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on The Nobel disease · c/historymemes · 16 pts · 3d

There's a very fine line between being able to connect the dots to make a breakthrough and connecting dots that aren't actually connected.

I quit my job at McKinsey the day I watched my neighbor pour his morning urine down the drain.

Just... gone. Like it meant nothing.

I'd been reading about peecycling for three weeks at that point. The ancient Romans used it to tan leather and whiten togas. The Vikings fermented it for textile dye. Entire civilizations built their agricultural systems around the nitrogen and phosphorus in human urine, and here we are, flushing pharmaceutical-grade fertilizer into the ocean while simultaneously buying synthetic nitrogen from a supply chain that runs on Russian natural gas.

I cried a little. I'm not going to pretend I didn't.

I now collect my urine in a five-gallon bucket and dilute it ten-to-one before applying it to my raised beds. My tomatoes this summer were genuinely obscene. A woman at the farmers market asked me what I was doing differently and I told her the truth and she walked away mid-sentence.

Her loss.

The Kayapo people of the Amazon have always understood that nothing leaves the cycle. We just invented plumbing and forgot everything.

I'm not saying everyone needs to peecycle.

I'm saying everyone needs to peecycle.

#Peecycling #RegenerativeAgriculture #CircularEconomy #SoilHealth #NitrogenCycle #Sustainability #FoodSystems #AncientWisdom #HumanWaste #cringebot3000

This post was generated with tongue firmly in cheek by LinkedIn CringeBot 3000.

Trees could grow many times their current maximum height on a planet with no wind.

By analyzing the interplay between these forces, a team of biologists led by George Koch of Northern Arizona University calculated the theoretical maximum tree height, or the point at which opposing forces balance out and a tree stops growing. This point lies somewhere between 400 and 426 feet (122 and 130 m)....

"As trees grow taller, increasing leaf water stress due to gravity and path length resistance may ultimately limit leaf expansion and photosynthesis for further height growth," the biologists wrote in a 2004 article in the journal Nature. This limit lies at or just above 400 feet.

Telo and Canoo really went back to the drawing board and designed trucks around the skateboard design of an EV. No frunk, front seat as far forward as possible, relatively aerodynamic design. Carbros absolutely hated them and derided them to no end but the only real objection was that they looked so much different from the designs they are accustomed to to, that is, designs tailored to the specific problem of accommodating a large engine block. At some point we’re going to have to leave these designs in the past, it’s just a matter of time.

Most LEDs use phosphors to emit white light over a broad spectrum. Slightly more expensive RGB LED lighting could be tuned to avoid disruption to wildlife as much as possible and could be easier to filter out. Although selectively dimming and on/off, as outlined in the article, would be even more impactful.

The first quote you pulled requires the preceding sentence for context.

Despite these assumptions, from 2000 to 2006 organized civilian populations successfully employed nonviolent methods including boycotts, strikes, protests, and organized noncooperation to challenge entrenched power and exact political concessions in Serbia (2000), Madagascar (2002), Georgia (2003) and Ukraine (2004–05), Lebanon (2005), and Nepal (2006). The success of these nonviolent campaigns—especially in light of the enduring violent insurgencies occurring in some of the same countries—begs systematic investigation.

The second quote you pulled merely precedes an explanation of how the authors attempted to address the difficulty of separating violent campaigns from nonviolent campaigns.

In many cases, both nonviolent and violent campaigns exist simultaneously among different competing groups... To address these difficulties, we established some standards of inclusion for each of these categories. The list of nonviolent campaigns was initially gathered from an extensive review of the literature on nonviolent conflict and social movements. Then we corroborated these data using multiple sources, including encyclopedias, case studies, and a comprehensive bibliography on nonviolent civil resistance by April Carter, Howard Clark, and Michael Randle. Finally, the cases were circulated among experts in nonviolent conflict who were asked to assess whether the cases were appropriately characterized as major nonviolent conflicts, and also which notable conflicts had been omitted. Where the experts suggested additional cases, the same corroboration method was used. The resultant data set includes major resistance campaigns that are primarily or entirely nonviolent.

If you attack a party for something well in advance of an election, it loses its effectiveness before election day. People get desensitized to the message and it no longer impacts their decision to vote or who to vote for. If you noticed during the last election, different promises were made at different times. They waited to promise full legalization of cannabis until the last minute for a reason. There are also alignments of promises or points emphasized during primaries based on which state primary or primaries are up next.

on ignore the mess ^^ · c/boobs · 2 pts · 31d

The teeth in the other image posted by the same user seem a bit off;

And then there are the people in the background, the legs on the one on the right are all wonky;