#hybrid!pentagon

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

War and Lenin in the 21st century, part 4

By Gary Wilson

The Cold War was a class war between two irreconcilable social systems — imperialist capitalism and socialism. It was called cold because there wasn’t an outright military war. In form, it���s more like what today is called a hybrid war, including extensive covert operations, economic sanctions, cyber warfare, and heavy propaganda. The current economic, diplomatic, political, and military conflict between the United States and China is often called the “new Cold War.”

[croquis-el]

Why not an orange or what was lost again during localization

The first case of Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies (Gyakuten Saiban 5) greets us with the mummy Apollo (Odoroki Hosuke), a panicking Athena (Kizuki Kokone) and the defendant Juniper Woods (Shinobu Morizumi), who treats Athena to an orange to calm her nerves and wish her strength.

What if I told you that there is no orange at all?

これ････差し入れ持ってきたの。 うちの畑で取れた子なんだ。

kore sashiire motte kita no. Uchi no hata de toreta kona nda.

I brought this as a gift. It's from my garden.

あ、ありがとう! えーっと、これはイヨカンかな?

a, arigatō! E ̄ tto, koreha iyokan ka na?

Oh, thank you! Um, is this Iyokan?

うん。････おばあちゃんが言ってたの。

un. O bāchan ga itteta no.

Yeah. ...Grandma told me.

イヨカン食べると、 “いい予感”なんだって。

iyokan taberu to, “ī yokan”na n datte.

Apparently, if you eat iyokan, you get a good feeling.

(やば。わたし、なんでイヨカンを にぎりしめて涙ぐんでるんだろ)

(yaba. Watashi, nande iyo kan o nigirishimete namidagun deru ndaro)

(Oh no! Why am I clutching an iyokan and crying?)

Stop. Iyokan? A good feeling? Let's figure it out.

The iyokan (伊予柑 - Citrus �� iyo), also known as anadomikan (穴門みか���) and Gokaku no Iyokan, is a Japanese citrus fruit, similar in appearance to a mandarin orange.

The name "Iyo" was taken from the ancient name of a place in Ehime Prefecture, the Iyo province.

The flesh is slightly sour and more bitter than an orange, but sweeter than a grapefruit.

There is a variation grown into a pentagon shape to promote good luck also giving it another nickname, Gokaku no Iyokan, which translates into "Pentagonal Iyokan"

(which is also very similar to the expression 合格 [goukaku] — to meet the requirements;

試験に合格する. [shiken ni goukaku suru]  — to pass (to endure) an exam;)

And what kind of "good feelings" are these?

In Japan, the citrus can be seen during springtime as a seasonal KitKat flavor with messages of "good luck" to students studying for exams on each packet. The name "iyokan" is also a near-homophone for "good feeling" in Japanese, and is used as such in its marketing.

“いい予感”

いい — good, beautiful; kind

予感 (よかん) [yokan] - presentiment; premonition

好感 [koukan] — a good feeling; kind feelings, disposition, sympathy;

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I am not surprised that the original name was lost (even the translator makes an orange out of this word). Although it is a hybrid of tangerine...

The localization successfully changed the meaning of the fruit, adjusting it to an orange. Still, the meaning of orange in Western culture varies - "fertility", "prosperity", "longevity", "strength" etc.

Although, it was possible to leave Juniper's grandmother Japanese, especially considering that the granddaughter learned the meaning of citrus from her. Well, that's my personal opinion.

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Dictionaries and forums helped me again, please don't scold me for shortcomings and mistakes. Just point it out

[mariacallous]

On October 10, 2018, Tyndall Air Force Base on the Gulf of Mexico—a pillar of American air superiority—found itself under aerial attack. Hurricane Michael, first spotted as a Category 2 storm off the Florida coast, unexpectedly hulked up to a Category 5. Sustained winds of 155 miles per hour whipped into the base, flinging power poles, flipping F-22s, and totaling more than 200 buildings. The sole saving grace: Despite sitting on a peninsula, Tyndall avoided flood damage. Michael’s 9-to-14-foot storm surge swamped other parts of Florida. Tyndall’s main defense was luck.

That $5 billion disaster at Tyndall was just one of a mounting number of extreme-weather events that convinced the US Department of Defense that it needed new ideas to protect the 1,700 coastal bases it’s responsible for globally. As hurricanes Helene and Milton have just shown, beachfront residents face compounding threats from climate change, and the Pentagon is no exception. Rising oceans are chewing away the shore. Stronger storms are more capable of flooding land.

In response, Tyndall will later this month test a new way to protect shorelines from intensified waves and storm surges: a prototype artificial reef, designed by a team led by Rutgers University scientists. The 50-meter-wide array, made up of three chevron-shaped structures each weighing about 46,000 pounds, can take 70 percent of the oomph out of waves, according to tests. But this isn’t your grandaddy’s seawall. It’s specifically designed to be colonized by oysters, some of nature’s most effective wave-killers.

If researchers can optimize these creatures to work in tandem with new artificial structures placed at sea, they believe the resulting barriers can take 90 percent of the energy out of waves. David Bushek, who directs the Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory at Rutgers, swears he’s not hoping for a megastorm to come and show what his team’s unit is made of. But he’s not not hoping for one. “Models are always imperfect. They’re always a replica of something,” he says. “They’re not the real thing.”

The project is one of three being developed under a $67.6 million program launched by the US government’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or Darpa. Cheekily called Reefense, the initiative is the Pentagon’s effort to test if “hybrid” reefs, combining manmade structures with oysters or corals, can perform as well as a good ol’ seawall. Darpa chose three research teams, all led by US universities, in 2022. After two years of intensive research and development, their prototypes are starting to go into the water, with Rutgers’ first up.

Today, the Pentagon protects its coastal assets much as civilians do: by hardening them. Common approaches involve armoring the shore with retaining walls or arranging heavy objects, like rocks or concrete blocks, in long rows. But hardscape structures come with tradeoffs. They deflect rather than absorb wave energy, so protecting one’s own shoreline means exposing someone else’s. They’re also static: As sea levels rise and storms get stronger, it’s getting easier for water to surmount these structures. This wears them down faster and demands constant, expensive repairs.

In recent decades, a new idea has emerged: using nature as infrastructure. Restoring coastal habitats like marshes and mangroves, it turns out, helps hold off waves and storms. “Instead of armoring, you’re using nature’s natural capacity to absorb wave energy,” says Donna Marie Bilkovic, a professor at the Virginia Institute for Marine Science. Darpa is particularly interested in two creatures whose numbers have been decimated by humans but which are terrific wave-breakers when allowed to thrive: oysters and corals.

Oysters are effective wave-killers because of how they grow. The bivalves pile onto each other in large, sturdy mounds. The resulting structure, unlike a smooth seawall, is replete with nooks, crannies, and convolutions. When a wave strikes, its energy gets diffused into these gaps, and further spent on the jagged, complex surfaces of the oysters. Also unlike a seawall, an oyster wall can grow. Oysters have been shown to be capable of building vertically at a rate that matches sea-level rise—which suggests they’ll retain some protective value against higher tides and stronger storms.

Today hundreds of human-tended oyster reefs, particularly on America’s Atlantic coast, use these principles to protect the shore. They take diverse approaches; some look much like natural reefs, while others have an artificial component. Some cultivate oysters for food, with coastal protection a nice co-benefit; others are built specifically to preserve shorelines. What’s missing amid all this experimentation, says Bilkovic, is systematic performance data—the kind that could validate which approaches are most effective and cost-effective. “Right now the innovation is outpacing the science,” she says. “We need to have some type of systematic monitoring of projects, so we can better understand where the techniques work the best. There just isn’t funding, frankly.”

Rather than wait for the data needed to engineer the perfect reef, Darpa wants to rapidly innovate them through a burst of R&D. Reefense has given awardees five years to deploy hybrid reefs that take up to 90 percent of the energy out of waves, without costing significantly more than traditional solutions. The manmade component should block waves immediately. But it should be quickly enhanced by organisms that build, in months or years, a living structure that would take nature decades.

The Rutgers team has built its prototype out of 788 interlocked concrete modules, each 2 feet wide and ranging in height from 1 to 2 feet tall. They have a scalloped appearance, with shelves jutting in all directions. Internally, all these shelves are connected by holes.

What this means is that when a wave strikes this structure, it smashes into the internal geometry, swirls around, and exits with less energy. This effect alone weakens the wave by 70 percent, according to the US Army Corps of Engineers, which tested a scale model in a wave simulator in Mississippi. But the effect should only improve as oysters colonize the structure. Bushek and his team have tried to design the shelves with the right hardness, texture, and shading to entice them.

But the reef’s value would be diminished if, say, disease were to wipe the mollusks out. This is why Darpa has tasked Rutgers with also engineering oysters resistant to dermo, a protozoan that’s dogged Atlantic oysters for decades. Darpa prohibited them using genetic-modification techniques. But thanks to recent advances in genomics, the Rutgers team can rapidly identify individual oysters with disease-resistant traits. It exposes these oysters to dermo in a lab, and crossbreeds the survivors, producing hardier mollusks. Traditionally it takes about three years to breed a generation of oysters for better disease resistance; Bushek says his team has done it in one.

Oysters may suit the DoD’s needs in temperate waters, but for bases in tropical climates, it’s coral that builds the best seawalls. Hawaii, for instance, enjoys the protection of “fringing” coral reefs that extend offshore for hundreds of yards in a gentle slope along the seabed. The colossal, complex, and porous character of this surface exhausts wave energy over long distances, says Ben Jones, an oceanographer for the Applied Research Laboratory at the University of Hawaii—and head of the university’s Reefense project. He said it’s not unusual to see ocean swells of 6 to 8 feet way offshore, while the water at the seashore laps gently.

Inspired by this effect, Jones and a team of researchers are designing an array that they’ll deploy near a US Marine Corps base in Oahu whose shoreline is rapidly receding. While the final design isn’t set yet, the broad strokes are: It will feature two 50-meter-wide barriers laid in rows, backed by 20 pyramid-like obstacles. All of these are hollow, thin-walled structures with sloping profiles and lots of big holes. Waves that crash into them will lose energy by crawling up the sides, but two design aspects of the structure—the width of the holes and the thinness of the walls—will generate turbulence in the water, causing it to spin off more energy as heat.

In the team’s full vision, the units are bolstered by about a thousand small coral colonies. Jones’ group plans to cover the structures with concrete modules that are about 20 inches in diameter. These have grooves and crevices that offer perfect shelters for coral larvae. The team will initially implant them with lab-bred coral. But they’re also experimenting with enticements, like light and sound, that help attract coral larvae from the wild—the better to build a wall that nature, not the Pentagon, will tend.

A third Reefense team, led by scientists at the University of Miami, takes its inspiration from a different sort of coral. Its design has a three-tiered structure. The foundation is made of long, hexagonal logs punctured with large holes; atop it is a dense layer with smaller holes—“imagine a sponge made of concrete,” says Andrew Baker, director of the university’s Coral Reef Futures Lab and the Reefense team lead.

The team thinks these artificial components will soak up plenty of wave energy—but it’s a crest of elkhorn coral at the top that will finish the job. Native to Florida, the Bahamas, and the Caribbean, elkhorn like to build dense reefs in shallow-water areas with high-intensity waves. They don’t mind getting whacked by water because it helps them harvest food; this whacking keeps wave energy from getting to shore.

Disease has ravaged Florida’s elkhorn populations in recent decades, and now ocean heat waves are dealing further damage. But their critical condition has also motivated policymakers to pursue options to save this iconic state species—including Baker’s, which is to develop an elkhorn more rugged against disease, higher temperatures, and nastier waves. Under Reefense, Baker says, his lab has developed elkhorn with 1.5 to 2 degrees Celsius more heat tolerance than their ancestors. They also claim to have boosted the heat thresholds of symbiotic algae—an existentially important occupant of any healthy reef—and cross-bred local elkhorn with those from Honduras, where reefs have mysteriously withstood scorching waters.

An unexpected permitting issue, though, will force the Miami team to exit Reefense in 2025, without building the test unit it hoped to deploy near a Florida naval base. The federal permitting authority wanted a pot of money set aside to uninstall the structure if needed; Darpa felt it couldn’t do that in a timely way, according to Baker. (Darpa told WIRED every Reefense project has unique permitting challenges, so the Miami team’s fate doesn’t necessarily speak to anything broader. Representatives for the other two Reefense projects said Baker’s issue hasn’t come up for them.)

Though his team’s work with Reefense is coming to a premature end, Baker says, he’s confident their innovations will get deployed elsewhere. He’s been working with Key Biscayne, an island village near Miami whose shorelines have been chewed up by storms. Roland Samimy, the village’s chief resilience and sustainability officer, says they spend millions of dollars every few years importing sand for their rapidly receding beaches. He’s eager to see if a hybrid structure, like the University of Miami design, could offer protection at far lower cost. “People are realizing their manmade structures aren’t as resilient as nature is,” he says.

By no means is Darpa the only one experimenting in these areas. Around the world, there are efforts tackling various pieces of the puzzle, like breeding coral for greater heat resistance, or combining coral and oysters with artificial reefs, or designing low-carbon concrete that makes building these structures less environmentally damaging. Bilkovic, of the Virginia Institute for Marine Science, says Reefense will be a success if it demonstrates better ways of doing things than the prevailing methods—and has the data to back this up. “I’m looking forward to seeing what their findings are,” she says. “They’re systematically assessing the effectiveness of the project. Those lessons learned can be translated to other areas, and if the techniques are effective and work well, they can easily be translated to other regions.”

As for Darpa, though the Reefense prototypes are just starting to go in the water, the work is just beginning. All of these first-generation units will be scrutinized—both by the research teams and independent government auditors—to see whether their real-world performance matches what was in the models. Reefense is scheduled to conclude with a final report to the DoD in 2027. It won’t have a “winner” per se; as the Pentagon has bases around the world, it’s likely these three projects will all produce learnings that are relevant elsewhere.

Although their client has the largest military budget in the world, the three Reefense teams have been asked to keep an eye on the economics. Darpa has asked that project costs “not greatly exceed” those of conventional solutions, and tasked government monitors with checking the teams’ math. Catherine Campbell, Reefense’s program manager at Darpa, says affordability doesn’t just make it more likely the Pentagon will employ the technology—but that civilians can, too.

“This isn’t something bespoke for the military … we need to be in line with those kinds of cost metrics [in the civilian sector],” Campbell said in an email. “And that gives it potential for commercialization.”

[thelostdreamsthings]

NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg confirmed in September that Russia invaded Ukraine to prevent NATO expansion:

- This is his prerogative. If you argue NATO provoked the war, then you are a "Russian propagandist" who "legitimises" the invasion and must be censored and cancelled

- For context: In 1990 and 1994, NATO countries signed agreements with Russia promising indivisible security and ending the dividing lines in Europe. In 1997, the NATO-Russia Founding Act committed NATO to not place permanent troops in the new member states.

All of these agreements have been breached.

In 1992, a Pentagon memo was leaked to the NY Times and WaPo.

The document basically said that the U.S. should stay No.1 and prevent the reemergence of any rivals like Russia, Germany, China or Iran.

Interestingly, even Biden condemned this imperialist ambition!

"Biden condemned the document as a radical assertion of American hegemony — ‘literally a Pax Americana.’"

But then he supported jihadist war in Syria, Neo-Nazi war in Ukraine, hybrid war on China etc.

Under Putin, the Russian economy grew a staggering 1000% between 2000 and 2013.

So, guess what happened in 2014?

A color revolution in Ukraine by the US, followed by sanctions on Russia etc. etc.

Sabotaging others to stay No.1 is a key strategy of the American Empire.

[dertaglichedan]

The Pentagon is funding alternatives to meat protein, which includes using fungi for food for U.S. service members as part of the White House’s sustainable bioeconomy agenda.

The Department of Defense is focusing on investments into fungi protein as an alternative to animal protein, after initially seeking to fund lab-grown meat earlier this year in an effort to reduce carbon emissions. Critics have pushed back on such initiatives, arguing that they are negatively affecting the military.

In November, the DOD announced that it had given 34 awards totaling over $60 million to bioindustrial firms under the Distributed Bioindustrial Manufacturing Program (DBIMP). $1.38 million was given to The Fynder Group “to plan a bioproduction facility for fungi-based proteins that can be incorporated into military ready-to-eat meals.”

The program is part of President Joe Biden's Executive Order 14081, "Advancing Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Innovation for a Sustainable, Safe, and Secure American Bioeconomy," which is “aimed at bolstering America's bioeconomic strengths while helping the Department achieve advanced defense capabilities,” according to the DOD.

The projects that were awarded funding from the DOD program “will be eligible to receive follow-on ‘build’ awards providing access to up to $100 million to construct U.S.-based bioindustrial manufacturing facilities,” the DOD announcement added.

Fungi-based proteins

In August, as part of the DBIMP, the DOD awarded nearly $1.5 million to The Better Meat Company, which “harness[es] the amazing power of fermentation to make delicious, clean mycoprotein ingredients for food companies to use as the basis of their hybrid and fully animal-free meats.”

“The Better Meat Company, based in West Sacramento, California, was awarded $1.48 million to plan a bioproduction facility for mycoprotein ingredients that are shelf-stable, have high protein and fiber contents, and can be dehydrated,” according to the DOD.

To make the meat alternatives, the company explains that they “feed starchy foods to microscopic fungi and allow them to naturally turn into the meatiest animal-free protein on the planet.”

[demolotl]

Specfolcats are a creature I made, they are a hose cat hybrid but from space they’re beautiful majestic creatures that come from exploding stars,they are a rare find but when you do find one becoming friends with it would be in your best interest as they can grant the wishes for those it trusts. They are playful and very fun to be around and can be tamed easily.

This is a open species feel free to use Specfolcats as much as you want and however you want I only ask you to tag me if you do I want to see what you do to them.

Traits

They have the strong body of a horse with the head and fur of cats,they are eyeless and use echolocation to “see” and they have a very strong scenes of smell and can hear very far. they come in a big range of unique colours, blue purple and pink are the most common but they can be any colour. Their fur patterns are mostly a pentagon pattern with speckled dots that mimic a starry sky all of their spots and patterns glow in the dark as well as the inside of their mouth and tongues. They are usually freakishly tall and big.

[bingle-has-a-thingie-now]

okokok

so i made this au like a month ago and i cant get it outta my head.

just shapes and beats. and splatoon. hybrid.

like its all the characters from splatoon.

but they have qualities and traits from jsab characters.

its so fuckin cool bc it all fits

neo 3 - cyan/main protag

agent 4 - that one piss colored triangle

capn 3 - pentagon lookin ass bitch

agent 8 - goofy ahh babybel ahh circle

callie - fatass crybaby square mf with cat ears

marie - that one pirate ship with the banger theme song

marina - the spiky bitch from lycanthropy

octarians - the collective of spiky bitches

pearl - helicopter bitch

frye - mini triangle from barracuda

shiver - slightly larger triangle from barracuda

big man - the actual barracudas

octavio - main antagonist (blixer)

its so fuckin cool i swear

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[the-strange-world]

Rating May Kpop Releases

Including prereleases and Japanese releases

Masterpiece (10) / Amazing (9) / Good (7-8) / Ok (6) / Meh (5) / Didn’t like (0-4)

UNFORGIVEN - LE SSERAFIM & Nile Rodgers - 10/10 - So good! I love the “unforgiven, I’m a villain, I’m a” part ~ fave bside (of the new songs) - No-Return (Into the unknown) and I liked some of the other songs too

Welcome To My World - aespa [prerelease] - 2/10 - I thought it was going somewhere and it never did

Wind And Wish - BTOB - 5/10 - it’s ok. Probably won’t listen to it much if ever

HYBRID - MAX CHANGMIN & Ha Hyun Woo - 7/10 - would be amazing as a musical montage at the end of an episode or something. Not something I would listen to much

U - iKON - 3/10

Heartbreak Club - Colde feat. LEE CHANHYUK - 2/10

THE POYZ BANANA CHACHA - THE BOYZ - 10/10 - Idc that this is a song made for kids. It’s a bop!

ERASE ME - ONEUS - 10/10 - loved it! ~ fave bsides - Unforgettable & ECHO

Spicy - aespa - 8/10 - i didn’t like it at first but as the song goes on it grew on me. Idk the song kinda gives me on uneasy vibe. It’s good tho ~ fave bside - I’m Unhappy

Ordinary Confession - Lee Mujin - 6/10 - it’s a nice song but I would listen to it again

NO LIMIT - CRAXY - 8/10 - I like how it’s like 2 different songs

Allergy - (G)I-DLE [prerelease] - ♾/10 - obsessed with this song! Might be one of my favorite songs this year so far

CHO - Feverse - 6/10 - I’m not sure what this is tbh. I think girl group members competed playing video games and the ones who won are the ones singing ~ fave bside - I Promise

BAD BOY - MIRANI feat. BIG Naughty - ♾/10 - Billie Eilish vibes (2 title tracks for this album) ➕

Candy - MIRANI feat. Leellamarz & Coogie - 8/10 - it’s chill ~ fave bside - Make U Mine

WAVE - IVE [JP] - 9/10

ALWAYS - XODIAC - 7/10

Shh - PENTAGON - 9/10

Kaze - YOUNHA - 4/10

Lovesick - SUNGMIN - 5/10 - not really my style of music

Fly Away - AB6IX [JP] - 3/10

Chemistry - THE7 - 9/10

Siren - ICHILLIN’ - 6/10

Bubble - AIMERS - 9/10 - it’s fun. There was one bside (Cherish) and I liked it

Yes! Love - J.UNA - 10/10 ~ fave bside - Stars

Queencard - (G)I-DLE - ♾/10 - obsessed with this song! It’s so funny and fun. The mv was everything! The dance battle? Iconic. I lost it when the surgeons started dancing. It ended well too! Some of the lyrics are unhinged/silly and some are really cool. They really came through with this comeback! It’s so good and unique as always with them ~ fav bsides - Paradise and Lucid but I liked All Night too!

My Ultimate First Love - 10cm - 5/10

Before the Petals Fall - CHEN - 4/10

Hare Hare - TWICE [JP] - 10/10 - it’s fun ~ I liked the only bside - Catch a Wave

MIDNIGHT SKY - XODIAC [Prerelease] - 6/10 - it’s calming

FANFARE - INI [Prerelease] - 7/10

STOP - KESSIA feat. Van Corso - 5/10

Crazy Like That - VERIVERY - 8/10 - it’s chill and different than the usual title track. I like it!

Movie Star - MIJOO - 6/10

WATERFALL - YOUNITE - 9/10 - a summer song!

GingaMingaYo (the strange world) - Billlie [JP] - 9/10 - I hate when kpop idols release a Japanese version of one of their songs as the title track. I want new songs and some of the bsides can be the Japanese version of one of their songs. But gingamingayo is one of my favorite songs ever so it deserves a 9 with one point taken off because it’s not a new song. Same with Everybody’s Got a $ecret. It was the only bside but I love that song so it’s my favorite

Ride For me - DeVita feat. DAWN [Prerelease] - 6/10

Naughty - DeVita - 7/10

LOVE YOU! - Kim Feel feat. Tablo - 6/10

Next to Me - ATBO - 9.5/10 - it’s very chill and I love the chorus. It’s giving a 90s vibe. It’s very different than the usual title track

Lie to me - AVOKID - 9/10 - fav bside - gravity (feat. 123)

Karma - BLACK SWAN - ♾/10 - THIS IS SO GOOD!!! ~ fav bside (there was only one on the album) - Cat & Mouse - I loved it! I could see it getting big on tiktok tbh

Blue Moon - N.Flying - 10/10

Bite Me - ENHYPEN - 9/10 - it’s so good. My favorite part is the “oh my, oh my god” I’m obsessed with that part! I wish the chorus was different ~ fav bside - Karma

FREEDOM - JOOHONEY - 10/10 - different than what I expect and omg it’s so good!!! It sounds like a soundtrack for marvel or something. I didn’t like any of the bsides tho

ICKY - KARD - 10/10 - the chorus is catchy! I didn’t like the bsides

Dream Walking - KIM DOAH - 5/10 - I like the nas at the end

BONVOYAGE - Dreamcatcher - 10/10 - I love this song! It’s a pretty song and a little different from their other stuff but still very them and still rock. I loved it! My fav part is the “I know you I know you” I did have it at a 9 after the first listen but had to change it to a 10! Didn’t like any of the bsides. All the bsides have been disappointing me lately

DOXA - SECRET NUMBER - 3/10

WONDERLAND (English Ver.) - TRI.BE - 6/10

Woo Woo - n.SSign - 10/10 - it has an older sound! It feels nostalgic. I like that they had an acoustic version on the album too. ~ fav B-sides - Beautiful and BOUNCE! I liked Need U too

Eyes On Me - HELLO GLOOM - 7/10

LOSER - AB6IX - ♾/10 - AMAZING!!! ~ fav bside - SUCKER

Save me, Kill me - CIX - 10/10 - it’s so good ~ fav bsides - Color and Back to life

Numb - E.SO - 8/10

Bloom - Yang Hee Eun & CHEN - 7/10 - the songs so pretty and I love when they sang together

SPECIAL LOVE - XODIAC - 6/10

Bad At Us - xooos - 8/10 ~ fav bside - Fabricated Love

Don’t Call Me - NINE to SIX - 6/10 - didn’t expect this at all but I love it! I wish there was more singing tho tbh. They both have so much talent. Real triple threats!!! ~ fav bside - Digital Love

Delicious - THE BOYZ [JP prerelease] - 10/10 - they did it AGAIN!!!

Diamond - Rothy - 5/10

Finale - DIAWINGS - 8/10

Columbus - The Deep & Mist - 5/10 - definitely electronic music

[sergioguymanproust]

Here’s proof again that there’s nothing new under the automobile sun.We keep reinventing the wheel and yes,the technology keeps changing but the main ideas remain the same.In my book folks ,this is only proof of how we hybrid humans keep believing that it is our imagination and intelligence alone fanning the sails of our never stopping ship called progress.Well, here’s where I jump off the ship to remind you ,with the advent of a new era in discovery and implementation of new technologies there’s been gaps in time and assimilation which can’t never be understood ,sometimes it has taken years and suddenly a spark associated with a genius has resolved a glitch in a particular field of study and pushed us into the future .We have known for years that such geniuses have been extraterrestrial beings that have appeared at a precise point in time working in our government within agencies and the Pentagon developing new propulsion systems for our warbirds working in complete secrecy.The civilian population often take it for granted and are ready to buy any machine or gadget the military releases for mass consumption .The most interesting in my book was the released of the famous black box that made possible the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon. Regardless of all the controversy and speculation about this mission ,we did go to the moon with the help of an extraterrestrial being that solved many of the human made mistakes and glitches. One more bit of info ,well even the Nazis had extraterrestrial help in designing their famous Bell shaped craft,folks regardless of all governments trying hard to keep all these advances secret ,our very hybrid human nature will not allow it and blow the lid .This is something really bluntly put exasperates our galactic cousins about us . More in future postings.Words by Sergio GuymanProust.

[darkmaga-returns]

Pentagon comments on General Kirillov assassination. Trump wants to talk to Putin. Syrian Mass Graves. Israel strikes Houthis. Newsom declares Bird Flu state of emergency. A Year Of Chaos

Lioness of Judah Ministry

Dec 19, 2024

Russia Says Ukraine Allies Are 'Accomplices' In Moscow Assassination Of A Top General

Scooter bomb killed senior Russian official & NATO stays mum...

Russia has blasted the West for staying quiet after Ukraine openly boasted of assassinating a top Russian general earlier in the day, identified as Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, who was killed when a scooter bomb detonated remotely upon his leaving his apartment in the early morning hours: Russia on Tuesday criticised Ukraine's allies over what it called insufficient reactions to the assassination in Moscow of the Russian army's chemical weapons chief, an attack claimed by Kyiv. Foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova accused the West in a Telegram post of "approval for war crimes by fighters of the Kyiv regime" and said "all those who welcome terrorist attacks or deliberately hush them up are accomplices".

Pentagon comments on bombing ‘operation’ that killed Russian general

The US has distanced itself from the targeted assassination and pointed the finger at Kiev

The United States has firmly denied any involvement or prior knowledge of the bombing that killed Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov and his assistant in Moscow. Both the Pentagon and the State Department have distanced themselves from the targeted assassination, which is believed to have been carried out by Ukraine. The commander of the Russian Radiological, Chemical, and Biological Defense Forces was killed along with his aide in an explosion outside his apartment early Tuesday morning. Multiple media outlets have reported that the assassination was executed on the orders of Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU).

Russia Detains Suspect In Assassination Of Chemical Weapons Top Military Chief

29-year-old Uzbek suspect was acting at the direction of Ukrainian intelligence, Moscow says.

Russia on Wednesday has detained a suspect in the killing of a senior Russian general and his assistant in Moscow, which happened when a scooter bomb detonated outside the general's apartment on Tuesday. Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, who headed Russia’s radiological, biological and chemical protection forces, is the highest ranking Russian official to have been assassinated since the Ukraine war began. A man from Uzbekistan has been arrested and is being questioned, the Russia’s Investigative Committee has announced.

Medvedev warns The Times over response to Russian general’s murder

The British daily has described Igor Kirillov’s assassination as a “legitimate act of defense” by Ukraine

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday slammed British daily The Times for justifying the assassination of Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, who headed Russia’s Radiological, Chemical, and Biological Defense Forces. Medvedev criticized the editors as “lousy jackals” who are part of a hybrid war against Russia. In an article on Tuesday, the UK outlet claimed that its sources within Ukraine’s security services admitted responsibility for the general's assassination. It went on to describe the incident as “a legitimate act of defense by a threatened nation.”

[marsblaire]

Research 1 - In Media

In Movies

Now of all the things based in or around space, none are nowhere near as iconic as

Star Wars.

The Starships featured in Star Wars are unique to say the least, especially for their time, having debuted in 1977.

They all seem to follow a similar pattern of being based around very sharp edged shapes, some mostly being pentagonal (five-sided).

They retain very sharp edged bases, but if you look closer you can definitely see a lot of built up detail, from the edges and panels, almost no space is left blank unless specifically designed that way (see the wings/jets on the S-Class Admin Shuttle).

The only downside I have with these is the colour palette. It's just grey.

I understand that space doesn't have light and having many colours would likely be difficult to work with, but.. I'd appreciate seeing atleast some contrast.

Treasure Planet

Another iconic movie, and one of Disney's many classics, though it was based off of the original story of Treasure Island.

With an overarching theme of futuristic steam-punk, Treasure Planet solidifies its style as very distinctive and even beautiful, with some of the backgrounds looking just absolutely breathtaking.

Along with the thematics and the whimsical design, the character design is also really great too.

Not one of the characters looks similar to one another, and it makes me think of the saying "dressed for different parties", wherein someone is dressed in an entirely unfitting attire from another.

Not only that, but each design also really pushes the personality of the characters.

Jim is lean and adventurous, John Silver is large and wholesome, Captain Amelia is pointed and quick-witted.

That I feel really helps create a more immersive experience for this movie, and it's definitely one of my favourites.

Mars Attacks!

Mars Attacks is, and will always remain, a weird movie.

Even just by watching the trailer, it seems absolutely unhinged.

But of course, the most iconic factor of the movie is the alien designs.

Being primarily done with CGI, and possibly with motion-capture, the alien designs are popular due to the fact alone that they're absolutely horrifying.

They have bulbous eyes seemingly attached by no socket or eyelids, their skin is tight and stripped back to the bone, and of course the most recognisable aspect, their brains.

Their brains not only seep and bulge through the skulls, but they also seem to be fused to the cranium.

It's just gross and uncanny, but it's memorable and iconic all the same.

In TV Shows

Clangers (1969 - 1972)

A wholesome show from the 90s about a family of mice that live on a moon-like planet and eat soup, [The] Clangers uses a very unique style which is often rarely seen in Television, especially Kids TV, Stop-Motion.

Likely due to the cost, time and effort, Stop-Motion is rarely something used in TV Shows, especially when the entire show is based around the art form.

However, in the case of Clangers, it works more to its benefit.

The mice are made out of stitched outfits and bodices, which are likely done with crochet, and it works well because it gives the characters a very animated and wholesome appearance.

The way they move is noticeably off, but it doesn't look bad. You know that there's someone behind the scenes that had to piece together each individual frame for the final cut, and that just feels more personal.

Plus, they're just adorable, with the way they talk in little whistles and their beady lil eyes, you'd just want to keep them.

Futurama

Being a more interesting case, especially because the show is animated, Futurama tends to follow the case of "It's the future, so anything goes", especially with its characters.

Humans, aliens, hybrids, robots, a tree? PacWoman..?

Futurama's character design is vast, as we can see from the image above, and just like with Treasure Planet, you could point out any character of the lineup and not have them look the same as any other (unless of course, they're designed to be of the same species or family, but that's besides the point).

It's also so interesting to go through the original concept designs for the characters, and how they begin to come to fruition and become the designs we see in the final show.

In Games

Halo

Known primarily for being a first-person shooter and its alien protagonists, Halo stands out to me more for its suit design and it's absolutely stunning scenery.

For a game set in space, you would assume the scenery wouldn't really be all that interesting, but on the contrary, they seem to create a more immersive world using the setting and building on it by creating a futuristic civilisation.

Just beautiful.

And the suit design of the characters is also interesting, maintaining the sharp edges we saw in the Star Wars ship design but applying more shape, defining the musculature of the characters.

'Master Chief' throughout the games.

Of course, we can't talk about iconic games centred around space without bringing up

Space Invaders

Debuting in 1978, Space Invaders is a shoot em' up style game with relatively simple mechanics, you move the ship, and you shoot the aliens.

Utterly groundbreaking.

Of course, I can say that now because we have exponentially evolved games in terms of graphics and capabilities, but for its time, it really was something amazing.

In spite of its simple pixel-art style, Space Invaders is held dearly as one of, if not the most iconic [retro] games, and it has even spawned many newer renditions.

And to finish off, if we're going to be talking about more modern games, we have to bring up

Among Us

All of the memes aside, Among Us is unique for its art style, which of course.. Is very simplistic at a glance.

Courtesy of tasty_geoduck on Reddit, give them some love for this rendition.

But what I do love about the maps and backgrounds is that they're entirely hand drawn, and the effort really shows off.

That's not the only thing, but the characters and animations are all entirely done by hand and digitised.

And when slowed down, the walk-cycle is only really done with four frames.

I suppose it makes sense, because when you have a character design that's extremely simple and easily recognisable, you could make some very easy animations using it, so props to them.

And don't even get me started on the merchandise.

[rauthschild]

🇺🇸The U.S. War Machine: Congress Sidelines Itself, the Empire Marches On (for now)

Buried beneath the grandiose slogan of “democracy”: the US hasn’t declared war since World War II. Congress, the body constitutionally mandated to oversee such vital decisions, has been relegated to a cheerleading squad while the executive branch wields unchecked power like an emperor commanding legions.

This is imperial fiat masquerading as consent of the governed. From Vietnam to Iraq, Libya to Syria, the U.S. war machine roars on, fueled not by congressional debate but by rubber-stamped resolutions, appropriations, and the all-too-familiar "Authorizations for Use of Military Force". These legal fig leaves allow the White House to bomb, invade, and occupy without a whisper of accountability.

Let’s be blunt: Congress sold its soul. Since World War II, it has surrendered its constitutional prerogative to declare war, instead passing vague resolutions that grant presidents a blank check to wage war wherever and whenever they see fit. The result? Endless wars with no rational objectives, no exit strategies, and no accountability.

And what happens to the trillions of dollars funneled into these wars? Enter the military-industrial complex, the world’s most sophisticated money-laundering operation. These wars are about enriching defense contractors, lobbyists, and Pentagon officials who shuffle through the revolving door between government and industry. From Lockheed Martin to Raytheon, the same corporations profiting off the carnage also fund think tanks and political campaigns to keep the war machine running.

While the bombs fall, contracts worth billions flow into the coffers of weapons manufacturers. A significant chunk is then laundered back into DC, disguised as campaign contributions or lucrative speaking gigs. The Pentagon’s own accounting is so opaque that $2 trillion in spending has been deemed "untraceable." And let’s not forget Ukraine or Israel, the MIC’s latest cash cow, where tens of billions in U.S. aid vanish into a black hole of corruption.

The wars of the 21st century don’t even bother with pretense. Forget declarations; the U.S. now engages in hybrid wars, proxy conflicts, economic strangulation through sanctions, and information warfare. Syria, Yemen, Venezuela, these are not declared wars, but they are wars nonetheless, waged in the shadows with the same deadly consequences. And behind every drone strike or sanction lies another bloated defense budget, another no-bid contract, another slush fund for the MIC.

The Declare War Clause was meant to check power, to ensure that the decision to spill blood was taken soberly and democratically. Instead, it has been sidelined by an empire that cannot stop expanding, an empire that feeds on forever wars. This is not about defending freedom, but controlling resources, securing markets, and maintaining hegemony at any cost.

And as BRICS rises, as the Global majority asserts its sovereignty, the Empire grows more desperate.

Its (losing) wars: kinetic, economic, and informational, are not signs of strength but of fragility, the thrashing of a system that cannot adapt to a multipolar world.

Who benefits from this endless bloodshed? Not the American people, saddled with $38 trillion in national debt and over $200 trillion in unfunded liabilities. The winners are the same cabal that profits whether the bombs drop or not: defense contractors, Wall Street speculators, and the political elite.

The MIC is not just about war but about money laundering on an imperial scale. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? Cash cows. The conflict in Ukraine? A feeding frenzy for weapons dealers and their political masters.

This is not just America’s problem. The endless wars waged by the U.S. ripple out, destabilizing nations, wrecking economies, and displacing millions.

The Empire stumbles, but it won’t fall on its own. It’s time to push harder. The age of unaccountable wars and untraceable profits must end.

- Gerry Nolan

[lighthousenewsnetwork]

WASHINGTON — In a bold move to address what White House officials are calling "selective electoral amnesia," President Biden unveiled his administration's latest campaign strategy Wednesday: a time machine designed to transport voters back to "those four years we all try to forget." The device, resembling a hybrid between a voting booth and a DeLorean, was dramatically unveiled during a White House press briefing, where it immediately began emitting concerning sounds reminiscent of old tweets being forcibly reshared. "This is absolutely, positively, not just a PowerPoint presentation of old news clips," insisted Dr. Marty McPresent, the newly appointed Head of Temporal Voter Engagement. "What we have here is cutting-edge technology powered by pure unredacted tweets and residual covfefe energy." According to totally real Pentagon documents about "Operation Remember When," the time machine has undergone rigorous testing with focus groups, though not without some notable incidents. Several participants were accidentally sent too far back and witnessed Nixon declaring, "I am not a crook," while others reported an uncontrollable urge to check Twitter at 3 AM. "One test subject is still stuck in 2017, trying to understand what a 'hamberder' is," admitted McPresent, while adjusting his "Make Time Travel Great Again" lab coat. "But we consider that an acceptable margin of error." The machine's safety features include "alternate reality protection" and "fact-resistant shields," with a special chamber designed to accommodate both MAGA hats and fact-checkers simultaneously – a breakthrough in quantum political mechanics. Republican critics have been quick to condemn the initiative, with some claiming it violates campaign finance laws from 1876. "How do we know Biden isn't using this to go back and change his Wordle scores?" demanded one concerned congressman, who requested anonymity to avoid temporal prosecution. The GOP has launched its own counter-initiative called "Forward to the Past," which reportedly consists of a ViewMaster filled with carefully curated Facebook memories. Despite the controversy, the Department of Temporal Affairs has begun accepting applications for "memory refresher" sessions. "The entire program costs less than one border wall payment," boasted Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, while attempting to expense a flux capacitor. However, the project hasn't been without its glitches. During a demonstration yesterday, the machine accidentally revealed a future headline: "2024 Election Actually Just 2020 Rerun," causing several journalists to experience what doctors are calling "democratic déjà vu." White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre addressed concerns about potential temporal paradoxes during yesterday's briefing. "We want to be very clear," she stated, reading from a binder labeled 'Temporal Talking Points,' "any similarities between past events and current events are purely coincidental and definitely not a glitch in the space-time continuum." The administration has issued a lengthy disclaimer for potential participants, warning of side effects including "sudden understanding of constitutional amendments" and "an inexplicable desire to read the entire Mueller Report in one sitting." As of press time, the Department of Temporal Affairs reported that several voters had already used the machine and were "significantly more informed," though some appeared to be stuck in an infinite loop of watching impeachment hearings. Voters interested in participating in the temporal voter education program are encouraged to bring their own sanitizer and "reality anchors." The White House emphasized that all trips are one-way and that any accidental creation of alternate timelines is not covered by Medicare. Dr. McPresent concluded the briefing by addressing concerns about the project's actual effectiveness: "Look, if we can't change the past, we can at least remember it correctly. Besides, has anyone really seen the previous

[korrektheiten]

FDP will „psychologische Verteidigung“ forcieren

Multipolar: »Fraktion schlägt nationales Warnsystem gegen „Desinformation“ und „hybride Angriffe“ vor / Symposium von Pentagon und Verteidigungsministerium warnt vor Kriegsmüdigkeit http://dlvr.it/T7q0Tb «

[i-should-have-studied]

Interhalogen Compounds

Interhalogen compounds are molecules which contain two or more different halogen atoms and only halogen atoms.

Most interhalogen compounds are knows as binary since they are composed of only two distinct elements.

Interhalogen compounds are molecules which contain two or more different halogen atoms.

There are 4 types: AX, AX3, AX5, and AX7.

Classification: Interhalogens maybe be divided into two categories

Neutral interhalogen: contains two or more halogen atoms that are not charged. Ex: ICl, ClF3, IF5, IF7, etc.

Negatively charged interhalogens: has a negative charge, anions. Ex: ICl2- and ICl 4-

Positively charged interhalogens: have a positive charge, cations. Ex: ICl2+ and IF4+

Note: When naming interhalogen compounds, the less electronegative element is mentioned first Ex: ICl -> iodine chloride

Preparation: 2 methods

First way involves the direct mixing of halogens and the other includes a reaction of halogens with the lower interhalogen compound

Cl2 + F2 -> 2ClF

Br2 + 3F2 -> 2BrF3

Br2 + 5F2 -> 2BrF5

I2 + Cl2 -> 2ICl

I2 + 3Cl2 -> 2ICl3

In other cases a halogen atom acts with another lower interhalogen to form a higher interhalogen compound.

IF5 + F2 -> IF7

BrF3 + F2 -> BrF5

Properties

In vapor, liquid, and solid phases.

Covalent in nature

Diamagnetic in nature because they have bond pairs and lone pairs

Very reactive because the A-X bond is much weaker than X-X bond in halogens (with the exception of F-F).

Structure

1) Structure of AX

The compounds of this type are linear, ClF, BrF, IF, IBr, ICl, BrCl, are all linear in structure

Ex: electronic config of chlorine atom -> 3s²3p⁵.

The unpaired electron from a covalent bond with atom of the second halogen. The resulting molecule AX is therefore linear.

2) Structure of AX3

Compounds of this type have T-Shape structure.

The orbitals of central halogen atom are involved in sp³d hybridization.

Ex: IF3, Iodine -> 5s²5p⁵

In AX3 molecules, 3 bond pairs + 2 lone pairs = 5 coordination numbers.

Therefore coordination number is 5, hybridization is sp³d and structure is T-Shaped.

3)Structure of AX5

These compounds are formed by sp³d² hybridization of the orbitals of the central atom A and have square pyramidal structure.

Ex: IF5: Iodine -> 5s²5p⁵

In AX5 molecule, 5 bond pairs + 1 lone pair = 6 coordination numbers.

Therefore CN=6, hybridization is sp³d², and structure is square pyramidal.

Structure of AX7

This compound has a pentagonal bipyramidal structure since it is formed by sp³d³ hybridization of the orbitals of the central atom.

Poly halides

When the halide ions combine with the halogen molecules or interhalogen, univalent ions called poly halide ions are obtained and the compounds are called poly halides.

Ex: ICl2⁻, ICl4⁻, I3⁻

Structure of ICl4⁻

In tetra chloro iodide ion, iodine involves sp³d² hybridization.

In ICl⁻, 4 bond pairs + 2 lone pairs = 6 CN

Structure is square planar

Structure of I3⁻

The structure is similar to ICl⁻, central I⁻ is undergoing sp³d hybridization.

3 lone pairs + 2 bond pairs = 5 CN

Shape is linear.

Pseudo halogens

Groups formed by the combination of two or more P-block elements with unit negative charge.

Ex: Cyanogen (CN)2 -> Cyanide (CN)-

Difference between halogens and pseudo halogens:

Halogens are chemical elements in group 17. Pseudo halogens are chemical compounds having a combination of several chemical elements showing chemical characteristics of halogens.

halogens are chemical elements, pseudo halogens are chemical compounds.

halogens are mono atomic while pseudo halogens are polyatomic.

Similarities between pseudo halogens and halogens:

Both are very reactive

Both are dimeric and isomorphic: Cl2 is isomorphous to (CN)2

Both combine with metals like silver, lead, and mercury to form insoluble salts: Ag + Cl -> AgCl and Ag + CN -> AgCN

Both react with alkali: Cl2 + 2NaOH -> NaCl + NaOCl + H2O and (SCN)2 + 2NaOH -> NaSCN + NaOSCN + H2O