Track_Shovel

@ Track_Shovel @slrpnk.net

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Fortunately, woodland creatures don't hire lawyers

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Science Memes mander.xyz

solarpunk memes slrpnk.net

6mo ago

one water please
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Track_Shovel @slrpnk.net 6mo ago
isn't that bottom frame AI?

6mo ago

They're in every store

I'm the polar opposite. People are obstacles, the objectives are on the grocery list, and I must get them as quickly as possible.

I get progressively more stressed if I can't find things, and the longer it takes to find them.

Yeah...

6mo ago

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Track_Shovel @slrpnk.net 6mo ago

This horseshit. I dedicated mine to my partner and married her afterwards.

If this is the kind of stuff the prof is sending in writing I can only imagine the kind of bullshit the are pulling in person and with everything else.

I would be complaining to the dean.

6mo ago

Diphalia

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6mo ago

Benefits are limnited, but I guess there's no end to the liminal space photographs you can take

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Track_Shovel @slrpnk.net 6mo ago

I'd call you a salmonologist but that's semantics almost

6mo ago

Diphalia

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Track_Shovel @slrpnk.net 6mo ago

Hi, is this still available?

7mo ago

Reddit decides to remove r/all

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Track_Shovel @slrpnk.net 7mo ago

so instead of browsing /r/all, my mobile experience will consist of solely visiting the handful of niche subreddits i have favourited? thanks, I guess?

seriously this, it's dogshit if you only go to a few subreddits, even if they aren't favourited. I gues /r/random will have to do a lot of that heavy lifting now. It's going to be subreddit 50/50 - either you boring or great subreddits, or furry stuff.

7mo ago

"Oo-mox for Fun and Profit" seems like swell reading material

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Track_Shovel @slrpnk.net 7mo ago

A ferengi showing up on the view screen with a slave stroking his lobes is the same as Picard showing up on the other end with Troy stroking it for him

7mo ago

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Track_Shovel @slrpnk.net 7mo ago

This is green washing no matter how you slice it. While it's an interesting idea, artificial refugia, like bat boxes or these balls, have to be very carefully designed so they don't have one of these negative outcomes:

Act as a trap for the targeted species with regards to predators
Kill the target species - often through thermal extremes
Just don't get used by the target species

There's some good work about this on (fuck, fine rummaging for paper) Australian quolls

I actually reached out to Cowan to asks a few questions. He was pumped that we were citing his work and using it in reclamation planning as landscape enchantments.

Anyway, artificial refugia should, at best, be viewed as a temporary fix, or a way to layer habitat on the landscape, never a full substitution.

7mo ago

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Track_Shovel @slrpnk.net 7mo ago

Your nuts are also full of microplastics

7mo ago

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Track_Shovel @slrpnk.net 7mo ago

If it freezes on the way down does it become a snowcone?

7mo ago

Sweet dreams are over; time for sweet memes instead

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Track_Shovel @slrpnk.net 7mo ago

You get it. scratches arm It's not an addiction, I can stop whenever I want!

7mo ago

Why I gave up electronics club

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Track_Shovel @slrpnk.net 7mo ago

Let's eat grandma

8mo ago

The fifth pocket

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Track_Shovel @slrpnk.net 8mo ago

No, I think we have painted ourself into a corner again. You now HAVE to do controlled burns since our previous management avoided any fire at all costs and built up huge fuel stores that would have normally burnt.

Also, sidebar: our ecosystems today are not those that were present thousands of years ago. I can hear the keyboards clacking already, but what I mean is this: ecosystems will come together and then fade away as conditions change - your pine dominant forest may not have even existed as you see it today and instead had a different canopy and/or different understory species. Ecosystems live, breathe, and adapt just like a giant organism and I think that's super cool.

Your soil moisture regime changes? A new community moves in. You have a global cooling or warming? That original community may go extinct, or only some species will remain and those species may not have the same dominance they once had as they are now operating at the edge of their niche conditions rather than under optimal ones.

Look at that, you got me monologuing you sly dog

8mo ago

The fifth pocket

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Track_Shovel @slrpnk.net 8mo ago

Generally, good land management is lazy land management. Nature (and her ecosystems) got on just fine without us. The only reason we need to manage the fire cycle now is so that we don't have our population centers burnt by the natural fire cycle. However, we largely already fucked that part up by intervening in the fire cycle, and not allowing areas close to these centers to burn. As a result, you end up with conflagrations popping up where you don't want them to.

8mo ago

TIL putting solar panels on land currently used for biofuels would produce enough electricity for all cars and trucks to go electric

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Track_Shovel @slrpnk.net 8mo ago

As another commentator points out, transportation of electricity and vehicles themselves are the major problems. Farmers that grow biofuels could conceivably shift to another crop, and many of the crops used for biofuels are routinely farmed for other uses (e.g., corn is animal feed and biofuel feed). In that regard, I disagree with the the argument that the entire infrastructure would have to be rebuilt.

the problem of getting electricity to cars is removed if we have better public transportation, though developing that infrastructure and reconfiguring the existing system (e.g., car-centric) is a much bigger problem. Regardless, you can still use solar for other uses (houses, industry) while you convert transportation slowly (and painfully, as we've really painted ourselves into a corner).

I do* like your take on alternate land uses for quarries (and mines! don't forget those). Not all mines are close to cities, but some are. There's a few really good example of mines installing solar panels on their reclaimed tailings storage facilities., or old mines being used for pumped hydro batteries.

The energy issue is multifaceted, and while it's easy to say 'just do nuclear' 'just do solar' 'just do hydro', one size doesn't fit all. However, the one thing that DOES fit, is how we have to start thinking about how to repurpose what we have already (e.g., windows as you point out) to suit our objectives of green energy.