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homestuckreplay · 2 months ago

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chumhandle etymology pt.3

Today on Rose and Dave's computer we saw the presumably final seven of the twelve trolls - Jade has counted twelve (p.1000), and between the twelve trolls and four kids all two-letter combinations of A, T, C and G are represented. These are the letters representing DNA bases in both real-world DNA sequencing and in ectobiology, as practiced imperfectly by Rose and her mom (p.934)

I wrote about the beta kids' chumhandles here, and the first five trolls (CG, AG, TA, TC, CA) here - now here's a quick overview of the rest of the set.

gallowsCalibrator [GC] – execution by hanging, or the structure made for it, and an instrument used as a reference to check that similar instruments perform accurately, or the person operating that instrument. So this is the person who ensures the gallows are used correctly, a real middle manager who doesn’t order or carry out executions themself, but enables them still. Possibly like a Jack Noir or a level below him.

arsenicCatnip [AC] – a toxic heavy metal used in car batteries, bullets, semiconductors and pesticides/herbicides, and a plant related to mint that is loved by many cats, or colloquially anything that is irresistible to someone. This evokes environmental destruction, Famine in the horsemen of the apocalypse, or more generally someone who is trying to kill or make toxic things that are enjoyed.

cuttlefishCuller [CC] – a shallow water squidlike mollusc among the most intelligent invertebrates that was once valued for its brown pigment, and a person who kills animals for population control or to eliminate rejects. This is a ruthless person who believes in survival of the fittest and their own intellectual superiority, and only cares about other creatures in terms of what they can personally gain.

centaursTesticle [CT] – a mythical creature with the upper body of a man and the lower body of a horse, also a small solar system body between Jupiter and Neptune, and a reproductive organ in male mammals. Someone who is obsessed with physical strength and prowess, has likely internalized toxic masculinity, perhaps the sort of gym bro who takes questionable supplements to increase muscle mass. Does not seem like a super online person, so this one is surprising. Also my initials are CT and I can’t believe this is the character I got.

grimAuxiliatrix [GA] – serious, foreboding or gloomy, and Latin for a female assistant or helper. This is someone in a service role who either takes their job very seriously, or their job itself involves working with dark and forbidding forces, like the person who translates the melodious chirps and tongue-clicks of NRUB'YIGLITH, SHAMEBEAST KING OF GROTESQUERY, WRITHE-LORD OF THE MOIST BEYONDHOOD (p.303) to the general public.

apocalypseArisen [AA] – the final destruction of the world or a world-altering event capable of causing this, and something that has begun to occur, become apparent, or gotten out of bed. This one is the most passive of all the handles (alongside twinArmageddons) and basically says ‘the end of the world is about to happen, or is happening now’ which it’s hard to argue with based on the story so far. Could be a highly religious person who sees themself as an agent, prophet or herald of a higher power.

adiosToreador [AT] – Spanish for goodbye, and a participant or performer in a bullfight. This person knows five words of Spanish and thinks they’re really cool because of it. They also see themselves as the bull in the bullfight, a more raw and animal strength instead of the fighter’s honed technique, and are probably a counterpart or rival to centaursTesticle.

Much like the first five, all of these names have negative connotations, although these vary between physical pain, disease and toxicity, dark bureaucracy, and cosmic-scale catastrophe. These are definitely names chosen to be hostile or intimidating, it just doesn’t work well on Rose and Dave who are plenty capable of appearing hostile and intimidating by themselves. But for people more susceptible to being trolled, these chumhandles definitely feed into the abrasive personas these kids(?) are crafting.

#homestuck #trolls #analysis #chrono

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justsomeunsurefancat · 1 year ago

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This is how Palestinians charge their phone in light of the power outage

#palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #israel #palestinians #gaza strip #palestinian genocide

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autisticsupervillain · 6 months ago

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FTF: How Powerful Is...?

A prolonged breakdown on a character detailing all their scaling, powers, stats, skill, and abilities to determine exactly how powerful they are.

This Week's Character...

Sollux Captor!

Scope:

I'm going to be skipping past the usual rundown kn the character's personality and history in order to primarily focus on their power scaling applicable attributes. In Sollux's case, I'll be primarily focusing on explicitly canon materials. Dubiously canon sources such as the Epilogues, Homestuck^2, Pesterquest, Hiveswap Friendsim, and so on will be ignored. Not that any of them should really effect Sollux's scaling anyways. He's barely even featured really. I just despise modern canon and will happily take any opportunity to completely ignore it.

I'm basing this analysis entirely on Homestuck proper. As Hussie has given free reign to either regard or disregard the Epilogues and everything pertaining as canon at audience discretion, I'm disregarding it completely. Paradox Space has a similar thing going on, but I'm ignoring that less out of contempt and moreso it just.... doesn't have any material that would effect Sollux's powerscaling to begin with. They're effectively just comedy skits/short stories in the Homestuck universe.

With all that out of the way, let's start with stats.

Attack Potency and Durability

For starters, all of the abilities Sollux displays with his powers should scale to his physical durability. While I certainly don't think Sollux could do half of his feats with, say, his fists, it it pretty consistent that he's tough enough to tank what he dishes out. Basic laws of physics dictate that Sollux would have to be durable enough to withstand the energy of his own optic blasts to some degree, or else he'd be blasting himself apart.

Conversely, Sollux is tough enough to survive blasts from Eridan even after Eridan explicitly overpowers him, even if he was K.O'd. Both Kanaya and Feferi meanwhile were oneshot by him.

Let's go through stats in extending order of impressiveness. Sollux hits Multi-Continent Level as a baseline pretty easily. An Alternian Warship on auxiliary power is capable of accelerating to near light speed, generating a kinetic energy equivalent to 303 Petatons of TNT.

As goldbloods are routinely exploited for their powers to be used as the main batteries on ships, common goldbloods should upscale this. Sollux, meanwhile, is decended from and inherits the powers of the most powerful goldblood who'd ever lived, The Psiioniic, so he upscales even further.

He was forced to serve as

the Helmsman for Her

Condescension's imperial

battleship. Psychics of his

kind were exploited for

interstellar travel, and

his abilities made her ship

the fastest in the fleet by

far. She grew so enamored

of her Helmsman and his

power, she would use her

touch to extend his

lifespan to match her own.

-Doc Scratch about The Psiioniic

Surrounding him on his rise

to infamy and throughout

the rebellion were the most

trusted elites among his

devoted. The viioniic was a

mage of unequaled

telekinetic ability, who

upon hearing the words of

the Sufferer was inspired

to free himself from the

sort of slavery typical of

his mentally gifted class.

-Doc Scratch

Similarly, Sollux can redirect meteors brought down by the Reckoning.

These meteors can consistently output 3 Exatons of kinetic energy.

And, finally, Sollux can assist Aradia in pushing the meteor to outspeed Jack Noir, a 2 Exaton feat.

ARADIA: i can help with

that!

ARADIA: sollux do you

think you can lend me a

hand?

SOLLUX: huh?

ARADIA: theyll need the

biggest push we can give

them

SOLLUX: 0h.

SOLLUX: yeah sure.

KARKAT: WHAT, SO JUST

ONE "PUSH" IS GOING TO

LAST THREE YEARS?

KARKAT : LEt ALONE OUTRUN

JACK?? BULLSHIT

SOLLUX: calm down kk, it

sh0uld be fine.

SOLLUX: yOu won't sl0w

down.

However, it's actually remarkably easy to hit much higher levels of power when scaling to his fellow SBURB Players. John, for example, performs a feat the puts all of the above to shame, creating a tornado that covers half of his planet in an instant, generating 4 thousand exatons of TNT.

Sollux's highest scaling thus far, however, comes from a feat he not only scales far above, but comes from characters he completely curbstomps. During he fight with the Condescension, Aranea mind controls several Damaras into throwing a planet, generating kinetic energy equivalent to 273 Ninatons of TNT. Enough to destroy a dwarf star.

Damara is a member of the Alpha Trolls, who battled fruitlessly in their session for three years before ultimately being defeated. Doc Scratch would note that their relatively peaceful upbringing compared to Sollux's left them completely unprepared to beat SBURB, prompting him to turn Alternia into the hellscape it is to prepare them to beat SBURB.

As was true of the bellicose world we know, there came to be twelve heroes on this peaceful planet. These heroes too had twelve ancestors whose fortunes were entwined with theirs. These twenty-four figures of legend were not of this world but sent from the sky, delivered from a reality not yet conceived.

On the eve of their race's extinction, the twelve heroes would begin playing a game. They would make an admirable effort, but they would fail. Their civilization had not prepared them for the rigors of this game, and the ultimate reward would fall shy of their grasp.

[...]Though I was delivered well before history even began, before the dawning of life on their planet. This time around, I would oversee its development, and thus fulfill the mother's promise of an aggressive, ruthlessly prepared group of heroes. One that would not rest until victory was secured.

-Doc Scratch

By comparison, the Beta Trolls were able to beat their game in only 25 days, signifying the Betas solidly scaling above the Alphas.

FCG:

IT WAS ALL PRETTY

MUCH LIKE CLOCKWORK.

FCG: A 600 HOUR CAMPAIGN

TO COMPLETE A GAME LIKE

THIS IS PRETTY GOOD IF

YOU ASK ME.

-Karkat Vantas

Sollux's most impressive scaling, however, comes from Gamzee, of all trolls.

Sollux pretty definitively scales backwards from Gamzee, but to an extent where he would still be comparable. Eridan, fresh off of his fight with Sollux, was considered an equal threat to Gamzee and a God-Tiered Vriska during their three way showdown before a newly undead Kanaya beat them all down. Sollux was the only one Eridan had fought up to the point who both survived getting hit and matched him briefly. See above.

This scaling his further supported by Sollux's relativity to Aradiabot. Not only did Sollux survive Aradiabot literally exploding in his face, but both of them were essential in wearing down the Black King. See the meteor feats above.

Vriska jas confessed that Aradiabot would still kick her ass, even after she went God-Tier.

VRISKA: Hey dead girl! How's 8eing dead treating you?

ARADIA: cOuldnt i ask yOu the same thing

VRISKA: Yeah, sure! If you wanted to 8e technically inaccur8

still 8urn though, so touche!

ARADIA: its really weird that yOu keep antagOnizing me

ARADIA: i cOuld snap yOur neck with a twitch

VRISKA: Yeah 8ut you won't!

ARADIA: Ok

Don't get me wrong. Sollux absolutely isn't equal to Gamzee. There are about a dozen quotes to that effect, not least of which being that alternate timeline where Gamzee solo'd the entire rest of the trolls by himself. But Sollux is at least comparable enough to scale backwards from Gamzee’s most impressive showings.

Those would include surviving the Black Hole created by Lord Jack, which would have a GBE equivalent to nearly 3/4's of a Foe.

Gamzee can also take hits from Caliborn, who himself can survive a black hole the size of the entire solar system. Roughly 38 billion foe. This means, in order to hurt Gamzee, you'd need to be packing power comparable to Solar System destroying levels of energy and Sollux point blank is comparable to people who can.

Speed

Speed is a lot more clear cut. Simply put, everyone and their mother can move faster than light in Homestuck. From Hussie being able to count down the nanoseconds on a clock to several characters moving interstellar distances.

For instance, the Psiioniic was described as being able to push the Condescension's ship from across the edges of the Galaxy back to Alternia very quickly, crossing light years in hours.

She ordered all fleets to

return to Alternia. But

such was her empire's

expansion and

interplanetary occupation,

few could make it in time

to provide any meaningful

defense. She instructed her

Helmsman to pilot the ship

faster than he ever had,

and he did so through

extreme physical duress. He

was able to leap across

thousands of light years in

a matter of hours. The

exertion likely would have

killed him, if the Glub

didn't get to him first

Her touch could extend

life, but never restore it,

to her lament.

-Doc Scratch

This feat by itself easily reaches the millions of times FTL range, but we can go much higher than that.

Comparing the size of the Incipisphere relative to Trollkind's 52 billion year old universe and we find that it is a structure that is several trillion light years in diameter. Meaning not only would Sollux be deflecting meteors traveling at 27 quintillion times faster than light, but even common Kernelsprite's would be traveling at 77 quintillion times faster than light when traveling to Prospit and Derse for Prototyping.

Even the weakest of Players can keep up in combat with their Kernelsprites, at least, at first, and Kernelsprites are generally at their absolute weakest when this process first starts. Since Gamzee is capable of moving so fast that Karkat can't even tell he's in the same room, this means Sollux can speed blitz people who move at these speeds.

For reference, that scaling chain is 1x Prototyped Kernelsprite = Karkat <<<<<< Gamzee >> Sollux.

Immeasurable Feats

Oh, boy, here we go. Sollux, in terms of speed and possibly even strength, can genuinely be argued to reach levels that are impossible for 3-D mathematics to calculate. Let me explain.

Firstly, we must discuss the nature of the Furthest Ring itself. The Furthest Ring is completely untouched by all forms of time and space in the universe. All twelve of the Aspects are described as being physically indistinguishable from each other within the Furthest Ring.

JADE: how long do i have

to wait HERE in order to

wake up?

CALLIOPE: the

correlation between the

passage of time in the

furthest ring and any

given physical location

is tenuous

CALLIOPE: the

measurement of time here

is inseparable from the

physical passage through

its knotted space.

CALLIOPE: those two

aspects are closely

woven together here, to

such an extent that they

are barely separable

CALLIOPE: all aspects

are.

JADE: really?

JADE: all of them??

CALLIOPE: yes.

JADE: i understand how

this place has time and

space of course.... even

if they work together

weirdly

JADE: but

JADE: i dont see any of

the others

CALLIOPE: one doesn't

see abstractions

CALLIOPE: not directly

JADE:

JADE: oh

CALLIOPE: each opposing

pair is in balance

throughout this field so

as to form a stable

canvas.

CALLIOPE: though the

canvas becomes less

stable with each crack

in the field, ordinarily

one would never directly

observe its constituent

forces.

CALLIOPE: the canvas

would seem smooth from

afar, but up close, as

it were, the tapestry is

circuitously woven.

CALLIOPE: the aspects

while remaining in

balance, interfere with

each other. they

interlock and

intertwine.

CALLIOPE: so neither

space nor time functions

linearly, nor are they

conventionally

measurable.

JADE: wow

JADE: i am not sure i

totally understand.

JADE: but that is pretty

interesting!

CALLIOPE: you are

predisposed to find the

nuances of space

intriguing.

CALLIOPE: and since its

opposing aspect is more

related than you perhaps

have realized, the

challenges of

understanding it are

more compelling to you

than you realize as

well.

JADE: yeah i guess so

JADE: physics are all

about space and time and

such which are fun to

think about

JADE: i like all that

stuff!

CALLIOPE: yes.

JADE: so youre saying

space and time... and

all other aspects i

guess... are more

closely related here

than in like

JADE: umm.

JADE: more stable

places, like my

universe?

CALLIOPE: they are less

distinct from each other

here, yes.

JADE: you said passage

of time is inseparable

from.

JADE: traveling through

space?

CALLIOPE: yes.

JADE: so if we were

holding still

JADE: time wouldnt be

moving either?

CALLIOPE: that is

correct, in a way.

CALLIOPE: though motion

itself is not the

absolute process it is

in a more conventional medium.

CALLIOPE: the

measurement of motion

requires stable features

for comparison.

CALLIOPE: of which there

are very few in the

furthest ring,

typically.

CALLIOPE: the more

cracks that appear,

ironically, the more the

ring begins to

stabilize, at least in a

spatial and temporal

sense.

JADE: i see

JADE: so

JADE: if the cracks

werent there

JADE: how..

JADE: how would we be

able to tell if we were

moving?

CALLIOPE: motion through

the twisted space is not

gauged by passing

landmarks, but anchored

to a particular

destination.

CALLIOPE: destination is

an idea maintained by

the traveler.

CALLIOPE: ideas are

subtle composites of

various aspects.

CALLIOPE: without clear

understanding of

destination, motion

becomes less

discernible.

CALLIOPE: with less

discernible motion,

passage of time becomes

less measurable.

CALLIOPE: at a

standstill, time loses

meaning, and can seem to

stretch on forever, as

all events throughout

reality gwirl around you

in no particular order.

CALLIOPE: one becomes

isolated from all else.

imprisoned by inertia.

A realm in which the very abstract concepts of time and space are indistinguishable from each other and ideas are the fundamental measurement of any kind of motion would be, if not blatantly higher dimensional, than effectively beyond dimensional by design. And Sollux was specifically called out by Aradia to help her push the meteor through this realm. A realm that has been, on mamy occasions, described as a realm of pure nothingness. Of Void.

VRISKA: John, tell me

what you see here.

JOHN: um.

JOHN: where?

VRISKA: Right here.

VRISKA: What is this?

This thing I'm holding?

JOHN: a black piece of

paper?

VRISKA: No, John.

VRISKA: This is 8ULLSHIT

is what it is.

JOHN: oh.

JOHN: yes, clearly.

VRISKA: This is what a

map looks like in the

furthest ring.

VRISKA: This is what ALL

maps look like out here.

VRISKA: Turns out

plotting the relative

geographical features of

an infinite 8lack

expanse of pure void is

every 8it as moronic as

it sounds. 8ut that

didn't stop some ancient

eldritch chucklefuck

from doing exactly that.

VRISKA: For the longest

time, this is all we've

had to go on when it

came to deciphering the

clues and figuring out

the coordin8tes of the

legendary treasure.

VRISKA: Do you have any

idea how hard it is to

pin down the physical

location of something

out here? Never mind the

fact that physical

location in the furthest

ring is already a

mallea8le concept. Just

imagine what it's like

giving someone

directions! What do you

tell them?

VRISKA: Proceed in a

str8 line shaped like a

perpetually shifting

torus knot until you

feel a sense of despair

transcending all mortal

comprehension, then hang

a right at the next

octopus?

VRISKA: There's nothing

static out there. No

landmarks, no points of

reference. Nothing!

[...]

VRISKA: The guy who's

8een fucking shit up is

the 8ig 8ad himselfl

VRISKA: Every time he

destroys another dream

8u88le, he does a little

more damage to the

furthest ring,

inexplica8ly shattering

the essence of all-

encompassing

nothingness.

VRISKA: As the cracks

spread across the void,

new points of reference

show up on our maps!

The push Sollux and Aradia gave to the meteor sent it flying through this infinite expanse, where time and space don't matter. That would be a feat of completely immeasurable speed. You can't measure speed if the things you use to calculate that, time and space, are completely indistinguishable from each other. Hell, Sollux would later give his life to give the meteor a solid push through the Furthest Ring closer to its destination, likely his most impressive direct feat in the series.

Now.... there is an argument to scale Sollux to this Outerversal level of power as well.... but I'm of slightly two minds of the situation.

Sollux scales to Gamzee who scales to Terezi who can hurt John.

John is one of the legendary heroes destined to defeat Lord English, who is currently ripping the hell out of Paradox Space. Similarly, God-Tier Aradia specifically asked for Sollux's help to push the meteor to outspeed Bec Noir. And Aradia herself can fight Lord English too.

The problem? John can fight Bec Noir.... who was seen as completely invincible to the Beta Trolls throughout most of Act 5, with Vriska's attempt to fight him getting everyone killed.

Now, to be fair, John is also instant killed by Noir during their first fight and while Vriska considers him to be far less of a threat than Lord English, she also considers him a very big threat in his own right....

But on the other hand... it is something if a plot hole for Bec Noir to be such a massive threat that the Beta Trolls had to hide from him for all of Act 5.... and for them to have several characters in the same tier as him as well.

I'm leaning towards a no to outerversal Sollux because of it, but you could just make the argument that Bec Noir is simply much farther into Outerversal. Terezi just knocked John into the wall after all, she didn't pile drive him through the floor and steal his lunch money. But, personally, I lean towards Solar System Level Sollux with Immeasurable speeds as his highest possible peak. It doesn't contradict the established plot as much. Which, by itself, would clear a lot of franchises frankly....

Abilities

Now comes the easy part.

Sollux has the standard kit that everyone in the Homestuck universe has. He has a Specibus, a video game inventory system, and an Echeladder, a video game leveling system. Neither of which are particularly helpful. Sollux doesn't use weapons so inventory is of limited help, and he's already maxed out his mortal echeladder. He'd have to become a god to get any stronger.

More relevant is his telekinesis. His continent shaking psychic powers that can reach you from a completely different universe. Universes contain infinite timelines in Homestuck and psychic powers, Sollux's included, can attack you from different Universes all together. From Rose blowing up Eridan's computer to a universe away to Tavros mind controlling Bec all the way from his reality. No need to respond to assholes online when you can mske their computers explode from anywhere in the world!

Wait, if Tav can control Bequeral, why didn't he just do that to Bec Noir? Sollux can also control animals, but not to the same extent as Tavros. Largely just putting himself or other animals, like bees, to sleep. And his optic blast eye lasers are powerful enough to blow apart buildings.

Unfortunately, some of his powers are more a curse than anything else. Thanks to his ties to the Aspect of Doom, he can hear the last words of the soon to be dead from anywhere in the world, which, when mixed with his bipolar disorder, results in crippling depressive episodes.

He's also a master hacker, proficient in the ~ATH programming language. This allows him to alter the code of reality itself, letting him create curses that follow you for the rest of your life or alter reality until the universe ends. This is more of a prep time thing, though, and not really relevant in a one on one.

Resistances

....Does the Medium count as space? Because if so, he should resist the cosmic radiations present in space. Nothing else really though and he's pretty explicitly weak to getting mind haxed.

Skills and Intelligence

Putting aside the supergenius hacker with reality breaking code, thing, Sollux is skilled enough in a fight to repeatedly stalemate Eridan and overall skilled enough to crush the Kingdom of Derse in 25 days with the rest of his team. Derse being a Kingdom that has been at war with Prospit since the beginning of the universe, locked in eternal stalemate. Not bad.

Conclusion

I'll be honest, I've been planning this post for awhile and this all took me a few weeks to throw together. Even still, I could never have expected Immeasurable Sollux to come up as a possibility in my research. Homestuck somehow gets more overpowered the more I go picking through it.

That aside, where would you power scale Sollux? Do you agree with the above? Or would you rank him a bit lower?

#fictional throwdown fridays #sollux captor #homestuck #how strong is?#power scaling #aradia megido #doc scratch #john egbert #bec noir #gamzee makara

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female-malice · 2 years ago

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Late on Saturday, as members of Congress scrambled to strike a deal for legislation that would raise the nation’s debt ceiling, they agreed to a total non sequitur in the text they would release the next day. After a series of late-in-the-game interventions by lobbyists and energy executives, the draft bill declared the construction and operation of a natural gas pipeline to be “required in the national interest.” It wasn’t really germane to the debt ceiling, at least not in the literal sense. But then again, it wasn’t any ordinary pipeline.

Building the Mountain Valley Pipeline, a 303-mile conduit to deliver fracked gas from West Virginia to southern Virginia, has been a top priority for Senator Joe Manchin III of West Virginia since the project was announced in 2014. The problem, for him and the project’s other supporters, is that it has been fiercely opposed by grass-roots groups and landowners living in the project’s path for just as long. Construction on the project was recently stalled after federal judges found that regulatory agencies had repeatedly failed to comply with environmental laws.

By forcing through this pipeline, the Biden administration rounded out the ransom sought by Republicans holding the global economy hostage and paid off a debt of its own to Mr. Manchin for his crucial vote last year for the Inflation Reduction Act.

But if the Senate passes the bill the House passed on Wednesday, an insidious piece of misinformation will be enshrined in federal law: the claim that the pumping, piping and burning of more fossil fuels is — despite all scientific evidence and common sense to the contrary — a climate solution.

Natural gas is predominantly made up of methane, a climate-warming superpollutant that is responsible for about a third of the warming the world has experienced to date. If completed, the M.V.P. will be a very large and long-lived methane delivery device. At the wells that feed it and along the way, some of that methane will inevitably leak into the atmosphere, where each molecule will exert 86 times the heat-trapping power of carbon dioxide over 20 years. At the end of the line, the methane will be burned in power plants and furnaces, producing carbon dioxide. Taken together, by one estimate, the M.V.P. would generate yearly emissions equivalent to what’s produced by 26 coal plants.

And yet the bill’s text asserts — in a brazen stroke of climate gaslighting — that the pipeline will “reduce carbon emissions and facilitate the energy transition.”

Businesses and governments have long claimed gas was a bridge to a clean energy future, a transition fuel that would tide us over until renewables were ready for prime time. But now that wind, solar and battery storage are indeed quite ready and, in many places, cheaper than gas, the jig is up. That makes the M.V.P. a project in search of a rationale: There are cheaper sources of gas available via existing pipelines, and the U.S. Energy Information Administration projects that demand for gas in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast regions will continue to drop off in the years and decades ahead.

Though the assertions that the pipeline is necessary and good for the climate defy logic, the political calculus is clear enough. Congressional Democrats and President Biden want to reward Mr. Manchin, who is weighing whether to run in what is sure to be a tough re-election fight in 2024.

Mr. Manchin was also a supporter of another large gas pipeline that would have originated in his state: the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, which I have been reporting on since 2019. The two pipelines were twins, announced on the same day in 2014 and approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on the same day in 2017. They would have crossed similarly steep and landslide-prone Appalachian terrain. But the Atlantic Coast Pipeline was canceled in 2020 after years of tenacious grass-roots resistance and legal challenges.

Mr. Manchin seems determined to rescue the M.V.P. from this fate. And with it, his gas industry and power utility donors — whose lobbyists helped him in the final hours of debt ceiling deal making — will be able to further strengthen their hold on the energy system.

White House officials have said that the project would probably have secured the remaining federal permits regardless. But the provision authorizes all necessary permits and bars further judicial review of any of them — thus neutering an essential tool for ensuring that infrastructure projects comply with existing laws and regulations. It’s the legislative equivalent of overturning the Scrabble board in a fit of pique when you’re losing a game fair and square.

For many of those living in the project’s path, who watched as its construction has so far triggered over 500 recorded violations of water quality and other regulations, it’s a terrible betrayal. But it also sets a dangerous precedent. It is safe to assume this won’t be the last time this tactic is pursued to shield fossil fuel projects from judicial review or scientific scrutiny if they happen to be deemed by their developers and political allies to be in the national interest.

Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia has cited this risk in explaining his opposition to the M.V.P. provision. When Mr. Manchin succeeded in getting a similar carve-out attached to the continuing budget resolution to fund the government last September, Mr. Kaine refused to vote for it. “If the M.V.P. owners are unhappy with a court ruling, they should do what other litigants do and appeal,” he said. “Allowing them to fundamentally change federal law to achieve their goal would surely encourage other wealthy people and companies to try the same. I won’t participate in opening that door to abuse and even corruption.”

Mr. Kaine, along with other Democratic members of the Virginia congressional delegation, remains opposed; this week he said he’s against any debt-ceiling bill that exempts the M.V.P. from judicial review. Meanwhile one of the lead Republican negotiators told reporters this week the pipeline provision is a “huge win” for his party because it puts “Democrats on record supporting a conventional energy project that removes or ties the hands of the judiciary.”

Democratic leaders will surely bristle at the suggestion that they are helping the gas industry obstruct the transition to clean energy. After all, they passed the Inflation Reduction Act, the most significant climate legislation in U.S. history, and protected its raft of clean energy incentives from cuts in the debt ceiling deal. It’s clear that the deal makers regard themselves as the grown-ups in the room, making the tough trade-offs needed to avert financial catastrophe. But when the stakes are this large, one need not grant them that deference.

There’s always a political “crisis” gathering on the near horizon that will supersede concerns about the climate — that will cause us to look away from the dizzying rise of methane concentrations, currently spiking to levels not seen in over 800,000 years, a trend tracking with the worst-case climate scenarios.

This is what it looks like to shuffle along toward climate chaos, one misguided compromise at a time.

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1945 02 Rover Patrol - Richard Taylor

After D-Day in June 1944, and the capture of Germany's U-Boat bases in northern France, Hitler ordered his remaining fleet, and particularly his submarines, to bases in Norway. Occupied by the Germans since 1940, the Norwegian fjords, with their narrow inlets and steep mountainous backdrops, offered unique protection; however submarines departing and returning to Norway from their oceanic operations immediately attracted the attention of RAF Coastal Command. Operating from two airfields in northern Scotland were the Banff and Dallachy Strike Wings, their sole purpose was to attack all German shipping along the Norwegian coast, and they fought a bitter and dangerous campaign against Hitler's once mighty submarine fleet. Heavily defended by shore batteries, Flak ships with terrible firepower, and marauding Luftwaffe fighters, the Mosquitos and Beaufighters of Coastal Command came under intense fire during almost every sortie they flew. Powered by two big Merlin engines, fastest of these fighter-bombers was the sleek, all-wood highly manoeuvrable two-seat Mosquito. Armed with four 20mm cannon, four .303 Browning machine guns, and with eight 251b solid armour-piercing rockets, this graceful strike aircraft packed a lethal punch. Typically, sorties began in the dark, with pilots flying loose formation at 50 feet across the North Sea, to arrive over the target area at first light. Then, the ever-present barrage of defensive gunfire as pilots hurtled past sheer cliff faces, twisted and turned through narrow sounds, and dived in pursuit of their prey. Suddenly, from the quiet peace of early dawn, the still air was shattered by the roar of Merlins, rockets, gunfire, and explosions, resounding off mountain sides in a deafening cacophony of battle. And within minutes they were gone, leaving a trail of smoke, twisted metal, and another nail in the coffin of the Third Reich. Richard Taylor's painting presents a fine study of a lone Mosquito FB MkVI of 143 Squadron, part of a larger formation of the Banff Strike Wing, high over the Norwegian fjords on an armed rover patrol to seek out enemy surface shipping and submarines, in February 1945. The beauty of the early morning sun, glinting on the snow-covered mountain-tops, contrasts with the menacing job in hand. Bravery, inordinate flying skills, and determination were a prerequisite for the crews of Coastal Strike Command.

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r3iyo · 8 months ago

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Random quotes from us(and context) bc I'm bored as shi' (looked through a bunch of quotes in a quotes channel)

Blake(I'm assuming it was Blake bc we weren't proxying:

"the hamburgers squeeze me

(i am being held captive by quarter pounders)

(please help me)"

So we have an inside joke that started bc we choked on a McDonald's quarter pounder (blake chokes on a quarter pounder and fucking dies asmr), and he said that after one of our friends said that they squeeze hamburgers

I don't actually know abt Kaz since he hasn't fronted in a while...

303:

"I BURNT WATER"

303 can't cook, he usually either burns himself or the food, and we're assuming that the water burnt bc he put salt in it and left it

Idk about our lost silver

Xander:

"NOT THE ANDROID BATTERY KICKBALL"

Someone sent a video after finding out we have an android of someone dropping an android, the battery flying out, and the person kicks it back and forth with someone else

Idrk about hoarfrost

Glitchy:

"GUYS HELP MY BLANKET IS TRYING TO TRAP ME IT'S TRYING TO CONTAIN THE SILLINESS HELP CRIES WAILS SQUIRMS LIKE A CAT STUCK IN A SOCK"

Self explanatory

Silver:

"I'M NOT A GAY BOY!!!"

One of our friends was playing SoulSilver and sent a screenshot of the in-game silver and said "gay boy envountered"

Guardian doesn't really openly front so we can't find any quotes of him

Kai:

"guys!!!!!!! i'm telling you i'm an alpha!!!!!!!!!just because i don't know 2+2 doesn't mean i'm an omega.............. howls sadly......... 🐺"

Omega and alpha are math symbols i believe, and one of our partners mentioned that while Kai was making alpha male jokes

Idk about Candle

Idk about null either (null doesn't speak)

Ethan:

No context needed

Me(i don't even know who i am rn??? Anyways):

We eat a lot of expired stuff

#questioning system #system quotes #plural system #system stuff #plurality

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Looking For a Tesla Powerwall Installer Near Me We’ve Got You Covered

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OPPO Pad 3 Pro: Powerful AI Performance Experience

The OPPO Pad 3 Pro is a powerful device that enhances the AI experience.

OPPO Pad 3 Pro, which offers a unified and integrated experience across devices, and the global launch of its flagship OPPO Find X8 series. With an AI-enhanced suite, eight stereo speakers, and a 12.1-inch 3K display, the OPPO Pad 3 Pro is powered by the flagship-level Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Mobile Platform Leading Version. The OPPO Pad 3 Pro meets customers’ demands for creativity, entertainment, and productivity with a smooth blend of performance and adaptability.

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