#executed review

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

i have so many remarkably creative ideas. would totes destroy me and any other carbon-based-lifeform if any of them actually happened but like

[saywhat-politics]

If you pick through Donald Trump’s parade of executive orders upon taking office on January 20, you’ll discover many that revoke orders made by Joe Biden. But in one, Trump dug even further back: He revoked an executive order issued by Jimmy Carter in 1977, nearly half a century ago.

Carter’s order gave the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), a branch of the White House, the authority to issue binding regulations governing how federal agencies must comply with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Trump, by revoking it, takes away that power from the CEQ.

This may seem rather technical, but Trump in effect set off a process that could lead to very meaningful changes in the way the federal government handles environmental reviews for everything from oil pipelines to solar farms to highways to light rail systems to national parks.

NEPA is a law that governs federal agencies, telling them how and when to review the environmental impacts of federal projects. It is enforced, however, through private action: Individuals, companies, environmental groups, and so on can sue federal agencies for failing to conduct sufficient NEPA review, and courts can and do demand more review in response, delaying or killing the underlying project under review.

To the law’s advocates, this provides a powerful method for conservationists and average citizens to fight back against polluting projects near them; the Natural Resources Defense Council calls NEPA the “environmental Magna Carta,” citing cases where it’s protected communities from water-contaminating drilling projects, or blocked oil pipelines that enable greenhouse emissions.

To critics, including business groups generally skeptical of regulation but also many renewable energy developers whose projects are often subject to NEPA, the law causes pointless delays to beneficial projects, including ones necessary to building the clean energy needed for rapid decarbonization, and must be reformed if the US is to tackle climate change seriously.

[h20milk]

✦ don't you want to be changed? to be molded into someone who is loved? ✦

[dollerinna]

Very late to the conversation abt s4, but as a Noir girlie, I feel like this must be said 😤

(SPOILERS BELOW)

I did NOT like how there was little to no substantial development surrounding Noir this season. Instead, they reduced my mans into a comic relief character, which don’t get me wrong, I do enjoy sometimes, but don’t we already…. cough cough have the deep for that? cough

Like they could’ve done something so much more impactful with the og Noir, but noooOOO kripke just HAD to kill him off, and for what? Just for a few little scattered jokes here and there? Meanwhile this entire season has been an absolute uncoordinated mess???? ((Ik Kripke was planning to kill off Noir since the very beginning, but WHY?? 😭

I can see where they might be heading with a potential showdown between Noir II and Soldier Boy in S5, maybe mirroring the disfigurement of the og Noir or sth? But the way they've been building up to that so far just doesn't feel very compelling or efficient to me personally. it just feels they’ll land another lame “haha” moment for the audience and call it a day when it comes to that point

Impactful story arc? Nope- thrown straight outta the window

and yes I know Noir wasn’t even a primary character to the storyline in the first place, so it’s not like the end of the world or anything. Just take this as a nonsensical rant from a bitter Noir stan 🤠

[valtsv]

hey :D I was wondering if you had any book recommendations on A) psychological horror fiction and B) nonfiction on topics which are generally considered taboo (e.g. cannibalism, cults)?

can't think of any books off the top of my head but i can recommend two podcasts: painfotainment by hardcore history, which examines the history of the death penalty and the changes in social and cultural attitudes to public execution, and the cults podcast (called "cults") hosted by greg poclyn and vanessa richardson, which looks at the history of various well and lesser-known cults and their leaders and members, and which i like because despite being a popular true crime podcast it doesn't overly sensationalize the events and people it covers or come across as exploitative and insensitive to the victims

[darkpurpledawn]

not to be stereotypically in my 30s on main but people of tumblr: is an air fryer worth it? even/especially if you are a lazy vegetarian cooking stuff for just yourself? are they easy to clean or kind of involved?

[dykenav]

has anyone read the mirror visitor series. EXTREMELY mixed reviews but it sounds intriguing to me like I need more books where the premise is killing god

[tieria-erde]

i hate love triangles but i hate even more when theyre actually compelling. but i hate even more when theyre actually compelling and then STILL fail to stick the landing

[mossy-rot]

reading about autistic meltdowns is crazy. in retrospect maybe that time i ended up sobbing self isolating and lashing out at people because I couldn't figure out how to set up my laptop the same way it had been before might've been because of The Autism

[rollercoasterwords]

finished umbrella academy s4…my controversial opinion is that i actually enjoyed the cheating plotline i just wish it had been done properly for full emotional impact…like if they started that shit earlier & dragged out over multiple episodes it could’ve been soooo fun

[usernamesarehard1]

Why is it so hard to put my thoughts to paper? I want to write screenplays, and novels, and movie reviews. But I have all these complicated thoughts in my head for them that I just cant seem to actually write down. I hate myself. It makes me feel like a failure. Writing is what I want to do with my life and I can't even do it now.

[nonbinaryeye]

Got to see special early Barbie premiere and nowhere from marketing you could guess what the movie is actually about...

[existentialcrisis-9-5]

I haven’t touched Detroit: Become Human in years, and frankly I won’t go into dept with it bc I want to forget enough to play the game with as clear a head as I can.

But I can’t help thinking of a missed opportunity. I, along with many others, think the political message they included in the game was not the right one. But I think the game had room for a political message, not about idk the weird subtext about race and slavery (tho in fairness, I feel like another storyline/game set in the D:BH world wouldn’t be amiss in covering it), but about ableism.

I mean, how many autistic people get called robots daily? Or consider the current capitalistic hellscape that drops a person to their doom the moment they’re not 100% fit and able to work themselves to the bone. It ties into the humanity of the androids, as well as relating to current world issues, AND it’s relevant to the world they were trying to build, about how androids are so much better than humans so humans get replaced.

They could’ve explored how the moment an Android isn’t operating at 100% efficiency, people with the money might just drop them and get a new one, about what makes a human a person, and how we don’t really know, so how can we know if an Android is or isn’t a person? And shouldn’t we treat them with respect regardless?

Maybe someone’s talked about this before but goddamn. The opportunity they missed.

[shiraishi--kanade]

Never ask an An Shiraishi fan (tumbrl user shiraishi-kanade specifically) about their opinions on An Shiraishi's alt hairstyles unless you're mentally prepared

[no1ryomafan]

I’m almost done with Bravern but hoooo I got a lot of thoughts about the *big* twist already. I was spoiled on it but the foreshadow towards it was good and I think the payoff makes the plot better- but I understand why some people were mixed because it was executed very weirdly. (Even if some of the harsher complaints about this twist is stupid mainly regarding shipping… but I ain’t getting into that)

[tanadrin]

Minor point of contention: The German presidency is mostly irrelevant. There's a few scenarios, most of which afaik never happened, in which the president can make actually important decisions. One of them being that in 2017 he decided not to dissolve parliament when coalition negotiations failed and instead convinced the SPD to join the governing coalition again (not the world, but certainly not nothing) and, if there's a law the government considers to be really urgent but can't get a majority for, the president can decide whether to implement a 6-month period in which laws do not need to be ratified by parliament as long as they get the support of the unelected Bundesrat (can only happen during that one 6 month period per administration, and hasn't ever happened, but it's not like it isn't a question to consider when deciding on the next president).

I love it when people habituated to parliamentary systems are like, "no, no, our head of state is not a figurehead! They have the very important job of [technical matter that has only come up once in the last thirty years]." It's a charming bit of ceremony, but when you compare it to, like, the pre-war German presidency and its expansive capacity to fuck shit up, you could easily be forgiven for not remembering who the guy is, or even that he exists at all.

(But I admit, still not quite as bad as the British king, who by convention exercises no power, and if he tried to change that, Parliament would immediately strip him of the remaining powers he does theoretically have!)