Can people please realize that saying Idiocracy is a documentary is agreeing with eugenicists

The point is to get people excited so they can get funding to keep developing the technologies that will make this kind of genetic engineering commercially viable

Awesome! I love the Great Tit!

Found the novelization

https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Random-Signals-Noise-Etten/dp/0470024119?dplnkId=0defcd31-47c4-4604-9844-65a3812ea6b7

It’s not a straw man, the guy knows what he’s talking about. Destroying biodiversity is a major problem with a lot of tree farms and tree planting programs. Tree planting doesn’t HAVE to do that but that kind of management is hard to do, like the guy said

Can you not afford an air conditioner? A heatpump is only marginally more expensive

Two things

1. Politics is for Power provides a pretty good model for thinking about this https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Politics-Is-for-Power/Eitan-Hersh/9781982116798

There’s a lot of political hobbyism on social media in general and Lemmy is really bad for it. Take for example the constant Elon Musk rage bait. No one is doing anything productive with that information. They’re just getting mad

2. Social media, in general, isn’t a good way to get informed. It makes you feel really in touch but when a lot of the time you’re getting biased and polarizing that is often as enraging as it is unproductive

We treat politics like entertainment and it’s making our politics worse. Personally I try to limit my exposure to politics that I don’t think will be productive. It might feel like the most important thing in the moment but it’s often a huge waste of time

That’s a false dichotomy in a lot of the comments here

We do both

Carbon capture isn’t so we can continue to use fossil fuels. It’s because once we get to 0 emissions we still need to draw down the carbon in the atmosphere

An ounce of prevention is almost always worth a pound of cure but we’re still going to want that cure because every extra tenth of a degree we can bring the Earth back to normal is going to be worth it

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_Stop_Oil

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/10/just-stop-oil-behind-the-scenes-with-the-activists

I can’t find any evidence that they were founded by her but she did help found the climate action fund which has donated a large amount of money to them as well as Extinction Rebellion

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aileen_Getty

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_Emergency_Fund

I think she’s probably genuine but that’s also besides the point. Whether she has alternative motives or not all that really matters is whether the activism is helping or hurting

Agreed

https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=wish

If this plays like wish it means you have to put the blue eyes white dragon in your sideboard in order to play it during competitive play

Of course this card would be allowed in competitive play but I think the idea of putting a blue eyes white dragon in your sideboard is very funny

Who knew I knew about more than just Parus Major

https://www.iflscience.com/the-big-nose-big-hose-hypothesis-is-true-according-to-study-on-corpses-59601

Skincancer.org is my source for darker colors being better protection

https://www.skincancer.org/blog/dress-to-protect-5-things-that-affect-how-well-your-clothes-block-uv-rays/

I don’t have the highest degree of confidence in it but it makes sense to me that absorption matters more than reflection because a lot of the reflected UV will be going through the shirt and onto your skin

That’s why materials like linen aren’t as good for UV protection. They’re light weaves and let a lot of light through, still

Tradeoff is dark colors absorb more UV so it provides better protection from the sun

Took me a second

They wouldn’t call the year 59 bc in 59 bc