma bonding over the radio was never going to develop into something more because they couldn't keep running from their lives
Eastern Europeans, Irish, Italians, Greeks, Moorish Spanish. Really anyone with body hair or the wrong kind of accent