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We have 30 days until the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) laws are rescinded. This is the 50-year bedrock of American conservation. Normally, these actions take years but the administration has provided 30 days for public comment gutting clean water and clean air. Drop what you’re doing, before you make any more calls or read any more social media posts, please populate the Federal Register with dissent.

A. Go to https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/02/25/2025-03014/removal-of-national-environmental-policy-act-implementing-regulations

B. Click on the green rectangle in the upper right corner ("SUBMIT A PUBLIC COMMENT") .

C. Fill in your comment, and info at the bottom, and SUBMIT COMMENT.

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Yearly Lent reminder: if you have an actual illness or condition that makes it dangerous to participate in a fast you are exempt from the fast altogether and should simply offer up another penance in its place.

Ash Wednesday is tomorrow.

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Capitalism has run out of people to grind into dust. Now it's coming for your public dollars.

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Can you give me some recommendations for ethical places to buy books online? There is a single book store within 2 hours of me. I visit them frequently but their selection is pretty limited. Similar problem with the sole library in the area and they no longer do exchanges with other libraries in the state.

man I don't know, I hardly ever buy books let alone online. usually I just use thriftbooks, or bookshop if I want/have to buy new. no idea how ethical those are or frankly how you are quantifying ethical book buying

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"aros can still date!!": boring. tired. overused. frequently used to make aros look more palatable and acceptable to amatonormative society.

"alloros can still stay single!!": fresh. new. exciting. hearing it could change many people's lives for the better regardless of romantic orientation

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Feels like a good time to remember that most Americans did NOT, in fact, vote for Trump.

75M voted for Harris

2M voted third-party

89M did not vote at all.

Overall, 166M Americans did not vote for Donald Trump. 77M did.

He won the popular vote by less than 2%. It was not a landslide. And he probably just won the Electoral College by two states. So there's no "America wanted this." He won by a slim margin, AND we know there's nuance involving massive interference from Elon Musk and the usual misinformation campaign run by Fox News every election.

Mostly anecdotal evidence: While most third-party voters were right-leaning, most non-voters are left-leaning. This is why democrats always have a "voter turn out" issue. If democrats don't like the democratic pick, they just don't vote. Contrary to that, republican voters pretty much have no standards and show up to vote for anything the RNC puts in front of them, even if they hate it.

And I'm NOT excusing people for not voting. They deserve what they get just as much as those who voted for Trump directly. THIS^ is what we meant by "not voting is voting for Trump." Yet again,'did not vote' could've won if it were a candidate.

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For those who needed to hear it today

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My brother, who does not like D&D, loves Dungeons and Daddies.

Looking for Actual Play suggestions. I've watched Critical Role, and Dimension 20. Not looking for Vampire, it's not my jam, but other WoD is fine. Doesn't need to be D&D, just needs to be fun and interesting.

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Au where Goncharov and Andrey survive everything, grow old together and sit on a street all day somewhere in the south of Europe

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twilight princess sillies

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Zelda in a dress from the Elie Saab Spring Summer 2020

Because it’s beautiful

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president zelenskyy is a stronger man than me because if two ignorant and deluded men like trump and vance started demanding i say please and thank you and calling me disrespectful like im a naughty child instead of a very traumatised and frustrated man trying to save his country from putin id have put them both in the ground with a single fucking punch

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Mad about politics again

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Okay let's talk about Kingdom Hearts and sacrifice.

There's a lot of stories where someone sacrifices themselves, but then gets brought back. And sometimes it feels right, and other times it hits weird. Kingdom Hearts is one of those stories that gets it right for me. But why does it work? The obvious answer is bias, but I think there's some other stuff at play.

1. Steeped into the world building of kh is the thought that death is not that permanent. There's Nobodies and Heartless, and they're dead but not exactly. And they could come back. It's very hard to die all the way in kh

2. The magic system of kh is pretty loose. Somethings have rules. Somethings have multiple methods. Somethings we know can do stuff, but we don't know how it works. So in this landscape pretty much anything could happen.

When Sora is brought back by Kairi in kh1 it feels pretty cheap at first. Oh he can just...come back? The game does explain it but we don't really understand what that means since it's game one and this is the first we're seeing it in action. (Princess of light and the connection of the heart) The idea that you can call someone out of the darkness through the bonds of the heart does come up in other kh games! This isn't a throw away idea to bring Sora back.

Something else is the way it effects the story. Sora dying and coming back is like a second starting point for the series. It doesn't just give a happy ending yay he's not dead! No it snowballs into multiple games. Whole characters are created and the story gains complexity. If Sora hadn't been called back by Kairi, Roxas would probably have been a more normal Nobody and not a person of his own right. There would have been no Castle Oblivion, and what would happen to Namine? Xion probably wouldn't exist.

Also often the sacrifice isn't Necessary. There were other routes that could have been taken, but the characters choose this instead, which makes a statement about them. (The power of Waking could have gotten Kairi's heart out, but Sora doesn't know this and doesn't stop to find another option. Ventus would rather put an end to himself. Axel burning himself up all at once.)

Axel coming back is funny because it feels like a trick played on him. "haha thought you could die your way outta this one, guess what there's a round two."

I'd love to talk about Roxas and Xion's return, but I still haven't seen the end of kh3. So I guess the best I can say is that them coming back shouldn't feel contrived (same as Ventus, Aqua, Terra) because it's been a goal out characters are working towards, same as bringing Sora back in kh2. There's build up to it!

Kingdom Hearts is riddled with sacrifice, some moments bigger than others. It's very fascinating to watch, pretty much every character has had their moment.

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Protesters at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul, Minnesota on March 4, 2025. Taking place on the afternoon of President Trump’s first address to joint session in congress, they are protesting the actions of the Trump Administration and Elon Musk’s involvement. The protest was organized along with others around the nation part of the “50501 protests”. This is the first of two planned protests. Another is planned for Saturday at the State Capitol.

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You think “oh it would be useful to learn how to identify my thrifted yarn and clothing” and before you know it you’ve been recruited by fiber witches giving out their spells willy nilly, again