mrpopo

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by mrpopo 4y ago
This doesn't look like a significant advance in sustainability, rather in fishing efficency; a "better" sustainability score doesn't mean it's sustainable. In the same way that replacing coal with nat. gas doesn&#x2
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by mrpopo 4y ago
I am not contradicting him. I am sure you understand that these cases make headlines more easily because of the shock-value, and that all other activists who are not doing that are not making it into the news. I am also sure you understand
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by mrpopo 4y ago
Your negation is way too strong, an ever-growing number of people do, in fact, take their personal footprint into account for every decision, my family and myself included. I don't know about your anecdotal joke about some German activ
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by mrpopo 4y ago
Because they consume more fuel than other car types, and you are aspiring to buy one for purely selfish reasons, and that would have a negative impact on many people? If people don't consider their personal footprint before taking purc
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by mrpopo 4y ago
You can always cut something into smaller parts. First transitioning away from coal and gas is actually not a small feat, the best transition so far from a developed country is the UK that stopped coal almost completely but now relies a lot
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by mrpopo 4y ago
I think in order to be used in image tech, it shouldn't be shipped as PNG, even with lossless compression. It should be BMP, ideally with the PBM, PGM and PPM formats too. Not sure how serious this is, though. :/
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by mrpopo 4y ago
No, it doesn't mean that the rise in pedestrian fatalities is significant, it means that there is something that is causing a rise in pedestrian fatalities (and that it isn't simply population growth). I agree the numbers used in
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by mrpopo 4y ago
A high ratio between the two means that population growth doesn't explain the increased pedestrian facilities and therefore this is something to worry about.
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by mrpopo 4y ago
The error in the title is they're not talking about death rate but number of fatalities. since "2019, the last pre-pandemic year, pedestrian fatalities have surged 18 percent in just three years – nine times faster than U.S. popul
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by mrpopo 4y ago
Yes. I kept my external blu-ray player in bubble-wrap in a drawer for the last 5 years with no use for it. When I tried plugging it in last year, it was no longer working (clicking noise, probably from one of the motors). In 20 years, absol
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by mrpopo 4y ago
I don't necessarily disagree with the conclusion, but the dismissal of other factors is insufficient: > Why did a measure of loneliness at school go up around the world only after 2012, as the global economy got better and better? T
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by mrpopo 4y ago
You can eat earlier than 20.00?... I think it's detrimental to someone's quality of life to be unable to shift their sleping schedule. The only physiological thing you cannot shift is the sunlight. If I have to wake up early befor
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by mrpopo 4y ago
With this kind of money, you can absolutely get someone to do all the work you need to make your tax mostly disappear. Heck, they probably find your number and call you directly, you would only have to say "Yes, I want to save a couple
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by mrpopo 4y ago
Not to mention that higher fines and prosecution could easily lead to the opposite effect in such a case, namely hiding the fact that they lost the capsule. It was extremely likely no one would have found it for years anyway.
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by mrpopo 4y ago
I think that's a big misunderstanding. Climate change is not exactly an immense existential threat to our species. It's threatening the livelihood and sustainability of life in almost all impoverished regions, and will cause the d
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by mrpopo 4y ago
It's also brought up for "regular old pollution". Neighbouring countries of Germany are pushing for Germany to stop polluting the atmosphere with coal. South Korean associations are making efforts in China to stop them from b
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by mrpopo 4y ago
That's not a "debunking". That's just people having different priorities, some want to work towards sustaining humanity on Earth right now, and some don't want to solve problems on Earth and are just excited with th
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by mrpopo 4y ago
Are you trying to equate coffee drinking and breathing? I am sure you understand those 2 things are very different.
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by mrpopo 4y ago
Transportation of veggies is quite optimized and is almost never the biggest contributor to the carbon footprint of any food or drink product. Case in point here, looking at the graph, most of the footprint is in the coffee production and p
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by mrpopo 4y ago
Japan and I believe Singapore burn most of their plastic in incinerators to generate electricity. Coincidentally they are also among the highest plastic waste producers per capita.
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by mrpopo 4y ago
It is more efficient to burn it, generate electricity and charge a EV battery with it, than it is to convert it to fuel (consumes energy) and burn it in an internal combustion engine (very low efficiency due to small scale).
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by mrpopo 4y ago
Given the Washington Post is based in the US and has a majoritarily U.S.-based readership, and that almost 3 out of 4 adults in the U.S. are overweight, the general advice to lose weight is sound... Comparatively, less than 2% of the U.S. p
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by mrpopo 4y ago
Not really the same thing. Snow in low-altitude stations is running out. Bringing it in via helicopter is not gonna work forever. People cannot keep relying on it for their income.
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by mrpopo 4y ago
You need to stop thinking about bringing your own footprint ever closer to zero, you must also stop thinking that doing so is a powerful revolutionary act, and join or create organized groups vowing to bring about social change. Be it in yo
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by mrpopo 4y ago
I have more than 20% of my twitter follows on Mastodon at this point. Content discovery is a bit different, need to adjust to it, but so far it's the best experience I've had at decentralized social networks since 20-y. ago IRC.
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by mrpopo 4y ago
It's interesting because Elon agrees with free speech restrictions only when he or his own children are affected, but not others. Case in point, this one + alex jones' controversy ('My firstborn child died in my arms').
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by mrpopo 4y ago
There's no denying that gender dysphoria exists and has always existed. OP made the claim that it might be statistically over-represented. Looking at the Hijra example, it looks like the Hijra demographics are around 0.5-1% of the popu
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by mrpopo 4y ago
They reject your argument in the article, just into the 2nd paragraph. > Prior to the 1970s, scientists believed that fecal matter either sank or floated depending on the amount of fat it contained. Experiments showed that not to be the
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by mrpopo 4y ago
Or bots for that matter (which might be more relevant here)
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by mrpopo 4y ago
Climate change is taking most headlines but it's not the only planetary boundary being breached. In fact, the IPBES reports are much more alarmist, and the quantified risk is a lot higher. Granted it's a difficult task to compare

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