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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

That's a very plausible claim, but difficult to prove

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

A fair-sized chunk of this fall's electorate was too young to vote in 2016, and doesn't have a real sense of how awful he is, or how much has deteriorated over the past few years.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 hours ago (10 children)

A lot of people don't pay much attention until shortly before the election.

His age and mental capacity can weigh on folks when he can't give a decent explanation of what he's going to do on a particular topic.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Mental capacity.

He's very good at tossing out free association, and showing that he's in touch with the latest racist meme.

Anything else? Not so much.

 

Access options:

The paper is here

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

Also, they'll borrow huge amounts of money so the handful of people making 10 million can pay 500k less in taxes.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago

The IRA is absolutely a bill which uses capitalist mechanisms to achieve some decarbonization.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

I'd love to get rid of PG&E and have a publicly-owned utility instead, which doesn't charge the @#$@#% markup the PG&E gets to in order to pay an ever-increasing dividend.

 

The big risk on this kind of adaptation measure is that when you displace food crops with non-food crops, the conversation of unfarmed land into farmland is a likely consequence, along with the CO2 emissions that the land use change causes.

So far, this is a very limited-scale change, but potentially a big deal if it covers a much larger area.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago

Which is why lobsters have been shifting northward, with populations rising on the north edge of their range, and declining on the southern end.

Not exactly what we want humans to be forced to do.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

They'd probably get less engagement if I did that; headlines that confuse people cause them to comment, which in turn causes Facebook and Reddit to show content to more people.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (3 children)

The mystery is "why this gesture" and not "are they communicating"

The hypothesis that's being put forward is this:

Apes, they argue, do not inherit specific gestures, but they do inherit the sense that they can use gestures to communicate with other chimpanzees. The animals create new gestures by borrowing — or “recruiting,” in the scientists’ lingo — movements that apes commonly make.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 days ago

Gift link giving everybody access. You can edit this into the original post.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Per the article, they'll go where people want; not automatically down into "it's God's plan"

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