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20,000 Pounds of Trash Removed From Pacific Garbage Patch: ‘Holy mother of god. It worked!’

The man who won't rest until the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is cleaned up has successfully tested his system for doing so.

““The Great Pacific Garbage Patch can now be cleaned,” announced Dutch entrepreneur Boyan Slat, the wonderkid inventor who’s spent a decade inventing systems for waterborne litter collection.

Recent tests on his Ocean Cleanup rig called System 002, invented to tackle the 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic pollution, were a success, leading Slat to predict that most of the oceanic garbage patches could be removed by 2040.

Intersections of ocean currents have created the massive floating islands of plastic trash—five slow-moving whirlpools that pull litter from thousands of miles away into a single radius.

The largest one sits between California and Hawaii, and 27-year-old Slat has been designing and testing his systems out there, launching from San Francisco since 2013.

GNN has reported on his original design for the floating device, but his engineering team improved upon it. System 002, nicknamed “Jenny,” successfully netted 9,000 kilograms, or around 20,000 pounds in its first trial.

It’s carbon-neutral, able to capture microplastics as small as 1 millimeter in diameter, and was designed to pose absolutely no threat to wildlife thanks to its wide capture area, slow motion, alerts, and camera monitors that allow operators to spy any overly-curious marine life…

Slat estimates ten Jennies could clean half the garbage patch in five years, and if 10 Jennies were deployed to the five major ocean gyres, then 90% of all floating plastic could be removed by 2040.” -via Good News Network, 10/19/21

I'm all for Phil favoring Techno due to Techno being this "ideal child prodedgy" or whatever, but consider the opposite.

The reason Philza was so distant and neglectful of Wilbur and Tommy was because Technoblade was a handful. You have this kid born from blood, who's got voices in his head and a penchant for violence. And while Wilbur was mentally ill, it wasn't nearly as prominent and had the immediate physical and emotional impacts that Techno's mental illness did when they were kids.

And so Philza felt he had to overcompensate. All his energy and praise were spent on Techno, because he was the one struggling the most in the moment, with socializing or recognizing physical boundaries or having an episode. He spent a lot of time ressuring Techno that he wasn't a monster, even being proud of Techno and his accomplishments and skills when it came to combat.

And in the process he neglected to give Wilbur and Tommy the proper attention, didn't catch Wil's early signs of depression, didn't repremand Tommy when he acted out.

Just a fresh take I thought I'd share.

The stigma of self-inserts is so harmful to the creative process. Relax. Admit it. Everything you make is derivative of yourself, always, no exceptions. You can turn the mirror into tinier and tinier shards or you can make it as big as you want to reflect as much as you want. At the end of the day it's always going to show you inside of it. Pretending otherwise is stupid.

something i haven't seen anyone mention about the Puss in boots: the last wish

there are plenty of stories about someone trying to cheat death, but I don't think I've ever come across a story before where death doesn't play fair either. and the fact that the wolf just casually admitted it? loved it

and the twist is hilarious: you would think that he has some pretty good reason for trying to kill Puss before his time has come, but no. Death just got fed up with watching this dumbass cat waste his lives in incredibly stupid ways, and decided that this arrogant lil bitch needs to get his ass whooped

i’m not actually reading any of the posts but there’s no way anyone actually thinks king kong is cooler than godzilla lmfao absolutely all just pretending 

want to get into dream smp? or do you want to force your friend to watch? but the sheer amount of videos is overwhelming?

fear not! i have spent several days and a few all-nighters making this carrd that includes almost every plot-relevant stream i could remember, and organized them in chronological order by arc as clearly as possible!

it includes season one, the current season (up till yesterday), l'cast, dreamon hunters, and tales from the smp! i also wrote a little bit of a background info section about characters you’re expected to know about before they show up.

PLEASE use it because i worked so hard on it!

happy watching!

((also, please let me know if anything is scuffed or left out, and i will make the changes))

so i was watching tommys stream right? and wilbur, like real life wilbur the person, brought up an interesting point. and that’s why is tommy lonely?

and i found that interesting because its a fair point. why is he lonely, especially from a writers perspective, which is what wilbur was asking from

because tommy is sad, theres no arguing about that. and he has ample reason to be sad, but to claim hes lonely is a different story. hes been visited by people almost everyday (mostly dream, but the others visit too, and also PM him) and also he keeps getting presents from people whenever they come and visit him

tubbo is basically the only person who hasn’t come to visit him, but wil also pointed out thats kind of a vapid reason for this extreme loneliness hes feelling, which is true

but i think its more the sudden lack of attention that tommys feeling. he, as a character, has essentially been the Main Character for the majority of the smp lore. yes, other characters have been important, but tommy has gotten used to being the centre of attention. hes gotten used to and dependent on the power of being ‘important’, and now that hes an option, for tubbo and for everyone else, he doesn’t know what to do (dream also fits into this in a way, but ill have to get into that in a different post lol)

hes realizing hes not the priority to other people, and im pretty sure thats just completely upended his worldview (remember, hes the “hero” that always comes out on top, that everything works out for) because hes facing consequences for his actions, and they suck. like they’re not fun

and its different from the first time, because now hes being exiled by himself, by his best friend, as a direct response to his actions, and people are just kinda going with it (its also a much more thorough exile than last time)

so its not that tommy doesn’t have friends, or that he is lonely because no ones isn’t visiting, or that people dislike him (which is an idea that he believes at this point), its that his ‘normal’ for how people treat him, and how they interact with him is so skewed that he only thinks people like him if he gets all of their attention and is their number one priority and is special. 

hes not used to this feeling of being by himself, and because he doesn’t know what it is, hes labelled it as loneliness

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did you know: you can talk about SBI family dynamic without tying it to their smp characters?

if someone makes a post about dadza or brotherly dynamics and doesn’t tag it as dsmp then chances are they weren’t talking about dsmp so don’t try to correct them about canon, they don’t care about canon because SBI fd has existed longer than dream smp and it’s something people still like talking about