treefrog

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[–] treefrog@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm actually not assuming but forgetting.

Because the only thing that scares me more than climate change is microplastics. And I don't often have the spoons to let myself think about it.

[–] treefrog@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago

And unfortunately most of that population reduction is going to be people that were not even hooked on fossil fuels to begin with.

As well as all of the other innocent life on this planet that is suffering right now and will continue to suffer.

[–] treefrog@lemm.ee 14 points 5 months ago (3 children)

That's true.

I mean more like, the only way I suspect we'll get back to pre industrial levels of co2 is with another ice age. Because I doubt civilization as we know it is going to survive long enough to fix it.

[–] treefrog@lemm.ee 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (8 children)

I think the only thing that's going to save us from climate change is another ice age.

And we and our children, and all of our grandchildren, and great great grandchildren, will be long dead by then.

[–] treefrog@lemm.ee 19 points 5 months ago

We have a refrigerator from the '80s that runs like a champ.

Solved the energy problem by putting solar panels on the roof.

[–] treefrog@lemm.ee 67 points 5 months ago

LifeWise founder and CEO Joel Penton told The Associated Press that many parents want religious instruction to be part of their children’s education.

And those parents can take their kids to Sunday school

[–] treefrog@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Same.

I give a single light honk to get their attention. Not an angry long honk.

And for the record, I've been caught staring at my phone a couple of times and needed to be honked at too.

[–] treefrog@lemm.ee 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

It's become a pretty common occurrence for a light to change and the driver in front of me to be staring at their phone.

Which is me saying I never used to honk at people at lights, and now I find myself doing it about once a week.

[–] treefrog@lemm.ee 22 points 5 months ago

Regular viruses are 1500 times smaller than giant viruses.

Hopefully that clears it up.

[–] treefrog@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It's likely a fungus.

Cordyceps do this to other insects all the time. Hijacking insects and using them to spread their spores is there evolutionary niche.

Edit: I bothered to read the article here's a Wikipedia link to the fungus in the article.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massospora_cicadina

[–] treefrog@lemm.ee 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] treefrog@lemm.ee 34 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

I think there's a lot of historical inaccuracies in your post as far as what the intention behind inflation was.

Keep in mind this was an idea developed at the end of the Great depression to prevent wealth hoarding and economic stagnation.

Inflation isn't the issue. And the people I usually find pointing to it as the issue are libertarians who are angling to go back to the gold standard.

As someone else said wages not going up is the issue. And we could have avoided a lot of inequality in the world today had they tied minimum wage to inflation to begin with during the new deal.

I think that was an oversight. Because the intention of minimum wage was always that it'd be livable.

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