#600 years of beef

[bee-arts]

i am once again asking for fruk in-universe memes

Ask and you shall receive!

I drew inspiration from some memes made by @netherzon for this. The Wikipedia ones were too funny to ignore.

[ssbuwaifus-icorrectqs]

Stop using those horrible blandass Fire Emblem characters and Bayonetta!! Such terrible disgraces to society! And you’re reinforcing them! Stop using them or be banned from all video games.

Sweetheart, you should just not follow what you don't like

Learn this early, and life will be easier

Focus on doing your thing/own blog, cuz I won't stop to post about the games I like any time soon

Hope we can be friends, xoxo

[yotaasuke]

Why have I only just found out that Hadrian’s wall isn’t the Scottish English border anymore

[iamthepulta]

@joemomrgneissguy SPACE MINING. HO BOY.

So when mining comes into a conversation, there are several 'laws' of mining and processing that I like to consider that people tend to forget:

Location and rarity of commodity

Location and rarity of extraction techniques/reagents

What is necessary for this operation to work?

Where does the finished product go?

Some of these are extraneous. Theoretically, we don't have to care that iron is common on earth and might be present on the moon, so it changes the conversation from "why?" to "how would we?". Same with extraction and reagents. If you don't care how expensive it is to ship- for example: water and carbon dioxide to the moon because you want to process He-3, nothing can stop you.

However, what will stop planning, is processing. Blowing up a rock is easy. Collecting the rock and breaking it into a usable form is not. If there isn't a plan for exactly what commodity is being mined and how to separate it and all the equipment that needs to be made to get it into a usable form, and a plan to get that equipment into space. God help the poor bastard.

And fundamentally, no matter HOW you turn it, people use the finished product. If there are no people where you are mining the Thing, you need to have a way for the Thing to get back to the people who need it. WHY are you mining the Thing? What is economic about the Thing being made? and Is it worth the money?

[angry geologist rant under the cut]

So the thing about space and asteroids is metals come in native form a lot of the time because there's nothing to oxidize them; it makes processing simpler and the density increases profit. This is usually what people talk about when they go off about space mining: Ohh, if we just reach this asteroid 400 years away there's so much Gold and Platinum! Ohh, if we just crashed a FUCKING ASTEROID INTO EARTH OR MARS we could be so rich!

However this is a LIE for two reasons: It's actually harder to process straight sulfides or straight metal because they aren't brittle. Instead of breaking into smaller pieces you can separate and process, they jam the crusher. Universities with mining departments often have huge chunks of impressive high-grade sitting around that were donated by companies when they jammed their fucking system. If you can't break it down, it's a useless fucking clump of rock.

Secondly, even if you have native metals clumped together like an iron-nickel asteroid, unless you want an iron-nickel product, you have to separate them. Since it's not brittle, you would have to pour a bunch of hydrochloric on it and wait for the reaction to dissolve the outer surface.

And all this is assuming the metals are on Earth. If not, you have to figure out how to do this in space. How much HCl will you need? How are you going to fly it up there? How are you going to break it down? How are you going to replace parts when they inevitably break?

The big "commodity" on the moon is Helium-3, which is extremely rare on Earth. (So yes, we have a need, and yes, there's substantial reason to mine it in a place where it's more accessible.) The logic starts breaking down around "getting it back" and "how does the operation work": In moon quantities (up to 15 parts per billion (ppb)), you have to mine about 150 tons to extract 1g of He-3. That's not unreasonable, to be honest, since economic gold hovers around 7-12 ppb. And technically you'd only have to heat the rock to 600-700 C. However, things do melt at those temperatures. Then you have to get it back to earth. Either a SpaceX-style return and come back, or a drop shipments- It's just insane to me though that we would use SO MANY RESOURCES to rip up the fucking moon, even with an automated system, when if you look at He-3 we already produce what equals 11 pounds of He-3 yearly from Oil and Gas deposits, it's just not collected.

I have more beef with planets that are theoretically resource-rich, but people just- don't care about getting them back to Earth? Venus has significant metal-Sulfides and Tellurides in its atmosphere, which is why people joke about the "floating oxygen colonies" on Venus. But congratulations! You've colonized a planet that is inaccessible to human technology because anything we've ever designed will dissolve. Same with Europa. To design something that works on Venus - not to mention extracts things in the proper form to be used in human conditions - and/or get them back to Earth means redesigning how we think of the properties of the periodic table.

With extraction, we play a lot with oxidation states, and one of the rules is to stay within Earth's aqueous conditions. If you oxidize anything too much, your solution will want to vaporize to oxygen. Reduce anything too much, and your solution will want to vaporize to hydrogen gas.

So, if you design anything on Earth designed for conditions on Venus, it will be unstable. If you design anything on Venus meant for Earth, it will be unstable.

Which is kind of the end of my rant, I guess. Don't crash something into Earth unless you can process it. If you can process it in space, can you get it back? Who's responsible when the thing breaks? Why the fuck is money being spent when 9 times out of 10 we have it here on earth with the conditions we're familiar with?

If we've somehow depleted Earth enough that we need resources from other planets, which would insinuate we have not figured out how to recycle our own metals, which is untrue, and likewise we have no business in space anyway- Where did all our resources go? Are we leaving for those other planets? Do we have faster-than-light travel to collect the new resources in a timely manner?

There isn't even water in space half the time and if you do have a colony on Mars and tech bros are going to process all the hematite to build their shitty underground Martian city, are they shipping water from the north and south poles to do this? Have they figured out how to renew the carbon filters that are going to be needed to get all the waste and organics out of it once it's used?

In my opinion, it's all just fucking stupid. Space mining tries to answer a question that doesn't need to be asked with people who don't know how mineral processing works who haven't thought what the logistics require and don't care that entropy demands even minerals in stasis don't last forever. But it's ~new~ and the dollar signs on metallic asteroids gleam in their eyes and I want to take out Elon Musk's kneecaps.

[hermitw]

I think at this point that Sukuna (and Uraume, and likely all of the other reincarnated sorcerers) were under a pact to protect (or at least not harm) kenjaku.

Sukuna and Uraume were both uncomfortable with Yorozu (all 4 of Sukuna's eyes looked dead inside, dissociating in different directions, like a freeze response), and they both attacked her - during the Heian era when she had a high social status and there could be consequences. They didn't tolerate the disrespect of personal boundaries.

On that note, Sukuna wore a mask (Megkuna) in order to face her a thousand years later (I think he preferred that form not just bc he fit into the way everything is built physically, but bc it was like dying your hair to feel like a different person, a reflection less connected to your past memories). It feels intentional that Sukuna had to relive his own trauma in order to repress Megumi - continuing the cycle of abuse.

Kashimo Hajime wanted to fight Sukuna - but never seemed to consider Kenjaku as an opponent. Kashimo only agreed to Kenjaku's plan in order to reach Sukuna, since he was born 600 years too late.

Uro definitely had beef with Kenjaku, but she never sought after him. Like she would have preferred to forget that he exists - but Uro really seems like someone who would attack him if she could.

In ch. 239 (right before takaba vs. Kenjaku), a sorcerer who very much resembles Uro is raging about the way he gave them a second life just to take it away, that's cruel, what does he even want? And he kills them.

Then there's the other guy who wants to attack kenjaku, but was hoping for Gojo to come take his side after defeating Sukuna. And kenjaku is just laying on the ground, unbothered, as he does.

In the month that Kenjaku spent with Sukuna for protection from Gojo - it's clear that they didn't want him around. But they didn't have the power to even kick him out.

And... Yeah this post is bc I was thinking about the time sukuna killed Nanako and Mimiko. That no one else's head exploded like that. It felt personal, despite all their submission and fear.

The common interpretation is that Sukuna didn't like to feel manipulated or told what to do, but over the location of a finger? That's too petty, I think.

I think what really set him off was Kenjaku's manipulation, his chains, that Sukuna wasn't free enough to lash out at the one who put him in the cage in the first place. That hurt - but he also couldn't show that vulnerability. So he had to cover it up with his edgelord "I'm so evil I kill bc I feel like it" narrative.

Then he distracted himself with Jogo, who might have given him more fingers but didn't bow as low... I always thought it was weird that Sukuna offered his service to someone who didn't respect him so much.

But I don't think he was really putting himself in that position - or, like all the binding vows, it was a way to relive his trauma on his own terms. With a curse that could entertain him, but not overpower.

[kittehbiscuits]

please tell me about your keatlejuice thoughts i am desperate for an analysis of him that isn’t just Evil

EDIT BC APPARENTLY PUTTING IT ALL OVER THE TAGS WASN'T ENOUGH: BEETLEBABES DNI!!!! HOLY SHIT DAWG PLEASE I'M BEGGING 🙏 😭

Omg haiiiii hiiii taps mic is this on yess hellow *shuffles with notes*

warning this will probably be a LONG post

enjoy :3

Ok. So. Keatlejuice. Movie Beetlejuice. 600 year old man. Alive during the 1300s AKA the black death in Europe (proved by the second movie). In the original script for the movie he is described as "vaguely middle-eastern" which is probably racist BUT I have decided to interpret that as a potential ancestry for him.

In the musical he is heavily implied to be Jewish so I was thinkinggg maybe his family is a Jewish family that originated in the Middle East and migrated to Europe.

Every time I've tried to find how he died (pre-sequel) I find the same result but NO source for it. EVEN ON THE WIKI THERE ISN'T A SOURCE

ANYWAY this kind of paints a picture on his life when he was alive, the movie says he was a grave robber so obviously a peasant scraping by to survive. Betelgeuse is not someone who I can imagine surviving in any society based on. social skills. he's kind of a goofy silly guy I don't think he can relate to most of the people around him especially with disease rampant I don't think he has many people in his life. With this need for survival I think he's adopted quite the antisocial personality.

People around you die, you go through their pockets for cash, thus is life. Definitely not a pleasant person to be around and so I don't think he ever tries to be, even long after his death. He knows something is fundamentally wrong with him and he embraces that for the sake of survival.

I'm gonna be so honest I cast him with the MOMMY ISSUES BEAM GRAHHHH I'm sure his mother passed during his life due to disease or tons of other mideival shit. (I will bring this up later just put a pin in it) Betelgeuse is suuuuper silly goofy in the brain (depression and BPD possibly) and I personally imagine him as surprisingly. Calm. As a human. Not kind, but not exactly the manic personality he embraces in the movies.

It's near the end of his life when he believes there isn't anything left for him in life, he never grew or got better he only fell deeper into the deep pit of depravity he dug himself into. I think near the end is when he acted the most like his movie self, erratic and selfish not afraid to draw attention hoping it would make him feel better somehow.

So. I have absolutely no idea how he bagged Delores to be honest but in MY interpretation (with a mix of the sequel's lore) Delores dies, and I think that's his final straw. Either by his own hand or unrelated events losing her as the only thing of value in his shitty mideival peasant life means he's done for (he's 30-something btw). He cuts off her ring finger and hangs himself.

Of course, that isn't the end, He wakes up, still hanging, and rips and tears at the rope, shredding his nails and skin until finally it snaps dropping him to the floor. In a delirious state he looks around. A woman stands above him, slit throat wafting smoke, and tosses him a striped uniform.

Some backstory on prison uniforms:

Using this article and just some research from my memory, prison uniforms are made to identify a man as a criminal, to emasculate them and take away individuality. The stripes can even represent the bars of a prison cell, making the person wearing the uniform feel like they have no escape from their criminal identity. ANYWAYYYYY (sorry I have beef with the justice system)

Suicidees in the Neitherworld are made civil servants. It's their debt to pay for the crime of killing themselves and in the movie both Juno and Betelgeuse are among those ranks.

In my interpretation, when Betelgeuse dies Juno isn't at the rank she's at in the movie and she guides suicidees to their new job. As she rised the ranks, she employed Betelgeuse as an assistant (I don't really think he could find any other purpose for himself in this strange new afterlife, and it's not like he has a choice.)

This is where the mommy issues come in wheroeowheh soo Juno is an older woman and authority figure so I think *PLATONICALLY* Betelgeuse has sort of an attachement to her because of that, she's the only anchor he's got in the Neitherworld after all.

As he gets a better handle on things, he does what he always does, he finds shifty places to lurk and loopholes to slip through. Now that he's dead, he doesn't need to worry about his personal safety anymore (not that he did before) and being dead has given him powers he's never had before. He starts his bio-exorcism business a hundred or two years after dying. It's not really about the money, but the control it gives him and something he's *meant* to do, that he made for himself and wasn't picking from the scraps of others.

After a while he starts slacking on his civil services. So far he's ridden on Juno's coattails and found his way around the legal system easily enough so he uses it to help his guide job instead. He gets cocky, Juno is pissed because he's not doing any work after all she gave him (oughh mother thinking moment) and fires him. It goes over very poorly, Betelgeuse gets his nose broken (300 something years after death) And becomes purely a bio-exorcist.

OKAY THAT IS ALL FOR NOW honestly I could ramble forever but it's late and I must go but if anyone has any questions please feel free to ask!!!

(Also he's pansexual and genderfluid on top of all of that but he doesn't figure that out until the 90's)

[jangillman]

President Trump's Achievements

Hey!! What has Donald Trump done while he was in office (as at July, 2017)!!!

1.Supreme Court Judge Gorsuch

2.59 missiles dropped in Syria.

3.He took us out of TPP

4.Illegal immigration is now down 70%( the lowest in 17 years)

5.Consumer confidence highest since 2000 at index125.6

6.Mortgage applications for new homes rise to a 7 year high.

7.Arranged 20% Tariff on soft lumber from Canada.

8.Bids for border wall are well underway.

9.Pulled out of the lopsided Paris accord.

10.Keystone pipeline approved.

11.NATO allies boost spending by 4.3%

12.Allowing VA to terminate bad employees.

13.Allowing private healthcare choices for veterans.

14.More than 600,000. Jobs created

15. Median household income at a 7 year high.

16. The Stock Market is at the highest ever In its history.

17. China agreed to American import of beef.

18. $89 Billion saved in regulation rollbacks.

19. Rollback of A Regulation to boost coal mining.

20. MOAB for ISIS

21. Travel ban reinstated.

22. Executive order for religious freedom.

23. Jump started NASA

24. $600 million cut from UN peacekeeping budget.

25. Targeting of MS13 gangs

26. Deporting violent illegal immigrants.

27. Signed 41 bills to date

28. Created a commission on child trafficking

29. Created a commission on voter fraud

30. Created a commission for opioids addiction.

31. Giving power to states to drug test unemployment recipients.

32. Unemployment lowest since may 2007.

33. Historic Black College University initiative

34. Women In Entrepreneurship Act

35. Created an office or illegal immigrant crime victims.

36. Reversed Dodd-Frank

37. Repealed DOT ruling which would have taken power away from local governments for infrastructure planning

38. Order to stop crime against law enforcement.

39. End of DAPA program.

40. Stopped companies from moving out of America.

41. Promoted businesses to create American Jobs.

42. Encouraged country to once again

43. 'Buy American and hire American

44. Cutting regulations 2 for every one created.

45. Review of all trade agreements to make sure they are America first.

46. Apprentice program

47. Highest manufacturing surge in 3 years.

48 $78 Billion promised reinvestment from major businesses like Exxon, Bayer, Apple, SoftBank, Toyota...

49. Denied FBI a new building.

50. $700 million saved with F-35 renegotiation.

51. Saves $22 million by reducing white house payroll.

52. Dept of treasury reports a $182 billion surplus for April 2017

(2nd largest in history.

53. Negotiated the release of 6 US humanitarian workers held captive in egypt.

54. Gas prices lowest in more than 12 years.

55. Signed An Executive Order To Promote Energy Independence And Economic Growth

56. Has already accomplished more to stop government interference into people's lives than any President in the history of America.

57. President Trump has worked with Congress to pass more legislation in his first 100 days than any President since Truman.

58. Has given head executive of each branches 6 month time Frame dated march 15 2017, to trim the fat. restructure and improve efficacy of their branch.

Observe the pushback the leaks the lies as entrenched POWER refuses to go silently into that good night!

I hope each and every one of you copy and paste this everywhere, every time you hear some dim wit say Trump hadn't done a thing!

THANK YOU!!!

Oh, yeah, and there's this..........

[rogha]

The fact that there’s not 600 Billy Batson cartoons is a CRIME like he’s a little boy with a tragic backstory (that no one cares that much about being consistent with so you can just crank that up to 15) and he can turn into a grown man with superpowers? kids love a sad little orphan with hateful guardians like that’s the kind of cliche backstory that’s so fucking old we don’t know who the fuck made it up first and people still love it and the second thing they love is imagining what they��d do if they were grown ups and in charge. also kids love the idea of getting one over on adults. Its fun to watch peter parker lie badly to everyone around him and it would also be fun to watch Billy Batson not only lie to his regular life people but ALSO to the entire Justice League of Which He Is A Member. and it would be extremely funny to watch a bunch of adults unknowingly have interpersonal beef with a ten year old. like don’t get me wrong I liked the movie but he should have a children’s cartoon empire like spiderman or ben ten.

[thebananaiscold]

My Creeps Au General Headcanons (for Laughing Jack, Will, Frankie, Issac, and Ashley)

Laughing Jack:

Height: 9’2

Birthday: December 25th (around 250 years old)

Favorite Food: Candy (literally all candy, he prefers lollipops the most though)

Favorite Drink: Really sugary energy drinks (The pink starburst one is his favorite)

Favorite Colors: He says it’s Black, White, and Grey (he secretly likes the rainbow colors too and actually misses how he used to look)

Favorite Animals: Weasels/Ferrets and of course rats (he is the rodent king)

Favorite Holiday: Christmas (half because it’s his birthday, half because he genuinely enjoys literally everything about the holiday itself)

Smells Like: An abandoned carnival (a mix of stale popcorn, cotton candy, and a dirty musty smell)

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Will: 

Height: 5’11

Birthday:  September 16th (25 years old)

Favorite Food: Pepperoni Pizza 

Favorite Drink: Pepsi

Favorite Colors: Red, Blue, Black

Favorite Animals: Snakes, wolves, and dogs

Favorite Holiday: Probably thanksgiving (he likes the food and the fact that the week following the holiday, shit actually goes on sale so he can afford the things he wants)

Smells Like: previously like axe body spray and ass, but now he smells like green apple body wash (Ashley threatened to beat his ass with a sock filled with soap bars, if he didn’t take a shower.)

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Frankie: 

Height: 6’4

Birthday: November 13th (28 years old)

Favorite Food: Hot dogs

Favorite Drink: Coca Cola and Whiskey

Favorite Colors: Blue, Grey, and Black

Favorite Animals: Dogs (will actually cry if a small puppy licks him, but he loves older hound dogs too), cats, and Racoons (he feeds the Racoons hotdogs.) 

Favorite Holiday: Halloween

Smells Like: Cigarettes and expensive Cologne 

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Issac:

Height: 6’2

Birthday: October 25th (250 years old)

Favorite Food: Beef Stew

Favorite Drink: Everclear (the alcohol)

Favorite Colors: Sliver, Black, Midnight blue

Favorite Animals: Bears, Wolves, Spiders

Favorite Holiday: Christmas (Because he got Jack as a child then. He doesn’t miss Jack. He misses the power he had with the clown.)

Smells Like: Sage

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Ashley:

Height: 5’9

Birthday: August 6th (600 years old, stopped aging at 24 years old in human years)

Favorite Food: Chicken Pot Pie (it kind of reminds her of the meat and pastry type foods she ate growing up, but WAY better)

Favorite Drink: Hot Chocolate

Favorite Colors: Purple, Gold, Black

Favorite Animals: Birds, Cats, and Skunks (even though she hates how they smell, she loves them, especially baby skunks, she thinks they are so adorable.)

Favorite Holiday: Halloween

Smells like: A winter campfire/ toasted marshmallows 

[trukingofskeletonhell]

With that one post going around about Ferus eating sand and also maybe people, I have a few thoughts. Bear with me, It’s going to be long.

1. The general rule of thumb for how many calories a person needs is roughly 1,000 calories per 100 lbs of body mass. This isn’t taking into account things like puberty or growth spurts, or the fact that being active/having more muscle mass tends to mean you need more food because you expend more energy, or the fact the metabolic rates vary among most people. As an example, I weigh somewhere around 180lbs. I’m fairly tall, lift weights and hike with some frequency, and have a fairly normal metabolic rate. I need somewhere around 2,800-3,100 calories just to maintain my current bodyweight, mostly because I’m pretty active. My sister, who is much shorter and smaller than me, not as active, and who as far I know has a fairly average metabolic rate, probably needs something like 1,800-2,000 ish calories a day. Now, I could eat much less than the amount I do and really cut it down to about 1,800 a day for a bare minimum and my sister could go even lower. But, it would suck ass. I would have no energy for doing things, wouldn’t be able to think straight, and it would probably fuck with my emotions pretty badly. 1,800 would be the bare minimum to simply not starve for me.

Now, I’ve done some math, and based on things like square cube law and the fact that average height for a Primarch is 10′, their average weight would probably be somewhere between 900-1100 lbs, depending on their exact build. That means, at a minimum, would suck to be alive, not starving to death amount, a Primarch would need 9,000 calories worth of food a day. To put that into perspective, there are something like 290-365 calories worth of food in a normal grilled cheese sandwich. That’s something like, 20-30 of those to satisfy the bare minimum caloric needs of a Primarch for a single day, assuming you have nothing else on hand for some reason. This does not take into account the fact that they’re probably pretty active, generally just jacked, and seem to a have much higher metabolic rate than normal humans. They probably need something more like 15,000+ calories a day, even more if they’re like Magnus the Red and just happen to be fucking hugelarge.

A pound of beef is roughly 217-254 calories worth of food, with substantially more protein than a grilled cheese.There are usually between 400-600 pounds of meat on a cow, not counting the organs and bones. That’s about 86,000-130,000 calories of food, or enough to keep a Primarch fed for a bit more than a week, perhaps even more if they decide to eat the organs and bones. This amount of food is also more than enough to keep a large family fed for like, a year, or at least most of one.

What I’m saying is Primarchs need a frankly absurd/horrifying amount of food to the point where I no longer wonder why Ferus decided to eat literal sand and probably people. Dude was definitely starving. Most of them probably were. You would need to be literal royalty or at least obscenely rich in order to source enough food to feed an actively growing Primarch. Grocery bills must be insane.

2. Primarch puberty must be a horrible affair for everyone involved. When I went through puberty the first time around, I just sort of went through a really big growth spurt where it just sort of happened all at once. I grew, like a foot and half in a year. I discovered forms of hormone-fueled emotion that were previously known only to deep-sea shrimp. I was tired and hungry all the time. My literal, actual, holding-up-my-body bones hurt because they were growing so fast. I wanted to sleep almost all of the time. The rest of the time I either wanted to eat or fight things because of a combination of hormones and hunger. I did some stupid shit, as all teenagers do. I Imagine Primarch puberty is like a very, very extreme version of that. They would outgrow clothes and probably furniture by the week, if not the day. Eat an entire week’s worth of food in a single meal. Sleep for like, a week and nearly starve to death because of previously mentioned absurd caloric needs. Probably try to fight their entire neighborhood and actually win, because what in the galaxy could actually physically stop them? I can’t even imagine the stupid, hormone fueled nonsense a teenage Primarch would get up to, because again, what could stop them? You could probably use their sweat as steroids, given the probably absurd of amount of testosterone and human growth hormone flowing through their veins. It’s not unreasonable to assume that some Primarchs who came from more humble backgrounds, like Vulkan, literally outgrew their homes. Imagine you’re at a stage of physical and mental development where most people cope with stress by listening to edgy music and that happens to you. What do you even do then? You can’t go be sad in your room because you’re literally too big for it. You can’t  fit inside your own house and public infrastructure is probably too small for you. How horribly alienating that must be. Not to mention the mere expense of your existence would be enough to bankrupt a small nation. It must be upsetting just being alive at that point. They probably all need so much therapy.

[spicykaraage]

Tenipuri Complete Character Profile - Keigo Atobe

[PROFILE]

Birthday: October 4th (Libra)

Blood Type: A

Relatives: Grandfather, Grandmother, Father, Mother (Eiko Atobe)

Father’s Occupation: Company Executive (security company)

Elementary School: King’s Primary School (UK)

Middle School: Hyotei Academy Junior High School

Grade & Class: Third Year | Class 3-A | Seat 1

Club: Tennis Club (Captain)

Committee: Student Council (President)

Strong Subjects: All (especially German and Greek)

Weak Subjects: None

Frequently Visited Spot at School: His personal sofa in the Student Council Room, Principal’s Office

World Cup Team: U-17 World Cup Japanese Representatives (Junior Youth Captain)

Favorite Motto: “Adel sitzt Gemüt, nicht im Geblüt.” (Nobility is in the mind, not in the blood.)

Daily Routines: Drinking (non-alcoholic) champagne after taking a bath

Hobbies: Fly-fishing, reading, playing the piano [23.5]

Favorite Color: Gold, Black

Favorite Music: Classical (Wagner)

Favorite Movie: European films whether new or old

Favorite Book: Shakespeare’s works, books by J.R.R. Tolkien [23.5]

Favorite Food: Roast beef with Yorkshire pudding, Prince of Wales black tea [23.5]

Favorite Anniversary: August 14th

Preferred Type: A strong-willed person, a person who is proud of who they are [23.5]

Ideal Date Spot: Cruising in the southern islands ➜ Viewing the Northern Lights in Northern Europe [23.5]

His Gift for a Special Person: “Time with me.”

Where He Wants to Travel: The entire galaxy

Thing He Wants Most Right Now: A new tennis court ➜ He gets whatever he wants [23.5]

Dislikes: Arthropods ➜ None [23.5]

Skills Outside of Tennis: Fencing, ballroom dancing, runway walking [23.5]

Spends Allowance On: Treating his club members

Routine During the World Cup: Scenario training for his matches

[DATA]

Height: 175cm ➜ 178cm [23.5]

Weight: 62kg ➜ 63kg [23.5]

Shoe Size: 26.5cm

Dominant Arm: Right

Vision: 2.0 Left & Right

Play Style: All-Rounder

Signature Moves: Rondo to Destruction, Insight, Tannhäuser Serve, World of Ice, Fugue to Despair, Gigue to Lamentation, Atobe Kingdom [23.5], Ice Emperor [23.5]

Time He Wakes Up: 6:00am

Time He Goes to Sleep: 11:30pm

Number of Privately Owned Tennis Courts: 11 in Japan, 7 overseas

Favorite Brands:

Racquet: HEAD (PREMIER TOUR 600)

Shoes: HEAD (C.Tech 1000 OM)

Overall Rating: Speed: 4 / Power: 4 / Stamina: 5 / Mental: 4.5 / Technique: 6 / Total: 23.5

Kurobe Memo: “Atobe is the reigning king, and it’s good that he’s not the type that sits on his throne and does nothing. The ambition he has that comes from his great pride acts as the stimulus for his growth. I do not have any major requests. I would just like to see him master his beautiful techniques.” [RB]

[POSSESSIONS]

What’s in His Bag:

Cell phone (Vodafone)

Cell phone (FOMA)

Cell phone

Cell phone

Cell phone (PHS)

Lip balm

Perfume

Foreign books // He’s recently gotten into Goethe’s poems in their original writing

Compact mirror // Gilded with vibrant gold

What’s in His Locker at the U-17 Training Camp:

Smartphone

iPhone

Feature phone

Perfume

Lip balm

Towel

What’s in His Locker [C&S]:

Laptop

Documents

Business administration books // He’s been studying the subject on his own

A sample report of the Hyotei Tennis Club supporters

Stuffed animals made by Kabaji’s younger sister // Given to him as thanks for always playing with Kabaji. He was very happy to receive them and has them displayed with great care

[bee-arts]

*posh voice* The adventures in the unions of Sir Arthur Kirkland and Francis Bonnefoy continue. All American Cooking edition.

I love Al and Matt. I literally live for them, so of course I have to make it about them.

[atombombbaby]

Told ya this was going to happen. And by "this," I mean the US getting more dangerous (largely due to right-wing violence), and the Philippines getting safer, and that the two would soon flip positions on the World Safety Index.

So everyone who was clutching their pearls about "You're moving to the PHILIPPINES? Isn't it DANGEROUS there?" can suck it. I think there's been ONE mass shooting in the Philippines the entire time I've lived here--while the US has had over 600 so far just this year.

Violence here is generally targeted--meaning that if you take common-sense precautions and avoid starting beef, you're probably good.

OOPS! WRONG BLOG LEMME REBLOG THIS TO MY MAIN AT @anexperimentallife

[dertaglichedan]

Today that number is over 5500

Another one bites the dust. 97 and counting.

While the fire seems insignificant, it's part of a much larger issue of a spate of "accidental fires," one by one, taking out America's food supply chain over the past year.

Here's a list of 97 so far:

1/11/21 A fire that destroyed a 75,000-square-foot processing plant in Fayetteville

4/30/21 A fire ignited inside the Smithfield Foods pork processing plant in Monmouth, IL

7/25/21 Three-alarm fire at Kellogg plant in Memphis, 170 emergency personnel responded to the call

7/30/21 Firefighters on Friday battled a large fire at Tyson's River Valley Ingredients plant in Hanceville, Alabama

8/23/21 Fire crews were called to the Patak Meat Production company on Ewing Road in Austell

9/13/21 A fire at the JBS beef plant in Grand Island, Neb., on Sunday night forced a halt to slaughter and fabrication lines

10/13/21 A five-alarm fire ripped through the Darigold butter production plant in Caldwell, ID

11/15/21 A woman is in custody following a fire at the Garrard County Food Pantry

11/29/21 A fire broke out around 5:30 p.m. at the Maid-Rite Steak Company meat processing plant

12/13/21 West Side food processing plant in San Antonio left with smoke damage after a fire

1/7/22 Damage to a poultry processing plant on Hamilton's Mountain following an overnight fire

1/13/22 Firefighters worked for 12 hours to put a fire out at the Cargill-Nutrena plant in Lecompte, LA

1/31/22 a fertilizer plant with 600 tons of ammonium nitrate inside caught on fire on Cherry Street in Winston-Salem

2/3/22 A massive fire swept through Wisconsin River Meats in Mauston

2/3/22 At least 130 cows were killed in a fire at Percy Farm in Stowe

2/15/22 Bonanza Meat Company goes up in flames in El Paso, Texas

2/15/22 Nearly a week after the fire destroyed most of the Shearer's Foods plant in Hermiston

2/16/22 A fire had broken at US largest soybean processing and biodiesel plant in Claypool, Indiana

2/18/22 An early morning fire tore through the milk parlor at Bess View Farm

2/19/22 Three people were injured, and one was hospitalized, after an ammonia leak at Lincoln Premium Poultry in Fremont

2/22/22 The Shearer's Foods plant in Hermiston caught fire after a propane boiler exploded

2/28/22 A smoldering pile of sulfur quickly became a raging chemical fire at Nutrien Ag Solutions

2/28/22 A man was hurt after a fire broke out at the Shadow Brook Farm and Dutch Girl Creamery

3/4/22 294,800 chickens destroyed at farm in Stoddard, Missouri

3/4/22 644,000 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Cecil, Maryland

3/8/22 243,900 chickens destroyed at egg farm in New Castle, Delaware

3/10/22 663,400 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Cecil, MD

3/10/22 915,900 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Taylor, IA

3/14/22 The blaze at 244 Meadow Drive was discovered shortly after 5 p.m. by farm owner Wayne Hoover

3/14/22 2,750,700 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Jefferson, Wisconsin

3/16/22 A fire at a Walmart warehouse distribution center has cast a large plume of smoke visible throughout Indianapolis.

3/16/22 Nestle Food Plant extensively damaged in fire and new production destroyed Jonesboro, Arkansas

3/17/22 5,347,500 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Buena Vista, Iowa

3/17/22 147,600 chickens destroyed at farm in Kent, Delaware

3/18/22 315,400 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Cecil, Maryland

3/22/22 172,000 Turkeys destroyed on farms in South Dakota

3/22/22 570,000 chickens destroyed at farm in Butler, Nebraska

3/24/22 Fire fighters from numerous towns are battling a major fire at the McCrum potato processing facility in Belfast.

3/24/22 418,500 chickens destroyed at farm in Butler, Nebraska

3/25/22 250,300 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Franklin, Iowa

3/26/22 311,000 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota

3/27/22 126,300 Turkeys destroyed in South Dakota

3/28/22 1,460,000 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Guthrie, Iowa

3/29/22 A massive fire burned 40,000 pounds of food meant to feed people in a food desert near Maricopa

3/31/22 A structure fire caused significant damage to a large portion of key fresh onion packing facilities in south Texas

3/31/22 76,400 Turkeys destroyed in Osceola, Iowa

3/31/22 5,011,700 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Osceola, Iowa

4/6/22 281,600 chickens destroyed at farm in Wayne, North Carolina

4/9/22 76,400 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota

4/9/22 208,900 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota

4/12/22 89,700 chickens destroyed at farm in Wayne, North Carolina

4/12/22 1,746,900 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Dixon, Nebraska

4/12/22 259,000 chickens destroyed at farm in Minnesota

4/13/22 fire destroys East Conway Beef & Pork Meat Market in Conway, New Hampshire

4/13/22 Plane crashes into Gem State Processing, Idaho potato and food processing plant

4/13/22 77,000 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota

4/14/22 Taylor Farms Food Processing plant burns down Salinas, California.

4/14/22 99,600 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota

4/15/22 1,380,500 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Lancaster, Minnesota

4/19/22 Azure Standard nation's premier independent distributor of organic and healthy food, was destroyed by fire in Dufur, Oregon

4/19/22 339,000 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota

4/19/22 58,000 chickens destroyed at farm in Montrose, Color

4/20/22 2,000,000 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Minnesota

4/21/22 A small plane crashed in the lot of a General Mills plant in Georgia

4/22/22 197,000 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota

4/23/22 200,000 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota

4/25/22 1,501,200 chickens destroyed at egg farm Cache, Utah

4/26/22 307,400 chickens destroyed at farm Lancaster Pennsylvania

4/27/22 2,118,000 chickens destroyed at farm Knox, Nebraska

4/28/22 Egg-laying facility in Iowa kills 5.3 million chickens, fires 200-plus workers

4/28/22 Allen Harim Foods processing plant killed nearly 2M chickens in Delaware

4/2822 110,700 Turkeys destroyed Barron Wisconsin

4/29/22 1,366,200 chickens destroyed at farm Weld Colorado

4/30/22 13,800 chickens destroyed at farm Sequoia Oklahoma

5/3/22 58,000 Turkeys destroyed Barron Wisconsin

5/3/22 118,900 Turkeys destroyed Beadle S Dakota

5/3/22 114,000 ducks destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania

5/3/22 118,900 Turkeys destroyed Lyon Minnesota

5/7/22 20,100 Turkeys destroyed Barron Wisconsin

5/10/22 72,300 chickens destroyed at farm Lancaster Pennsylvania

5/10/22 61,000 ducks destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania

5/10/22 35,100 Turkeys destroyed Muskegon, Michigan

5/13/22 10,500 Turkeys destroyed Barron Wisconsin

5/14/22 83,400 ducks destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania

5/17/22 79,00 chickens destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania

5/18/22 7,200 ducks destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania

5/19/22 Train carrying limestone derailed Jensen Beach FL

5/21/22 57,000 Turkeys destroyed on farm in Dakota Minnesota

5/23/22 4,000 ducks destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania

5/29/22 A Saturday night fire destroyed a poultry building at Forsman Farms

5/31/22 3,000,000 chickens destroyed by fire at Forsman facility in Stockholm Township, Minnesota

6/2/22 30,000 ducks destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania

6/7/22 A fire occurred Tuesday evening at the JBS meat packing plant in Green Bay.

6/8/22 Firefighters from Tangipahoa Fire District 1 respond to a fire at the Purina Feed Mill in Arcola

6/9/22 Irrigation water was canceled in California (the #1 producer of food in the US) and storage water flushed directly out to the delta.

6/12/22 Largest Pork Company in the US Shuts Down California Plant Due to High Costs

6/13/22 Fire Breaks Out at a Food Processing Plant West of Waupaca County in Wisconsin.

***This is from 2021 and 2022.. Can that total today be correct???

[jangillman]

Here's a long list of President Trump's achievements whilst in office. You Koolaid drinking democrats better get yourself another cup, because this is going to take some time:-

What has Donald Trump done while he was in office (as at July, 2017)!!!

1.Supreme Court Judge Gorsuch 

2.59 missiles dropped in Syria.

3.He took us out of TPP

4.Illegal immigration is now down 70%( the lowest in 17 years)

5.Consumer confidence highest since 2000 at index125.6 

6.Mortgage applications for new homes rise to a 7 year high. 

7.Arranged 20% Tariff on soft lumber from Canada. 

8.Bids for border wall are well underway. 

9.Pulled out of the lopsided Paris accord.

10.Keystone pipeline approved. 

11.NATO allies boost spending by      4.3%

12.Allowing VA to terminate bad employees. 

13.Allowing private healthcare choices for veterans. 

14.More than 600,000. Jobs created

15. Median household income at a 7 year high. 

16. The Stock Market is at the highest ever In its history. 

17.  China agreed to American import of beef. 

18. $89 Billion saved in regulation rollbacks. 

19. Rollback of A Regulation to boost coal mining.

20. MOAB for ISIS

21. Travel ban reinstated.

22. Executive order for religious freedom. 

23. Jump started NASA 

24. $600 million cut from UN peacekeeping budget. 

25. Targeting of MS13 gangs

26. Deporting violent illegal immigrants. 

27. Signed 41 bills to date

28. Created a commission on child trafficking 

29. Created a commission on voter fraud

30. Created a commission for opioids addiction. 

31. Giving power to states to drug test unemployment recipients. 

32. Unemployment lowest since may 2007. 

33. Historic Black College University initiative

34. Women In Entrepreneurship Act 

35. Created an office or illegal immigrant crime victims. 

36. Reversed Dodd-Frank

37. Repealed DOT ruling which would have taken power away from local governments for infrastructure planning

38. Order to stop crime against law enforcement. 

39. End of DAPA program. 

40. Stopped companies from moving out of America. 

41. Promoted businesses to create American Jobs. 

42. Encouraged country to once again

43. 'Buy American and hire American 

44.  Cutting regulations 2 for every one created. 

45. Review of all trade agreements to make sure they are America first.

46. Apprentice program

47. Highest manufacturing surge in 3 years. 

48. $78 Billion promised reinvestment from major businesses like Exxon, Bayer, Apple, SoftBank, Toyota...

49. Denied FBI a new building. 

50. $700 million saved with F-35 renegotiation. 

51. Saves $22 million by reducing white house payroll. 

52. Dept of treasury reports a  $182 billion surplus for April 2017 (2nd largest in history). 

53. Negotiated the release of 6 US humanitarian workers held captive in egypt. 

54. Gas prices lowest in more than 12 years.

55. Signed An Executive Order To Promote Energy Independence And Economic Growth

56. Has already accomplished more to stop government interference into people's lives than any President in the history of America. 

57. President Trump has worked with Congress to pass more legislation in his first 100 days than any President since Truman.

58. Has given head executive of each  branches 6 month time Frame dated march 15 2017, to trim the fat. restructure and improve efficacy of their branch. 

Observe the pushback the leaks the lies as entrenched POWER refuses to go silently into that good night!

I hope each and every one of you copy and paste this everywhere, every time you hear some dim wit say Trump hadn't done a thing!

THANK YOU!!!

[sneek-m]

Favorite Rap, 2023

Here's a Spotify playlist of this top 50. Here is the YouTube playlist where I've kept all of my rap finds throughout the year as well.

Veeze - “GOMD”

Sexyy Red - “SkeeYee”

P-Lo - “Regular”

Lil Yachty - “Strike (Holster)”

Gloss Up - “Stamp Dat”

Bktherula - “Back”

TaTa & Kyle Richh - “Cuz We Did” / Kyle Richh x Jenn Carter - “Deuce”

Ken Carson - “Jennifer’s Body”

Jpegmafia & Danny Brown - “Lean Beef Patty”

DaeMoney, Babyface Ray, Lucki & Money Musik ft. Veeze - “Who Is That?”

Certified Trapper - “Each Smack”

Cochise - “Perm”

Anycia & Karrahbooo - “Splash Brothers”

Icewear Vezzo - “Motion”

Rae Sremmurd - “Flaunt It/Cheap”

Memo 600 - “Uncle Luke”

Youngboy Never Again - “Bitch Let’s Do It”

Babyface Ray ft. King Hendrick$ - “Big Meech Holiday”

Tisakorean - “uHhH Huh”

Ice Spice - “In Ha Mood”

Tony Shhnow - “Mind of da Crook”

Kenzo B - “BFFR”

That Mexican OT ft. Paul Wall & Drodi - “Johnny Dang”

DCG Brothers - “Leather Belt”

Kaliii - “Area Codes”

Z Money - “Since a Kid”

K$upreme - “Prada Joggers”

Peezy ft. Money Man & Larry June - “Fashion Week”

Babyfxce E - “Last Laugh”

Autumn! - “Can’t Rent Anymore!”

Baby Keem & Kendrick Lamar - “The Hillbillies”

Nef the Pharaoh ft. LaRussell - “Furley Goat”

Wolfacejoeyy - “buku”

Homixide Gang - “B5”

Baby Money ft. Babyface Ray - “Had to Ask”

sgpwes ft. dayyK - “what we doin”

Li 9 ft. Veeze - “Still Tippin”

Jungle Muzik Larry x 4700 Lucci x Slumd4wg x TMH Joker - “Too Many Hittas”

2sdxrt3all - “Signed a Deal (Lebron James)”

Rella Gz x Kenzo B - “Ready to Slide”

Che - “Sayso”

Fivio Foreign ft. TaTa, Jenn Carter & Kyle Richh - “Notice Me”

Sally Sossa ft. 2Rare - “Body (Love to Party)”

Sdotgo x Kyle Richh - “Tooteres”

Trapland Pat - “Inside Looking Out”

Chow Lee - “no hesi!”

Lil Darius ft. Peezy - “Neighborhood Trapstars”

Yung Fazo - “Starboy”

Trippie Redd ft. Chief Keef - “Atlantis”

Drake ft. Sexyy Red & SZA - “Rich Baby Daddy”