#the cost of liberty

[pichirobi]

missing this power couple 🥴

#yuuri's ring is on the wrong hand i took the artistic liberty #the rings need to be visible At All Costs #it's what viktor would have wanted #yuuri katsuki #yuri katsuki #viktor nikiforov #victor nikiforov #victuri #victuuri #vikturi #viktuuri #yuri on ice #yuri!!! on ice #yoi #my art

[laugtherhyena]

Sometimes i think about udon comics Karin, why was she like that.

#it genuinely feels like a parody of the character like #ok i understand the comics aren't 1-1 with the game's stuff. creative liberties and all #but still. look how they massacred my girl #i get that what they were going for was for her to be more of an antagonist i think? #but it was done in cost of her characterization. completely missing the key element of this character #that she's not spoiled just proud #udon comics Karin feels as if she's five steps behind her game counterpart in that aspect #like how in those she only gets to the point of befriending Sakura when they're both adults #when in the games they were left on a good note pretty much right after her ending in alpha 3 #there's more that bothers me but I don't feel like rambling in tags now #street fighter #sf #karin kanzuki #sf karin #hyena ramblings

[blackrevell]

Today I learned you can leave Reed and Myers in Lucretia, My Reflection and both of them get caught by Barghest.

#that's my new “ending” of choice right here #gotta keep my girlboss colonel alive at all costs #sorry reed and mrs president #rev post #cyberpunk 2077 #cp2077 #phantom liberty #phantom liberty spoilers #kurt hansen #rosalind myers #solomon reed

[shwaim]

As per tradition, here's Gottschalk

From the Artfol Xmas challenge, I present to you, quickly made doodles:

Unfortunately, he can't go outside...

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It's alright, it's not like he really wanted to, not really.

He can just stay indoors and read...

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But wait... What's that little creature that just appeared? It doesn't seem to be hostile...

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Oh!

It grew in size just to give Gottschalk a little present to cheer him up!

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Happy holidays and new year!

#hnkna #doodle #Gottschalk #slimey art #I endured the pain and did these doodles 20 mins b4 the challenge ended #I actually made it in time #but at what cost #if you see errors then no... you do not... those are artistic liberties #artfol

[i-am-the-balancing-point]

HOUSE CALL REPORT

PATIENT: ZIP KUPKA Affliction(s): Blockage caused by foreign objects. Treatment: Removal of foreign objects from lower body cavity Notes: Foreign Object #1: small rolled American flag Foreign Object #2: small "Lady Liberty" statue of liberty action figure (Limited Edition) Foreign Object #3: small rolled copy of the U.S. Constitution All items were removed and returned to Mr. Kupka. Health Insurance Approved Treatment? No Patient will be billed.

A note, found at the Hope County Clinic. ❇︎ Notes of Hope County

#Lady Liberty statue of liberty action figure #(Limited Edition) #I can't believe this isn't covered by health insurance #how much would that even cost? #Notes of Hope County #Far Cry 5 #Zip Kupka #mine #only queue can make all this world seem right

[lastcatghost]

If you're not seen or treated as a human being by the society you live in, how can you also be held to the standards of human behavior in that society?

You can't expect oppressed people with restricted rights to exist, and being under constant threat of violence and incarceration simply for being in a targeted demographic, then the social contract expected typically expected of those in that society can't apply to the groups seen as less than human.

Peaceful protests and voting isn't gonna be a valid excuse to stall change at a certain point, and those who seriously suggest it are a threat to liberation, not allies to anyone except their privilege the current system of oppression affords them

#human rights and civil liberties #full human experience #trans acceptance #trans liberation #liberation from oppression #cant hold people to human standards of behavior if they arent treated and seen as humans by that society #bigotry is a tool used by the ruling class to divide and distract us from the real threat #working class solidarity #the bourgeoisie is the real enemy #marginalized and oppressed groups are not who keeps raising the costs of everything except your wages

[miyku]

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#phantom liberty dlc better have a release date #oooh and it better cost like 15$ :D

[hyacinth--girl]

Went to the Perth glory women’s game last night (they won yeehaw) but the last time I went there was a pizza food truck which I didn’t buy from and I was so hyped to get pizza last night but it wasn’t there 😭😭😭😭

#I mean yeah they won the game but at what cost #I wanted to pay $15 to get a pizza that is half the standard size but you can bet would’ve been delicious #perth glory #liberty aleague

[wayfaringellie]

Hello by Adele is the perfect song for Valerie and Judy in that new ending in Phantom Liberty. You cannot change my mind.

#phantom liberty #female v #judy alvarez #also the worst ending #alive but what did it cost you?

[belltrigger]

@tombstone-pisa come pick up your employee, they're giving out Joltik as a "Grand Opening prize"

#blankshipping #tombstone-pisa #it's Emmet but for the low low cost of flipping the mouth he can be Ingo as well #I took some liberties #I didn't give the longer skirt in the back but the thigh-high stockings make up for it

[flowersandspacestuff]

My dad makes his living picking seasonal berries and mushrooms. He travels around and knows what time of year and which areas to find specific sought after berries like huckleberries, where and when to find mushrooms that are considered delicacies like morels, chanterelles, and others. He lives in one area for some of the time, but travels across the whole northwest.

My dad has never really fit with society, partly due to his connection with nature, and partly due to mental illness and trauma. But this is something he can do, and something he loves, and humans will always want wild berries and mushrooms, and need food. So many people today do not know how to find these things, though they used to provide for our whole way of life.

A lot of people feel trapped in the framework our species and cultures have built, and see that the way the job market works is to suck the life out of you, but to keep you working while it does. Yeah you'll always have to work for your living, that's just how life is. You gotta put something in to get anything out. But, we have to consider, what do we want to get out of it? My country has written in it's constitution that people have a right to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." This is a little bit vague, so vague, that we haven't recognized this right being slowly eroded away. Now we find ourselves pushed to the edge, we're told how lucky we are, while we scramble to find something, something we can do that our society deems worthwhile, and worth money, just so we can live to work the next week, month, year, and afford to pay for our media subscriptions, car, mortgage, rent, gas, food. We'll always have to work for our food, our home, our family, and our health. That's not the problem. The problem is, we aren't working for this. Because most of us, can put as much energy and work as we can into doing something we're not completely suited for, just to live, but still have trouble achieving the basics for life, let alone liberty and happiness. The work that so many are doing, doesn't return to them. We aren't working for our life, liberty, and happiness. Sure, it's why we're working, but the work we are doing doesn't fulfill that pursuit. We should expect that if we do good work, we will see the returns. If you farm your land, and care for the plants and the soil and the animals, you will see the return in abundance. If you build for your communities, your communities will flourish, and you will too. Some of us have found ways to work within this parasitic market system that allow us to still do this, but the power of monopolistic global industry is still felt, and this power strangles the life and liberty of the people, to squeeze out a hoarded profit. People are not machines though, we feel the pain. Our world feels the pain. The ecosystems that have provided all of our bounty, and sustained life on this planet, are suffering from neglect and abuse, just as people suffer from indenture and alienation.

Some of us have been led to believe that there is no way out. This is a lie. Some of us have been led to believe our connection to nature is severed. This is a lie. Some of us have been led to believe that we cannot continue forward and advance humanity while keeping our ties to nature. This is a lie.

What is truth then?

We live, and have always lived, through nature. Earth is a part of us, as we are a part of Earth, and we thrive and fall in the same measure. There is still time for us. Everything will change, as everything always changes. We will change too. We can change, it is how we have come to be here, and how we will continue on. Harmony with Earth is not only possible, but is also the requisite for humanity's own flourishing, and the source of our natural way of being.

But what does this mean for us now? What does this mean for me, who knows how to do only the things society has taught are important? What do I do, who know how to obey, to follow direction, to communicate and to sell things, to write and to read and to drive, but know not how to create tools, to cultivate food, to search for and identify the bounties of nature, to live from what the Earth gives us, and to do so in a way that gives back to that source? Wbat do we do? We learn!

The sources of our life, our liberty, and our happiness are not as far from us as we would be made to think. It may seem overwhelming, but it doesn't have to be. You can start with one thing. Learn about a native edible plant or berry or mushroom near you, learn its season and what habitat it grows in, and learn where you might find it. It is August. In the Northwestern United States there are many berries in season right now. In the coastal areas are blackberries and huckleberries and salal, inland there are huckleberries, grapes in some places, and elderberries, (which must be cooked to be edible but are high in vitamins A and C, and are used for a cold remedy as syrup). You can pick what you need for yourself and freeze it for winter, saving you money on frozen fruit in the dark months, and you can also pick more than you need and give some to friends or family, or sell it for a little supplemental income if you pick enough. Remember though to do your harvesting with respect for the environment, for this is the environment that is sustaining you. Protect it, give back to it, pick up your trash, and learn to be firesafe.

There are other options too, if you have the access, you can create a garden to support your food access. The recent pandemic has reminded many of us that we can't always rely on grocery stores and changing prices and the changing value of our money to get what we need, but there are other ways, and these other methods of sustaining ourselves can free us. Learn how to preserve fresh food when it is affordable and save it for when it is scarce. Tomatoes and zucchini may be overabundant in the summer, but they are scarcer in the winter. You can freeze tomatoes whole, and you can shred zucchini and freeze it for winter use in pasta, breads, and stir fries. There also inedible but very useful plants and sources within the forest, which you can use to make things you need or that are useful. Baskets can be so expensive, but weaving only requires a few supplies, an understanding, and your own work. This is just the beginning.

While we ask what we can do to live better on what nature gives us, we also ask what we can do to give back to nature, to keep nature thriving so that we may thank it for its sustenance and also partake in its abundance. Some plants are invasive and harm native plants, and can be removed to make way for plants more in harmony with the ecosystem. When many people travel a natural area, erosion can begin to threaten hillsides and habitats. This can be mitigated by creating better paths and reinforcing eroded areas near them with nature's materials, like fallen logs, branches, and plants like moss, grasses and shrubs which will make the way for trees to take root and further secure the hillside. Sometimes we don't know where our help would be most useful, or how to help, but there are good organizations that dedicate themselves to doing exactly these kinds of things. Mossy Earth is one that provides lovely videos and updates and abundant information on their efforts at habitat restoration and species reintroduction efforts. They're on youtube, and watching their videos is so hope renewing. They also have a subscription service that people may support them through.

You don't have to give up your apartment and live in a tent to renew your connection with nature. You don't have to do all of these things for it to be worthwhile. And you aren't alone in the big projects that seem a little daunting. We're in this together, and there are plenty of little ways we can start to work on our connection with nature, and work on our connection with ourselves, that will immediately benefit our health and happiness, and will further the happiness of our families and communities and home. Because Earth is home. We have to work for home, but if we do good work, we will have everything we need, and be happy with our efforts and their results.

So go pick some berries! Freeze them, eat them, share them! And at the end of it, you will have spent that time in nature, using your body for what it has developed for, and building your strength and your understanding for the future.

#nature #wilderness #sustainability #Earth #berries #wildlife #huckleberries #blackberries #mushrooms #health #economy #low cost #happiness #life liberty and the pursuit of happiness #future #humanity #future of humanity #pandemic #food #food sovereignty #give back #USA #pacific northwest #idaho #oregon #washington #tasty #freedom #climate change #writing

[f1]

Liberty expects Las Vegas Grand Prix set up costs to rise to over 300m | 2023 F1 season

Formula 1’s commercial rights holders Liberty Media expect the upcoming Las Vegas Grand Prix will reach almost $400 million (£313.7m) in set up costs. The upcoming race around the Las Vegas Strip Circuit in November is the only round of the calendar that Formula 1 is promoting itself. Liberty Media have signed a ten-year contact with the city to host the race annually until 2032. Work on a permanent pit building and paddock has been in progress throughout the year, with heavy roadworks carried out on the Las Vegas strip and other public roads which will form the circuit for the race. Speaking at a investors’ call yesterday, Liberty Media CEO Greg Maffei admitted that the costs of setting up the infrastructure for the race had increased beyond original projections. “I am pleased to say preparations are running on schedule and despite inflationary cost pressures, we expect no change in revenue and profitability assumptions that we laid out previously,” Maffei said. “We are increasing capital expenditure estimates for the paddock building and track work.” Liberty’s chief accounting and principal financial officer, Brian Wendling, explained that the increase in set up costs had not impacted their expectations for the profitability for November’s inaugural race. “For the quarter on SG&A [selling, general and administrative expenses], we had $7 million (£5.49m) of costs associated with LVGP,” Wendling said. “On Vegas there’s no change to our revenue and profit expectations for the race in year one. “Our paddock building is now 85% complete. We expect CapEx related to the Vegas race – including both the paddock building structure and track-related capex – to be close to $400 million, of which approximately $155 million was incurred in the first half of the year.” Advert | Become a RaceFans supporter and go ad-free Las Vegas Grand Prix CEO Renee Wilm explained some of the logistical problems involved with preparing the city’s infrastructure for the race. Work on race infrastructure is “85% complete” “We’ve entered into a couple of challenges as we’ve uncovered asphalt, cables under the ground that needed to be addressed,” Wilm explained. “There have been wires overhead that have needed to be moved. A lot of this was driven by the requests and, quite honestly, requirements of the local stakeholders as we began this process of preparing the track for actual usage. We’ve also encountered some additional requests from the local stakeholders, such as the casino properties around enhanced security, around opening and closing the track. So this has led to additional equipment that was needed, as well as just additional actual road work. “Of course, with regard to the paddock building, it is being built at lightning speed in an inflationary environment. So as you can imagine there have also been some additional costs along the way in that regard.” Maffei says F1’s owners intend for the Las Vegas race to be one of the biggest sporting events of the year. “The Las Vegas team is pulling together an event of unprecedented complexity and scale,” he said. “It will be the largest and, our argument would be, the most premium sporting event of 2023. It’s a view that’s a testament to our Super Bowl aspirations for all our grand prix events.” Advert | Become a RaceFans supporter and go ad-free 2023 F1 season Browse all 2023 F1 season articles via RaceFans - Independent Motorsport Coverage https://www.racefans.net/

#F1 #Liberty expects Las Vegas Grand Prix set up costs to rise to over £300m | 2023 F1 season #Formula 1

[rindemption]

Well, I'm finally biting the bullet and getting the new PC I've been saving for 😰

#my current one is 8 years old and barely manages cyberpunk #i think phantom liberty would kill it #i would have just updated parts but nothing decent was compatible with my outdated motherboard #upgrading all of it would cost the same as getting a whole new rig #thank goodness for refurbs i don't have that kind of money #but I'm finally going from a hard drive to an ssd 🤣 #thank god

[girlfriendsofthegalaxy]

i know im like. lucky to have this problem but picking a health insurance plan is literally the worst fucking user experience on god's green earth. just make it easy for me to figure out if my provider is in-network (bc on some of the various levels WITHIN THE SAME PLAN she isn't!!!) and which ones have don't have coinsurance without googling each individual alphabet soup plan. i know websites have the capability to show me this all on one page

#whoever answered the phone at oxford liberty suggested CALLING MY PROVIDER to check coverage #my brother in christ i am calling bc HER office suggesting calling YOU bc this plan is so obscure up here!!! #why can't we have normal blue cross blue shield where it's you get what you get #in all ways except physical i am a elderly little white dog with the tear tracks #so whatever one i pick (and my employer only covers up to $900/mo of the cost of whatever plan i pick) is going to have like #an extremely large effect on my life #AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[torabdos]

Man writing the conjurer guildmaster means I have to look up the first few conjurer quests, however scant characterization he gets

#mayu writes stuff tag #i get author liberty but at what cost

[thepopoptic]

#america #walk away #patriots #nathan hale #the cost of freedom #american capitalism #liberty #revolution #individualism #justice #willing to die #one life #cause and cost #fight tyranny