[-] mookulator@mander.xyz 33 points 1 year ago

That’s quite the false equivalence you’ve made there

[-] mookulator@mander.xyz 32 points 1 year ago

I’ll take both please

[-] mookulator@mander.xyz 48 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure Whole Foods had shitty conservative executives back then too didn’t they?

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I see these things at construction sites pretty often and have no idea what they are for.

It’s about 5 feet tall, 2 feet wide, 2 feet deep, 3-inch wall thickness and hollow. Big circular indents on each side. They’re usually empty, sometimes with random litter inside.

What is its purpose?

[-] mookulator@mander.xyz 35 points 1 year ago

Here’s todays winner for most unintelligible title

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Hello fellow tree huggers,

Question: if I have a plot of land in the Western Washington Cascades, should I plant redwoods and/or sequoias on it on not? I would do this in addition to the obvious douglas firs, western red cedars, western hemlocks and various appropriate ground shrubs/ferns.

I can see a lot of articles about "assisted migration", many of which reference redwoods, but also all of which state that the idea is controversial. The idea is that Northern California is becoming less habitable for these trees, and Washington and BC become more like how California used to be, so the redwood forest will naturally migrate northwards. However, climate change is happening too fast for a slow-moving forest to realistically keep up.

The proponents argue that it's a way to preserve an important species, especially one which is a great carbon sink.

The doubters argue that some species of plants wouldn't survive the process, or could bring pests, or at least be susceptible them.

I can't tell if those drawbacks really pertain to redwoods/sequoias in Washington though. There are hundreds of them around the Seattle area that are doing just fine, more than a hundred years after residents planted them.

What do y'all think? Do it or no?

[-] mookulator@mander.xyz 35 points 1 year ago

This. Have we really not learned this lesson? We need to take what he says literally and seriously.

[-] mookulator@mander.xyz 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I’d like to believe that that’s true, but I’ve been disappointed by our political system too many times to believe it .

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There seems to be a huge number of miscellaneous projects for a specific type of environmental restoration or some other activity that is specifically aimed at carbon sequestration. For example, seagrass restoration alone has a plethora(1,2,3). Is there a decent list of these projects? I found this cool list of CCS projects(4), but that’s different.

If such a list exists, I have another question: Is there an objective way to compare their effectiveness?

https://www.projectseagrass.org

https://www.medseafoundation.org/index.php/en/portfolio-ita-2/a-sea-forest-to-save-the-planet/34

https://www.seegraswiesen.de/en/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_carbon_capture_and_storage_projects

[-] mookulator@mander.xyz 28 points 1 year ago

Lifetime appointees with no accountability reject call for accountability. Shocking

[-] mookulator@mander.xyz 134 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Statistical modeling.

And yes, I am miffed about the use of the word “exponential” in this post’s title.

[-] mookulator@mander.xyz 91 points 1 year ago

He just needed to feed the idea of it to his base. They won’t know or care that it was an imaginary report, and will never hear that the press conference was canceled.

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Back in 2017 the story broke that Trump and his goons tried to get damaging information on Hillary Clinton from a Russian government official. The emails were clear solicitation of foreign interference with a presidential election. You know, the whole “if it is what you say, we love it” thing, which must be illegal.

Now he’s getting indicted for some of the other blatantly illegal things he did while president. So what’s going on with that one?

I get that there were probably hundreds of illegal things he did, and some will never get prosecuted, but this seemed like one of the worst, and most red-handed of them all.

Is it just being forgotten or did I miss something?

[-] mookulator@mander.xyz 119 points 1 year ago

I appreciate the idea but this is a little misleading. They chose to label transportation for farmers markets but not CSA boxes. There is obviously transportation involved in both.

They highlight delivery as a step in the food delivery service, but don’t label it similarly when the consumer goes to the store to pick it up. I might argue there’s efficiency in having one delivery driver vs everyone acting as their own delivery driver.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by mookulator@mander.xyz to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml

I have a fair amount of experience with data visualization, analysis etc and thought it would be a fun project to try to visualize the Lemmy network, specifically which instances have strong links to one another via subscriptions from users in one to communities in the other.

How/where can I get that data?

EDIT: It sounds like many people would find this a violation of their data privacy and I simply shouldn’t do it. I had thought this kind of data was intended to be entirely accessible by design, but I learned something new!

[-] mookulator@mander.xyz 60 points 1 year ago
[-] mookulator@mander.xyz 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The tldr here is this:

These constitutional scholars dug into the original meaning of the 14th amendment and concluded that Trump easily meets the bar for having “engaged in” the Jan 6th insurrection, thereby disqualifying him from holding office.

I believe it all comes down to the term “engaged in”. Some say he didn’t because he was not literally storming the capital with the rioters. These two law professors are arguing (in a peer reviewed law journal) that the original intent of that term includes all the stuff Trump did.

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With a “502 Bad Gateway” 🤪

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