Leo's Blog Discussion Mega-Thread

[Natasha Tori Maru]

Leo you judas - as if no TIE Fighter 

*spits*

[OmniNaut]

I just sold all my LEGO, was in storage for 25 years, it is an amazing toy for teaching children creativity, I played the hell out of it. It was played once or twice by my Nephew after I put it in storage. But teenagers don't care for that stuff so much anymore. 

The funny thing is I sold it to adults reliving their childhood. Pirates, trains, space, medieval. Just people trying to hold on materialistic childhood memories. 
LEGO knows it buy selling the special collector kits for enormous money to adult children. If there's is anything relative in pop culture LEGO will make a set out of it now (limited edition of course), and people will buy it. Suckers.

No creative thinking anymore, the whole reason why LEGO was created anyway, stimulating creativity.

JK Brickworks can make nice things though.

I have outgrown my need for material things, I burned through that karma a while ago already. Getting gifts as a child, buying many things as an adult. I had 2 cars, home cinema setup, game consoles, the lot. Then you realise, it's just fluff. I sold it all including the TV. I only bought some good quality Hifi and speakers for music, because listening to music was still important to me.

Edited December 5, 2025 by OmniNaut

[OmniNaut]

@Leo Gura Chinese LEGO not for the smallest children.

Some "Lego-like" toys made in China may contain toxic materials due to lower manufacturing standards, such as potentially hazardous inks and phthalate-contaminated plastic.

[Leo Gura]

11 minutes ago, OmniNaut said:

@Leo Gura Chinese LEGO not for the smallest children.

Some "Lego-like" toys made in China may contain toxic materials due to lower manufacturing standards, such as potentially hazardous inks and phthalate-contaminated plastic.

Everything is made in China these days.

[OmniNaut]

18 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Everything is made in China these days.

But in Europe at least there are regulations, so low quality materials from China are not allowed to be sold if they form a health hazard. By importing directly from China you don't know the toxicity of the plastic unless you yourself will do toxicity testing. I don't see many people doing that.

Edited December 5, 2025 by OmniNaut

[OmniNaut]

Created a separate topic about Iraq's tourism development. 
I was thinking about making a topic already for a longer time.

Edited December 5, 2025 by OmniNaut

[Daniel Balan]

@Leo Gura owning dogs and cats ain't conformity. I own 3 dogs now because I live in a area with a lot of thiefs. The dogs bark and discourage the thiefs from entering on my property. I found all the dogs I had abandoned on fields as small puppies, and I brought them home to protect my property. I also have 2 cats now. Without the cats my household and barns will be full of big rats and mice that would destroy my house and my crops. I have these pets because they help me at survival, not because I follow like a sheep what others are doing.

[Leo Gura]

@Daniel Balan Quote #313 is for you.

[Nemra]

48 minutes ago, Daniel Balan said:

I have these pets because they help me at survival, not because I follow like a sheep what others are doing.

You can be non-conformist even if you don't own them for the reasons you mentioned.

You can just want to have them because you're fascinated by them and love them.

[Nemra]

I think that most people drink coffee for conformist reasons.

Plus, it can be so addictive. It is for me.

Edited December 5, 2025 by Nemra

[Daniel Balan]

26 minutes ago, Nemra said:

I think that most people drink coffee for conformist reasons.

Plus, it can be so addictive. It is for me.

This is also BS. I drank coffee only when I worked night shifts, now I work day shifts and I never drink coffee.

[Daniel Balan]

1 hour ago, Leo Gura said:

@Daniel Balan Quote #313 is for you.

I analyzed myself and I proudly say that I do nothing out of conformity except qouting you on my BlueSky profile. Sometimes you say things that resonate with me so deeply that I find myself almost unconsciously copying the phrase that impacted me and pasteing it on BlueSky.

[Nemra]

7 minutes ago, Daniel Balan said:

This is also BS. I drank coffee only when I worked night shifts, now I work day shifts and I never drink coffee.

I wasn't specifically referring to you.

[Natasha Tori Maru]

You could consider we bred dogs to bond with us from their original wolf form. We made dogs conform to humans over the span of 30,000 years.

By conform in this sense, I mean to 'fit in'. For safety. Tribalism. Survival.

We have probably somewhat genetically imprinted ourselves into conformity by  default owning them (assisting them with survival and turning them to our will). As the bond is now a instinct: dogs literally live to serve and work with their humans. And anyone who has owned a dog knows there is some deeper bond going on than what shows on the surface.

Owning one as a pet - the dog serves our needs for love, affection, attention, play, bonding. 

Owning one on a farm is still a dog serving a humans need as service animal. Similar to guide dogs.

Fine lines of distinction.

 

Edited December 5, 2025 by Natasha Tori Maru

[Nemra]

It is conformist to act non-conformist ways while criticizing people of not being non-conformist and hating them, yet live with them who have values which threaten your life.

Edited December 5, 2025 by Nemra

[UnbornTao]

Seeing conformity as negative or undesirable is conformity, as is wearing clothes 🧐

Edited December 5, 2025 by UnbornTao

[Husseinisdoingfine]

Cigarettes really are pure conformity. No one would smoke unless there was a decades long marketing campaign and it was baked into the culture.

[Husseinisdoingfine]

4 hours ago, Nemra said:

I think that most people drink coffee for conformist reasons.

I completely disagree.

I drink coffee for no other reason than I love it.

[Nemra]

3 hours ago, Husseinisdoingfine said:

I completely disagree.

I drink coffee for no other reason than I love it.

If you observe, you will see that coffee is ingrained in most cultures.

When you go to someone's home, they offer you coffee.

When people have dessert, coffee is in their minds by default.

People in my culture are some of the most obsessive coffee drinkers. They often drink more than three times a day!

[Leo Gura]

The British and their fucking tea.