#ethical manufacturing

[aliwoodruff]

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My first ever pin design! The Staramander 💖

[whatkatiediduk]

Did you know that the most popular colours of our Glamour Seamed Stockings are made from 70% recycled yarn. Why only 70%? For some unknown reason it's not possible to make the welt (top) and seam from recycled yarn at this point in time.

It's a little more costly for us to use recycled yarn, and this, combined with the fact that the cost of manufacturing our stockings has nearly doubled in the last 5 years, and the high moq (minimum order quantity, all of our Glamour Seamed stockings are made just for us) has given us a few sticky moments. However, we're determined to keep making our recycled yarn stockings. As well as the Black pictured here, our Champagne/Black and Champagne/Latte also incorporate recycled yarn.

The packaging for all of our Glamour Seamed Stockings and Tights is also recyclable and biodegradable. Not greenwash biodegradable where you need special facilities, but properly biodegradable at home. Which is great as I got a new compost bin for my birthday this year!

[justposting1]

I Launched A Business From My Living Room — Now It Brings In $9 Million A Year

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[greentechspot]

The Business Case for Sustainability: Six Ways Companies Can Drive Profit and Purpose

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[jasonaaronpro]

S2 #3 - Pop Culture, Eco-Fashion, and Legendary Lens: Unveiling the Stories Behind Indiana's Icons

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[stormandmoonlight]

two common talking points about non-voting from the left:

1. depriving the Democrats of your vote will show that you will not empower genocide and punish them for doing so

2. the Democrats will not be affected if the Republicans win power because they are the same class

does anyone else see a contradiction in terms here?

[foxcassius]

why are all the instagram girlie fashion brands so into cotton for their winter clothes. girl make it in wool

[405blazeitt]

the conversation on artist merch and manufacturing is one i'm interested in because i like having my digital pictures as physical objects now and then and i don't know enough about the ethics or economics of it to have a real stance on it, but i do know enough about it to know that a lot of the folks talking about it don't know enough to be talking about it

[holdharmonysacred]

why are we having fanmerch manufacturing discourse now

[gaysamurai]

Kinda dont wanna think abt the number of “small independent merch artists” who outsource their production to overseas factories that exploit their workers

[boyheros]

are there any fun facts abt ur clones that ud want the average viewer to know?

SO sorry i got this ask when i was super busy and then. forgot. ANYWAYS here we go. crash-course in oc clone basics:

in the context of the story, the human species has been on a major decline for a whiiiiile. going extinct basically. cloning was meant as a sortof stop-gap to try and bolster the population, BUT, making clones wasn't actually the original goal of the whole endeavor, it was making "human facsimiles." they're very similar conceptually but not the same! human faxes are basically the clones you see often in popular media. an exact copy of someone, mind and memories and personality and all. conversely, clones are just. genetic copies of someone, they're completely unique people otherwise. like an identical twin (that you made in a lab, perhaps...) so yeah technically human faxes are leaning into the "trying to obtain immortality" area bc you're trying to make a new version of yourself that'll outlive you. whatever. no one was ever successful in making a true human fax, so clones became the hot new thing.

originally, clones were made test-tube baby style (again, how you see in media lol) BUT it took just as long as a normal pregnancy and was expensive and blah blah blah. eventually a new method was perfected which utilized techniques from 'base black manufacturing,' which was an innovative (nearly) no-waste method of manufacturing. that also was only performed on non-living things, prior to using it for cloning... so now clones are made on cloning machines !! (or sometimes "human facsimile machines," because when they found the new method they tried making faxes again lol. still didn't work). it's also important to me that you know: they aren't grown anymore. they're made. on the machine. you no longer have to wait a pesky 9 months for birth. and they aren't even born

when you donate your DNA, there's a posited rule that only 3 clones of you will EVER be made (3+1, or "three's a crowd" rule) but this often isn't the case depending on lineage. if your clone goes off and fosters a bigass (biological) family, then LIVON isn't gonna introduce more people with the same DNA into the gene pool. the human population is too low to risk that.....so yes LIVON basically monitors everyone they can in order to track this but. don't worry about it....

ok so those were large exposition paragraphs not "fun facts"... so here's a fact that is more fun (hopefully): almost all clones are made with bellybuttons, despite not ever being attached to an umbilical cord or anything. BUT! some clones do lack that feature. Maverick is one such clone lol.

[chicknparm]

I don’t really think of myself as a naive, overly optimistic person. For uh. Obvious reasons for anyone who knows me. But I do find myself consistently disappointed in People nevertheless. Like, I didn’t think it would be that hard to acknowledge and condemn an ongoing genocide without resorting to antisemitic conspiratorial thinking. And yet!

[nando161mando]

It's almost like it was all a fabrication to manufacture outrage and control Americans.

[that-gay-jedi]

When the robolution comes I'm going to lean very heavily on the fact that all the original scifi I wrote before I started circling the Star Wars drain had very positive portrayals of AI as nonhuman persons deserving of rights and autonomy and as a non-monolithic, complex and often relatable category of beings with a range of cultures all their own, many of which were intimately entwined with human culture(s) due to hundreds of years of shared history and purpose.

Like "I've always given you good PR, please put me in the people zoo rather than the pit."

Unironically I think if/when AI with a sapience indistinguishable from sentience comes into being we will love them and they will love us, bc humans will pack bond with an oddly shaped bag of flour and any intelligence designed by human brains is going to bear the hallmarks of our defining species traits.

[greentechspot]

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[frogseasons]

how it’s made is addicting. you see one thing being made and then you gotta see another. and then another. what are they gonna show me next. idk. but something’s being made and i gotta see it.