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    3 days ago

    I always wonder about how many are just deep underground in a place we’ll never find them. I mean they’re just sitting there waiting to be discovered, and I’m sure there’s an incredible number of them since the vast majority of the fossiliferous rocks are surely buried. But we’ll probably never find most of them because they’re too difficult to access.



  • I wouldn’t say I’m pro or against it. It’s quite expensive and politically controversial so I doubt building more of it will help us decarbonize. But I don’t support closing any plants that are currently running either, at least until we’ve fully decarbonized electricity production.

    I’m unsure how this relates to anarchism though. Other than, if communities have control over what gets built near them I think it will be even more difficult to build more of them than it is now.


  • Very cool. Evaporative cooling is neat in that it’s low-tech but it is often a bit climatologically awkward. It works great in dry climates, but then where do you get the water? And in humid climates you have the water supply but the cooling effect is greatly diminished. Still, there are certainly some places in the sweet spot where this may make sense

    I imagine it would work great where I am in inland California but we couldn’t run it off or rainwater because we don’t get rain from ~ May - November. Still, in years with adequate water supply it’s a cool device.








  • I mean a lot of leftists don’t even believe in electoralism so that’s not going to happen.

    Frankly, leftist philosophies and values are so diverse I don’t see true leftist unity happening in any sense. Best thing is to cooperate towards common goals but that’s not true unity. And that’s OK. We don’t need to be enemies even if we’re not unified.








  • I mean there definitely could be a chart that looks like this. But I doubt it does in this case. I’m almost curious to see what it would look like but I don’t have that much respect for IQ as a measure of anything meaningful anyway. But my guess is there’s probably not much difference between IQ across the political spectrum. Perhaps slightly increasing as you move left due to more educated people leaning left, and I would expect there would be some association between IQ and education.

    For an example of something that looks like a normal distribution but really isn’t: