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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"The American experiment endures," Biden said. "We're going to be OK."⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Thanks, Joe von Hindenbiden
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She-Ra Lives!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
What I find interesting about this article is that it critiques heavily about the first 200 pages, says almost nothing about the next 600, and then says the conclusion is unsatisfactory because it didn’t quote the book the author wrote in 1991. It’s transparently personal.

Academics write books. Get over it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She-Ra Lives!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah it’s a summary work that draws on decades of research. Both of these authors are extremely well-published in their respective fields. I’m like a third of the way through Dawn of Everything and it’s just as academic as “Debt” was, and neither are mass-market pulp. But work like this always draws hit pieces because it’s a way for critics to get their name out there.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She-Ra Lives!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Check out “The Dawn of Everything” by Wengrow and Graeber
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is martial arts really that useful?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Not enough data for language scrape
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People warn about culture shock, but nothing prepared ne for this solid toilet paper roll in Vietnam⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Legitimately curious about the stockings. I get all the other jokes in this thread but that one went over my head.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flowchart for STEM⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Not this one. Environmental scientists end up cleaning up after them.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flowchart for STEM⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Then when you go to grad school you realize you have to like all of them.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Code⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Scientist here. I encourage everyone to use a shadow library like Scihub to break the stranglehold that Elsevier and Wiley have on the free availability of knowledge. These are financialized corporations that add nothing to society and leach off of scientists’ hard work.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Irresistible⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
A schwarschild radius of 0.5 meters corresponds to about 56 Earth masses. So Richard must have accreted a bunch of mass before he collapsed.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tea Time⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
An AI would give a generic definition of Saturn and a generic definition of tea and then say something irrelevant like “scientists disagree about the exact composition of Saturn’s core”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tea Time⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Saturn is a mixture of gases. It has a solid rocky/hydrogen core surrounded by a layer of liquid hydrogen/helium. You could argue that this intermediate liquid layer might have solid particulates, and this would agree with the definition, but overall Saturn is too complicated to be classified this way. A better extreme example would be something like Earth’s oceans.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It is very therapeutic to garden, though.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Haber will obviously continue to be used and work but as long as there’s a fossil fuel price to make it happen expect more extreme storms, fires, droughts, floods, ocean acidification, and possibly methane clathrate release triggering a runaway greenhouse effect like during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hero⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I think it’s the degree. To speak from experience, when you are a grad student you get a feeling like there’s corruption but overall your project seems like it’s important and making a real contribution (hopefully). You also don’t have to worry about where the money is coming from. Sometimes the grant as a whole is total bullshit but there is enough discretionary spending included that great science comes out of it. But you don’t realize this until you’re writing grants, and by then you’re maybe too deep in the game to pull out. Essentially, you end up becoming a manager once you get tenure. There is no epiphany; it’s more like a slow creep.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hero⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
There is no alternative if you actually want to do science and don’t have millions of dollars to buy labs and materials and instruments. Science gets done in spite of everything she is describing.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there another way to do it...?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Sometimes. Sometimes it’s an intro sentence that already has 2 citations and just needs a 3rd, and you just find a paper with more measurements and the same conclusions.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon wants to ride a zeppelin⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I think they’d be solar powered with some kind of thin film photovoltaic. You don’t need much battery in that case. While some carbon cost is inevitable, the point is they wouldn’t ever compete with something that burns kerosene.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon wants to ride a zeppelin⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Airships only make sense in a world in which the economy takes into account ecodestruction. Kind of like wind-powered ships. If we didn’t know what GHGs do environmentally, which offset any short-term efficiency gains provided by burning hydrocarons, nobody would ever dream of abandoning these miracle fuels. So you can only examine the efficiency of airships with hydrocarbons off the table entirely.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solve a puzzle for me⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
And nobody on the internet is asking obvious questions like that, so counterintuitively it’s better at solving hard problems. Not that it actually has any idea what it is doing.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It is very therapeutic to garden, though.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Pre-Columbian Meso-Americans were already exploiting nitrogen fixing bacteria with the milpa (corn, beans, squash). Anyway the point is if your yield is dependent on how much fertilizer you produce industrially then the sky is the limit for how much coal to burn.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It is very therapeutic to garden, though.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Right, those are all irreplacable parts of global capitalism and its ruling oligarchy.

Haber Bosch is basically just squeezing nitrogen and oxygen together with a catalyst to make ammonia. To generate high pressures you need energy which you get by burning hydrocarbons. Legumes and bacteria can also do this, which is why crop rotation and letting fields lie fallow has been done for centuries. But you can’t let your field lie fallow if you have to compete with other firms who are burning coal to make fertilizer…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It is very therapeutic to garden, though.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Monoculture is terrible for the ecosystem. Fertilizer runoff causes algal blooms and dead zones in the ocean. Multinational agricultural conglomerates force developing world farmers to purchase their GMO seeds sue them for copyright infingement if they try to use their seed stock in the next season. Rainforests are being burned down to make room for pastures of methane emitting cattle and monocultured palm oil plantations. The Haber-Bosch process is responsible for 5% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Should I go on? At what point am I supposed to like this?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah see here you go. Response to “meat is bad” is “meat is fucking awesome.”

Evidence for meat is bad: I mean just drive by a factory farm. Look at any of the standard practices of the industry. Objectively horrific by any standard.

Evidence for meat is awesome: bro check out this sick bacon weave. Guy Fieri. Etc. all of it divorced completely from the process, and acknowledging meat only as an industrial product that comes packaged as a block or cylinder.

It’s an absurd argument. Nobody is arguing that meat isn’t delicious. We’re saying that everything about its production is awful.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I love how people try to make this some kind of cultural issue about picking restaurants or providing options. Anybody who spends 5 minutes looking into the industry will realize it goes against basic human decency.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨rollin' coal⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Literally children who want big loud vroom vroom trucks with lots of chrome.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨checkmate, big geology!!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
This is literally what happens when a volcano erupts. Magma solidifes at the top and creates a plug, which builds pressure until it explodes.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not happening, dude⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
They are usually uneducated and poor with trauma in their backgrounds. They have no idea what they’re signing up for.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨military industrial publishing complex⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Open access fees are generally like $4000 per article. Now find a grad student or postdoc (the people actually writing these articles) who has that kind of money to spend because they “believe in free and open access to information.”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this it? Is there anything more to life, am I missing something?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Well, capitalism has been hinted at here, but as far as I can see, nobody has suggested that we try to change society so that it’s less oppressive. I realized a while ago that profit doesn’t motivate me, and it sounds like you might have as well. I suggest (in addition to following the excellent medical advice) that you seek out your local socialist organization. Life doesn’t have to be this depressing.