These are the same people that believed in spontaneous generation - that life just popped into existence from nonliving matter, such as dirt, grain, or dirty clothing. It wasn’t considered fully disproven until the 19th century.

As uneducated as many people are now, they’re practically savants compared to your average person just 200 years ago.

I did a quick scan of your comment history and you seem like a nice, reasonable person. I’m baffled.

Lemcyclopedia Dramatica!

Can confirm. I’ve spent several hours the last few weeks teaching a friend’s 24 year old daughter basic computer literacy on a W11 system. None of her friend group could help because they know just as little. When we started, she didn’t know how to shut down or reset the system.

Same, but their hair is so dense it can rot if it gets too wet. Maybe quarter density chinchilla hair.

Chimp fur is quite coarse and awfully similar to thick, dense human body hair. I’d prefer something softer, like cat hair, but not chinchilla hair. That is too high maintenance.

Fun fact: lettuce wasn’t commonly eaten raw until the 17th century. Lettuce soup is a thing.

I can’t support this comment enough. My last job was chemical and biological safety oversight but had a lot of overlap with regular safety people. It takes no extra time to ensure a circuit is properly locked and tagged out because anyone working on that circuit should already have their own lock on it, using a gang lock if there are multiple people.

Then you still prove test prove. For those not in the biz, this means to test your sensing equipment on a known live circuit, test the circuit being worked on, then retest the tester as before because breakers get mislabeled and meters break all the time.

On that note, there’s the time an energized circuit almost killed my sister-in-law. She said she understood 120v wiring, so was changing out a light fixture. She asked me for some help with getting it mounted, so I asked her if the breaker was off, and she assured me it was. As I was working on it, it let out a loud pop, slightly zapped me, and blew the breaker.

I’m normally a very nice, chill person, but I was fucking livid. I asked her to show me the breaker she turned off and she pointed to the fucking wall switch. Someone had switched it on, likely out of habit. I inspected the wiring and found she used a cracked wire nut and overtightened it until the hot wire protruded well past the end. I wasn’t grounded but I was holding the fixture… with my left hand. I could have had a heart attack if I had been grounded

It’s a boomer joke, but I was what almost killed her. I had never been so angry with someone before. We still love her, but we don’t let her work on anything with stored energy anymore.

If we just give the children food, what incentive will they have to work in the mines?

I worked at three call centers over two years. It was the longest two years of my life and it took years to recover. I was once written up for “lying to a customer” because I confirmed something I knew personally to be true but my employer hadn’t included in our scripts. It’s like being in a cult.

But then who would create jobs?!

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A picture adds the missing context that the meme leans into to make this seem more awful than it is.

The bone isn’t broken as if it was cracked in half and the jagged shards protrude from the skin. The tips of the toe bones are sharp points, held in place inside by a tiny “claw rest”’ bone at the end. The frog flexes a muscle, the bone breaks free from the bony rest, and the sharp tips protrude through the toe pads.

Edit: actually including the picture helps.

If only the author included some sort of way to learn more, like an article or something.

It really depends on a lot of factors, including water quality, substrate composition, and the extent of the digging. The majority of microbial activity in most waterways isn’t in the water, but instead in a region called the hyporheic zone, a surprisingly thin layer of sediment at the interface between surface and ground water.

Digging and dredging both are fantastic ways to disrupt this layer. Microbial communities will redevelop rapidly, but their composition will be different. The makeup of the stream/riverbed will have significantly changed; different types of microbes reproduce at different rates, with fast reproducers initially crowding out slower growers; and the products of the activity of some microbes provide the conditions under which other types of microbes can flourish. The composition will change over time and may take months or even years to return to a steady state, and even then that state may be quite different than before digging or dredging.

Tl;dr: It seems the group was well intentioned but this actually could have been pretty environmentally detrimental.

According to this article, it appears the issue is the team used a digger in some capacity. Details on how are sparse.

I’m a microbiologist (environmental micro), but I studied a few things in grad school. A big chunk was hydrology and riverine engineering, more specifically erosion control and environmental remediation. I promptly went on to work in a different field, because who does what they actually study in university?

I’ll spare you the details (unless you want them, I will go HAM on erosion control autistic data dumping because I rarely get to talk about this) but it’s pretty easy to fuck up a river if you start digging it up. Given they mentioned flooding concerns, I checked to see if the area is in a flood plain and confirmed it is.

Humans engineer rivers in floodplains to prevent the previously cyclical flooding as well as reduce erosion. If those controls are damaged, the flooding and erosion can resume, and downstream effects (…pun?) can be pretty serious for humans and the environment.

I’d need more information to confirm exactly what happened, but there may be some merit to the complaints about their project. If they didn’t have even a cursory environmental impact assessment, they could have done a lot of damage while trying to do something good.

Dude, it’s the opposite problem. Where do you think the sunlight goes when it hits a solar panel? It sucks it all up! If we set up too many solar panels, they’re going to use up all the sunshine and cool the globe until we have another ice age. Big brother petroleum has been saving us!

Something tells me it’s a bot that reposts popular Reddit memes.

Either enjoy with three friends or use it solo and go four times as long between cleanings.

Hey now, if you can tell me how light travels between two points without being facilitated by an entirely undetectable medium, I’m ALL ears.

JFC, how many times do I need to explain the workings of luminiferous aether?

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Serious time: we actually did briefly learn about all types of debunked theories in university, but as a component of the historical progression of contemporary theories.