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Liminal Void/Valiant Horizon double header update

Hi there! Been awhile since I checked in about either of these.

Liminal Void

Since my last update I've proceeded to make a ton of ships (18 total). Mostly they're a stack of Integrity/Armor, a unique trait for each (like cargo ships always have extra cargo/storage/etc space, naval ships have integrated weaponry or are better with it, etc), a room loadout, and some Hardpoint tools/weapons.

Room loadouts are functional things like storage, medical bays, etc but they're also more standard stuff: where do people sleep? How good of a galley do you have? Is your head a broom closet or can you take an actual shower in there? Things like that.

These are super important because I'm thinking about not only functional stuff but how awful it is to live on a ship that's built solely for function. Unless you're living in the lap of luxury as far as your loadout, it's guaranteed to be worse than any living conditions you can find not on a ship. Maybe that's fine if you mostly expect to be getting rooms while in ports though! Decisions, decisions.

They also tell a story about what kind of crews typically run the ship: For example, for the Ore Hauler, there's a few nice bedrooms for officers and a bunch of awful, crowded bunks for the proles, because there's an expected hierarchical relationship between overseers and workers; but for the Brawler (a close-range gunship), it's tiny to fit more weaponry and only has one bunk with a tiny head, because it's not expected to be stayed in for too long and is expected to always have someone at the helm.

Likewise with Hardpoints. For example, unlike all other civilian craft, the Ship Carrier has weaponry because it carries other ships: it's a prime target for hijacking. Others have things like work platforms, external quarantine storage, and asteroid anchors, some of which can also be used in combat to awkward, but great effect.

Rooms are by "segment", which I'm thinking of as roughly a 15 cubic meter space. Multiple-segment rooms have an amplified effect, but take up more space on the ship - and if it gets hit, all segments of the room are probably damaged or ruined.

I also added rules for how to do stuff with them. It largely follows the Total//Effect Clashes and Dueling idea but I've made a few key distinctions here:

A lot of "combats" aren't really going to be combat as such, especially if you have a civilian ship. Mostly you just want to get out unharmed. Being in space combat is a really bad, expensive idea! And sometimes there's nothing to fight as such, there's just a big asteroid field trying to tear apart your ship. So there's some rules, mostly leveraging progress/resistance and threat/tension for that kind of thing.

I'm going with Integrity/Armor: Armor's cheap to fix and acts as ablative HP to Integrity's Real Shit HP. Much like personal injury, if you take Harm to Integrity, you're rolling to see if something really bad happens.

I also added ~The Economy~, the long-awaited rules for how to buy, sell, restock, etc. I'm following a lot of the SRD's Income and Expenditures but I'm introducing a few concepts that I'm probably going to back-port. The general vibe is:

Currency is Credits or Scrip. You can spend credits anywhere, you can only spend scrip at company stores. (Or you can exchange for credits, but it's rarely 1:1.)

Each thing you're getting/giving has a set Magnitude (representing what ballpark of price it's in) that's 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, and so on. (Values chosen for easy multiplication: most people can multiply by 2's, 5's, or 10's and it's all variations on that.)

But that Magnitude is multiplied by a Value: this one's a die roll depending on how much the buyer/seller values it, scarcity, negotiation tactics, etc. (Standard Total//Effect Low/Mid/High, except on the low end instead of Low - 1 potentially going down to 0, it bumps Magnitude down a step.)

Likewise with expenditures like fuel, food/water, repairs, etc., each has a value that's determined on purchase. Certain facilities on your ship can make this easier/cheaper or negate it.

If you can't pay for, or don't want to pay for, an expenditure, you can Risk It: this gives a chance every time the neglected thing's stressed to have it fail at the absolute worst time. (Like if you Risk It with fuel, well, I hope you're packing a distress beacon.)

I'm working on debt next but it's likely going to be like: you put down your ship as collateral for a loan, you have to pay interest every time you resupply (a portion of the load depending on how good a deal you got), if you can't or don't pay you might get a repo man after you.

I also wrote up some of the setting, specifically the three poles:

Earth's where it all started but it's kind of old and busted compared to the old days. It's still the breadbasket of the galaxy, so there's some life in it; but for the most part, it's very hard to live there unless you're already rich, having an atmosphere is a prized commodity.

Mars is where most of the galaxy's metal/hydrocarbon mining happens (as penal labor, largely). It's also where most of the shipyards are.

Ganymede was founded by techies and focuses hard on high-tech stuff and experimental working. They're also the ones most interested in pushing the limits of the known universe further out, but their corporations met stiff challenges from inhospitable regions, mysterious occurrences, and the desire of those out on the frontier to break free.

I wrote a few scattered things for these: a page of description each and a handful of plot hooks. This is about the level of setting I'm aiming for, but I'll add a few more categories later.

Valiant Horizon

On a less grim note than space capitalism, Valiant Horizon's mostly in "flesh out the soft stuff" mode - the main mechanics are basically done so it's mostly a matter of that and refinement. Specifically, I recently tackled Heroes/Classes as a concept.

The idea behind each Class is that characters in this setting were bonded with hero-containing Crystals. Classes are just the archetypes of these heroes. As part of the game, when you level up and when you meet new characters/heroes in the same position, you flesh out the story of that hero: starting with an In Media Res moment in their life, and adding more as you level up. You can learn up to 6 things about a Hero: this takes you through the 1st Tier (Fledgling, levels 1-3) and 2nd Tier (Famous, levels 4-6). At Renowed Tier (7-9), you're focusing on making a legend of your own.1 This has a multi-fold effect: not only are you describing the person in your character's head, you're creating the setting through anecdotes (which I love to do, see ANOINTED) and defining your character better in the process (as there's meant to be some kind of special affinity between the two: in defining the hero's life, it's also reflecting on their bonded character.)

So that's those! Major progress being made. (And I got an artist for Valiant Horizon. Hopefully more on that soon!)

I haven't written this fully in yet but at Level 10, the pinnacle at Heroic Tier, you perform the final thing that seals your legend: you come up with a Class based on your exploits that survives to the next game, and your character is now a Hero for someone in the future. ↩︎

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Hello for the last 11 hours or so I have been extraordinarily anxious because I was an idiot and didn’t just fucking hang up the zoom call instead of going along with predatory sales tactics

It is so fucking shady to say “heyyyy we specialize in this very specific topic that very few people are specialized in and we can help YOU for the low cost of *mumble* but only if you sign up right now. Isn’t what you just told us is important to you worth like, ten thousand dollars? Well, you can get that from us at only SIX thousand dollars BUT ONLY IF YOU DO THAT RIGHT NOW. I mean you could take a couple hours to think, but we only have four spots left and nine people on calls right now. Oh sure, you can pull up your budget, but don’t stop sharing your screen on the zoom call, I want to be able to help you out with the details. Oh, don’t be silly, this is all just boilerplate stuff, blah blah, I’m going to just keep talking while I watch you read it. It SAYS it’s a loan, but it’s simple interest, not compounding interest, and that big number is what you’ll pay only if you go through all three years of the payment plan, and we offer you a 100% money back guarantee because we are THAT confident in our ability to get you into the job you want. And when we do get you a job, we’ll negotiate to get you a big salary and signing bonus, and you can just pay the remainder of what you owe us with that! Easy! And you’ll have LIFETIME ACCESS to all these valuable resources, including the network of your peers who have gotten you on the inside track to your job!”

I feel like a fucking idiot for going through with it and now having to spend a bunch of time and brainpower to get out of it. Why did this shit work with me. (It’s because I’m impatient and slightly desperate and able to justify it to myself… until I have the “oh shit what did I do” feeling when the zoom call hangs up.) I hate this for me and also for the people it works on.

I watched his eyes move as he followed a SCRIPT I am so ANGRY with myself rn

[turkwriter]

if you think biden is the best available candidate and the choice that most reduces harm, great. All we can realistically ask of each other is to make what we think is the best tactical move to reduce harm.

please vote for biden if you truly think he is the best choice. Thank you for seeking a better world.

But please don’t make fun of or dismiss the blood on Biden’s hands. He was the prominent voice for the Democrats guiding the country into an invasion that killed hundreds of thousands of humans. It was not a guaranteed thing. Many in the military correctly believed this was a bad long-term solution, and non-British international partners were split to say the least.

Biden very quickly set the tone of helpful/submissive opposition where an unprompted invasion of a sovereign nation was absolutely on the table, it was just about negotiating specifics. The American people needed to be better convinced for this to happen, he said. He provided cover for and instruction to the second Bush administrative on how to sell the war. He campaigned for the invasion process to last “at least 4-5 years” for “stability”.

He both set the goal posts and knocked the ball in. He said that the American people would have to be 100 percent convinced that Hussein had nukes and would use them, on us. And then he backed the lie, the great WMD lie that was always a lie and resulted in the death of one very bad man, yes, but also hundreds of thousands of innocents. Without that proof the American people would “need” ever surfacing.

he was not hoodwinked, he was a ranking foreign affairs senator, he had access to the best most convincing data, which as we all know was a big fat goose egg. he backed the lie anyway.

if you still think, despite being the candidate with the most blood on his hands, Biden is the best choice for harm reduction, maybe he learned his lesson and won’t do it again, then fair enough. Thank you again for wanting to reduce harm. Wanting that is enough for me even if we disagree on tactics.

Just please don’t throw the truly countless victims of Biden’s active complicity under the bus and belittle bringing up his bloody record. People call him Genocide Joe and Bloody Biden for a reason. A deeply sad reason involving hundreds of thousands of dead people. Please don’t make light of that. Thank you.

Literally no one but you is calling him Genocide Joe over the Iraq War Senate votes from decades ago. They're calling him Genocide Joe because the same people who tried to push the Tara Reade hoax and Dementia Joe bullshit last election cycle are trying to find something that sticks this time.

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technically I guess it was meant as an answer to something but it’s been a while and I have a terrible memory :S

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[ltwilliammowett]

The Battle of Scheveningen was a naval battle near Ter Heijde on 10 August 1653, during the First Anglo-Dutch War. In the middle the Brederode, the Dutch flagship of admiral  Maarten Tromp is in combat with the English flagship Resolution under the command of admiral Monk, by Joannes Abrahamsz. Beerstraaten between 1653 and 1666

After their victory in the naval battle at Gabbard in June 1653, 120 ships of the English fleet under the command of George Monk blocked the Dutch coast and brought up numerous merchant drivers. The Dutch economy quickly collapsed, mass unemployment spread and the population soon suffered hunger. On 3 August, the Dutch Admiral Maarten Tromp set sail with his flagship Brederode and 100 ships to break the blockade at Texel, where Vice Admiral Witte de With was trapped by the English with 27 ships. On August 8, the English sighted Tromp and sailed south so that De With could escape and join Tromp the next day before Scheveningen, near the small town of Ter Heijde. Tromp had brought his fleet north of the English fleet in a skilful manoeuvre. The English attacked the united Dutch fleet on the morning of August 10. In fierce battles, both fleets moved four times through the other. Tromp was killed at the beginning by a sniper sitting in the rigging of William Penn’s ship. His death was kept secret so as not to endanger the Dutch will to fight.

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Park Jimin Masterlist

NOTE: If you have any fic suggestions feel free to write me!

Updated: 15.01.2024

🔞 = mature

✔ = completed

Other masterlists: mother masterlist; bts masterlist

Disney AU

SERIES

Nothing yet…

IMAGINES/ONE-SHOTS/DRABBLES

🔞 I Might Like You by @catsandstrawberries​

↳ “ You didn’t mean to set your sister off. You never wanted to argue with her. But how were you supposed to know she was going to freeze your kingdom. You chase after her in hopes of bringing her, and summer back, only to run into an iceman, who might just let you ride his reindeer. ”

Hybrid AU

SERIES

Lucky Cat by scenedipity

↳ “Jimin has a stray hybrid in his house. Looking like she hasn’t eaten in ages and not much of a talker but she does seem to like his chicken soup.”

↳ Chapters: 8/?

Show Me In Your Teeth by magicalsalamander

↳ “Hybrids were common amongst civilians, but monsters lurked, created by the government. H.O.U.N.D, pronounced hound, is Hybrid Operation in United Negotiation of Defense, an allegiance of hybrids and federal officers. They were weapons breed for tactic and war. Special agent Y/L/N came back marked a failure after your secret last mission. Politics involved, you were to be assigned a Hound officer. What happens when the monster, Cerberus, gets assigned to you?”

↳ Chapters: 1/2

IMAGINES/ONE-SHOTS/DRABBLES

🔞  Instincts by @inkjam-moon​

↳ “Who wants a snow leopard as a pet? No one, and  you don’t want to be a pet, but the day before you’re supposed to be euthanized you’ll take what you can get; a nice enough man, but something about him seems off.”

The Treasure Box by @worldofblade​

↳ Where Jimin gets treated differently for being a crow hybrid.

Idol AU

SERIES

Nothing yet…

IMAGINES/ONE-SHOTS/DRABBLES

Not My Bias by kookoosbunnynose

↳ “Jimin’s s/o playfully tells him that Manager Sejin is her bias and not him.”

Mythology AU

SERIES

Nothing yet…

IMAGINES/ONE-SHOTS/DRABBLES

Astilbe by hooniestrash

↳ “Whoever said the god of the underworld was a man? No, no. You were a goddess, the goddess that your brother trapped in the land of the dead. Jimin was the complete opposite of you, the god of spring and the son of Demeter. He only heard about you through his mother and the other gods and goddesses and he was mad, they really did not give any justice to your beauty, not one bit.”

Cupid’s Desire by rosaetae

↳ “When you’re considered to be The Breathing Thirdwheel™, your friends all decide to pitch in this valentine’s day by bringing you to the one place where all matchmaking is a 100% guarantee— cupid’s desire”

Supernatural AU

SERIES

Hello Again by @oh-so-scenarios​

↳ “Through his many years, Mr. Park has come across many faces. But, there was one that he didn’t think he’d ever see again.”

↳ Chapters: 2/?

✔ Horns & Halos by ahgastae

↳ “between having a werewolf as her best friend, his ghost-hunting roommate, and her own magical clumsiness, y/n’s a witch who is sure her life can’t get any weirder. that is until she finds herself in need of some new roommates, and it turns out her first choices aren’t exactly what they seem.

or  the one where y/n unknowingly gains herself a guardian demon - and her guardian angel isn’t happy about it.”

↳ Chapters: 32/32

I’m Not Who You Think I Am by sevenwho

↳ “There used to be two Kingdoms the one of Humans and the one of Supernaturals. They used to live in peace until Queen Y/N the First was blinded by her feelings and power and she attacked the other kingdom, extinguishing all the species that existed. Well, nearly. Some of them survived and they live in the deepest forests of the BTS Kingdom, one of them being Prince Park Jimin, he’s a demon, as all in the royal family of the fallen kingdom are. He seeks revenge from the Human Kingdom. He has a certain hate towards the simple humans, he believes that they all are the same and extremely disgusting; Especially their leaders. Them he wants to kill. Prince Park Jimin will attempt on assassinating the Kind and Queen of the Kingdom of Peace (formerly known as Kingdom of Humans) along with their two children, Princess Y/N the Second and Prince Jungkook. He’s certain he’ll achieve his mission… but will he really?”

↳ Chapters: 8/?

Unorthodox by chaoticneutralwriter

↳ “Everyone has a guardian angel except you. You have a guardian demon. He deals with things in a much more violent fashion, but much more effective.”

↳ Chapters: 31/?

IMAGINES/ONE-SHOTS/DRABBLES

NEW ADDITIONS:

Heaven Sent by @jimijoong​

↳ “ Being haunted seemed pretty farfetched, who in their right mind would believe in ghosts anyways? being haunted seemed pretty farfetched, who in their right mind would believe in ghosts anyways? ”

Summoning Love by army-author

↳ “I’m a fairy and my parents told me to never get involved with witches, but you’re actually really sweet and not at all what I expected witches to be like.”

#bts au #bts masterlist #bts fanfic #bts #park jimin #jimin #masterlist #x reader #witch au #fluff #angst #smut #werewolf #au #bts x reader #rec #fic rec #social media #social media au #hybrid #demon #mythology

[implicatures]

Why would i vote for Joe Biden when he’s just Trump with a D by his name???

(Lol, it took me so long to write this response that  @ofgeography ’s original post has been deleted, but I learned a lot and so could you!)

Here’s what Joe “Basically just Trump” Biden wants to do if he’s elected. It’s on his website, you can read about it!

• END THE MUSLIM TRAVEL BAN

• Stop stealing money from federal programs to fund a border wall

• END FAMILY SEPARATION of migrants at the border

• Create a path to citizenship for more undocumented immigrants

• Increase the number of visas available for survivors of domestic violence

• Expand labor protections for undocumented immigrants

• Spend $50 billion in the first year of his presidency to rebuild and repair crumbling infrastructure like bridges and highways

• Earmark funds to improve infrastructure specifically in marginalized communities

• Invest in research and technology to make electric vehicles more efficient and affordable

• Invest hundreds of billions of dollars in biofuels and other clean energy technology in order to reach net-zero emissions by 2050

• Invest in high-speed rail to reduce pollution and commute times

• Encourage energy efficiency and solar infrastructure among businesses and in residences using tax credits and targeted deductions

• Double federal investments in clean drinking water and infrastructure in communities like Flint, MI that have unsafe tap water

• Monitor water systems for lead and other pollutants so we can hold polluters accountable and protect drinking water

• Bring broadband internet access to the more than 20 million Americans that don’t have it

• Invest $100 billion in school infrastructure and technology

• Fund “anchor institutions” like hospitals, universities, and government offices in distressed communities

• Develop low-carbon manufacturing programs across the country that will provide good blue-collar jobs while lowering emissions

• Impose stronger penalties on union interference by corporations and executives

• Prevent corporations from illegally misclassifying employees as independent contractors by significantly increasing the number of labor enforcement investigators

• Protect the collective bargaining rights of all public sector workers

• Ban “right to work” laws that weaken unions

• Support the passage of the Fairness for Farmworkers Act and the Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights so that agricultural and domestic workers have more protections and the ability to organize

• Allow independent contractors to organize and bargain collectively

• INCREASE THE FEDERAL MINIMUM WAGE TO $15, including farmworkers who don’t even make the current minimum

• Extend overtime pay to millions of workers

• Eliminate no-compete clauses so workers have the freedom to move to better jobs or negotiate better pay

• Reinstate OSHA requirements that companies report workplace injuries and increase the number of safety inspections at workplaces

• End mandatory arbitration clauses so that employees can sue their employer

• Introduce a constitutional amendment to get private money out of federal elections (that is, overturn Citizens United)

• Further restrict superPACs from coordinating with candidates and parties

• Prohibit dark money groups from anonymously spending millions of dollars on political issues

• Prohibit lobbyists from donating to the people and organizations they lobby

• Ban corporate PAC contributions to candidates

• Require that all candidates for federal office release 10 years of tax returns

• Require all elected officials to publicly disclose all meetings they take with lobbyists

• Prohibit all lobbying from foreign governments and their agents

• Guarantee 2 years of free community college for all students

• Invest $50 billion in workforce training, including apprenticeships

• Cut in half the payments on federal student loans, and forgive all loans after 20 years

• Simplify and expand loan forgiveness for public servants

• Crack down on predatory for-profit education programs

• Offer a PUBLIC OPTION for healthcare

• Make sure all Americans from pay no more than 8.5% of their income for health insurance

• Ban all surprise medical bills by preventing providers from charging out-of-market rates when the patient doesn’t have control over what doctors they see or when a doctor is out-of-network at an in-network hospital

• Allow Medicare to negotiate lower drug prices

• End the abusive over-pricing of prescription drugs

• End TAX BREAKS that pharma companies get on advertisements for their products (I had no idea this was a thing and it is disgusting)

• RESTORE FEDERAL FUNDING FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD

• END THE ‘GLOBAL GAG RULE’ that bars the federal government from supporting any global health programs that contain information on abortion

• Implement nationwide the California policies that halved the maternal mortality rate there

• Double funding for community health centers

• RE-ENTER THE PARIS CLIMATE AGREEMENT

• Push for a worldwide ban on fossil fuel subsidies

• Establish equal rights under the law for all LGBTQ+ people

• Protect LGBTQ+ people from employment discrimination

• Reverse the military ban on trans people

• Protect the ability of LGBTQ+ people to adopt and foster children

• Prevent people from claiming religious freedom in order to discriminate against LGBT+ people

• Simplify the process for trans and nonbinary Americans to obtain IDs that match their gender identity

• Guarantee access to appropriate bathrooms, sports activities, and locker rooms for trans students

• Fund programs that reduce LGBTQ+ youth homeless and insecurity

• BAN CONVERSION THERAPY nationwide

• Invest $20 billion in programs to lower incarceration rates

• Eliminate mandatory minimums for non-violent crimes

• Eliminate all mandatory minimums at the federal level

• Make pre-K education available for all children

• Triple federal funding for low-income school districts

• Expand funding for mental health services

• Fund training in de-escalation tactics for police departments, and training for handling interactions with disabled and neurodiverse people

• DECRIMINALIZE THE USE OF CANNABIS and expunge the records of people with cannabis-use convictions

• End incarceration for drug use

• ELIMINATE THE DEATH PENALTY

• END THE CASH BAIL SYSTEM and stop jailing people for being too poor to pay court fees and fines

• End federal private prisons and the use of any privately-owned federal detention facility

• Work towards ensuring housing for all formerly incarcerated people when they rejoin society

• Fully fund educational opportunities and mental health programs in prisons

• Hold gun manufacturers civilly liable for gun violence

• Ban the manufacture and sale of assault weapons and high-capacity magazines

• Create a buy back program for assault weapons and mandate the registration of all remaining assault weapons in the country

• REQUIRE BACKGROUND CHECKS FOR ALL GUN SALES

• Prevent anyone convicted of a hate crime from buying a firearm

• Prevent anyone with an arrest warrant from buying a firearm

• Incentivize states to create gun licensing programs

• Make it a federal crime to buy a weapon for someone who couldn’t pass their own background check

• Invest more than $5 trillion across federal, state, local, and private-sector entities to fight climate change

• Reverse Trump’s regressive tax cuts

These are probably not your dream plans, but they are SO MUCH BETTER than what we have now.

If you can’t find anything on that list that you think is worth voting for, then I genuinely don’t believe you care more about people than you do about ideological purity, and that sucks.

#Joe Biden #Bernie Sanders #Whoever you wish you could vote for instead? #All of them are so much better than Trump it isn't comparable #Biden is running on what would be the most progressive platform of any general election nominee EVER #don't dismiss that just because he isn't Bernie

[antoine-roquentin]

For the last two weeks, tens of thousands of Algerians have been protesting against the attempt of its 82-year-old president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, to run for a fifth term.

Bouteflika, who has been in power since 1999, last addressed his people in May 2012, a year after a series of Arab uprisings had toppled three long-term presidents in Algeria's neighbourhood. In that speech, he made it clear that he was ready to leave the presidency once his third term was up; Algerians still remember very well two statements he made: "My generation has passed its time" and "God bless the man who knows his limits".

At that time, Algeria was still enjoying unprecedented revenue flow, as oil prices were consistently hovering around $100 a barrel (having reached $140 in 2008). This had allowed the president to "buy" some social peace and contain the fallout from the Arab Spring.

In 2013, he suffered a debilitating stroke, which confined him to a wheelchair, causing many to think this would all-but-guarantee the long-term president's planned retirement from politics. In 2014, however, Bouteflika made an unexpected u-turn and announced his decision to run again.

The unravelling chaos in neighbouring Libya, as well as Syria, convinced a significant number of Algerian voters to opt for the stability offered by the incumbent president and Bouteflika managed to win a fourth term. The president tried to ease the concerns of voters who still wanted change by promising he would enact reforms that would result in his eventual "passing the torch to the younger generation".

Unfortunately, these reforms never materialised.

Bouteflika spent most of his fourth term in office between hospitals in Geneva, Switzerland, and Grenoble, France. He was obviously unable to run the country efficiently because of his rapidly deteriorating health. He offered little more than cosmetic solutions to the country's deep-rooted problems.

He failed to utilise the oil revenues to improve the socioeconomic conditions of the average Algerian. Today, oil prices have halved, corruption levels have reached unprecedented levels, social inequalities have increased, more than a quarter of Algerians under 30 are unemployed, and many are fed up with a president that seems unwilling or at least unable to keep his promises to the people.

This is why after the ailing president announced his intention to run for a fifth term, Algerians from all walks of life took to the streets. Lawyers, journalists, students and academics all voiced their opposition to a fifth Bouteflika mandate.

The authorities clearly miscalculated the effect such a move would have on the people and assumed that demonstrations would take place only in "suspect areas" like the Berber-dominated northern region of Kabylie or some of the restive eastern provinces. Instead, demonstrators marched in cities and towns across the country. Algiers, where protests were hitherto banned, saw the biggest gathering in the country.

Even the city of Tlemcen in western Algeria, where the majority of Bouteflika's ministers come from, joined the demonstrations. The Algerian diaspora in London, Paris and Montreal also organised similar marches.

Today, many Algerians believe that the ailing president is being used by people in his entourage. They feel that the image of their country, and indeed their long-term president, is being dragged through the mud by people who are not concerned about anything other than enriching themselves and consolidating their grip on the Algerian state.

They feel that some people in the president's inner circle are trying to use the respect Algerians have for him, given that he is credited for bringing peace to the country through national reconciliation, to pursue their own self-interests.

This is why the demonstrators' chants have evolved from "Degage!" (Get out) to "Al-shaab yureed isqat al-nidham!" (The people want the downfall of the regime).

Demonstrations have thus far been peaceful and the security services response has been exemplary. However, figures from both the military and the government cautioned people about what may happen if the demonstrations continue.

Ahmed Gaid Salah, the military's chief of staff and deputy defence minister, has warned that the ongoing protests may soon turn violent. Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia, an ally of Bouteflika, also warned the Algerian people about the future, reminding that the war in Syria also began with similar protests.

However, Ouyahia and Salah's warnings fell on deaf ears, as the demonstrators and their supporters pointed out that the Algerians view not Syria, but Malaysia and Turkey as role models. They reminded the authorities that the first step in Malaysia's development was getting rid of corrupt individuals and insisted that Algerians have learned a lot from the experiences of the Arab Spring countries.

For now, the protesters appear to have the upper hand in Algeria. Bouteflika's entourage has already been forced to make some concessions. In a letter read out on state-run TV on Sunday, they announced that if the president is re-elected, he would set up an inclusive national conference that would set a date and prepare for new polls which he would not contest. They also invited the opposition and representatives of the protesters to negotiate a road map.

However, the move failed to appease Algerian protesters, who viewed the offer as yet another tactic to buy time. They felt that the president, who never kept his promise to step down in the past, is unlikely to be true to his world this time.

So, what is next for Algeria?

As the protests are unlikely to die down on their own, there appear to be four options.

The president may pass away. ِAccording to unconfirmed reports, President Bouteflika is in a critical condition in a hospital in Geneva. The president of the Council for Nation, the upper house in the parliament, would take over the presidency for a period of 60 days before presidential elections can take place. This would give the political establishment enough time to agree on a new candidate.

The second, less likely scenario would be for the president's entourage to withdraw his candidacy because of ill health. The implication would be the same as the first scenario.

A third scenario would be the military intervening to either cancel the president's candidacy on the grounds of his ill health, or announce that it is no longer going to support him in the presidential race. This would effectively mean that he would lose the election.

Finally, those who would benefit from Bouteflika winning a fifth term could try to turn the peaceful demonstrations into violent ones. The military and security forces would likely intervene, declaring a state of emergency, and the process of change would be aborted.

[travllingbunny]

The 100 rewatch: 1x09 Unity Day

This episode was never one of my favorites, but I didn’t dislike it first time around, so I was surprised to which extent I did this time. It’s an important episode that moves the plot along in crucial ways both on the Ark and on the ground, but it has so many of the things I disliked in season 1 (the Jaha/Diana plot – which reaches its climax and ends with this episode, Finn the peacemaker, and the first appearance of Anya – always one of my least favorite characters, who starts the tradition of Grounders being extremely hypocritical in their interactions with the Arkers) or that I’m indifferent to (the very rushed Linctavia romance - the Romeo and Juliet “we just met and we’re already in love” type romance was never my thing, I just don’t find it relatable).

Rating: 6/10

The scenes I liked the best were just the little moments of the Delinquents having fun during the Unity Day celebration. And I don’t mean just the scene where Clarke and Bellamy spend a few minutes eye fucking flirting totally platonically interacting, but also Clarke having fun with a couple of random Delinquents (Fox and Sterling, who are both introduced here) and the start of Jasper’s and Raven’s friendship and him telling her that she now kind of has a family with the Delinquents. And I liked Miller’s snarky remark while watching Jaha’s speech, that he can now try to take credit after the 100 have done the toughest job.

This was the first time we got the backstory of the 12 stations joining, and the unofficial fact that the 13th station was blown up, which the show explored more in S3.

It’s also the first time we hear the “…May we meet again” prayer for the dying, when Kane says it to his mother.

At least the Diana/Jaha conflict is finally over. This is how not to do moral greyness: instead of having sympathy for both sides, I disliked both sides equally, which results in indifference. Diana’s political stance is supposed to be about protecting the working class, but it’s kinda hard to trust that when all her people did in the previous episodes was manipulate one member of the Ark’s working class to do their dirty job and assassinate Jaha and then another one to try to kill the former one. And here they stage a terrorist attack and fail to kill Jaha, again (this guy survived probably more near-deaths during the show than anyone else), but blow up a bunch of innocent people, including children.  And on the other side you have Jaha, with all his oppression, executions and constant lies. But I guess this show loves the “people being total a-holes and destroying everything” plots, like this one.

Something that I always disliked but couldn't put my finger on why, but now I know: Finn’s new role as a peacemaker is just Finn doing Finn things again: he is saying so many things that sound right (peace, we should all get along, stop the cycle of violence etc.) but the way he goes about it is so frustrating and stupid, it’s basically “How not to do pacifism”. 

First, he goes to talk to Lincoln on his own and suggests negotiations – nice, but Lincoln tells him straight up that he has no power to negotiate a truce, and Finn is like “Find someone who can”. What makes him think any of the Grounder leaders will listen to Lincoln? He knows nothing about the Grounder society, so it’s dumb to assume they don’t have a strict hierarchy and act the same as an informal group like the 100. He assumes the thing is already as good as agreed on and that everyone will do exactly as he wants them to, including the Grounders not bringing any weapons, because he said so. Then he tells that to Clarke alone – Lincoln identified her as the leader of the 100; I wonder what Finn would’ve done if Lincoln had thought Bellamy was the leader – and brings it all to her as a done deal, telling her to do as he says, insisting that there should be no weapons, and silencing any arguments to the contrary. 

First off, this is really stupid: there’s nothing unusual about bringing guards to peace negotiations, in fact, I’m pretty sure that’s what leaders always do – and of course the Grounders are going to bring armed guards and backup to the meeting. This shouldn’t have been a surprise. Secondly, how presumptuous is he? Now that I’ve seen S2, everything Finn does looks like an attempt to be a hero and to prove himself as a hero to Clarke specifically and to have her need him, like Raven did on the Ark. 

Clarke, on her part, obviously thinks to herself – the same as she later does during the conversation with Anya – “there’s no use arguing with someone so unreasonable”, and you can see her starting to learn to be sneaky to get things done. So she goes to Bellamy for armed backup, of course. Later, Finn is surprised that, oh look, the Grounder “leader” is coming with armed guards (duh) and is clearly upset when Anya tells Clarke to come to talk to her on the middle of the bridge by herself, not letting Finn come with her. He lost the opportunity to be her knight protector. How do you think you can protect her, Finn, when you didn’t bring any weapons? In fact, not only does Anya come with armed guards, but she has a knife herself, and archers hidden in the trees nearby, including one ready to shoot Clarke any moment. 

Bellamy made a mistake bringing Jasper, the guy who was speared by the Grounders – but having seen S2 and S3, it’s clear that even Abby has no clue about PTSD, so it’s not surprise that Bellamy didn’t. Though he seemed to have learned by S4, when he acted very differently with Riley. Jasper’s PTSD certainly was partly responsible for the way he jumped to the conclusion that the Grounders were going to kill Clarke. I don’t think they were intending to – or they would have done it immediately – but the archer was clearly there to shoot any moment she does anything suspicious, so her life was in danger for sure – it could’ve easily ended up as one of those “I thought he was reaching for a gun” situations.

I love the way Clarke and Bellamy just looked at each other and rolled their eyes at Finn when he started blaming Clarke for bringing up backup and said “All you had to do it trust me”. Geez, Finn, not everything is about your relationship with Clarke. And this didn’t even make sense – she could trust him but still think he was being dumb, he could not vouch for the Grounders, and he was wrong in his expectation they would do what he told them to and come without weapons.

I’ve always found Anya really annoying, and with the info we find out later, it’s even worse, because it’s obvious that everything that came out of her mouth during that meeting was utter BS. I had forgotten that she actually told Clarke: “You’ve started a war you don’t know how to finish”. Really?

Not the last time the Grounders will blame the Arkers for the things they did themselves, or for defending themselves against them. Even more annoying is the fact that some fans take the “you started a war by destroying our village” argument seriously, in spite of the facts that Grounders speared Jasper way before that and engaged in intimidation tactics, that they must have known exactly what the 100 were like for quite some time since 1) at least one person, Lincoln, followed them and noted info about them, and 2) we learn in 1x10 that they had captured and tortured Murphy and that he told them everything. And you have to be extremely stupid to conclude that 100 unarmed kids going around having fun are an invading force, or that their first action would be to blow up a random village, rather than find out more about the Grounders, target their leadership, do anything strategically important. Lexa was not stupid, so I think that she was probably thinking along the same lines as Bellamy was in 1x04 when the crowd was lynching Muprhy – “give people what they want”. People want to blame someone, they want blood for blood, so let’s give them an enemy. 

Anya’s other arguments are even worse:  the Delinquents also supposedly started the war because “you captured and tortured one of ours” – forgetting that they did it right after the Grounders had killed 3 of the Delinquents and were just about to attack and killed more when the fake signal for the acid fog interrupted them. She says she has no reason to make a deal that Clarke cannot guarantee the Ark leadership would observe. True – but we now know that Anya is not the actual leader of the Grounders or even Trikru, so she has no authority to do guarantee the rest would listen, either. The deal was negotiated over a few hours, so I doubt they could have consulted Lexa in Polis (and it’s questionable if even Lexa could guarantee anything, since the clans were not united, and Trikru were at war with the Ice Nation so much of the time). 

And her reply to Clarke’s warning that the soldiers from the Ark would come to destroy them with their technology, “They wouldn’t be the first to try”, seems like empty bragging. That has to be about the Mountain Men, but they never actually tried to destroy the Grounders. Why would they destroy their continuous blood supply? They just wanted to enslave and harvest them, and it doesn’t seem like the Grounders were ever able to do much about it.

Body count: a ton of people from the Ark, but I don’t know the numbers. Dozens of people in the terrorist attack, including Kane’s mother and the cute girl who was giving the speech. Then everyone on the Exodus ship, including Diana, when it crashes – which we now know was caused by Mount Weather. The Mountain Men killed so many Arkers in S1, before they even appeared on screen. (They said before that the Exodus ship can take up to 700 people, so I guess it must have been around that number, or at least a few hundred people?) And Diana’s actions crippled the Ark and it lost power, so she’s responsible for the imminent deaths of a lot of people who remained on the Ark. On the ground, Jasper shot 2 Grounders, but I don’t know if they died.

#the 100 #the 100 rewatch #the 100 season 1 #the 100 1x09 #unity day #clarke griffin #bellamy blake #finn collins #jasper jordan

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[hon-440-project]

Ineffective Moves to Combat Head Injuries

In response to growing backlash to better protect players from head injuries, the NFL has recently made moves to better identify and treat players with concussions in-game. If a player displays concussion symptoms during a game, it is now mandatory that he be removed from the game and evaluated for a concussion. If teams fail to do so, they are subject to fines (Wolpert 2019:10). But, this protocol is not good enough to properly address concussions and the punishment for teams for failing to comply isn’t severe enough. Neuroscientists have long outlined more proper guidelines for teams to use, in which a player that has sustained two or three concussions is sidelined for the rest of the season. The NFL does not implement these guidelines, while simultaneously failing to provide players with the required, correct information about concussions (Wolpert 2019:10). Players today still do not fully understand concussions, their symptoms, and the importance of reporting them. This is, in part, due to the NFL’s four-decade long denial of being aware of, or should’ve been aware of, any causal link between on-field concussions and later-life cognitive abilities. It wasn’t until 2016 when the NFL finally admitted there was a link between repeated brain trauma and CTE. Jerry Jones, owner of the Dallas Cowboys, stated that players do not believe there is a link, while claiming that he believes that it is “absurd” to claim that there is one (Wolpert 2019:11). A 2016 New York Times investigation found the NFL’s Head, Neck, and Spine Committee, a supposedly independent, unbiased group, was comprised mostly of members with connections to an NFL franchise. The NFL created a committee under the guise of having the players’ best interest, which was actually biased and falsely claiming that there was no link between concussions and CTE (Wolpert 2019:12).

(NFL injury tent, used to evaluate injuries such as concussions)

In order to truly solve the issues that currently exist, which allow for an environment that fails to protect NFL players from head trauma and diseases like CTE, there must be far more protections in the next iteration of the CBA. One possible idea is banning team spotters from overruling team doctors’ opinions, given team doctors have an incentive to put the players back in the game as soon as possible. Another would be addressing the tactics used by players to play with a potential concussion. With the risk of being unable to play looming over their heads, resulting in not making money and being seen as a possible liability going forward (making them being signed by a team for a new contract less likely), players have been rumored to purposely score low on preseason baseline cognitive assessment tests. Thus, it is easier for them to pass a concussion evaluation during a game (Wolpert 2019:13). There must be a new CBA provision where players cannot return to a game until cleared by a third-party, licensed professional trained in concussion evaluation and management.

Another move would be to make NFL contracts fully guaranteed, where players will receive 100% of the money in the deal, regardless of their health status. Current contracts are not fully guaranteed and incentivize players to play through injury, in order to make all of the potential money from their contract and to ensure job security. A Harvard study found that only 44% of the money that was contracted was in the form of guarantee. By fully guaranteeing contracts, players will begin putting their health first (Wolpert 2019:14). And given the NFL is a multi-billion industry, fully guaranteeing contracts should not be a financial challenge for teams. Lastly, all players must be provided lifetime healthcare (Wolpert 2019:16). During the 2011 CBA negotiations, NFL Hall of Famer Eric Dickerson estimated that the total cost to provide every Hall of Famer health insurance would cost the NFL less than $4 million, which is less than the cost of a 30 second Super Bowl ad, or about 3 cents for every $100 the league generates in revenue (Wolpert 2019:16).

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