Posts by ScottAkenhead@masto.ai
(DIR) Post #APoLpOI8ob1KyMuPCK by ScottAkenhead@masto.ai
2022-11-21T00:05:13Z
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@hn50 That was horrible and worth knowing. Thanks, kind of. Homo sapiens … we need to fix that name. Homo horribilis? H. perniciosius?
(DIR) Post #AUiRPfQbkcueV2eYQi by ScottAkenhead@masto.ai
2023-04-16T17:00:06Z
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@stux Yes, USA is slipping in comparison to other countries: life span, democracy index,. See for yourself:https://ourworldindata.org/
(DIR) Post #AUyy8Dq5TkrN1lDdui by ScottAkenhead@masto.ai
2023-04-24T16:03:34Z
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Nonchalant no more.New paper: How Antarctica melting will change the ocean.“If there was no new deep water plunging to the ocean depths, there would be nothing to bring the nutrients back to the surface. Instead, the waters of the deep ocean would accumulate nutrients and become stagnant, … Marine ecosystems could collapse. This would not happen instantly. It might take centuries, but once in train could not be prevented.”The carbon stays in the sky, OK?https://e360.yale.edu/features/climate-change-ocean-circulation-collapse-antarctica#climate
(DIR) Post #AUyzHMRSxl6WGkclRA by ScottAkenhead@masto.ai
2023-04-24T16:35:05Z
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@darkassandra cooked or raw?
(DIR) Post #AV2J5zUsVpfOTjxJei by ScottAkenhead@masto.ai
2023-04-25T23:42:55Z
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@kravietz Good news! Mastodon is now big enough and important enough to be a target for Russian propaganda and bots! Woo-hoo! We rock! :ablobcatenjoy: :ablobblewobble:
(DIR) Post #AWODGeVCWKtBnv5Qw4 by ScottAkenhead@masto.ai
2023-06-05T17:50:44Z
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@laurahelmuth Of course, we already have a large fusion reactor that currently delivers about 200 watts per meter squared to just about everyone everywhere. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_energy
(DIR) Post #AWSBz1Bq6gENdOtii0 by ScottAkenhead@masto.ai
2023-06-07T16:36:09Z
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@fcktheworld587 Long overdue. Please boost. Needs to be seen by everyone.
(DIR) Post #AYfIHaj7U9Di3UnFgW by ScottAkenhead@masto.ai
2023-08-12T19:42:02Z
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Your neighbourhood next?Lytton BC was wiped off the map 2021-06-21 from a wildfire, exactly as Lahaina HA was wiped off the map 2023-08-08. This is about vastly improbable weather events (previously) now appearing all over our planet due to climate change. #climatecrisis #climatechange
(DIR) Post #AYpg3nrMuDuCLzKF96 by ScottAkenhead@masto.ai
2023-08-17T16:54:00Z
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Canada is evacuating a city.“The evacuation order issued late Wednesday applies to Yellowknife… 20,000 people. … more than 21,000 square kilometres (8,100 sq miles) have already been burned.”Prediction: Burning small cities is not sufficient to provoke policies that will stop climate change. #climatecrisis #wildfire #climatechange https://www.nanaimobulletin.com/national-news/trudeau-calls-urgent-ministers-meeting-as-fire-forces-yellowknife-evacuation-2283847
(DIR) Post #AYrVvJ0r6Fdf8ozZtg by ScottAkenhead@masto.ai
2023-08-18T17:31:26Z
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@stux Imagine a video of tanks roaring around but this is the sound track.
(DIR) Post #AZ8PTJLixUAK2UL93g by ScottAkenhead@masto.ai
2023-08-26T21:08:04Z
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@clive My duh.Took me way too long to realize the Daleks in Dr. Who – squishy little people shouting “Exterminate! Exterminate” from inside killing machines – was a metaphor for people in cars. 🤦♂️
(DIR) Post #AZjgTJS3EXXgYsKgmu by ScottAkenhead@masto.ai
2023-09-13T20:44:06Z
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@hackernews From Spaceship Earth, “Houston, we have a problem.”
(DIR) Post #AbXlZMRNQTUTehfDXc by ScottAkenhead@masto.ai
2023-11-06T21:01:15Z
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Bitcoin is dirty, dirty, dirty.“The worldwide BTC mining network consumed 173.42 TWh of electricity during the 2020–2021 period, bigger than the electricity consumption of most nations. The mining process emitted over 85.89 Mt of CO2eq in the same timeframe, equivalent to the emission caused by burning [42 million tons] of coal or running 190 natural gas‐fired power plants.” https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023EF003871 #bitcoin #climatechange #climatecrisis
(DIR) Post #AcB5Vx6xyUUi77f4Zk by ScottAkenhead@masto.ai
2023-11-25T21:46:07Z
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@lowqualityfacts Call me Debbie Downer, but:“Ungulate is from the Late Latin adjective _ungulatus,_ 'hoofed'. Ungulatus is a diminutive form of Latin _unguis,_ 'nail' (finger nail; toe nail).”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ungulate
(DIR) Post #AcD1cudlY6KMyczDkm by ScottAkenhead@masto.ai
2023-11-26T17:54:39Z
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What more tragic, more reprehensible, than destroying the Amazon Rain Forest?Now 60% lost or degraded. Record drought this year. Predictions that global warming will turn the Amazon into savanna go back 40 years. 60 million years of evolution…https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-03469-6#climatecrisis #forest #biodiversity #climatechange
(DIR) Post #AdRzHemKNhse9kLAeG by ScottAkenhead@masto.ai
2024-01-02T22:34:09Z
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@Adrenochrome OMG. That face.photo byBernard DUPONT from FRANCE - Suriname Horned Frog (Ceratophrys cornuta), CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=40167587
(DIR) Post #AhiyAOcpYIPrc3R4u8 by ScottAkenhead@masto.ai
2024-05-09T19:24:06Z
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British Petroleum: “extinction capitalism.”A scientist’s essay about what happened in Elbow Cay in the Bahamas, ~1,300 km from where #BP added toxic dispersants to the Deep Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. This killed just about everything in a huge area. We need to criminalize ecocide https://www.researchgate.net/publication/380319424_WHAT%27S_WRONG_IN_PARADISEhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill#ecocide #pollution #BP #bahamas #oil #marine #marinebiology #ExtinctionRebellion
(DIR) Post #Ai7ntvCz0vsh9eqk3E by ScottAkenhead@masto.ai
2024-05-21T18:57:17Z
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@mike This seems to imply not being anonymous. I, for instance, am a bona fide fide fide fide fide fide fide fide fide fide fide fide fizz fizz sput!
(DIR) Post #AicxTGXbIrXCYzRKIS by ScottAkenhead@masto.ai
2024-06-05T19:08:08Z
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Watching rise of kakistocracy: "In both political and scientific development the sense of malfunction that can lead to crisis is prerequisite to revolution.”– Kuhn, Thomas S. 1962. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. concept: societies cycle through four phases: 1. creativity (revolution in thinking and values), 2. growth (economic and social), 3. stagnation, 4. decadence (malfunction) <– you are here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakistocracy#politics #society