I’ve run across at least three separate articles now of researchers from across the world discovering plastic eating bacteria in the wild. Short plastic. Its days are numbered.

In India, this kind of thing is common, especially when the beggars are children.

don’t understand what they’ve written

Well first of all, they didn’t write it.

Someone wearing a mask tries to kidnap you, draw your handgun and put a hole in their face. I’m surprised this exact situation hasn’t landed in the supreme court yet. Pretty sure it won’t be favorable to the masked goons.

This shows that the way to get rid of landmines is not to have countries sign a piece of paper. It’s to give them a better alternative, whether it’s literally peace, or another dirt-cheap area denial defensive weapon that isn’t indiscriminate. Because the paper is worthless once real stakes are on the line.

I think autonomous drones will eventually supplant landmines. Whether that’s better or worse, I don’t know.

Try looking for crops to grow that are nutritious but relatively low maintenance. Sweet potatoes, sunchokes, groundcover strawberries, asparagus, cherry tomatoes, etc. Bonus if you can grow excess to sell at local farmers markets for some extra income, though the easiest the grow ones probably won’t fetch a great price and on one acre I doubt you’ll have extra of anything. Also, look for native options. Less maintenance, and local pollinators are more likely to help out.

If you’re not squeamish and can get enough extra space with an enclosure, rabbits breed very quickly and just eat grass. Chickens are good for eggs and meat.

It’s a bit strange to think about, but our brains seem to have adapted to information accessibility today by more readily remembering how to find the information instead of the information itself. (See Betsy Sparrow et al)

If you lived back then, chances are you’d just straight up remember more things without needing to go look them up again. But, you might also just remember what book you found it in.

I have wondered if this is part of the reason why ancient orators were apparently capable of reciting hours of dialog from memory. They simply had to. Libraries and books weren’t generally accessible. They had to rely on memory, and thus became very trained on it.

“If you won’t let us have Ukraine, let us have the Baltic states instead! 😡😭”

They’re…asking a country about this? What, do they expect China to say “we’re preparing to invade Taiwan in 2026”? This is just fishing for bullshit answers so politicians can pretend like they buy it and ignore actually dealing with the military buildup by taking action.

When you’re involved in drugs, you are pretty likely to regularly interact with sketchy people who make you feel unsafe for one reason or another. That goes for both dealers and consumers, though moreso on the dealer side.

Idk, but I use Boost and added some keyword filters. Stuff like “trump”, “musk”, “israel”, “slam”, etc. And any time I still run across political crap, I either block the community or the user. Lemmy has been great now afterwards, no politics.

Social media has been a toilet for a decade, but people keep drinking the shitwater. Making it more turd flavored will do nothing.

Yep

China is preparing for real war against Taiwan, hoping that restricting these minerals will prevent Taiwan backers from replenishing their militaries in a war of attrition within a meaningful timeftame after invasion.

Boycott America? Sure. Buy British? Nice sounding sentiment, but don’t fall for the trap. There are some resources we’ve got. Some we don’t. Maximize our strengths, work with our friends.

Stop it, you’re only encouraging them with your eyeballs that translate into ad dollars

Frankly, she’s right. What you see countries like Canada doing is just as nationalist as what the US is doing, and the UK would be wise to stay out of it.

We need to stop this cascade of nationalism. Nationalism only leads to war. When countries are interdependent, they lose more than they gain through bloodshed. This is the only reason the past eighty years have been relatively calm, with wars only concentrated in places with little economic interdependence between aggressors.

Globalism, despite its faults, is the only true force for peace.

It’s perfectly possible to do in the US, just costs a bit more. So, capitalism being what it is, that work got outsourced so the vultures could see higher numbers.

They’re called “rare earth elements”, but they’re extremely common. They’re just in trace amounts…everywhere in the Earth’s crust. China stopping exports just means everyone else will have a reason to extract them, when before China was just a path of least resistance. Will take a bit of time to re-establish industry though.

OpenAI hasn’t even replaced their own developers, and they push out the biggest LLM turd around.