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megan | biracial | adult | she/her fandom and dumb jokes i guess
Wildflower meadows are beautiful; so beautiful in fact that a village in Britain has found they act as natural speed traps from motorists slowing down to look at them.
The village of Long Newnton in Gloucestershire has a problem with fast moving through-traffic between nearby towns. Almost all drivers moving through areas they frequent will break posted speed limits, and neither a 30 mile per hour limit, nor warning signs made any difference.
Officials first planted flowers along the roadside during the pandemic to help improve biodiversity.
But they noticed that as well as attracting more wildlife, motorists also slowed down when they passed the flowers.

humans are so easy to trick

WIP Wednesday

@otemporanerys tagged me a week ago and i was so late that i made it on time to post on weds again!

have some sad shepard

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Back on Earth, the Alliance therapist had told Shepard that she had a—what had been the phrase. A problem with judgment and expectations. She held people to high, if not impossible standards. She had argued that at least she was not hypocritical, because she held herself to impossible standards as well.

That is part of the problem, Dr. Neiman had said. When you’re either a perfect archetype or irredeemable failure, there’s no room for the realities of the human condition. There’s no room for humanity.

That’s because there’s no room for failure in my humanity, Doc, she wanted to say now. If I am not perfect, if my team is not perfect, there will be no humanity left to scorn me for saving them.

In her head, the doctor asked, Do you feel as though someone is constantly watching you? Evaluating your performance?

And her reply, thinking of the Illusive Man installing EDI—of motherfucking Harbinger, and of her cell in Vancouver, would be: Yes I do. And I am not wrong.

Slowly coming to realize that this fantasy a lot of people have of the Political Collapse Coming Soon is mostly just based in a misplaced hope rather than actual doomerism. People find it much easier to think about everything ending and then just restarting with a clean slate than to think about the reality, which is that things can easily continue to go the way they currently are for centuries into the future, with changes that seem revolutionary simply being absorbed and repurposed into a productive modification of the status quo. There’s no second comings, no deus ex machina revolutions, no cheat codes, no easy outs. If you want a better future you better ready yourself to fight for it right here and right now, inch by inch