i like biomass
Lov the symmetry of taking CO2 out of the air and then putting it back up there. Circles are good.
Remember that you too are biomass.
Feel like there's another 5 levels at least beyond, topping out at "I have had a Michelin star". But I very much doubt that anyone with a Michelin star is on Tumblr.
I think there is something wrong with the scale because I can do 2 and 4 but not 3.
3 and 4 should switch, and realistically anyone who can do 2 can also go "You know what? Double the garlic."
Why do Youtube videos pretend that fixing a flat bicycle tire is something you can easily do in ten minutes without special equipment when in fact it requires an hour and a half, a bunch of tools, three hands, copious swearing, and the intercession of several saints?
I always get a kind of… reality shock, you could say, from things like this. Because most of the discussion of racism I see is about stuff like a fan artist drawing a dark-skinned character with not-dark-enough skin.
And then I take a look at the real world and I see people entrusted by society with the power to destroy lives, blatantly using that power to punish anyone who dares to be born the wrong ethnicity.
"as so many of them seem to think" yeah what a silly mistake for these people to have made, can you imagine having such awful reading comprehension, couldn't be me
increasingly coming around to the idea that more leftists need to get marketing degrees
I think the person who wrote this is simply lying.
No no we have to me maximally charitable to people who are actively hostile to the concept of charity.
Yeah, a lot of people are confused by this terminology, and I'm afraid you guys have it completely wrong here. White veganism is when you have a whitelist of acceptable foods, and those are the only ones you can eat. It contrasts with black veganism where you have a blacklist of unacceptable foods and you can eat anything not on the list.
White veganism overlaps a lot with fruitarianism and is indeed considered pretty extreme and militant in vegan circles. (I met a guy once who claimed he only ate garbanzo beans, and he was, uh, kinda out there.) Hope this helps, and please, try not to make everything about race.
Making it all about which species you'll eat is not any better! Kingdoms are the only acceptable taxon to filter on!
Right, so in addition to white, black, gray, and green veganism, there's also phyloveganism, where you only from a particular taxon, but you'll eat everything in that taxon. And it turns out that it's really difficult to find a taxon that includes something palatable but doesn't include e.g. hemlock, so this is not very popular, but then there are some people who will try to make it work.
"as so many of them seem to think" yeah what a silly mistake for these people to have made, can you imagine having such awful reading comprehension, couldn't be me
increasingly coming around to the idea that more leftists need to get marketing degrees
I think the person who wrote this is simply lying.
No no we have to me maximally charitable to people who are actively hostile to the concept of charity.
Yeah, a lot of people are confused by this terminology, and I'm afraid you guys have it completely wrong here. White veganism is when you have a whitelist of acceptable foods, and those are the only ones you can eat. It contrasts with black veganism where you have a blacklist of unacceptable foods and you can eat anything not on the list.
White veganism overlaps a lot with fruitarianism and is indeed considered pretty extreme and militant in vegan circles. (I met a guy once who claimed he only ate garbanzo beans, and he was, uh, kinda out there.) Hope this helps, and please, try not to make everything about race.
Tossing Another Log Onto The Fire voted greatest activity uncontested 50,000 yrs
figured id share this update here for those wanting to keep up with the bandcamp union Bandcamp United and how their efforts have been going
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Civilization was not developed to produce food for people. It is specifically the organizational processes of limiting access to abundance as a means of social and ecological hegemonic dominance. Hope this helps :)
It's neither of these things. "Civilization" is a post hoc term for "all the stuff people have been doing for the past 5-12 thousand years, or at least all the stuff sedentary people have been doing". A wide variety of historians and archeologists have rightly criticized the term as basically meaning nothing, other than conveying a vague judgement about the relative worth of settled vs. nomadic hunter-gatherer societies. Anyway, "civilization" wasn't developed by anybody or for any purpose, it's just a hodgepodge of shit that's been going on recently (in, you know, geological terms).
Wrong again. "Civilization" was developed by Sid Meier in response to his fascination with recently released "god games" like Sim City and Populous, which he believed were the foremost evidence that computer games could be "about" more than destruction. Civilization is now a particularly successful and well-established franchise known as a formative example of and the premier of the 4x genre. It has shipped more than 40 million total units and further installments are still being developed.
No, that's not it either. "Civilization" was developed as a board game in 1980 by Francis Tresham. This was the first game of any kind to include a technology tree. Tresham also developed the 18XX series of railroad-themed board games, which were, incidentally, the inspiration for Sid Meier's computer game Railroad Tycoon.
so, there's the whole teleporter death experiment. you walk into a teleporter it creates an exact copy of you somewhere else and destroys the original. ex hypothesi, we're granting that the copy of you is in fact identical in all observable ways; there is no hidden soul variable that cannot be replicated physically and without which your body is just a lump of inanimate flesh or has a different personality or whatever. people argue about whether the person walking in is in some meaningful sense still alive as the copy or just dead, y'all know that bit.
so imagine they are introducing teleporter technology, specifically the thought experiment kind of copy-kill teleporter though obviously the marketing doesn't emphasise it, people have huge objections, other people argue that it's much more convenient and economical (imagine we also solved all our problems with generating enormous amounts of clean energy, in the meantime, such that 'build someone up atom by atom' is an economically competitive mode of transportation).
and then imagine this one guy. he heard of the new thing and it sounds scary. he's against it. he's not, like, bombing teleporter factories about it, though, he occasionally posts memes depicting the pro-teleport side as unflattering caricatures and that's the extent of his involvement on the matter. he's in a car crash. he goes into a coma. twenty years later, he wakes up, meets his family, kids all grown up, etc, tearful reunion, whatever. turns out, the culture war on teleporters is over, the pro side won, they're everywhere.
his husband and kids tell him they got very against cars after what happened to him, teleporters are much safer, nobody ever gets hurt in one (by which they mean there's always a whole uninjured copy coming out the other end, of course). and like, they need them for work, you can't expect them to commute to their jobs on the other end of the continent without teleporters, it'd eat their entire day in commuting and besides who can afford it. besides, they're perfectly safe, look, they took one here, they're fine, of course they're not dead.
of course it'll take him a bit to get used to it, yeah, they can rent a car for now. it'll eat into their finances a little but y'know they can afford it and they love him. sure he's recovering nobody expects him to get a job or go shopping for groceries. but of course if he does really the only convenient way to do it is by teleporter, they didn't pick their neighbourhood for the philosophical implications of the available modes of transportation, why would they.
so, y'know. this person, who so recently (from his own point of view, at least) would have told you that stepping into a teleporter would kill him. that has not seen anything contradicting that opinion since waking up, because he agrees that the teleporter works and the copy is identical, he just thinks (thought?) that the copy isn't the same person. that would never dream of saying 'hm i should die, that would really make the family logistics much simpler', and of course neither would anyone else in his family.
how long does he hold out, do you think?
When he accepts them as his family and goes home with them, he has already begun to give in. I give him a week or two.
“La Planète Sauvage” René Laloux,1971
@squareallworthy friend of yours?
You might think this is cute, but that square is clearly uncomfortable and showing signs of distress. Not cool.
for a quick litmus test, you would tell a critter to “shoo” and a varmint to “scram” . scientists agree and they’re actually giving me bravery awards
"5" is such a bad glyph! maybe the worst one i use routinely.
It would be a little less bad if we did not already have S, but still bad.
Learning that part of Elizabeth Holmes' megalomania was making everyone read "The Alchemist" making me ask:
If you were an egomaniacal tech startup entrepreneur, what book would you foist upon your minions?
The King in Yellow
i feel like the school shootings as like a go-to criticism of the US are like an automatic "this person is innumerate or ignorant" signal. the US has tons of problems! the US has a truly massive amount of problems, many of which are rare among wealthy countries! and yeah, school shootings are *bad*, obviously. but to anyone capable of basic division they are so obviously not a big deal.
I mean you are right quantitatively but I can't help but read this as
This Is not a Big Deal, Says Only Country where This Happens
It's not actually the only country where this happens, the Onion article that slogan came from was written by satirists with anti-gun-rights politics, not by people who are actually investigating rates of shooting deaths in different parts of the world.
Wait, what are the rates of mass shootings in the US compared to other countries?
"The U.S. endures the most mass shootings in the world, with—depending upon one's definition of a mass shooting (see next section)—somewhere between 21 and more than 600 in 2020. A 2015 Politifact article correcting then-President Barack Obama’s statement that no other advanced country experiences mass shootings like the U.S. cited data from 2000 to 2014 to prove that mass shootings do indeed happen in other advanced countries. However, the article conceded that the U.S. experienced 133 shootings during that period, while the next-highest total was Germany with six."
Mmmmhmmm...
So if I am reading these data correctly, for the years 2009-2015, the US had 199 deaths from mass shootings, while the EU countries totaled 228 (using only those EU countries listed and assuming those not listed had zero deaths). The EU has a larger population than the US, so annual deaths in mass shootings per million people comes to 0.84 in the US and 0.63 in the EU. The EU has a larger population than the US, so accounting for that, the EU was 75% as deadly as the US for mass shootings over this period.
And that is a much higher rate in the EU than I expected. Of course, in both areas, mass shooting deaths are still very rare. For comparison, an average of 23 people were killed by lighting strikes in the US over the years 2012-2021.
The years 2009 to 2015 are going to distort the numbers by including the Utøya shooting in Norway, 72 deaths in a single day, one third of the total for 'EU' countries (which Norway is not). Of course, excluding the outlier has its own problems. Averages are kind of tricky for this sort of power-law process; we see the same with deaths from terrorism where your results change drastically depending on whether 2001 is included or not.
The figures I gave above only include EU countries, so I already excluded Norway, along with the other non-EU countries mentioned in the article. On the other hand I did include the UK, since it was in the EU at the time.
i feel like the school shootings as like a go-to criticism of the US are like an automatic "this person is innumerate or ignorant" signal. the US has tons of problems! the US has a truly massive amount of problems, many of which are rare among wealthy countries! and yeah, school shootings are *bad*, obviously. but to anyone capable of basic division they are so obviously not a big deal.
I mean you are right quantitatively but I can't help but read this as
This Is not a Big Deal, Says Only Country where This Happens
It's not actually the only country where this happens, the Onion article that slogan came from was written by satirists with anti-gun-rights politics, not by people who are actually investigating rates of shooting deaths in different parts of the world.
Wait, what are the rates of mass shootings in the US compared to other countries?
"The U.S. endures the most mass shootings in the world, with—depending upon one's definition of a mass shooting (see next section)—somewhere between 21 and more than 600 in 2020. A 2015 Politifact article correcting then-President Barack Obama’s statement that no other advanced country experiences mass shootings like the U.S. cited data from 2000 to 2014 to prove that mass shootings do indeed happen in other advanced countries. However, the article conceded that the U.S. experienced 133 shootings during that period, while the next-highest total was Germany with six."
Mmmmhmmm...
So if I am reading these data correctly, for the years 2009-2015, the US had 199 deaths from mass shootings, while the EU countries totaled 228 (using only those EU countries listed and assuming those not listed had zero deaths). The EU has a larger population than the US, so annual deaths in mass shootings per million people comes to 0.84 in the US and 0.63 in the EU. The EU has a larger population than the US, so accounting for that, the EU was 75% as deadly as the US for mass shootings over this period.
And that is a much higher rate in the EU than I expected. Of course, in both areas, mass shooting deaths are still very rare. For comparison, an average of 23 people were killed by lighting strikes in the US over the years 2012-2021.
seahorse seashell party. who didn’t invite me
mr walkway. mr walk-down-me-im-the-walkway. lead me to the building. fuck you
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This is the Finnegans Wake of skluugposting. As in, I'm a big fan of the author's previous work but I just cannot figure out how to interpret this one.