I’ve been playing Viewfinder, which is a first-person puzzle game where you can pick up photos/drawings/etc and place them in the world so that you can walk into them. Not too far yet so I don’t know if it’ll evolve into such, but so far it gives mindbending puzzler vibes like Superliminal, Antichamber, or Manifold Garden.
Is that Kevin Costner?
Not a Russia expert by any means but this is how I understand the situation:
I had another point that I forgot while I was typing this up because I’m trying to function on 3 hours sleep lol. If I remember it I’ll update
Capitalists love to use floating signifiers to galvanize reactionaries of different stripes
Sorry gonna semi-hijack this thread to go off about tubal ligation (sterilization for someone with a uterus) in the US.
Although the ACA requires insurance plans to cover tubal ligation, 18 states allow providers to set their own policies and these policies can be used to prevent access. Specifically for white cis women, they will deny the procedure for being childless or having “only” one child, being unmarried (to a cis man), or being deemed too young. Even if they’re married, doctors will sometimes demand their husband’s approval. And even if none of these conditionals apply, the provider might add additional hurdles like needing a psychologist’s approval. And of course, there’s the “religious objection” card to be played at any time. 1 in 7 people in the US get care from a hospital aligned with the Catholic Church, so that’s a lot of religious control over women’s bodies.
Now if we’re talking about BIPOC cis woman, especially those in poverty, incarceration, or other precarious situations, the system will trip over itself to find reasons to forcibly sterilize them. Also any woman who are disabled or have autism have no trouble whatsoever getting sterilized if they ask.
I wonder why there are so many barriers for white, allistic, able-bodied women to get sterilized and so easy to do for all other women. What a mystery.
Kill Hitler speedrun (any%)
Oh hey I made this
Sorry I’m bad at coming up with metadata shit but I assembled a few choices
When you get to post the Parenti quote:
When the CIA fails another assassination attempt:
When asking who must go:
When you’re in a random number competition on your opponent is an anti-communist:
When someone is fedposting:
Yay I’m happy that worked for you!
If you’re on a PC browser, hold down Ctrl when you click on the languages. It should keep all your selections in place. I used Firefox when I did it if that makes a difference but I don’t think it should.
It should look something like this if it works. The blue highlights show both Undetermined and Afrikaans selected:
Alternatively you can try signing in on your phone browser. When I tried to change languages there, it came up with a checkbox list to scroll through which might be easier to do.
And yeah, the X button is to clear all selections, I think.
I was having this same problem with hidden comments awhile ago and yeah it was the language options, which will show only comments that have been tagged in languages you have selected. You can select multiple languages, so make sure Undetermined (no chosen language for the comment) is selected along with English and your other languages.
The Birthday Massacre
This is the only artist in this entire comment thread I’ve actually listened to lol
Il Mheg from FF14. Honorable mention to the Coral Highlands from MHW.
I’ll put the book on my list and give my thoughts after I read it. I can’t make any promises to how soon that will be tho
You mention fertilizer, and the book is extremely anti-fertilizer. Shit and decaying plants are the fertilizer.
The book isn’t anti-fertilizer then. Whether the fertilizer is organic or inorganic doesn’t matter because both can release N2O. In fact manure releases more N2O than NKP so it fixes one problem and creates another. This would happen with any fertilizer (whose primary purpose is to provide nitrogen) and nitrogen is essential for plant growth; we can’t really go without it.
So to continue to use fertilizers (organic or not) and combat N2O and nitrate leaching, we use chemicals called nitrification inhibitors (NI). I thought you might be interested in this study from China which, while not about cows specifically, is still concerned with manure as a fertilizer for CO2 sequestration and methods for N2O emission mitigation. Here, DMPP (an NI) is used to mitigate the main problem of manure as a fertilizer. (Also NKP is suggested to increase maize yield, though I don’t know how necessary that would be for grass fields.) On the other hand, DMPP harmed beneficial bacteria in a study from Italy. There’s a lot of recent research on DMPP, and it seems that the effectiveness varies between locations and crops, so even this is not a complete solution.
Anyway, the intention behind this comment and my other comment was to illustrate of how complex these problems are, and that every solution we’ve come up with also tends to introduce new problems. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with reading the book and wanting to learn more about potential solutions to our most pressing problems. I’m just wary of magic bullet narratives and science that’s been cherry-picked to support it.
I haven’t read this particular book before but I’ve definitely encounter this concept. Yeah sure you can offset a portion of carbon emissions with this method but grazing actually produces MORE methane emissions than the current system and increases nitrous oxide emissions from the fertilizer required to grow the grasslands to be able to feed enough cattle to meet demand. Methane is 84 times more potent than carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide is 265 more potent than carbon dioxide so we really don’t want to introduce more of this just to sequester a portion of the carbon. At our current projection, beef consumption is expected to double by 2050. I’m not sure the amount of carbon sequestration will be anywhere near enough to offset the other greenhouse gases that are produced.
Another problem I have is that there is no way to massage to math to have this method be more effective at carbon sequestration than forests. And what happens when we want more cattle and need more land to feed these cattle?
This is a pretty good report that goes into more detail about the shortcomings of this method specifically in regards to climate change.
Obviously this is a very complex problem so no one is going to have The One Answer and like there’s a lot of room for dialogue so I think it’s good to investigate different solutions.
if you remember the book’s about science not politics it’s bearable
Garik: My dear doctor, everything is political.
Bashir: Even science?
Garik: Especially science.
Unusually cool and humid. Last year around this time of month it was 38 C, today it’s 22 C.
Honestly considering the RMAH fiasco of Diablo 3, I’d almost rather they not try to “innovate”
EA… games? As in Electronic Arts? I thought their games sucked?
Early Access
I haven’t watched it so I can’t speak to its quality but Yasuke on Netflix is loosely based on the historical figure