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- Comment on UK Cops 'Ashamed and Sick' of Enforcing Ban on Anti-Genocide Group Palestine Action 14 hours ago:
To be fair, cops have no other marketable skills, so rage quitting has more serious consequences than for normal people with transferable skills.
- Comment on Left-handed sep funnel anyone? 6 days ago:
Stop them? Or drop subtle hints as to how to do it correctly and teach some basic physics at the same time?
- Comment on Inspiring. Innovating. 6 days ago:
Finally, someone who gets it!
- Comment on Inspiring. Innovating. 1 week ago:
The more you spend, the more you save!
The math has been done to death. CO2 capture requires energy input and doesn’t yield any. This is basic stuff.
- Comment on Inspiring. Innovating. 1 week ago:
Exactly.
- Comment on Inspiring. Innovating. 1 week ago:
Until fossil fuels are not a part of the energy equation, DAC is a band-aid where a tourniquet is required. Sure do research, but DAC will never work while we are burning fossil fuels for energy. It doesn’t even make economic sense.
- Comment on Inspiring. Innovating. 1 week ago:
It can, but it isn’t and it won’t. DAC is a scam and a distraction until fossil fuels are out of the equation. It is a false hope, a glamour, to keep us from addressing the root causes.
- Comment on Inspiring. Innovating. 1 week ago:
Direct air capture is a scam. It requires energy that comes from somewhere else. Capturing CO2 requires energy, it’s basic physics/chemistry.
Nothing about it makes sense excpet as an expensive boondoggle and a distraction for correcting the root causes of climate change.
- Comment on Japanese Power Plant Turns Saltwater Into Electricity 1 week ago:
Right. It seems analogous to regenerative braking in a gas/electric hybrid car. The momentum is turned back into electricity to reclaim potential energy. Some of the energy was already spent in RO stage and this process gets some of it back.
- Comment on What'd happen if a person was born with telomeres twice as long? 1 week ago:
(sigh) cool story
- Comment on What'd happen if a person was born with telomeres twice as long? 1 week ago:
The great flood that left no evidence behind and all large animals were rescued by a guy who built a boat? The one that also left behind no genetic evidence of such a catastrophic population bottleneck? That great flood?
- Comment on WhatsApp's new AI feature lets you rephrase and adjust the tone of your messages | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
Fun fact: you do not need permission to re-word your own texts if you realize upon re-reading it that one sounds like a snarky bitch.
- Comment on All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell. 1 week ago:
But, but KPI’s are how we know line go up.
Checkmate, artists!
- Comment on Research shows ‘compliment sandwich’ no longer effective 1 week ago:
Jfc, it never was effective. Anyone who has ever taken this formula seriously is an emotional moron.
- Comment on Here’s What Happened When I Made My College Students Put Away Their Phones 2 weeks ago:
See my comment to OP for a recentish publication that shows the same thing all studies previously have shown. You are quite correct.
- Comment on Here’s What Happened When I Made My College Students Put Away Their Phones 2 weeks ago:
No one that has looked at this in a serious way agrees with you.
From the abstract:
“These results suggest that the movements involved in handwriting allow a greater memorization of new words. The advantage of handwriting over typing might also be caused by a more positive mood during learning. Finally, our results show that handwriting with a digital pen and tablet can increase the ability to learn compared with keyboard typing once the individuals are accustomed to it.”
- Comment on cum 2 mummy 2 weeks ago:
True, but such a shame.
- Comment on Creating dogs 2 weeks ago:
Biological evolution also suffers from survivor bias. ;)
- Comment on sponsored by raycon 2 weeks ago:
Thank you for introducing me to the term ‘thundercunt’. It has me thinking of cosplay ideas.
However, Siri and notifications volume is controlled separately from media volume on iOS.
You can also set a repeating reminder to call Apple a bunch of throbbing thundercunts, perhaps weekly? Which is still a very important thing to do.
- Comment on Big Balls Clapped 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Lemmy be like 3 weeks ago:
I have to agree here. Injecting ‘nuance’ is an easy way to derail a discussion so that the obvious harms of a thing get obscured. The discussion devolves into emotional reactions to some aspect of the ‘nuance’ and the original point is lost. And nothing changes, which suits the powers that be just fine.
Nuance is a powerful tool for maintaining the status quo by disrupting the conversation. Leave the nuance to the academics.
Effective messaging campaigns require message discipline and dead simple provocative points repeated endlessly for a generation or two to effect change, usually.