#Disaster mitigation

[westvalleyfaultph]

JICA and Phivolcs Join Forces to Enhance Earthquake and Tsunami Monitoring in the Philippines

In a significant move to bolster earthquake and tsunami analysis and monitoring capabilities in the Philippines, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has partnered with the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs). The collaboration aims to enhance the technical skills of Phivolcs staff and improve the country’s disaster preparedness. Strengthening Technical…

[thatdisasterauthor]

Fell down a rabbit hole today and found this FANTASTIC list of FireWise plants for Colorado! It was developed by CSU to help people find safer plants to put around their homes when doing fire mitigation.

It breaks things down into different categories depending on the plant type, lets you know the common and scientific name, the water and sun needs, the size at maturity, elevations it grows at, and the month(s) it usually blooms. It also lets you know if it is a native plant, and if it might be poisonous in any way to people, pets, livestock, or wildlife.

Plus it has other tips for planting around your home if you are in a wildfire prone area.

Just a really fantastic resource.

[malewifesband]

if you believe donald trump is a fascist, then voting him out is not going to work. he has already proven he is willing to fix elections in his favor (a longstanding republican tradition), and he has already proven that when that doesnt work he is willing to attempt a coup. perhaps more importantly, the democratic party has already proven they are willing to let him do it. why is a man who attempted to lead a populist coup permitted to take office yet again while a man who allegedly shot a single ceo was perp walked through new york with a parade of cops? why was this not considered an act of treason and punished accordingly? why was the indictment against him so weak, and why was the democratic party so eager to copy his politics when running against him again?

you can and should work for reforms that make your local community liveable, be that on the state level or smaller, but you will not achieve the change you want by putting faith in the presidential election. the us government will not protect you

[kunosoura]

ok I'm back on here but I'm gonna b more consistent about keeping logged out on my phone tablet etc and also logging out when I got shit to do. hi what did I miss

[so-i-did-this-thing]

GANG. THIS HOME INSPECTION WAS SUCH A SHITSHOW THAT THE SELLER PANICKED AND BARRICADED THE FIREPLACE WITH A FUCKING CHAIR ALSO THERE IS PROBABLY ASBESTOS AND SEWAGE GAS BUILDUP IN THE BASEMENT AMONG A LITANY OF OTHER THINGS

BUT LOOK AT THIS FUCKING CHAIR

OH HO HO, WHAT A CLEVER RUSE

[datamodel-of-disaster]

Cw: personal, whine about art and writing and not knowing how to improve my writing so people will want to read it.

So... here's a confession:

I think my writing is good, actually.

This is an admission of defeat.

You see... no one likes my writing enough to stick with it.

So when I say I think my writing is good... I'm saying that I don't know how to make my work better. I don’t know why my writing doesn't hook people.

Comparing that to my art... well. My art is bad. I know it is bad, and I know what makes it so. I lack the ability to improve it, but I know what a more skilled person would do to fix it. I understand the flaws. This gives me peace: I can just focus on making art, with no hope or expectation of positive response from others.

With my writing?

I think it's good. And so, when it meets the cold indifference of others, it *hurts*.

I try to play it off as "haha I'm such a shitty writer lol" the same way I do with my art. But the truth is that while my art is genuinely not great... I don't think my writing is bad. I don't understand why people don't like my work. I can't instantly envision what a more skilled person would do to fix it.

I feel like such a pretentious shithead saying that, but I mean it in a decidedly negative way. I think my writing is good like someone tonedeaf might think they're a good singer. I can tell it must be bad because people don't enjoy it, but I don't understand why.

[1st-worldsaver]

If anyone was wondering, this is basically what the 2018 protests in Nicaragua were like

[short-wooloo]

In retrospect, it was a bad sign that on election day in Ohio the temperature hit a high of 80 degrees

[randomnameless]

@fantasyinvader and I talked about a few days ago about Adrestian nobles being dudes who were supposed to lead and protect/guide their people (per Hanneman's support) but also were people who knew the land they governed over and its people (in Ferdie's Supreme support in Nopes).

What if this idea of the perfect noble (tm) was pulled out and/or theorised in the Willy Era?

How would that vision of a perfect noble fit with Adrestian history, aka, Willy's conquest?

WoH thoughts below the cut

Willy'n'pals started from Enbarr, and ultimately extended their first influence to what would later become the Hresvelg Domain.

I suppose they eventually came to control Bergliez - did they kick out the clan/people who were ruling Bergliez there to put an Enbarrian there, or was Willy's MO to keep the ruling clans there - to mirror Ferdie's claim as the ruling clans were the ones who knew the land and its people better than some schmuck from Enbarr - after swearing allegiance and fealty to Adrestia?

Assuming it worked with Bergliez and the clan controlling this area, how the crap was it supposed to work with, idk, Gloucester's clan, since Rhea absolutely wanted to kill Gloucester himself?

Were the Elite's clan just, happy to accept Adrestia's influence and rule (whatever that meant) and let their leader be beheaded?

From FE16's history books, we know Willy terminated clans who wanted "more power" - was it the "excuse" given when a clan refused to bow to Adrestia and fought to preserve their autonomy?

And yet, from the same FE16, in the Yuri paralogue, it's inferred that some clans who were siding against the Empire and with the Elites... fled to Dagda.

I earlier surmised Willy (and Macuil?) striked down clans who "knew"* what Relics were, and/or how to make them, because they might possibly seek to make a new one and that's a big no to him. In that sense, Willy destroying clans who want "power" would actually mean Willy destroyed clans who wanted "new relics" or to make "relics".

So, following this theory, Willy wanted to erase a clan, but some members escaped and ran away to Dagda, where they crafted the Fetters of Dromi, which were ultimately offered to Duke Gerth.

Still, if the best nobles are the ones who know the land and its people (and have the trust of said people), what would have happened to lands controlled by clans who were destroyed? Would they have been controlled by an Enbarr schmuck, or given to someone else?

Rhea ultimately rewrote history to make Nemesis'n'Dudes appear as fallen Heroes, as to not alienated their supporters - was it also a way to "pacify" their clans, as in, if Rhea terminates Blaiddyd, by painting him as a fallen hero who had to be terminated,instead of revealing the Truth, Blaiddyd's kinsmen won't want to avenge him by targeting Adrestia (at least some don't?) and they can still rule over what used to be their domain, but with some sort of Adrestian supervision ?

(which would later more or less explain why the Elite's families/clans are still, say, located North of Enbarr : Blaiddyd's son accepted Adrestia's rule, but in exchange, he was authorised to rule over his people in his former land, as he knew those people and this land best ?)

Granted, if this was how Willy "awarded" lands, I'm not surprised Lycaon was "found dead" 7 years after his nomination as Emperor, because I can guess some people who joined Willy, from Enbarr/Hresvelg, would have been pretty pissed if they couldn't snag a few plot of lands here and there because Willy allowed the defeated clans to rule over them - if his argument is "they lived there and know the people so they're more suited for this task than us from the South", then why is he giving the Empire to his son - who was on the battlefront with him, instead of giving the throne to whoever was ruling the Empire in Enbarr while they were fighting?

In a nutshell, I'm thinking of something like this :

Is the clan seeking to gain more power aka build relics (or worse, only knows how to make relics) ?

If yes, Wilhelm crushes them, end of the story.

If no they can still have governance over their lands and their people if they accept the Empire's terms and conditions and swear allegiance to Adrestia. If they don't, back to square one, they're crushed.

This way, Willy ensures the lands controlled by the Empire are administered by people who, supposedly, know how to administer them (no growing bacchus in Galatea) and I guess it reduces the risk of having a civil war, aka former clansmen or tribes rebelling against Adrestia because they don't trust the Adrestian administrator (then maybe in time, everyone will fully be Adrestianised, and they will even have forgotten they used to have been part of something else? Was Willy gunning for cultural assimilation?).

-> it gives the model of the "perfect" noble to both Ferdie and Hanneman, people prioritising their people's safety above all, guiding them and knowing them and their lands to ensure prosperity.

OTOH, if we follow this theory (basically a HC), I suppose it didn't vibe that well at home, aka in Adrestia or with the Empire's first allies (the dudes from Hresvelg/Enbarr), imagine if Leeroy Bergliez dies in a fight against Gloucester's clan, the Empire defeats Gloucester's clan but they accept to bend the knee, so Willy lets the Gloucesters** rule over their lands and people - what would the Bergliez say ? They bled and died in that fight, for... nothing? No new lands?

People are pissed at Willy + resent the "northerners" who "stole" lands that should have gone to them (but belonged to said northeners to begin with lel)

And the final straw is Willy appointing his son*** as his successor, and not whoever the fuck was in Enbarr running the show while the Emperor was away conquering Fodlan, Lycaon is stabbed 23 times, and the Empire Wilhelm built (or tried to) disappears, to be replaced with another version of "might makes right" Adrestia.

Tl;Dr : conquering lands to create an Empire is easier than the actual task of ruling said Empire - if Willy did the right and sensible thing as in, let the clans rule over their lands/people after taking over them because those clans knew how to rule/administrate over those lands and their people (instead of appointing Bergliez in Leicester after getting rid of the guy who was seen as the Alliance's leader), it earnt him (and his son!) the ire and resentment of his earliest supporters, who might have wanted to kill clan's heads to seize their lands for themselves.

In a way, if Ferdie and Hanneman seem to find Wilhelm's vision of what is a noble the goal they to aspire to, Wilhelm's idea of a noble was dead on arrival, because it cannot exist in an Empire like Adrestia.

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*cruel, to kill people because they "know" how to make relics, and might not even want to craft one, but as we talked about it in 2020 iirc (?), that knowledge enough is sufficient to be a threat, like sure, Bob and Marty don't want to kill Cethleann to turn her in a battle axe, but what if Lorie told Jack, who in turned passed this secret to his daughter in law, who wants to have more "power" because she thinks her husband is only a lowly soldier and if he had a crest and a relic they would be well-off compared to now?

There are no solutions to this dilemna (Rhea was damn lucky the scholar who nearly found out this secret stopped his researches thinking the Goddess wouldn't want to know more, because I'm pretty sure if Randy knew it, he would have started to hunt "pointy ears" to have a shiny weapon at his disposal to demonstrate his muhrit) and while I often portray Willy as stupid, I usually HC him as ruthless on this issue (and supported by Macuil, the worst wing man), doubly so if his precious heir is a half-nabatean and can be targeted to "create" weapons.

How to bury a secret that spread out? Rhea opted to tell lies, I can see Willy, Adrestian (irl roman?) Willy being more practical and bury the people who know said secret, dead men tell no tales, right?

**I said Gloucesters because we have the Axe of Ukonvasara that is a holy weapon... resonating with a crest of Gloucester, so it could have been made for a dragon who had, originally, that power, or it might have been given to "turncoats", aka members of Gloucester's clan who joined Adrestia.

-> HC wise, Willy could recruit red units and give them shiny weapons (thanks to Indech !) once they became blue.

***One could say Lycaon following his father during his conquest would have known more of "Fodlan's lands" than a peon in Enbarr - especially if Lycaon has an extended lifespan by virtue of being half lizard, he spent 40 years travelling across Fodlan and came to know its people... even if all those years travelling and that knowledge only applied to the lands who were conquered (as they were conquered) and not Enbarr, so when he returns South, to the Nobles and whoever were living in Enbarr, Lycaon might be a stranger who spent more time "in the north" than in the South.

[westvalleyfaultph]

Philippines Urged to Step Up Earthquake Preparedness After Taiwan Quake

Scan the QR code to get this post on the go. Reflecting on recent seismic activity and the devastating potential of earthquakes, Ariel Nepomuceno, the administrator of the Office of Civil Defense (OCD), has emphasized the paramount importance of bolstering engineering solutions and ensuring compliance with building codes. This imperative comes in anticipation of seismic events, particularly the…

[awritersbro]

people who vote on tumblr character bracket polls will do everything except take half a second to see what the character bracket is about

[cyanidas]

Hii I'm still alive! I went out to Iowa for bio family reasons and have been... recovering... 🥲

[hotniatheron]

Got roped into testing a new platform launch for the entire department at work bc I brought up an issue no one else did

[nnctales]

What can be done to Reduce the After-Impact of Earthquake?

The after-impact of an earthquake can be devastating for the people and the environment, causing loss of lives, injuries, damages, and disruptions. Therefore, it is important to take measures to reduce the after-impact of an earthquake from a civil engineering perspective. Possible Actions for After-Impact of Earthquake Here are some of the possible actions that can be done: Rapid assessment…

[ourceliumnetwork]

i think having really formative years during the span of time between september 11, 2001 and december 21, 2012 spent mainly watching disaster media maybe has had an impact on how i handle my stress.

can't say it doesn't work effectively though.