kippinitreal

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[–] kippinitreal 71 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

Devils advocate: retiring an old service dog means you'd need to invest in training another pup which is way more expensive than titanium teeth and dealing even with animal cruelty complaints and/or lawsuits. Also "bleed blue" fanboys will see this as badass, so its free PR.

As a mortal/moral person advocate: WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU.

[–] kippinitreal 5 points 1 month ago

My first reaction was, "her?". But the more I read on (until the paywalled) the more I liked the idea. Her Younger audiences must feel alienated & dejected by the popular discussions on climate change. This could reinvigorate a newer demographic into action instead of apathy/doomerism.

I just wish they don't dwell on "every little helps" BS and hold big corporations & governments responsible to make a change. Not sure if this article mentioned it, its paywalled. 🤷‍♂️

[–] kippinitreal 4 points 1 month ago

Aah yes wait for the racist boomers to die so young-uns will outnumber them. A cunning plan!

/s?

[–] kippinitreal 13 points 1 month ago

Yeah take no creative risks get no box office rewards, simple as.

And megalopolis wasn't a risk, Coppola fronted the $120mn so they're going make money on that flop.

[–] kippinitreal 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Hoback argues

In any case, says Hoback, the identity of the real Satoshi is a matter of public interest. “This person is potentially on track to become the wealthiest on Earth,” says Hoback. “If countries are considering adopting this in their treasuries or making it legal tender, the idea that there's potentially this anonymous figure out there who controls one-twentieth of the total supply of digital gold is pretty important.”

Currently bitcoin or any block chain based currency is more of a grift than financial freedom. However countries like El Salvador have taken it up as official currency, so real lives can be affected by whoever holds that bitcoin stockpile.

[–] kippinitreal 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Agreed! But it still stings on not *being able to solve it! Haha

[–] kippinitreal 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

We don't spell it like that 😒

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[–] kippinitreal 5 points 1 month ago

How strange!

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[–] kippinitreal 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeehaw !

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[–] kippinitreal 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

From the article:

If the population is small to begin with, accidentally counting fewer animals has a more dramatic, negative effect on the population trend than accidentally counting more.

This seems sloppy or intentionally misleading. Studies like these need to be extremely self critical. Plants, Animal, Insects, etc. are definitely dying due to human activity. Studies like these put an easy target on skeptics (ignorant or malicious) to dismiss the entire problem.

And indeed the article mentions just this:

Young also mentioned that the “extinction denier” community .... feeds off examples, real or not, that show that wildlife is doing better than we thought. That makes it ever more important for measures of biodiversity loss to capture examples of successful conservation.

Academia is broken, where citications are used as currency to further academic careers/funding. My question is how do we fight this? Are there real solutions to rigourous peer review (mostly) free from bias?

[–] kippinitreal 3 points 1 month ago

Well what do you know!

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Also 2 guesses is crazy, OP!

[–] kippinitreal 1 points 1 month ago

Most definitely. It was purely economic than militaristic. EU companies are generally seen as superior just for being from the EU in Asia.

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