BoxedFenders
@BoxedFenders@hexbear.net
- Comment on What's your thoughts on this? 4 weeks ago:
All of those are way more rewarding than scrolling on a phone, but most of them actually have a higher carbon footprint. Not that life should be lived purely on that metric, but the ad aims to guilt people for their screen usage. Reminds me of a discussion I read around this chart:
Modern batteries are so efficient that an e-bike has less carbon footprint than traditional cycling- which in itself is much more efficient than walking.
- Comment on What's your thoughts on this? 4 weeks ago:
As far as activities you can do in your leisure time go, browsing through your phone probably has less environmental impact than anything other than napping. Even say, reading a (physical) book is usually going to require you to go to a bookstore or library (or worse, have it delivered) which will have carbon expenditure.
- Comment on Marie Curie 4 weeks ago:
What a banger of a tweet. This is pretty much the perfect reply.
- Comment on Permian Park 5 weeks ago:
Still waiting for dimetrodons to get revised with fur like dinos did with feathers.
- Comment on Hmmm... 5 weeks ago:
Another fun fact to ponder is that tuna (and other bony fish) are more closely related to dolphins than they are to sharks despite both being grouped as “fish”.
- Comment on (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ 2 months ago:
My bad. But you can see how your comment reads like a whataboutism, right?
- Comment on (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ 2 months ago:
Do you REALLY think a minority ethnic group in say, Nigeria, would rather have their artifacts locked away in London under the stewardship of Anglos rather than displayed in Lagos where they can at least visit it?
- Comment on alpha 9 months ago:
I wonder if this discourse sounds hilarious to a Greek person wondering why Angloids keep referring to themselves by letters of their alphabet.
- Comment on the council 9 months ago:
Nautilus, which is like a cuttlefish with a cool spiral shell. I have no idea what they’re doing in this photo though. Probably some sort of intricate sex ritual.
- Comment on bitey 10 months ago:
There’s no way a human’s bite is only 30% less than a dog’s. Our jaws have shitty leverage to chomp down hard.
- Comment on Perfection 1 year ago:
They would most likely look the same but there are still evolutionary changes deeper in the DNA that aren’t visible like metabolic and digestive functions. A modern horseshoe crab would not be able to reproduce with one from a 100 million years ago despite looking virtually identical.
- Comment on We need a larger one. Yes, for the last time. Pleeeeeeeeeease! 1 year ago:
When I see massive and highly technical projects like this I wonder where they find enough skilled labor to build it. Just look at the immense complexity of this and they have build miles and miles of it underground. I’m imagining that all of the construction workers have PhDs in physics or some shit. Or am I overestimating the demands here?
- Comment on Can I still use this salt? 1 year ago:
250 million years ago to 2019. This salt had a good run.
- Comment on tikatalik 1 year ago:
All tetrapods share a common ancestor but the land was already teeming with invertebrate life at the time. Take a look at this handy guide to see our lineage. :)
- Comment on Well, it looks like verification photos might be useless now. 1 year ago:
It’s the video fakes that are really going to upend society. When the tools to make convincing videos with nothing but an AI prompt are in everyone’s hands we are never going to trust anything ever again.
