in 08 bioshock was seen as a scathing dystopian criticism of anarcho-capitalism's logical extremes
if bioshock was released completely identical to its 08 self but today, after the Ancap Bear Town and The Bad Ship Satoshi revealed how perfectly stupid ancaps really are, it would look like a piece of randian propaganda because, relative to our current political reality, andrew ryan would come off as flattering apologia in the form of a guy who actually had the brains to pull it off but also a streak of luck fantastically bad enough that you couldn't easily ascribe the fall of rapture to its nightmare of a guiding ideology and instead would have to settle for outside causes, which would effectively also give off the impression that the game was using its story trying to exonerate Ancap Bear Town and HMS Satoshi as similar projects whose mortal flaw was not ancappery -- an insane system unsustainable from hour one -- but simply a quantitative lack of brains on board
so if you wanted to make a bioshock for 13 years after 2008, and replaced andrew ryan with, idfk, Mélon Susk to that end and in order to send the same message, you wouldn't have a city of rapture, and you wouldn't have a villain either because you're basing the antagonist on elon musk, who is an idiot. jack would be a taxman investigating, idfk, some promotional event for hogecoin at phier fest and later you'd also find out he's actually Keysmash Jr and his estranged mother is the musician Crimes. you don't get any plasmids, naturally, but you can take notes about flows of money with various fluffy glitter pens from Haire's that you pick up along the way from the remnant garbage that phier fest's attendees had left behind. 2/3rds into the game Mélon Susk surrenders but then the guy who tipped you off, retail baron Jet "Hammerzone" Lasers turns out to have used you to get susk out of the picture and you have to stop him from buying out the earth's equatorial orbit
I almost reblogged an oc ask meme but then I realized I haven’t really talked about my ocs all THAT much so you know what I’m gonna list them and y’all ask whatever you want about any single one of them.
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Selon l’écologiste Thomas Crowther, planter 1 200 milliards d’arbres pourrait faire du reboisement l’un des outils les plus puissants pour lutter contre le réchauffement climatique.
La technologie proposée par la start-up Biocarbon Engineering pourrait bien nous permettre d’atteindre plus rapidement cet objectif ambitieux : ses drones larguent des graines comme des missiles pour planter des arbres à grande échelle. Une technologie à laquelle l’ONG en action au Myanmar Worldview International Foundation n’est pas insensible, car dix de ces drones seraient capables théoriquement de planter jusqu’à 400 000 arbres par jour.
Ces drones ont été mis au point par Lauren Fletcher, ancienne ingénieure en environnement de la NASA et également cofondatrice de BioCarbon Engineering. Les machines commencent d’abord par survoler une zone afin de la cartographier, puis elles recueillent des données sur l’état du sol et sur la topographie, tout en les combinant avec des données satellitaires. Elles déterminent ensuite les meilleurs emplacements pour que chaque semence se développe au mieux. Enfin, les drones tirent dans le sol une petite capsule biodégradable qui contient une graine germée et des éléments nutritifs.
Crédits : BioCarbon Engineering
Depuis 2012, Worldview International Foundation travaille au Myanmar avec des villageois·es pour planter des arbres à la main. À ce jour, plus de six millions d’arbres ont été plantés, mais la tâche reste ardue. C’est pourquoi, avec l’aide des drones de Biocarbon Engineering, l’ONG espère en planter quatre millions supplémentaires d’ici la fin de l’année 2019.
En septembre 2018, Worldview International Foundation et Biocarbon Engineering ont ainsi débuté leur collaboration. Des drones ont lancé des milliers de graines dans des régions isolées et dépourvues d’arbres du pays. Moins d’un an après le largage des semences, Biocarbon Engineering affirme que les arbustes mesurent déjà 50 cm. « Nous avons maintenant un cas confirmé concernant les espèces que nous pouvons planter et dans quelles conditions », expliquait à Fast Company le 10 avril dernier Irina Fedorenko, cofondatrice de Biocarbon Engineering. « Nous sommes maintenant prêts à augmenter nos plantations et à reproduire ce succès. »
Hello anybody who is actually watching this. For this video I will be comparing and contrasting Conway Twitty versus Kanye West. And what I intend to do with these two artists is to not only briefly compare them as people but most importantly to compare their musical genres which just happen to be two of my favorites. Country music and rap music. And believe me I know that they cannot be farther apart on the musical spectrum.
Conway Twitty Intro: Career and Fun Facts
So, Conway Twitty was a country music star whose career in country music started in the year 1965 and lasted up until the 1990s. He started off with a few singles that didn’t really make the cut as big hits until 1970 when his hit “Hello Darlin’” was released. His career snowballed after that and by the year 1990 he had a grand total of 55 number one hits.
Some fun facts about Twitty: Conway Twitty was just a stage name. His real name was Harold Lloyd Jenkins. He played baseball and got an offer from the Phillies before he was drafted into the United States Army. He also lived north of Nashville where he built a country music entertainment complex called Twitty City. He was married 4 times to only 3 different women. He died on June 4, 1993 from an abdominal aortic aneurysm. Oddly, unlike other country music artists he never was a member of the Grand Ole Opry but was inducted into the country music hall of fame.
Kanye West Intro: Career and Fun Facts
So, Kanye West is one of the most popular rappers in the world. He first was a producer in the mid-1990s. He first started out as a producer at Roc-A-Fella Records in the early 2000s and produced hit singles for Jay-Z, Ludacris and even Alicia Keys. His debut album was released in 2004 with the title The College Dropout which eventually would go triple platinum and give him 10 Grammy nominations. He founded Good Music records which houses artists like John Legend. He is known for his controversy and one of the highlights would be in 2009 during the MTV Video Music Awards he snatched the microphone away from Taylor Swift and insisted the Beyonce deserved the award.
Some fun facts about Kanye: His nickname is Yeezy and he has a fashion line named after it. and I’m sure everyone already knows this but he is married to reality star Kim Kardashian and they have 3 kids. Interestingly enough, he was actually engaged before kim to designer Alexis Phier. He actually lived in China for a year when he was 10 years old while his mother taught at a university for a exchange program. In October 2002, he had a near fatal accident that gave him a shattered jaw and inspired him to write “Through the Wire”. He received an honorary doctorate from the art institute of Chicago in 2015.
How are the Artists Similar?
SO how are these two artists similar? Well both are artists were extremely successful for their careers. Conway’s was more subtle than Kanye with having 55 number one singles and only 2 Grammy Awards and being inducted into the hall of fame. Kanye certainly was awarded much more with all of his album’s having hone platinum. He even won 21 grammy’s in 2017 alone. One way I will say they are very much alike is their expressive ways of talking about women, It is no secret that rappers are very lewd when it comes to their lyrics but to surprise everybody Conway Twitty seemed to be the same way towards women. He just didn’t use such vulgar language. For example, just listen to his song “I’d Love to Lay you Down.”
Country Music Versus Rap Music
Now aside from the two artists we are just going to focus on the music itself. We’ll be talking country music as a genre and rap music as a genre and what that all entails. I believe that more so now with pop country music it is easier to compare rap to country music. Back in the days I don’t think there were many similarities. For both genres, there is a very strong sense of pride within the lyrics. You have the country folk having a pride in where they came from as well as the city folk having a pride in where they came from. The music is literally about their own lives and how they live. Now I got these definitions off of google and Wikipedia. The definition of country music originates in the southern part of the united states and includes a mixture of ballads and dance tunes played on the fiddle, guitar, steel guitar, drums and keyboard. Rap music is a musical form of vocal delivery that incorporates “rhyme, rhythmic speech, and street vernacular” which is performed or chanted in a variety of ways usually over a backbeat or musical accompaniment.”
One thing that I think is a bit different is the musical instruments. For country music you have subgenres that can also be classified as country music such as bluegrass where they mainly use banjos, fiddles, and even hermonicas. I don’t believe those are mainly used in rap music, but rap music does use bass guitars, pianos or keyboards, drums, and strings, just like artists use in country music you hear on the radio today.
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SO that is my video for you today. I hope you enjoyed the video and I really encourage you to give country music a try because I know most of you are already rap music fans.