[-] KidnappedByKitties@lemm.ee 10 points 5 months ago

But, but... Dragging things out forever in court is his only move?

[-] KidnappedByKitties@lemm.ee 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

My list is quite different than the ones currently in the thread.

The boring ones:

Creating a vaccine or other cloaking to make humans invisible to ticks & mosquitoes. A separate project would be to do the same for parasites.

Enacting strict pollution/carbon limits and mandatory circular economy everywhere in the world.

Researching, trialing and Enacting a sustainable post-capitalist system everywhere in the world.

Developing solar energy until covering global energy demands, including a power network that can transport energy from the sunny side and/or orbit everywhere.

The slightly more ambitious:

Establish self-sustainable colonies living on off-earth resources, most probably also situated off-earth.

Create a Dyson swarm with enough energy output for in-system exploration, mining, colonisation, and terraforming.

Perfect matter replicators.

I have some other ideas as well, but those would be a start.

[-] KidnappedByKitties@lemm.ee 10 points 6 months ago

Just be careful to have plans for before they restrict travel. It's very popular with Russian allies, and similarly with other autocrats

[-] KidnappedByKitties@lemm.ee 11 points 6 months ago

IIRC, a tree absorbs up to 3 tons/year, and takes a bunch of years to get to that stage.

The trees also don't sequester underground, and will need surface area staying as forest for the rest of time.

As many have echoed: an ounce of prevention saves a pound of cure. Most bang for our buck would be to change our lifestyle and regulations. But as that's not feasible we're at the geo engineering and artificial sequestration stage.

[-] KidnappedByKitties@lemm.ee 10 points 6 months ago

Wow, this is a useless editorial.

No link to the report, unclear if the report takes into account years since migration (it takes time to learn language, develop networks, and climb ladders), some indication that the trouble is that migrants end up in low paying jobs (which of course would decrease GDP), and no comment on the fairly obvious question on what the integration policy says about time frames.

Also, it puts all of the post-Brexit decline at the door of the immigrants, which seems ridiculous.

This reads like a hit piece from conservatives in preparation for election season.

[-] KidnappedByKitties@lemm.ee 13 points 6 months ago

Only if he manages to write a manifesto, I'm not sure Trump can write anything coherent longer than 140 characters.

[-] KidnappedByKitties@lemm.ee 10 points 6 months ago

Sexuality develops at around the age of 6-8, body and self identity starts a couple years before then.

I'm not a child psychologist, but I'd make a guess that trans realisation in children are rare before the age of 3, but after that are mostly a question of maturity, support of environment, and how harsh social norms are.

Also, aren't you still legally a child up to the age of 18? I'm pretty sure I've heard that sexuality and identity develop before then.

Oh, and in case you missed that part, trans isn't about sexuality, it's about identity; fitting in your own body, in your presentation of yourself, in how you are treated by others. Sexuality is it's own separate beast, especially with all the stigma about it.

[-] KidnappedByKitties@lemm.ee 12 points 7 months ago

Still means there is a committee who thinks this is a good principle to build a country upon.

[-] KidnappedByKitties@lemm.ee 12 points 7 months ago

Doesn't actually take long to greenify a city, but you need the will and resources for it, and it will inconvenience people until they adapt to a new usage of the public/common areas.

[-] KidnappedByKitties@lemm.ee 10 points 7 months ago

Actually it's the opposite, skepticism isn't the questioning, it's the proportioning of conviction to the amount of available evidence.

Disbelieving the claim of the Big Bang might be warranted, depending on the level of personal ignorance, but there's much much more evidence for a big bang than an "eternal, ever expanding void" supported by tingling feet.

Feel free to refer to the Wikipedia article on Scepticism, and better sources.

[-] KidnappedByKitties@lemm.ee 11 points 8 months ago

That's when you do weekly preps.

[-] KidnappedByKitties@lemm.ee 11 points 8 months ago

Isn't this basically the plot of young earth Christianity?

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