the sun is as theoretical as clouds

Obviously, the goal of this experiment is to grow the lobsters until they’re big enough to settle to the seabed and then release them, because they have a much higher likelihood of surviving to adulthood when they’re able to hide. Ideally, captive lobster hatcheries can boost the wild population and keep things stable, so we don’t have a major crash in a decade or two.

The first year we tried this was pretty bad. We had a lot of eggs, but very few babies. It turned out that the CO2 levels in the building spiked as more guests visited throughout the summer, and that settled into the water and threw off the pH and caused a chemical reaction that prevented a lot of the eggs from hatching. I think we ended up releasing three baby lobsters (which is still better than their wild survival rate but not great).

The second year was a little better. We added a de-gasser to the aquarium and got a ton of larval lobsters, but right as they were settling to the bottom we had a disease outbreak that killed most of them. We ended up releasing four babies at the end of the season.

But this year? Oh boy. We have so many lobsters that we had to release the first round early (usually we wait till September or October so guests can see them). We just released a total of FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE baby lobsters, and we still have over a hundred who haven’t settled to the bottom yet. I genuinely don’t even have words to explain how cool this is. OVER FIVE HUNDRED. We just added hundreds of lobsters to the wild population that wouldn’t have been there otherwise.

In the message chain at the end with the Dr. Pepper rep? They said this.

"I would be happy to connect you with our head of in-house counsel if you would like to speak about this further."

And that's a wild thing to say. Because. Like. I would not like to speak about this further. You're the one contacting me to take down a Tweet. You're the one who wants to speak about this further.

The default outcome of this conversation is that the Tweet remains up and OP just keeps on keeping on. But the representative here speaks as if the default outcome is that the Tweet comes down, and offers OP the opportunity to discuss with their legal counsel why it can't stay up.

The outcome of this is, of course, the flippant screenshotted Tweet blowing them off that OP made.

> disables a new AI feature that was turned on by default

> opens my email

> disables a new AI feature that was turned on by default

> launches a software