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The apocalypse is not a single event hovering in the future bearing down on us while we sit helplessly. We are at least 150 years into an ongoing "apocalypse."

The eastern USA's natural environments were fucking razed. We went scorched earth on everything.

In the 1930's, DEER and WILD TURKEYS were almost eliminated from my state. Deer. Wild turkeys. Common animals that you can see all the time.

I've seen animals close to my home that a person in the 1970's would not have been able to see. I saw river otters and a bald eagle a couple months ago! Farmer family friend remembers when a bald eagle sighting here made the news. There is a thriving population of elk (16,000 animals) in the Appalachian Mountains, for the first time since before 1850!

With the new Harry Potter series she will be making a reported $20 million per-season renewal + other performance dependent royalties. She has been open across multiple interviews regarding her intentions to use said funds to push forth even more trans targeted legislation in the years to come.

This isn’t a “she gets paid no matter what” situation. The more eyeballs on this show the more money she has to actively harm vulnerable communities. By engaging with it you are directly supporting this and otherwise making a conscious choice to consume HP over doing the literal very least possible to not destroy the lives of trans people across the world.

If my stating the objective facts above upsets you then feel free to unfriend and move along. Your nostalgia-goggles feelings for a tired, problematic franchise mean nothing to me compared to the welfare of my trans friends and loved ones."

If you care more about badly written children's books and imaginary wizards more than you do about real people in the real world do it far the fuck away from me.

Don't try to be in my life.

I think this because the barking has been replaced by constant power tool sounds, which means they're prepping the apartment for the next tenant!

she is not evil because she's disabled. she didn't get horrifically mutilated or something and turn evil because of it. she literally just looks normal. her joints are kinda fucked up but no one turns evil from that. cmon man.

ok don't do the weird fake pity thing where you get really upset she's in a wheelchair. she can't really walk long distances without the wheelchair. the wheelchair is a net good here, mr. suave.

the autism has nothing to do with her being evil. she's "evil" because there are living trillionaires on this planet and there are also homeless people. all the autism does is make her kind of socially awkward and really interested in Iranian architecture. yeah she did design the lair herself! do you like it? yeah it takes a lot of inspiration from the Dome of Soltaniyeh but there's also a bunch of other Ilkhanid and Timurid influences and- wait shes monologuing. she's supposed to be feeding you to the lions hang on

When I was younger I was pro-death penalty. And I won't beat myself up too much about that. I was a hurt, damaged abused person who wanted to believe there could be a measure of justice for the things that were done to me.

But, here are some of the reasons I changed my mind

1.) Death by lethal injection is not as painless as we are led to believe.

2.) The death penalty is disproportionately applied to inmates of color and

3.) People with mental or learning disabilities are unfairly sentenced to death row without proper access to reasonable accommodations in their defense. (There has been a significant effort to vacate the death row sentences of those with learning disabilities.

Mario Kart Wii has a very bizarre difference between versions whereby in the Italian and Korean versions only, the game seems to have been adjusted for light sensitivity.

Left: Luigi being repeatedly overtaken in the US English version. Right: Luigi being repeatedly overtaken in the Korean version.

Whenever a racer's position changes, the position indicator flashes white in nearly all language versions of the game (US English, UK English, Japanese, Canadian French, European French, German, Latin American Spanish and European Spanish). However, in the Italian and Korean versions, the flash is removed, causing the animation to appear more subtle.

While it is relatively common for such adjustments to be made for versions released later (such as the Korean version), the Italian version was released as part of the European disc, so it was finalized at the same time as all other European language versions. This presents an odd potential scenario where it was specifically the Italian localizer who looked at the animation, decided it was too bright, and removed the flash while not telling any other Nintendo of Europe colleagues, or telling them and them deciding against it. Then, the Korean localizer could have examined them all, decided the Italian localizer's idea was worth repeating, and done the same in that version.

Alternatively, this could have been some inexplicable glitch that only appeared in those two versions somehow, which would be even more notable.

Source: B_squo