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The reason you don’t really see animals that can photosynthesis (other than microbes) is because you don’t actually get that much energy per unit of area. Think about how much area a cow has to graze vs the surface area of the cow itself. And much of the cow’s surface isn’t even facing the sun.

Rage and Serenity by Henry Jackman

a) Shitty MS Paint edits are funny.

b) It makes it clear to people who aren’t familiar with the original meme that this is a template.

Ah, yes. The three genders: Scrub Daddy, Scrub Mommy, and Scotch-Brite™.

Oof.

She is an absolute disaster and I love her.

Don’t use screen, but I do use tmux pretty heavily.

I don’t think the people complaining about Firefox’s AI integration are using or paying attention to Chrome.

No one’s said it yet? I guess I’ll do it: Outer Wilds.

Take away “really good research skills,” and this feels pretty relatable.

Eliminating vehicle deaths by making travel impossible

And here we see decades of automobile industry propaganda in action. There is only the car, or no mobility whatsoever. You remember how everybody was just trapped inside their houses for centuries until the Ford factories started cranking out Model Ts?

Cars will never be a sustainable solution to mass transit. The immense amount of waste in materials, energy, and land use will not be offset with AVs. I don’t think AVs are a bad idea in and of themselves. But, as the article points out, they’re not going to solve any major problems.

I had never really considered how induced demand would apply to AVs…

Also, we removed all of the hardware safeties that would prevent this from happening and entrusted it all to software.

Wow. You must have very stringent software engineering practices, with multiple levels of checks and test proce—

What? No, we just had one guy write all of the system’s code. It’s probably fine, right?

I just saw the title and the image wasn’t loading. I thought this was about Power over Ethernet.

It happens to all of us, eventually.

I think that’s the joke.

I recognize these vtubers, but don’t know what is even going on in this interaction.

Du

Lol, weaponizing toxic masculinity for climate justice, are we?

But did they have themselves a popsicle?

I wouldn’t say 0% chance, but I agree that it is unhealthy to jump straight to conspiratorial thinking. Especially given just how little we know at this point.