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  • Alexander@sopuli.xyztoScience Memes@mander.xyzI'm not okay.
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    9 days ago

    I do not have a lawn, I have several ha of forest and grassland. I have about 25 nest boxes for wild birds, occupied 2/3 (last year I had a huge owl living in one!) and countless other nests, several snakes, snails and frogs, lynx and I see bear tracks and scats now and then. I keep bees and allow wasps to build wherever they like, there are lots of bumblebees everywhere and birds sure have something to eat. I mulch a lot and keep loads of rotting leaves. I mow with scythe when I absolutely have to clear small area. I know there are fireflies in Finland.

    Never saw a single blink.


  • I’ve seen them once in my life, in Smoky Mountains, about 10 years ago. It was pretty much spiritual experience. The darkness came alive. I cried when I saw their luciferase smeared over windshield and glowing long after the creature was dead. I knew lots of lore about them, saw them in mass culture - never realizing I never saw one myself, even though I take care to notice all living things around, from bacteria and yeast to mycchorizal networks.

    I live in Europe.


  • Thanks!

    Just another a bit of advice: remember to reeeeeally carefully inspect grants; in many cases (almost always - but not always, I had some luck there in the end) they require supporting paperwork and other stuff that would effectively require you to spend resources comparable to grant funds themselves just to handle grant issuing party relations. Or they steal the IP in the end. Grants are dangerous poison, for once you have a team writing reports in payroll and rely on grants, it’s very hard to drop this, and people would rebel, and firing someone because you are not applying for grants in near future is very hard and often too unethical to do.


  • Whoa, I’m in their shoes right now!

    Ok, the shoes are uncomfortable af and have holes, but mine are clean! I’ve lived with this tech company for 4 or 5 years now, and I never ever stained myself with VS bullshit. I might go bankrupt this month, I had harsh betrayals and market fluctuations beating the shit from me. I’ve got store with sales that are just too slow. I’ve delayed salaries for almost a month (except mine, I haven’t made any money for myself this year lol). I still refused to go for all those investor traps and I’m proud of that. Worst case - I’ll just go bankrupt and start over!

    With investments, you’ll never get out clean, without betraying yourself. There will always be compromises. And you won’t get very much richer in the end, it’s a game where those “bad guys” will inevitably burn you unless you’ll become one of them. The rich will get richer and you’ve participated in burning the world? Not cool.

    I’ve been there. I had in my hands technologies that save the world. I had nuclear waste treatment technology tested in Fukushima. I had sub-10 nm lithography in 2014 (and we showed it to Intel in hopes they’ll just hire us back then). Investors never want to save the world, they want coke and whores and to burn us all. Decision makers will keep messing things up. Only grassroots are sustainable.

    (please do come to my store buy some weird stuff before it’s gone and I’m losing everything and starting another company again: https://store.zymologia.fi/)

    Gosh, this post and especially all the comments singing with unison to my dream cheered me up, I’ve got to go do something good now!





  • Hah, when I lived in the US, I was 100% certain that if a road has limit, I can always, in worst imaginable conditions, just nail it and go with limit (I lived down south, ok, in Texas, but traveled all the thing).

    Now in Europe this is absolutely not the case. I don’t mean Autobahns even, just regular roads in Finland are, well, just slow down if not sure, ok?