Litost

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by Litost 3mo ago
> Talk openly about how much you hate your phone... The idea of modelling the behaviour you're trying to teach your kids seems to be a key one as mentioned in this interview with Zak Stein [1]. Obviously the general tone might be a
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by Litost 4mo ago
Much as I love Glastonbury festival, even though I stopped going a few years back, the amount of waste generated definitely seems problematic. I think the festival does a great job of trying to deal with this problem, from the large number
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by Litost 5mo ago
Here's a story in the Guardian about a women who was visited by local police in New York after her family searched for pressure cookers and backpacks. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/01/ne
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by Litost 6mo ago
I use iNaturalist semi-regularly and was about to start using it for a rewilding project I'm involved in, so looked into that and some of the alternatives. I really like how easy it is to use, the various views on the data (incl. geofe
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by Litost 8mo ago
I had the misfortunate of needing to hire a car in the UK last year. Ended up with an entry level 2025 Kia (Ceed Estate). Compared with the 2012 Audi A4 I'm used to driving it was a nightmare. Similar experience, lots of flashing and b
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by Litost 10mo ago
Do you mean the Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton [1] (also a movie) and I seem to remember it being a good watch when I last watched though that might be a good 15 years ago. The idea was novel enough it's stuck with me since and I
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by Litost 1y ago
Thanks, that's good to know. And I've just seen that you CAN get The Guardian Weekly digital subscription here, free if you've got a print subscription? Though obviously I'm wondering why the Guardian don't advertis
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by Litost 1y ago
Similarly The Guardian has a weekly publication - https://support.theguardian.com/uk/subscribe/weekly Unfortunately it doesn't appear to have a digital option?
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by Litost 1y ago
Thanks for adding to this. Not an expert on this by any means, but I always found this short series [1] quite fascinating on how cyanobacteria over a period of 200-300 million years coverted the planet from being methane based to being oxyg
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by Litost 2y ago
I'm not sure of the licence specifics related to downstream water, but in general: The impact on downstream water is almost entirely positive, the leaky dams they build filter sediment and excess nutrients (often from fertiliser run of
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by Litost 2y ago
Do you have any further info on this "one of the complaints of the Roman empire in its twilight years was that everyone wanted to write a book". I'm curious about some of the seemingly slightly oddball signs of late stage civ
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by Litost 2y ago
I suspect burning $1 notes one at a time might take a very long time (it takes longer than you might expect burning bundles of £50 notes [1]) and as you say "What this guy is missing is creativity", just burning $1m dollars just f
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by Litost 2y ago
There's been numerous attempts at removing invasives, as you point out some successful, some not. I found this one of New Zealand, which has particularly unique habitats, trying to remove rats (and others) to save 200 bird species to b
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by Litost 2y ago
The Rewilding term is definitely mercurial, Isabella Tree (Knepp) in this talk [1] sums this quite poetically by saying it's a term that "rewilds itself". Alastair Driver (Director of Rewilding Britain) in the same talk summa
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by Litost 2y ago
Yes, as you both mention, great prose and great insight. One of my favourite pieces of nature writing as it succinctly cuts through what seems to be the modern disease of problem creation masquerading as problem solving so elequoently and h
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by Litost 2y ago
It's worth remebering this last phrase "In that simple fashion does the man who outwitted the cleverest of animal criminals tell his story." whilst reading Aldo Leopold famous short piece from A Sand County Almanac, Thinking
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by Litost 2y ago
For any Slay the Spire fans, the Downfall fan expansion is well worth playing. The ability to go backwards through the game as some of the various bosses challenging the normal characters alone makes it a great variant. https://s
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by Litost 2y ago
Similarly I have fond memories of the last.fm era, discovering new music via people with similar tastes who I might often end up chatting to. Wasn't it also around this time that Pandora (using the Music Genome project) was also more r
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by Litost 2y ago
It might be this [1] which says "According to the report, the decision was made by officials to continue to build the Birmingham Curzon Street Station to its full specification because it was cheaper than trying to cancel part of the s
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by Litost 2y ago
There's a good documentary about the John Hopkins research on treating drug resistant depression with psilocybin which unfortunately isn't available any more via the BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000w
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by Litost 2y ago
Not a carbon tax as such, but the supreme court in the UK recently ruled in favour of an activist lead challenge to stop Surrey County Council from ignoring the environmental cost, when granting permission to dig four new oil wells, in what
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by Litost 3y ago
The full length video of his is definitely worth a watch, but if anyone's short on time, there's quite a good much shorter version focussing more on the hierarchy/alpha male side of it - https://www.youtube.com&#x2
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by Litost 3y ago
Normalisation of Deviance? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ljzj9Msli5o
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by Litost 3y ago
This drain, drain, faster faster is a question I've been keen to get to the bottom off as I live in an area covered by upcoming River Thames Scheme to help prevent flooding. As I'm doing a rewilding course I wanted to find out how
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by Litost 3y ago
Is this what happens nowadays when you sign up to a dating app? I mention this only slightly tongue in cheek: a) Because it is being argued by some as a good thing that you have an AI do your flirting for you? "we can free people from
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by Litost 3y ago
There's an ongoing thread about Dragonfly here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36018221
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by Litost 3y ago
This would seem to be what might be variously called a Tragedy of the Commons [1], a Multi-Polar Trap [2] or similarly the Prisoner's Dilemma, but at scale [3]. Obviously in the original Tragedy of the Commons, farmers with sheep grazi
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by Litost 3y ago
I guess it's always worth having a Plan B, but Nate Hagens and Kim Stanley Robinson (sci-fi writer of the Mars Trilogy) discuss this and don't necessarily agree, obviously depending on what definition of "polluted beyond help
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by Litost 4y ago
Does this explain the plot to Independence Day ;)?
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by Litost 4y ago
I was curious about this, my highest match was 0.47 and I have no alts, maybe I'm also a unique snowflake, or haven't said anything noteworthy enough to have been deepfaked yet ;).

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