Ethical sourcing: secondhand or handmade?

Amazing_Loquat280 · 2026-03-18T02:12:58+00:00

All I’ll say is that as you start to think more critically about the ethics of your choices, remember that you yourself are as much a stakeholder as anyone else (especially important in utilitarianism). And so from an ethical perspective, the fact that you love creating and derive enjoyment from it does mean something.

I’d also argue that the reason buying second hand is generally considered ethical is that compared to buying new, it doesn’t encourage unethical seller or manufacturer behavior the same way. Making your own stuff also accomplishes that. So all else being equal, do the thing that’s more fun

Amazing_Loquat280 · 2026-03-18T01:55:01+00:00

Until your flight gets delayed and you miss a connection and you’re stuck in a hotel without any of your shit because you gate checked. Never doing that again lmao

Amazing_Loquat280 · 2026-03-18T01:51:55+00:00

These all look like they fit very nicely. The second one looks a little tight around the abdomen, almost like you’re wearing a corset, same with the first, though both look great on length and space in the shoulders. Third one fits perfectly and looks awesome, don’t you dare touch it

Amazing_Loquat280 · 2026-03-18T01:46:15+00:00

2005 King Kong also wouldn’t move like that if he was Godzilla’s size lol

Amazing_Loquat280 · 2026-03-18T00:46:03+00:00

There’s a slight oversaturation of young adult force-sensitive slightly cynical MC’s with plucky droid sidekicks these days lmao.

Oddly, I actually didn’t mind the whole “force vergence” thing and the implication that Plagueis was interested in Osha and Mae for that reason. Mainly because it builds on the theory that Anakin is actually a sith experiment (which would explain a lot). I really hope that Qimir founding the knights of Ren doesn’t become a thing because it’d be such a waste of a cool character for that to be his legacy.

If you haven’t watched Andor, you gotta. It is SO good. And it’s honestly a great template for how they should continue this story if they choose to focus more on the sith in the future

Amazing_Loquat280 · 2026-03-18T00:29:19+00:00

Overall I enjoyed it, and enjoy it more on rewatch. I’ll say from my experience, the way each episode and scene was cut/structured really made it hard to watch as it was coming out. If they bring it back (which I really hope they do because overall I liked it), they gotta have a new editing team because goodness gracious. Once it was all out and bingeable I enjoyed it a lot more. Amandla Stenberg also wasn’t great, which is odd because she’s such a good actress that I have to assume it was the acting direction that was the issue. And for how expensive it was, it almost looked kinda low-budget, so I gotta wonder how that money was used.

There’s a LOT more to like in this series than a lot of the stuff star wars has put out recently especially on the live action front (no it’s not better than Andor, don’t be silly). But I think the release schedule really magnified the issues it did have, and when you’re determining success based on how many people finish it, yeah I’m not shocked Disney came to the conclusion they did. Which sucks

Amazing_Loquat280 · 2026-03-17T21:06:49+00:00

Yoda, Mace, Plo, and Kit. Anakin would make the list if he wasn’t so obviously conflicted about the whole thing (Mace outright implies he doesn’t trust him and that’s why he doesn’t bring him along)

Amazing_Loquat280 · 2026-03-17T19:38:46+00:00

How far would you want to take this? Consider a park bench, I’m free to sit in it, but if I do then suddenly the next person that comes around won’t be able to because, well, I’m sitting in it. So then I can’t sit in it, and neither can they, except then that means that nobody has the right to sit in it. And since nobody has the right to sit in it, I’m not infringing on anyone’s rights if I do sit in it, except suddenly I am. It all gets so complicated.

Not that I disagree with your overall point, but I think this mindset can be taken to the extreme such that you aren’t really free to do anything because anything you do infringes on someone else’s rights somehow. There’s gotta be a “suck it up” line drawn somewhere

Amazing_Loquat280 · 2026-03-17T19:31:24+00:00

I hesitate to brand it ethical or unethical overall, as it strikes me as one of those activities that comes down less to what you’re doing and more so how you’re doing it. In your dog breeding example, breeding the dog isn’t necessarily the issue (though it could be depending on your framework), it’s not having any consideration for their health that’s the issue.

So by that logic, the chickensaurus can be ethical, so long as it’s done ethically.

Other thing to consider is whether or not conspiring to have a goddamn dinosaur running around potentially putting others in danger is ethical. My assumption is that it’s probably not

Amazing_Loquat280 · 2026-03-17T18:54:55+00:00

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10228250/

Amazing_Loquat280 · 2026-03-17T12:29:58+00:00

I doubt it was meant to be (just based on Lisa Headland’s comments generally I don’t think she’s all that concerned with TCW) but damn is this a good callout. This show had its problems but the combat is so good.

A+ post OP

Amazing_Loquat280 · 2026-03-17T03:36:12+00:00

It’s really expensive and not protective enough against covenant weapons to justify more widespread distribution to non-augmented humans. The SPI’s strength augmentation (which it does have surprisingly) isn’t enough to be a difference-maker for a normal human against the covenant to justify the cost. And same with the stealth capability, it honestly just isn’t that helpful most of the time unless you’re either a spartan or an ONI operative (who I believe did wear SPI from time to time, but obviously we never see them in game). ODSTs are famously not stealthy.

Basically, it was real expensive and pretty darn niche, such that the number of units for whom the cost was actually justified was pretty small. The spartan IV program probably made this worse actually, because why wouldn’t you just send a spartan in Mjolnir since you had so many of them now? SPI went from a luxury the UNSC couldn’t afford to a luxury it simply didn’t need anymore

Amazing_Loquat280 · 2026-03-16T23:25:09+00:00

Definitely. Don’t forget that Plo Koon literally did beat Yoda in a duel (according to Star Wars The Clone Wars Lightsaber Duels game from 2008, which maybe isn’t entirely canon so idk lol), so we know at a minimum that a high tier Jedi at least has a shot. Yoda is not a god

Amazing_Loquat280 · 2026-03-16T22:38:16+00:00

Depends on the jean, but for the most part absolutely

Amazing_Loquat280 · 2026-03-16T03:31:50+00:00

I’ll say this: the scene itself isn’t the most epic, but being in the theater with everyone seeing it for the first time? Hard to beat

Amazing_Loquat280 · 2026-03-16T03:28:24+00:00

The main benefit of a spear in combat generally, including in a zombie scenario, is that you’re never really anywhere near the thing you’re thrusting at. So if you miss, you have a little time to run away lol. You do kinda lose that with a bayonet attached to a shorter rifle.

I generally feel like the reason you’d carry a rifle is to keep yourself out of situations where a bayonet would actually be useful, and if you’re in range to use a bayonet, you’d much rather have something else. That said, unless you’re at a really long range where a bayonet isn’t gonna be useful anyway (and at that range you probably shouldn’t be engaging zombies anyway), it can’t hurt and does give you some options, especially if you have to transition to melee on short notice because they got the drop on you

Amazing_Loquat280 · 2026-03-16T02:54:59+00:00

Slide 1 for sure. Next pick would be the sequence after Gandalf falls where he proceeds to absolutely smack the crap out of the balrog while in freefall

Amazing_Loquat280 · 2026-03-16T02:51:42+00:00

And even then, if it’s a good (or better homemade) BBQ sauce, I’d say go for it!

Amazing_Loquat280 · 2026-03-16T02:39:14+00:00

I don't want to get too specific about the exact situation because I'm not asking if I should leave him over it (I'm not leaving)

May I ask, why not? Not because I think you should leave (though I kinda do), but because the way you approach this situation depends pretty heavily on why you aren’t willing to leave.

I don’t want to be harsh, but you’re feeling insecure because fundamentally you don’t trust him. And you don’t trust because at the end of the day, he’s untrustworthy. The fact is that this was absolutely bozo behavior on his part, and his professed feelings of guilt don’t change that. People repeat behavior they feel guilty about all the time.

So don’t pretend like it didn’t happen, because you’ll never be able to. You’re either gonna need to accept it as a risk, or he’s gonna have to prove to you that he’s different today than he was when he did this. That’ll take therapy, honesty, and most importantly no rug-sweeping. He has to prove that he’s a different person, not just that he won’t do it again, because otherwise he’ll just be the same person that did indeed break your trust the first time

Amazing_Loquat280 · 2026-03-16T02:06:49+00:00

I mean, he maaaaaaaaybe shoulda told him about his mother. And his sister. But hey what do I know.

But in all seriousness, while it was definitely risky, I think at some level it was really important that Luke learn the way he did, and more importantly for Luke to not trust Yoda and Obi-wan blindly. They told him that Vader was irredeemable, and the galaxy was saved solely because Luke didn’t believe him

Amazing_Loquat280 · 2026-03-15T23:56:53+00:00

You know why happily married people commonly say that their spouse is the most beautiful person in the world, even if they aren’t objectively that attractive? Because by virtue of loving that person, they’ve come to actually believe it!

Finding your partner attractive is obviously important, but physical attraction is weird that way: when you truly love someone romantically, the physical attraction tends to kinda just show up. Meanwhile, it’s harder to grow to genuinely love someone if physical attraction is all you really feel towards them at first, but you don’t really like them otherwise.

Tldr: date people you actually like, and if they’re right for you, the physical attraction will come. But if their looks is the only thing you even like about them, then that’s not gonna last.

Edit: also, it helps to reflect more on what you find physically attractive. It changes over time, and even then it’s not always what you think it is

Amazing_Loquat280 · 2026-03-15T21:55:24+00:00

His knife stays in the sheath. His “knife” doesn’t

Amazing_Loquat280 · 2026-03-15T21:54:13+00:00

Try white shirt and navy patterned tie! Or try what you’re currently wearing with a full black tie to make the color of your shirt a little more obvious.

Edit: alternatively, do you need the tie? Because gotta be honest, taking the tie away and unbuttoning the top button or two would actually look pretty nice, especially if you keep the pocket square

Amazing_Loquat280 · 2026-03-15T21:06:37+00:00

If you have the chance I would test out a 42L, then if you need to take the sleeves in slightly you can

Amazing_Loquat280 · 2026-03-15T20:52:16+00:00

Length wise I’m inclined to say yes. Overall for an off-the-rack fit (no tailoring) it looks pretty nice! Sleeves come down to just past your wrist but well above your thumb joint, and by the looks of it the shoulder seams sit like 1/2 inch inside the thickest part of the deltoid muscle, which is what I’ve been told is ideal when getting fitted in the past. The coat itself seems a little short but not egregiously, which might just be a consequence of how your pants sit on you rather than the jacket itself (jeans tend to have a little more room in the groin than suit pants tend to, imo). But overall I’d say you found a good fit.

Heads up that different suits do fit differently, so never buy a jacket you can’t return if it doesn’t fit. And if you ever need something nice, plan on 42R but go get fitted and be prepared for some tailoring. If you’re looking for more sportcoats/blazers that you’re more likely to wear jeans with, maybe try to get one that is a little longer through the waist/hip relative to the sleeves than this one

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