““The Great Pacific Garbage Patch can now be cleaned,” announced Dutch entrepreneur Boyan Slat, the wonderkid inventor who’s spent a decade inventing systems for waterborne litter collection.
Recent tests on his Ocean Cleanup rig called System 002, invented to tackle the 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic pollution, were a success, leading Slat to predict that most of the oceanic garbage patches could be removed by 2040.
Intersections of ocean currents have created the massive floating islands of plastic trash—five slow-moving whirlpools that pull litter from thousands of miles away into a single radius.
The largest one sits between California and Hawaii, and 27-year-old Slat has been designing and testing his systems out there, launching from San Francisco since 2013.
GNN has reported on his original design for the floating device, but his engineering team improved upon it. System 002, nicknamed “Jenny,” successfully netted 9,000 kilograms, or around 20,000 pounds in its first trial.
It’s carbon-neutral, able to capture microplastics as small as 1 millimeter in diameter, and was designed to pose absolutely no threat to wildlife thanks to its wide capture area, slow motion, alerts, and camera monitors that allow operators to spy any overly-curious marine life…
Slat estimates ten Jennies could clean half the garbage patch in five years, and if 10 Jennies were deployed to the five major ocean gyres, then 90% of all floating plastic could be removed by 2040.” -via Good News Network, 10/19/21
oh
(Sorry. Going thru Fundy brain rot rn. Can’t recover.)
don’t lose yourself, traveler
everyone should thank me because as bad as i am, i am holding myself back from being much worse
Changed the 9th level ability and added the expanded spell list. Thoughts?
Here’s that subclass! I do want to say, this class isn’t mine, I simply fixed the mechanics and some balancing issues. I don’t have the @ for the original, but if you look up Stitcher on DNDBeyond you’ll find them! (Just to give credit where it’s due.)
I plan to add some more upgrades, and more options for the Opus, and am willing to take suggestions, so hit me with your best ideas
so! i am upset!
turns out the enderbees (tubbo & ranboo) tag is actually a ship tag, which is not only bad because neither cc wants to be shipped, but also because they are minors.
so i (hesitantly. this was torture) went to the small community through the tag and grabbed a few @s for a block list. call me oldschool, call me an anti, dont ship minors
@/violin-anon
@/mostlytubbounderscore
@/nderbuzz
@/enderboyfriends
@/mcytruth
@/finisapis
@/enderbeemybeloved
@/bluebeeanon
@/likeyenderbees
@/puddinganon
@/adhd-ranboo
@/tubbeess
@/ktruths
@/georgesoot
@/aloebees
@/mikeslemonade
@/isgaydoescrime
@/blossomdogthekarmaqueen
@/plant-anon
@/gayminecraftmen <- not a full shipper, but is friends with an enderbee shipper and supports the shippers
@/commietechno
@/enderbees
@/e-bees
@/ohdearboo
@/bee-tblr
@/prettyboytechno
@/brionnestan
@/reindeeranon
also, beware, since they know the majority of the community doesnt approve of them and theyre gonna try switching tags. so make sure to block not only the enderbee tag but the boobee tag as well
true friends support your probably-slightly-unhealthy obsession with your favorite fictional character
(/rp)
I think c!philza’s conversations with ghostbur today destroyed all of us, so I’m going to talk about c!philza for a bit — his ride-or-die bias towards techno, how that influences his beliefs, and his relationships with others.
phil favors techno. that is damn obvious. they’re old friends who go way back. phil also feels somewhat protective over techno — I’m a huge sucker for the headcanon that phil discovered that techno was basically a teenager during the antarctic empire days and subtly began feeling a bit parental to him after that.
the reason why phil became an anarchist ultimately ties back to techno. although phil was living in l’manberg back then, he was secretly helping techno; and his allegiance to techno ultimately resulted in his (definitely unjustified, but incomparable to what most people in l’manberg went through) house arrest. this house arrest, and watching techno’s execution, were what finally pushed him into full anarchy.
the thing is, I think this loyalty to techno is also what completely blinds him to the suffering of pretty much everyone else in l’manberg, and what him allows to be a-okay with dream’s actions as a tyrant.
phil is adamant that government was ultimately what ruined the people of l’manberg. but he somehow completely misses the trauma of the characters. he comes pretty dangerously close to what amounts as victim-blaming the citizens of l’manberg, especially tubbo, taking the position that they got what was coming to them. he says sorry to ghostbur for assisting in killing friend and destroying ghostbur’s library, but it’s clear that he doesn’t regret it.
when push comes to shove, phil always chooses techno. always. and he does not care if that ends up hurting other people who are or were close to him.
even though tommy, tubbo, and fundy aren’t directly phil’s sons, they are still connected to him and see him as somewhat of a father (or grandfather) figure. tommy accidentally calls him ‘dadza’. tubbo was found on the side of the road, and back when phil was in l’manberg they often worked together to build l’manberg. fundy is phil’s grandchild, who’s looking for any family he can get.
and phil sees them as corrupt, for reasons all adjacent to techno. although he was kind to them, he never truly paid attention to their trauma; and once they started directly opposing techno, well. they were dead to him, pretty much. this is neglect and abuse, everyone.
his conversation with ghostbur has only been the most overt example of this. and if ranboo ever decides to leave technoblade, well. I think we know where that is going.
There's so much pain in that second to last image.
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