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anxiety will have you thinking things like "will everyone hate me if i order coffee at the coffee shop" and "will people think i'm crazy if i work out at the gym"

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im joining the war on gross disgusting pornographic content on the side of gross disgusting pornographic content

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Jul 9, 2025

The Flint water crisis began in 2014, after lead-contaminated drinking water was found to be leaching out from aging pipes into homes citywide.

The American Civil Liberties Union and the Natural Resources Defense Council, with help from other activists and nonprofits, have released statements on the recent progress, celebrating the milestone.

The statements which they chalk up the crisis to “cost-cutting measures and improper water treatment,” that the state “didn’t require treatment to prevent corrosion,” after a “a state-appointed emergency manager” switched the water supply to the Flint River.

There is no safe level of lead exposure; each nanogram causes harm. In addition to long-known risks, such as damage to children’s brains and certain cancers, there is also significant evidence that exposure to lead is linked to numerous cardiovascular diseases, including stroke and heart attack.

The coalition mobilized the citizenry and filed a lawsuit against Flint and Michigan state officials to secure safe water. The result was a settlement in March 2017, under which a federal court in Detroit ordered Flint to give every resident the opportunity to have their lead pipe replaced at no cost, as well as conduct comprehensive tap water testing, implement a faucet filter distribution and education program, and maintain funding for health programs to help residents deal with the effects of Flint’s tainted water, according to the NRDC.

The coalition then returned to court six times in six years to ensure the city and state kept to the timeline, which was delayed by COVID-19, and other reasons which The Detroit News described as “spotty record-keeping” and “ineffective management.”

On July 1st, the State of Michigan submitted a progress report to a federal court confirming that, more than eight years after the settlement, nearly 11,000 lead pipes were replaced and more than 28,000 properties were restored where the maintenance had taken place.

Of the 4,200 buildings where lead pipes are known to still be in service, their owners have either left the properties vacant, abandoned, or have declined the free replacement under the Safe Water Drinking Act. The coalition has said it will continue to monitor city and state progress on these remaining lines.

��Thanks to the persistence of the people of Flint and our partners, we are finally at the end of the lead pipe replacement project,” said Pastor Allen C. Overton of the Concerned Pastors for Social Action, one of the organizations that sued the city. “While this milestone is not all the justice our community deserves, it is a huge achievement.”

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you're so pretty. like, you're absolutely gorgeous. have you thought about tidying your room slightly to temporarily but significantly increase your quality of life? you are so beautiful

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i think it's important to acknowledge that the reason why mastercard/visa has such a stranglehold on american society is because cash is not the main form of payment in the usa. the predominance of card has effectively privatized currency

in japan, one of the reasons why dlsite and other similar websites are able to just remove visa as a payment option instead of changing any of their merchandise (aside from the fact that visa doesn't have a monopoly here) is because cash payments for online transactions remain an option. even if you don't have a jcb credit card or paypay or whatever, you can still pay for your online purchases using cash by taking your barcode to a convenience store, and you can do this for essentially every online vendor, meaning credit card companies can't just impose their moral judgments on your purchases with much repercussion

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A brief moment of rationality from the bird place.

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I cannot express how much fun kpop demon hunters is. also shoutout to one of the most descriptive titles of all time. they sure are kpop demon hunters.

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William Mason Brown (1828-1898) "Raspberries in a Wooded Landscape" Oil on canvas Located in the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas

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okay, so my question is to do with what i've observed in fandom vs what I see in shows

my impression, from having briefly learnt Mandarin as a child and watching a fair amount of Chinese media in Mandarin, is that it's not really done to refer to someone by a one-syllable name? Like, for Chi Cheng, no one would call him just 'Chi' or just 'Cheng'. You might add a suffix or double a syllable (like he does with Weiwei for Suowei), but you wouldn't use one syllable to refer to someone.

however, this is not what I see reflected in fanfic/fandom, and I'm wondering if i'm mistaken? (if you feel comfortable answering publically, i'd love to be able to reblog, but obviously no pressure!)

You are absolutely correct! Calling someone with a two character Chinese name, like Chi Cheng from Revenged Love for example, just Cheng feels...insane to the Chinese ear. Like I'm not saying there's absolutely zero precedent for in the entire span of Chinese-speaking history, but it makes my balls itch and my brain confused.

To your point, you'd double the actual name character, not family name. So it'd be Cheng-Cheng (only if you are trying to get stabbed I guess), or Cheng'er (if you're his mom or grandmother), xiao-Cheng (if you're a male family member or close family friend who is older than he is), Cheng-ge (if you're a male friend, or sometimes with an older/more senior work friend if you're already close), Cheng-gege (if you are Wu Suowei and you've done something Bad and you're trying to head off the fight by acting like a slutty dancing girl at a brothel), or like whatever -- there are a million suffixes and prefixes etc.

For people who are calling someone just a single character in text on the Chinese-speaking internet, if they're calling them by the family name, we're getting into the murky waters of netspeak. The same way that newspaper Chinese is dramatically different than spoken or normally written Chinese, netspeak is a whole other kettle of fish and designed for speed over grammar or traditional construction, so they might be just referring to a character as Chi, for example. Even then, this is relatively infrequent, since calling him something like Chi-shao, which would mean "Young Master Chi" in short form, is only one additional character. Similar to the above example, people would not be referring to them with their given name, no family name, as a single character without doing some other transformation.

As for why this is showing up in English speaking spaces or fandom spaces, my best guess is that non-Chinese speakers don't know any better. It might sound like a way to introduce a pet name or something more casual, but Chinese is not a casual language, and it's immediately jarring when you see it in use.

In English, five people can reasonably call someone by their given name and all do it the same way. If you're speaking in Chinese, realistically, five different people are going to call a person by their given name in different ways, and those five ways are going to be revealing of their relationship, relative social status, hierarchy, age, all sorts of things!

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we recently rewatched the Big Bang/San Lorenzo Jobs and one of my favorite things about Nate v Damien Moreau is that Moreau is always going "in a fair fight I'd crush you" and Nate keeps responding "probably, which is why I cheated like hell" and it works every time

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I think so many people forget making the world a better place isn’t just about having all the ‘correct’ sociopolitical opinions and beliefs and knowing all the theory it’s also hugely about actually being a good person… everyday acts of kindness and empathy, going out of your way to help others, small moments of connection in a cold world, loving thy neighbour all that

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He made it 🥺

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i was waiting the whole movie for some kind of explanation for who or what mr handsome was or why lex had a framed picture of him on his desk and they never fucking gave one. and you know what i respect that decision it's funnier like this actually

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every time i write i think about that maya angelou quote where she talks about her editor asking her why she uses semicolons instead of colons and says she has often responded by threatening to never speak to him again