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The reason you don’t really see animals that can photosynthesize (other than microbes) is because you don’t actually get that much energy per unit of area. Think about how much area a cow has to graze vs the surface area of the cow itself. And much of the cow’s surface isn’t even facing the sun.

Rage and Serenity by Henry Jackman

a) Shitty MS Paint edits are funny.

b) It makes it clear to people who aren’t familiar with the original meme that this is a template.

Ah, yes. The three genders: Scrub Daddy, Scrub Mommy, and Scotch-Brite™.

Oof.

She is an absolute disaster and I love her.

This should probably be marked as a spoiler.

Don’t use screen, but I do use tmux pretty heavily.

I don’t think the people complaining about Firefox’s AI integration are using or paying attention to Chrome.

No one’s said it yet? I guess I’ll do it: Outer Wilds.

Take away “really good research skills,” and this feels pretty relatable.

Eliminating vehicle deaths by making travel impossible

And here we see decades of automobile industry propaganda in action. There is only the car, or no mobility whatsoever. You remember how everybody was just trapped inside their houses for centuries until the Ford factories started cranking out Model Ts?

Cars will never be a sustainable solution to mass transit. The immense amount of waste in materials, energy, and land use will not be offset with AVs. I don’t think AVs are a bad idea in and of themselves. But, as the article points out, they’re not going to solve any major problems.

I had never really considered how induced demand would apply to AVs…