Yeah I was just joking because it’s so obvious lol

I don’t understand. Just some picture of normal trees? Why the caption?

I feel like the oil could travel up the metal and get on you.

Trained in Marxism lol did they actually say it that way? Sounds like a martial art or something.

Wait for real? How do they even collect it?

Yeah that’s kind of what I was referring to.

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:

No. Is there a good option for cloud storage that isn’t a privacy nightmare?

Thanks. My neighborhood is protected by a levy so it’s kind of a NOLA situation where flooding is probably all or nothing. However from what I’ve been reading, the levies are no longer able to contain a potentially historic flood due to climate change, and with this severe El Niño it seems much more likely to occur this year than a normal one.

Say you live in a flood prone area. Obviously a go bag is a good idea. Is there anything in the coming months that can be done beyond that?

Some trees are pollinated by beetles, flies, or other insects that might normally be attracted to rotting flesh. As a result, they often emit a more meaty odor. Why cum specifically I can’t say but I think cum has certain organic molecules in common with dead things.

That’s just what the media is reporting on. Actually some other regions are having even more extreme heat waves although it’s not everywhere on earth, obviously.

https://csi.climatecentral.org/climate-shift-index?lat=23.56399&lng=-96.67969&zoom=2

https://csi.climatecentral.org/climate-shift-index?lat=-7.71099&lng=-42.42187&mapType=anomalies&zoom=2

The current strong El Niño that is forming is highly predictive of severe heat in many places across the world, although there are some exceptions. So we can expect this to continue, albeit the exact geographic extent will likely shift.

Fuck WhatsApp not sure why anyone uses it. I guess in some places it’s got a critical mass but still there are many better alternatives.

lol too real to Lemmy to hear

Yeah I think we are largely advocating for the same thing. Central business districts that are all concrete and glass are pretty dystopian. But medium dense cities with car infrastructure replaced by green space would be perfect.

However bad it is here I’m sure it would be much worse in space, considering astronauts have all their muscles atrophy even with a pretty intense workout regime.

All good points. I was just thinking I probably would not be willing to do any camera-based captcha.

At a certain point if they force me to stop being online maybe that’s not so bad.

Maybe… or would your body simply rot away faster since you aren’t using it as much? I would be inclined to think the latter.

I don’t see how any captcha will remain viable for long at this point. The bots are going to win eventually.

I think the issue for space colonization is there’s no real practical reason to do it beyond that it’s cool and interesting. There’s still absolutely tons of largely unused land in deserts, polar climates, and even the ocean that are far more accessible and habitable than space is.