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Remember "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" ? I feel like there's been a distancing from the "reduce" and "reuse" part and a favoritism towards "recycle" by corporate American.

Capitalism can still thrive with recycling in the mix. You buy Plastic Thing 1, throw it away after one use, and they take that and recycle it into Plastic Thing 2 and sell it back to you. All while continuing to harm the environment.

Reusing puts a damper on things. They can't sell you Plastic Thing 2 when you're still using Plastic Thing 1. Plastic forks, for example- there is literally no reason why you can't reuse plastic forks more than once (aside from maybe microplastics, but it's too late for that)

Reducing is the one everyone wants to ignore. Just don't buy Plastic Thing 1. You don't need Plastic Thing 1. Pick up a set of metal forks and use those for years. Convenience is killing the planet

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ytps are the funniest shit on the planet and im not above laughing at them

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Currently doing an Insomniac's Gambit. For those of you who don't know, this is when you mess up your sleep schedule badly enough that you attempt to fix it by skipping an entire night of sleep then going to bed at a reasonable hour the next day. Crucially, it does not work

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Gale’s presence as a companion will never not be the funniest thing to me. because while everyone else are kind of just acquaintances who decided to tag along, your relationship with Gale from the get go is a very friendly accidental mutual hostage situation.

he can’t leave because he needs you to help him find artifacts so he doesn’t literally explode and die. you need to help him find artifacts so he doesn’t literally explode and kill you. narratively, you also can’t let him leave because if he leaves he’s almost guaranteed to die anyway, which still might kill you.

in that situation you are both:

- hostage negotiator

- hostage

and the guy you’re negotiating with is:

- the bomb, and

- terribly sorry about the inconvenience.

it’s also quite funny to me because obviously the game lets you let him leave the party for freedom of choice, but it makes no sense for any PC with an ounce of survival instinct to let him go lmao. even if you hate that wizard, keeping an eye on and managing the walking nuke is a much better plan than letting it go off somewhere random and potentially kill you in the process, (especially when Gale very clearly implies he probably will not survive long). just kind of a comically balanced decision in hindsight.

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his voice

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/66992527

Y'ALL THIS IS THE COOLEST FANFIC I'VE EVER SEEN.

It is a complete narrative about SecUnits on a Planetary Survey trying to communicate and keep their clients safe while dealing with the restrictions of their govmod.

IT IS ALSO A FULLY INTERACTIVE GAME OF MINESWEEPER.

The story is told BY PLAYING MINESWEEPER.

This fic is criminally underrated go look at it!!!

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Befriending an artist who you deeply admire probably never ceases entirely to feel totally bewildering and surreal.

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another glorious day of not joining an imperialist military and not invading someone else's home and not getting shot in the head by a guerilla resistance fighter :3 god this is literally sooooo easy if u aren't a bitch

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you CANNOT read too much old timey fiction because I was playing Raft with the lads this morning and without a THOUGHT said we could sail over to another island "if the wind would consent to blow" & let me tell you. This did not pass by unremarked.

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if i ever write something set in the united states im just going to do zero research whatsoever and make stuff up to sound cool it’s equality

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Me and my friend were discussing why Ocelot was so nice to Eli during that one interrogation scene and he broke my heart a little bit

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isn’t it weird how “auditory processing disorder that ONLY makes you incapable of listening to rap” is only found in nonblacks isn’t that an interesting natural phenomenon that’s totally real

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alcoholism is a problem in the lgbt community yes but there's something weird and mentally disconnecting about trying to say that's because there's too many gay nightclubs or whatever instead of the reality that being lgbt is just genuinely oppressive and will push people to maladaptive coping mechanisms. like did we forget that people become alcoholics for a multitude of more reasons than because they went to a club once