starman2112
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- Comment on Entropy? Never heard of it. 2 days ago:
Try thinking for a second.
Places where trees don’t grow are probably not the best places for carbon sequestration if you can’t sequester carbon there cheaper or easier than sequestering carbon in trees elsewhere
- Comment on Entropy? Never heard of it. 3 days ago:
Because if it isn’t cheaper than simply growing trees, the money would be better spent simply growing trees
- Comment on Entropy? Never heard of it. 4 days ago:
Yes, the most that carbon capture can do is temporarily slow down climate change. It turns out the only way you can stop getting carbon from outside the carbon cycle into the carbon cycle is to stop taking carbon from outside the carbon cycle and putting it into the carbon cycle.
But the problem with oil is that it’s really good, and it does a lot of stuff really well
- Comment on Entropy? Never heard of it. 4 days ago:
If you can find a more efficient, less expensive way to physically sequester carbon from the atmosphere than letting forests grow, I’m sure there’s a lot of awards you could win
- Comment on THE EARTH IS SPHERICAL, DIPSHITS 5 days ago:
The "science"tists keep changing their story. First it’s flat, then it’s a sphere, then it’s an obligatory spherical, then it’s a pear
You know who hasn’t changed their story? The ancient peoples who didn’t have accurate maps. They’ve maintained the flatness of the earth for thousands of years, so it must be the right answer
- Comment on THE EARTH IS SPHERICAL, DIPSHITS 5 days ago:
Eretosthenes’ experiment could just as easily prove a smaller, closer sun
The best proof is that you can look at the Sun and the moon with your eyes (maybe use a filter for the sun) and see them not change size throughout their path along the sky, which proves that they aren’t getting appreciably closer or farther
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 6 days ago:
I mean you can check my math, I just added up all the births per year in this article
www.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/…/111928356/
Rounding to one significant figure, it’s 311.9 million people born in the US since 1933. Adding an average of 4 million births per year since then, it’s 335.9. I rounded up to 350 to bring it to a nice round number
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 6 days ago:
I don’t think we’ve gone through 999 million options yet. Only about 300 million people have been born since 1933, so even if we add all 127 million US citizens alive in 1935, that’s still less than half of the possible social security numbers.
The reason we’ve likely reused numbers is because they weren’t randomly assigned until like 2011. Knowing that I was born in 1995 in Wichita, KS, you could make an educated guess at the first three digits of my SSN
- Comment on Anon finds a new way to get protein 1 week ago:
To save other readers a search
“Anything over one gram of salt per two pounds of body weight is cause for concern,” which means for a 5 lbs cat, it would take 2.5 grams of salt to cause concern. That is approximately 10 small orders of fries at McDonald’s, or two entire bags of salty ass chips
Of course they get sodium from their food so don’t feed them chips, but also yeah they can eat a ton of salt
- Comment on Anon describes the micro-celeb pipeline 1 week ago:
Lmao if medieval serfs could reliably get paid to have nude portraits drawn and sent across the world they would do it too
Friendly reminder that your grandparents at least as degenerate as you, they just didn’t have smartphone cameras 24/7
- Comment on Anon has a busy day 1 week ago:
get pneumonia
go to hospital
can’t do dailies for 3 days
i will never catch back up
Meanwhile I just opened Stardew for the first time in 6 months and my pup just gave me some bone shards for petting him
- Comment on Sploosh 1 week ago:
upscaled 4k pictures with advanced AI interpolation
You can’t get more information out of the pictures than there is in the pictures. The most an upscaler can do is make the equivalent of an artist’s interpretation of a 4k picture.
- Comment on imagine 1 week ago:
Sure, you’ve just described one of the ways that Monsanto is evil. Keeping a deathgrip on the seed production and making the cost of signing another contract just slightly less than the cost of a potential legal battle is scummy as hell. Instead of making things up to be mad at, let’s be mad at them for that.
- Comment on imagine 1 week ago:
I don’t see any natural means by which those seeds dispersed. Actually, it looks like he knew he was growing seeds that could get him in trouble
He knew that these beans probably had Monsanto’s Roundup Ready gene in them, because that’s mainly what farmers plant these days. But Bowman didn’t think Monsanto controlled these soybeans anymore, and in any case, he was getting a motley collection of different varieties, hardly a threat to Monsanto’s seed business. “I couldn’t imagine that they’d give a rat’s behind,” he snorts.
Monsanto is evil enough, we do not have to exaggerate how evil they are.
- Comment on imagine 1 week ago:
I feel that I’m correct because by both the strict definition of the word suing, and the inclusion of out of court settlements, I can’t find any examples of Monsanto pursuing any sort of legal action against farmers who accidentally grew their crops when the seeds were spread by natural means.
Don’t get me wrong, the concept of patenting a living thing is ghoulish and evil, and farmers should absolutely be allowed to grow whatever seeds they want. Just don’t misrepresent someone intentionally breaching a contract as something totally accidental and out of their control
- Comment on imagine 1 week ago:
No they don’t. There’s never been any lawsuits filed for accidentally growing GM crops
- Comment on The new Hulu Subscriber agreement just dropped - Don't like ads too bad. 2 weeks ago:
If I’m stealing potential profits, then there wasn’t much potential. My bank account is still near empty
- Comment on The new Hulu Subscriber agreement just dropped - Don't like ads too bad. 2 weeks ago:
Pirate your shows. Not just as a defense against ads, but as a defense against Disney throwing plotlines down the Memory Hole
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
A) Visit the country you want to support
B) Stop buying so much stuff
I’m not trying to throw any shade at you, but it’s kind of sad when the the question isn’t “how do I get by without buying stuff,” but rather “what can I buy more of to improve the situation?”
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Wait. I can’t go to Canada, buy a jacket for 20 CAD, and bring it back to the US without paying a tariff on it?
- Comment on Anon was mysterious 2 weeks ago:
Waggle all wavy like
- Comment on unless it’s really really funny 2 weeks ago:
And remember kids: thanks to the FOIA, it’s not a crime to own or distribute TM-31-210 and TM-32-201-1
At least, not yet. Get em while you can!
- Comment on The one drawback to walking at night 2 weeks ago:
Woman: “I and everyone I know have had some really bad experiences with men”
This dude: “Actually, you’ve had bad experiences with a small minority of men. Why do you hate all men?”
- Comment on Don't forget where we came from and what shaped us as a species. The Jungle. 2 weeks ago:
You say the cow cares? I say the cow never asked for your advocacy. And we both know you cannot prove it has.
I can prove pretty easily that cows can suffer. I can’t prove that any individual cow wanted to live any more than I can prove that any murder victim wanted to live, but it’s a safe fucking assumption that they did.
And it’s also safe to assume they are entirely clueless about the concept of meat consumption
And a child doesn’t know what sex is, but it turns out that the victim not being able to comprehend the crime being committed against them is not a justification for committing that crime. I know, you don’t think your logic can be expanded to cover things outside of dietary decisions, but it does whether you like it or not.
What someone wants to eat, provided it is legal- is only considered to be your business to you and you alone- not to them. So your opinions of their consumption of cheeseburgers is every bit as important to an omnivore as the opinions of Christian fundamentalists are to the LGBTQ.
Something being legal does not mean it’s okay, and my opinion of me consumption is a bit more meaningful than the opinions of Christian fundamentalists to the lgbt, on account that your perfectly legal dietary decisions actively cause harm in a way that being gay doesn’t.
- Comment on Don't forget where we came from and what shaped us as a species. The Jungle. 3 weeks ago:
Oreos are famously vegan. There’s some dispute about the ethics of buying products with palm oil, and some sugar suppliers might use bone char to filter sugar, but the ingredients don’t necessarily include any animal products
- Comment on Don't forget where we came from and what shaped us as a species. The Jungle. 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Don't forget where we came from and what shaped us as a species. The Jungle. 3 weeks ago:
>inb4 some room temperature IQ replies with “are you really equating eating meat with slavery?”
No, slavery is worse than animal agriculture. That doesn’t mean that animal agriculture isn’t wrong for the same reasons that slavery is. You’re driving a demand for unnecessary harm to be done to sentient beings for a product you don’t need to survive.
- Comment on Don't forget where we came from and what shaped us as a species. The Jungle. 3 weeks ago:
If someone wants to eat a steak, who cares?
The cow
- Comment on Don't forget where we came from and what shaped us as a species. The Jungle. 3 weeks ago:
So does my phone when the battery is low. Do you reckon I’m hurting it by not plugging it in right now?
- Comment on Don't forget where we came from and what shaped us as a species. The Jungle. 3 weeks ago:
