mickdeek86

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by mickdeek86 4y ago
I'm asking whether Kessler syndrome is something we should be worried about
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by mickdeek86 4y ago
I agree things aren't looking good long-term. I didn't mean to attack your point specifically but to address the thread as a whole. The Atlantic cod collapse certainly was caused by overfishing, but the situation isn't all th
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by mickdeek86 4y ago
Does this mean the concerns about a Kessler event are greatly exaggerated?
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by mickdeek86 4y ago
I suppose it would stand to reason. The talk I've heard has been about the disparity of (nearly) banning crab-harvesting but barely restricting crab-wasting.
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by mickdeek86 4y ago
I would suggest Costa Rica. I went there and kept to myself, partly not wanting to seem the Ugly American and partly because my Spanish is sh8t. More often than not somebody would approach me in an offputtingly-friendly way, I would be kind
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by mickdeek86 4y ago
...byproducts of processing the wild filets. I'm saying I doubt they're catching wild fish for the purpose of selling them to fish farms. Of course, it improves profit and hence incentive
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by mickdeek86 4y ago
I'm going off the 2021 numbers, 667 pounds/capita/annum. I'll confess I was too lazy to pull up the calculator app and get ~18% increase. This wasn't due to a conscious consumer boycott, people just decided that dri
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by mickdeek86 4y ago
I work in the Alaska fishery and am typing this while sat in one of the largest fish processing facilities in the western hemisphere. I have the spare time because, well, there's no crabs coming in and everything else is mostly out of
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by mickdeek86 4y ago
That's talking about people drinking milk or milk with cereal. Overall dairy consumption has increased ~20% over the same time period, mostly due to cheese and yogurt[0]. Changing the industry is not in one person's power, but
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by mickdeek86 4y ago
Fishmeal and oil are byproducts of processing the filets
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by mickdeek86 4y ago
I hadn't even considered the Death Star as a giant version of mountaintop removal
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by mickdeek86 4y ago
Then the loincloth-wearing natives will see it and worship it as their new God, thus violating the Prime Directive
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by mickdeek86 4y ago
Did anybody read the statement[0]? After the first section about Putin/Ukraine, they go on to mention Iran (no longer beholden to the non-proliferation deal), North Korea (continually improving their capabilities), a large Chinese expa
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by mickdeek86 4y ago
Supposedly, they've had one since the 80's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Hand Which raises the question, did the politburo crib nuclear strategy from Kubrick?
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by mickdeek86 4y ago
Those processes, once developed, would probably use less energy than existing industrial agriculture. So far, the only progress I've heard of in this front is Solar Foods' protein powder
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by mickdeek86 4y ago
Well put. Reminds me of these guys: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brotherhood_of_Sleeping_Car_Po...
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by mickdeek86 4y ago
Volcker wrote in his memoir that when he told Carter about the 2x4 solution, he followed it by saying 'I can fix stagflation, but it'll cost you re-election'. Carter told him to do it anyway, initiating a several year recessi
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by mickdeek86 4y ago
I'd rather be hit by the 2x8. The wielder wouldn't be able to get as good a purchase on the grip, it's a greater mass to for him/her to accelerate, and the impact area would be more spread out.
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by mickdeek86 4y ago
Most children and many adults do, though this may be more a socially learned reaction than an autonomous one.
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by mickdeek86 4y ago
Do you not partially inflate the tube prior to tucking the tire bead under the rim? This prevents the pinch in the first place. Source: learned this handy trick in the middle of the northern Nevada desert, ~50 miles from anywhere during a c
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by mickdeek86 4y ago
I spent the past year living in a lakehouse. The sound of those waves lapping serenely over the breakwater can be a real headache
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by mickdeek86 4y ago
Would a Sigorsky be feasible? Not an idle question, I type this from a remote Aleutian island in sight of a 4000+ foot peak and no infrastructure to get a tower there.
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by mickdeek86 4y ago
Why did we take the scenic route?
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by mickdeek86 4y ago
Pretty cool, thanks. Probably not a bad idea when basically your entire country is the estuary of a monsoon-prone river.
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by mickdeek86 4y ago
Fair enough but it doesn't make the phrase "constitutional republic" any less meaningless in the context it was offered (saying America is not 'a democracy'), does it? Incidentally, aren't most of those monarch
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by mickdeek86 4y ago
On the off chance that this isn't just an academic exercise in moral posturing, and you in fact do progressivism or labor advocacy rather than just identify with it, and happen to actually know any of these "people of color&q
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by mickdeek86 4y ago
How do you explain above reference to Jefferson including the phrase "merciless Indian savages" ... "whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions" into our nation'
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by mickdeek86 4y ago
That article is about financial exploitation (a very real problem for which Bernie had a great solution - offer basic retail banking at the post office), not about inexpensive, sh*tty consumer goods.
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by mickdeek86 4y ago
This reminds me of Francisco de Orellana, the first European to navigate the Amazon. He returned to Spain with tales of a grand, prosperous civilization along the banks, saying that in weeks of sailing they didn't find a single stretch
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by mickdeek86 4y ago
Have you heard of the Cocoliztli epidemics? Three massive waves of a still-unidentified disease resulting in 90+% depopulation of Mexica peoples in the 50 years following Spanish arrival. The reason there are native Mexica people (my own mi

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