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Rectal Death Adept posted:You could probably get an old retired cruise ship seastead going where the idea was everyone contributes to a self sustaining floating economy it wouldn’t really work since big boats require near constant upkeep and dry docking for repairs or inspections every 3 years also fuel would be a bazillion dollars this stuff only works because of insane industrial economy fueled by millions of years of photosynthesis gobs and gobs of excess oil the minute a part breaks, which is quickly, means there’s also no real way to get repaired parts there’s also no such thing as a closed loop society, especially on something like a boat: they all need external inputs. for most of human history these external inputs are nearly infinite (relative to society) land, water, sunlight (and resulting flora/fauna). boats only have 1
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Jun 28, 2023 17:05
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What about a train? Could you have a closed loop society on a train going around the earth
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Jun 28, 2023 17:08
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gently caress You And Diebold posted:post apocalyptic cruise ship ocean society basically the plot of Flood by Stephen Baxter
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Jun 28, 2023 17:08
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this guy gets it https://twitter.com/Lechiboroni/status/1673788400493551617
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Jun 28, 2023 17:14
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Microplastics posted:What about a train? Could you have a closed loop society on a train going around the earth Sure. It might even last a week.
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Jun 28, 2023 17:15
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Jun 28, 2023 17:18
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all the agricultural growth hormone wastewater runoff has been preparing orcas for this boss fight
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Jun 28, 2023 17:22
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gently caress You And Diebold posted:post apocalyptic cruise ship ocean society The Filth
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Jun 28, 2023 17:22
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Microplastics posted:What about a train? Could you have a closed loop society on a train going around the earth i dunno seems like it would quickly become a hamfisted metaphor for capitalism
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Jun 28, 2023 17:48
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Icon of the Seas, circa 2040
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Jun 28, 2023 18:01
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ELTON JOHN posted:i dunno seems like it would quickly become a hamfisted metaphor for capitalism Oh poo poo I need to rewatch The Darjeeling Limited
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Jun 28, 2023 18:07
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My lungs are burning if I stay outside longer than 10 minutes. This is probably the worst day to date for blatant Canadian aggression towards the air quality of the benevolent US of A
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Jun 28, 2023 18:23
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Don't worry in 5 years it'll seem like a good day 
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Jun 28, 2023 18:32
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Four decades with few breaks living in WI and I don't remember "don't go outside and breathe the air because Canada is on fire" ever being a concern. I'm sure this is all very normal and doesn't portent worse to come.
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Jun 28, 2023 18:35
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once all the forests burn down they cant burn down again
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Jun 28, 2023 18:41
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celadon posted:once all the forests burn down they cant burn down again that's the thing about wild fires you eventually run out of wild
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Jun 28, 2023 18:46
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Hubbert posted:that's the thing about wild fires WTF I love desertification now?
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Jun 28, 2023 18:46
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Lacrosse posted:WTF I love desertification now? Everyone loves a little bit of dry humour, no?
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Jun 28, 2023 18:48
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Hubbert posted:that's the thing about wild fires No wild. Only fires
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Jun 28, 2023 19:24
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Then we will get dust storms instead. woo hoo
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Jun 28, 2023 19:36
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silicone thrills posted:Then we will get dust storms instead. woo hoo eventually all the dust will blow into the oceans and sink into the depths, solving that problem once and for all
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Jun 28, 2023 19:40
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TehSaurus posted:I did some extrapolation on the current burn rate. If things keep up we’re on pace to burn 1.2 Texases worth of boreal Canada this year. How did you do this math? The most recent figure I came up with is just shy of 76,129 square kilometers. Texas is 695,662 square kilometers. Canada has 2.4 million square kilometers of forest. That means about 1/9 Texas has burned so far and there are about 3.5 Texases total. It's still absolutely crazy. I'm learning French now and I have far more connection to Quebec than any other francophone country, so I listen to a lot of Québécois media. They describe the fires in apocalyptic terms.
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Jun 28, 2023 20:00
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Hexigrammus posted:Dunno about ketamine but Puget Sound was showing high levels of caffeine and SSRIs. We're breeding crabs with a whole new attitude to life. https://twitter.com/UFNews/status/1404838608071139330 Exposure to a common antidepressant alters crayfish behavior and has potential subsequent ecosystem impacts - Abstract posted:Pharmaceuticals are ubiquitous in aquatic environments, yet little is known regarding their impacts on ecological processes. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are frequently prescribed human antidepressants and have been shown to alter crayfish behavior. These behavioral alterations are particularly relevant as crayfish play a central role in freshwater ecosystems and often reach high biomass in anthropogenically influenced environments commonly exposed to pharmaceutical contamination. Hubbert has issued a correction as of 20:24 on Jun 28, 2023 |
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Jun 28, 2023 20:22
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silicone thrills posted:Then we will get dust storms instead. woo hoo then we can say extremely funny words like haboob
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Jun 28, 2023 20:25
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Ha! boob
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Jun 28, 2023 20:40
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Grandma says to me "Beautiful weather today. Shame The Smoke will be here soon." Lol considering this has been an issue twice before in my life, once 17 years ago once this year, it did give a satisfying crack-ping
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Jun 28, 2023 20:42
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Pussy Quipped posted:cool new chart just dropped The FRP unit as an accumulated instantaneous power unit in terawatts is breaking my brain a little bit. Does anyone know what values are added up or more on how that's calculated?
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Jun 28, 2023 20:54
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I hadn't seen that study when I wrote that so i was thinking about the co-dominant behaviour seen in rats on SSRIs and half-joking about it generalizing to invertebrates. Which it does apparently, because ofc it does. It's really hard to make a joke these days without capitalist reality beating you to it. celadon posted:once all the forests burn down they cant burn down again Then we start working on the muskeg. If you think burning forests are bad just wait for the smoldering arctic swamps.
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Jun 28, 2023 21:00
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perhaps we should breed wild fires with domesticated fires to produce a more docile form
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Jun 28, 2023 21:11
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How dare those trees burn without boiling steam to power a turbine. That's basically stealing
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Jun 28, 2023 21:12
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antidepressants leave one more vulnerable to predators? someone just get ahead of the curve and make the qcs thread
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Jun 28, 2023 21:22
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Perry Mason Jar posted:Grandma says to me "Beautiful weather today. Shame The Smoke will be here soon." when grandmas start saying ominous poo poo, you know things are getting Real
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Jun 28, 2023 21:23
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actionjackson posted:then we can say extremely funny words like haboob I should have said woo hoo haboob and i can't believe i missed that opportunity
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Jun 28, 2023 21:25
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Haboob feels like a spilled bag of sand
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Jun 28, 2023 21:27
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Potato Salad posted:The FRP unit as an accumulated instantaneous power unit in terawatts is breaking my brain a little bit. Does anyone know what values are added up or more on how that's calculated? If it's the way I would do it, there are three or four satellites that measure daily temperature anomalies (associated with fire). Included in that measurement is an estimated FRP, so by adding all those up across a day or whatever gives you the instantaneous FRP on a day scale. I guess technically you could get it down to the five or so minute instantaneous window on US/CAN but that is a recent development
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Jun 28, 2023 21:29
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also when things get bad enough, those mega cruise ships are absolutely gonna get US Marine escorts and start press-ganging the locals at every port of call
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Jun 28, 2023 21:29
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Laterite posted:also when things get bad enough, those mega cruise ships are absolutely gonna get US Marine escorts and start press-ganging the locals at every port of call Gunboat diplomacy, but you must accept our cruise ship or be fired upon
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Jun 28, 2023 21:31
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Spaced God posted:If it's the way I would do it, there are three or four satellites that measure daily temperature anomalies (associated with fire). Included in that measurement is an estimated FRP, so by adding all those up across a day or whatever gives you the instantaneous FRP on a day scale. I guess technically you could get it down to the five or so minute instantaneous window on US/CAN but that is a recent development "there's unstated bins" was gonna be one guess thanks
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Jun 28, 2023 21:31
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Leave it to geospatial folks to poorly communicate their results 
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Jun 28, 2023 21:35
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kater posted:antidepressants leave one more vulnerable to predators? someone just get ahead of the curve and make the qcs thread lol
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