#m2 medium

[captain-price-unofficially]

M2A1 Medium Tank (right) alongside the T5E1 Medium Tank prototype. The M2 was first produced in 1939, events in Western Europe rapidly demonstrated that the M2 was obsolete, and it was never used overseas in combat; it was, however, used for training purposes throughout the war. The T5E1 led to the M2 through incremental changes, though the VVSS suspension was one of the most important.

[camerafilia]

Photo credit: @jimhair

[friendlyfox5]

me, moments before regailing my friends with tales of the specifics of interwar tanks and armoured cars.

I must resist the urge to go on long tangents about topics nobody cares about

[mawlsllc]

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[dorenarox]

I killed these Demoknights so hard that it's not even shown!

I am very pissed off that this capture in particular has this lag spike. Wasn't there in the game. Don't know what causes it. I'm very very tired.

[canmom]

(Me again! Previously I had bothered you in DMs about an article, but figured it might be better to send an ask in this case.) On the topic of environmental concerns, I did have a question about James Hansen's 'Global Warming in the Pipeline' which was published last year. A previous (and rather bleak) Medium article you analyzed had cited this particular paper as proof that we're on track to exceed 3C in our lifetimes, even if emissions were to suddenly halt today. https://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/abs/ha09020b.html Since this paper has now passed peer review, what exactly does this mean in simplistic terms? I understand this means that the climate scientists that have analyzed the paper agree with what it states (and see no issues with it's logic), but does it actually mean we'll reach 4C by 2100? Or have I misunderstood what this is stating? The only way I see this not being the case is if somehow Hansen's paper later turns out to be incorrect (which seems unlikely).

I also understand that the paper heavily advocates for a level of geoengineering, which I think is a better alternative to letting a large majority of people suffer, but I'm not sure if you have any opinions on when you think that'd be best to do.

oooh, i've put off answering this because it's perhaps a bit above my pay grade, but let's see

so as far as passing peer review - it's hard to say how robust that is in terms of whether you should believe its conclusions. it depends a lot on the field, the reviewers, and so on - papers are retracted frequently, even if the initial round of reviewers advised to publish.

in climate science we are engaged in a spectacularly difficult modelling task. this paper also speaks on a pretty broad range of subjects. let me quote the full abstract, adding some paragraph breaks:

Improved knowledge of glacial-to-interglacial global temperature change yields Charney (fast-feedback) equilibrium climate sensitivity 1.2±0.3°C (2σ) per W/m2, which is 4.8°C±1.2°C for doubled CO2. Consistent analysis of temperature over the full Cenozoic era — including 'slow' feedbacks by ice sheets and trace gases — supports this sensitivity and implies that CO2 was 300-350 ppm in the Pliocene and about 450 ppm at transition to a nearly ice-free planet, exposing unrealistic lethargy of ice sheet models. Equilibrium global warming for today's GHG amount is 10°C, which is reduced to 8°C by today's human-made aerosols. Equilibrium warming is not 'committed' warming; rapid phaseout of GHG emissions would prevent most equilibrium warming from occurring. However, decline of aerosol emissions since 2010 should increase the 1970-2010 global warming rate of 0.18°C per decade to a post-2010 rate of at least 0.27°C per decade. Thus, under the present geopolitical approach to GHG emissions, global warming will exceed 1.5°C in the 2020s and 2°C before 2050. Impacts on people and nature will accelerate as global warming increases hydrologic (weather) extremes. The enormity of consequences demands a return to Holocene-level global temperature. Required actions include: (1) a global increasing price on GHG emissions accompanied by development of abundant, affordable, dispatchable clean energy, (2) East-West cooperation in a way that accommodates developing world needs, and (3) intervention with Earth's radiation imbalance to phase down today's massive human-made 'geo-transformation' of Earth's climate. Current political crises present an opportunity for reset, especially if young people can grasp their situation.

As I've split it, the first paragraph is a quantitative statement about equilibrium warming, which is the paper's scientific contribution. The second paragraph adds some qualifiers about the expected trajectory "under the present geopolitical approach". The third para is a political argument - a 'what is to be done' type statement.

That's a lot to cover in one paper! It also invites different kinds of approaches to peer review. A scientist reviewing the first half of this paper would be making a technical analysis: do Hansen et al look at the right data, analyse it rigorously, etc. etc.

Why is this all so complicated? Well, lots of things change on Earth when it gets hotter and colder. The amount of cloud coverage, the amount of ice, the way the oceans mix hot and cold water, etc. etc., the amount of dust and soot in the air from forest fires - all of this affects how much energy comes into the atmosphere, how much gets reflected into space, etc etc.

The main things that the paper talks about are...

the equilibrium climate sensitivity: basically, if you add a bunch of extra energy to the system (what climate scientists call 'forcing'), once everything settles down, what temperature do you end up at, per unit of forcing?

the speed of various feedbacks - how quickly the clouds, ice, etc. etc. change in response to the forcing, which determines how quickly you approach this final equilibrium temperature. Knowing which feedbacks are fast and slow is important since it tells us what we can expect to happen when we cut CO2 emissions.

It's naturally a pretty involved discussion and I don't pretend to have the background to follow all the ins and outs of it, but Hansen et al. use various lines of evidence to try to assess these parameters, see how they affect climate models, and the like. They perform an analysis of how temperature and estimated CO2 varied during the Cenozoic era, and there's a section on estimating the effects of aerosols, both natural and human-made.

On the subject of aerosols, Hansen et al. suggest that previous climate models may have made two mistakes that cancelled each other out:

Recent global warming does not yield a unique ECS [Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity] because warming depends on three major unknowns with only two basic constraints. Unknowns are ECS, net climate forcing (aerosol forcing is unmeasured), and ocean mixing (many ocean models are too diffusive). Constraints are observed global temperature change and Earth’s energy imbalance (EEI) [80]. Knutti [150] and Hansen [75] suggest that many climate models compensate for excessive ocean mixing (which reduces surface warming) by using aerosol forcing less negative than the real world, thus achieving realistic surface warming.

What they're saying here is, though we have a pretty good idea of how much CO2 we put in the atmosphere, since we don't have a good measure of aerosols we don't actually know for sure how much energy humans were adding to the atmosphere. Like, CO2 adds energy, but sulfur dioxide reflects it away.

There's three unknown parameters here, and two constraints (things we can calculate for definite). We use a model to tell us one of those unknowns (the ocean stuff), and that allows us to tune the effect of aerosols until our model Earth matches our measurements of the real Earth. But, if our ocean model is wrong, then we end up wrongly estimating the effect of aerosols.

The upshot is that aerosols have been a bigger deal than we thought, and as the world cleans up the atmsophere and removes the amount of aerosols, the rate of warming will increase. It's definitely plausible - but it's such a complicated system that there could easily be some other nuance here.

I won't try to summarise every point in the paper but it's that kind of thing that they're arguing about here. This isn't a mathematical proof, though! Since it's touching on a huge range of different parameters, trying to draw together lots of different lines of evidence, there is still a fair bit of room for nuance. It's not so simple as 'Hansen et al. are right' or 'Hansen et al. are wrong' - they could be wrong about one thing and right about another.

To say they've passed peer review is to say that they've done as reasonable a job as anyone can expect to try and figure out this kind of messy problem. However, other scientists may still take issue with one or another claim. It's not as definitive as a maths paper.

That said, Hansen's arguments all seem pretty plausible to me. The tools he uses to assess this situation are sensible and he talks about cases where things weren't as expected (he thought that improved climate models would change in a different way, and they didn't). But while I know enough about the subject to be able to largely follow what he's saying, I'm not confident saying whether he's right.

The second half takes on a different tone...

This section is the first author’s perspective based on more than 20 years of experience on policy issues that began with a paper [179] and two workshops [180] that he organized at the East-West Center in Hawaii, followed by meetings and workshops with utility experts and trips to more than a dozen nations for discussions with government officials, energy experts, and environmentalists. The aim was to find a realistic scenario with a bright energy and climate future, with emphasis on cooperation between the West and nations with emerging or underdeveloped economies.

So this is more of a historical, political analysis section, addressing why we are on this trajectory and why scientists may be institutionally underestimating the threat ('scientific reticence', 'gradualism' and so on). Well, more precisely, it's a polemic - a scientifically informed polemic, but this is basically an editorial stapled to the science part of the paper.

This includes an account of how a previous paper ('Ice Melt') led by Hansen was reviewed, and sidelined by other scientists, for what Hansen considers unsound reasons. It leads into something of an impassioned plea by Hansen addressed at his fellow scientists, complete with rhetorical questions:

Climate science reveals the threat of being too late. ‘Being too late’ refers not only to warning of the climate threat, but also to technical advice on policy implications. Are we scientists not complicit if we allow reticence and comfort to obfuscate our description of the climate situation? Does our training, years of graduate study and decades of experience, not make us well-equipped to advise the public on the climate situation and its policy implications? As professionals with deep understanding of planetary change and as guardians of young people and their future, do we not have an obligation, analogous to the code of ethics of medical professionals, to render to the public our full and unencumbered diagnosis? That is our objective.

This leads into Hansen's proposal for how to get out of this mess: a price on carbon dioxide, nuclear power, and rushing to research geoengineering such as spraying salt water in the air. And then e.g. specific political proposals, like 'a political party that takes no money from special interests', ranked choice voting and so on.

Naturally this is a lot harder to take technical issue with. It's more like an editorial. As a reviewer you'd probably say it's worth publishing because it's well argued, etc. etc., without necessarily agreeing with every one of Hansen's proposals. You can say 'that obviously wouldn't work' and so on, but it's a different kind of argument.

So re your questions:

does it actually mean we'll reach 4C by 2100?

If Hansen et al. are right, the IPCC reports are underestimating the equilibrium we approach for the current amount of CO2 in the atmosphere - which would lead to 2°C well before 2050, so 4°C by 2100 seems plausible (I didn't spot a timeline that goes that far in the paper when I skimmed through but I could have missed it).

This isn't the amount of warming that will happen, because the Earth has many systems which gradually scrub CO2 from the atmosphere. If we stopped pumping out CO2 suddenly, the amount of CO2, and the amount of extra energy it adds, would gradually decline. So we wouldn't necessarily approach that equilibrium. On the other hand, the amount of CO2 forcing is only going up as things currently stand - and if the amount of forcing stayed the same, Hansen says it would eventually deglaciate Antarctica, leading to over 10°C of warming.

But working out what will actually happen by 2100 depends on a lot of modelling assumptions - how long do you assume we keep pumping out CO2? Hansen addresses this when talking about the subject of 'committed warming':

‘Committed warming’ is less precisely defined; even in the current IPCC report [12] (p. 2222) it has multiple definitions. One concept is the warming that occurs if human-made GHG emissions cease today, but that definition is ill-posed as well as unrealistic. Do aerosol emissions also cease? That would cause a sudden leap in Earth’s energy imbalance, a ‘termination shock,’ as the cooling effect of human-made aerosols disappears. A more useful definition is the warming that will occur with plausibly rapid phasedown of GHG emissions, including comparison with ongoing reality. However, the required ‘integrated assessment models,’ while useful, are complex and contain questionable assumptions that can mislead policy (see Perspective on policy implications section).

So, will we reach 4C by 2100? We can only phrase this question in a conditional way: if we continue to add this much energy, then...

In practice we will probably end up reducing our emissions one way or another - which is to say, if our present complex societies collapse, they ain't gonna be emitting much carbon anymore...

I also understand that the paper heavily advocates for a level of geoengineering, which I think is a better alternative to letting a large majority of people suffer, but I'm not sure if you have any opinions on when you think that'd be best to do.

The way things are going, I think it's likely that people will try geoengineering when the climate-related disasters really start to ramp up, so whether or not they should ends up kind of besides the point.

Hansen doesn't really advocate a specific programme to pursue - only one paragraph in the whole paper talks about geoengineering:

Highest priority is to phase down emissions, but it is no longer feasible to rapidly restore energy balance via only GHG emission reductions. Additional action is almost surely needed to prevent grievous escalation of climate impacts including lock-in of sea level rise that could destroy coastal cities world-wide. At least several years will be needed to define and gain acceptance of an approach for climate restoration. This effort should not deter action on mitigation of emissions; on the contrary, the concept of human intervention in climate is distasteful to many people, so support for GHG emission reductions will likely increase. Temporary solar radiation management (SRM) will probably be needed, e.g. via purposeful injection of atmospheric aerosols. Risks of such intervention must be defined, as well as risks of no intervention; thus, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences recommends research on SRM [212]. The Mt. Pinatubo eruption of 1991 is a natural experiment [213, 214] with a forcing that reached [30] –3 W/m2. Pinatubo deserves a coordinated study with current models. The most innocuous aerosols may be fine salty droplets extracted from the ocean and sprayed into the air by autonomous sailboats [215]. This approach has been discussed for potential use on a global scale [216], but it needs research into potential unintended effects [217]. This decade may be our last chance to develop the knowledge, technical capability, and political will for actions needed to save global coastal regions from long-term inundation.

He says 'we need to research this more to figure out the risks, since we'll probably have to do it' basically. Climate researchers have historically been reluctant to advocate geoengineering for fear it will be mistaken as a way to solve the climate problem without reducing GHG emissions, so honestly seeing them suggest it now maybe brings to light the atmosphere of desperation in the field.

Unfortunately, when talking about politics and economics, Hansen is on much less firm ground than when he's picking apart the intricacies of climate feedbacks. He clearly wants to try to discourage doomerism, and he's rightly critical of cap-and-trade and similar schemes, but he has his specific political fixations and what he suggests is all a bit unconvincing as a programme. I don't say this because I've got a better idea, though.

The problem is that the future is really hard to predict. It's bad enough when it's climate systems, but humans are even more complicated little nonlinear freaks. This isn't a new problem for Hansen's paper. I am pessimistic enough by nature that I don't really trust my ability to predict what we will do when climate change gets more severe. Hopefully by the time we finally decide to stop kicking the can down the road, there will still be something to be done.

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[ariesgamesandminis]

Another round of restocks are up from Iron Wind Metals for BattleTech!

20-369 Firestarter FS9-M2 20-487 Shade Fighter S-HA-O Invictus 20-488 Rusalka Fighter S-RSL-O Invictus 20-491 Striga Fighter S-STR-O Invictus 20-5031 Shadow Cat II 20-5094 Jackalope JLP-BD 20-5162 Anzu ZU-G60 / ZU-J70 20-5179 Neanderthal NTL-AG 20-5183 Locust LCT-1V 20-5190 Dasher II (Standard) / 2 20-5198 Atlas AS7-D-H / H2 20-662 Battle Cobra Prime 20-800 Hex Bases (4) 20-807 Striker Light Tank (2) 99-201 Large Flat Top Hex Base #1 99-202 Large Flat Top Hex Base #2 BT-006 Phalanx Battle Armor BT-028 Cavalier Battle Armor BT-029 Sloth Battle Armor BT-031 Infiltrator MK 2 BT-128 Tornado Battle Armor BT-130 Hauberk Battle Armor BT-133 Corona Battle Armor BT-151 Turk Mech Scale Fighter BT-188 Nighthawk Battle Armor BT-189 Kobold Battle Armor BT-199 Asura Md. Battle Armor BT-200 Shedu Assault Battle Armor BT-209 Se'irim Medium Battle Armor BT-239 Jump Support Infantry BT-245 Heavy Infantry - Firing BT-276 Maxim Hover Tank (3058) BT-320 Tracked APC BT-372 Savannah Master Hovercraft BT-381 Basic Inner Sphere Battle Armor (3) BT-384 Achileus Battle Armor (3) BT-388 Salamander Battle Armor (3) BT-391 Fenrir Battle Armor (1) BT-398 Gùn GN-2O B BT-409 Sarath SRTH-1OA BT-410 Sarath SRTH-1OB BT-427 Balac Strike VTOL (Standard) & (LRM) CATLTD-06 Limited Edition Catapult FT-028 Sulla Mech Scale Fighter OP-116 Equipment 20-5160H Marauder MAD-7D / 9D 7D Gun

[thesims4blogger]

The Sims 4: New Game Patch (April 18th, 2023)

There’s a new Sims 4 update available for PC/Mac and Consoles. 

Your game should now read: PC: 1.97.42.1030 / Mac: 1.97.42.1230 / Console: Version 1.73

Hello Simmers

We had a case of stretchy Sims running around—especially in the younger ages. In this update, we’ve been working to get them back to their correct proportions—among other things.

The Sims Team

In this update we have new decoration options to help you add that personal touch to your builds, new underwear options, and The Sims 4 gets Mac native support for those Simmers using M1/M2 processors. First on the What’s New? List though is a Sims Sessions collab with Becca Hatch, so let’s jump in.

Sims Sessions x Becca

Australian singer Becca Hatch and producer Tentendo have teamed up with The Sims 4 to bring Blessed, or should that be Boofed, to your Sims when they tune into the Pop radio station.

Be sure to watch this Sims Sessions episode where Becca describes her inspirations and shows off what goes into singing a song in Simlish in the Sims Sessions Episode below.

Becca Hatch & Tentendo – Blessed | Sims Sessions

That’s not all, Becca’s Simself will be available to download directly from the Gallery and can join your Sims in their worlds.

Native support for the latest Mac CPU’s

This release brings native support for Apple silicon chipsets on top of the ongoing support for those with an Intel-based Mac

New underwear options

New underwear options for your Teen and older Sims are available in CAS (Create a Sim).

New ways to decorate

Hi everyone, SimGuruBeth here! I’m very excited about today’s update, especially the new decor placement options you’ll find across various bathroom fixtures. It was so fun to work with the team and add new small decorative slots to toilets, standalone sinks, bathtubs and more! And in some cases there was room to support a medium decorative slot. These build mode quality of life updates are one of my favorite things to work on as an object modeler; they add so many more options for designing any build.

And in addition to the above updates, a few new color variants have been added to round out some of our basics for the Towel Storage Rack (full and empty version) and the Countryside Caress Medicine Cabinet.

Bug Fixes

Base Game

Infant food preferences no longer reset when going to CASfrom Manage Worlds and returning to the game.

Caregivers have a lot to tend to with a Newborn in the home… Between the crying, sleeping, eating, and diaper changing, their kid is always on their mind. They definitely shouldn’t forget who their Newborn is when they age up to an infant. Parents will no longer need to introduce themselves to their little one after they’ve aged up to an infant.

Toddlers can once again gain Movement Skill while using slides.

Weddings can be pretty boring when you’re young; you just want some cake and to play. But that’s no excuse for an infant to stretch while the couple are exchanging vows. Infants should be on their best behavior now… well, the best they can be at that age.

Toddlers can be mean, especially to their younger siblings. Infants will no longer stretch in response to being yelled at by a Toddler.

Top Surgery Scars are available when you re-enter CAS and not just when you create a new Sim.

Fashion is what you make of it, so if you pair the yfTop_GP04JacketCropped with yfBottom_SDX024FullBriefs you shouldn’t be judged by having the underwear clip through the top.

Infants like to chew things, it’s all part of teething. Our little ones decided that they wanted to autonomously Chomp their caregiver to the point the interaction queue was filled with the interaction. We’ve told them not to Chomp so much, so they seem to have stopped but what you tell them to do is up to you.

Sims with a customized physical frame now have access to a wide range of fingernail options.

Some say it’s adorable, others say it’s terrifying. Either way, checking out your infant’s teeth in CAS will not be accompanied by vampiric hissing. We aren’t sure if they retained a thirst for blood though so, don’t blink.

Console

We still can’t find a keyboard with the Any Key, but if you were to press Any Key on your keyboard while on the start screen, the game would load as it should.

While console Simmers can use both the Sims 4 Camera and Sims 3 Camera options when using a mouse and keyboard it wasn’t the intent that only one of the two camera modes would let you interact with objects in Build Mode. Console simmers using a mouse and keyboard and using either camera mode, objects can, again, be interacted with and adjusted as expected.

PlayStation Simmers visiting the Gallery will no longer see uploads and comments from profiles that have been blocked directly on PlayStation. This is in combination with the in-game provided block list which can still be used to block players from all platforms at the EA Account level.

Growing Together

Child Sims wearing Top_EP13SweatShirt will no longer distort while zooming the camera out in Live Mode.

Some of our Sims were a bit overeager to ask to move into your home after becoming friends. We’ve both reduced the frequency of how often you’ll be asked, and we’ve made some adjustments to who can ask. Teens are now excluded, as well as a number of special NPCs. As amusing as it is to have Grim slouching on the sofa all day, he’s got work to do.

yfTop_EP13TwoToneBaggyButtonup and ymTop_EP13TwoToneBaggyButtonup will now appear properly when filtering for Masculine and Feminine fashion.

yfTop_EP13Camisole no longer shows distortion when worn by your Sims.

No matter how well you prepare, you’ll always forget something when going on vacation. In those situations, you hope you can buy what you need when you need it. Sleeping bags will now be able to be purchased while on vacation using your phone.

Vegetarian and Child of the Ocean Sims will get negative moodlets if they decide to eat meat or fish from the food stalls when visiting Anchorpoint Wharf.

An issue that was occasionally causing a Sim’s pregnancy to not progress has been resolved.

Toddlers will now be able to successfully complete the Studied Numbers milestone.

Highschool Years

Sims that confront their fear of the dark will not continue to be affected by the Afraid of the Dark Scared Moodlet buff.

Snowy Escape

Adventurous Sims will once again be able to push on up to the peak of Mt. Komorebi during their climbing excursion. Onwards and upwards we always say!

Climbing gear can be expensive so you want it to last and if it breaks you want to be able to fix it. Now you can do just that and instead of just saying it’s fixed, when you go to equip it, it will actually be fixed and will be equippable.

Seasons

A mysterious DEBUG gift box (or “Unknown” gift box if you play on consoles) was mistakenly added to the Build Catalog. If you happened to place one on your lot, congratulations—not only do you get to keep it, it’ll even have a real name now. It still doesn’t do anything, but it sure does look like a gift box. Very festive! However, if you’re feeling like you missed out, fear not – you can find your own non-interactive Gift Box object hidden behind the bb.showhiddenobjects cheat.

Cats & Dogs

A dog being friendly to your infant will no longer cause your infant to stretch.

Trying to Go for Jog while your little pooch is hungry won’t cause your Sim to stand in place. Now where is that dog food?

Dine Out

When you open a restaurant, you want the best chefs. One thing to look for in an applicant is whether they can successfully manage to enter your establishment. It will be easier to find a suitable candidate now as all chefs should be able to get to the kitchen.

StrangerVille

Infants no longer stretch in reaction to government agents taking away your refrigerator. Also, what’s in that refrigerator?

Werewolves

When you are part of a pack, you expect order and values. Now you’ll be able to check what those values are by opening the Social Group panel and not seeing it be blank.

Moonwood Mill trees and vegetation will reflect the changing of the seasons from luscious greens to golden browns and back again.

My Wedding Stories

PlaqueWallGenCollections_01_Set30 PLACEHOLDER NAME wasn’t the name of the plaque that was intended. Apparently it was, and now is, Purveyor of Lost Messages. If you haven’t achieved this award yet, maybe pay a visit to the beach and have a look around.

Tiny Living

Infants no longer stretch when reacting to living inside a tiny home.

[aulel-process]

Jay Steffy, Interior, Circa 1980

I can't find much on Jay Steffy's design philosophy but I read his 1980s interior as postmodern.

"Postmodernism had begun as a radical fringe movement in the 1970s, but became the dominant look of the 1980s, the 'designer decade'. Vivid colour, theatricality and exaggeration: everything was a style statement. Whether surfaces were glossy, faked or deliberately distressed, they reflected the desire to combine subversive statements with commercial appeal. Magazines and music were important mediums for disseminating this new phase of Postmodernism. The work of Italian designers – especially the groups Studio Alchymia and Memphis – was promoted across the world through publications like Domus. Meanwhile, the energy of post-punk subculture was broadcast far and wide through music videos and cutting-edge graphics. This was the moment of the New Wave: a few thrilling years when image was everything." ( 1 )

"The postmodern outlook is characterized by self-referentiality, epistemological relativism, moral relativism, pluralism, irony, irreverence, and eclecticism; it rejects the "universal validity" of binary oppositions, stable identity, hierarchy, and categorization." ( 2 )

Piazza D'Italia, Charles Moore and August Perez III, 1978

Robert A. M. Stern: Residence and Pool House Llewelyn Park, New Jersey, 1982

M2 building, Kengo Kuma, Japan, 1991

"Less is More" "Less is a Bore" LOL:

"If the Modernist movement could be epitomized in a single phrase, many would choose Mies van der Rohe’s succinct utterance, “less is more.” Three authoritative words, three stern syllables: The slogan came to embody the very architectural language it engendered, spawning a whole generation of architects who sought to strip back buildings to their bare essentials.

Mies and many of his Modernist peers advocated the abolition of the superfluous, arguing that ornamentation was a distraction from the beauty of structural rationality, or — worse still — an unethical symbol of extravagance.

Of course, as with any ideological action, there is a reaction, and this is where American architect Robert Venturi came in. Together with his wife Denise Scott Brown, the late Robert Venturi strove to rewrite the book (sometimes quite literally) on modern architectural design, challenging the principles of the Modernist movement with experimentation and witty provocation.

Venturi pinpointed Mies’ sound bite as a key source of influence and countered with his own, simultaneously playful and cutting in its candor: “Less is a bore.”

Venturi’s instantly memorable quote — its fame perhaps only surpassed by Mies’ oxymoronic original — became the mantra for an entire architectural movement. Postmodernism ushered in an age of warmer architecture, buildings full of character that displayed a greater sensitivity toward context, urban landscapes ingrained with more humor and humility than the earnest monuments of 20th-century Modernism.

... For [Venturi], this was the architecture of gentle anarchy, of free-spirited optimism, of unbridled joy." ( 3 )

[a-good-blog-name-but-its-taken]

Pride but it's WWII weapons

Charlton Automatic Rifle - Transgender. It was a bolt action rifle converted into a machine gun.

MAS-36 Rifle - Homosexual. Two of these rifles could be inextricably joined via their bayonet lugs.

Sten Submachine Gun - Bisexual. Could be loaded with both its own magazines and magazines from the German MP-40.

Panzerfaust Anti-Tank Rocket - Asexual. Could not be reloaded.

Mauser Rifle - Pansexual. Almost every nation in WWII used some variation of the Mauser Rifle, including the USA, whose Springfield was based on a Mauser action, and Japan whose Arisaka was also based on a Mauser action.

M2 Medium Tank - Polyamorous. Up to nine different machine guns plus a 37mm gun, all joined together in one tank.

[bansuvs]

"If SUVs were a country, they would be the world’s fifth largest emitter of CO2

SUVs weigh 200-300 kg more than an average medium-sized car, and typically take up nearly 0.3 m2 more space – emitting roughly 20% more carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. The trend towards heavier and less fuel-efficient cars increases energy demand, including oil and electricity use, as well as demand for basic metals and critical minerals needed for battery production. Over the course of 2022 and 2023, global oil consumption directly related to SUVs rose by a total of over 600 000 barrels per day, accounting for more than a quarter of the overall annual growth in oil demand. "

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Broomquet Azul SSR Analysis

🐙: It is Azul's birthday now! As per tradition, his newest card gets a card analysis~. Card analysis requests are still not open by the way. Those that are sent while they are closed will be deleted.

Type: Balanced

Max Stats at Lv.80 [GROOVY]

Without buddies: HP 8,856 ATK 4,724

With all buddies (approximately): HP 13,283 ATK 5,668

Max Stats at Lv.100 [GROOVY]

Without buddies: HP 10,361 ATK 5,527

With all buddies (approximately): HP 15,541 ATK 6,632

Magic [Lv.10]

Flora: One strong hit with 1-turn DMG DOWN M on both opponents

Fire: Two strong hits that turn to three when duo with Jack is activated

Buddies

Jack [ATK S]

Floyd [HP S]

Sebek [HP M]

Broomquet Azul is a Flora/Fire Balanced SSR with a DMG DOWN M on his first spell. As his M2 has advantage over M1, Fire > Flora, he is perfectly suited for Flora tests. His balanced stats makes him useful for either Basic or Defense. With his duo partner being his ATK buddy, Azul can just be accompanied by a Jack card and his offensive potential can be completely tapped into. However, his DMG DOWN and buddy synergy generally makes him best suited for Flora Defense. Azul in Flora Basic can deal a relatively significant amount of damage. At Lv.80, his duo can deal approximately 7.2k per hit on average, which makes him deal 21.6k damage in total on average. The best Jack card to use for Flora Basic to active Azul's duo is Dorm Jack (Fire/Flora). Birthday Jack (Cosmic/Flora) and Lab Jack (Cosmic/Fire) are alternatives if you don't have Dorm Jack. It is also worth noting that Azul is the duo partner of Dorm Riddle (Fire/Fire), one of the best cards for this test. In Flora Defense, Lab Jack is the best card to pair with Azul since he is a Defense card with a heal. Sebek has several cards that work well in this test. New Year Sebek (Cosmic/Fire) is most recommended due to having generally high base HP and DMG DOWN. He also shares a common HP buddy with Azul, that being Floyd. Apple Boa (Flora/Fire) and Masquerade Sebek (Cosmic/Fire) are great alternatives, more so the latter because of higher HP and a medium HP buddy. Beans Floyd (Flora/Fire) or Dorm Floyd (Fire/Flora) is highly recommended to add to the team to boost Azul's HP. Beans Floyd has a heal and shares common buddies with NY Sebek and Lab Jack, while Dorm Floyd has an ATK DOWN and has Azul as HP buddy. It is worth noting that if you go with the recommended cards, a Jade or a Vil card would be really good to add to complete the team. All in all, Broom Azul can do very well in both Flora Basic and Defense, but all the more for Defense due to excellent buddy synergy and the debuff that his card has. While not as useful as Halloween Silver, Beans Floyd, or even Masquerade Malleus, he's worth investing on, particularly if you lack good cards to use for Flora Defense.

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[bigfrozensix]

Your thoughts on Moana 2?

Well, for starters, I don't trust Disney with sequels in general after the dumpster fires that were RBTI and F2.

On top of that, M2 started production as a Disney+ series several years ago and only started to get transformed into a movie 1.5 years ago (someone working on M2 confirmed this). Which means it'll have only had roughly 2 years of production total as an actual movie instead of a series (which are different mediums with completely different structures story-wise, so to say I'm worred about the writing is putting it lightly).

And as an extra red-flag, it only got announced 9.5 months before release, a much shorter time frame than how long Disney usually announces their movies (with release date) in advance. Almost like they were too scared to set the date.

So, I'm definitely more in the "I'm scared" boat than I am in the "I'm excited" boat.

[regolo54]