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by bendigedig 2y ago
I am just going to leave this here for context: Wildlife in 'catastrophic decline' due to human destruction, scientists warn - https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-54091048
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by bendigedig 2y ago
Sounds like their previous generation satellites were 30 times more responsible though.
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by bendigedig 2y ago
I wonder if it is possible for starlink as a company to be socially responsible.
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by bendigedig 2y ago
To discredit capitalism is not necessarily to credit communism. We can surely criticise one without having to immediately complain about the other, can't we? Edit: To be clear, my problem with this is that to pretend that there is only
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by bendigedig 2y ago
I would be wary of drawing conclusions from this cohort you are questioning on hacker news. It almost certainly holds only a small portion of the individuals from rough childhood backgrounds. And don't forget that a number suffering th
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by bendigedig 2y ago
Neoliberalism is allergic to addressing most root causes.
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by bendigedig 2y ago
From TFA: > The vast majority of participants across the four countries overestimated the average personal carbon footprint of the poorest 50% and underestimated those of the richest 10% and 1%. Edit: are you an LLM?
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by bendigedig 2y ago
To communicate the fact to people that they and others likely misunderstand their own carbon foot print. This is the kind of thing that makes it on to the news because it connects something abstract with everyday people.
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by bendigedig 2y ago
But surely that's the point of this study? i.e. to help communicate this fact to the masses? You know, with evidence instead of hunches and stuff?
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by bendigedig 2y ago
They eat a lot more meat though. And that's much more CO_2 intensive than grains and legumes.
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by bendigedig 2y ago
I find it hard to understand why we think it is possible to assume that the influence of genes and influence of environment are independent in this manner. Given that we know that the environment affects how genes are expressed; and given t
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by bendigedig 2y ago
Perhaps stable equilibrium would be a better phrase than harmony. We as a species are currently knocking our environment out of a fairly stable equilibrium in to some dynamic trasition to some new point which may not be so habitable or suce
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by bendigedig 2y ago
The AMOC and the Gulf Stream are two separate systems.
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by bendigedig 2y ago
I will be fed up of the bullshit.
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by bendigedig 2y ago
I think it might be time to consider diversifying our skills to cover non-tech areas of employment. I know I certainly am.
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by bendigedig 2y ago
The capitalists fight back with.... this?
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by bendigedig 3y ago
Some companies advertise solely to make themselves look dynamic to investors.
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by bendigedig 3y ago
Thanks for your constructive input.
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