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prideprejudce · 1 year

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the fact that Spielbergs original Jurassic Park (the one based off Crichtons novel) is absolutely perfect in every single way with iconic characters and stellar writing plus with the masterful directing that conveys the sheer tension and suspense of jurassic park…….to then see the jurassic world sequels with their dinosaur helicopter clone human genetics or whatever the fuck is going on with Cool Guy chris pratt doing Cool Guy Action Things that just absolutely sucks the life and joy out of the entire universe is a crime against cinema and every time i think about it…..electric chair

#jurassic park #jurrasic world #anti chris pratt #anti jurassic world #me looking at a picture of Chris Pratt: I really hate that man

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technoturian · 2 years

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I finally saw a trailer for Jurassic World 3 and the second it started I indignantly scolded the screen. No. NO. You did NOT earn the dramatic piano cover for this trailer, Jurassic World franchise. I saw what you did in the last movie. I know what you are.

#Jurassic World #Anti Jurassic World #remember when they let a ten year old release dinosaurs to wreak havoc on North America because 'they're alive'#like some terrible twisted pro-life metaphor #remember the smirking villain dinosaur #BECAUSE I DO

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ismellpestilence · 2 years

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I hate you constant production of sequels and prequels. I hate you reboots that contribute nothing. I hate you origin stories that no one asked for. I hate you everyone that makes adaptations and leave the original creator in the dark. I hate you everyone that takes stories and strips away everything they have to say so it can appeal to every possible person. I hate you everyone involved who thinks no one notices when you directly ignore the events/cannon of the previous installment. I hate you shows that only make sense if you've seen all the other shows. I hate you studios that think you can buy yourselves a good story.

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animationfan1133 · 7 days

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1 MONTH UNTIL JURASSIC WORLD CHAOS THEORY

#camp cretaceous #animation #dreamworks #anti lgbtq #lgbtq #queer #avengers #spider x kiri #the hulk #hulk #jurassic world #chaos theory

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sillylittlecandlestick · 2 months

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[Continuation from the last post]

The job security of the people who just happened to work for Daniel and Mantah Corp was really overlooked. And I get why, but with Darius’ arc of feeling like the bad guy for doing the right thing it should’ve been mentioned.

And it should’ve been mentioned by either Ben or Sammy, Ben’s mom worked for the park and so did Sammy’s parents. Both of them were aware that their parents lost their jobs after the park went down, and with Sammy it was part of her entire character arc. So it’s weird it never clicked for either of them, and if it did, them not having mixed feelings over it is weirder. (Especially since Sammy’s parents currently work for Mantah Corp and he owns their farm.)

I also think that the message of ‘sometimes doing the right thing hurts innocent people but you still have to do the right thing’, especially while having the actual, painful consequences acknowledged for those innocent people, would’ve been such a powerful message, but only if it’s written in a way that’s respectful and is empathetic to the harm but ultimately follows through on what’s right.

And especially in a kid show. Because while kids watching aren’t going to have those kinds of stakes, they’ll have their own that feels as high as those. Like reporting bullying (theirs or someone else’s) when you have those shitty teachers who do group/table punishments.

And yes, there is the argument of animals being worth less than people, so hurting the hundreds to thousands of innocent people like that isn’t worth it, but there’s still the risks of the technology’s advancement that should be enough of a reason to stop him then and there. Because it would never stop at dinosaurs, it would be used on other non-human animals and then it would be used on people. (chaos theory???)

#seriously it would’ve been such a good a message #and it would be nice to see that side of anti-capitalism explored #because everyone wants to take down major companies (with good reason) but you rarely see people talk about the employees of the companies #camp cretaceous #ben pincus #darius bowman #sammy gutierrez #kenji kon #jurassic world camp cretaceous #jurassic world chaos theory #daniel kon

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continentalblue · 1 year

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Brooklyn for the character ask

omg hi yuuuuuu

anyway:

that is a good question. I wanna say she's bi with a preference for men but I don't think she has her sexuality 100% worked out

2. I don't really have an otp for her, but I genuinely love kenjilynn. Yazlynn's pretty cute too

3. Darius and Brooklynn are my brotp. not a huge fans of the romance interpretations but their friendship is ADORBSSSSS

4. I don't really have a notp?? maybe her and darius just because jwcc twitter was really annoying about them

5. she's secretly kpop trash but hides it bc she thinks it's embarrassing

6. "He took care of us...just like he said he would." *sobs*

7. We both kind of stick our noses into other people's business. I'm working on it but I get so curious that I can't help myself lol

8. The way Brooklynn talks sarcastically to adults kinda makes me cringe. The way she goes about it is so *ugh*

9. she's my problematic fave, I would probably dislike her if I knew her irl

#blue's asks #blue's ask games #anti darilynn??#darilynn mention #kenjilynn mention #jwcc #jwcc hc #jwcc headcanons #jurassic world camp cretaceous #brooklynn jwcc #jwcc brooklynn

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readbythestarlight · 8 months

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Jurassic World would have been at least 10x less annoying if Owen Grady was not played by Crisp Rat and also if they’d been a woman.

#anti-JW #Jurassic world wank #a lot less sexist as well because it wouldn’t have been the ‘Clair needs a man to step in and fix things’ not #bit*

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dearinglovebot · 5 months

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my roman empire is the implications of the ellie/alan scene where she wakes up on him vs the parallel scene of claire/owen doing the same. your first instinct when paralleling these couples would be to go “oh so claire is his ellie”. but the way the scene is set up actually implies the opposite making ellie/owen the parallel duo.

let me break it down.

notice how they wake up first. the other is still asleep.

they take a moment to observe the sleeping partner.

sleeping partner wakes up. they play it cool and pretend nothing just happened. partner who just woke up is none the wiser.

the typical way to parallel these scenes would be to have alan wake up and admire ellie. which is something he’d do. but that isn’t what happens. instead, there’s the much more interesting approach of having ellie parallel owen while claire parallels alan.

if we refer back to jurassic world, claire can be understood through the lens of an alan-hammond hybrid. meanwhile, owen can be understood through an ellie-ian hybrid. kidphobic anti-social meets rich man defying god vs passionate animal lover meets sarcastic prophet of doom. this adds a second layer to the concept of the parallel shown in this scene.

if we understand now that claire is alan and ellie is owen, we start wondering: what does this mean for both dynamics? it could mean so many things. it could be commentary on gender roles. it could be commentary on gender point-blank. it could be personality commentary. narrative commentary? the potential for analysis is endless, rich, and completely untapped.

#jurassic world #jurassic park #clawen #grantler #claire dearing #owen grady #ellie sattler #alan grant #white man jumpscare

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carterstarlight25 · 1 month

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Hi everyone! So I been thinking hard on a rather unique 3way crossover that I been considering about writing. Please feel free to give me your input.

The 3 way crossover consist of DC x DP x Halo Infinite. With the ships being Jason and Danny (Obviously). Master Chief and Bruce as the second ship to be included. And Tim Simping for Katrina. (Cortana 2.0 from Infinite)

I see these possible dynamics being cute as Chief will learn how to be human, and how to love. Him and Team Phantom Finding Family. Also I don't mean the bull Chief pulled in the god awful Halo TV Show!

Bruce will learn that killing isn't an act of God. It isn't you kill once, and become a mindless murderer. That there is a difference, between a Soldier doing his duty to protect humanity and his loved ones. And a mindless killer, enjoying the horror of its victims as the bleed out with please for mercy. Effectively stealing their innocent lives... Oh also learn to not be as emotionally constipated after Katrina effectively out smarts him into a therapy session with Jazz Nightingale. (Last name changed after she saved Danny from the their parents lab…)

Danny will learn what it means to be apart of a family. And how screwed the GIW are.~

Jason, finds out he’s ghost pregnant and a heavy underdeveloped Halfa. All while the Pit becomes a full ghost that he ends up birthing. Which is gonna be a Dinosaur that will be Jason’s “Nightmare.” To his Fright Knight. (I am really wanting to go for Altispinax, or Spinax Vivosaur from Fossil Fighters series. But idk, might just use the Giga from Jurassic World Dominion. Just to change it up from what I seen people have the Pits become.

How Chief comes into the story however, would be introduced via Clockwork leaving a very obviously placed Halo Infinite Xbox Game case with a unmarked disc inside it. In an Alley Danny was taking refuge in. With a sticky note of course. And a few chapters in, when he was alone in Wayne Manor decided to play the game. And by Play. I mean go ghost and jump into the game. But of course. With his Fabulous Phantom Luck (trademark pending.) A new power began to make itself known as the code latched on him on his way out. Bringing Master Chief and Katrina to life in the real world, with all his memories and Katrina with the entire UNSC Database.)

While that’s how I plan to bring in Chief and Co. the main gist of this will be an all out battle, to destroy the GIW. Outlaws, Sirens, Chief and the entire Batfam Team up.

Despite the JL repealing the Anti Ecto Acts. A few Private donors continue to find them to get their hands on Ectoplasm. The League of Assassin’s, Lex Luthor. And of Course Vlad Masters will be the main villains connected to the GIW.

I can see Jason and Chief getting along like wildfire. And when Bruce finds out Jason is one leading the squad his kids, trying to get them to go on a date with Master Chief. It leads to some funny moments I would think. And of course can’t forget Chief reluctantly surprise appearance in Civies at one of Bruce’s Gala’s. (I kinda wanna make him wear Olive Green suit and dress pants. Black Bow Tie with a white under suit. Black belt. And an Olive Green Military Cap to hide his Neural Implant. Maybe having all his Medals from the service pinned to his chest. At least the ones that match ones in this universe. So not all of them obviously.

And Jason would absolutely catch his father freeze up when he sees the handsome Spartan.

For looks regarding Chief’s face since we don’t know what he looks like. I was thinking Caucasian Male, short brown hair that could be the right height to spike it up at least. Not a complete buzz cut. Rather bright blue eyes. That do not glow like Danny’s. But at least around that color. Of course he will have some scars on his left Temple, his lip and across his right eye. Freckles too. His muscle mass would of course be a bit more built then Jason. Which says something. But, you know. Super Soldier and all. (Update: I did in-fact Draw it ^^. If you want to see. Let me know if you wanna see Master Chief in a suit at the Gala ^^)

The Ages I was gonna go for was as follows.

Alfred: Immortal (Thanks Clockwork!)

John (Master Chief): 46yrs (I know it’s not his cannon Age. But it’s what I want for the story.)

Bruce: 45yrs

Barbara: 29yrs

Dick: 26yrs

Jazz: 21yrs

Jason: 21yrs

Cass: 20yrs

Sam: 20yrs

Danny: 19yrs

Duke: 19yrs

Steph: 19yrs

Tucker: 19yrs

Val: 19yrs

Tim: 18yrs

Ellie: 14yrs

Damien: 12yrs

Katrina: 6 months old

And that’s the little Fanfic I been thinking about. Of course it’s just an idea. but I think it would be fun to write.

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autism-criminal · 8 months

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i never made an intro post 😨

so uh yeah here we go wheeeeeee

my name is deary and maybe x , I am very cool . My pronouns are it/he and sometimes it/they .3 I’m aroace , and I think I’m biromantic or just gay !

I am professionally diagnosed with AuADHD , anxiety , and depression . I’m also robotkin !

If you’d like me to tag or tw something , please tell me , whether that be through dms or an ask ! I value your safety and comfort !

I like drawing ! ask me to draw your OC and I will do so in the span of 2 hours-2 days .

Seven means a lot . Idk how much , but imagine seven is the biggest number in the world ! I call characters dilfs and like terms as a joke ( refer to paragraph #1 )

I am like . fuckinf obsessed with FNaF, but I do not support Scott Cawthon’s anti-LGBTQ2IA+ views .

my top five interests in no particular order

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hadeantaiga · 2 months

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One of my most favorite books of all time is the original Jurassic Park. It's one of the few books that has actively terrified and thrilled me while I was reading it. I've read this book more times than I can count.

Michael Crichton (who died in 2008) wrote many books critiquing what he saw as flaws in the commercialization of science and the dangers that come when we step forward without understanding what we are doing. I've read many of his books, from The Andromeda Strain (1969) to Prey (2002). Some of those books are better than others, and some are quite frankly terrible - Prey is awful, never read it. Personally, I think Andromeda Strain and Jurassic Park are his best works.

But for all the good books he wrote, he also became convinced of his own infallibility as he aged - ironically falling prey to the main character flaw he wrote into many of his villains. One of the last books he wrote was State of Fear (2004), and anti-global-warming book. It... wasn't very good, for a multitude of reasons, the biggest of course being that the science in it was wrong, which is quite a sad place to end a career for an author known in popular culture for being scientifically accurate in his prior works.

I haven't read Jurassic Park in a few years, and in those years, I got a Master's degree and became far more literate and aware of the world of scientific research. I'm reading the introduction, and finding his rose-tinted opinions about "scientists from the past" to be, well, laughable.

"Scientists ignored borders! They shared all their knowledge!" No they didn't. Science, I am sad to inform you, has always had a cutthroat side to it. That's not to say all scientists are trying to hoard their knowledge - they're not! But I am saying there's actually quite a lot of debate among scientists about intellectual property, copyright, and international cooperation. Some scientists genuinely do want to reach across borders but literally cannot do so, or they would never receive funding. Scientists steal from each other all the time (in the world of science it's called "scooping"), which can be devastating, so there are certain projects scientists will keep hush hush until the paper finally comes out. And yes, I'm writing this in 2024 - but the world of science was not that different in 1990, when Crichton wrote Jurassic Park.

It's just interesting to read a book written by a non-scientist, who I always assumed knew what he was talking about, now that I myself am a scientist.

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mariacallous · 2 months

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Shortly before noon on Aug. 19, 2023, a Russian cruise missile sliced past the golden onion domes and squat apartment blocks of the Chernihiv skyline in northern Ukraine. The Iskander-K missile slammed into its target: the city’s drama theater, which was hosting a meeting of drone manufacturers at the time of the attack. More than 140 people were injured and seven killed. The youngest, 6-year-old Sofia Golynska, had been playing in a nearby park.

Fragments of the missile recovered by the Ukrainian armed forces and analyzed by Ukrainian researchers found numerous components made by U.S. manufacturers in the missile’s onboard navigation system, which enabled it to reach its target with devastating precision. In December, Ukraine’s state anti-corruption agency released an online database of the thousands of foreign-made components recovered from Russian weapons so far.

Russia’s struggle to produce the advanced semiconductors, electrical components, and machine tools needed to fuel its defense industrial base predates the current war and has left it reliant on imports even amid its estrangement from the West. So when Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, major manufacturing countries from North America, Europe, and East Asia swiftly imposed export controls on a broad swath of items deemed critical for the Russian arms industry.

Russia quickly became the world’s most sanctioned country: Some 16,000 people and companies were subject to a patchwork of international sanctions and export control orders imposed by a coalition of 39 countries. Export restrictions were painted with such a broad brush that sunglasses, contact lenses, and false teeth were also swept up in the prohibitions. Even items manufactured overseas by foreign companies are prohibited from being sold to Russia if they are made with U.S. tools or software, under a regulation known as the foreign direct product rule.

But as the war reaches its two-year anniversary, export controls have failed to stem the flow of advanced electronics and machinery making their way into Russia as new and convoluted supply chains have been forged through third countries such as Kazakhstan, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates, which are not party to the export control efforts. An investigation by Nikkei Asia found a tenfold increase in the export of semiconductors from China and Hong Kong to Russia in the immediate aftermath of the war—the majority of them from U.S. manufacturers.

“Life finds a way,” said a senior U.S. intelligence official, quoting the movie Jurassic Park. The official spoke on background to discuss Russia’s evasion of export controls.

Some of the weapons and components analyzed by investigators were likely stockpiled before the war. But widely available Russian trade data reveals a brisk business in imports. More than $1 billion worth of advanced semiconductors from U.S. and European manufacturers made their way into the country last year, according to classified Russian customs service data obtained by Bloomberg. A recent report by the Kyiv School of Economics found that imports of components considered critical for the battlefield had dipped by just 10 percent during the first 10 months of 2023, compared with prewar levels.

This has created a Kafkaesque scenario, the report notes, in which the Ukrainian army is doing battle with Western weapons against a Russian arsenal that also runs on Western components.

It is an obvious problem, well documented by numerous think tank and media reports, but one without an easy solution. Tracking illicit trade in items such as semiconductors is an exponentially greater challenge than monitoring shipments of conventional weapons. Around 1 trillion chips are produced every year. Found in credit cards, toasters, tanks, missile systems, and much, much more, they power the global economy as well as the Russian military. Cutting Russia out of the global supply chain for semiconductors is easier said than done.

“Both Russia and China, and basically all militaries, are using a large number of consumer electronic components in their systems,” said Chris Miller, the author of Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology. “All of the world’s militaries rely on the same supply chain, which is the supply chain that primarily services consumer electronics.”

Export controls were once neatly tailored to keep specific items, such as nuclear technology, out of the hands of rogue states and terrorist groups. But as Washington vies for technological supremacy with Beijing while also seeking to contain Russia and Iran, it has increasingly used these trade restrictions to advance broader U.S. strategic objectives. For instance, the Biden administration has placed wide-ranging prohibitions on the export of advanced chips to China.

“At no point in history have export controls been more central to our collective security than right now,” Matthew Axelrod, the assistant secretary for export enforcement at the U.S. Commerce Department, said in a speech last September. U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has described export controls as “a new strategic asset in the U.S. and allied toolkit.”

Russia’s ability to defy these restrictions doesn’t just have implications for the war in Ukraine. It also raises significant questions about the challenge ahead vis-à-vis China.

“The technological question becomes a key part of this story and whether or not we can restrict it from our adversaries,” said James Byrne, the director of open-source intelligence and analysis at the Royal United Services Institute, a British think tank.

In the Russian city of Izhevsk, home to the factory that manufactures Kalashnikov rifles, shopping malls are being converted into drone factories amid a surge in defense spending that has helped the country’s economy weather its Western estrangement. Arms manufacturers have been urged to work around the clock to feed the Russian war machine, while defense is set to account for one-third of the state budget this year.

“We have developed a concept to convert shopping centers—which, before the start of the SMO [special military operation], sold mainly the products of Western brands—to factories for assembly lines of types of domestic drones,” Alexander Zakharov, the chief designer of the Zala Aero drone company, said at a closed event in August 2022, according to the Russian business newspaper Vedomosti. “Special military operation” is what the Russian government calls its war on Ukraine. Zala Aero is a subsidiary of the Kalashnikov Concern that, along with Zakharov, was sanctioned by the United States last November.

Defense companies have bought at least three shopping malls in Izhevsk to be repurposed for the manufacture of drones, according to local media, including Lancet attack drones, which the British defense ministry described as one of the most effective new weapons that Russia introduced to the battlefield last year. Lancets, which cost about $35,000 to produce, wreaked havoc during Ukraine’s offensive last year and have been captured on video striking valuable Ukrainian tanks and parked MiG fighter jets.

Like a lot of Russia’s weapons systems, Lancets are filled with Western components. An analysis of images of the drones published in December by the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security found that they contained several parts from U.S., Swiss, and Czech manufacturers, including image processing and analytical components that play a pivotal role in enabling the drones to reach their targets on the battlefield.

“The recurring appearance of these Western products in Russian drone systems shows a keen dependence on them for key capabilities in the drone systems,” the report notes. Lancets are not the only drones found to contain Western components. Almost all of the electronic components in the Iranian Shahed-136 drones, which Russia is now manufacturing with Iranian help to use in Ukraine, are of Western origin, a separate analysis published in November concluded.

Early in the war, the Royal United Services Institute analyzed 27 Russian military systems, including cruise missiles, electronic warfare complexes, and communications systems, and found that they contained at least 450 foreign-made components, revealing Russia’s dependence on imports.

One of the principal ways that Russia has evaded Western export controls has been through transshipment via third countries such as Turkey, the UAE, and neighboring states once part of the Soviet Union. Bloomberg reported last November that amid mounting Western pressure, the UAE had agreed to restrict the export of sensitive goods to Russia and that Turkey was considering a similar move. Kazakh officials announced a ban on the export of certain battlefield goods to Russia in October.

Suspected transshipment is often revealed by striking changes in trade patterns before and after the invasion. The Maldives, an island chain in the Indian Ocean that has no domestic semiconductor industry, shipped almost $54 million worth of U.S.-made semiconductors to Russia in the year after the invasion of Ukraine, Nikkei Asia reported last July.

Semiconductor supply chains often span several countries, with chips designed in one country and manufactured in another before being sold to a series of downstream distributors around the world. That makes it difficult for companies to know the ultimate end user of their products. This may seem odd—until you realize that this is the case for many everyday products that are sold around the world. “When Coca-Cola sells Coca-Cola, it doesn’t know where every bottle goes, and they don’t have systems to track where every bottle goes,” said Kevin Wolf, a former assistant secretary for export administration at the U.S. Commerce Department.

While a coalition of 39 countries, including the world’s major manufacturers of advanced electronics, imposed export restrictions on Russia, much of the rest of the world continues to trade freely with Moscow. Components manufactured in coalition countries will often begin their journey to Moscow’s weapons factories through a series of entirely legal transactions before ending up with a final distributor that takes them across the border into Russia. “It starts off as licit trade and ends up as illicit trade,” said a second senior U.S. intelligence official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

The further items move down the supply chain, the less insight governments and companies have into their ultimate destination, although sudden changes in behavior of importers can offer a red flag. In his speech last September, Axelrod, the assistant secretary, used the example of a beauty salon that suddenly starts to import electronic components.

But the Grand Canyon of loopholes is China, which has stood by Moscow since the invasion. In the first days of the war, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo warned that Washington could shut down Chinese companies that ignored semiconductor export controls placed on Russia. Last October, 42 Chinese companies were added to export control lists—severely undercutting their ability to do business with U.S. companies—for supplying Russian defense manufacturers with U.S. chips.

But as the Biden administration carefully calibrates its China policy in a bid to keep a lid on escalating tensions, it has held off from taking Beijing to task. “I think the biggest issue is that we—the West—have been unwilling to put pressure on China that would get China to start enforcing some of these rules itself,” said Miller, the author of Chip Wars.

A spokesperson for the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) said: “Due to the restrictions imposed by the United States and key allies and partners, Russia has been left with no choice but to spend more, lower its ambitions for high-tech weaponry, build alliances with other international pariah states, and develop nefarious trade networks to covertly obtain the technologies it needs.

“We are deeply concerned regarding [Chinese] support for Russia’s defense industrial base. BIS has acted to add over 100 [China]-based entities to the Entity List for supporting Russia’s military industrial base and related activities.”

Export controls have typically focused on keeping specific U.S.-made goods out of the hands of adversaries, while economic and financial sanctions have served broader foreign-policy objectives of isolating rogue states and cauterizing the financing of terrorist groups and drug cartels. The use of sanctions as a national security tool grew in wake of the 9/11 attacks; in the intervening decades, companies, government agencies, and financial institutions have built up a wealth of experience in sanctions compliance. By contrast, the use of export controls for strategic ends is relatively novel, and compliance expertise is still in its infancy.

“It used to be that people like me could keep export controls and sanctions in one person’s head. The level of complexity for each area of law is so intense. I don’t know anyone who is truly an export control and sanctions expert,” Wolf said.

Export controls, experts say, are at best speed bumps designed to make it harder for Russia’s defense industrial base to procure Western components. They create “extra friction and pressure on the Russian economy,” said Daniel Fried, who as the State Department coordinator for sanctions policy helped craft U.S. sanctions on Russia after its annexation of Crimea in 2014. Russia is now paying 80 percent more to import semiconductors than it did before the war, according to forthcoming research by Miller, and the components it is able to acquire are often of dubious quality.

But although it may be more cumbersome and expensive, it’s a cost that Moscow has been willing to bear in its war on Ukraine.

Western components—and lots of them—will continue to be found in the weapons Russia uses on Ukraine’s battlefields for the duration of the war. “This problem is as old as export controls are,” said Jasper Helder, an expert on export controls and sanctions with the law firm Akin Gump. But there are ways to further plug the gaps.

Steeper penalties could incentivize U.S. companies to take a more proactive role in ensuring their products don’t wind up in the hands of the Russian military, said Elina Ribakova, a nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. “At the moment, they’re not truly motivated,” she said.

Companies that run afoul of sanctions and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, a U.S. federal law that prohibits the payment of bribes, have been fined billions of dollars. Settlements of export control violations are often an order of magnitude smaller, according to recently published research.

In a speech last month, Axelrod said the United States would begin issuing steeper penalties for export control violations. “Build one case against one of the companies extremely well, put out a multibillion-dollar fine negotiation, and watch everybody else fall in line,” Ribakova said.

And then there’s the question of resources. BIS has an annual budget of just $200 million. “That’s like the cost of a few fighter jets. Come on,” said Raimondo, speaking at the Reagan National Defense Forum last December.

The agency’s core budget for export control has, adjusted for inflation, remained flat since 2010, while its workload has surged. Between 2014 and 2022, the volume of U.S. exports subject to licensing scrutiny increased by 126 percent, according to an agency spokesperson. A 2022 study of export control enforcement by the Center for Strategic and International Studies recommended a budget increase of $45 million annually, describing it as “one of the best opportunities available anywhere in U.S. national security.”

When it comes to enforcement, the bureau has about 150 officers across the country who work with law enforcement and conduct outreach to companies. The Commerce Department has also established a task force with the Justice Department to keep advanced technologies out of the hands of Russia, China, and Iran. “The U.S. has the most robust export enforcement on the planet,” Wolf said.

But compared with other law enforcement and national security agencies, the bureau’s budgets have not kept pace with its expanding mission. The Department of Homeland Security has more investigators in the city of Tampa, Florida, than BIS does across the entire country, Axelrod noted in his January speech.

On the other side, you have Russia, which is extremely motivated to acquire the critical technologies it needs to continue to prosecute its war. The Kremlin has tasked its intelligence agencies with finding ways around sanctions and export controls, U.S. Treasury Undersecretary Brian Nelson said in a speech last year. “We are not talking about a profit-seeking firm looking for efficiencies,” the second senior U.S. intelligence official said. “There will be supply if there is sufficient demand.”

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I saw another person comment and they're right, this blog (the dino bird one) is notorious for bad takes and attacking anyone who isn't fully aware of every very specific bird fact or dinosaur fact. They compared a scientist on here who made a mistake about tuataras to a right ringer young earth creationist, they sat and attacked another user for calling out how problematic they are then only apologized when they got anon hate for it (they claimed that wasn't why they apologized but it seemed that way since they never said sorry to any of the other people they've lost their shit at) so yeah good luck w them, their latest bird takes and comparing people being against owning wild birds to racism is wild, but considering they compared people who enjoy jurassic park dinosaurs to parents that are anti Vax, that's the lesser of their insane analogies thus far. They also called various people that were not climate deiners, climate deiners for..you guessed it. Not being aware birds are dinosaurs.

This sort of thing is why I distance myself from a lot of the paleontology community. I feel like there’s a weirdly high number of people who are very conceited and weirdly defensive if your interpretation of animals that haven’t existed for over 65 million years is different than theirs and they also get weirdly angry if you like the designs of dinosaurs imagined from older models and treat it as a personal insult for whatever reason.

So folks I’ll say it here: if you think dilophosaurus looks cool spitting venom and having a huge frill and want to draw that, that’s okay! If you think featherless velociraptors are fun to look at and like to collect figures that aren’t accurate to the current science, that’s okay! You aren’t hurting anyone by liking Jurassic Park dinosaurs. You aren’t even hurting anyone by liking fake dinosaurs in Jurassic world! A lot of what we know about dinosaurs is speculative because for so many species the only fossils we’ve found are like a piece of a claw or a tail bone. Yes scientists are discovering new things at a rapid rate and that’s exciting, but claiming people enjoying now debunked theories on what dinosaurs were like are doing as much harm as antivax is just unhinged. Making an oviraptor character that eats eggs because you think that’s fun isn’t going to reintroduce measles to anyone.

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I hate it when people draw characters with WAY darker skin than they really have... like, there's a particular fandom that I'm in, where the main character is played by a mixed race actor with pretty light skin, and people draw him the color of chocolate all the time. Nothing wrong with that skin color, of course, but isn't it kinda racist to look at a guy and say "ok, he's not white so he's gotta be BROWN" to the point where it doesn't even look like the actor? Is the real life person just not brown enough? I dunno, it just weirds me out.

I wonder if it comes from a place of fan artists not feeling confident about their abilities to draw distinctive facial features. So they worry that the accurate skin tone will cause people to accuse them of "whitewashing". 🙁 I get that, if so. It's just a shame that fan communities can be so awful.

THANK YOU!

I read a lot of Yuri on Ice fanfic and it always drives me up the wall when writers describe Yuuri as having darker skin than Victor. Look at these two

They have the exact same skin color. You'd have to go into photoshop and search around with the color picker to find a different shade on their faces.

It's like they can't admit that Japanese people can have pale skin because in their woke brains everyone is separated into White People--Evil, Bad, Pale Devils, and People of Color--Oppressed, Dark Skinned, Perfect. And when they're confronted with a "POC" that has light skin, they can't handle it.

(these are the same people who though Chris Pratt tanning for Jurassic World was him trying to "look black", so we're not dealing with a lot of brainpower here)

I do think a lot of what you're talking about comes from being scared of being accused of whitewashing, because fandoms are super toxic about any character appearing even a shade lighter than they're supposed to be. But I also think at least some of it comes from people not being able to deal with the fact that sometimes non-white people have pale skin. Especially when the characters are animated. They see darkening the skin as "correcting" or "fixing" the character. It's super racist, and really exposes how much dark skin is almost fetish-like for them.

And honestly, when it's a real mixed race actor? It's doubly shitty. Mixed race people deal with a lot of stigma from within their communities and without. "Too black for the whites, too white for the blacks" is a common sentiment among Americans with mixed racial heritage. For fandoms, who love to act like they're super "anti-racist" and "allies", darkening a real person's skin in their fan art shows that they don't even know what racism is. It's just the sad state of modern fandom.

Thankfully, most medium to large fandoms seem to have groups that aren't like this, and they're usually not that hard to find.

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🦎| Hello! Welcome to my blog! You can call me Jester. He/they pronouns. I'm a minor, so please be mindful of that. This will most likely be my main blog, so you'll see me a ton on this blog. I'll mostly be reblogging regression related things, as well as making the occasional blog post.

🦕| When I'm big I really enjoy the Jurassic Park/World movies, as well as anything relating to it! I love bugs, rocks, mythical animals and skeletons

🐊| Things I don't like when I'm big is flashing lights, loud and sudden noises, horror movies/games, being misgendered and other things I just can't remember right now..,,,

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🦎| I'm an extremely clingy little, and often needs attention most (if not all) of the time. I like to tell people close to me about different things I've done, or just about random things. I often regress due to stress or trauma. Though, I'm also very tired most of the time.

🦕| When I'm little I adore anything sanrio, soft aesthetics, stuffies, listening to calm music, rambling/babbling about random things, playing games (with supervision ofc), drawing and coloring, dinosaurs, dogs, and playing with toys

🐊| Things I don't like when I'm little are being ignored, yelling, scary movies/games, being alone for long periods of time, and taking naps.

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