[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 129 points 2 weeks ago

I'll add that to the list of genes I want knocked out when CRISPR gets good enough.

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 100 points 3 months ago

This is apparently what the front looks like.

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 107 points 4 months ago

Asked last week if any of Kennedy’s health issues could compromise his fitness for the presidency, Stefanie Spear, a spokesperson for the Kennedy campaign, told the Times, “That is a hilarious suggestion, given the competition.”

That's hard to argue with tbh.

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 115 points 4 months ago

They aren't "real" people either way, even the human ones are just drones reading a script that someone paid them to read.

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Earlier this year, Germany's environment ministry suggested there should be stricter limits on importing trophies from hunting animals.

Botswana's President Mokgweetsi Masisi told German media this would only impoverish people in his country.

He said elephant numbers had exploded as a result of conservation efforts, and hunting helped keep them in check.

Germans should "live together with the animals, in the way you are trying to tell us to", Mr Masisi told German newspaper Bild. "This is no joke."

Botswana is home to about a third of the world's elephant population - over 130,000 - more than it has space for.

Herds were causing damage to property, eating crops and trampling residents, Mr Masisi said.

Botswana has previously given 8,000 elephants to neighbouring Angola, and has offered hundreds more to Mozambique, as a means of bringing the population down.

"We would like to offer such a gift to Germany," Mr Masisi said, adding that he would not take no for an answer.

Botswana's Wildlife Minister Dumezweni Mthimkhulu last month threatened to send 10,000 elephants to London's Hyde Park so British people could "have a taste of living alongside" them.

In March, UK MPs voted to support a ban on importing hunting trophies, but the legislation has further scrutiny to pass before becoming law.

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I've just realised that this was already in /c/environment. Oops, sorry!

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[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 122 points 5 months ago

This is only going to get easier. The djinn is out of the bottle.

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[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 102 points 6 months ago

“Never attibute to malice what can be explained with stupidity,”

With corporations I feel like the opposite should apply.

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 127 points 7 months ago

They are trapped in this little hell we made just for them, not understanding why they can’t get to where they are going.

same

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 125 points 7 months ago

He's right honestly, cars, especially electric cars, produce a large portion of their CO2 emissions when they are manufactured.

We would all be better off if people kept their "gas guzzlers" but only used them rarely. A car in a garage has zero co2 emissions.

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 116 points 9 months ago

i'm gonna say it...

FIGMA BALLS ADOBE!

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 127 points 10 months ago

Relevant XKCD:

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 106 points 11 months ago

The only way to stop kids seeing bad videos on the internet is not let them on the internet.

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 102 points 11 months ago

The social-media Web as we knew it, a place where we consumed the posts of our fellow-humans and posted in return, appears to be over.

The social media web was literally the start of the decline. There used to be thousands of niche internet forums, now everything is in a AOL style walled garden.

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