Pipoca
@Pipoca@lemmy.world
- Comment on Plant Natives 9 months ago:
Yeah, there’s a pretty big difference between a lawn in Vermont or Ohio, and one in Nevada or southern California.
- Comment on Plant Natives 9 months ago:
Grass really, really depends on location and climate. I literally never water or fertilize my lawn; it looks fine.
The worse thing here is ecological. I keep my mower set to 4", and keep my lawn a bit longer than my neighbors. I see a ton of fire flies in my yard in the summer, and see a fraction as many in my neighbors yard.
Short lawns are terrible habitat, which makes them good for sports or a children’s play area. But 80% of my neighbor’s lawn is just aesthetic, which is something I really don’t get. Lawns are about as visually exciting as a beige wall. They’re a waste of space.
- Comment on Horseshoe theory 9 months ago:
Fair. I should have said that many legless lizards aren’t snakes.
- Comment on Horseshoe theory 9 months ago:
Not in the right clade, basically.
They look similar, but aren’t directly related. It’s similar to why legless lizards aren’t snakes, and bats aren’t birds.
- Comment on aLiEnS!!1 1 year ago:
Stick assembly is the key thing.
You’re not going to find a thread strong enough to pull a few tonnes of stone, but you can easily pull it with a large number of ropes pulled by a few hundred people.
Similarly, a single 8x8 beam as a lever arm would just snap, but a dozen 8x8 beams as lever arms for a dozen levers probably wouldn’t.
- Comment on My friend on social refuses to see how this is a pyramid scheme 1 year ago:
Right.
As described, for you to get two books, someone else got zero. For you to get three books, two people got zero.
The median person gets zero books. A few lucky people get 2-36 books.
- Comment on My friend on social refuses to see how this is a pyramid scheme 1 year ago:
If everyone is putting in one book, for you to get 36 books, 35 other people have to get 0 books.
- Comment on SUVs emit more climate damaging gas than older cars do, study finds 1 year ago:
Which mostly means it doesn’t matter. Car vs electric truck is basically a rounding error compared to either a lorry or the regular freeze-thaw cycle.
- Comment on Milk 1 year ago:
Soy milk is great, but it’s not a good milk substitute.
It should taste beany, and that’s not really what I want with my cereal. A Chinese cruller, on the other hand…
- Comment on Time to grow up. 1 year ago:
What do you imagine happens to old dairy cattle? We just compost them?
Dairy cattle absolutely get slaughtered for food. If you eat them, though, they were probably in your burger or hotdog.
That’s because older animals are less tender than young animals, and consumers prefer tender meat.
- Comment on Amazon anti Union propaganda 1 year ago:
The fact that they have it on this blatant of a propaganda poster means that unions work.
Not necessarily.
A poster this blatant means unions are bad for management.
It doesn’t prove that unions aren’t bad for both workers and management alike. Business isn’t a zero sum game. To show that something helps workers, you need to demonstrate that it helps workers.
Which is to say, this poster is a bad argument for unions. The success of the writers strike, on the other hand, is a good argument of how unions protect workers from the bad deals management offers.
- Comment on Why is everyone so giddy about the flooding thay happened at burning man? 1 year ago:
And these people are buying tens of thousands of feet of lumber solely to burn it away in the middle of nowhere where there’s little vegetation to absorb the excess CO2 waste.
That’s not really how plants work.
Photosynthesis turns co2 + water into sugar + oxygen. Cellular respiration turns sugar + oxygen into co2 + water.
The total co2 absorbed by a plant is exactly equal to the amount of co2 used to make all the sugar, cellulose, etc. the plant currently has. Digestion, decomposition, fires etc. undo that.
A mature forest or lawn is carbon neutral: new growth is balanced out by decomposition of old growth.
Distance to plants doesn’t matter. What matters is if and how the trees they’re burning are being replanted or replaced. .
- Comment on Tale as old as time 1 year ago:
He wasn’t well- known, but had had a bunch of assorted roles on TV and movies.
- Comment on Is America Really That Bad? 1 year ago:
According to etymonline, Yankee has been used to refer to different sets of Americans by different people for hundreds of years.
1683, a name applied disparagingly by Dutch settlers in New Amsterdam (New York) to English colonists in neighboring Connecticut. … In English a term of contempt (1750s) before its use as a general term for “native of New England” (1765); during the American Revolution it became a disparaging British word for all American natives or inhabitants. Contrasted with southerner by 1828. Shortened form Yank in reference to “an American” first recorded 1778.
The British calling someone from Texas a Yankee isn’t really any more right or wrong than someone from Texas calling someone from Pennsylvania a Yankee. Words can have contextual meanings.
- Comment on Is America Really That Bad? 1 year ago:
The problem is plurality voting.
Plurality elections only really work well with two candidates.
That doesn’t always equate to two parties on a national scale. Regional third parties can do well, like the Scottish National Party or the Partie Quebecois. But national third parties generally underperform in plurality.
The US has had several successive major parties. If one dies, another quickly forms to take its place.
- Comment on Don't worry. Be happy. 🙃 1 year ago:
Mostly.
What really matters for hyperthermia is the “wet bulb” temperature. Basically, the temperature you get when you wrap a thermometer with a wet cloth, simulating the cooling you get from sweat.
120° F with 5% relative humidity is a wet bulb temperature of about 69°.