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by kulahan 1y ago
It's about filling open niches. City birds were an open niche for a long time. The ones who adapted to handle that better are thriving in better population numbers than those which can only survive with 13 specific types of trees. Even
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by kulahan 1y ago
This doesn't mean everyone is overhyping the comet, it means you're underhyping the mantis shrimp. There are a number of absolutely unimaginable miracles of nature on Earth.
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by kulahan 1y ago
Like including only Internet Explorer in your OS? :)
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by kulahan 1y ago
This is the entire reason why people emigrate.
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by kulahan 1y ago
Probably worth mentioning that as evolutions that allow them to compete well in nature die out, ones that allow them to compete well in cities takes their place. Evolution is always a series of tradeoffs. Maybe we don't have sonic vari
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by kulahan 1y ago
It might be easier to describe as an eye that is only opened manually, and can only focus on highly specific things. This is my superpower - I can see things vividly in my mind, spin them around, zoom in/out, and more. When I'm lo
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by kulahan 1y ago
Have you tried a dream journal? We forget most of our dreams because we might have them at 2 am and wake up at 7 am. If you wake yourself up in the middle of the night one or two times, you're more likely to have been in the middle of
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by kulahan 1y ago
Interesting theory. I imagine there would be a stratification of mature and immature trees that would be pretty striking if this is the case. It might not be hard to find out if it's true!
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by kulahan 1y ago
This is the worst part. Wind and solar don't come within a thousand miles of being sufficient unless we massively improve our generation density, invent new magical batteries that aren't even on the horizon yet, and build out hund
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by kulahan 1y ago
Nuclear is a renewable, and of course it still makes sense to build it out. In what world do you think our energy needs plateau? I'm always so surprised to see this 1970s hippie attitude making a comeback, especially since it makes
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by kulahan 1y ago
Well, maybe that's why they're not obfuscating anymore.
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by kulahan 1y ago
Ecologically speaking, the US is an absolute monster of a nightmare. The American carbon footprint is incredible.
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by kulahan 1y ago
This is opposite to everything I've ever read. A brief "greening" period was expected (and is now nearing its end) as climate change started taking off due specifically to this effect. Edit: to clarify, I'm saying the gr
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by kulahan 1y ago
They're building an insane amount of nuclear. It's the only thing with a hope in a country where a "small" city has like 6 million people.
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by kulahan 1y ago
I'm 99.999% sure this is already the case. I can't think of even one other Elon. I guess some billionaires come close, but he's a pretty unique dude, for better or for worse.
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by kulahan 1y ago
This is definitely the main issue in the US. People are always clamoring for the cheapest thing that's good enough. The US has some of the best coffees, chocolates, beers, food, and more in the world. I mean, if you wanna make money, y
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by kulahan 1y ago
Yeah and you can rent a truck every time you need to haul something, but it's nice when your friend lets you borrow his - and his manpower/time. And yeah, you can hire an emergency remediation company, or chef, or psychologist for
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by kulahan 1y ago
They probably aren't the friends people are thinking of when referring to things like this. The benefit of friends isn't just that you have someone fun to talk to, it's that you're building out a social support circle. Y
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by kulahan 1y ago
AI, to me, seems perfectly positioned to replace a lot of middle managers. Maybe not "every manager at X level", but if you've got some central tool that flows information up and down the chain, and can dig into data on your
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by kulahan 1y ago
Saw this similar quote: >“One man came and said he took two bags because he went crazy when he saw the crowd,” Piotr said. “He apologized, and everything was fine. But there are also those who took dozens of tons.” Literally always it&#x
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by kulahan 1y ago
Which is why I specified they were coming to our universe
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by kulahan 1y ago
You can take it back out even further and ask why a universe in which chemistry is even possible popped up. A single small change and either everything becomes unbelievably heavy and collapses, or everything stays unreasonably light and we
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by kulahan 1y ago
I'm kinda surprised this isn't more popular. I figured we'd go this way eventually as we single out 10x-ers, give them a highly competent crew, and save a lot of money over your most expensive code monkey wasting time attendi
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by kulahan 1y ago
Probably tons of bats and small nocturnal mammals.
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by kulahan 1y ago
As I understand it, scientists believe that lobsters are also functionally immortal, just not invulnerable. I think the problem is that after a while, it takes so many calories to continue molting, they simply can't hold enough in thei
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by kulahan 1y ago
There's a (probably apocryphal) story that it was done for advertising reasons. Someone wanted people to sell land.
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by kulahan 1y ago
Shocking considering how cold it gets there. It's cold and dry and windy where I live, and there are nearly zero skeeters. I spend most of my afternoons on the porch, and I've been bit twice all summer. But this tracks with what I
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by kulahan 1y ago
Are you not aware of the Church's science symposiums?
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by kulahan 1y ago
It's literally a bush that was on fire which did not corrupt. That was the whole point. It's not a literary device. Jesus did literally die. His soul and body were uncorruptible. That's why he was able to descend to Hell fo
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by kulahan 1y ago
> So then how can it die? If he was just an immortal soul in a mortal body then he was just a regular human. He could die in the same way the bush could burn in front of Moses without becoming a burnt object . Divinity is not corrupting

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