Asklemmy

Last I heard, the West was still on course to be on the moon first (again).

On the moon there's specifically small but valuable amounts of adsorbed Helium 3, which is far rarer yet on Earth. It's not going to displace the normal Helium in use.

Because of how entirely permanent this is, it pays to look far - like millions of years. That's what it took to accumulate.

We know how it came to exist naturally it’s really just the matter of someone being crazy enough to try and replicate those underground conditions and spend the money on the project.

How that works is just normal radioactive decay. The conditions aren't actually important.

It's probable we'll be able to make a bit with fusion, but the amounts will be small. IIRC we also collect some from decaying radioactive things in manmade settings, but again, it's hard to beat an chunk entire planet underneath a salt dome. Next options are harvesting it from space (but it's really spread out) or a gas giant (but there's stupid amounts of gravity).

The sun has shitloads, we could mine the sun!

As well as a massive car-centric society. I can't even walk to Jack in the Box at 10pm to get a shit burger, but I can drive thru with a car. That's part of the problem.

If you make something easier to do, it's more likely to be done. This is why gun control is needed, make it harder to get a gun, less gun death; snacks at the checkout means more buying of snacks; driveways and parking lots and drive thrus mean more car use.

European countries have access to those same ultra processed foods and yet their consumption and the obesity rates are dramatically lower. I think there are factors beyond simple availability that we should look at fixing.

Once upon a time people worked 9-5 with a commute somewhere under twenty minutes - so somewhere in the realm of nine hours of employment before home tasks like cooking and cleaning started happening. I believe most millennials and under work at least ten and a half hour (and the number of people trying to juggle multiple jobs has gone way up).

The ultra processed and fast foods are generally the default option when you are so fully drained by a sedentary employment and craving chemical joy to deaden the depression of existence. Millennials have eschewed alcohol and tobacco like no other generation and sugar is the only chemical fulfillment they can find so it becomes a spiral of comfort food into physical pain into inability to seek other enjoyment into comfort food.

I'd hesitate to ascribe the obesity epidemic to a single cause due to the exceptions that prove the rule.

We call them "Woke DEI Bathrooms" now.

Or, hear me out, we repeal the laws and trans people just continue using the bathroom of their choosing like we've been doing without issue for decades.

Remember in the 2000's before gay marriage was legal a lot of people would suggest elimination of the word marriage and just call everything civil unions to appease religious objections?

That's what eliminating gendered bathrooms sounds like. Gay and straight people enjoy being married. Trans and cis people enjoy their gendered privacy that makes them feel safer. I believe you're intentions are good but removing a universal cultural norm isn't the solution. It's side stepping the issue of transphobia, exactly like whites only bathrooms sidesteped racism.

Amazing how this basic solution is always omitted... Leta do 10 years of culture wars!!!!?

No, slightly more AMABs get born than AFABs. Over time the difference cancels out, as AMABs tend to die a bit more sooner.

Yes, it is to me. English (and most languages tbh) has constructs that constantly reinforce a concept of binary genders and highlight that as an important factor.

When you learned about Mr., Miss, and Mrs. did you find that awkward? To know how to title a woman (absent the more modern Ms.) you'd need to know their marital status - but for dudes it's whatever? That fucking pissed me off as a kid - how are you supposed to know if someone is married when writing them and who fucking cares...

To me, at least, gendered pronouns are the same way - I'm writing to a person, about a thing, as them as an individual. Gender is generally irrelevant to this interaction so why the fuck is it necessary for it.

Imagine if it was astrology sign instead: I just finished writing up a response to OsrsNeedsF2P. I hope Virgo appreciates the care I put into it because I enjoy the question Virgo asked.

Imagine needing to know someone's birth sign to talk about them and imagine that English constantly reinforced that birth sign was the way to identify others and that there were twelve and only twelve proper birth signs.

Gender expression is an important part of our identities - I have a complex expression as a non-conforming man - but it's not the important part of our identity. It's a factor of our identity and, I'd argue, only really rarely a top five factor. People are philosophers, crafters, writers, artists, hikers, gamers, cooks, painters, etc... those activities we enjoy are much more core to most of our identities. Our gender expression is important but should usually only impact a very narrow portion of our identity.

So to me, yea, it's a real issue.