#effiency

[inkyrainstorms]

I saw this post and had a vision @aroace-get-out-of-my-face

This will end in horrible bloodshed I fear

Individuals under cut!

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Decoding Fox News:

Last week the folks at Fox twisted themselves into knots to defend the actions of a maniacal corrupt billionaire hellbent on destroying entire government agencies without congressional oversight. They would never admit that their glorious leader, Donald J. Trump, was just a puppet for Elon Musk, a South African immigrant with extremist political leanings. During one of the celebrations involved with Donald J. Trump’s inauguration Musk performed a hand gesture that looked suspiciously like a Nazi salute. When Musk was criticized for it instead of apologizing or clarifying what he meant he posted several inappropriate jokes about Nazis on his social media platform X. Musk also enthusiastically backed an extremist staunchly anti-immigrant political party in Germany - the Alternative for Germany Party also known as AfD. At a recent rally for AfD Musk said, in an apparent reference to the Nazi era, "frankly too much of a focus on past guilt and we need to move beyond that." Musk has also publicly supported an extremist party in the UK. He’s also retweeted dozens of extremists on X (Twitter) as well as promoted several racist conspiracy theories. Openly pro-Nazi profiles have flourished on the X platform since Musk acquired it. Of course, no one on Fox News brought up Musk’s extremist political leanings. His actions to slash and burn entire government agencies were framed as saving money for American tax payers. [...]

Trump rewarded his benefactor with a position to helm the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, a task force set up by the executive branch.

What is DOGE?

DOGE was created via an executive order on January 20, 2025

It is a task force not an official government agency

Elon Musk is a special government employee

This status means he is not required to file a public financial disclosure

He did not need to have a confirmation hearing by the House or Senate

This is no mechanism to prevent Musk from interfering with an agency that might benefit one of his six companies.

Musk is essentially policing himself.

Musk has billions of dollars of federal contracts with this companies SpaceX and Tesla.

DOGE seems to mirror many of the proposals in Project 2025

DOGE faces several lawsuits meant to limit its power

What Has DOGE Done So Far

Attempted to completely destroy USAID

Musk called the agency a criminal organization

Musk requested to cut off all payments to USAID four days into the Trump admin.

President Trump issued an executive order suspending all U.S. foreign assistance.

The Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a stop-work order for the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Dozens of USAID’s top leaders were placed on immediate leave

Hundreds of employees have been let go.

The USAID website was taken down

The sign on the building USAID operated in has been covered up.

Offered a buyout to federal employees

Ended all remote work for federal employees

Claimed to have found fraud in various agencies - provided no evidence of fraud

Musk has claimed payments from Health and Human Services to various groups around the country are illegal.

DOGE employees gained access to the Department of Treasury payment systems

A federal judge blocked DOGE from accessing them.

Decoding Fox News has an excellent article on Fox “News” shilling for Elon Musk and DOGE.

From the 02.12.2025 edition of Decoding Fox News:

[snowdropheart]

tfw ur drivers ed teacher is a climate change denier 🙃🙃🙃

[catcatb0y]

I love wondering how much work I will be able to do for my hobby before I burn out of it and die forever.

[linneajospeh]

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notes from fp2 - barcelona

upgrades

mercedes have reprofiled and added vane elements to their floor edge and fence to increase floor load

alpine have reprofiled their floor fence and body to improve flow delivery and generate local load

sauber have reprofiled their floor body to improve their flow field and effiency, and changed the engine cover to adapt to the new floor elements

track action

lance started the session struggling w/ an issue, pulled into the pits and his seat changed. went back out very quickly

gabriel went wide, and used the tarmac runoff effectively

franco and isack were noted for impeding but no further investigation

the mercs first laps on softs were good, 0.5s faster than the quickest at that time, which was lando on mediums

mv and lando set identical lap times of 1.13.070 on softs

alex and lance set identical lap times of 13.839 on softs

charles had a huge slide into t10 on his first push lap, but still managed a decent time

lewis was on the radio saying "the car is undrivable" - looking uncomfortable in the car compared to fp1 where he seemed quite settled

ferrari's race pace seems decent though, even if their quali pace isnt quite there

george was unhappy w/ the wear on the front left tyre, quite high for the number of laps he'd done

charles got in mv's way, but both were on fairly quick laps so nothing to it

both vcarbs finished in the top 10 again this session - drivers are very comfortable w/ the car, emboldened by their double points finish in monaco

most laps - carlos w/ 34

least laps - lance w/ 17

[egg-emperor]

Tfw you don't ship shadria because you're a fag and pervert only interested in m/m as you only ship characters for them to fuck and prefer them to both be ones you're attracted to. But ALSO you find it kinda bothersome how much people push the insistence that they are LITERAL siblings so hard and you're not allowed to see them any other way (like transcending it but can be somewhat likened to it hence it being put that way in bios, that's how I personally see it) and have to force their bond into a traditional family box in the most generic way possible as their idea of found family always just seems like an attempt to replicate literal nuclear family units with tradtional family bonds which irks you and sucks when it makes people remove all the things about them that make it different and more interesting in that, regardless of how you like to look at them- *GASP* that was a lot to say I need a breather lol

Because it's like yeah Gerald calls Shadow his son at the end of SXSG but then before that he was telling him he had two sons and wasn't like "they're also your brothers because I am your literal father and also Black Doom is your father too" Even when the latter was literally linked by blood and yes it's also because he's a POS and his ex so Gerald wouldn't want him to be but he didn't even say he logically was. And also Shadow and Eggman aren't LITERALLY uncle and nephew as funny as the technicality is, neither see each other as actual family at all and they're more interesting for it. Just like how the Commander isn't like "Shadow you're basically my brother because Maria was like a sister to me" and so on

Like fandom's answer in recent years to "there's too much romance and sex shipping so I'm going to make something more pure and wholesome with family bonds instead of that horrible icky stuff" and do it in the most generic forced boring way possible which I feel like completely ruins the whole point of the found family thing they claim to love when they're just trying to reinvent nuclear family and shoving characters into boxes of literal family roles that taek away every part of it that makes it subversive and interesting. Like isn't part of found family that family can look like something completely different than what society expects and demands and that it's okay?

That's also why people can't comprehend and fathom Eggman and Sage's dynamic absolutely not being a literal tradtional family role and not fitting into a nuclear family type box- because of how it's a case where the characters do see and call each other by familial titles. But really even then, they show themselves to have anything but a traditional dynamic a father and daughter would have with Eggman still being her boss and master and Sage being a servant valued by him for her loyalty and effiency, Sage being the guardian and protector instead of Eggman, etc

So Maria saying "we're your family" to Shadow in her dialogue doesn't force them into a literal sibling box and also family can take all kinds of forms. Fandom's pushing of literal family roles assigned to every character that isn't a ship is very regressive. You say not everything has to be shipping, well not everything has to be literal traditional nuclear family mimicking either lol

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BG3 Digital Character Book

ENNAEGRAM -

The Challenger Type 8

Ardreyth's actions are characterized by a tireless urge for self-determination. She considers herself a tool, created and shaped by the Mother Matron and also Bhaal. This desire for self-determination can be interpreted as a kind of survival strategy within drow's society. She uses her role as an assassin to secretly build a network of powerful allies. This makes every murder not only an order, but also a step towards independence from Mother Matron Minaste. However, their pursuit of self-determination (I determine when and where) hides a deeper fear of being vulnerable or manipulable.

Ardreyth shows neither physical nor emotional pain. When she is injured during a mission, she retreats to heal alone - no one is allowed to recognize her weakness - To avoid weakness is her protection mechanism.

She begins conflicts to demonstrate her dominance, according to the motto, whoever strikes first has power. A practice fight with Callimar then turns into a showdown. -> Control by aggression

Her key fears are to be powerless and vulnerable. A melancholy void, understood as existential despair (more than just being a tool for someone else), represents the type 8 fear of being powerless inside despite all the power.

WING 5 - INVESTIGATOR fits from a narrative point of view because: Type 5 characteristics: Obsession with knowledge: studies, magic, etc. to have as much control over all variables as possible. Emotional distance: Analyzes all people like chess pieces that are useful and when, etc. Exception: Callimar. Paranoid: preparation: for each possibility or scenario there is a plan B (escape tunnel, etc.) Shadow aspect: In stressful situations, she shows paranoid traits, obsessively collects information and causes unnecessary suffering - the price of growing up in cruel society and with the dark urge.

MBTI

The Architect - INJT ( with pathological features)

INTJ stands for Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking, and Judging. These people are rational and have analytical minds. INTJs have a quick wit and the ability to spot areas for improvement. They strive to gain knowledge and perfection. INTJ personalities are great performers and lifelong learners as well.

Introvertiert (I): Prefers solitude, aloof and self-reliant. Her melancholic natur and tendency to internalize her emptiness align with introversion. Intuitive (N): Strategic and visonary, focusing on long term (e.g. surving political machinations, executing assassasinations with precision) Thinking (T): Logical, decisive and sharminded. Proritizes effiency and results oover emotions, fitting her role as a ruthless assassin. Judging (J) Organized, decisive and leadership-oriented. Her role as a tool for House Mizzrym requires meticulous planing and control.

translated with deepl and I have used different MTBI/Ennaegram sources and mixed up the resultes and polished them. If you want to try those tests- just watch out to use some which are for free!

[yvfu]

if it makes sense to mandate effiency targets for cars then we should do the same for computers

[residualmanifest]

i dont knnoooowww hyper effiency on regulating my emotions and actions and giving that leniency to people cus i construct all the "well they gotta etc etc" jonah just cus you understand and sympathize doesnt mean u can't be upset or feel the feelings ..#REAL

[manda-kat]

Pros of reusing the same drawing as many times as you can while animating: Speed, effiency, easier to keep things on-model.

Cons: Every time you have to draw an entirely new image from scratch you want to die.

[marsisfried]

Pyscho Pass (Eps, 1,3,4,5) & Panopticism

The Washington Post article about colleges tracking students' locations through their phones connects directly to Foucault's concept of Panopticism and the surveillance society depicted in Psycho-Pass, especially in episodes 1, 3, 4, and 5.

Foucault's panopticism describes a disciplinary society in which individuals are observed, leading them to regulate their behavior even when no direct authority is present. In the Washington Post article, students are aware that their movements are being tracked, just as prisoners in the Panopticon assume they are always watched. The tracking systen claims to improve attendance and well-being, siilar to how modern disiciplinary institutions justify surveillance as a means of maintaining order and effiency.

Psycho-Pass presents sort of a futuristic extension of Pantpticism, where constant surveillance dictates order. The Sibyl System's Crime scans work similarly to how colleges monitor student behavior. In both cases, individuals are assessed and judged not based on their current actions but on potential behaviors. Just as students may feel anxious about being flagged for missing class, citizens in Psycho-Pass fear being described as latent criminals, reinforcing self-policing behaviors. However, both Psycho-Pass (especially the character of Tsunemori) raise ethical concerns about autonomy and consent and also bias. "I get flagged by one little detector and they paint me as a criminal," said Okura in episode 1 which raises concern about the Sibyl system. Especially when the girl that Okura assaults, her psycho pass is now equivalent to his, and he says that she'll be tortured by them as a latent criminal for the rest of her life. Which essentially was short-lived because of the categorization of her being a threat because of the circumstances she was put in.

When the workers are constantly monitored it is similar to how colleges would use phone tracking for compliance. The psychological states are monitored to prevent stress-induced criminality which can reflect how the student data might be used to create interventions before issues escalate into mental health crises. However, episode 5 shows us the failure of the Sibyl system to detect a "criminal" who understands how to manipulate its blind spots. This can similarly be said about the Washington Post article and how surveillance might not fully capture one's being or actions and can misjudge individuals by reinforcing systems of control.

Pretty interesting first few episodes honestly I've heard a lot about this anime in the past!

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Emily Singer at Daily Kos:

After illegally axing USAID and drafting plans to do the same with the Department of Education, President Donald Trump and his unelected co-president, Elon Musk, have now set their sights on decimating the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the federal scientific agency that helps forecast the weather, monitors oceanic and atmospheric conditions, and manages the protection of marine life.  "Hearing reports that Musk’s cronies are targeting NOAA—infiltrating key systems & locking out career employees," Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland wrote on X. "NOAA is vital for weather forecasting, scientific research & more. Their critical work saves lives. My team and I are looking into this & we will not stand for it." As of Wednesday morning, parts of the NOAA website appear to be down, including the Global Monitoring Lab, which conducts research on greenhouse gasses. Greenhouse gasses lead to global warming and climate change, which Trump and the GOP deny are real, despite the scientific consensus otherwise. What's more, Trump on Wednesday nominated Neil Jacobs to lead the NOAA, the same guy who was reprimanded in June 2020 for "Sharpiegate"—when Trump used a sharpie to alter the path of Hurricane Dorian on an official map to say it would impact Alabama and Florida when it was not projected to. In fact, the report finding that Jacobs violated scientific ethics with his involvement with Sharpiegate is now offline, replaced with text saying, “These are not the sites you are looking for” (a reference to the film “Star Wars”). However, the report can still be accessed through the Wayback Machine, an internet archive that helps preserve websites even if they are removed. 

[...] Ultimately, getting rid of NOAA is a goal of Project 2025, the far-right Heritage Foundation’s roadmap for a second Trump term. On last year’s campaign trail, Trump claimed he had nothing to do with that agenda, but it is now clearly driving the actions of him and his administration. Project 2025 also calls for privatizing the National Weather Service, which helps forecast major events like hurricanes, wildfires, blizzards, and flooding. That would make it harder for Americans to get accurate (and free) information about impending storms. Experts say that privatizing the NWS would make hurricane preparation and clean up even harder.

Not even the NOAA is safe from the dangerous un-American Musk Coup. #MuskCoup

See Also:

The Guardian: Doge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats

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Halloween 2024 - Day 7 - Terrifier 2 (2022)

Send in the clowns...

A year ago on this very blog we watched a little movie by the name of Terrifier, a gore porn laden romp with an eeriely captivating villain in the shape of Art the Clown. I had initially prophesied that this would be the one and only apperance of Mr Clown because we don't take kindly that sort of hyper violence around here. Unfortunately, that prophecy hasn't come to pass for one reason…well, actually two reasons but we'll come back to that. The more pressing issue is something that is doing gangbusters at the time of writing; Terrifier 3. Quickly surpassing $55m in box office takings saw Art's latest outing shoot to the top of the US box office charts and take it's place as the highest grossing unrated film of all time. But why would that change my mind about proceeding on with this franchise? It's a Christmas movie.

They found my one weakness, a Christmas horror movie. Like Silent Night, Bloody Night and Black Christmas before it, I feel duty bound to see this movie but we can't just dive head long into the 3rd movie and leave a gaping hole in our knowledge of Art lore. There could be cruical plot points that we'd be missing so, despite an enourmous amount of trepidation, I reluctantly sat down to see this sequel. And frankly, as little as I would expected it, there is a lot of stuff going on here that is seemingly going to be vital to the franchise as it firmly sets it's sights on film number 4 at some point in the future. No longer is this a movie of disposable characters that are merely fodder for Art's depraved bloodlust, mere playthings for him to torture whilst the adoring viewers at home cheer him on as he commits ever increasing acts of horror. This time we actually have characters we can feel invested in and pray actually make it out alive by the end.

Namely young Sienna, our final girl who dons a valkyrie type outfit for a large portion of the film, fitting for her position as a sort of antithesis of Art. She is a beacon of hope amidst the darkness and almost seems to have been ordained as the one person that may be able to bring Art's reign of terror to an end. But if the first movie taught us anything it's that nothing is off the table here. We saw how Tara came a cropper there so who's to say that the same couldn't happen to Sienna? It brings a whole extra sense of tension when no one in the film feels truly safe, not even our protaginist. There's a feeling in every scene that Art could pop up at any moment ready to cave someone's head in or slit their throat, the dread building with each passing second as if someone were turning the crank on the world's most demented jack in the box. The human element is not the only thing that has been ramped up here, if you thought the first movie was disturbing then you haven't seen anything yet. Just utter the words 'bedroom scene' to anyone that has seen this and it's bound to elicit a reaction. But Art in general revels in his actions unlike his big name slasher brethern before him. I've said before that guys like Michael Myers or Jason Vorhees have a very ruthless effiency to them, kill and move on to the next victim. Art would much rather sit and watch you suffer, your cries of agony like a symphony, the pain on your face is a piece of fine art for him to admire. So why then does a film that I enjoyed much more than the first and one so dripping with atmosphere fill me with such ambivelance? (Which means feeling two opposite irrececoncilible emotions about the same thing) Well, that atmosphere arguablly goes a bit too far in creating an immensense sense of dread that permeates every single scene, an atmosphere so opprossesive that it's almost aniexity enducing when it feels like your favourites might be seconds away from being disembowled. It's a movie that feels so dark and grimy that I felt like I needed to shower afterwards. And what small measure of cathartic joy you might feel from seeing Art defeated is ripped away from you knowing he'll be back again for 3…and 4…and probaby 5, 6 and 7. It put's me in mind of something like Return of the Living Dead, being in this entirely no win situation as your droom draws closer and closer. Art is inevtiable, a reminder of our own fragile mortality upon this ever spinning world. At least the borderline comedic violence and effects during the kills does offer some scant relief, the victim's wounds looking like live action cartoons at times did break the immersion somewhat but at least they dragged me out of the deeply depressing world of Art for a second.

But it's hard to truly escape it when they have such unspeakable horrors as people watching Night of the Living dead in fullscreen. This is far more evil than anything Art could ever do. As much as I don't want to, I'm afraid that we'll be back here again for Christmas 2025 for Art to make it a truly red Christmas.. But wait, what about that other reason I wanted to see this? Just like in the movie itself, we're going to sneak it in as a little bonus at the end. For who should pop up during the mid credit scene?

Why, Chris Jericho of course! I had known about his apperance in this from his podcast some years ago, which is where the original movie found it's way onto my list, and we do like our wrestling adjacent media around here. Why, we can even do a CM Punk type recap! We'll keep this fairly limited rather than try to cover his whole career. As of late he has been seen leading a stable in AEW by the name of 'The Learning Tree', a moniker shared by Jericho himself who plays the role of an obnoxious and insincere veteran offering to share his wisdom with the younger generation but is obviously only out to further his own career. This has been met with negative reactions but moreso in a 'go home heat' sort of way with audible chants of 'please retire' during his matches and segments with many feeling his run is tarnishing the end of what has been a sure fire HOF career. Arguably, his opinions outside of wrestling and his wife's whereabouts on January 6th might also be going someway to tarnishing his career but that's another story. His 'technically correct' (the best kind of correct) boasts do little to help the matter either, just today on his podcast he was bragging about being in the number one movie in America, a statement that should carry as many asterixs as when he says his band, Fozzy, played to over 80,000 people in Wembley Stadium. Pretty sure when people bought those tickets it wasn't for Fozzy featuring support from AEW, just as Terrifier 3 isn't Chris Jericho featuring Art the Clown.

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Rules [For the humans]

• No NSFW (I will block you.)

• Please state who you’re asking

• This involves my own au so this is NOT lore accurate!!!

•Most importantly have fun

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Just a little list of who you can ask to get started !!

Note: There’s so many bots so of course I can’t put every single one on here!! You can still ask any bot(Ex:Banditbot or ParentBot.) I just want ya’ll to know these are the main ones!!

Jobbot

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2, 11, 17

For the Asian QL Ask Game

2. What was the Asian ql that got you to join fandom? I have been passively enjoying The Untamed since 2019 but I started this blog because of Only Friends (a series that I then dropped after only two episodes).

11. Which Asian country’s bl is usually your favorite? I 've had the best experience with Japanese Bls.

17. What Asian ql would you like to see adapted by another country, and which country? I would like to see the Japanese version of Light on me. A structurally Korean romance with Japanese lighting and narrative effiency could elevate this story.