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Im curious.

Reblog so everyone can hear what they need.

Just checking.... We all pronounce Miette like My-TAY in our heads, right?

It's "mne-eeh-t." "Mne-eht" said with that soft tongue on the upper palette French sound or "mee-yet". I put the "n" because the pretty tongue roll on the "y" kinda sounds "n"-like to me.

I've been saying it Mee-yet in my head. Like the French word for "crumb."

The Princess Diaries (2001) dir. Garry Marshall

The Princess Diaries (2001) dir. Garry Marshall

RYAN GOSLING Saturday Night Live (April 13, 2024)

#Months later and he's still Ken...

Item: Christmas Tree Cannon

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Not to be a, etc you know

Boss can i go home early some shit is happening in my fandom and im a pretty active person in the community so my presence is needed

*sees my mutuals logged on at the same time* ugh WHAT a day. Thank god you’re here. *doesn’t interact with them in any shape or form*

I know I'm a bit late to saying this but frankly if I found out a secret society of magic-users were just playing nonsense sports and making up slurs for the rest of us instead of helping us out with famines or leukemia I think I'd apply for a job with my local witch hunters

please do not go so hard at "Elon is terrible and the Cybertruck is a dumpster fire" (which is true) that you somehow make your way to "electric cars are all ticking time bombs" (which is false, and mostly said by people who want to keep driving combustion engine cars perpetually because they think the climate crisis is made up)

to expand on this a little as an EV owner:

EVs are just straight better to drive than ICE cars. it's not just about the emissions. they're cheaper to run, they need a lot less maintenance because they're mechanically simpler and don't run on explosions, and they're more powerful with better acceleration.

yes, we have to get rid of car dependency, not only to make cities livable but to cut down on microplastics released by tire wear. we also have to live in the world that currently exists. I live in a small town, I have to commute a long distance, and I have a mobility impairment. relying on public transit is not an option for me or a lot of other people in similar situations.

yes, reliance on cobalt mined in countries with shitty labour practices (to put it mildly) is a problem. that's why every EV company out there is working on cobalt-free batteries. at least one (BYD) is already using them in production cars.

yes, lithium mining is also bad for the planet. that's why researchers and energy companies are working on next-generation technologies like sodium-ion batteries, which are already being installed in home and grid-scale applications. sodium is fucking everywhere.

Living in a sunny state, when my family had solar panels before moving we were able to drive the EV largely on solar power. It’s awesome and I wish getting solar and having an EV was a more affordable down payment and more widely distributed (can’t have panels now that we’re renting). Someday it hopefully will be.

Yeah, the problem is Teslas specifically. Their build quality is infamously poor and their safety stats for things like battery fires are measurably worse than equivalent EVs. I would not get in Elon's rocket if you put a gun to my head.

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