Cocodapuf

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[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

PS: Let me make this clear: I don't give a shit about what China does unless it involves actual ethnic cleansing and mass rape. If we don't give a shit about the latter, we shouldn't "get involved" in the former.

Funny you should bring that up... You should ask the Uyghurs in China about that.

Also, the world watched them impose their rule over Hong Kong, we watched their military murder their way through protesting civilians. We know what to expect from China, we've seen their playbook.

But Taiwan is an ally of the USA, Japan is an ally of the USA, and we will stand by them. There are many other sovereign nations in the waters of the South China Sea, China does not own all that territory.

It would be in China's best interest to back the fuck off.

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Well, I'm convinced!

Btw, if you get a raise or like a bonus or something for convincing an American, can I get a piece of that?

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 35 points 2 days ago (7 children)
[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Or compare to the CO2 put out by global concrete construction. It's more than some might believe.

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I wish people in this thread would pay less attention to the bible study and more attention to the violent crime repeat offender recently out of prison who clearly never got the psychiatric help he needed (cause that dude be cray cray).

So yeah, a well intentioned woman thought she could fix him (with the help of the Lord) and decided to tie the knot with an unstable convinced felon. That's... misguided, but a mistake that has been made a great many times before by a great many people. But truthfully, religion is barely a part of this story. Mostly this is a story about how many Americans aren't encouraged to get the mental help they need, about one of the many ways in which our correctional system doesn't work, and about how you really shouldn't try to "fix" that bad boy that I'm sure has a heart of gold deep down. That last part is just so dangerous... please don't do it.

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Wild species are extremely good at adapting to evolving conditions. Their ability in this is many more times more powerful than any developments these searchers will produce.

Evolution is famously slow though. And there is a deadline here, so to speak... Human technological advancement on the other hand is famously fast, and constantly accelerates.

In other words, even if this is an overly optimistic plan today, it wouldn't be overly optimistic in 5 years or so. And if it would be feasible in five years, then now is a great time to start working on it.

This reminds me of the human genome project, the effort to sequence the entire human genome. This was an international program started in 1984, sequencing really started in earnest in 1990, and by 1999, after fifteen years, they had only 10% of the genome sequenced. But just four years later they declared the project "complete" with 92% of the genome sequenced. Comparing those final four years to the previous nine years, you get a 1800% increase in speed.

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I have to say, I do wonder if reefs will just gradually shift to higher latitudes.

It may just be that the water temperature is increasing faster than the reefs can migrate. But if that's the case, we can work with that. There has been remarkable success growing reefs by putting starter structures on the seafloor and then seeding them with coral. If we start doing that in places we previously thought to be to cold for coral, that has potential to work...

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

Truly, the Ron Swanson of toast.

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I've been having trouble with this too.

So far my best assessment is that the problem stems from the Chromecast not playing well with my router. Resetting the Wi-Fi on my router tends to fix the problem, but it's seriously annoying.

Separately, I also have issues with the play/pause not working when casting and some other weird interface behaviors sometimes. But all in all, it's worth complaining, but it still works better than everything else.

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Oh I know! It turns out space suits are just really tricky. I was hoping to see some innovation and improvements in mobility from SpaceX, but, not so much apparently. I guess we'll have to wait for NASA's xEMU for any real improvement.

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

Oh man, movement in those suits seems... shall we say, more than a little restricted. Pressurized, they look as rigid as a zeppelin.

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