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Huh I love eunbis discography and performances but I wouldn't compare her to chungha??? They're quite different and chungha has amazing performances and just completely different ways to approaching performances and music. Also dang people gave up on chungha so quickly like imo sparkling was a bop! Anyways once again the izone fandom act their girls are untouchable. Reminds me of jo yuri and iu comparions and people being like she's the next iu and I'm like ??? Can't we let artists be the next them instead of setting them to be the next x. Like if I see another person saying ateez or stray kids is the next bts/ amasdhfhhjjk

the amount of times that i get people in my inbox telling me an opinion i've literally never heard anyone say before is so staggeringly high lmao. i have to assume that was a very specific case and not a widely held belief, bc frankly i think it's a flat comparison, but eunbi did kind of invite it on herself with that last cb i guess.

as far as comparisons in general........i think people (read: kpoppies) overreact to them. comparisons are an extremely useful and very relevant tool for media analysis; my master's thesis was literally a comparative case study. you need to be able to recognize when and how different imagery and and concepts are used and comparatives are the easiest and most accessible way to do that. but a lot of people (read: kpoppies) either take a comparison as an offense because how dare someone think their idols are not doing totally unique and groundbreaking art, OR they use it as a tool specifically to antagonize other fans by using a comparison to prove that one is better than the other. both of which are very reductive to everyone (included the function of comparisons itself) involved. when you're in an industry that has as much idea sharing and copying as kpop, comparisons are such an easy way to interrogate WHY you like something as a fan, but instead they're usually just treated as threats.

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"Judith Whitmer won her election on Saturday to become chair of the Nevada Democratic Party, she got an email from the party’s executive director, Alana Mounce. The message from Mounce began with a note of congratulations, before getting to her main point.

She was quitting. So was every other employee. And so were all the consultants. And the staff would be taking severance checks with them, thank you very much.

On March 6, a coalition of progressive candidates backed by the local chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America took over the leadership of the Nevada Democratic Party, sweeping all five party leadership positions in a contested election that evening. Whitmer, who had been chair of the Clark County Democratic Party, was elected chair. The establishment had prepared for the loss, having recently moved $450,000 out of the party’s coffers and into the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee’s account. The DSCC will put the money toward the 2022 reelection bid of Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, a vulnerable first-term Democrat.

While Whitmer’s opponents say she was planning to fire them anyway, Whitmer denies that claim. “I’ve been putting in the work,” Whitmer told The Intercept for the latest episode of Deconstructed. “What they just didn’t expect is that we got better and better at organizing and out-organizing them at every turn.”

THE BATTLE BETWEEN the insurgent progressive wing of the party and what’s known in Nevada as the Reid machine — a tightly run operation still guided by former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid — began five years ago, when Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders organized support for his 2016 presidential primary run, while Reid was working behind the scenes to help his opponent, Hillary Clinton.

Over the next four years, outside organizations like DSA exploded in size and strength. The Sanders campaign focused on organizing tens of thousands of young Latino voters in the state, with the goal of activating people whom the party hadn’t bothered with before. And it worked: In the 2020 cycle, after investing heavily in Nevada, Sanders won a commanding victory in the Nevada caucuses.

When the Sanders campaign ended, the organizers behind it were ready to take their project to the next level. Progressive groups like the Clark County Left Caucus, of which Whitmer was chair, and local DSA chapters had been organizing for Sanders across Nevada since 2016. They used their momentum, and the state-level delegates they picked up during the caucuses, to continue activating progressive pockets in the state with a focus on local office. Progressives led by the Left Caucus won a majority on the state Democratic board this summer, a sign that their momentum was growing even without a candidate at the top of the Democratic ticket to get behind.

“This was certainly kind of immediately made possible by the caucus outcome,” Keenan Korth, a member of the state party’s central committee who is supporting Whitmer, told The Intercept. “But it really started before then, in that the caucus results were in and of themselves the result of a sustained organizing effort, and the slow accumulation of organizing infrastructure here post-2016, in large part through the campaign in 2018 for Amy Vilela.” Vilela ran for Congress in Nevada in 2018 and later became Sanders’s Nevada campaign co-chair.

During the presidential race, the conflict between the Sanders element and the Reid machine had been kept below a boil partly as a result of the personal relationships at play. Sanders’s 2020 brain trust was significantly made up of former aides to Reid who remain on good terms with the former majority leader, including campaign manager Faiz Shakir; deputy Ari Rabin-Havt, who has since returned to Sanders’s Senate office; and national policy director Josh Orton.

But when the Sanders campaign ended, the establishment was ready to maneuver against them.

The Left Caucus and DSA organizers ran a slate of candidates for state party leadership under the name “The NV Dems Progressive Slate.” All but one candidate on the slate was a dues-paying member of a local DSA chapter. The Democratic Party ran candidates on a slate titled “The Progressive Unity Slate,” playing on a theme they’d been pushing the entire cycle: The groups angling for change from the left were trying to divide the party, they said, while they were trying to save it.

Whitmer faced pressure to drop out of the race, and allies of Reid were working their connections to try to keep the party structure intact. A letter circulated accusing Whitmer of blocking the creation of diversity caucuses, though Whitmer told The Intercept it was a disagreement over process. The fight also drew the attention of Cortez Masto, who asked Whitmer to drop out and approached her opponent, Clark County Commissioner Tick Segerblom, about running. Segerblom had chaired the party in the 1990s and wasn’t considering running for the seat.

Segerblom, who supported Sanders in both 2016 and 2020 and chaired his state campaign, confirmed that Cortez Masto approached him about running. He sees the current fallout as an unfortunate culmination of a back-and-forth that’s been happening since 2016. “There’s been a lot of disagreement within the party since 2016,” Segerblom told The Intercept. “This is just a situation where the Bernie team won, and the old guard so to speak were not gonna stick around.” Cortez Masto’s office did not respond to a request for comment.

Despite the pushback, Whitmer ultimately won the election, in which the state party’s governing members voted. In the certified election results, she received 244 to Segerblom’s 214; Jacob Allen won first vice chair by 101 votes; Dr. Zaffar Iqbal, on Whitmer’s progressive slate, was reelected second vice chair by 127 votes; Ahmad Adé won secretary by 39 votes; and Howard Beckerman won treasurer by three votes.

After the results, Mounce sent the email making clear that everyone on the small staff had resigned, including the party operations director, communications director, research director, and finance director.

The mass exodus of party staff, despite the rhetoric around unity, wasn’t a shock, Whitmer told The Intercept. “We weren’t really surprised, in that we were prepared for it,” she said. “But what hit us by surprise and was sort of shocking is that for a slate that claimed that they were all about unity, and kept this false narrative of division going on throughout the entire campaign — in fact they kept intensifying that — that’s what was surprising about it, was the willingness to just walk away, instead of working with us.”

“For a slate that claimed that they were all about unity … that’s what was surprising about it, was the willingness to just walk away, instead of working with us.”

Mounce, the Nevada Democrats director who notified Whitmer of the staff resignations, didn’t respond to a request for comment. Korth told The Intercept Mounce is now providing access to logins and other information to Whitmer and her team. But the ruthlessness on display in her email to Whitmer is part of what has made the Reid machine so effective against Republicans in the state, but it’s unclear how it’ll work against the party’s progressive wing. The Democratic National Committee hired Mounce as their new political director last month.

Whitmer’s predecessor, former Clark County Democratic Chair Donna West, said Whitmer did not try to bridge gaps within the party. She “does not listen to others’ opinions and really take those on board,” West said. “I found that working with her could be really difficult, that she doesn’t really collaborate well, and doesn’t work to build consensus.” West resigned last summer.

A former Nevada Democratic Party staffer, who requested anonymity to speak freely, told The Intercept they quit out of a belief that Whitmer hadn’t built relationships across the party as Clark County chair and was at times unfairly critical of the state Democratic Party. “I knew I couldn’t work with her and watch her destroy the years of hard work so many operatives put into making our state party the best state party in the country.”

In a twist of history, Reid himself actually produced the conditions that led to his own lieutenants getting tossed from office. It was Reid who successfully maneuvered in 2008 to make Nevada the first presidential caucus in the West. His reasoning was simple: He wanted presidential candidates to have to take a position on whether nuclear waste should be stored at Yucca Mountain. More precisely, he wanted that position to be no. In exchange for Barack Obama’s promise to scuttle the Yucca Mountain project, Reid endorsed him, after encouraging him to run. It worked: Obama appointed a former aide of Reid’s to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission with instructions to halt the project.

Reid also wanted the caucus to help build the party’s infrastructure, and that worked too. After years of Republican control, Democrats now hold the governor’s mansion, the state Senate, and the state House, as well as both U.S. Senate seats. Without those two senators, there’d be no Democratic majority in the Senate today. But the caucuses also created an opening for Sanders, and his supporters have run through it to swamp the party. Instead of finding a way to work with the newcomers, the Reid machine is setting up an independent shop. Reid declined to comment."

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It is much less active in "androgenic" tissues such as the prostate or sex organs. The biggest disadvantage with LGD is that it created moderate to strong HPTA suppression for both total and complimentary testosterone. Complete testosterone reduced by just over 50% contrasted to placebo. But hormonal agent degrees did return to normal within 56 days after stopping without any PCT.

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As a result of this SARMs may be very effective for muscle wasting problems such as weakening of bones, AIDS as well as cancer cells associated wasting. Some may also become a reliable oral man contraceptive treatment. A receptor modulator is a substance that can obstruct or promote the nuclear hormonal agent receptor under different conditions. If it can effectively boost a receptor in a cells precisely, it may have the ability to simulate the advantageous results within that singular cells as well as minimise the undesirable results of hormones within the other cells. In one of the most fundamental terms, they can assist construct muscle and reduce negative effects by concentrating on only the targeted receptors.

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It is originated from the amino acid sequence og human Stac2 (residues) and also when supplied to the cytoplasm of guinea pig ventricular myocytes extends the heart activity possibility and recapitulates longQT disorder.

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In the GM, a substantially higher task of CS was observed in the OVX+LG 0.4 therapy group than in the OVX group. The task of various other muscular tissue enzymes in the GM did not differ amongst the treatment teams.

The drop in metabolic rate as well as hormone levels with the lack of calories is an excellent catabolic enviroment for loss of muscle mass cells. Users have as high as 36mg [just advised for those who consider in at 210lbs +] for periods as long as 8 weeks.

Huperzine-A is a cognitive enhancer that hinders an enzyme that breaks down the discovering natural chemical, acetylcholine; therefore as a result of this, a loved one boost occurs. Athletes go to times thinking about alpha-GPC as a result of its capability to boost development hormone manufacturing as well as to additionally improve power output. Ibutamoren increases levels, by resembling the action of the hormone ghrelin, as well as binding to among the ghrelin receptors in the mind ).

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𝐉𝐎𝐑𝐃𝐀𝐍 𝐓𝐎𝐔𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐑𝐃 // vice detective, thirty-three, red ridge native.

— unflinching, grudging, brainy, irreverent, plucky, mulish. loosely inspired by dominique dipierro (mr robot), laurie blake (watchmen hbo), eve polastri (killing eve), wendy byrde (ozark), and allie pressman (the society). this vine, too.

howdy, folks! i’m dev. 🤠 this is my dearest brain babie, jordan. normally, this is where i’d get all mushy-gushy on y’all, but the rest of this introduction is already too long as it is, and i’d rather not add insult to injury hehe. just know i’m happy to be here & even more excited to get to know you all + your brain babies, too! 🥳 @redridgeimp​​

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𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐂𝐋𝐀𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐑: bullet points marked with three asterisks (***) feature mentions of domestic abuse and unfit parenting. reader discretion is advised.

the toussards are old money. her mother’s side of the family have made their fortune off of hay farms scattered across the state of nevada, and her father’s side of the family have mostly been cattle and dairy farmers. together, they decided to venture into real estate, too, by buying up farm land plots and selling them at a higher price, along with residential plots, too. 

they’re not showy people, but they definitely make good use of their money. jordan’s childhood home is a plantation-style house on a big ole plot of land situated on the outskirts of town. they had healthy green grass with sprinklers and a full garden. inside, everything was real wood, ivory, and silver. they had a maid and gardeners and the whole nine yards. still, if you hadn’t seen that or recognized their family name, you might have expected them to be any other family belonging to red ridge. 

to many, they gave off the image of a picture-perfect, all-american nuclear family. it’s easy to pretend, seeing as they live so far away from all the glitz and none of them -- no matter how they feel -- are willing to shatter that golden reputation, but it isn’t real. elise, her mother, wanted a doll more than she wanted an actual child, and it was society’s pressure on women to give birth that forced her hand, not any sense of innate desire for expanding the family. joseph, her father, was too caught up in his wife’s every wish and whim to really pay attention to jordan in a deep way. he never turned his back on her, but jordan never felt any deep belonging to him either -- if anything, he felt more like a 2d stand in for the father she wished she’d had. 

*** that meant there was only one adult left to really pick up her parent’s slack, and that was corinne, her aunt. corinne, who had an awful habit of bringing terrible men home. corinne, who was bipolar and unmedicated, and often in charge of taking care of jordan from the moment she was in diapers to the moment she graduated college. corinne, who was manipulated by her own sister. corinne, who was helpless to protect jordan against her mother’s attacks, and unable to shield her from the rage her boyfriends spat. corinne is like a mother to jordan. she was the hand that rubbed her back when she was sick. she was the open arms that held her when one of jordan’s teenage dates went sour. she was the one to cover for her when she snuck out and the one to teach her everything her mother considered too immoral and dirty. corinne is her mother in the way elise never could be, but still .. jordan can’t help but feel anger towards her. 

*** jordan’s known how to use, fire, and clean a gun from the age of eight. she learned how to hunt at the age of ten. she knew and helped her father field dress a handful of animals by the age of twelve. you may think this was just a bit of heavy-handed bonding between a father and daughter, but it wasn’t. elise and joseph used to go away a lot, both for pleasure and business, which left jordan in corinne’s sole care. that wouldn’t be a problem, if it weren’t for the fact that a grand majority of corinne’s relationships were abusive, specifically physically. jordan was a child, but she was a child with a duty -- a duty to protect her caretaker if necessary. at the time, jordan didn’t think much of it. she liked feeling like she had an in with her father, liked feeling important. it was only when she got older that she realized how fucked up everything had been, and how that’s the driving factor behind the feeling of fear she just can’t drop, and the mistrust she has in others. the anger she feels towards corinne is rooted in that. she can’t help but feel like it’s corinne’s fault and she hates that her aunt -- a fully grown adult -- was the center of her childhood, instead of her own self.

skipping forward a bit, jordan went to college right after high school to major in criminal science. her lifelong exposure to such abuse left her with a taste for vengeance. see, jordan wanted to be a police officer to protect her hometown, sure, but she also wanted the badge so that she could finally dish out the punishment that so many of the officers she’d seen were unwilling to. the only way to stop that culture of turning a blind eye was to do it from the inside, and that’s exactly what she did. 

jordan’s been a cop for twelve years now. she started her career doing patrol and eventually working with the gangs and narcotics team for five years. after a lot of pestering and brown-nosing, jordan became a g&n detective. she was mostly in charge of surveillance, carrying out raids, and the planning of both. ( she had an opportunity early in her career to go undercover, but jordan’s too obvious for that. ) eventually, jordan switched departments over to the special victims unit, but that stint really only served as a segue into where she is now: the vice and support department. she used to specialize in community outreach, helping bridge the gap between the community and the precinct. she worked with groups focused on helping those affected by drugs and sex workers who have been abused. when one of the detectives assigned to missing persons cases left, jordan was quick to apply for it. needless to say, she got the job and has been doing that since.

she’s got the nose for it -- all the digging and reviewing and passion for the relentless pursuit. she doesn’t particularly like dealing with the families of those affected, but it’s part of the job. on most days, she genuinely enjoys it, but with the rise in crime and the amount of deaths at their feet, jordan can’t help but rethink her choices. she’s competitive by nature; she can’t handle these losing games. 

jordan’s a very cutthroat cop -- especially in her g&n days, when it was all heat, all pressure, all the time. she’s got an eye for weakness and isn’t afraid to exploit that on the job. she’s not above making threats -- promises, really -- and has always been the type to gather as much evidence as humanly possible, because she wants prosecutors to see justice through. she’s just really efficient. she wouldn’t be where she was at only thirty-three if she wasn’t. most of the time, you can catch her putting in overtime hours. 

that being said... jordan has a big heart. she doesn’t believe in institutions as a whole, but she does believe in people. the law is the law and rules are vital for a functioning society, but .. she may be willing to look the other way sometimes, if you’re close enough. ( i mean, she was married to a valencia member at one point, so. ) she may not agree with what some people do, but she’ll really only go after you if what you’re doing is truly heinous. ( but don’t tell her supervisors! 🥺 and don’t mention the hypocrisy to her face. )

outside of work, though, jordan’s pretty chill. she used to be a loudmouthed firecracker in her youth, but she’s calmed down significantly since then. really, she’s not so bad! maybe it's because she can't handle being alone, but she thrives from being in groups + will strike up a conversation with anyone and everyone. if she likes your shoes, she'll tell you. if you need a ride home then she’ll walk with you because she’s most likely equally as inebriated. kind of the person that you’re hesitant to approach, but when you do she treats you like you’re old friends -- even if you're not. you know that drunk girl in the bathroom that gives you sagely advice or tells you she loves your hair? that’s jordan, except she’s not drunk. 

when jordan makes her mind up on something, it’s almost impossible to get her to budge. it doesn’t matter if she’s in the wrong, she’ll trudge on no matter what. her flippancy in the face of danger – a prized act at this point – has landed her in trouble before, and it most certainly will again. she’s unyielding and unapologetic; not willing to change herself for anyone. getting her to talk about her emotions is like pulling teeth, except even that would probably be easier. she’s incredibly honest about some things as a way to hide behind it; it’s a farce that distracts people into thinking she’s being honest with them, when really she’s not -- not entirely, anyway. 

loves love, but she’s rotten at it. her anxiety gets in the way, tells her that she’ll mess it up somehow until she finally does, like a self-fulfilling prophecy. ( something-something abt the fact that she can’t comprehend someone loving her if not even her own parents could ). she’s a much better friend, and jordan thinks that’s more important anyhow. genuinely, if you’re her friend then she loves you endlessly and earnestly.

𝒇𝒖𝒏 𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒚 𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒓 !

jordan is that friend that gets a little bit too into car karaoke.

she’s also the type to order a screwdriver during an 11a brunch.

it’s a wonder that she doesn’t have tinnitus, considering she always blasts heavy metal music in her car.

makes jokes about getting married and divorced, because if you can’t laugh at your pain then you’re fucked.

if you ever visit her unannounced, you’ll spot her in t-shirts that say “milf in training”, “god looks like me”, and more.

if you’re mean to her she’ll give you a parking ticket.

she plays dirty in fights. used to bite a lot as a child and she still does. all is fair in love and war, babie! enjoy getting that tetanus shot and lovely hospital bill! 💋

pantsuits from monday to friday, and overalls without a bra on the weekend because fuck that shit. also extremely partial to shirts with low plunges. a lil bit of side titty for everyone. 

if you’re leaving a drink behind she’ll finish it for you because daddy didn’t raise no quitters.

has a lot of self-worth issues, but she’d sooner die than ever tell anyone about them or even confront them herself. 

don’t let the pantsuit fool you! there’s pure muscle underneath that two-piece, babie. 

𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒄. 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔:

“i am the shape you made me. filth teaches filth.”

"can i be blamed for my efforts? all men are drawn to the sea, perilous though it may be."

"there is a place, deep in the heart of fear, where you trap yourself and claim that is safety."

"still, a great deal of light falls on everything."

"i hold a stalk in my hand. i am the stalk. my roots go down to the depth of the world."

“i always figured when i got older, god would sorta come into my life somehow. and he didn’t. i don’t blame him. if i was him i would have the same opinion of me that he does.”

“nothing washes off.”

“you cannot be stolen, ransacked, looted like an emptied bank account or a burgled house. you are the tough old tissues, the exquisite scars. you are the thing that would not die.”

𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚, 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒔 ! ( open to any gender ) 

jordan can’t function without a best friend, so.. gimme, please! 🥺🤲

i once read a passage talking about how the friendships you make in your childhood can never be mimicked in your adulthood, and you know what.. #true. where’s jordan’s childhood friends at? do they still keep in touch? did they have a massive fallout as teenagers where jordan told them to get hit by a truck because she was a very dramatic 16 yr old? were they frenemies? do they still have one of jordan’s things because she was terrible at remembering everything after a sleepover? did jordan’s parents help your muse’s family out? idc, just gimme!

exes / almost exes. remember what i said about jordan being a shit when it comes to love? they could’ve been serious at some point whether as adults or in their youth, maybe it was short-lived, maybe jordan never even let it get off the ground. could be on good terms or bad terms or no terms at all. 

neighbors!! jordan pulls some odd hours n sometimes plays her music a little too loud and burns her food more often than she should at 33 yrs old. she may or may not be the best neighbor to have is all i’m saying, but she tries!! 

friends!! platonic love is the most purest form of love there is and she’s got a lot of it to give!! come and get ya some! 

enemies / hateships because sometimes .. it just be like that. whether this has to do with a falling out of some sort, just straight up hate at first sight, or something to do with an encounter on the job, or something else entirely i’m here for it! 

one night stands / [old] fwb. i’m gonna be honest with y’all: if jordan likes you, then she can’t sleep with you. now, i’m gonna be honest with y’all again: jordan’s very much a yes-girl. she says and does things just to get a reaction sometimes or see what’ll happen ( something-something "sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them" ). that being said, she’ll sleep with just about anyone. maybe they don’t talk about it ever, maybe they only ever talk when they want something, maybe they regret it, maybe it’s all gucci, and maybe it was good until it wasn’t. idk! 

jordan has been shot twice in her career thus far. the first time was during a noise disturbance call and the second time was during a narc raid. if your muse wants in on that we can discuss the deets! 

and also literally whatever else your heart desires because i’m both here for the fluffiest deepest connections ever and also the angstiest makes-me-wanna-die type shit. i literally don’t say no to anything so if you have any ideas you think jordan can be a good fit for, i’m all ears!! 

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via Politics – FiveThirtyEight

Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly polling roundup.

Poll of the week

After an attack on a Saudi oil facility last Saturday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo swiftly pointed the finger at Iran, and on Sunday Trump tweeted that the U.S. was “locked and loaded.” Although administration officials denied that Trump’s tweet referred to an impending U.S. military strike against Iran, the rhetoric from the White House has nevertheless made the possibility of an armed conflict between the U.S. and Iran — which about half of Americans expect “within the next few years,” according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted in May — seem more likely than before.

And a SurveyMonkey poll conducted earlier this week found that only 13 percent of Americans support a U.S. military response to the attack on Saudi oil facilities. The poll, which didn’t mention Iran specifically, also found that about half of Americans felt the U.S. should either remove itself entirely from the situation or limit its response to condemning the attack and possibly sanctioning the perpetrators.

But while the SurveyMonkey poll suggests there’s little public appetite for U.S. involvement in Saudi Arabia’s response to the attack, a survey conducted in June found that the use of military force in Iran may be one military intervention that the U.S. public could get behind, especially if Americans perceive Iran’s nuclear capabilities as a threat. In that survey, which was released earlier this month by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, 70 percent of respondents, including 82 percent of Republicans and 66 percent of Democrats, supported using U.S. troops to stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. And as you can see in the chart below, there’s a lot more support for sending troops to Iran than to other parts of the world, including Iraq, Syria and China.

I spoke with Dina Smeltz, the lead author of the survey and a senior fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, about why Amercians seem more willing to commit U.S. troops to stopping Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons than to other causes. “If Americans perceive a threat to our own country or to an ally, they are willing to support the use of force,” Smeltz said. “But if they see it as an internal matter abroad [or] not a direct threat to the United States, they are more reluctant.”

And it’s entirely possible that Americans perceive the attack on Saudi oil facilities as an issue that doesn’t directly endanger the U.S., but believe that Iran’s nuclear capabilities are a threat. Iran has denied that it was behind the attack, but that’s not the only recent sign of aggression. Iran has been taking steps to upgrade its nuclear infrastructure, publicly violating the 2015 nuclear deal that the U.S. helped negotiate and then abandoned in 2018, and Americans may perceive Iran’s pursuit of nuclear capabilities as a threat. Additionally, Smeltz told me that if the Trump administration portrays the Saudi attack as a direct threat to the United States, it could help shore up support for a military approach.

But while the Chicago Council on Foreign Affairs poll might seem to indicate that an overwhelming majority of Americans are ready to go to war over Iran’s nuclear capabilities, it did find that support dropped when specific types of military interventions were proposed: In response to a question that asked respondents what strategies they’d favor if Iran withdrew from the nuclear deal altogether, 51 percent said they’d support conducting cyberattacks against Iran’s computer systems, 48 percent said they’d support airstrikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities, and 40 percent said they’d support sending troops to destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities — all significantly lower than the 70 percent that said they supported sending U.S. troops to Iran to stop them from obtaining nuclear weapons.

And there’s another reason to think that this poll may have overstated overall support for military intervention in Iran: The Chicago Council on Foreign Affairs asked about Iran in the context of other military conflicts, whereas a July poll from Fox News asked about military intervention only in Iran. The Fox News poll found that far fewer Americans — 53 percent — favored military action to stop the development of nuclear weapons. When asked about the discrepancy, Smeltz said the true answer is “probably something in between the two.” She added, however, that regardless of whether the real number is closer to 40, 50 or 70 percent, messaging from the White House or the media characterizing Iran as a threat could drive up support for military intervention, especially if “a big chunk of the population is already willing to support the use of force.”

At this stage at least, Americans still prefer a non-military approach to Iran: According to the Chicago Council on Foreign Affairs poll, 81 percent of Americans said they either “somewhat” or “strongly” support continuing diplomatic efforts to get Iran to stop enriching uranium if the country withdraws from the nuclear deal, and 78 percent said they somewhat or strongly support tighter economic sanctions. A Gallup poll conducted in July also found that a majority of Americans preferred that the U.S. rely on economic and diplomatic efforts rather than military action — although 42 percent told Gallup that the U.S. should take military action if diplomatic and economic measures fail.

For now, the administration seems to have decided against immediate military action, and on Wednesday, Trump announced tighter economic sanctions on Iran in response to the attack. But Trump has not entirely ruled out using military force, and if he were to exercise a military option against Iran, the polling we have so far seems to indicate that it may not be very popular — but that could change if the administration can convince the public that Iran’s actions are a threat to the United States.

Other polling bites:

57 percent of Americans view segregation in schools as a “very” or “moderately serious” problem, according to a Gallup poll released this week. Of the four policy proposals Gallup offered as methods of reducing school segregation, the most popular option was establishing more regional magnet schools (79 percent of respondents said they were in favor). The least popular option, with 43 percent in favor, was requiring districts to bus students to neighboring schools to increase schools’ racial diversity, a policy that became a flash point in the first Democratic debate between Sen. Kamala Harris and former Vice President Joe Biden.

YouGov and FairVote teamed up to simulate the Democratic primary under a ranked-choice voting system. The system asked voters to rank the candidates by preference (with the ability to rank 10 of 20 candidates or just the five candidates with the highest polling averages). The candidate with the fewest votes was then eliminated and his or her votes redistributed to each voter’s next choice. This process is repeated until one winner remained. In the first-round tally of the five-candidate version of this poll, former Vice President Joe Biden led Sen. Elizabeth Warren 33 percent to 29 percent, but after eliminating and redistributing according to ranked choice, Warren led Biden 53 percent to 47 percent. Unfortunately for the Warren campaign, that’s not how the Democratic primary works.

Following the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, in August, the National Rifle Association’s popularity has taken a hit: Less than 50 percent of Americans say they have a favorable opinion of the organization, according to a Gallup poll. This is only the second time in the last 30 years that the NRA has been this unpopular. However, much of its current unpopularity is due to Democrats and independents turning against the organization, not a shift among Republicans, who largely hold positive views of the organization (87 percent had a favorable opinion).

In the week following the third Democratic debate, Warren seems to be continuing her steady rise in the polls, though Biden maintains the lead. A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released on Tuesday showed Warren increased support from 19 percent in July to 25 percent. That’s in line with other initial post-debate polls as well, including the FiveThirtyEight/Ipsos poll and Morning Consult poll, which both found modest gains for Warren since the debate.

Afghanistan’s national elections will take place on Sept. 28, five months after their original April date. According to a July 2018 Gallup poll, only 19 percent of Afghans are confident in the honesty of their elections, the lowest among the countries that Gallup polled in South Asia. In that same poll, 91 percent of respondents said corruption is widespread in the Afghan government.

According to a Washington Post/Kaiser Family Foundation poll, roughly 7 in 10 teenagers said the effects of climate change will cause “a moderate or great deal of harm” to people in their generation, which is slightly higher than the percentage of those 30 or older who said the same. What’s more, 24 percent of teenagers have engaged in climate change activism, either attending a climate change rally, contacting a public official or participating in a school walkout to raise climate change awareness, which The Washington Post described as “a remarkable level of activism for a group that has not yet reached voting age.”

The long-anticipated storming of Area 51 — a Facebook event in which 2.1 million users indicated they planned to raid a highly classified military base looking for aliens — is today. A Gallup poll from earlier this month reveals that a third of U.S. adults believe that prior UFO sightings have actually been alien spaceships. Another 16 percent say they have seen something they thought was a UFO. To boot, 68 percent of Americans believe the government is withholding information about UFOs — so I guess we’ll have to wait and see what the raid finds.

Trump approval

According to FiveThirtyEight’s presidential approval tracker, 42.1 percent of Americans approve of the job Trump is doing as president, while 53.7 percent disapprove (a net approval rating of -11.6 points). At this time last week, 41.6 percent approved and 53.7 percent disapproved (for a net approval rating of -12.1 points). One month ago, Trump had an approval rating of 42.2 percent and a disapproval rating of 53.7 percent, for a net approval rating of -11.5 points.

Generic ballot

In our average of polls of the generic congressional ballot, Democrats currently lead by 6.8 percentage points (46.8 percent to 40.0 percent). A week ago, Democrats led Republicans by 6.6 points (46.4 percent to 39.8 percent). At this time last month, voters preferred Democrats by 6.3 points (46.2 percent to 39.9 percent).

Check out all the polls we’ve been collecting ahead of the 2020 elections.

[angelthefirst1]

10:10 and the end times

10:10 and the end times.

The waking dead is a story that is retelling the biblical end of days narrative over and over again.

I want to go right back to the CDC and look at the first cure attempt and how this episode would tell us the future of things to come.

Starting in episode 1:06

The group has arrived at the CDC and are looking for answers as to why the would has fallen apart.

The CDC represents 2 main biblical themes:

1. The fallen world in need of a cure (Genesis) which eventually comes in the form of Jesus (Gospels)

2. The Tribulation period or end time events which will lead to a period of time on earth that is terrible and devastating for those who are left on earth. (Revelation)

I will start in 1:06 with a conversation between Dale (who is an older Father/brother version of Daryl) and Dr Jenner.

(note that Daryl himself is also in this frame standing next to Dale to indicate the father/brother characters being like twins in story)

Dale :

Dr Jenner, I know this has been taxing for you (the group have been asking him a lot of questions) and I hate to ask one more question but... That clock, it's counting down, what happens at 0?

The first shot we see after Dale says this is this clock :

Jenner: the basement generators, they run out of fuel.

(This is referring to the Earth/basement being ready for judgement or tribulation) it's a count down to the end time's.

Rick: and then?

Jenner won't answer.

Rick to the computer Vi (which is the CDC's AI computer system, that they look up to the ceiling to talk to, aka God)

Rick: Vi what happens when the power runs out?

Vi: When the power runs out, facility wide decontamination will occur.

*So when the CDC clock counts down from 1:00:02 (10:10 or 10:02 on an analogue clock) the CDC or world will have a facility wide decontamination (Tribulation period)

*As I mentioned earlier there are 2 themes rolled into one running through each scene. One theme tells us about the fall and cure of the world and the other about the end times or tribulation period.

Past and future events are being told while you are watching the present.

*The CDC is showing the fall of mankind (Genesis) and the need for a cure but it's also showing the start of the Tribulation period (Revelation) at the same time. But not the cure story just yet, although it predicts it to come.

*Counting back up to 10:02 or 10:10 (episode wise) we should see a different kind of facility wide, world wide, or show wide decontamination, with the introduction of a cure story and Beth/Jesus.

So let's keep going with the dialogue...

After this some of the group go down to the basement to see if there is more fuel while some are in their rooms.

Just over the half way mark at 30 minutes left on the clock or... at the season 5 mark we have the following happening which I believe is about Beth's body after being shot and the prediction of a cure to come.

At this moment Carl and Lori are in a room on their own:

Carl to Lori: something wrong?

Lori nothing it's just the air conditioning stopped.

*(Beth's breathing stopped/Jesus died)

*"The Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature" (Genesis 2:7). The breath of life was what turned man from a lifeless collection of matter into a living creature.

*God/Jesus is the Breath of life.

The Air and lights start to go off and Daryl asks what's going on? Whys everything turning off off?

Jenner: Energy use is being prioritised.

Dale: Air isn't a priority? And lights?

*John 8:12

12 Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

Jenner: it's not up to me, cell 5 is shutting it's self down.

Season 5, the half way mark to season 10 and half way on the countdown clock (Beth's body) is shutting it's self down. (prioritising it's energy use)

*Biblically Jesus, the breath of life and the light of the world allows himself to be killed to provide a cure for the fallen world to those that accept it.

Daryl getting really angry: hey, hey what the hell’s that mean? Hey man I'm talking to you. (it's interesting that he gets the most upset here out of every one)

Rick to Jenner: what's happening?

Jenner: the system is dropping all the non essential uses of power, it's designed to keep the computers running until the last possible second, OUR STAR JUST REPROACHED THE HALF HOUR MARK, Right on schedule 31:28

*As @frangipanilove has mentioned in her very cleaver post, this refers to the Sirius star 🌟 which disappears for a time and reappears, Sirius meaning glowing and is the brightest star in the night sky reappearing just before dawn)

*Biblically this star represent both Jesus and Lucifer/Satan and their respective returns.

Revelation 22:16 “I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star.”

Isaiah 14:12 (speaking of Lucifer/Satan)

How you have fallen from heaven, o star of the morning, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to earth, you who have weakened the nation's.

*The idea of a “bright morning star” is a star that outshines all the others, and Jesus is the One who is called “bright.” Satan was a morning star. Jesus, as God incarnate, the Lord of the universe, is the BRIGHT and morning star. Jesus is the most holy and powerful “light” in all the universe. So, while both Jesus and Satan can be described as “morning stars,” in no sense is this equating Jesus and Satan. Satan is a created being. His light only exists to the extent that God created it. Jesus is the light of the world (John 9:5). Only Jesus’ light is “bright” and self-existent. Satan may be a morning star, but he is only a poor imitation of the one true bright morning star, Jesus Christ, the light of the world.

*So when Jenner refers to the star approaching the half hour mark he is referring to both Beth/Jesus’ death to come.

Its also interesting to note that test subject 19 (Jenner’s wife who was bitten and Jenner recorded the transformation process, shows her being to turn when the clock says 32:18 (now as Jenner said earlier, the star (Beth/Jesus) reproaches the half hour mark at 31:28... just flipping the one and the two... Test subject one and the re-approach of test subject two.

Jenner: It was the French (the lover's or those that are in love with Beth/Jesus) who were the last ones to hold out as far as I know.

*Daryl would have stayed with Beth's body longer than anyone else while walkers were inundating the group because he loved her.

Jenner: While our people were bolting out the doors and committing suicide in the hallways, they stayed in the labs till the end.

They thought they were close to a solution.

What happened?

Jenner: same thing that's happening here, no power grid. Ran out of juice. The world runs on fossil fuels how stupid is that.

The 30 Min siren goes off and Jenner goes to a key pad that has a green light (earth) on it. He uses his pass card and it goes blue/heaven he then presses 999 and it goes red/death.

(Or 666 signalling the beginning of the Tribulation period, which as described in the bible is a 7 year period where Satan or the man of perdition who's number is 666 will come to earth and rule in the form of a man (the star of the morning/Satan). While God suddenly takes those who have believed in gods son Jesus for salvation to heaven to escape the judgements sent down to the inhabitants of earth who have not believed. This time period will be the final cleans or decontamination of the world)

Jenner locks the doors and they are locked in. (once that time period starts there will be no stopping it)

Daryl then yells: You son of a bitch you locked us in here! You locked her in here. (I'm sure he says her the second time but my subtitles were not working so I can't confirm but it definitely sounds like her)

This is again showing more than one biblical event. The 1st is Jesus/ Beth being separated from the group via her being locked in a vehicle but its also depicting the rapture period where Jesus and his bride or church will be separated from the world while the tribulation period begins on earth, leaving the inhabitants of the earth to face the coming tribulation (AKA Winter for Game of Thrones fans out there) which will not finish until the 7 years are up.

Rick: You open that door right now.

Jenner: There's no point, everything topside is locked down, emergency exits are sealed.

Topside = heaven where those who God took off the earth to save from the coming tribulation are. Some call it the rapture of the church, those left behind will have to face the 7 years on earth of Tribulation.

Dale: Well open the dam things.

Jenner: That's not something I can control the computers do. I told you once that front door closed it wouldn't open again you heard me say that, it's better this way.

*(God has a time which only he knows for when these events will begin, Jenner just wants to die as he realises what the world out there now has to offer and he would rather opt out now than face what's to come, he tries to force the rest of the group to give up with him)

Rick: what happens in 28 minutes

Jenner yelling: You know what this place is, (what this time period is) we protected the public from very nasty stuff, weaponized small pox, Ebola strains that could wipe out half the country, stuff you don't want getting out ever! In the event of a catastrophic power failure and a terrorist attack for example. HIT's are deployed to prevent any organisms from getting out.

Rick: HIT's?

Vi:

Higherpaulse Thermobaric fuel air explosives consist of a 2 stage aerosol ignition, that produces a blast wave of significantly grater power and duration than any other known explosive except nuclear, the vacuum pressure effect it lights the air between 5 to 6 thousand degrees and is useful where the greatest loss of life and damage to structures is desired.

Jenner: It sets the air on fire, no pain an end to suffering, grief, regret, everything.

*2 Peter 3:7

But the heaven we see now and the earth we live on now have been kept by His word. They will be kept until they are to be destroyed by fire. They will be kept until the day men stand before God and sinners will be destroyed.

*Revelation 21:1-2

Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,” for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.

Verse 4

He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”

A few of the group try to break the doors down but it is useless.

Jenner to Andrea: you know what's out there a short life brutal and an agonising death ☠

Jenner: The doors are designed to withstand a rocket launcher. Rick you do want this you said it yourself, it's just a matter of time before everybody you loved was dead.

Shane: You really said that.

Rick: I had to keep hope alive

Jenner: there is no hope, there never was.

Rick: There's always hope, maybe it won't be you maybe not here but somebody somewhere.

*This refers to both the fall of mankind before a cure was found Beth/Jesus and also the Tribulation period before Jesus comes back to create a new heaven and new earth it has doubled meaning where the start is the end 10:002 and the end is the start 10:02 or 10:10 Beth and her get well soon clock

Andrea: what part of everything's gone do you not understand?

Jenner: Listen to her she gets it, this is our extinction event.

Rick: I think you're lying about no hope, if that were true you would have bolted like the rest or taken the easy way out, you didn't you chose the hard path. Why?

Jenner: IT DOESN'T MATTER.

Rick: IT DOES MATTER IT ALWAYS MATTERS

(Jenner is a repeat Daryl character, saying it doesn't matter. The love of his life will be bitten/not die and she will be his wife at some point.  In this scene Rick is also Beth yelling It always matters!)

You stayed when others ran, why?

Jenner: Not because I wanted to, I made a promise to her... My wife. The camera then shows Andrea. (who is also a Beth repeat)

Andrea: Test subject 19 was your wife...

Meanwhile Daryl is the only one away from the group, he is back at the door and swinging an axe at it, still desperate to get out while Jenner says...

She begged me to keep going as long as I could...

BANG: Daryl hitting the door

Jenner: How could I say no

BANG: Daryl hitting the door

Jenner: How could I say no, she was dying. It should have been me on that table it wouldn't have mattered anyway.

BANG: Daryl hitting the door

Jenner: She was a loss to the world

BANG: Daryl hitting the door

Jenner: hell she ran this place, I just worked here, in our field she was an Einstein

BANG: Daryl hitting the door

Jenner: Me I'm just Edwin Jenner

BANG: Daryl hitting the door

Jenner: she could have done something about this... Not me.

Rick: your wife didn't have a choice, you do... That's all we want.

BANG: Daryl hitting the door

Rick: A choice, a chance.

BANG: Daryl hitting the door.

Lori: Let us keep trying as long as we can

BANG: Daryl hitting the door...

Daryl suddenly stopped hitting the door and Jenner seems to give in a little and says to Rick.

Jenner: I told you topsides locked down I can't open those. He then goes back to the same key pad that he locked the doors with, swipes his key pad which goes from red to blue once he puts the code in (which you can't see but it is definitely not 999 his fingers go to 4 different buttons but the camera didn't show it up close) the key pad then goes green and the doors open.

Daryl: About to swing the axe again... The door suddenly opens up and he yells "come on!"

Jenner: There's your chance take it.

Rick: I'm grateful

Jenner: The day will come when you won't be. He then whispers in Rick's ear, which we later find out that Jenner tells Rick "we're all infected".

*Reference to the fall of the the human race all being infected with sin and also meaning without a cure the final destination is the same either way and the group will now face the end times.

Andrea doesn't want to leave she wants to take the easy way out.

Dale very stressed tells Andrea "this isn't what Amy would want from you."

Andrea: She's dead, and you need to leave.

The rest of the group get to the top floor and are trying to get outside

It then shows Andrea and Dale.

Andrea says times almost up as she looks at the countdown clock it says 3:12 now Andrea does die in episode 3:16 so she could be foreshadowing her own death counting back up the other way.

The group are still trying to get outside nothing they try to break the glass works but then Carol gets a grenade out of her bag that she got from Ricks uniform when washing it. She gives it to Rick who uses it to break the glass.

The explosion he really remind me of the bridge explosion that caused Ricks exit in season 9 it also shows that Rick leaving will soon after be followed by Beth's (Andrea's) arrival, it's also interesting that Rick leaves in episode 6 of season 9 because he breaks the glass to the CDC in episode 6 and leaves the CDC then.

69 mean repeating backwards story.

Rick sets off the grenade and runs there is a massive explosion just like when he blew up the bridge to save his family and friends.

The glass is broken.

It's then we see Andrea and Dale.

Dale is stroking Andrea's face still trying to get her to leave. But says "Okay you win and sits down to wait willing die next to her and says "you win"

Andrea: what are you doing, don't pull this Dale.

Dale : I'm not pulling anything? If you stay I stay too, his right we know what's waiting out there for us out there. I don't want to face it alone.

Andrea: Dale, get the hell out, I don't want you here.

Dale: too bad, cos you don't get to do that, come into somebody's life, make them care and then check out.

The group is now out and running for the cars.

Andrea finally follows Dale out of the CDC just in time and they both dive behind sand bags and survive the massive fire ball that blows up the CDC.

This represents the group beginning the journey through the tribulation, one of the darkest times in human history and also the CDC being destroyed represents the world with no cure being destroyed.

Dr Jenner dies inside the CDC

The CDC was designed to destroy outbreaks that could cause an extinction level event. This time however an extinction level event destroyed it.

A redemption of this CDC story will repeat once Rick breaks the glass (blows up the bridge to save his friends and family) once he leaves and Andrea follows the redemption should come.

The next episode 2:01 (which should be 10:01 for us in season 10) starts with Rick on a rooftop in Atlanta with Grady memorial in the background. Rick is on the radio (interesting that 9:16 ended with the mystery radio caller) Rick is saying about Andrea "I can't say I blame her she lost faith, the CDC was a bust, I met a man there he told me something, he told me... It doesn't matter, we're moving on Atlanta's done.

This end time biblical theme is everywhere in this show and other shows and season 10 is shaping up to show us what we have all been waiting on... The return of a Savior...

Angela Kang said that in season 10 the show would be going" left"

Which reminded me of Sofia. When she went missing originally. Rick left her to hide in a small cave on a river bank, so he could draw off two walkers that were after her.

He told her once the walkers follow him she should head back to the highway and keep the sun on her left shoulder. (sun being a reference to Son of God)

Rick and Daryl can't find Sofia when they return to get her from the cave. Daryl finds some of her tracks and says "she was doing just fine (following Ricks instructions) until right here, when she went off that way 👉" Daryl points to the right.

So Sofia was supposed to go to the left but went right which led to her death.

Season 10 might finally show that Beth goes left and that's the trail Angela Kang is talking about following.

We have been waiting soooooo long and even though I always thought that Get Well soon clock was a major clue to her return I never wanted to even consider it would apply to season 10 as it seemed ridiculously long to wait but again when applying it to the end time biblical theme is makes a lot of sense.

2 Peter

3:8-9

Dear friends, remember this one thing, with the Lord one day is as 1,000 years, and 1,000 years are as one day. The Lord is not slow about keeping His promise as some people think. He is waiting for you.

In the CDC they used the I hour mark on the count down clock for a very particular reason along with the dialogue we have looked at above.

1:00:02 it's a reference to the 1000 years =1 day and Gods promise to return.

2 Peter 3:3

First of all, I want you to know that in the last days men will laugh at the truth. They will follow their own sinful desires. 4 They will say, “He promised to come again. Where is He? Since our early fathers died, everything is the same from the beginning of the world.” 5 But they want to forget that God spoke and the heavens were made long ago. The earth was made out of water and water was all around it. 6 Long ago the earth was covered with water and it was destroyed. 7 But the heaven we see now and the earth we live on now have been kept by His word. They will be kept until they are to be destroyed by fire. They will be kept until the day men stand before God and sinners will be destroyed.

Dear friends, remember this one thing, with the Lord one day is as 1,000 years, and 1,000 years are as one day.

9 The Lord is not slow about keeping His promise as some people think. He is waiting for you. The Lord does not want any person to be punished forever. He wants all people to be sorry for their sins and turn from them. 10 The day of the Lord will come as a robber comes. The heavens will pass away with a loud noise. The sun and moon and stars will burn up. The earth and all that is in it will be burned up.

11 Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, you should think about the kind of life you are living. It should be holy and God-like. 12 You should look for the day of God to come. You should do what you can to make it come soon. At that time the heavens will be destroyed by fire. And the sun and moon and stars will melt away with much heat. 13 We are looking for what God has promised, which are new heavens and a new earth. Only what is right and good will be there.

14 Dear friends, since you are waiting for these things to happen, do all you can to be found by Him in peace. Be clean and free from sin. 15 You can be sure the long waiting of our Lord is part of His plan to save men from the punishment of sin. God gave our dear brother Paul the wisdom to write about this also.

Wow that was a mouth full 😂

Any questions I'm happy to answer.

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Episode 8 Reaction

Hi kids! Sorry, I know I promised this yesterday, but I was so stressed about work that after I got my assignment done I completely checked out lol

That episode was alright. I’m significantly less interested in things that don’t involve the coven, but I’m glad we’re kind of starting to see pieces fall into place. 

Michael Langdon

Cody really got to show off this episode! He’s a great actor, and as much as I don’t like feeling sympathy for the Antichrist, I do like that they’ve made his path to evil not so clean cut.

That opening scene with Michael and Cordelia was amazing.

It’s so in Cordelia’s character that she offered Michael a chance--even now knowing he’s the Antichrist and being completely prepared to go to war, part of her still genuinely wants to help him.

As I mentioned in another post, I think she does see herself in him. They both know a thing or two about living up to your parent’s expectations.

Problem is, she has no idea what she’s done to him. She only has the story up until Michael left the Murder House--that he was abandoned and rejected by everyone who was supposed to care for him until meeting the satanists. But she doesn’t know that he had anyone to love. She just knew Miriam Mead was a follower of his who killed a warlock, so she got the same punishment that anyone who harms a witch or warlock gets.

She also, I think, overestimates how much he really is like her. Pre-Supremacy Cordelia was desperate to please anyone who offered her a kind word, and she crumbled inward when they hurt her. As much as I hate to say it, believing that he would accept her compassion was either arrogant or incredibly naive.

Okay, so Michael really does just fuck off to the woods to think sometimes lol he’s literally such a teenager

This entire scene was super trippy.

Did anyone else catch the Bible parallels with that angel and the kid offering Michael a soda? It reminded me of the story where Jesus goes into the desert to fast and is tempted by Satan, except reversed? I guess? Not super clear if those were actual angels or Dad’s test to see if he was strong enough to resist.

The angel man in the diaper made me very uncomfortable

Also asking the goat if it was his father just made me remember that kid’s book “Are You My Mother?”

The Satanists

Lol the actual church of Satan must be so pissed about this portrayal

Michael literally has a replacement mom for his replacement mom

Tbh, I wonder how inadequate Michael feels with everyone talking about how they expect him to ride in on a black horse and lead them all.

“Nobody gave me an instruction manual” he is literally every Millennial ever

And he looked so weirded out by everyone fawning over him, it was so funny

Gotta say, I was disappointed that there were no creepy morphing shadows following him around or setting people on fire with his mind, just normal throat-slitting (though setting that girl on fire with his mind later made up for it)

The Scientists

COCONUT HEEEEEAAAAAADS

Oh my god everyone’s hair is SO weird

Venable looks SO weird--but hey, she’s back and scathing as ever!

S/O to all the people who theorized she might have been one of the nuclear scientists--we were kinda close!

It’s interesting though that she didn’t actually meet Michael. I wonder how she’ll get roped into the Cooperative in the future.

And now we know where the “purple” thing comes from

And THE SONG

Ryan Murphy simultaneously exposing his crush on Ryan Reynolds and vendetta against Mark Zuckerberg

Speaking of the Cooperative, original theories were split between whether this was a group of powerful people that Michael worked for or something he actually created with the satanists, and it looks like it’s actually a mix if all the powerful people in the US have made deals with Satan.

And now we know how Mead ends up a robot! 

So, they created her totally from scratch. Does that mean Cordelia still has her actual soul hidden?

Michael Langdon casually calling Satan “Dad”

Next Week

Okay y’all, we only have two episodes left, and I seriously don’t know how or if they’re going to wrap this up. There’s still TWO YEARS between now and when the coven even arrives at Outpost Three, not to mention that they’ve only JUST arrived and still need to actually defeat Michael. My suspicion that this arc will extend into next season is growing, but also...

The preview for next week shows the bomb dropping scene from episode 1, and Murphy’s picture of the witches on Instagram looks like they’re in the aftermath, so I wonder if we’re in for more time jumps. I really hope not. I just don’t see how they’ll wrap everything up in the next two episodes without making it feel rushed and skipping scenes that fans would really like to see. I want to know what the coven has been doing to survive during the 18 months between the start of the apocalypse and actually catching up to Michael. And I really want to know where Zoe, Queenie, and Misty are by then. I swear to god, if any of them die, especially Misty--

Speaking of Misty, THEY’RE IN HER SHACK!!! I really have no idea if Misty herself will be there. She could have gone back after returning to the coven and the others go to her when Cordelia gets sick, or she could be with Stevie and the witches head there because they know it’s safe. Tbh, as much as I want Misty to be back in the next episode, I like the idea that the witches head there without her better because if she hasn’t been back yet, it means Cordelia is the one who’s been taking care of it. The last time Misty was even there was when she ran from the witch hunters, but the mattress has been replaced, her radio fixed, and it looks like a bathtub installed. 

I really, really do think that Cordelia has been keeping everything in order these past four years to prepare for the day she finally got Misty back. And remember how Myrtle said that Cordelia wandered off for a couple days after becoming Supreme? The shack is 100% where she went, because that would have been the one and only chance she had to mourn privately before actually assuming leadership. I think the witches went there when Cordelia got sick not because they hoped Misty could heal her, but because they know the shack is Cordelia’s safe place. Then I want them to contact Misty and tell her Cordelia needs help, just so we can see her reaction when she comes back to her home for the first time and realizes that Cordelia’s been taking care of it all this time.

Also, I’ve had this one-shot idea forever of Cordelia visiting the shack for the first time to mourn after she dies and walking around touching everything to try and get visions of Misty’s life, and DEAR LORD I WANT A FLASHBACK SCENE WITH A VOICEOVER WHILE CORDELIA TELLS MISTY ABOUT DOING THIS.

[orbemnews]

Biden Wants to Slash Emissions. Success Would Mean a Very Different America. WASHINGTON — President Biden’s new pledge to slash America’s greenhouse gas emissions over the coming decade is long on ambition and short on specifics, but experts say that success would require rapid and sweeping changes to virtually every corner of the nation’s economy, transforming the way Americans drive to work, heat their homes and operate their factories. In several recent studies, researchers have explored what a future America might look like if it wants to achieve Mr. Biden’s new climate goal: Cutting the nation’s planet-warming emissions at least 50 percent below 2005 levels by the year 2030. By the end of the decade, those studies suggest, more than half of the new cars and S.U.V.s sold at dealerships would need to be powered by electricity, not gasoline. Nearly all coal-fired power plants would need to be shut down. Forests would need to expand. The number of wind turbines and solar panels dotting the nation’s landscape could quadruple. It’s achievable in theory, researchers say, but it’s an enormous challenge. To get there, the Biden administration would likely need to put in place a vast array of new federal policies, many of which could face obstacles in Congress or the courts. And policymakers will have to take care in crafting measures that do not cause serious economic harm, such as widespread job losses or spikes in energy prices, that could trigger blowback. “It’s not an easy task,” said Nathan Hultman, the director of University of Maryland’s Center on Global Sustainability. “We won’t be able to sit back and hope that market forces alone will do the job.” For now, the United States has a head start. The nation’s greenhouse gas emissions have already fallen roughly 21 percent since 2005, according to estimates by the Rhodium Group. Much of that decline came as electric utilities retired hundreds of their dirtiest coal plans and shifted to cheaper and cleaner natural gas, wind and solar power. But roughly one-third of the reductions to date have come as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, as business activity slumped and Americans drove less. That drop is likely to prove fleeting. “We expect emissions to rebound this year as the economy recovers, so we’re already backtracking a bit,” said Kate Larsen, a director at the Rhodium Group. The harder part is yet to come. In two recent studies, Mr. Hultman and his colleagues modeled possible paths to achieving at least a 50 percent reduction in emissions by 2030. The changes would be far-reaching: By 2030, half the country’s electricity would come from renewable sources such as wind, solar or hydropower, up from one-fifth today. New natural gas plants would largely be built with technology that can capture carbon dioxide, instead of releasing it into the atmosphere — technology that is still in its infancy. Virtually all of the 200 remaining coal plants would shut down unless they, too, can capture their emissions and bury them underground. By 2030, two-thirds of new cars and S.U.V.s sold would be battery-powered, up from roughly 2 percent today. All new buildings would be heated by electricity rather than natural gas. The nation’s cement, steel and chemical industries would adopt stringent new energy-efficiency targets. Oil and gas producers would slash emissions of methane, a potent heat-trapping gas, by 60 percent. The nation’s forests would expand, and farming practices would be reworked, so that they pull 20 percent more carbon dioxide out of the air than they do today. While that research provides only one example of how the United States might meet its target, it illustrates the vast scale of the transformation envisioned. “Those are massive changes to electricity and transportation, and even then you can’t just focus on those sectors alone,” said Mr. Hultman. “If we fall short in any one area, the task becomes that much harder.” It’s still an open question whether the Biden administration can adopt new policies that will actually achieve all of those goals. The White House has yet to lay out the precise steps it will take to ensure the United States reaches its new climate target, although it has offered some signals. For instance, Mr. Biden has floated the idea of a clean electricity standard that could require utilities to get all of their electricity from low-carbon sources such as wind, solar, nuclear or even natural gas with carbon capture by 2035. But that policy faces a battle in Congress. Updated  April 22, 2021, 12:42 p.m. ET And while the Biden administration is working on more stringent fuel-economy standards for pollution from cars and light trucks, it has not proposed strict sales targets for electric vehicles, as states like California have urged. Mr. Biden has also shied away from ideas like a carbon price, which would require polluters to pay for their emissions of carbon dioxide, giving them an incentive to clean up their act. Europe and Canada have adopted programs like these, and one recent study by Resources for the Future, a nonpartisan think tank, found that the United States could cut its carbon dioxide emissions 54 percent by 2030 if it put in place a carbon tax that started at $40 per ton and increased by 5 percent each year. But some analysts say carbon pricing would be a tough sell for many lawmakers. “There’s this idea in Europe of the inevitability of carbon pricing, and that this is the way to go,” Samantha Gross, director of the Energy Security and Climate Initiative at the Brookings Institution, said on Tuesday. “I do see that point, and I understand it, but that point is running at least right now into a wall of U.S. politics that are not supportive of carbon pricing.” Mr. Hultman said that even if the Biden administration can’t enact some of his more ambitious proposals, such as a clean electricity standard, there might be other options available. His research found that the United States could potentially make significant progress toward its climate goal by significantly expanding federal tax credits for a variety of clean energy technologies — including electric vehicles, charging stations, wind, solar and carbon capture — an idea that has historically found a more receptive audience in Congress. The Environmental Protection Agency could also enact new regulations on automakers, coal and gas plants and oil drillers to help fill the gap. While those rules would not require Congress’ approval, they could face pushback from a more conservative Supreme Court. Yet even if many or even all of those policies get enacted, a bigger question remains: Mr. Biden’s term ends in 2024. What happens if he is succeeded by a president who disavows his climate target, much as President Trump dismantled President Obama’s regulations on greenhouse gas emissions? “That’s a concern of mine,” said Ms. Gross of Brookings. “Most importantly, I worry that the fear of such reversal and then the endless litigation that comes along with this will dampen the investment signal that the regulation was intended to send.” Republicans have already sharply criticized Mr. Biden’s climate target as damaging for the American economy. “The president’s scheme will cost working families a fortune in higher energy bills,” said Senator John Barrasso, Republican of Wyoming. “It will also hurt America’s international competitiveness.” Mr. Biden sought to frame the transformation as a vast economic opportunity. “I see line workers laying thousands of miles of transmission lines for a clean, modern, resilient grid,” he said Thursday. “I see the engineers and the construction workers building new carbon capture and green hydrogen plants to forge cleaner steel and cement.” Ultimately, for Mr. Biden to make his climate goals stick, experts said, he will essentially have to win that argument, showing that it’s possible to rapidly scale new clean-energy industries that benefit Americans and create large new constituencies that make his policies politically difficult to unwind. There is some precedent for that. President Obama expanded tax incentives for wind and solar power during his two terms, which helped drive down the costs of both technologies and fostered large new industries that now employ hundreds of thousands of workers. In December, during the Trump administration, bipartisan majorities in Congress agreed to extend tax credits for technologies like wind and solar power with relatively little fanfare. And the federal government wouldn’t necessarily act alone. States like California and New York are separately pursuing their own aggressive targets for cutting emissions. Cities across the country are enacting stricter building codes and installing electric vehicle charging stations. Large companies like General Motors or Google have made specific promises to shift to electric vehicles and cleaner energy. While many of these promises are still uncertain — and have not yet spread as widely in more conservative red states — experts say that a major expansion of these local and business efforts could help propel the United States toward its goal if the federal government falls short. “If climate action becomes much more widespread at the state or city or business level, then it’s much more robustly anchored,” said Mr. Hultman. “Then these climate goals aren’t just viewed as a numbers game, but as a societal transformation.” Source link Orbem News #America #Biden #emissions #slash #success

[gretamclaughlin]

Fueling the Modern World

The readings focus on nonrenewable and renewable energy sources, and they talk about the necessity to shift to new forms of energy production to prevent further climate change. Environmentally-degrading oil is the most widely used energy resource in the U.S. Fracking, another popular energy source, is also detrimental to the environment, costly, and limited. I enjoy how the textbook notes various issues with nonrenewable energy sources that are not restricted to the environment; this appeals to a diverse audience and provides a comprehensive view of the scope of the effects of degradation. In other words, environmental issues influence a range of other social and political issues, including foreign policy. Keith Crane explains this in his book Imported Oil and U.S. National Security, stating that a disruption in oil imports “would undermine U.S. national security, for example, by weakening U.S. global economic and political influence and the ability of the United States to pay for U.S. military forces” (Crane 2009, 19). The readings go on to present other sources of energy like oil and tar sands, which emit air pollutants and produce more CO2 than conventional crude oil production. Certainly, some new and seemingly promising energy solutions further damage the environment, and many methods of energy production have a high long-term cost. Although we can promote the view that these sources are detrimental to ecosystems as a whole, it may be more effective to focus on the human cost, which would attract a greater audience. Regardless of the angle one takes, it is integral that people look towards more ecologically friendly methods for sustainable and lasting solutions.

The textbook also covers natural gas and coal and explains how natural gas intensifies climate change and shifts people away from finding better energy because it is seen as clean. The description of coal highlights both the environmental and health issues caused by its mining and combustion. The health costs can be such an economic burden on countries that switching to cleaner energy can become the most viable option. Ben Ewald conducted a study in New South Wales, Australia on the health costs of SO2 emissions from burning coal (Ewald 2018, 227). Sulfate particles are classified as part of the particulate air pollution smaller than 2.5 microns (PM2.5). He found that by reducing PM2.5 levels 16%, there would be 104 fewer deaths and 560 fewer years of life lost per year in NSW, valued at about $539 million (based upon the statistical value of life) (Ewald 2018, 228). Ewald argues that pollution fees need to correspond with the cost of health damage to reduce emissions. Of course, speaking about human life in terms of money can be problematic, and it raises the question of why people cannot just value life for itself. Regardless, this tactic can expand the number of people in support of environmental action, including those who are more economically-driven. The production of CO2 by the coal industry causes further issues. By highlighting both the environmental and health impact of coal, the readers can understand how they are directly affected.

I always believed that nuclear energy was the key to the future, but the readings changed this. Although there are benefits to nuclear power like a low environmental impact and low accident risk, there are numerous disadvantages, such as the difficulty of disposing fuel rods, high cost, and low net energy production. However, governments have invested significantly more money into nuclear power than renewable resources, despite having little success. It makes me wonder what the world would look like if nations had focused on funding more sustainable options. Climate change may not be as advanced as it is now, and the U.S. could have been a leader in reducing emissions. According to a study in Risk Analysis, “Climate change concern is associated with increased acceptance of nuclear power only when nuclear power is considered as the only viable way to cut CO2 emissions” (Vainio et al. 2017, 557). Certainly, other options exist today that produce more energy and are better for the environment; therefore, nuclear energy and financement of it should be phased out.

Despite the higher net energy of nonrenewable resources, it is necessary to switch to renewable resources to reduce the environmental and health impacts. The readings highlight how by turning to cleaner options, we can create business opportunities and provide jobs, which is important because people often lean on the economy to justify ruining the environment. Indeed, it is integral to promote the positive economic effects and opportunities of businesses and countries becoming greener in order to generate more support for climate action. Consolidating diverse interests will be essential in fighting environmental degradation.

The U.S. needs to implement a smart grid to connect wind farms and solar power plants throughout the country, subsidize energy efficiency initiatives, and make the switch to more renewable energy. Generally, human systems are unnaturally linear, and in order to decrease human impact on the environment, people need to switch the energy system to one that imitates those found in nature (biomimicry). For example, solar cells mimic leaves, with some newer technology even turning to the sun as leaves do. Other renewable energy includes wind energy, which is highly productive and could potentially fuel the entire country. Loyola University Chicago created a program in which they collect oil from Chicago restaurants and universities and convert it into biodiesel that operates university and other local vehicles (Loyola University Chicago, n.d.). Small projects such as this one increase in their value when their methods are employed on a larger scale.

Of course, governments need to establish comprehensive policies to reduce pollution and increase renewable energy use, such as Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards, which improve vehicles’ fuel efficiencies. Standards are being used in Paris by establishing a low-emission zone where only certain vehicles can enter (Bernard et al.). This reduces air pollution and encourages people to purchase fuel-efficient and electric cars. Increasing CAFE standards in the coming years will further improve the energy efficiency of vehicles on the road.

We need to create legislation that forces communities to utilize renewable energy. California legislation requires the state to use renewable energy to produce half of its electric power by 2030. If this was imposed on a national level, we would see a sharp increase in wind, solar, and other renewable energy and a lower reliance on coal, oil, etc. Furthermore, the government needs to shift away from awarding subsidies and tax breaks to nonrenewable energy producers, and it should provide financial incentives for building and using renewable energy. Of course, these initiatives would be more logical if the U.S. government sped up the process of building a smart grid so widespread usage of clean energy would be more viable. Tax breaks and other economic incentives should also be used to encourage people to purchase more energy-efficient vehicles, including hybrid and electric cars. 

The government must also implement full-cost pricing when it comes to nonrenewable resources to reduce their usage. The International Monetary Fund approximates that if full-cost pricing were applied to burning coal, coal use would drop 55%, and CO2 emissions would drop 20%. It is necessary that pricing accurately reflects human and environmental cost; in the case of the NSW study, taxes were not high enough to make any companies take action. However, if done properly, this method can greatly reduce emissions from burning coal and producing other forms of nonrenewable energy. Promoting environmental education in schools and through community groups is integral in combating the narrative that nonrenewable energy is safe, which is purported by many corporations.

Unfortunately, impoverished people bear the brunt of climate change much more than those who are well-off, and many suffer as a result of wealthier people’s actions, such as corporations. While the rich can flee the effects of environmental degradation, marginalized people must face them directly. This makes comprehensive environmental policy even more necessary, and it can ameliorate other race and class issues, such as health. More immediate policy can include building parks in urban areas and cleaning up pre-existing places. Grassroots organizations can also spearhead efforts, and the Bronx River Alliance is revitalizing the Bronx River, and their work has a multitude of psychological and physical benefits to nearby residents. Growing up, I had the opportunity to explore nature through clean parks, playgrounds, and more in my neighborhood. Just 20 minutes down the road in a more impoverished neighborhood, children did not have access to the same opportunities and did not live in a healthy environment. Today, the memories I made in nature were formative and continue to affect my relationship with the world. It is unfair that so many young people are denied these opportunities, just because of how much money their parents have, and action must be taken to prevent further injustices.

Changing building standards to ensure green architecture would reduce energy waste, use solar energy to heat buildings, and more. Unfortunately, living in a sustainable manner is largely only accessible to wealthier people who have the means to live in buildings with top-of-the-line technology. Therefore, by making green living more accessible to everyone with government subsidies, less energy will be wasted and less emissions will be produced, leading to a cleaner world for everyone. On an individual level, we can all take action in our homes by ensuring that leaky heating is sealed, using LED bulbs, shutting off electronics when not in use, and transitioning to energy-efficient appliances. Switching to a cleaner and more energy-efficient world is critical in preventing further climate change. Acting sustainably can be a difficult road to take, especially given the capitalist system that we live in. I find myself purchasing from Amazon instead of shopping at brick-and-mortar stores, and I often eat meat in favor of vegetarian and vegan options. However, we must all be more conscious of our actions and their effects in order to have a cleaner future, or even a future at all.

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Question: If governments had focused their resources on renewable energy rather than nuclear energy, how would current emissions have been affected?

Diagrams:

Savings due to reduced air pollution in New South Wales, Australia

Potential phases for Paris’ implementation of its low-emission zones: cars receive stickers based on their fuel-efficiency

Sources of U.S. energy in 2019 - very unsustainable

Works Cited:

Crane, Keith. 2009. Imported Oil and U.S. National Security. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation. https://eds-a-ebscohost-com.avoserv2.library.fordham.edu/eds/detail/detail?vid=0&sid=c36b0d2f-45db-4a48-9f08-35b1ee8e70c8%40sdc-v-sessmgr02&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmU%3d#AN=276729&db=e000xna. 

Ewald, Ben. 2018. “The value of health damage due to sulphur dioxide emissions from coal- fired electricity generation in NSW and implications for pollution licences.” Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health 42, no. 3: 227-229. EBSCOhost. 

Vainio, Annukka, Riikka Paloniemi, and Vilja Varho. 2017. “Weighing the Risks of Nuclear Energy and Climate Change: Trust in Different Information Sources, Perceived Risks, and Willingness to Pay for Alternatives to Nuclear Power.” Risk Analysis: An International Journal 37, no. 3. 557-569. EBSCOhost. 

Bernard, Yoann, Joshua Miller, Sandra Wappelhorst, and Caleb Braun. 2020. “Impacts of the Paris low-emission zone and implications for other cities.” The Real Urban Emissions Initiative (March 2020): 5. https://theicct.org/sites/default/files/publications/Paris-LEV-implications-03.12.2020.pdf. 

Loyola University Chicago. n.d.”Biodiesel Program.” https://www.luc.edu/media/lucedu/sustainability-new/pdfs/IES-biodiesel.pdf. 

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A Look-back at 2020

By OWOE Staff: Happy 2021 dear readers and supporters of OWOE. As everyone is aware, 2020 was a most unfortunate series of events, beginning with the release of a virulent pathogen from China which resulted in a wide range of foreseeable acute and long range economic, social and energy consequences. Thus, OWOE staff are working hard to analyze these consequences to provide meaningful insight about energy matters going forward. We plan a variety of interesting updates to our core energy information, tools and blogs this year and perhaps even a contest involving energy self-sufficiency at the local level. Many of the changes happening in the world of energy are the cumulative results of individual changes in consumption resulting from economic turmoil compounded by inept government policies and continuing industry business practices.

OWOE 2020 blog plan. Early in this year, OWOE aims to publish a grand blog overview of energy trends and transitions, similar to, but hopefully better than, the yearly reports issued by the super-majors, the IEA and other organizations with immense research budgets and numerous staff. We will examine and discuss energy demand changes as well as energy supply issues across the broad spectrum of the key energy resources powering the world: coal, oil, gas, nuclear, hydro and renewables. The relationship between access to sustainable energy and economic prosperity as well as CO2 emissions will also be discussed. While the events of 2020 resulted in drops in energy demand across the spectrum, it also resulted in noticeable drops in pollution and CO2 emissions,. The question that many analysts in Wall Street, Houston, Zurich or Moscow are trying to answer is whether such demand drops are now permanent. The short OWOE answer is yes, in certain areas, but not overall. OWOE is also planning to bring new bloggers to the site to continue its tradition of sharing interesting comments and views on a broad range of energy topics and, possibly, to provide video-blogs.

Other blogs will continue to examine energy technologies and how well various states and industries are transitioning (if at all) to more efficient energy technologies and green energy. As we have seen in recent years, politicians have a tendency to proclaim success in green energy transitions, but the data to support such claims and intentions is often murky. OWOE staff will make critical examinations of oil, gas, coal and renewables.

But let’s start 2021 by touching on a couple of key issues…

Has the world reached peak oil demand? One thing that OWOE bloggers are proud of is correctly calling the peak for oil demand way ahead of almost every major energy agency and supplier worldwide. When OWOE first cautioned about oil demand drop in a blog in 2019, the next best available report from the large agencies and industry suggested that peak oil demand might occur by 2030. When in March of 2020, OWOE bloggers stated emphatically that the world has hit peak oil demand, soon afterward those agencies, industry and even the Russian government revised their demand forecasts to come close in line with OWOE view: The world has hit peak oil demand. The reasonably sustained rally in oil prices during the latter half of 2020 is not the result of increased oil demand, but rather the result of coordinated supply curtailment and manipulation. Here’s the new warning from OWOE bloggers: It is likely that the world will, in the moderate term, have oil demand outstrip supply, but that will only be because the big oil producers have been significantly under-investing in new supply for the last 5 years or so. The world will find itself at a point where oil demand is falling, but supply is falling faster. In such a scenario, oil prices will rise quickly, but as noted before, high oil prices are amongst the biggest stimulus to increasing alternative and renewable energy supply.

Where does the US stand with CO2 emissions? The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on US economic activity has fueled speculation throughout the year concerning what would happen to CO2 emissions. Indications (and logic) that emissions would be dramatically reduced are now being confirmed as various agencies and organizations that track CO2 emissions have started reporting end-2020 numbers. For example, the Rhodium Group reported that preliminary year-end numbers indicate that greenhouse gas emissions fell by just over 10% from 2019. This is significantly greater than the 6.3% drop seen in 2009, which was driven by the great recession. Figure 1 shows the history of US emissions, with end-2020 levels now below 1990 levels. Of course, expectations are that as economic activity picks up, so will emissions. The big question going forward is how much behavior has been changed fundamentally by the pandemic. One can envision a country where commuting miles remain significantly reduced, people decide they can get by with fewer cars, more businesses switch to remote working which requires less office space, business travel is deemed much less necessary, and people finally realize that they just don’t need to buy as much stuff as they did. OWOE suggests re-reading our blog from November 2019 where we speculated that huge emission reductions are possible if baby boomers reined in their spending habits. Maybe 2020 was an early vision of such a new world. 

Fig. 1 – US Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Rhodium Group)

Was 2020 the year EVs turned the corner and began their much-heralded take-over of the automobile market? On March 10, 2020 Telsa manufactured its one-millionth vehicle, hitting a milestone that many EV naysayers and Telsa short-sellers claimed was impossible as recently as 2 years earlier. To follow that up, Tesla manufactured one-half million vehicles, give-or-take a few hundred, in 2020. Fourth quarter production of 179,757 cars was an increase of 71% from last year and 36% year-on-year. It is still relatively small in terms of total number of vehicles sold compared to the major automakers: Volkswagen, the world’s largest, sold just under 11 million cars worldwide in 2019 while General Motors, the largest US automaker, had global sales of 7.7 million cars in 2019. But if one considers that both US auto sales and global auto sales will likely be down about 15% this year when the final statistics are released, it’s an impressive increase, and shows that EV sales are growing while conventional auto sales are declining. As far as the future…Tesla’s exponential growth should continue with the new German factory coming on-line and the (relatively) new Chinese factory continuing to ramp-up production. But the bigger story is the rush of the other auto makers into the EV market. For example, GM plans to launch 30 electric vehicles by 2025, and Hyundai Motor Group is planning to market 23 EV models in the next few years based on a new EV platform built from the ground up. Then throw in the state and country bans on sales of new fossil-fuel driven vehicles – Norway in 2025,  California in 2035, Massachusetts in 2035,  and many others. And, finally, what could be the death knell…Elon Musk’s reference to a $25,000 EV on the market in 3 years.

Big Oil problems. Returning to the issue of looming undersupply, this is a situation that cannot be solved quickly enough by the big oil producers, save perhaps for those with vast supplies easily accessible but disinclined by the high marginal cost of production (shale oil) or political sabotage (oil sands in Canada). One of the key consequences of the oil collapse that began in fall 2014 is that large producers and developers have been cutting experienced staff in droves while at the same time greatly reducing the number of new hires and trainees. To develop a new field from discovery to production offshore, for example, still takes about 10 years in most non-frontier areas of the world, and there are not enough experienced staff to safely and economically execute such new projects in sufficient numbers required to meet the next supply challenges. Oil prices will spike but the impacts will be marginal before oil prices start to collapse again as energy consumers more quickly reduce demand and switch to other energy supplies.

Another consequence of the next oil price boom is that non-industry companies may suddenly appear to throw gobs of money at oil and engineering support companies in hopes of realizing some instant long-term revenue projections. Investors and employees need to be wary of ridiculous buyouts and mergers.

Green Oil – the future or just a fad? Currently, many large oil and gas producers are highlighting all the effort and investment that they are making in renewable and more sustainable energy technologies, something we at OWOE refer to as “green oil”. Most of that is for media consumption as the proportion of money spent on new energy technologies is miniscule compared to the amount of money still being spent on maintaining oil and gas production. There are two consequences of this: a) large energy producers will be supplanted by new firms producing new energy, and b) without real investment from the private sector, new energy technology will continue to be dependent upon large government support.

The experience and expertise of large oil producers that has resulted in cheap oil is missing from renewables, and, consequently, large renewable projects, such as offshore floating wind, will continue to be too expensive for many areas. These costs still need to be driven down. An unfortunate consequence of this lack of real private investment is the situation with a few legacy companies that peddle their solutions much like 19th century snake oil salesmen: Going from town to town to sell their overly expensive product until government subsidies run out, then moving on to the next jurisdiction. However, there is hope, as newer and next generation technologies are entering the field with the aim of being commercially viable without government subsidies. Combining next generation technologies in innovative ways with support from private companies with long range vision will further hasten the adoption of technologies like floating offshore wind energy in more places around the world.

In conclusion: Although 2020 was a difficult year across the board, there have been some positive outcomes for the world of energy and for the world itself. But it will be critical for individuals to help extend such positive outcomes into the future as government actions are often misdirected, driven by ideological or self-serving interests rather than rational goals. Regrettably, government actions can often be metaphorically compared to using sledgehammers to pluck flowers from the debris of civilization. OWOE will do its best to help its readers analyze and understand these interesting and challenging times and topics.

A Look-back at 2020 was originally published on OurWorldofEnergy

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Looking Back: Reviewing 2017 Predictions

Here’s the recap of last year’s predictions. See this year’s predictions, here.

Below, the prediction indented, my comments follow. Bolding is from the original post:

1. Work chat will continue to dominate the market for enterprise ‘collaboration’, and AI-based ‘team members’ with deep learning skill sets will become commonplace, building on chatbot models of interaction but assuming larger roles in project management, development, marketing, and HR. Slack is acquired by Amazon for $35 billion, and loosely integrated into AWS.

Got the first part right.  Many, many bots are in use, so kinda good on that. Slack was NOT acquired by Amazon or anyone else in 2017.

2. The hottest business trend of 2017 will be AI-based ‘driverless management’, displacing Holocracy and other management ‘business operating systems’ fads. AI will play a significantly larger role in areas that human cognitive biases are most problematic, like hiring and promotion, decision support, and ensuring diversity, equality, and well-being in the workplace. (Daemon (via Daniel Saurez) meets the workplace.) Several unknown start-ups will lead this new exploding sector.

I was just too early with this, although the driverless management trend is heating up.

3. Following Trump’s proposed withdrawal of US supporting NATO troops in the Baltics and Eastern Europe, Vladimir Putin’s Russia will occupy some part of the Baltics, like the Latgale region of Latvia, which is ~40% ethnic Russian. Mike Pence resigns as Vice President following major disagreements with Trump on the Baltics and NATO. Trump nominates Elaine Chao as Vice President, his Secretary of Transportation, and she is appointed in October, the first woman and first Asian American to serve in that role.

This move by Putin didn’t happen, but joint military exercises in Belarus involved as many as 100,000 Russian troops. Russia rejects Ukrainian assertions that most of the troops were left in place.

4. North Korea will fire a rocket that hits Kodiak Island in Alaska, although it carries only a conventional warhead. Kim Jong-un says the rocket was supposed to have crashed in the ocean before landfall, but many believe it was on track to hit Anchorage.

This has not happened, but the degree of staging up to a new war state with North Korea has been fairly terrifying. NK can now hit all continental US with nuclear warheads, experts agree.

5. Trump raises massive trade barriers to Chinese goods, sparking a trade war that damages both countries’ economies. This is in part because of an inability to get China to – in effect – take control of North Korea, but also as part of an attempt by US and European companies to make China’s markets more open: a second Opium War.

Trump’s trade war has been minimized by the conventional GOP buffer zone around him now. Score that a miss.

6. Britain begins that actual process of Brexit in mid 2017, leading Scotland to a referendum in favor of leaving the UK and applying to the EU for membership.

Yes, they did start the process.

7. The US Congress will pass legislation in early 2017 to repeal Obamacare, but defers any implementation until 2018 at the earliest, because they can’t agree on how it will be replaced or by what approach. Trump proposes a single payer system as a companion to a radical restructuring of the tax code, as he had hinted in his campaign, and falls into open discord with the establishment wing of the GOP.

Trump and company were unable to repeal ACA, but they did sneak a repeal of the individual mandate into the tax cut bill, so I’d say that a mixed result.

8. Driverless car fleets are rolled out by various car companies (Ford, Chrysler, Tesla, etc.) and car hailing platforms (Uber, Lyft, etc.). Car ownership in major urban areas continues to decline, and many municipalities create partnerships with fleet owners to augment conventional mass transportation solutions. The value of New York City taxi medallions drops over 75%.

A little early on the rollout of car fleets, but it’s coming soon. We’ve only seen small pilots in 2017. But the taxi medallions fell like a rock in 2017.

9. Amazon will buy Snapchat, and announce a new take on augmented reality glasses, picking up where Google dropped the ball years ago. Building on the success of Alexa-based Echo devices, Kindle, Fire TV, Amazon Prime, and the growing popularity of Snapchat, Amazon Eyes are the hit of Christmas 2017, with over 50 million ordered in November and December.

Amazon did announce Echo-enabled glasses are coming, but they haven’t shipped them in 2017. Snapchat has not been acquired.

10. The war in Syria comes to a Korean War-like end, with a partition of the country into various regions, and a unceasing belligerence on all parts. It is clearly a shadow war between factions backed by the West, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Turkey, and Russia. The stalemate here is a reflection of the reappraisal of loyalties and goals of the shadow players, more than the aims of the Syrian government and the insurgents. Bashar al-Assad rules a rump state of western Syrian, with much of the rest of ‘Syria’ in shambles.

Looks like the end state accelerated faster than I imagined, because of close work between Russia and US to crush ISIS, along with the complicity of Iran.

11. Hillary Clinton files for divorce from Bill Clinton in March 2017, and assumes the role of president of Harvard University, two weeks later.

Didn’t happen.

12. Marine Le Pen loses an unexpectedly close run-off with François Fillon, but the close election pulled Fillon and his Republicans farther right than in recent decades.

Emmanuel Macron didn’t even have a political party at the start of 2017, so that was a real surprise. The collapse of the conventional parties is the real story, and Le Pen did get to a direct election for the presidency, and lost, which is part of my prediction.

13. Oprah announces that she intends to run for President in the next election.

Still possible?

14. Angela Merkel narrowly wins reelection, after wide-spread controversy of scandals uncovered by leaks generally attributed to Putin’s brigade of hackers.

A few scandals, but mostly growing concerns about immigration and the direction for Europe: this one I got right.

15. Barack Obama joins Andreessen Horowitz as a partner, and leads a round funding AdjectiveNoun (fictitious, note), one of the most promising ‘driverless management’ startups. He also comes out in support of Oprah Winfrey’s candidacy.

Obama seems content to take it easy, and hasn’t decided what to do aside from writing some books.

16. Microsoft acquires Salesforce for $75 billion. Marc Benioff leaves to run philanthropy (amid discussions of political ambitions).

Didn’t happen, but still could.

17. Apple acquires Tesla for $75 billion. Tim Cook announces retirement, Elon Musk becomes CEO.

Now that the iPhone X is starting to look like a dud, this might become more realistic. But it didn’t happen.

18. Despite inaction by the US Federal Government, and chaos in the EPA and Energy Department, CO2 levels continue to fall worldwide. Environmental groups suggest that we may have turned the corner on energy in 2017, because solar is now cheaper than other energy sources in most places in the world. However, global temperatures continues to rise, and many models show that it might take 1000 years to reduce global temperatures.

Alas, we hit record levels of CO2 in the atmosphere in 2017. But solar is falling in price, leading to more coal power plants to close.

19. California and San Francisco, with support from Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, and other platform companies, announced a project to convert increasingly unneeded parking lots to small ‘park villages’ with dense, micro-apartment developments, for low-income and homeless residents. Trump-sponsored infrastructure funds are directed to US micro-building factories and a new California Construction Corps, which is strongly supported by both Democrats and Republicans. The state’s program is seen as a blueprint for the rest of the country.

This was far too hopeful. None of this has happened, and Trump -- despite his infrastructure mumbo-jumbo -- is cutting funding that might be used for projects like ‘park villages’.

20. Michael Bloomberg announces plans to create a third ‘Pragmatist’ party, based on economic conservatism and social liberalism, and rapidly attracts a large minority of GOP and Democratic legislators in Washington who have been whipsawed by the 2016 elections, and by the growing discord in both major parties over the future of their platforms. Some project that the Pragmatists could gain as many as 30% of the seats in the House, and as many as 10 governorships in coming years. Bloomberg announces his plans to run for President.

It may be more reasonable to imagine Steven Bannon starting an independent run for the White House. But at this point it doesn’t seem that Bloomberg is planning a run.

On the whole, I did fairly badly, really. None of my acquisitions came together, North Korea didn’t bomb us, the Clintons didn’t divorce, CO2 levels continue to rise. And of course, astride the year like Godzilla was Trump, and I made very few predictions about him, and those I did were really off. I don’t think we realized how bizarroland it was going to get.

Even though my results were lousy, I am taking another run at it, in Some Predictions, 2018. 

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How will Indian Americans vote on November 3?

South Asian Americans are one of the fastest-growing immigrant groups in the United States, and their participation in politics has increased significantly in recent years.

Bobby Jindal served as the governor of Louisiana from 2008 to 2016, and Nikki Haley was Trump's first choice for the role of US ambassador to the United Nations. Huma Abedin was Hillary Clinton's right-hand woman during her presidential campaign, and Saqib Ali served as a state delegate in Maryland when Obama was president. Pramila Jayapal and Ro Khanna are serving in Congress, and the number of South Asian Americans active in local politics is also on the rise. Belal Aftab is running for city council in California, and last year, Sadaf Jaffer became the first South Asian female mayor in America. Most importantly, Kamala Harris, the daughter of a Jamaican father and an Indian mother, is the first-ever Black and South Asian vice presidential nominee.

While South Asian Americans are now more visible on the political stage than ever before, their loyalties remain diverse, resisting easy classifications.

Recent polls have shown that while most Indian Americans will vote blue in the upcoming election, 28 percent gravitate towards Trump, a notable jump from the 16 percent that voted red in the last presidential election.

Despite Trump's hostile rhetoric towards minority communities and immigrants, the support he continues to receive from a significant percentage of Indian Americans is not surprising.

Unlike South Asian Americans who come from Muslim countries, Indian-Americans, especially those who are not Sikh or Muslim, have not been subjected to the same levels of racialised surveillance as part of the US government ongoing global “war on terror”. While Indian-Americans have certainly faced racism, their roots in secular India afforded them a level of acceptance in America that Muslims fundamentally lack. As a result, while most Muslim Americans oppose Trump for his pernicious Islamophobia, Hindu Indian-Americans are more open to pledging their support to him.

Trump, after all, has pandered to the Indian-American vote, forming a close political friendship with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Modi has built his entire political career on the basis of Hindu nationalism (also known as “Hindutva”), an exclusionary ideology that asserts India is a homeland principally for Hindus, and consequently denigrates marginalized religious groups, ethnicities and castes.

Earlier this year, Trump embarked on a two-day visit to India, where he praised Modi for protecting “religious freedoms” in the country and underscored the importance of US-India ties in the fight against “radical Islamic terrorism.” When Trump reached New Delhi, the city was burning in a pogrom against Muslims, which left more than 50 people dead. The violence came on the heels of nationwide protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), and the National Register of Citizens (NRC), laws that institutionalise exclusion of Muslims from Indian citizenship and violate the country's secular constitution.

In 2019, Modi was re-elected as prime minister by stoking nationalist sentiments - threatening war with Pakistan and revoking the semi-autonomous status of Kashmir, which its inhabitants consider to be under military occupation. That same year, Trump welcomed Modi in a Houston stadium, drawing 50,000 Indian-Americans in rapturous support.

Today, the spike in Indian-American support for Trump is likely linked to the political alliance between Trump and Modi that was built on their shared hatred of Muslims, policies of increased neoliberal privatisation, and right-wing populism.

But while Trump and Modi's diplomatic friendship is now at the center of US-India relations, support for Hindu nationalism, and normalization of its adherents in US politics, is not limited to conservative circles.

Liberal politicians from the Democratic Party, who claim to champion democratic values, inclusion and multiculturalism, also have deep ties to Modi, which is reinforced by the network of Indian-American organizations that support him. These organizations are linked to the Sangh Parivar, an umbrella term that encompasses Hindu nationalist groups, such as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its paramilitary progenitor, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).

Democratic nominee Joe Biden, widely celebrated as the antidote to Trump, or viewed as the lesser evil in yet another election that fails to offer new options for American voters, may not appear to be as enthusiastic in cooperating with the Indian prime minister as his conservative opponent. But Trump was not the first president to honor Modi with an invitation to the White House.

In September 2014, just a few months after Modi's ascent to the top of India's government, then-President Barack Obama and Vice President Biden welcomed Modi to Washington, DC, with full fanfare, including a visit to the Martin Luther King, Jr memorial and A lunch prepared by an Indian-American chef at the State Department.

The day before, 19,000 Indian-Americans had greeted Modi at Madison Square Garden in what Secretary of State John Kerry called “a rock-star reception”. Prominent liberal Indian-American personalities, such as Nina Davuluri, the first South Asian American Miss America and contributor to Michelle Obama's public health campaign, and Hari Sreenivasan, a PBS anchor, hosted the gathering.

Throughout Modi's visit, neither the members of the Obama administration nor the Indian-Americans celebrating his arrival, tried to take Modi to task for his actions during the Gujarat pogroms. Modi had been banned from entering the US for nine years - from 2005 to 2014 - due to his alleged complicity in the 2002 anti-Muslim pogroms in his home state of Gujarat, which left more than 1,000 people dead. The policy was implemented thanks to the efforts of Indian-American Muslims and Sikhs, according to Kashmiri-American intellectual Hafsa Kanjwal, but was swiftly overturned when Modi became prime minister.

America's diplomatic alignment with Modi - or any leader at the helm of Indian democracy, even as it slips rapidly into fascism - remains bipartisan, and Biden himself has been at the center of efforts to form a strong economic and security partnership with India since days as a senator. The Democratic presidential hopeful was one of the primary architects of the US's nuclear trade agreement with India in the late 1990s and early 2000s, which laid the foundation for the current political and economic partnership between the two countries. During this time, India started to receive aircraft, naval ships and other defense technology exports from the US.

In 2014, Biden praised Modi's “support for economic reforms” which, as of 2018, enabled a trade relationship worth $ 142b between the two countries. To this day, India remains the fifth-largest market for American defense exports.

Biden is the only alternative to four more years of a Trump presidency, and his acceptance of Modi and lack of sensitivity to Kashmiri, lower-caste and Indian Muslim suffering appear still to be as strong as they were six years ago.

In February, the Biden campaign appointed Amit Jani, an Indian-American political organizer with strong family and political links to Modi and the BJP, as director of outreach for the Asian-American Pacific Islander community; His duties included Muslim outreach.

Jani's ties to the BJP surpass mild apologia or well-intended ignorance of Indian politics. His father, Suresh Jani, is a founder of the Overseas Friends of the BJP (OFBJP), an organization lobbying for Modi's BJP in the West. In 2019, his mother, Deepti, actively campaigned for Modi's re-election in India. When Modi visited the US, he stayed at the Janis' Jersey City home.

Amit Jani does not dissociate himself from his parents' ideology or activism. In fact, he appears to support it. In a 2014 article for The Huffington Post, Jani glorified Modi for reviving interest in Indian politics among the diaspora and compared his election win to that of Obama.

In May 2019, Jani was listed as an organizer for an event celebrating the Indian government draconian decision to revoke the special status accorded to Indian-administered Kashmir in its constitution. As Jani was working to organize the celebratory event, Modi had already put Indian-administered Kashmir under lockdown, cutting the region's internet and electricity, and thousands of troops there to quash protests.

Given Biden's strong political relationship with India and past praise of Modi, his appointment of Jani, a Modi supporter, was hardly shocking, but it poured salt in the wound of Muslim Americans, especially those of South Asian descent, as well as Dalit Americans.

A hashtag calling for his dismissal, #RejectAmitJani, trended on Twitter and Equality Labs, a South Asian progressive organization, published an open letter calling for Biden to “terminate Amit Jani's employment from the campaign”, which drew signatures from several grassroots Asian-American groups and respected academics.

Following the backlash, Jani was relieved of his duties and a former Muslim adviser to the 2016 Clinton campaign, Farooq Mitha, was assigned to do outreach within the Muslim American community. Mitha's appointment also stirred some controversy, as he is a board member of the controversial organization Emgage, which has been criticized for its ties to pro-Israel lobbies that have tried to censor the work of Palestine solidarity activists.

Biden has since catered to the Muslim American vote by name-dropping various atrocities against Muslims around the world in his online agenda for Muslim-American communities, such as the Uighur internment camps in China, the Saudi war in Yemen, and human rights violations in Kashmir. In July, Biden's foreign policy adviser promised the presidential hopeful would put pressure on India to change its policies regarding Kashmir and the civil liberties of Indian Muslims.

Kamala Harris, Biden's running mate, has also criticized Modi's annexation of Kashmir and has said that American cooperation with India is possible only with an appreciation for human rights and "religious pluralism." Harris is of Indian descent, but traces her roots to Tamil Nadu in South India, while most of the BJP's base is concentrated in the northern part of the country.

However, despite rhetorical support for progressive activists fighting the BJP's fascism, the constant underlying factor in both Biden and Harris's views is the importance of the US-India partnership.

If Biden truly wanted to hold Modi accountable for human rights violations, he probably would not have elevated an open Modi supporter on his campaign team. Biden aims to win both Hindu-American and Muslim-American votes, especially when lobbies, community leaders, and organizations in each demographic are powerful, moneyed donors to political campaigns.

Modi will be in power for the next few years, if not more, and a Biden-Harris presidency will inevitably broker an alliance with him, regardless of whether he changes his policy minorities facing occupation and / or marginalized by Hindu nationalism.

For liberals and leftists, who want all voting Americans to unite against the evil of Trump on the day of the election, the siren song of Modi's fascism is too far away to inspire any real outrage. Perhaps it is an indication of the conservatism of the dominant political system that both Biden and Trump possess equal proximity to a right-wing populist encouraging violence against India's minorities and steamrolling military occupation in Kashmir.

But all is not lost. The assault on minorities in India has inspired progressive Democrats to take a stand. Ro Khanna, an Indian-American congressman from California, stated that Hindu-American politicians have a “duty” to reject Hindutva. Pramila Jayapal introduced a resolution recognizing human rights abuses in Kashmir and also sponsored a Congressional hearing on caste oppression in the US, and Bernie Sanders, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar have criticized the Modi government for its violence against Kashmir and Indian Muslims.

Thousands of South-Asian Americans and their allies protested against Modi this year, and a multicultural resistance demonstrated in solidarity with Kashmir when Modi spoke at the UN last year.

The mobilisation to seek unity against Trump will end on November 3. Once that happens, young South Asian Americans will focus less on voting, and return their efforts and attention to movement-building instead.

The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera's editorial stance.

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Comparison

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The most most likely risk to America's Y-35 and Y-22s is normally China's L-20, which is normally thought to end up being in full-scale creation, and the M-31. Russia, in the mean time, is definitely operating on its personal stealth fighter that would present a significant danger to the N-22. The Capital t-50, which is normally anticipated to get into Russia's provider in 2017, is normally a even more maneuverable edition of America's Y-22.

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HW3

Question 1: Potential impacts of the teleportation of inanimate objects on

I. Individuals:

Privacy: Teleportation of inanimate objects can increase individuals’ privacy. As telecommuting grows and other technologies like virtual reality are being further developed, people will be able to move farther away from cities and suburbs, away from other people. There will be no need to live close to food sources – farms, groceries stores, etc – as food could be teleported directly into one’s home from anywhere on Earth. Being able to live in a more rural area would afford individuals more privacy - more space between themselves and neighbors. Also, teleportation of items that may raise privacy concerns would cut out unnecessary middlemen – ie pharmacy clerks, mailmen, etc.

Security: Teleportation may potentially have negative impacts on individuals’ safety and security. An individual’s teleportation pod could be subject to a security breach. Hackers could gain unauthorized access to someone’s pod and teleport unwanted, even dangerous, objects to their pod. To the extreme, as an act of war or terrorism, an aggressor could obtain access to their target’s citizens’ pods and teleport explosive devices that detonate seconds after being received.

Quality: Teleportation of inanimate objects has real potential to increase the quality of life for individuals. Teleportation of goods into one’s home would be especially beneficial for disabled or mobility impaired individuals, the elderly, agoraphobics, etc who currently must pay for delivery or have a loved one or an employed aid procure necessities. It could even return independence to some who would otherwise need to live in a group home environment because they cannot obtain foods, toiletries, etc themselves.

Health: Teleportation could also have significant health benefits. In an emergency, lifesaving medicine or equipment could be instantly teleported to save someone’s life. For example, if someone were stung by a bee for the first time and had a life-threatening allergic reaction, they may not own an epi-pen considering they were previously unaware of this allergy.

 II. Organizations:

Security: Teleportation of inanimate objects may put the security of organizations at risk. Much like an individual’s pod, teleportation pods of organizations could be subject to a security breach. If unauthorized access were obtained to a teleportation pod at a government location where there was confidential research being conducted, or military missions being discussed, a spy-cam could be teleported that could go undetected due to various reasons like microscopic size or immense speed and wall penetration functionality and capture all our secrets.

Optimization: Teleportation of inanimate objects can facilitate business optimization. Operations grind to a halt if a mission critical machine breaks down. Teleportation of parts needed to fix such a machine can help get things back up and running sooner. Businesses that stockpile any items necessary to ensure continuous operations would be able to lose the warehouses, and the overhead, of stored inventory because anything they ever need could be instantly delivered via teleportation.

Monopolies: Whoever develops and first begins using teleportation to deliver their goods may very well become a monopoly. The overall cost of purchasing their products would drop so far below their competitors that everyone else would surely go out of business. Unless more than one company gained access to teleportation at roughly the same time, the first company would be able to offer their goods at such a low price that other companies would lose money so rapidly they would ultimately shut down before they were able to finish developing the same teleportation delivery technology.

Obsolescence: Much like monopolies developing, teleportation of inanimate objects would also lead to entire industries collapsing. One obvious casualty would be the shipping & trucking industries. There would be no need to ship items across oceans or countries, or to businesses or individuals’ homes. Goods would be teleported directly to the recipients instead.

Food delivery services are currently on the rise. Teleportation would not only disintegrate them in their tracks, but possibly restaurants as we know them as well. DoorDash and the like are taking off while restaurant patronage is on the decline. It is already clear we would rather eat at home. The food industry may disappear as a destination and a service and morph into one giant culinary institute where food is prepared and teleported worldwide instead.

The retail industry (food & goods) would also be affected. Shoppers have already been moving toward more online and less in store shopping. Teleportation would effectively complete that move. There would be no need for local grocery stores or other retail marketplaces. Everything could be ordered and received immediately from anywhere in the world.

 III. Society as a whole:

Quality: Teleportation of inanimate objects would significantly increase the quality of life for society as a whole. While the collapse of the shipping & trucking industries may strike some as a potentially bad side effect of the rise of teleportation (loss of jobs, etc), it would actually be very beneficial to society as a whole. According to the November 2015 study Emission Reduction Targets for International Aviation and Shipping, “international transport would be responsible for almost 40% of the available global CO2 emissions in 2050.” Removing all of these emissions entirely would be significantly beneficial to the planet.

The resultant reduction in garbage would also increase the quality of life for society as a whole. There would be no need for shipping materials - cardboard, Styrofoam, and plastic packaging waste - to pollute our planet. The plastic shopping bag debate would be moot. We wouldn’t need bags at all. Also, less resources would be used to produce surplus products kept in inventory on some store shelf somewhere – products would only be “produced” when ordered.

General Welfare:  By installing teleportation pods in remote areas of the world where access to fresh drinking water, food, medicine and other basic necessities is difficult or impossible, charities, philanthropists, missionaries, and potentially even ordinary citizens who wish to provide assistance can send supplies to those in need. I know I personally always wished I could send food to the starving people of the world. And just think of the amount of food wasted… According to the FDA,  approximately 133 billion pounds of food was wasted by Americans in the year 2010 alone! Currently, sending that food to those in need is not feasible for many reasons, not the least of which is because it would likely rot. Teleportation could solve that problem. Wouldn’t it be incredible to teleport all that food to the hungry?

Question 2:

This week, in Michio Kaku’s Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel, I read the preface and the first chapter on force fields, and I began the second chapter on invisibility.

Kaku first lists the four know forces: gravity, electromagnetism, and the weak and strong nuclear forces – radioactive decay and the force that holds the nucleus of the atom together. He also explains that plasma, aka the “fourth state of matter,” is a gas of ionized atoms and is the most common form of matter in the universe – the sun, stars, and interstellar gas are all made up of plasma – but here on Earth, we are most familiar with solids, liquids and gases as these are what are most common on our planet.

He then speculates ways in which we may be able to create force fields similar to those seen in science fiction. Although he acknowledges there could be a fifth, unknown force in the universe that might work well as a force field, he recognizes that none of the four currently known forces have the properties of a force field. As such, he posits a combination of 4 layers to achieve such an invisible shield:

The first layer would be made of super-heated plasma capable of vaporizing metal.

A high energy laser beam curtain behind that would vaporize other objects that passed through.

Behind that, a lattice of carbon nanotubes could be used to create a screen strong enough to repel most objects… if the carbon nanotubes could be made smaller than the current record of 15mm and if they could in fact be woven into a lattice.

Then one final layer would just be necessary to stop laser beams. This could be achieved using an advanced form of photochromatics; a currently nonexistent version of the technology used to transition the lenses of glasses from clear to dark when exposed to the UV rays of the sun.

It’s easy enough to agree or disagree with someone on their hypothesis for what may happen in the future. We can’t know what will in fact happen! Kaku makes a very strong case for his version of a force field. Indeed, he makes it seem quite plausible, and in fact he imagines that development of such a shield may only be a century, or even just decades, away.

The only thing I could add is that if he is willing to deviate from the exact concept of a force field as depicted in science fiction and instead simulate such a phenomenon with a combination of layers creating a shield of sorts, why the need to stay true to the invisible nature of those dreamt up in science fiction? Or why the need to create a force-like protective shield at all? Other materials may exist that Kaku could have combined in layers to form an impenetrable shield that may not be invisible but may be possible today or in the more near future than the one he described. Or Kaku could have theorized an invisible shield that needn’t mimic a force at all and may also be possible with today’s technology or very soon at least. For example, for question 3 of HW1, I discovered the current research into using hagfish slime and clear, bulletproof-glass-like material as armor. Kaku could have entertained the idea of technology based on clear materials such as these being made large and strong enough for use as an invisible shield.

In my opinion, the most interesting part of the first chapter (and what I learned the most about) was the concept of room-temperature superconductors. If scientists are ever able to develop such a thing, we could easily and affordably levitate large and heavy objects like cars or trains. Levitating ourselves via “hoverboard” like devices would be simple, even levitating ourselves would be possible! Imagine being able to essentially fly by wearing a magnetic belt!

Kaku laments that unfortunately no one knows how high temperature super conductors work! Currently the world record is 138K held by mercury thallium barium calcium copper oxide. Kaku further explains that a room temperature superconductor may be invented tomorrow… or never! It is mind blowing to think of the possibilities. Kaku proclaims the invention of room temperature superconductors would spark a second industrial revolution.

The second chapter on invisibility is enlightening to say the least. A new material called a metamaterial may someday be able to make objects invisible! Kaku explains “Metamaterials are created by embedding tiny implants within a substance that force electromagnetic waves to bend in unorthodox ways.” So far, scientists have been able to make an object invisible to microwaves using metamaterials (microwaves are larger than light waves, which is how we see). If metamaterials could bend light waves this way – if the metamaterial had a negative index of refraction - they could make objects invisible! I can’t wait to read more about invisibility!

So far, I very much agree with the reviewers of this book who enjoy Kaku’s writing and who feel like he makes the physics of the impossible ideas of which he writes not only understandable, but fascinating and enjoyable, to everyday individuals.