#overbuilding

[bubblesorbubbles]

Unnatural coast

#travelling #sea #coast #overbuilding #construction #attraction #landmark #landscape #netherlands #scheveningen #pier

[snimbusjavy]

As the protectors of the universe, the Nexus Force has not ignored the mysterious Merge and those affected by it.

But the cause behind it is unknown even to those who fought the Darkitect and his Maelstrom...

#LEGO Universe #Yuno Nightshade #General Coremh #Raymond Echs #these are all meant to be received by Dr. Overbuild haha

[youssefguedira]

listening to people say nice things about le otto montagne is making me feel like

#look i KNOW i may be overbuilding it in my mind and risking disappointment BUT. i need it #ive heard very few negative reviews of it. and if i dont get to see it in cinemas ill be deeply upset i need to sit in a dark room and cry #for my health. you know #neon has thoughts

[milopottz]

had a panic attack and i’m glad i got to fucking explode man

#overbuilding stress just does that to you man #and parents telling you to stop that #:’)

[carionto]

It'll be "awesome", the Human said

(Continuation/conclusion to this)

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After the Coalition delegates had been mindblown enough, it was time for them to finally leave and have a nap. But Captain Knoslark had one more thing he desperately wanted to show them.

"So, like, we're a science vessel and we have three of the biggest reactors, right? Right. So, I wanna show you what we recently figured out we can do. C'mon, it'll be awesome."

Awesome - a word the rest of the Galaxy will soon learn to both admire and run for cover whenever a Human uses it.

With trepidation in their steps, and worry in their breaths, they followed the all too eager Captain, who was almost skipping and humming down the halls, dramatically pointing the way. His crew continued to not give him the satisfaction of ever acknowledging his theatrics.

"Once the reactors are in good enough sync, we'll reconfigure the Radiant Dusk to a circular shape and begin!"

Oh. Yeah. Of course their ships can also transform. Why not. The delegates have given up thinking there are things Human engineering can't accomplish. Also, good enough?

"Eh, don't worry about it, we overbuild everything, so a 1 or 2 percent margin of error is fine, most of the time."

They could not imagine themselves to be more worried. At least not until a few minutes from now.

"Captain, she's ready," Chief Engineer Tameki's tone changed to a total blank deadpan for the next words, "to transform. and. roll. out."

With childlike glee, Captain Knoslark tapped the big red button, specifically designed for his pad only, to begin the sequence.

Distant creaking of metal, anguish at the prospect of bending in ways nature never intended, and the unmistakable jolt of mechanical movement, despite the artificial gravity maintaining the same down throughout, once more instilled primal anxiety for the delegates.

The reactors wound up, turning the almost-buzz like feeling beneath their feet to a true all encompassing sense of absolute power. Three small stars at equidistant points along the now 4km in diameter vessel created a singular feeling of something imminent that should never have been possible. The Universe itself wanted to reject this possibility.

"We tried copying your mass field generators from way back when you did the barrier thing. Wanted to see if we could get close to Black Hole levels, there were some theories that time travels was possible with that kinda pull."

I don't think anyone would be surprised if they had succeeded, but, for once during their entire visit, the Humans said they couldn't get time travel to work. Celebration! Then the Captain kept talking.

"So what happened instead is we accidentally tore a hole in time-space, creating a sort of warp gate." He said with both joy and disappointment.

Then the Universe shrieked. A massive distortion in reality now struggled and failed to restore normality between the ring-shaped ship. Swirling coils of matter flickered in and out, ghostly visages of detonations on a solar scale. A sight never intended to be witnessed.

"Still gotta figure out how to set a destination to anywhere. Right now the only stable connection we can get is with massive gravity wells, so any celestial body with enough mass, smallest one is a red dwarf. Problem is the connection steers towards the center, so not really practical right now."

"If we try to point at empty space the gate just kinda wiggles and you end up getting spaghetti-fied on the other end. Still, once we get enough ships like this one around the galaxy, we'll solve that whole trips taking more than a few hours thing we got with the hyper drives."

At this point the delegates decided to be escorted away, as most had became a crying mess. One stumbled onto a automated cleaning unit and at this the Captain, whose mood had soured a bit now that his time as tour guide was over, rose back to heights unseen before. With his most official sounding, yet at the same time most joy filled tone ever, he declared:

"Sergeant Ying Zhao, issue an official notice. Today at 20:30 ship time there will be a grand ceremony for the promotion of Captain Stabicus to Special Envoy of the Galactic Coalition. Ready all relevant paperwork, and his new badge, and inform the chef to prepare a feast. We have done much today for the sake of Human-Coalition relationships, and so much more for the Radiant Dusk at Everest and her crew and staff. Tonight, we celebrate!"

#humans are deathworlders #humans are space oddities #humans are space australians #humans are space orcs #humanity fuck yeah #carionto #story #stabby the roomba

[seat-safety-switch]

You can say a lot of bad things about the humble postal system. It’s slow, it’s expensive, and the folks who work hard to make sure you get your bills and junk mail could be a little more chipper about it. Watch your tongue, though, because the postal system does something truly glorious: it provides insanely clapped-out, mega-mileage postal vans at auction.

That’s right. Targeted for criticism by a variety of bad actors, miscreants, contrarians, and folks grumpy that they didn’t get what they wanted in life, the government is forced to sell off perfectly good vehicles just because they’re a little unsafe, in the hopes of recouping some money that they can then spend on new, soulless postal vans. Every farmer for miles around probably has one or two of these things in their back forty. This is because even after the ancient parcel vans of my youth stopped being useful for luxuries like “providing heat,” you can still throw a pregnant sheep in the back, full-throttle that shit all the way to the property line, and be pretty sure that it will make the return trip even if you haven’t changed the oil since Mulroney.

Part of this is because these vehicles are supremely engineered for their purpose. Like sharks, they have exactly the ideal parts required for the job they are meant to do, and no luxuries like air conditioning, seven-speaker surround sound stereos, ABS, or chairs with padding. Sure, they devour fuel, but that’s what you get when you use technology from the Bronze Age to develop an engine that wears like the mountains. Where did such a glorious piece of lost technology come from, in our current era where smartphones last twelve minutes and brand-new microwaves come with a sticker telling you what number to phone in order to safely recycle them?

Once upon a time, the government used to have demands of the manufacturers from which they were ordering several million vans. They could insist that these vans run forever, never need to be maintained, and double as cover in the event of a semi-automatic gun fight. It would cost a little bit extra, this overbuilding, but this was justifiable: we are the government, after all, and if we didn’t ask them to do their job, they’d just rip us off. Now, not so much. In the pursuit of business efficiency, the government just treats themselves as another boring consumer. Buy the same Ford Transit or German-made electric conversion van as everyone else. Did it break down because it’s not meant to be driven one point eight million kilometers in a single year by a suicidal Newfoundlander who doesn’t understand enough English to comprehend the concept of “keep the engine below 9,000 rpm?” Buy another.

There’s still time left to get a van like this of your very own. Together, we will hold onto these glorious artifacts of a bygone era, and ideally take them down to the track together. Won’t the track marshals be pissed when we clock a thirty-six second pass, and stop halfway through to refill the tank.

[dollsonmain]

Since I'm now pending a potential 4th surgery, I've been digging for info about it.

The scar looks negligible. I don't really care about a scar. I have a bunch already from being a kid in the 80's when we used to go outside, endure chicken pox, get bitten by dogs, get hit by cars, fall on things, and fall off of things.

But.

Considering my PTH level is SO high, it's likely a carcinoma causing the imbalance which is never good. Honestly, if they suggest chemo or radiation with the surgery I'll probably decline. I want there to be something left for my son to inherit some day. His father should give him something good at least once in Son's life.

That Guy brought up Hungry Bone Syndrome so I looked into that. I don't have most of the high risk factors other than being old, but the primary factor and the one I do have is VERY elevated PTH pre-parathyroidectomy and hyperparathyroidism going undetected and untreated for a long time.

Which would mean that if I develop HBS, much like I haven't felt all that much better since the stone removal, I wouldn't feel all that much better after parathyroidectomy because the symptoms of HBS are the same as the symptoms I already have, PLUS seizures.

I also may go from my body eating my bones which is what it's been doing and then dumping excess calcium into my blood to my body overbuilding my bones (that's what HBS is, the bones start consuming too much calcium so there isn't enough in the blood to function properly) and becoming painfully deformed.

Luckily, from the few CT scans I've had so far, the bones that are visible in the scans seem to be fine, density-wise, though the radiologist can see how my tailbone was crushed when that car hit me when I was like 10 and always make a note of it.

Bodies are fucking weird.

#tiffygotsick

[houseboatisland]

“All is Arbitrary,” a popular Wallundic idiom, can be applied handily to that country’s railway system and especially to the gauges of such.

A narrow majority of the Liberal Republic’s railways are indeed built to the worldwide standard gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches. The country’s first public railway was the Eastern Railway, opened in 1846. It was an instant success and is today the busiest and longest network of all. The next few railways inaugurated in its wake laid themselves to the same gauge for ease of access to the ER, and for a while it seemed all future development would follow suit.

It was a short while.

Claude Ortiz was an up and coming civil engineer with a penchant for, by his own account and stated with pride, “overbuilding.” He had recently achieved celebrity status for his design and erecting of what was then the country’s largest aqueduct, the Grand Staircase. Not wanting to stop there, and out to steal the ER’s newfound thunder, he leapt into the railway business. Inspired by Sir Brunel, he rapidly constructed the Grand Shoreside Railway to a gauge of 6 feet, 6 inches. It linked the growing seaside resorts of Port Nevitt and Locketown, and the first trains ran in 1851. Ortiz intended to “march into” the country’s capital of Silverburn with his broad gauge and from there become the New Standard.

The GSR never penetrated Silverburn, and while Ortiz and some of his apprentice disciples went on to open a handful more routes to his preferred gauge, they never overrode the 56.5” norm and mostly ran in isolation from one another. Ortiz was infuriated, for that had been the whole point of his contrarian determination in the first place! (That and a cartoonishly outsized ego.)

So it was by 1867 that the Liberal Republic had two competing rail gauges under its belt. (That was a lie, for a handful ranging from 4 feet and 5 feet had also started work within those sixteen years. Splendid.) In the country’s northeast, the thriving slate quarries at New Independence were having difficulty removing their products. The area’s booming population also needed transportation beyond horses and coaches, but “the land was craggy and spitefully unyielding after the men had so picked at it.” To save on costly earthworks, and with North Welsh inspiration, a gauge of 2 feet, 3 inches was chosen. The New Independence Railway was speedily opened by 1868. It fast became a narrow gauge juggernaut, becoming double-tracked and signaled, achieving mythical “main line in miniature” status. It further extended to serve nearby granite quarries and offered private sidings for any flour mill, dairy, farm, logging camp or other business that wanted one.

Developments carried on in this increasingly disorderly way, and to the outside world’s bafflement, they went seamlessly. Effective 1976, Wallund had 24 locomotive-hauled gauges it considered “standard,” (for what that’s worth.) This also gave way to the Stephenson gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches becoming officially known as “Standard Standard.”

Curiously, meter gauge is nowhere to be found in Wallund.

Why?

“Meters and kilometers are for kings, and we haven’t any use for those.”

All is Arbitrary, indeed.

#houseboat’s writing #wallund #wallund universe #wallund eastern railway #wallund claude ortiz #wallund grand shoreside railway #wallund new independence railway

[etoilesbienne]

hope you're holding up okay! you have me intrigued with your kingdom au :3c

if i could make a recommendation, maybe you could have the Factions be biome-specific - going off your Demon Kingdom being based in the Nether. The Wasteland faction, for instance, could be in an arid/hot biome like a mesa or desert. The Federation could be either a "perfect" environment with constant good weather like the Plains, or you could go with the source material preference for cold climates with their secret facilities. You could also have biome-specific exports by proxy for a tasty bit of overbuilding and/or conflict.

OMG YES... YES THIS IS SO GOOD i was struggling with political motivations but this sets up such good little conflicts here.... ouhohohohohoo... hohoho., thank you

#they have biomes o plenty now so maybe the wastelands can be the wasteland forest/badlands that usually generate together.. houhohoyohouo #the federation im torn between snow or a mushroom biome since nothing spawns on mushroom biomes and the grass shade is #offputting to say the least. hmmmmmmmm #the demon kingdom being in the nether is a good excuse for why etoiles is visiting there at least lol #asks #kingdoms au

[frodo-of-the-nine-fingers]

people: wow this coastal area is so pretty and the wildlife is so diverse and cool

*overbuilds so they can have houses on the water and the land erodes and wildlife dies off or moves away as a direct result of land development*

the same people: what happened to all the birds 😕

#gee i wonder #this same people building houses on barrier islands -> wow a hurricane destroyed my house 🤯 #srry im driving past a loooot of new development right now and its like begone!!! #stop moving here!!!

[snimbusjavy]

Dr. Albert Overbuild is the leader of the Nexus Force and its Assembly faction. Alongside Baron Typhonus, the original explorers who first found trace of the ancient Imagination Nexus that created the very universe.

Yet, you can only wonder how he feels after what happened that day, when he witnessed his dearest friend lost to a dark corruption that destroyed the Nexus itself.

But can the leader of the Nexus Force truly allow himself to hold onto the belief that Typhonus may actually be a alive, waiting to be rescued...?

#LEGO Universe #Our Universe #Albert Overbuild #so... kept you waiting huh #i've been touching up my LU designs a lil c:

[putah-creek]

Quite simply the valley is the valley and the river is the river they help each other to exist as a watershed together they give us the humans rich soil to grow food and a place to live nice of them and we in turn must respect the watershed and not overbuild and ruin it all one hand washes the other you need tools to create tools we all exist among cycles of living

james lee jobe

#poetry #poem #poetry on tumblr #poets on tumblr #poems on tumblr #writers and poets #writers on tumblr #poetrycommunity #poetscommunity #dead poets society #poets community #poetry compilation #writers community #writerscommunity #poets and writers

[nerdintheforest]

It has been absolutely, insultingly hot for the past 4 months, but it was finally cool enough to get back into the wood shop tonight, and it felt great building something again. Tonight's project is a braiding jig! Inspired by the makeshift setup in this video

All scrap cutoffs except the dowels. This baby will help manage up to 14 strands. A Skjoldehamn Belt requires 12. Right now I only require 3 for my tunic design. BUT I need something I can pick up and put away in the middle of a project because I have a threenager, and if I overbuild it now I won't have to rebuild it in the future.

This is going to be way more portable than a dining room chair. Roughed her up with a carving knife to make her look period. I still need to strip the paint off of the bottom of the base and paint the center reference peg. She's functionally complete. Everything after this will be aesthetic.

Started this draft on the wrong blog but now I'm committed

#wip #woodworking #my crafts #braiding jig

[sheinthatfandom]

This is why Jericho shoulda opened cause even my husband said casters rap wasnt good optics in selling the PPV

I don’t like billy no selling jays chops I gotta say I don’t like overbuilding billy at the detriment of jay

If the acclaimed win it’s gonna ruin the beginning of the show for me

Tony stop being mean to my boys!!! Jay would love to be a grandpa to any baby gunns

#aew #aew lb #aew dynasty

[nonooddo]

Do you Want to KNOW what the Developer is After...?

If it's not obvious to you yet - the developer is trying to steal our lake. That means to say - his 'penthouse' tenants (and others) will have an 'above the tree line' view right over the full length of Shadow Lake.

The serenity, the dark and quiet that affords our abundant wildlife refuge, all that will be GONE..!

We have a pair of Bald Eagles that live, nest and hunt seasonally on the lake. We have Golden Eagles that regularly hunt the sky over the lake. We have otter, geese, foxes, beaver all inhabiting the lake.

To quote from one resident's letter of objection to the ODDO hideous development: "The commitment and ability to experience nature in the neighborhood is a key characteristic. In and around our own wooded backyard and the on the trails of Cedar Creek (often both and I have photos of most to prove it) we have seen deer, foxes, raccoons, turkeys, bobcats, coyotes, woodchuck, possums etc. In fact, just this morning I saw 6 – 7 deer below the dam along the trail around Shadow Lake. I normally hike around the lake on 5 days a week.  In addition, on the water at the lake, waterfowl, including various ducks, geese and even occasionally (until recently endangered) Trumpeter Swans. I have seen beaver, muskrat and even river otters. Probably most spectacular, is that a pair of eagles often can be seen flying over the lake or perched in one of the large hardwood forest trees over the lake. Where else in Western Johnson County can you find a neighborhood whose commitment and “character” so embody this blending of homes and nature and the ensuing results? I have also heard that from a flora perspective, the woods around Cedar Creek are particularly diverse and healthy and certain plantings from Cedar Creek have been used to supplement other woods like those around Ernie Miller Nature Center."

Eloquently and accurately put. And just how much of that will be lost or irreparably damaged by the tower block construction and occupation that creates noise of blasting as it goes up and light, noise and visual blight (not to mention wind tunnel effect and storm runoff after its up) as it is occupied.

What this developer wants to steal is also being stolen from Olathe, Johnson County and from Kansas.

The City of Olathe MUST reject this insensitive, oversized, out of character, out of place, intensive overbuild plan.

#kansas #olathe #cedar creek #no no oddo #green space #shadow lake #line of sight #OBJECTION

[wonderinc-sonic]

Headcanon: Rouge is small cos she's a type of short nosed fruit bat, if she was a flying fox bat then she'd be a tall as Vector.

Absolutely, she is little, and I think she won't get loads bigger! I think she might be small for a bat and has over compensated to hold her own against bigger creatures at GUN (using the Zootopia example of species biases in hiring)

She makes up for it by overbuilding strength (at least enough to lift Shadow and Omega!) and being sassy and aggressive at work. What I'm saying is, same girl.

Thank you so much for the ask!

#rouge the bat #wonderincs #wonders asks #anon #sonic headcanons #headcanons