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Thanks for making me aware of it, I dunno how active the humanities side of it is but I’m definitely going to be checking my sources on it when I’m doing class work 👍

Mining for the rare earth elements used in solar panels is pretty ugly, too. But once they’re taken out they can be reused, it’s not like coal or oil where you use it once and it’s gone forever.

Excellent breakdown of flaws, this one is the most damning to me:

Cancer sites are not considered. Exposure to radionuclide pollution from Uranium fission products is known to be associated with specific tumors (thyroid cancer, lung cancer, leukemia) due to the chemical nature of the products of its decay chain (radioactive isotopes of Iodine, Radon, Cesium). Stratifying by tumor site would have provided evidence to support the assumption that tumors are caused by radiation exposure.

Who cares if you find more bladder cancer if this radiation isn’t associated with bladder tumors? This makes the study absolutely stink of a conclusion looking for evidence, especially in combination with the failure to use the actual radiation data readily available from nuclear sites.

It looks like the saturation was cranked up on the OP image, the pictures on Wikipedia of Texas persimmons show them as ‘blue’ in the way that blueberries are blue, very dark and almost black. But I only knew of them as orange, so as far as I’m concerned that’s pretty blue!

I had no idea persimmons came in blue, neat!

Aw, so it does. Cute!

In elementary school in the 90s I remember an exercise where we had to imagine what killed the dinosaurs. I came up with an implausible scenario of overpredation, and because I grew up in the south a classmate of mine said the Biblical flood killed them all and was praised by the teacher 🤷‍♂️

April 2002

April fool’s joke?

Pastels: could be tasteful

Neon: what happened to your eyes?

Relevant short story: https://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html

Former situation: there is one electron

New situation: there are two electrons

This is untrue, gastroliths are associated only with birds that eat plants. They grind up food, which isn’t necessary for meat. Eagles eat bullets from animals that have either been shot and abandoned, lost, or had parts of them discarded as zqxwas pointed out.

Tale as old as (no idea wtf autocorrect did there) time with exonyms. Ex: Anasazi vs Ancestral Puebloans. In the early 1900s when archaeologists started getting interested in Ancestral Puebloan sites, they misapplied the Navajo name for them, which basically means ‘ancestors of our enemies.’ Obviously not what most people want to be referred to as!

Is the lie that OP is on their way to boot their PC, or that AI isn’t made in God’s image? 🤨

This guy has been leaving a variant of that comment for at least a month 😬 Maybe more, but I got bored of scrolling. Rationalist or investor mad about the bubble, is my shot in the dark.

Wow, the wintering grounds on that range map are split pretty far apart! I wonder if the individual cranes ever switch it up, or if they always go to the same one.

Has nobody had a talk with them about how they’re raising someone incapable of taking care of himself? Do they plan to outlive him? I come from the opposite end of the parental academic aid spectrum, so I don’t understand the thought process at all. Is it just untreated anxiety on their part?

UÉ? 😲

Trans man here, in the context specifically of abortion discussions I definitely appreciate it when people try to make their language inclusive, because these issues do affect trans men and nonbinary people as well. But intent is at least as important; if someone is supportive but doesn’t say something ‘perfectly’, that’s not the same as someone saying something with malice or prejudice.

Usually terrible people don’t stop and worry about whether or not they’ve been hurtful to others. More importantly, don’t let anyone on the internet make you feel like you need to come to them for absolution. You’re the person that knows the most about your inner life and actions to determine whether or not you’re a bad person, and you have the capacity for moral reasoning. Do you think you’re a bad person for not remembering to use inclusive language 100% of the time? Is perfection a reasonable bar to expect for yourself in this regard? Do you think you hurt anyone with your comment, and if so did you make amends? Is the guilt you feel proportional to the amount of harm caused?

You don’t have to answer any of this here, just a suggestion for things to think about.

Cum is stored in the head