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readmezayn100 · 4 years

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Hi Zayn,

This is Hannah speaking to her boyfriend, only.

I am required to post on my own Tumblr blog.

These are my theories of how I plan to end global warming...

How Hannah Plans To Help End Global Warming:

-I want to sort out who is the most superior in terms of influence for different groups of people.

-I want to make fun of Caucasian Baby Boomers so I could see what people think of each other, especially other racial groups or minorities. I hope they enjoy their fish dinners at fancy restaurants by the sea after they cram themselves into their cars and complain about better looking people. Old people are selfish and annoying.

-How do I show my dominance? I make money. I sell some stupid products that could be ordered online as a joke and see who follows the rules that they did not invent for themselves.

-If fake people pretend to defend me as the oldest gay joke invented within a week during a minute of their lives, I will see who notices this behavior and prepare for my marketing gimmicks.

-I keep a record of schmucks that were convinced to spend their money in exchange for emotions that will never be returned to them in the form of objectification, such as ugly athletic shoes that are advertised with healthier looking models.

-I use these schmucks to find more schmucks.

-I try to impress investors. Where do I start?

-I use my gimmicks to write jokes for the liberal media conglomerate. What are Baby Boomers, who are Caucasian, mostly, afraid of? What do they think is “untraditional” and does not fulfill their own idea of the “status quo” because the last time I heard, I don’t think they lobby any laws that anyone cares about. I heard that they do not know how to communicate or write.

-I pretend to unite a bunch of dorks with my jokes. They nod their head and agree in order to feel superior at some random time that night that they witness the television channel.

-I sort through the worst to find the best. Who is heroic enough to defend me?

-I observe their insecurities and write more jokes. I plan to revamp the television channels. There will be a satellite one and a streaming one with an app.

-I cannot expect nice people to give up their money to me and listen to what I have to say. I have to impress them with my wit, first, as a woman.

-I know that logical people exist. It is not easy to just tell them to do it. “Go buy a hybrid car!” People earn their own money.

-The only way to make money is to impress people with intelligence.

-I stand up for gay and lesbian rights because I want power and control more than most people. I expect people to listen to my logic. I know people’s weaknesses because they love to tell everyone who doesn’t care in the first place. Nobody cares about what one person finds exciting. People who do not get what they want should shut up.

-You want world peace? How about solving a more local issue? End homophobia. You want soldiers to listen to you and earn enough money to buy weapons to end religious wars? Why don’t you learn about human rights? Time to lobby with my writing skills! Let’s all get together, ladies, and lobby these laws that we are waiting for someone to point out for us! FEMINISM? Chauvinism and misogyny is considered anti-humanist. It’s against human rights to hate women and objectify them right now. React now. LOL your face.

-Do I sound like someone who describes all women physically the same? LOL. That is sexist and not “a little bisexual.” I am really straight. I have a pretty face because I don’t scrunch up my face in an ugly way. There are real bisexual women who exist that experience the fact that they can have a real “CRUSH” on a same sex person the same age as them. It’s real life. They do not try to use others.

-Does anyone tell people to “stop crying?” It’s annoying. It’s weak to be weak. That’s not trendy to me.

-I assume things.

-I predict people better than you.

Break It Down:

1) Solar energy is real. It is more cost efficient to use this renewable source of energy.

2) Impulsive shopping is a culprit. We need cleaner factories. Imagine the look on their faces when they put it back.

3) Overeating cows and more create pollution. Methane is a problem. It creates Global Warming.

(Vegetarian diets help prevent this. I am an omnivore. Nobody should hurt themselves too much anyways! BIG STOMACHS ARE NOT HEALTHY).

4) Hybrid Cars cost a lot of money.

5) Who cares?

6) Why is biofuel not being used?

7) Water energy is real and places where there is little sunlight could take advantage of this if they wanted to.

8) The technology already exists.

9) Who is in control?

Use the weak ones. See who notices. Reward those who fight for our rights. Ask for a favor. Reward good people.

I wonder if the military can train with this heat.

Now are you important? What are you?

Love,

Hannah REAL GENIUS GIRL

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shaledirectory · 5 years

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Don’t Talk to Me About Forest Protection Unless You’re Serious About It

Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc.

An EPA report on biofuels reveals the falsity of fracking bans based on such factors as forest protection, which is enhanced by natural gas development.

Several years ago I attended a meeting at which National Park Service representatives were present and made what I thought was an obvious point. It was that if one was serious about forest protection or saving open space in general, then there was no better approach than to encourage natural gas development. The reason? Nothing else disturbs so little with so much economic impact.

Natural gas development, which typically disturbs but a tiny portion of the land, gives farmers and forest landowners an economic return—the ability to earn a living from and pay the taxes on—the land so that they could maintain it as farmland, woodland and open space. I carefully explained these fundamental facts and the NPS folks gave me that deer in the headlights stare that showed how little they grasped of land economics. I might as well have lectured the infants in the maternity ward of our hospital. Sadly, it’s not uncommon, but a recent EPA study on biofuels may help.

The study, entitled “Biofuels and the Environment: Second Triennial Report to Congress,” has been long overdue and was apparently avoided for the longest time because nobody in Washington wanted to face the truth about the biofuels/ethanal boondoggle so loved by both political parties and so hated but most of the rest of us. The Washington Times notes the following, in fact:

In their new, 145-page report, “Biofuels and the Environment: The Second Triennial Report to Congress,” the EPA repeatedly acknowledges that the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) — the federal law that requires the blending of ethanol with gasoline supplies each year — has done harm to water, soil and air quality.

The National Wildlife Federation (NWF) indicates the June report documents millions of acres of wildlife habitat lost to ethanol crop production and increased nutrient pollution in waterways and air emissions. They also say the report supports their belief that the unintended consequences of replacing gas with ethanol are making things much worse.

The RFS is having negative consequences to a wide variety of environmental indicators, according to David DeGennaro, a policy expert at NWF. “The report is a red flag warning that we need to reconsider the mandate’s scope and its focus on first-generation fuels made from food crops,” he said.

The report includes several findings, including the following tidbit:

Although the use of agricultural land has intensified, cropland extensification and deforestation has continued. Cropland expansion that results in forest loss is a particularly acute driver of environmental impacts.

So, biofuels, one of the renewables alternatives suggested by fractivists, are causing deforestation with acute environmental impacts. Natural gas development is not; for two reasons.

First, it’s occurring in regions like my own Wayne County, Pennsylvania where forest cover has dramatically increased (by roughly 15%) over the last half-century—a point the NPS reps and the politically craven DRBC folks simply refuse to address. The following chart compares forest land in 1959 with 2008:

Wayne County forest land grew by over 44,000 acres or 15% from 1959 to 2008, from 56% of total land use to 65%.

Secondly, natural gas development and the pipeline network designed to gather and deliver it requires only a very small acreage, as little as 10-15 acres to grab the gas from underneath more than 2,200 acres with existing technology that allows laterals as long as two miles, and its getting better all the time. Again, nothing else delivers so much for so little disturbance and most of it occurs on already disturbed land. Biofuels development, by contrast, uses every bit of the acreage involved and, as we know from EPA, often occurs on land deforested for the purpose of growing the crops.

Yet, here’s what we read from the DRBC with respect to fracking in the Delaware River Basin:

Approximately 70 percent of the basin area underlain by the Marcellus and Utica shales (largely in the drainage area of Special Protection Waters) is forested. The average total disturbance associated with a single well pad, including associated access roads and utility corridors, is estimated at 7.7 acres. Off-site facilities such as gathering lines involve additional disturbances. These landscape changes will reduce forested areas and potentially vegetated buffers, increase non-point source pollution, diminish groundwater infiltration, and risk adversely affecting water quality and quantity in surface and groundwater. Because high volume hydraulic fracturing would most likely occur in headwater areas in the drainage area to Special Protection Waters, the risks of degrading water resources and impairing the effectuation of the comprehensive plan are of particular concern.

Not only does the DRBC ignore the vast increase in forest cover over the last several decades as farmland has reverted to forest, but it also pretends natural gas development uses an unusually large amount of forest land for energy production when the truth is exactly the opposite. Natural gas development disturbs far less forest than biofuels, solar or wind per unit of energy produced and it economically permits landowners the luxury of keeping land in open space and doing forest protection everyone says they favor.

The DRBC and other fractivist-oriented groups using forest protection as a rationale for their positions, in other words, aren’t the least bit serious about forest protection. It’s nothing more than an excuse to frustrate natural gas development. In the DRBC’s case that’s because such development will make it more difficult to make a wilderness out of the Upper Delaware for the gentry class it is so determined to appease.

The post Don’t Talk to Me About Forest Protection Unless You’re Serious About It appeared first on Natural Gas Now.

https://www.shaledirectories.com/blog/dont-talk-to-me-about-forest-protection-unless-youre-serious-about-it/

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deathbybi3 · 6 years

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Aight Tumblr, I’ve resurrected.

I’m mainly gonna post here again because... I need motivation. I need to push myself even further. I know I can do better.

WARNING: In this post, I may give off an extremely self-centered, narcissistic vibe. Also, the latter half of the post is pretty depressing and personal. If you hate such people, just unfollow me. Because I’m going to post a lot of stuff like this on my IB blog. If you’re OK with it though, just click to read more.

Also, if you’re an IB Year 2 or alumni who’s gone through similar things, please contact me. I need your advice for my next year. Please.

Junior year did not end the way I would have liked it to. Let’s just say that I’ve been through a lot; crappy Chem grades, SciOly has had its own share of struggles, I’m on the academic dishonesty list because someone decided to manipulate a stupid mistake I did and to top it all off... the most popular (now graduate) IB senior hates me, as well as practically the entire junior (now senior) class. Which, to make it worse, is like, 7 people discluding me.

Y’know what? I’m gonna look back on the goals I posted and see how the chips fell.

I’m aiming to get 50 points for my IB Diploma. But K, it’s absolutely impossible to get 50 points on the IB Diploma! you may point out. And, well, you’re right. I’ve always lived by a motto that was first instilled in me when I learned a basic form in karate. In a form called Stone Stance, one of the stances was a guard stance where we’d yell, “Ayah! GIve 110% percent!” Keeping that for long-term, I decided to translate that literally into my IB score. 110% of 45 is 49.5, which I’ve rounded up to 50. So, yep! I want to get 50 points on my diploma. (If you haven’t figured it out already, I’m aiming for a perfect 45! Ssshhh!)

Well, there goes that. The IB Math (SL) exam went harder than I anticipated, and I’d be happy to get a 6. And I’m in Timezone 1!!! Timezone 2 had an even harder exam! Honestly, it makes me feel even more stupid. Also, our class IAs were AWFUL, according to my teacher. A lot of us did it the day before the due date so the quality was pretty shitty, myself included. I ended up with a 13/20. Which was the highest score in the class. If that’s not concerning... idk what is. Praying for moderation to raise our scores by at least 2 points... please.

In English, my IOP was... ok. I don’t think anyone understood it, but... I hope I passed. My Written Assignment/Assessment (idk and idc what the hell it’s called) went better, although I turned it in 20 minutes late. But hey she only deducted 10 points off my “completion” score, so I still got an A. And I don’t think it sucked. My EE has a LOT of work left to be completed, which I hope to finish in the five or so weeks I have left of summer break. (Fuck, it’s already July. And by the way, sorry I’m cussing.)

I want to break to Speech and Debate States. Last year (sophomore year) was my novice year in competitive speech and debate. I did very well on my first debate tournament and was immediately bumped to the varsity level. However… the same could not be said about speech (which I forced myself to be varsity in), and any tournaments thereafter. Eesh, especially the state qualifiers. Those were the absolute worst for me. I got 5s in nearly all my Oratory speeches and was in the very bottom bracket for LD debate. My goal this year is to actually break to a final round in a league tournament, because I know I can do it, and I was just a terrible speaker the year before. I want to break to States, even if it takes me to senior year. TBH, though, as an introvert with little true friends, a former terrible communicator, and someone almost diagnosed with autism, I feel like I’ve come a long way already in the sense of communication.

TL;DR: It didn’t happen. I had SciOly regionals on debate state quals, and I got bottom tier in speech quals. Pretty disheartening, since it looks as though I didn’t improve though I practiced my ass off those speeches. I’m writing my speeches for this year over the summer to hopefully get a headstart on my fellow competitors. I remember one day a really competitive teammate of mine wanted to break to States so bad. I said that you know what, it isn’t the end of the world if you didn’t. She retaliated at me by saying that she wanted to break and that I had no motivation. Look, she’s a nice sophomore and all, and we were pretty good acquaintances, but at that moment I wanted to punch her in the face and yell, “You wanna go, you wanna go??? No motivation my ass!!! How dare you say that to me!!!” (Aaaaaand that’s probably why I was Sorted into the house of Slytherin.)

I really wanna be captain next year, but it isn’t gonna happen. I had a bunch of ideas to implement for the team to make it better, and I really wanted to connect with everyone a bit more. And be respected by people. But those motives are probably not enough. At least, I don’t think so. There’s just too many (now) seniors that are more qualified than me - more years on the team, better records, more extroverted... let’s try to forget the last part. Either way, I still can manage hopefully more than one event. And I need to lead SciOly, and this year I’m going to make it an impact I leave on my school. >:) I have one more year to break to Speech and Debate states though, and I REALLY, REALLY want to do it. I believe in myself. I can do it; I have the passion.

I want to get admitted into Stanford (or at least a selective college/university). 😲, big dream, I know. To increase my chances, I want to get super involved in things I 😍 this year and do well in them, as well as get top scores on my SAT/ACT tests. I feel like the place I’ll lack is extracurriculars, since I haven’t done anything extraordinary yet (like being president of a big club or going to a state/national tournament). I believe I am capable of high test scores and good grades in IB. I hope I don’t get any more Bs though. So far, I have 3 Bs… which is kinda bad. My goal this year isn’t to do things for college or uni, but to show colleges and uni how passionate I am, and to make them fall for me. 🆗, romantic analogy, I know.

L. M. A. O. Let me just say: With Bs in sciences for both terms? Honey, it ain’t gonna happen. Let’s just say I’m applying with very fewer hopes of getting in. R.I.P to me.

Okay, with THAT out of the way, here comes the incident that shakes me to this day.

The Plagiarism Incident

It actually starts around October. There are eleven people in my IB Biology HL class. Obviously, I won’t mention names, but I will say that practically everyone except for the three(ish) people I knew would stick with me beginning to end hated me afterward. I’m talking, snapping back at me, turning heads away from me, acting superior to me hating me.

We were all doing this ventilation lab. Basically, we use a spirometer to calculate our breath rate and take our heart rate. I don’t remember exactly what I did, but I typed up a lab report to be submitted to the IB as one of our required labs. At that point, we were all still kinda neutral to one another, and no one hated another. I got messages from most of my classmates asking me how I organized my report. And here’s the stupid part: I shared it with them via Google Docs. Thankfully, this incident did not result in plagiarism. But a different one... did.

We were doing another lab in the spring requiring another write-up, the biofuel lab. Each group was doing a different lab, so it’s weird that the plagiarism happened here. There was this guy in my lab group. He was my lab partner in Honors Chem and was with me for most of my high school career, so I knew him well. He always asked me questions - the stupid kind - and would do anything, even cheat, for more points. He was just thirsty. It was at the time I was making my new lab report that I did an even stupider thing.

I made a copy of my ventilation lab GDoc, sharing it with everyone else. Liking to click all the boxes regardless of direction, I decided to fucking click that box, which shared it with everyone.

I was hella surprised (but shouldn’t have been, in hindsight) when I received 100% plagiarism for my lab report.

Hyperventilating, I quickly sent an email to my Bio teacher on what had happened. That set the trap I had set for myself in motion. My Bio teacher asked the IB coordinator, who asked the school admin, and pretty soon it was a schoolwide issue. The guy I mentioned earlier got punished because I accused him of turning in my report (mind you, he had been kicked out of a math class for cheating earlier in the year. Not a pretty sight to see, especially considering my math teacher chewed him out) and he spread the rumor that everyone was getting on the academic dishonesty list by looking at my report. He even talked about it in front of me to the rest of my History class (which was again 7 people, the DP candidates) and when I politely asked if they could stop talking, a girl rudely told me that they “were having a conversation.” (Well, I never got along well with her anyway in terms of personality.) As a result, I was practically isolated from the rest of the DP candidates for the rest of the year - except for one guy, who had been isolated from the group since day 1. He’s pretty chill. That was also around the time my depression set in, and I was in a craze with MBTI, personality disorders, and had a strong inferiority complex. Long story short, I met with the IB coordinator, who said that I would be on academic dishonesty for collusion. Which I acknowledged. But guess why I was 100% plagiarized?

You fucking guessed it. A completely UNRELATED person turned in my report. By ACCIDENT. If I hadn’t emailed my Bio teacher at 1 AM that night, none of this would’ve ever happened - at least, happened the way it did.

NOW (the girls) have formed a clique, intentionally discluding me. And I have to be with them another year. Too late to switch to APs, and colleges will wonder why the hell I dropped a commitment halfway through. I honestly want to drop out of IB right now, though. My experience has made my life so terrible, and it’s not even because of the actual curriculum. To make matters worse, I’m on the list. It’s no big deal, my coordinator said. Um, stop trying to lessen the pain of the wound. It is a big deal. I might as well be ineligible for any leadership positions next year. Captain, president, manager? Forget it.

That’s all for this post. My summer isn’t particularly splendid either. I think I’ve burnt myself out. If you’re from my school and reading this, take whatever I say the way you like. I can’t control you.

Any advice from a Year 2 or an alum would be greatly appreciated!!!

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