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I drink two cups of coffee per day not because I have an addiction, but because my body has adapted to the presence of caffeine enough that its absence causes mild but unpleasant side effects.
I reblogged this post not because I liked it and wanted to share it, but because reading it elicited a pleasant sensation that I felt would be appreciated by others
Japanese Knotweed is highly invasive and can overtake native ecosystems so fast. It's a lot like kudzu in that way. Y'know, "the vine that ate the South"???
I know we all hate AI data centers and want them gone but this is not the fucking solution and should not be spread around even as a joke. Shit like this ruins already endangered native ecosystems.
Genuinely for the love of god do not do even consider doing this, all my fieldwork was "and also there is knotweed" in the site debriefs and the biosecurity steps you have to take to prevent spreading are really no joke. You can transport material it can propagate from on tires, clothing, boots etc very easily.
Knotweed often gets burned (with permits to do so, because you really need to know what you're doing to stop it spreading because it can propagate again from very little if it's moved off site as mentioned) but the rhizomes can survive burning because they grow to 3m~ deep and fully removing these is a nightmare in general. A lot of the time it gets buried which also needs a specialist involved so it can be buried properly and STAY buried for 50+ years so we can comfortably know it WILL die and won't breach containment. There's a bunch of crazy specific criteria required to meet for burial, it's not just digging a hole and throwing it in and it's a niche specialist task to properly manage for a reason
If you are concerned about AI data centers from an ecological or environmental perspective DO NOT fuck about with planting or relocating knotweed, it is incredibly disastrous for the environment (especially waterways) and native species diversity because it is INSANELY hardy (if the fact it can SURVIVE FIRE didn't imply this - they're adapted to survive lava flows) and very competitive. This doesn't just impact plant diversity which in itself is a problem, it will affect wildlife as well especially inverts. It's an offense to plant, sell or distribute F. japonica and the various similar species in many parts of the world BECAUSE it's so disastrous to the environment. If you see signs like this PLEASE ignore them or remove them if you're able, do not fight one ecological problem with another!
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I do not agree with veganism as a moral standard. If it is your personal moral stance, that is fine. If you think humans eating meat is inherently immoral, I don’t want to deal with you, you’re hopeless. Vegan ideology behaves more like a sect of evangelical Christianity than a dietary choice.
Veganism is better for the environment, but claiming that it's a morally superior choice ignores cultural and economic factors that make people eat animal products.
It is not inherently better for the environment. That is the thing. When you begin trying to explain that local, sustainably sourced animal protein is better for the environment than imported plant proteins that are farmed 3,500 miles away using slave labor, they start tuning you out. Down is better for the environment than polyester stuffing, leather is better for the environment than pleather. We should work on making animal agricultural practices more sustainable instead of trying to shame everyone into eating plant products that are also farmed unethically and unsustainably.
Ok so I actually did the math on the first statement (local animal protein is better for the environment than imported plant based proteins).
I will be making a comparison between animal derived proteins (beef, poultry, and eggs) and plant based proteins (tofu and pulses)
First, I looked up the CO2-equivalents (CO2e)* emitted by producing 1kg of each protein source (Source), which yields the following results:
Beef: 498.9 kg CO2e
Poultry: 57 kg CO2e
Eggs: 42.1 kg CO2e
Tofu: 19.8 kg CO2e
Pulses: 8.4 kg CO2e
So we can see that plant-based proteins emit fewer greenhouse gasses than animal derived proteins.
Next, I looked at how transportation affects these numbers. I made the assumption that (1) no transportation is needed for the animal proteins and (2) the plant proteins are shipped from the other side of the world (so 20.000km). Shipping a kg of protein by freight ship at this distance emits about 0.6kg of CO2 equivalents (source)**.
So adding it up yields the following numbers***:
Beef: 498.9 kg CO2e + 0 kg CO2e from shipping = 498,9 kg CO2e
Poultry: 57 kg CO2e + 0 kg CO2e from shipping = 57 kg CO2e
Eggs: 42.1 kg CO2e + 0 kg CO2e from shipping = 42.1 kg CO2e
Tofu: 19.8 kg CO2e + 0.6 kg CO2e from shipping = 20.4 kg CO2e
Pulses: 8.4 kg CO2e + 0.6 kg CO2e from shipping = 9 kg CO2e
So even if we produce animal proteins locally and we ship all of our plant-based proteins halfway across the world, plant proteins are still far more environmentally friendly than animal proteins.
In other words, we can produce 55kg of pulse proteins, ship them 20.000km away and have the same environmental impact as producing 1kg of beef locally.
This is not even accounting for land use, water use, nitrate pollution, phosphate pollution etc., all of which have very real environmental impacts, and all of which are more present in the production of animal proteins****.
*CO2 equivalents is a way to combine the impact of all greenhouse gasses into a single number. So not just CO2, but also gasses like methane and nitrous oxide. Methane is about 30 times more powerful as a greenhouse gas than CO2, so 1kg of methane = 30 kg CO2 equivalents. The large amounts of methane produced by cows explains the high climate impact of beef relative to other meats.
**The calculations on this site are made assuming a 2kg parcel, so twice the weight I'm assuming my protein parcel to be. Considering how negligible the shipping emissions are compared to the production emissions, I did not bother to adjust these numbers.
***Overland shipping at this distance yields about 4.2 kg C02e. This is more than shipping by sea, but still fairly negligible compared to the CO2e emissions generated at the production stage.
****I've worked on this comment for like an hour now and I'm too lazy to look up sources for this statement. I hope I have been thorough enough in the rest of my comment to convince you that I am not pulling this out of my ass. Feel free to look it up yourself as well. I will be happy to correct this statement if you hit me with a source that proves me wrong.
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huh? pompeii? nah dude that song’s so old and overplayed, if the radio station puts that song on one more fucking time I’m gonna—-EH EH OH EH OH EH EH OH EH OH
oh hey this feels like a good time to mention that bastille did a remix of pompeii. with goddamn hans zimmer. listen to this to blow your tits clean off
for everyone in the notes lamenting that this guy is poisonous: they are not! they're just pretty :) since they're a glass frog, their major defense mechanism is being translucent and hiding their blood while they sleep so they look extra translucent and blend in with leaves <3
Sorry, I had to know what "hide their blood" meant--
Glassfrogs make themselves transparent while they rest by taking red blood cells from circulation and concealing them in their livers. Now, a U.S. National Science Foundation-supported team of biologists and biomedical engineers has shown how these frogs become see-through in research appearing in the journal Science .
It's easy to miss a glassfrog in its natural environment. The northern glassfrog, Hyalinobatrachium fleischmanni, measures no more than a few centimeters and is most active at night, when its green skin helps it blend in with surrounding leaves and foliage. But these amphibians become true masters of camouflage during the day when they're asleep.
"When glassfrogs are resting, their muscles and skin become transparent, and their bones, eyes and internal organs are all that's visible," said Carlos Taboada, co-first author of the paper. "These frogs sleep on the bottoms of large leaves, and when they're transparent, they can perfectly match the colors of the vegetation."
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[Jean Ralphio’s lines dubbed over images from Star Wars]: “You just missed the craziest of crazies. Clubs. Girls. Dancing. Naked. MOM?! Argument. Police. Fleeing the scene. Hiding in a dumpster. Coming here. Crashing on your couch for a week ‘cause, [singing] technically I’m homeless!“
It's becoming clearer that sometimes when I say "use your local library" it's taken as "use a public library" and while that is definitely something you should be doing if you can, I'm usually talking about any library that's accessible to you!! Lending libraries, online libraries, school libraries, all of these are important to use as well!! If you have access to them, use them!! "Your local library" means any library that is local to you!
Hi, academic librarian here— as in, I work at a library that serves a university or college.
A lot of libraries, including mine, have lending and borrowing privileges for community members, or people not attending or working for the university. We also have no issue with anyone visiting the library to use the collection— to pull books off the shelf and read them, either to enjoy or just for your own research.
If you’re not sure, ask. I promise you, we never mind hearing, “I’d like to read your books, please.”
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