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Dunk it in vinegar overnight. It will kill bacterias, and the smell of vinegar itself will go away pretty quickly.

I actually enjoy it. Right after daylight saving time change, it’s dark around 5/6pm here. Christmas lights makes it more bearable.

If you press WIN + arrow up, down, left or right it will snap it on that half.

For sure. Waiting at the doctor’s office or travelling long distance was so boring before smart phones.

Fair enough!

Could we even all survive without eating animals; all mankind?

Not all countries can produce plant food year round, or have access to high protein source of food that is not meat. I live in canada and more than half the year, all fruits and vegetables come from california, spain, and so on. There is no local vegetarian food. But, the butcher still has local meat available.

I am actually curious; is it even feasible to feed everyone if we stop meat production? What would be the impact on the environment to import boatloads of food from far away instead of sourcing local food year round?

“Exploiting” animals as in, animal cruelty, I think everyone agrees is bad. But I don’t feel like raising sheeps for wool or cows for milk is inherently wrong depending on the way it is done. Even eating animals, I would not call that exploitation. Plenty animals eat each other in nature. Is the wolf exploiting the sheep when it eats it?

What about a fish then? Or even insects? We use insects for plenty of things as well, like food dyes. Are we exploiting them? Insects are animal as well. What about a fish?

Intelligence is not the same as wisdom.

You gotta be pretty intelligent to wreck a whole planet. You gotta be wise not to do it.

Crazy that an admin had full access to all files on all drives including backups without requiring any kind of elevation, where a ransomware could encrypt it all.

At this point 8 don’t even know if paying would be the way to go to at lease rexover the files and rethink their security from the ground-up.

It got shot down. Not sure why news say “crashed”…

Just flip it, the top bars are for measuring from the inside.

Because of the plant it used to be made of. It’ a Gui Mauve plant in french, or a Marsh Mallow in english. Scientific name: Althaea officinalis

For fun, a rough estimate is 20% of an animal’s mass in carbon. A cow is around 600kg (1000 pounds). That means 120kg of carbon. Carbon being 12g per mols, that is 10’000 mols of carbon. Turn that all in CO2, that makes 10’000 mols of CO2 which is 44g per mols, so 440 kg of CO2.

As methane (CH4), it is instead (16g per mols) : 160kg.

A cow produces 100kg of methane a year so a cow’s biomass is not sufficient to compensate for it’s methane production over its life.

Plus, when you eat the cow, you are the one farting that carbon back in the athmosphere anyway.

Still, cattle is 10% of the global greenhouse gas emissions.

If we can get nuclear fusion to work, that would be the kind of things that would then make sense to do. I can only hope that we figure it out as soon as possible.

Cows do not create carbon. They turn it into methane which is a worse form of carbon.

The same way you can turn carbon in biomass to “lock” it from the atmosphere, you can turn it in worse forms of gas that cause even more heating like methane. The methane will turn back in CO2 form once it burns or degrade naturally (a dozen years or so) but while it is under methane form, it will make it worse, accelerating the heating effects. But even stopping all methane emissions is only a temporary solution as carbon from pool 2 keeps moving in pool 1. It may give us more time before reaching the same level of greenhouse effect but we will reach it anyway.

Breathing does not create Carbon, it is only transformed.

There are basically 2 pools of carbon. The carbon already in circulation in the athmosphere, plants, animals and so on, roaming at the surface. That Carbon can be CO2, or other mollecules, but there is always a fixed amount. You breathing is simply borrowing the carbon for a bit and putting it out again in the air when exhaling.

The second pool is carbon locked away in the ground, as coal, oil and whatnot. That carbon is OLD and is not supposed to be in the first pool. When you burn oil, the carbon from the 2nd pool ends up in the 1st one. You cannot really offset it because even planting trees just transforms it as wood for a bit, but if the tree burns or rots, the carbon goes back in the air. The only option long term is to send the carbon back in a locked state in the second pool.

But for you, just reduce the amount of carbon you move from pool 2 to pool 1 to help the earth. Cut on oil, gas, coal as much as you can. The rest is basically irrelevant.

You can compare it to the water cycle. You are at a lake with a pump, and pump the water from the lake back into the lake. You can keep going forever and will not cause the lakes to rise since the water is pumped from there anyway. BUT, if a mega corporation starts pumping from underground sources and dumping it in that lake, it would overflow for sure. And they would blame you for all the water you are pumping.

Canada should run it’s own official mastodon or lemmy instance to post canadian news/communications and whatnot. I never undestood how we still depend on American corporations like Twitter and facebook to share news. Like, even for my local govt, if I want to know if there is any road works, water issues and so on, it ends up on facebook only! This is dumb.

Interesting! In Canada we have a carbon tax, which incentivize companies to pollute less, but does not help companies that are carbon-negative. I like the european way better; but as I stated, it requires governments to manage this, as these certificates are a fictous constraint anyway.

How would a company make money by dumping trees in holes?

It should be a government effort to do something like this. At least planting trees, no need to cut them for decades anyway. We would need an insane amount of tress for that to work too, basically as many as we burned as oil since the industrial era…

You gotta double it until it overflows to negatives, then you end up reviving billions of people!