Wolves create a “landscape of fear,” slowing deer-car collisions
Wolves scare deer away from highways, a marked economic and ecological benefit.
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So cool
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Elephant Trunks: Is There Anything They Can’t Do? (Published 2021)
A new study highlights the impressive biomechanics and suction power of an elephant’s most defining appendage.
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This is one of those things that is kinda far out there but I'm posting because it seems real enough, potentially, to be a thing. And it's not too long, idk, less than 10 min
And along the way, it makes interesting points such as-
Technological progress follows an exponential curve. Compare how the world looked 15 years ago (no smartphones, really), 150 years ago (no combustion engine, no home electricity), 1,500 years ago (no industrial machines), and 15,000 years ago (no agriculture).
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And along the way, it makes interesting points such as-
Technological progress follows an exponential curve. Compare how the world looked 15 years ago (no smartphones, really), 150 years ago (no combustion engine, no home electricity), 1,500 years ago (no industrial machines), and 15,000 years ago (no agriculture).
Moore's Law for Everything
We need to design a system that embraces this technological future and taxes the assets that will make up most of the value in that world–companies and land–in order to fairly distribute some of the coming wealth.
moores.samaltman.com
Yup, it will be the thing that finally brings about a utopian society, or more likely bring about the end of it. To be clear, there has always been enough for everyone, this will simply remove the need for massive human labor to achieve it.
ruel
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Reminds me of this Buckminster Fuller quote,.
"We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living."
Buckminster Fuller
"We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living."
Buckminster Fuller
ruel
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This article entirely ignores the ecological/ social damage that technology seems to cause. Rose colored capitalist glasses.
IMO These techno optimists won't be happy until the life support functions of this planet have been destroyed and replaced by a private service. That will really grow the GDP, & folks should be thankful for their increased "dividend".
IMO These techno optimists won't be happy until the life support functions of this planet have been destroyed and replaced by a private service. That will really grow the GDP, & folks should be thankful for their increased "dividend".
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Yo this article is f'g savage. I'm half way thru it and close to tears multiple times
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Kip Kinkel Is Ready To Speak
At 15, he shot and killed his parents, two classmates at his school, and wounded 25 others. He’s been used as the reason to lock kids up for life ever since.
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More biners!!!
Pretty deep delving into schizophrenia...a hard read. I had a cousin that I am pretty sure was schizophrenic....he took his own life at age 17.... .22 rifle shot to the heart. He was a very talented artist but always seemed "different". Troubling stuff.
murphy4trees
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a long read on eugenics
principia-scientific.com
British Psychiatry: From Eugenics to Assassination | Principia Scientific Intl.
A behavior control research project was begun in the 1950s, coordinated by the British psychological warfare unit called the Tavistock Institute
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Louisiana’s Angola: Proving ground for racialized capitalism
When the U.S. Civil War ended, Edward A. Pollard “of Virginia” immediately wrote a history of Confederate military operations—The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates—where he insisted that human slavery was immune from moral blame for the just concluded conflict...
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Good ole marxist literature on Angola prison in Louisiana.
Here's a fairly lengthy article on obesity. Honestly, I didn't fully read the whole thing, and it was a bit of a scatter shot of ideas, but that may be the nature of the beast. The most interesting thing I got out of it, was the increase in weight of lab animals. That shouldn't happen under the strict controls of a lab setting. Anyway, check it out, or not...
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Blaming individuals for obesity may be altogether wrong | Aeon Essays
As the American people got fatter, so did marmosets, vervet monkeys and mice. The problem may be bigger than any of us
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That article was pretty interesting. What I got from it is that we just don't know what causes obesity and it could well be caused by some really far out crazy factors some of which are hard to recognize, rather than just weak people overeating.
And that notion of widely, seemingly disparate, things causing effects that are surprising or currently unknown or unproven, is pretty fascinating and far reaching. It seems to apply to loads of different things and concepts
And that notion of widely, seemingly disparate, things causing effects that are surprising or currently unknown or unproven, is pretty fascinating and far reaching. It seems to apply to loads of different things and concepts
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I think I'm down for this life
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Utah Farm Draws a Rare Breed: The American Shepherd (Published 2021)
With the flow of immigrants disrupted, a homegrown prospect is being trained. “I love being in the mountains,” he says, “and I don’t mind being alone.”
Mick!
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I’ll be honest. I didn’t read the article, but I’ll enter the debate on obesity.
If you went back to 1975 and walked around my school you would struggle to find anyone overweight let alone obese.
Drive around now and there’s really fat kids everywhere.
Why? Food is cheaper, parents buy any amount of fatty foods and sugar to give to their kids (and themselves) plus kids have money to spend to and from school.
Coupled with the switch from kids running around outside in the past to a sedentary lifestyle in front of devices you have the perfect storm.
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‘Doomed to stay’: The dying villages of Mexico’s Lake Cuitzeo
As Mexico’s reservoirs run dry, the people stuck on the drying lake beds wonder how they will survive.
this is a small part of the biggest story in the world today. no other issue out there is going to effect our near term or long term life like this current event. this is epic.
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You have young ones, what do you tell them, just curious.
I asked this to my neice and her husband, they have 3 kids under 5 y o. She barely knew there are issues cuz she's so busy with raising family and some work too. Btw, she's very intelligent, fwiw.
He said technology caused the problems, technology will solve the problems. He's a banker and just financed/built 'the world's greenest office building". It's constructed with mass timber and solar powered.
I asked this to my neice and her husband, they have 3 kids under 5 y o. She barely knew there are issues cuz she's so busy with raising family and some work too. Btw, she's very intelligent, fwiw.
He said technology caused the problems, technology will solve the problems. He's a banker and just financed/built 'the world's greenest office building". It's constructed with mass timber and solar powered.
gf beranek
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I'm with Mick on the obesity issue. Right on.
I'm over weight by 25 lbs, according to my doctor. 215 lbs. Can't seem to get any lower. I'm not getting enough exercise these days. I'm sure that's the problem in my case.
I'm over weight by 25 lbs, according to my doctor. 215 lbs. Can't seem to get any lower. I'm not getting enough exercise these days. I'm sure that's the problem in my case.
SeanKroll
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I saw an overweight friend of Dahlia's show up to swim tonight with McD's for dinner.
Too bad parents do it to kids with food choices.
Too bad parents do it to kids with food choices.
