cosmic_skillet @ cosmic_skillet @lemmy.ml

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Yeah it's a huge effort to do large scale biochar production. The dream is to take all those waste stems they're burning and sequester the carbon in the soil. This will improve soil quality and improve air quality by stopping the burning, but it will cost big bucks.

Come on guys, we can do this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biochar_carbon_removal

But can I play Protoss?

Your wish is granted, you get bug eyes

That's cool

Good overview!

Amen

You still need phone number verification to create an account, that hasn't changed

That was interesting how they adjusted sizes based on adjacent letters. Good idea

What is a filament style LED bulb?

Right, but this article is about the 11 year sunspot cycle, which is observed directly by viewing... sunspots. So not sure what your point is here.

Suspicious stew...

It's Fresh Frozen

Oh no, some people won't take a side because they think things are complex and they don't understand enough.

Oh no.

This is a well known issue for a lot of people and signal has been promising to fix this for years. Using a phone # for verification reduces spam and bot accounts, but like you said it drastically reduces anonymity.

That said, anonymity != privacy. You could anonymously place a note on a car telling the owner to learn to park, but it's not private since anyone walking by could read it. Likewise you can send an encrypted signal message to another user who knows who you are, so it's private, but not anonymous.

Do you feel the need to take a side

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has taken on symbolic importance to many people. In one sense whatever is going on there is not really important for most of the world. It's some kind of internal conflict/civil war with essentially neighbors beating each other up. But it doesn't really affect anyone else significantly. And yet everyone has a take on who is right and who is wrong and the thinking is very black and white and absolutist, even if you really don't know what's going on or the history behind it or the stakes.

Contrast this with other similar conflicts that most people have no opinion on. Like Ethiopia-Tigray or the ongoing civil war in Myanmar. Most people probably haven't even heard of this stuff and have no clue as to who is fighting who. Hell, how many people had the barest inkling of who Hamas was a week ago. And now they feel they can take some absolute morally superior position on the issue.

It's because the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has become symbolic of who you are. The other conflicts I mentioned have no symbolic meaning or importance to people outside those regions. The Ukraine war is another highly symbolic conflict and that's why it's often mentioned in the same breath, but the myriad of other ethnic conflicts going on throughout the world are ignored.

The power of symbolic positions is that they strongly ensure group cohesion. You wear these symbols on your chest like a medal or a placard. They superficially resemble personal opinions, but actually they're badges of membership. Most people don't actually think hard about these issues or try to understand deeply what's going on. Instead they are told what to believe and what to say by people that they trust and identify with. Once it's clear what the "correct" position is, people will wear it with pride.

Deeply thinking about a complex issue is extremely resource intensive and most people just don't care that much. We also want to clearly delineate things into categories of good/bad. It's a natural heuristic that feels good. Once you know a thing is "good" you cheer it on. If a thing is "bad" you loudly denounce it with your peers. If a big thing happens, but you don't know if it's good or bad then you feel uncomfortable mental dissonance. Big things can't just be left in a state of psychological limbo. You need to decide if it's good or bad. And so we do, collectively.

According to Wikipedia, Connecticut is 5,543 sq mi in size.

478 DD locations ÷ 5,543 sq mi = 0.086 DD/sq mi

Or roughly 1 DD location per 10 sq miles.

Yeah they really buried the lede here. The big news is the claim that they can sell cultured carrot cells for cheaper than grown carrots. The 3D printing part is besides the point.

Also the carrot shape isn't really ideal for cooking. Annoying to split into smaller pieces. If you have the freedom to print it in any shape then I'd take big blocks personally. Much easier to stack, store and cut into arbitrary shapes for cooking. Molds definitely seem like a better idea for mass production than slow 3D printing.

What you have to understand is that often a conversation is not really about whatever the topic is. Conversation is like a game and the goal isn't to win, but rather to play a good game with other people. If you keep blabbing on and on about the topic without letting other people play then you're ruining the game.