terfs are literally the loudest and most obnoxious about women needing to be tiny and hairless and dainty and childlike and incapable delicate waifs and cisgender and hyperfeminine (and white) to be “real women” because they are reactionary.
Me saying that I find it unfunny and unacceptable to either make or laugh at girl math girl dinner I’m just a girl jokes where the punchline is that women are all tiny delicate incapable little waif-children because those jokes are reactionary IS me being a buzzkill. I don’t find that reactionary shit funny and I won’t let anyone else around me find it funny either. That punchline and what it communicates about women is especially harmful to trans women and transfemmes. Me being a buzzkill about this is NOT me being a TERF and I think you’re nasty for putting that shit on me.
to pretend that horrible people cannot make good art is another way to conflate beauty and talent with integrity and morality. the works of monsters are best examined with knowledge of the author in mind but art is not inherently reflective. human beings are creative, and habitual liars- it’d be stupid to pretend art must always be a portrait of its creator
it’s also a convenient oversimplification of humans to believe that a person who is horrible in one way will be horrible in every way. people can hold terrible views in one area and have something thoughtful to say in another. people can do terrible things to one person and tremendous acts of kindness and empathy to another.
“One of the least respected but most important ecosystems on Earth are seagrass meadows, and a pioneering robotic solution is helping marine scientists restore these underwater gardens.
The ReefGen Grasshopper can plant dozens of seagrass seeds per minute. Not only is this faster than a human diver, but much safer as well.
It works by injecting a tiny slurry of sediment wrapped around the seagrass seed into the seafloor. After covering a growing plot of four seeds, the robot ‘hops’ about 30 centimeters away and starts again.
Despite covering a minuscule portion of the seafloor, seagrass meadows are estimated to hold 35-times more carbon than terrestrial forests—amounting to around 18% of the total carbon stock of the world’s oceans.
ReefGen’s founder Tom Chi dreamed up the idea after watching the degradation of coral reefs on his home island in Hawaii. The first iteration of the robot set coral ‘plugs’ onto existing reefs to help regrow them, but the technology was prohibitively expensive for wide-scale use.
Now however, broader selections of off-the-shelf parts have driven down the costs of manufacturing and maintaining underwater robots, according to Chris Oakes, CEO of ReefGen.
“Manual planting works, but robots are really good when things are dull, dirty, dangerous, or distant—the four Ds,” Oakes told CNN, adding that at the moment, Grasshopper is piloted with a controller by a human on the surface.
“Right now, we’re focused on the planting, the biology, and the mechanical aspects, once we’re confident that that’s all designed the right way, we will overlay more semi-autonomous features like navigation, so you don’t actually have to pilot it,” he said.
ReefGen has been able to not only expand into restoration of seagrass meadows, but also see its robotsused in oceans around the world. This July, Grasshopper planted 25,000 seeds in Wales. In October, ReefGen teamed up with the University of North Carolina (UNC) Institute of Marine Sciences to test various seed replanting methods out on the state’s declining seagrass meadows.
Oakes says that as cool and “flashy” as a robotic solution might seem, the most important factor in its success will be the long-term monitoring of the fields it’s replanting. Are they growing to maturity, are the seedlings dying off before then, will they live long enough to seed and germinate fields of their own, how do fields it plants compare to fields planted by hand??”
All my haters become aligators when I activate my gatorinator.
you laugh now, but when my gatorinator is ready, it’s all over
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update:
transmogrifying my haters into an animal that is known for something called the “death roll” has backfired in a manner no one could have forecasted
Having taken stock of the situation, it’s not as bad as I originally thought. It’s not like these crocodilians are an urgent problem, much less a representation of my own mortality. There’s no ticking clock here.
well now you’re just doing this on purpose
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I think that’s the highest tags forecast I have received so far.
The
filter is broken…today I had a client come in with two Ragdolls with
diarrhea and intermittent vomiting. Of course she’s feeding raw. I
looked her in the eyes and said…“Your cats are GMOs. They are not
leopards hunting impala in the African savanna. They do not need a raw
diet. Additionally, they are likely covered in Salmonella. You have
two hairy raw chicken breasts wandering your house.” Bring on the
complaint.
Me: I want you to know that Tumblr appreciates the “hairy raw chicken breasts”
Last week, it emerged that health insurance leaders pressured the DOJ to bring federal charges against Luigi Mangione. This week, I discovered the top 3 officials at DOJ all collected paychecks from healthcare companies before serving in government: shorturl.at/lgLIU
Because an alleged terrorist has no right to a jury; they are blocking jury nullification.
Back on my criminal procedural soapbox to tell you that the linked article (which is scary! and good to know!) does not in the slightest entail any part of “Because an alleged terrorist has no right to a jury; they are blocking jury nullification.”
It is scary and good to know that health insurance leaders have the ability to pressure DOJ officials into bringing federal charges against someone (which appear at first glance to be factually solid, even if it ends up being a bad tactical move to bring them, as I suspect). It is scary and good to know that that ability comes from financial leverage over the top of the federal justice system.
But terrorism charges don’t take away a defendant’s right to a jury. That’s not a thing. He’s an American citizen accused of crimes on US soil–he’s not getting a military tribunal like the ones so common during the “War on Terror.” The DOJ and NYS officials are certainly worried about jury nullification, but they’re not “blocking” it. By definition, it’s pretty hard to block, and often to detect.
Anyway, misinfo is everywhere, and just because you agree with someone’s big-picture opinion doesn’t mean they’re right. Check your sources.
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