gandalf_der_12te @ gandalf_der_12te @discuss.tchncs.de

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and that's why we don't really use cursive anymore

Yeah the reason why biomass is used instead of number of individuals becomes rather clear when you consider the following:

• what counts as an individual? is an unborn already an individual? (that one's a heated debate, as you can see by the abortion debate)
• if unborns are individuals, then at what age are they?
• if they are from the moment of fertilization, then some animals, like spiders or frogs (idk any mammal examples, but there might be some), might lay a shitload number of eggs, like a million or sth, and it would drive up the number of individuals dramatically. But it would be a bullshit metric, because 99% of these individuals are never gonna survive a single year on earth. so it would be utterly confusing and misleading.

Going by mass solves all of these problems because it's more clear and more direct. And on top of that it has the nice side-benefit of also giving an estimate of land usage. Land usage is roughly proportional to biomass, so measuring biomass is meaningful to estimate land usage as well, and that one really matters as that's the limited resource that you're trying to distribute among all species on earth.

I'm in fact under the impression that the "number must go up" plot was played on us as well. Humans are increasing in quantity ever since the industrial revolution, but instead we should be focusing on the quality of life.

i've been wondering for a time whether maybe, blood sacrifices didn't ever actually end but the factory farmings are just a modern decoy for the actual blood sacrifices ...

How much is this a revolt over the Epstein files and how much is it just a vent for the general dissatisfaction of the people? I imagine they're quite angry about a number of things by now, including that groceries didn't get cheaper, as trump promised would happen on "day one", so i guess this might just be a general way to vent.

what? i can't hear anything

see it as a gift :)

damn you're so damn similar to me.

i think that probably you're right that too many assholes dictate social perception, and that is actually what causes you to lose all your friends and such. we live in very exceptional times where public narrative is dictated by grifters and "normies", i.e. people who are programmed to work instead of chillax, and that is the historical exception, not the rule (just look at how the medieval times had an average 20 hour work week), and i think that's what causes people to be so angry all the time :D

as a heads up, as i said, these circumstances are the exception not the rule, so they're not gonna last forever, somehow :D

this, plus also the fact that normal people wouldn't even use social media if it wasn't full of attention-grabs and addictive techniques.

the social battery just regrows like plants in a garden. no matter how many times you cut them back, they're gonna regrow next year. just like the river carries water continuously, just like sunshine and rain :)

have faith in nature, if not in yourself. :D

people spend time on social media before it enshittifies completely. in 10 years it's all gonna be dead internet theory and bots, controlled by oligarchs for the purpose of advertisement.

the problem will solve itself eventually.

it's a statistical phenomenon. for 99% of the people, the problem is a lack of awareness, so they think it's that way for everyone.

they're very rare though. i barely know anyone besides myself.

Yeah, it's like making a car self-driving without GPS. it's not dependent on external input that way. If you can make it work by only using cameras and lidar, that's fantastic work and definitely deserves credit.

well i guess the reason why
why it's ok to repeat the last word of
of the line is to provide continuity.

saying that animals do photosynthesis is like saying that radio signals transmit power. yes, they literally do, but it's so miniscule that it's practically negligible. it's essentially only a signal that's being transmitted.

they're not getting fucked

barks have the meaning that you agreed upon with your puppy girlfriend :D

Very good. Plans must be made beforehand.

2, my parents were cool when i was little. my mom got sick when i was eight y/o. i suffered because of it for a decade.

if it wasn't for my mum, it would at least be a 4 though :)

or rather, a 6, my dad was pretty cool :D