leftzero

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[–] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 16 minutes ago

Gibbons' The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, all six volumes of it.

[–] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 7 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

The reason we started making E85 was because there was concerns about not having enough gasoline production in the states.

Also, it can be made from all-American corn, the most American of crops.

You might not be able to run cars on corn syrup, but you can run them on this.

[–] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 12 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Are they at least adding green colouring..?

[–] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 12 hours ago

It's supposed to be kind of sort of federal(ish) (federalish enough, in theory, to keep Catalonia and Euskadi happy enough that we won't want to leave). "States" are called autonomías (autonomies) and have their own government, laws, and institutions, though they still have to obey the Spanish government and most of its laws. It isn't really working.

The article is still wrong when it uses "feds", though, because the cops doing this are the mossos d'esquadra, the Catalan autonomic police, not the "federal(ish)" policía nacional (the Spanish police proper) or guardia civil (despite the name, the military Spanish police, a relic from Franco's dictatorship, like most of the country and its institutions).

[–] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 7 points 12 hours ago

It's supposed to be kind of sort of federal(ish) (federalish enough, in theory, to keep Catalonia and Euskadi happy enough that we won't want to leave). "States" are called autonomías (autonomies) and have their own government, laws, and institutions, though they still have to obey the Spanish government and most of its laws. It isn't really working.

The article is still wrong when it uses "feds", though, because the cops doing this are the mossos d'esquadra, the Catalan autonomic police, not the "federal(ish)" policía nacional (the Spanish police proper) or guardia civil (despite the name, the military Spanish police, a relic from Franco's dictatorship, like most of the country and its institutions).

[–] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 day ago

One possible solution is government buying out flood prone areas

The proper solution is fining anyone stupid enough to ask to be removed from a flood map 300% of their gross earnings during the past decade, and submitting them to every possible inspection, since they're surely trying to hide other criminal idiocies.

[–] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Bird skeletons (or simply plucked birds) are seriously disturbing.

It's incredible how much work feathers do when it comes to bird appearance.

Owls are cute and fluffy. Plucked owls are horrific alien nightmares from the outer dimensions.

Makes one wonder.

T-Borb

[–] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

if dinosaurs are similar in breathing to humans

Current living dinosaurs are much more efficient at extracting oxygen from air than practically anything else in the planet.

Birds've got a unidirectional respiratory system that ensures oxygenated air is constantly flowing through their lungs (unlike, for instance, us mammals, who must empty our lungs of spent air before we can fill them again), and a system of air sacs to keep the air constantly flowing.

While fossil records of the earliest dinosaurs show no evidence of air sacs, later ones do, suggesting that bird-like respiratory systems evolved multiple times in parallel in different branches.

Sauropods in particular might have had even more complex air sac systems than modern birds, which could explain how they managed to grow so large (i.e., they were full of air, and might have been even more efficient when it comes to breathing, though their long necks might have offset the balance in the opposite direction).

Dinosaurs would have been perfectly fine with current oxygen levels.

[–] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 15 points 1 day ago

We're not talking dogs here.

We're taking something much closer to birds. I.e., utter evil bastards. Probably smart, too.

No one in their right mind keeps cassowaries as pets, with very good reason.

[–] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 2 days ago

It's safe as long as you aren't in daily constant contact with it or eat it.

Let me hit you in the head with a 5kg chunk of U-238 and then tell me it's safe.

[–] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 2 days ago

Throw 'em fast enough, they won't have time to melt. 🤷‍♂️

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