turtledove

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by turtledove 4y ago
His first move into politics? His platform (even when he wasn't an antagonistic asshole) was political - climate change, species survival, deregulation.
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by turtledove 4y ago
Because natural photosynthesis is more complex and is in service of growing a plant, so it only needs to run for a little part of the day. It also takes water and needs to be protected from pests, diseases, and herbivores. But it also seque
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by turtledove 4y ago
Rooftop lawns in cities are to offset the increase in heat generated by having the city there. They are an attempt to return the environment to something closer to natural. And yes, xeriscaping is striking. Absolutely beautiful to see nat
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by turtledove 4y ago
It's not so simple. Haber's process increased the population the globe could support by billions . So yes, baby boomers came from post war era, but global availability of food meant that the generations following didn't star
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by turtledove 4y ago
The problem is not the end state, it's the speed at which we are approaching that end state. Think about a car moving down the highway, when you gradually apply the brake, you can safely decelerate to 0. When you hit a stationary barri
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by turtledove 4y ago
Here's the data source, which includes links out to papers on how the data is collected and calculated. https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/
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by turtledove 4y ago
It's not an environment that naturally supports soil. The energy and water needs to support an unnatural environment are quite large.
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by turtledove 4y ago
The data is accessible directly from the visualization page. But humans are very bad at looking at sheets of numbers and interpreting them quickly. Visualizations help us understand much more rapidly.
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by turtledove 4y ago
The post war era saw a huge jump in resource usage, and the discovery of the Haber process resulted in huge agricultural returns, enabling a massive population spike.
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by turtledove 4y ago
I don't think so in any meaningful way. Also, removing and wasting the water to keep a lawn green heats the river that water was pulled from. Plus, mowing a lawn is usually done with some of the dirtiest engines out there. Removing law
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by turtledove 4y ago
That's the percentage of people living off $2 a day. I'm glad to see that number decreasing, but I think most Americans are making many multiples of that. The median household income here is $70k. Let's say you make half that
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by turtledove 4y ago
Got any goalposts you aren't gonna move around?
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by turtledove 4y ago
Unbelievable. Parent poster said "least vaccines; best outcomes", the data literally disagrees with that analysis. Then you are like, "well, I don't like that data, so I'm going to ignore Occam's Razer." M
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by turtledove 4y ago
It was 7 people last week. 7 -> 450 is a big jump up. Until r values stabilize, it's reasonable to keep an eye on it.
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by turtledove 4y ago
Yeah, they do? And why is it silly to remember that you are in the top percentage points of wealth, globally? Seems like you are suggesting we should ignore the fact that most humans still live in poverty?
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by turtledove 4y ago
Germany, Switzerland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Denmark and several other European countries had lower mortality rates than Sweden. https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality
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by turtledove 4y ago
Globally, people who can afford airfare are a minority. How many people live in slums around the world, or live in poverty? The parent isn't talking about the wealthy in, eg, America. They are comparing the average American vs the rest
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by turtledove 4y ago
What the fuck are you talking about? The data shows the opposite: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109011/coronavirus-covi... Note the states with the highest death rates had lower vaccine uptake.
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by turtledove 4y ago
The tracker I've been watching shows pretty explosive growth over the past week. https://bnonews.com/monkeypox/
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by turtledove 4y ago
My dude, I literally said I respect other's opinions, then shared my perspective. I literally did the opposite of suggesting others just think the way I do. And new media can replace old media, and still be a mindful, thoughtful experi
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by turtledove 4y ago
How many buildings contemporary to the Parthenon still exist? How many of Michelangelo's contemporaries still exist? Some games will last forever, some will not.
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by turtledove 4y ago
It's not meant to be callous, it's meant to be accepting of the impermanence of all things. Nothing lasts forever, my attitude is more about being ok with that.
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by turtledove 4y ago
Because if it's that central to the economy, representing half of all outstanding dollars, it needs to be managed centrally or bad things are gonna happen?
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by turtledove 4y ago
I hear this, and I respect it, but I'll offer a different perspective: Media is transient, it's ephemera. We will remember the big names but forget the small things. There's more media being produced than I could consume in a
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by turtledove 4y ago
Ah yes, the enlightened centrist approach. That somehow the "correct" idea lies in the middle of two polar opposites. And that's true in some cases! Sometimes the compromise solution is the best one. But in other cases, the m
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by turtledove 4y ago
Sure, but how much of that material is in the public domain? I'd assume not a lot.
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by turtledove 4y ago
Oil companies definitely don't belong. But also Tesla probably doesn't either.
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by turtledove 4y ago
You are going to need to figure out how to filter out copyrighted works and images for which you don't have permission (eg, someone uploading a picture of an ex partner).
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by turtledove 4y ago
I was an eng manager on Lambda for a time, and we definitely knew people were doing this, and had plans to cut it out if it ever became a problem. :D
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by turtledove 4y ago
> The conclusion: it’s over. In two or three years, people won’t even talk about crypto. One hopes.

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