semisimian

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[–] semisimian@startrek.website 2 points 3 weeks ago

This article focuses specifically on the warming and the depletion of oxygen in our rivers. I watched the video, but I didn't read the text. I think it is just a transcript from the video.

The best way to save any part of our environment is to get more people to engage with it. Whether that is fishing on a river, hiking through the woods, or any other outdoor activity. These activities have routinely been proven clinically to improve a person's health and well-being. If we can get more people participating in this positive feedback loop, we will have more interest and political will to protect our environment.

It's only mentioned that warming in general is causing the lack of oxygen in the rivers. Well, what is causing the warming? They mentioned sedimentation, but they don't connect that more large rain events lead to more sedimentation, more sediment in the rivers absorbs more sunlight and holds heat. They mentioned removing old dams to make the water run faster which will keep it cooler. That's a great thing to do, but we really need to focus on increasing the buffer zones between rivers and development and showing up the banks along our rivers.

 

Most of my Dad's Uriah Heep record covers used to freak me out as a kid. They're pretty awesome, though.

[–] semisimian@startrek.website 3 points 1 month ago

My Thermador is no different, shitty ice maker.

[–] semisimian@startrek.website 5 points 1 month ago

There are a bajillion, but maybe you are looking for a specific genre that nails it on the head.

As someone mentioned, there are thousands of social drama films that could've easily happened. The success of that type of film is selling a "day in the life" plot.

Someone else mentioned Office Space. That film is a satire, but it condenses and delivers refined representations of the banality of cubicle life that we all can easily relate to. The characters truly seem to be facsimiles of people we've known in our working lives.

Someone else mentioned Michael Clayton. It's an excellent thriller with flawed characters with believable motives that yes, it could be real. And maybe something like that has happened?

What genre will help us answer your question?

[–] semisimian@startrek.website 4 points 1 month ago

"Screw 'em, do what you want" shall be the whole of the law.

[–] semisimian@startrek.website 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think it would take much more energy to grow the food they need than to just replicate it. That said, if I was stuck for 7 years in space, fresh fruits and vegetables would be the cheapest form of therapy.

[–] semisimian@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago

The Kanar sounds good. The Romulan Ale sounds way too sweet, though. I think 151, soda and Curacao for color with the rock candy garnish dropped in the drink would be more fitting for something that is supposed to be so strong it's illegal.

I want to see how big those Targ legs are.

[–] semisimian@startrek.website 4 points 1 month ago

A US made drone designed to be adopted by law enforcement/military with a hefty price tag is probably relying on robust public funds to procure such drones. Lucky for us n'er-do-wells, those public funds are being DOGEd. Right? ...right?

[–] semisimian@startrek.website 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"How is our young doctor?" ..."Young."

[–] semisimian@startrek.website 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I know what you mean, but I immediately heard it different. It's something we should be asking daily, just to make sure they have what they need. Are trans women okay? Are trans men okay? What do you need? I have a sympathetic ear and bourbon; how can I help?

[–] semisimian@startrek.website 3 points 2 months ago

He's great. I first heard him on a Ninja Tune compilation. I got to see him in a 100 seater doing a poetry night. All snaps!

[–] semisimian@startrek.website 11 points 2 months ago

Pickles and nuts are standard charcuterie staples. You've got salty and savory and a little bit of fat. You need sweet to round this out. I would take your pickles and peanuts and spread them onto a whole wheat cracker (Ritz) or toast. Another option would be to add a jam into the mix and eat with a more neutral rice cracker.

Or, if you want to continue to be a degenerate, M&M's would be good. Or hollow out a Cadbury egg and stuff it with the pickles/nuts mixture.

[–] semisimian@startrek.website 5 points 2 months ago

I just started my DS9 rewatch today, having just completed Voyager, Enterprise and SNW in my "COVID then RSV then ENT infection" couch-misery marathon. I saw the Q episode with Vash just hours ago - loved O'Brien's reaction when he recognized Q.

I think they developed Voyager and DS9 to be two halves of the Star Trek whole. Voyager was flung so far that almost every species was new, so right from the start it highlighted the awkward first handshakes the Federation had to endure. DS9 included (mostly) known species and highlighted the increasingly awkward second handshakes, and third, and on and on: the real work of diplomacy beyond first contact. It's a political drama, The West Wing in space. Q has no patience for such intricacies, though that is what he often says he values so much in humanity.

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