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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Invasive honey bees are less effective pollinators for most native plants than native bee species. However, they indeed consume a lot of nectar, leaving less for the native bees to survive.

Admittedly, it's not a simple relationship, but between increased competition and fewer resources due to landscape changes, it's not necessarily a good one.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I'd rather establish licensing/training requirements for light truck operation. Nobody likes it when someone takes away their stuff. But convince them that the only people allowed to operate such heavy machinery are "elite" and they'll gladly take pride.

Normal passenger car driver's licenses in most of North America have such a comically low bar because people need them for life. You lose your license, you can't live. It's not just harder. You physically cannot get to work, get food, meet friends, etc. It's bonkers. Solving that problem is hard. But making sure that people who really absolutely shouldn't be driving something as dangerous as a truck can't get one "just because it's cool" is a different, much easier solved problem.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Awesome! Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Isn't all non-quantitative language just... A Series Of Poor Choices? 😉

Love the name, BTW

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Crash tests indicate native guardrail system can't handle heavy ~~electric~~ vehicles

Fixed that headline for anybody who doesn't read the article (which is better at explaining some of the nuance). AP is good, but not totally immune to clickbait titles.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Disclaimer: I am an EV owner.

EVs are quite a bit heavier when comparing within size class. From checking just a couple curb weights across similarly-sized vehicles, you can expect between 15% and 30% heavier.

But, to your point... if you instead compare between vehicles with a similar pricetag, EVs are about 15% lighter. When people go to budget a new vehicle, I expect many people are less willing to do the math to realize that trucks are extremely expensive to fuel and maintain, and so they're lured in by the "utility" they provide, when in reality it's substantially cheaper to rent one for the 10 days a year they need it.

With that said... you know what's even better for humans than EVs? Trains. Buses. Diverse transit infrastructure!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

argues like an annoying 14 year old atheist that just discovered Internet arguments and the think whole Internet is Christian

Brilliant. I'm saving this imagery for later.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Ahh, so... crypto, which is based on crypto, can be used to pay for treatments to crypto.

Got it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Do you mean to say that crypto is based on crypto? Crazy!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I work at a father son activity centre...

That's great!

...you would be shocked at how few women I see spending time with their own children!

I'm not at all shocked. Selfish behavior isn't exclusive to men. Women are also deeply flawed humans.

These are US based and based on separated parents.

I provided non-anecdotal evidence, and you shit on it? What are your priorities?

Selectively observing statistics doesn't give a good representation of real life, but shitting on other people for selectively observing statistics doesn't help, either.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If you've been alive for more than 30 seconds, it's not just anecdotal. But to appease the challenge, anyways: https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2020/demo/p60-269.pdf There's a massive imbalance between custodial fathers and custodial mothers. Even worse is the imbalance in child support negligence.

Can we please just admit that there are normal biological/social/economic/perceived/identity differences between men and women? That's not to say all of those differences are good or desirable, or that they are without variation, but can we at least recognize the state of our world without shunning those with different viewpoints?

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