In addition, government research in the sciences is miniscule. You could cut ALL of science funding and be no where close to the 1 trillion that Musk claims he'll be able to reduce the budget by

I think the dude in the pic is trans masc

Congrats on your son! I'm sure your support is going to help them tremendously as they discover themselves

Low quality information is easier to produce than high quality information

Even worse, while people prefer high quality information, the preference is weaker than other preferences, such as the desire to see things that are cute or make you angry

Two things

1. Politics is for Power provides a pretty good model for thinking about this https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Politics-Is-for-Power/Eitan-Hersh/9781982116798

There's a lot of political hobbyism on social media in general and Lemmy is really bad for it. Take for example the constant Elon Musk rage bait. No one is doing anything productive with that information. They're just getting mad

2. Social media, in general, isn't a good way to get informed. It makes you feel really in touch but when a lot of the time you're getting biased and polarizing that is often as enraging as it is unproductive

We treat politics like entertainment and it's making our politics worse. Personally I try to limit my exposure to politics that I don't think will be productive. It might feel like the most important thing in the moment but it's often a huge waste of time

That's a false dichotomy in a lot of the comments here

We do both

Carbon capture isn't so we can continue to use fossil fuels. It's because once we get to 0 emissions we still need to draw down the carbon in the atmosphere

An ounce of prevention is almost always worth a pound of cure but we're still going to want that cure because every extra tenth of a degree we can bring the Earth back to normal is going to be worth it

Actually yes

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/30/1178378575/no-till-farming-legend-reddit-hero-honest-work

Took me a second

They wouldn't call the year 59 bc in 59 bc

Probably could make a board on another sheet with a formula that points to the opposite side of the board

Now that's what I call ally-ship

What if I told you that you aren't paying for the drinks but you're renting the table/bar stool

https://poorlydrawnstore.com/products/our-future-in-space-print

In case you're like my space friends who want this as a poster