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Dokapon Findom posted:I drove 400+ miles through farmland this weekend and exactly two bugs splattered on my windshield. I remember 25 years ago my grandpa making the same drive and he had a mesh guard on the front of his truck that'd have so many bugs stuck to it he'd go rinse it out in the creek. Didn't you know that modern cars developed karate kid parrying technology that harmlessly shuffles insects to the side as you drive because aerodynamics? No don't ask me for proof and do not post the scientific studies that show the exact opposite is happening. Cars are as smooth as sharks now. Stop claiming there is massive biodiversity loss its just smooth cars goddammit.
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Oct 10, 2023 15:11
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I keep trying to cast Meteor but its not working
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Oct 10, 2023 15:15
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On a holiday, so finally had some time to read some light-hearted fiction. I know I'm late with this but: Man, is Ministry of the future the fastest outdated utopian sf novel ever ? That premise that some calamity killing some 20 million vulnerable people could be a catalyst for meaningful change. Published in 2020, lmao !
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Oct 10, 2023 15:35
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Oct 10, 2023 15:59
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two-time fee posted:On a holiday, so finally had some time to read some light-hearted fiction. I will never tire of the nuclear powered pumps to stop the glaciers from sliding into the sea… forever
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Oct 10, 2023 16:00
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Dokapon Findom posted:I drove 400+ miles through farmland this weekend and exactly two bugs splattered on my windshield. I remember 25 years ago my grandpa making the same drive and he had a mesh guard on the front of his truck that'd have so many bugs stuck to it he'd go rinse it out in the creek. I miss the fireflies. They seemed much fewer in number this year, and I didn't see my first one until quite late (like the end of June or so).
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Oct 10, 2023 16:17
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tuyop posted:I will never tire of the nuclear powered pumps to stop the glaciers from sliding into the sea… forever By the end of it they are not only on track to solve all the world's hurts in the space of a generation, the girl gets the blimp captain as a treat. "He was perhaps a little nervous. Was he a dry plain himself, she wondered, a space waiting to be flooded? Was she the Atlantic, he the Mediterranean? And she? Was she rising? Would she pour over into him and fill him up?" I mean there's some useful positive messages in this novel, but the nuclearly pumped up cringe doesn't stay conveniently sequestered on the ice caps. two-time fee has issued a correction as of 17:19 on Oct 10, 2023 |
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Oct 10, 2023 16:33
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Nichael posted:I miss the fireflies. They seemed much fewer in number this year, and I didn't see my first one until quite late (like the end of June or so). I haven't seen fireflies since growing up in New Jersey
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Oct 10, 2023 16:50
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Dokapon Findom posted:I drove 400+ miles through farmland this weekend and exactly two bugs splattered on my windshield. I remember 25 years ago my grandpa making the same drive and he had a mesh guard on the front of his truck that'd have so many bugs stuck to it he'd go rinse it out in the creek. too bad your grandpa killed all those bugs back then we could use them now
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Oct 10, 2023 18:57
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tuyop posted:I will never tire of the nuclear powered pumps to stop the glaciers from sliding into the sea… forever i still cant get over THE KEY to everything being some bullshit blockchain climate coin
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Oct 10, 2023 18:59
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Grandpa commiting mass murder against bugs: *recalls fondly* "Ah, the good ole days"
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Oct 10, 2023 19:00
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Dokapon Findom posted:I drove 400+ miles through farmland this weekend and exactly two bugs splattered on my windshield. I remember 25 years ago my grandpa making the same drive and he had a mesh guard on the front of his truck that'd have so many bugs stuck to it he'd go rinse it out in the creek. Bugs are gross so climate change is good now
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Oct 10, 2023 19:11
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Scarabrae posted:I keep trying to cast Meteor but its not working I driveled over it, this was a good joke,thanks 
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Oct 10, 2023 19:30
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Paradoxish posted:It's more likely that we're going to absolutely annihilate "normal" weather patterns and be left with a choice between two wildly unstable and unpredictable climate regimes and no one will be able to settle on "just stop doing it" as the right answer until we've killed a shitload of people. Not even until, we'll just keep burning, and with gusto, because the dead cannot burn fuels and now we have surplus, and think of the low prices! Jevon's Paradox comes for us all. The only way the world is going to stop burning FF is if the fuel stops coming (and it don't stop coming) due to supply chain disruption/destruction, and if there just aren't as many humans around to burn it. It won't stop, it will have to be stopped. There is no scenario where people see the destruction and then have a come to Jesus moment and decide to no really let's stop burning and optimize around not burning. They're either destroyed by climate change or "that was over there and we'll be fine and my use case is special"
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Oct 10, 2023 21:44
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Dokapon Findom posted:I drove 400+ miles through farmland this weekend and exactly two bugs splattered on my windshield. I remember 25 years ago my grandpa making the same drive and he had a mesh guard on the front of his truck that'd have so many bugs stuck to it he'd go rinse it out in the creek. 1200 miles total last week and i had more birdshit hit the windshield than bugs
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Oct 10, 2023 22:02
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two-time fee posted:By the end of it they are not only on track to solve all the world's hurts in the space of a generation, the girl gets the blimp captain as a treat. he walked into the bar looking scraggly like an updated Louisiana coastline. the salt in his hair traveling far upriver. but she could feel the pipes pumping fresh into the intake valves. it would not be a cold October night.
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Oct 10, 2023 22:13
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Climate change is coming for Number. Climate crisis costing $16m an hour in extreme weather damage, study estimates Analysis shows at least $2.8tn in damage from 2000 to 2019 through worsened storms, floods and heatwaves https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/09/climate-crisis-cost-extreme-weather-damage-study quote:It found average costs of $140bn (£115bn) a year from 2000 to 2019, although the figure varies significantly from year to year. The latest data shows $280bn in costs in 2022. The researchers said lack of data, particularly in low-income countries, meant the figures were likely to be seriously underestimated. Additional climate costs, such as from crop yield declines and sea level rise, were also not included. This just got personal *number cricks neck*
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Oct 10, 2023 22:15
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thank yall for reaffirming my disposition against reading speculative fiction written by men. nah jk. The Expanse series was unbelievably good. But Kim Stanley Robinson seems like it's not worth my time and this back and forth confirmed it.
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Oct 10, 2023 22:23
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speaking of 'number' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GI0zANA3S4#t=9m20s
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Oct 10, 2023 22:28
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https://twitter.com/WxNB_/status/1711839307407794462
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Oct 10, 2023 22:34
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Microplastics posted:Climate change is coming for Number. Oh poo poo! The Economy!
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Oct 10, 2023 22:48
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KSR's Mars trilogy was pretty good for the first half, but you know what it ended with weird multi-centenarian orgies and the world being saved by cool hip surfer capitalists who do capitalism right this time so thinking about it for more than a minute it's maybe not great.
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Oct 10, 2023 22:55
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I liked KSR’s Aurora. it was a reasonable look at the idiocy of colony ships. but yeah he’s a bit lib and not the best writer
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Oct 10, 2023 22:57
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two-time fee posted:By the end of it they are not only on track to solve all the world's hurts in the space of a generation, the girl gets the blimp captain as a treat. 
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Oct 10, 2023 23:49
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two-time fee posted:"He was perhaps a little nervous. Was he a dry plain himself, she wondered, a space waiting to be flooded? Was she the Atlantic, he the Mediterranean? And she? Was she rising? Would she pour over into him and fill him up?" ok, I support climate change now pretty sure this lady gonna peg him directly through his Strait of Gibraltar Hubbert has issued a correction as of 00:05 on Oct 11, 2023 |
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Oct 11, 2023 00:02
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kater posted:he walked into the bar looking scraggly like an updated Louisiana coastline. the salt in his hair traveling far upriver. but she could feel the pipes pumping fresh into the intake valves. it would not be a cold October night. 
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Oct 11, 2023 00:03
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Oct 11, 2023 00:05
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Don't fry for me Argentina 
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Oct 11, 2023 00:09
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Microplastics posted:Climate change is coming for Number. Ah, but this is not relevant to Number because they are externalities. Corps losing poo poo: Insurance and government bailout if it gets bad enough. Local government losing poo poo: Lol not a problem for the rich we'll just go somewhere else and we never paid taxes here at all anyway Normal people losing poo poo: Lol lmao, we're raising the price again.
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Oct 11, 2023 00:09
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having to constantly rebuild things is good for business!
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Oct 11, 2023 00:45
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Bilirubin posted:having to constantly rebuild things is good for business! Constantly signing contracts and getting incentives to rebuild and then just never doing anything while getting paid is even better!
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Oct 11, 2023 01:15
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MightyBigMinus posted:these university science blog posts are almost always nonsense but hey here's one that says bpa (which while technically not micropolastic i think its reasonable to conflate them conversationally) is probably a big factor in the rise of adhd and autism in the last few decades quote:In the study, Rosenfeld and her colleagues focused on examining the effects of BPS on a mouse's placenta. She said the placenta serves as a historical record of what an unborn child faces while in the womb; the placenta also can transfer whatever the mother might be exposed to in her blood, such as harmful chemicals, into the developing child. To also add, people have done research with exposure on rats and the effects are profoundly extremely bad, and they build up generationally too. while humans aren't rats per se, there's a lot of similarities and you can study generation-to-generation effects. you would have to be bonafide derangely brain damaged to pretend like humans are actually just immune to all pollution. introducing endocrine disruptors to developing fetus (or even post-utero development) is extraordinarily bad and damaging for a number of mental and physical abilities
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Oct 11, 2023 03:03
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Yeah but if we made sure the poo poo we do at an industrial level was safe before we did it that would slow the pace of innovation and make the number sad! You wouldn't want the number to be sad, would you?
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Oct 11, 2023 03:13
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quiggy posted:Yeah but if we made sure the poo poo we do at an industrial level was safe before we did it that would slow the pace of innovation and make the number sad! You wouldn't want the number to be sad, would you? *Camera closeup on my face* "gently caress Number" *Shocked crowds, fainting women, crying Lady Liberty*
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Oct 11, 2023 03:54
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there is nothing I want more than sad number
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Oct 11, 2023 04:02
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making number sad is malthusianism
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Oct 11, 2023 04:19
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Microplastics posted:Climate change is coming for Number. sounds like climate change has causes 2.8 trillion in SALES for number. praise be to number and climate change. number goes up!
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Oct 11, 2023 04:22
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TehSaurus posted:there is nothing I want more than sad number only sad number can save the world
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Oct 11, 2023 05:19
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"The vast majority of the world’s plants that have not even been named yet are probably threatened with extinction, scientists have calculated. An international team from 30 countries found that 77% of the world’s estimated 100,000 undescribed species were predicted to be at risk of extinction."
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Oct 11, 2023 10:30
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The Oldest Man posted:only sad number can save the world you make a compelling argument 
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Oct 11, 2023 12:22
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