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by sriacha 1y ago
And then as cars get heavier and heavier you also have people scared to drive smaller/lighter ones for fear of safety.
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The Russian Paradox: So Much Education, So Little Human Capital(theamericanenterprise.com)
41 points by sriacha 1y ago|29 comments
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by sriacha 2y ago
There are so many interesting native plants that provide alternatives to our extremely rigid globalized food systems. Also to note Ilex vomitoria is in the same genus as yerba mate, Ilex paraguariensis.
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by sriacha 2y ago
Are you saying large chain stores don't exist in Kerala? How are you not dependent upon private entities for basics?
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by sriacha 2y ago
Cool. How do you estimate tree height?
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by sriacha 2y ago
Curious, medication do you use with such a high success rate?
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by sriacha 2y ago
See the Buffalo Commons [1], one idea to allow a huge area (139000 mi^2) of the dry part of the Great Plains to return to its former prairie and allow free ranging bison. Rural decline can bring amazing opportunities. Tear down the fences t
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by sriacha 2y ago
Yes, definitely better to have a lid with an airlock
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by sriacha 2y ago
Two books to check out: Sandor Katz: Wild Fermentaion The Noma Guide to Fermentation but really it can be as simple as some saltwater and veg in a jar, careful to have then mostly covered with brine. Have to manage releasing pressure, burpi
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by sriacha 2y ago
what app?
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by sriacha 2y ago
One of my favorite examples is the possibility of humans to have magnetoreception.
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by sriacha 2y ago
Really seems like the best route is to go guerilla, no?
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by sriacha 2y ago
I wonder if we can have a continuum of "doom scrolling". For instance digital crack (tiktok )<->X/facebook<->hackernews<->wikipedia<->"soft" novels<->poetry<->james joyce<->
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by sriacha 2y ago
Wonderful, here's another similar example I saw recently, 14000 year old cave art doodling by kids: https://www.science.org/content/article/enigmatic-cave-art-w...
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by sriacha 2y ago
You might need to install/setup Speech Dispatcher. I was just using this implementation with Piper: https://github.com/Elleo/pied?tab=readme-ov-file . However easier way to read articles aloud is with Read Aloud ex
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by sriacha 2y ago
Along these veins I recommend the book "The Once and Future World" by Mackinnon.
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by sriacha 2y ago
I worry this view is both pedantic and harmful. Of course over geologic scales extinctions are quite normal, and nothing is static. That doesn't mean ecosystems aren't normally resilient to perturbations on a smaller timescales:
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by sriacha 2y ago
Kimmerer: The Serviceberry and Braiding Sweetgrass
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by sriacha 2y ago
also use NeoBackup, and it works pretty well for the most part.
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by sriacha 2y ago
Maybe you're thinking of Angus Barbieri [0]: "Angus Barbieri (1938 or 1939 – 7 September 1990) was a Scottish man who fasted for 382 days,from 14 June 1965 to 30 June 1966. He subsisted on tea, coffee, sparkling water, vitamins an
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by sriacha 2y ago
I find Koreader (linux version) leaps and bounds faster than the calibre reader.
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by sriacha 2y ago
That's a good question. A quick scan of the literature suggests that in some birds the answer is no. I believe this is thought to be due to the evolutionary constraints of flying. "Some seabird species exhibit extremely slow age-r
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by sriacha 2y ago
How so?
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by sriacha 2y ago
There are ways to adjust cooling rates... for example route the blood externally and chill it like they do in some kinds of surgery.
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by sriacha 2y ago
Indeed, and where they were not present they have a powerful detrimental effect when introduced: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasive_earthworms_of_North_A...
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by sriacha 2y ago
"The fact that we were able to detect similar effects of phthalate exposure on the function of central neurons for the low and 10-fold higher environmental concentration tested is important in this context: humans get exposed to phthal
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by sriacha 2y ago
How do you do things after dark with no artificial light? Especially in winter?
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by sriacha 2y ago
Interesting.
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by sriacha 2y ago
Interesting, do you also have chickens that they associate with? Do you feed them?
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by sriacha 2y ago
Web page claims the app is being open-sourced.

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