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by bertil 4y ago
It will get both unseasonably warm at times and have several days of biting cold at others. The original name for what we now call “Global warming“ or “climate change” was “climate unsettling”: balancing mechanisms that allowed seasons to h
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by bertil 4y ago
This is absolutely the same with science.
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by bertil 4y ago
I’m curious whether Patreon’s security team leaving will play in that dynamic.
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by bertil 4y ago
There’s a fairly credible theory that Atlantis was a port city in the Richat Structure.
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by bertil 4y ago
Detail at the beginning of the video, but if the metallic sand is heavier, why not wash sand and collect the bottom? Is the sluice helping much?
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by bertil 4y ago
I believe that the blade he shows early was made in a previous episode from bog iron.
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by bertil 4y ago
The same observation is likely true for a lot of carbon-intensive goods. I’ve read how much carbon goes into a kilo of beef, but I’ve never seen a graphic representation.
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by bertil 4y ago
He knows that people like to say it's possible, promise mitigation, and he knows what it feels like to come back later and see the devastation left by not implementing it to save costs.
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by bertil 4y ago
My dad is a Marine biologist and was the Chief Science Officer of the largest sea research institute in the world.
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by bertil 4y ago
> diffusing accumulated salt back to the sea water. A big issue of desalinisation is the increase in salt in water: brine streams coming out of osmosis plants are dead zones in the sea. I'm not sure this is a good idea for the shore
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by bertil 4y ago
I would love that this argument about the quality of life to be also heard when talking about people who have to suffer the consequence of cars: violence, children's deaths, pollution, noise, aggressive tone, inhospitable cities, enorm
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by bertil 4y ago
I don’t live in France anymore (too many taxis were trying to kill me, and the Police said they were powerless to help after ending up at the hospital multiple times), but my family still does. Nine nephews and nieces, tenth on the way. The
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by bertil 4y ago
That’s 30 min of light exercise, five times a week — less if you are using electric assist. It’s the minimum requirement to not be considered sedentary, which would triple your health risks. If you think that’s too much and you don’t have a
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by bertil 4y ago
23% of the French population is more than 6km from a train station [1], which is considered close enough to bike. That's 15.6 million people. Assuming those are families of 2.2 people on average, they would need 7 million cars. That’s
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by bertil 4y ago
Do you have evidence of that? Cyclists clearly ask for dedicated lanes, separated from the pavement. They very often mock pedestrians, often tourists, for blocking the lanes they have and not responding to calls to clear the way. It’s far t
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by bertil 4y ago
Yeah, sorry. My calculator is not good with numbers.
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by bertil 4y ago
A better argument that it’s not really how much it costs, but some territorial sense that anything paved with macadam is there’s is how violent conversations about parking gets: * if someone “steals” a spot in a parking lot that you felt yo
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by bertil 4y ago
Thanks for the answer, but, predictably that somehow felt worst than not knowing.
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by bertil 4y ago
All of those require a thorough WTF, but "gun violence" is special. What could possibly be the connection?
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by bertil 4y ago
I don't think the cost is the biggest driver of tension unless you listen to professional drivers. People don’t blame bus riders for not "paying the road tax" (a UK trope, that tax was abolished). It would explain why things
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by bertil 4y ago
Almost every anti-cycle tweet that I read nowadays is from very obvious spam bots (days old, one single topic, haphazard spelling, and typing mistakes). I blocked a few real people who were calling for killing others, and there must be some
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by bertil 4y ago
Cars kill someone every three seconds.
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by bertil 4y ago
Tesla advertised being entirely powered by renewables, presumably mostly the solar panels on the roof of the factory (tooling in there likely represents the bulk of the energy consumed). There could be some accounting sleight-of-hand if the
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by bertil 4y ago
I’m not sure that you can rely on cars being plugged in as much as Power Walls. If things go bad, it’s very tempting to disconnect your car.
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by bertil 4y ago
Would it be worth it to have several power walls? Have a couple connected to Storm Watch and one for yourself in case things get hairier? Are there scaling efficiencies?
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by bertil 4y ago
It looks like it’s cooler outside at night these days (below 70ºF between 9pm and 7am). I’d recommend that you air out your whole house with a big draft when that’s the case: fresh air, less CO2 indoors, but also a big saving on cooling. Th
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by bertil 4y ago
Expensive clothes are typically more environmentally to make individually, but it’s very unusual that they are worn once. Top brands are resold. Others are typically purchased by people who plan on keep wearing them.
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by bertil 4y ago
There’s a small minority of people who do that -- not 20% of the population, but large enough to influence statistics. I wouldn't be surprised if that was 20% of women between 15 and 45-year-old. They also buy clothes that they never w
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by bertil 4y ago
Finding the right clothes for you in thrift stores can be tedious or difficult. Some enjoy the challenge and the surprise, but it’s not for everyone. Wearing clothes that are visibly damaged incurs social judgment.
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by bertil 4y ago
Friends of mine were wondering about the history after that seminal text: how we got from this (opinionated, but sensible approach) to agile coaches (they apparently never had a good experience of any; I worked with one a long time ago, the

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