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[–] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It's close, I worked on a paper pretty much doing exactly this a while back and we had included all of this, metal and oil extraction, all roads, railways, even golf courses on top of your housing. We were at 1.2% of world's land usage. So I'm sure whatever they got is sensible.

Logging might be missing, but in our data logging was part of forests. So it ties in that regard.

[–] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I believe It's close, I worked on a paper about a decade ago, and our numbers were not too dissimilar, actually it's ridiculous how similar they are. We went with the most extensive data hunt on land usage. We had non-arable land at 14.7%, which rounded up to 15% in our summary. We got multiple sources for global precipitation levels. We got registries from US, Russia, China, India, Brazil, Canada, Australia, etc totalling 65 countries, we extrapolated the rest, our extrapolation was actually 70% of the paper. We back tallied registry numbers with global weather data.

[–] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 3 points 2 days ago

I love it. You + lag what's not to love but you look deeper and it sounds like gulag and then you love it even more because despite trying to escape from YouTube for almost a decade in still stuck in the youtube gulag. So I love youlag even more.

[–] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 2 points 1 week ago

If you like FPS

XONOTIC will be great

[–] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 5 points 1 week ago

It's a photo, it's common to see random quotes on metro whiteboards. Point of the whiteboards, is to provide service disruption across underground. But whenever things are running smooth people use the opportunity to do random quotes.

[–] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 2 points 1 week ago

Doesn't feel like a shower thought, looks like we'll organised thought, like shower philosophy maybe. Because ripple effect part is just pure phylosophicla nonsense.

[–] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 4 points 1 week ago

Generally, but not always.

[–] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 3 points 1 week ago

I'm 31 and I scored all 20, assuming last is phone book. Although I only trained in typewriter, never actually sent anyone a letter. Although I did type a contract for my dad so I guess that's a real use case. All 20 then.

[–] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 26 points 2 weeks ago

You put it back in the pot of honey, the thing is supposed ot perpetually sit in honey pot.

I don't like it either, just explaining how it's supposed to work.

[–] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org -1 points 2 weeks ago

All games are second person. Because second person is you we don't mention it because it would be boring, first and second person shooter or second and third person shooter. Don't have the same ring and wastes words. Technically top down and second person RTS would be long ass genre name.

[–] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 3 points 2 weeks ago

Insurance provider in my area has premium discounts if I do certain things. If I get my boilers checked and serviced, it reduces my premium next year. And cases as dead branch falling, they have a form that I can fill up to send for review, however in reality they will wait for the annual home inspection before renewal to asses threat, but they would pay for dead branch to be removed.

A bloke down my street had a tree growing too close to electrical wire and he kept complaining to the electric company to trim the tree or risk a fire to no avail. Then he told this to the insurance and they sent a strongly worded letter prompting electrical company to fix it in 2 days.

Also I have some experience with flood risk underwriting in Malaysia, we'd pay to have Strom drains cleaned, and fix some supports for buildings who we'd deem flood prone, because fixing those would be a 1-2% cost of replacing the entire house.

Point being insurance providers definitely can and do spend money on preventative care. I guess US very strongly doesn't believe in that.

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