Ontological fun for the whole family

Mfs out here really making weekly beans

That title seems like the epitome of a false dichotomy

Apparently biodiesel can be made from algae, which could actually work well. Mass farm algae, which can absorb a lot of co2, use some of it to make biodiesel, but overall grow way more algae. Either way though it has a lot of input options of things that are mostly waste as it stands now

I think one of the major benefits is not shipping raw oil and finished fuel all over the world. This is something sustainable, but more importantly domestically viable. Just not shipping oil all the way here from the middle east or Venezuela or wherever is an improvement.

Plus, in a dark side type way, we can sell our own domestic petroleum products to other countries a la Norway

At this point we really just need some stop gaps to get us to a point where some renewable has a more major breakthrough. Be it fusion or solar panel efficiency or geothermal or battery tech or whatever have you

Didnt millions more people die than necessary in the US thanks to covid? Seems like were working equally as hard here

In terms of biology, the reason for this head bobbing behavior is because of how owl eyes have adapted to being nocturnal predators. Owls have amazing night vision, which comes from having an incredible number of rod receptors in their eyes. Rod receptors are extremely sensitive to low light environments. These are peripheral vision receptors that enable a wide angle of alertness for even the slightest movements, which is great for spotting tiny mammals as they graze along the tall grass in open fields.

The downside is these rods are basically color-blind and require lots of space in the eye for the high numbers required to work in near complete darkness. In order to fit the most rod receptors possible in their eyes, owls lose the ability to move their eyes in the sockets. The extra space enables them to fit more rod receptors, but it removes their ability to manually focus their eyes.

This means owls need a specialized strategy to help them judge distance that replaces movement of the eye with movement of the entire head.

One of the fascinating things about this is humans have this capability too, but most people never learn how to develop it. Humans typically judge distance with our cone receptors by adjusting the focus of our eyes along an axis of visual depth.

You can feel this subtle adjustment in your eyes by focusing your gaze on something far away, then move the focal point to something much closer and feel what happens to your eyes. If you’re attentive, you will feel a slight micro-movement of your eyes as they adjust.

This type of cone-based depth adjustment is something that owls cannot do so they compensate by moving their heads to generate the motion parallax effect (rod based depth perception)

Me too :(

Hacking the US government is like the Chinese finger traps of hacking. Its easy enough to get in, but probably quite a mess when you go to get out. At least if they catch you anyways

If it makes you feel any better, the person who wrote that tweet probably works from home and makes six figures to shitpost while regular Popeyes employees get ground to the bone for $17 an hour or less

I cant either and I wrote it. Its both satirical and also a highly plausible explanation. Although we all know the one set of translators they wouldnt fire are the Russian ones

The confederacy are the most widely celebrated giant losers of all time, and it isn’t even close.

There are more monuments commemorating their failure than there are commemorating most successes

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Youd think if they were really experts they could have thought that up a year ago

The administration finds itself reeling after firing all of our translators due to “foreign language being woke globalist DEI marxism, speak english”

Both men denied having anything to do with the tree. But data from their phones and Graham’s car placed them at the scene of the crime. No motive was presented at trial; prosecutors have called the act “moronic.”

Gotta love British prosecutors for keeping it real

“Hes a bloody cunt, your honor. I rest my case”

He has concepts of intelligence

You should look into flatiron pepper company pepper flakes. They make a ton of different blends at different levels of heat that are also really flavorful. It lets you bring the heat to your own food without having to use some kind of sauce. Plus, they are a great company. They send extra free shit every time I have ordered from them (3 or more times at this point?)

I like hot sauce too, but more situationally than every time I eat

Of course not everyone is that way! Personally when I speak Spanish I sound nothing like when I speak English, and if anything my accent more closely follows the accent of whoever taught me the word, plus probably some of just my own inflection added in (but not in the accent of my English).

It makes sense to me that if you learned Spanish in Colombia that you could sound Argentinian based on your Colombian learning plus your own inflection. It would make sense for it to sound like a different South American accent.

My Spanish is kind of jumbled between Northern Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Venezuelan Spanish all being fairly diverse from each other, and thus getting very different lessons from different native speakers lol

Its just fascinating to me that some people dont and some do take on inflections that match how they speak their native language. I imagine it has something to do with how the information is stored in the brain. Perhaps those of us that tend to pick up accents and inflections better as adults still have some neural plasticity or strength in the areas that we use to develop a native language

Revenge has to be the only point, considering that it is genuinely cheaper to imprison people for life than it is to go through death row appeals and execute them, even before you include the cost of botching executions and the lawsuits that stem from that. South Carolina choosing firing squad in this case was not only because its harder to botch, but because its virtually impossible to buy the drugs for lethal injection anymore. Even when available, they cost a fortune for the state to procure

The death penalty is just to sate barbaric revenge instincts and nothing else. There is no logical point to it

The entire immigration system, as in the modern apparatus that accepts or rejects people from coming here, of the US goes back to the Chinese Exclusion Act. If you read that act it basically outlines that we would only accept lots of immigrants from white countries, excluding Italians or Jewish people from anywhere. As well as that we would only accept white immigrants from any primarily non-white countries. That was the design of the entire system until the civil rights era threw that kind of garbage out.

This is one of those moments where “make america great again” clearly and explicitly means “go back to when we were a eugenicist white supremacist nation”. But you have to know the history they dont want you to know to see that in full detail