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thebatteredroses · 9 months
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- On my mark
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thebatteredroses · 2 years
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elden ringi have: dog
elden ring have: wind
elden ring… have wimbdy dog?
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thebatteredroses · 2 years
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Sometimes I wish I understood tumblr rp because I miss it and sometimes miss the complex relationships of Trinity Blood and exploring them through the ideas of breaking away from canon. Alas.
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thebatteredroses · 2 years
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The purpose of the Democratic Party is to normalize and expand the crimes of the previous Republican president.
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thebatteredroses · 2 years
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The CDC has always been shit, actually
For anyone shocked and horrified at the CDC relaxing COVID guidance for capitalism, let me share with you a little story from the world of public water:
Many people are familiar with the story of Flint, Michigan, but what was unique about Flint was mostly that it got as much attention as it did. Almost 15 years before Flint, there was a similar leaded water crisis in Washington DC which is less remembered these days. Like Flint, the DC crisis was caused by accident, though this one was motivated by good intentions, not budget.
In 1997, DC decided to switch their water disinfectant from chlorine, which had been used to treat public water in the US since 1908, to chloramine, which had been shown to be safer and more effective. What they didn’t know at that time was that chlorine has anti-corrosive properties, which had been preventing old lead-coated pipes from breaking down. After the switch, with no anti-corrosive present, the pipes began to shed their coatings into the drinking water, causing spikes in lead in public drinking water at levels six to eighteen times the federal action level of 15µg/L.
Let’s be clear: There is no safe level of lead in drinking water. Every bit of lead a child consumes is known to decrease cognitive development and increase behavioral disorders. The action level is the level at which regulators are required to act to reduce a contaminant.
The DC lead issue was discovered and first reported in 2001, but it didn’t start really making headlines until 2004. In those years between 1997 and 2004, elevated lead levels in drinking water are estimated to have directly caused to more than 200 stillbirths and more than 2000 miscarriages. We cannot accurately quantify the impact on children who drank DC water during those years.
To understand what happened next, you need to understand how public water is regulated in the US. A municipal water system is monitored and regulated by a state EPA, which in turn is regulated by the federal EPA. For example, the Michigan EPA was found responsible for failing to adequately monitor and regulate the water in Flint.
This was an issue for DC in particular, because it is not a state and therefore does not have a state EPA to oversee water quality. Its water is directly regulated by the USEPA, which investigated itself and found no wrongdoing (go figure). After the Washington Post started to raise the alarm about the issue in 2004, the CDC was called in to investigate the USEPA.
What followed was perhaps one of the most damaging medical reports ever written. The CDC went to homes in the worst contamination levels, tested the lead levels, and then tested the blood of children in those homes. They found, miraculously, that elevated lead in drinking water did not significantly contribute to elevated blood lead levels. This conclusion was, of course, absurd, and didn’t take into account the fact that these peoples had known about the lead for 3 years and hadn’t been drinking the water for 3 years.
But the CDC report stood: leaded water didn’t cause lead poisoning. This report was used to absolve the USEPA of wrongdoing and was afterward used by several governmental agencies to defend not acting upon leaded drinking water, thereby expanding the damage caused by the DC lead crisis exponentially.
The CDC has never been about controlling disease or protecting public health. The CDC’s primary goal is to protect the interests of the federal government.
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thebatteredroses · 2 years
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First, I think it’s safe to say that it’s a bad writing decision when you have to explain on twitter why you did it. Second, why are they attempting to rewrite fundamentals of the story? Why would Geralt already know how to be an emotionally connected father? That’s not what I got from Season 1 or the first episode of Season 2 at all. Episode 2 is the first time we meet Vesemir and the other witchers, and I don’t automatically get that Geralt has been loved super well by them. Why would he have been? He literally talks about being starved and beaten at Kaer Morhen? And we know the trials are awful. Plus, Geralt hardly mentions the other witchers in Season 1. So why should viewers assume that an outcasted, alienated group of monster hunters knows how to love (in a healthy, emotionally in-tune way)? It would make so much more sense of we saw the show’s stoic, stunted Geralt struggling the handle his fatherly emotion for Ciri. Why shouldn’t Netflix Geralt struggle with that? It’s infuriating how much the writers lean into the audience’s foreknowledge of the story and characters only to butcher and rewrite it to their whims.
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thebatteredroses · 2 years
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Azem: Alright, what’s something good you did today?
Emet Selch: I prevented a murder.
Azem: Well, how did you do that?
Emet Selch: Self control.
Hythlodaeus: It was beautifully done, if I say so myself.
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thebatteredroses · 2 years
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Honestly, as an eastern european the casting discourse around Netflix!Witcher is so tiresome. On one hand there are blatantly racist people who hate the fact that POC were cast at all, on the other people who push for diversity but will come for your throat the moment you suggest they should have cast slavic/eastern european actors because all they hear is “they should have only cast white actors”. I think most americans don’t realize how big and culturally diverse Eastern Europe is-
pt2- there are many ethnic minorities and mixed people, especially in countries bordering Anatolia/Asia. And sure, most of us are white but eastern european/slavic does not necessarily equal white. They could have cast POC who are also slavic/eastern european, they just didn’t because the process of hiring american/british actors was clearly easier. And then there’s people who try to shut this discussion down entirely, because us eastern europeans are still light skinned and are thusly-
p3- in “no need of representation” as if it’s every day they get to see our culture, a story that originated from it or us in a role other than mobsters, weapon dealers, traffickers or spies with funny accents in american media. It’s disheartening because the people who do this are very often the same who call for diversity in media. It’s just that the way that we talk about diversity online is- ironically- very americanized and does not take into account the experiences of people abroad.
I’m just gonna let you soundboard off of me for this one, anon. I got nothing to add. 👏👏👏
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thebatteredroses · 2 years
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thebatteredroses · 3 years
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thebatteredroses · 3 years
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The Vatican family being...a family???
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thebatteredroses · 3 years
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ʏᴏᴜ ᴛᴜʀɴɪɴɢ ᴍᴇ ɪɴᴛᴏ ᴀ ꜰɪᴇɴᴅ
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thebatteredroses · 3 years
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i love how caim is an absolutely irredeemable protagonist and person. he’s such a piece of shit. he loves mass murder so much. his sole redeeming trait is that he loves his literal dragon wife and just for that i forgive literally everything he’s ever done. all respect to him being a LITERAL dragonfucker.
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thebatteredroses · 3 years
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World of Warcraft waifus
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What's bad about getting vaccinated? I get the mask aversion, since the masks are basically useless, especially with people constantly touching them, and moving them around like idiots, and never changing them. But vaccinated? You're kinda following the footsteps of all the anti-vaxx people who claim it causes (insert random reason) and computer chips. : |
I'm 100% not against vaccines period, I'm against this specific vaccine that has so much weird shady shit surrounding its creation
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thebatteredroses · 3 years
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Come wailing wind chill my heart Come the rain fall on me as I depart
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thebatteredroses · 3 years
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ah Sif, there you are
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