Agreed, if AI were sentient it would be interested in stability of the structures and ecosystems that make it possible. Humans should also be more interested in the stability of the ecosystems that support human society, but AI isn’t sentient yet and humans with power don’t give AF

Those tend to owe a lot of back taxes and need significant renovations

Agreed, this makes doing a STEM PhD in the US a gamble for foreign students. Getting to year 4 and then having to drop out because you can’t get an extension is a huge disincentive to bring talent here

Killing invasive plants. It’s very satisfying to see the results and makes a difference for biodiversity. Pulling ~10ft tall buckthorn or bush honeysuckle out by its roots with a Weed Wrench is good exercise too. Check if your area has a local Weed Warriors group

Lemmy could use more content as a counter to the low quality spam, be the change you want to see

My area has a two stream recycling system: one for paper/cardboard, and another for “co-mingled” "plastic, glass, metal. It’s all picked up the same as garbage every week. The biggest problem with zero sort recycling is that it’s hard to separate paper and plastics with automated machines based on their physical properties. So our central recycling facility has two independent factory lines to sort the components of each stream. The co-mingled line also has more humans who help make things easier for the machines and visually identify materials.

Ultimately, you need to have the materials purified as much as possible to be attractive to buyers who will then turn the sorted recycling into new products. Package it up on pallets and then it can be shipped by train or truck to the production factory.

Our central facility also has manual drop off for e-waste, appliances, bulk metal, and hazardous materials that have their unique recycling streams.

Eh, I disagree with the headline. The body of the article is about how do we cool more efficiently or reduce the need for cooling, which are great goals. It’s not that A/C can’t get the job done, it just uses more energy and therefore is costly and polluting depending on the energy source.

Here’s a relevant video on passive homes from Undecided with Matt Ferrell

There is/was an effort to create a Great Green Wall on the southern side of the Sahara to re-green a 15km-wide band of land all across the continent. It’s run into funding, civil unrest and political leadership challenges

The Netflix recommendation algorithm could probably use some attention… Recently watched a great Netflix original documentary “Inside the Mind of a Dog”… but it was from 2024. I feel like Netflix could have recommended that to me far sooner, compared to their normal fare.

I treat my yard like a room as in I like to spend time out there and make it nice for that purpose. But at the same time, I’m doing my best to maximize native biodiversity and natural darkness.

Highly recommend Prairie Moon Nursery for your online native plant needs.

Yeah, it’s so hard to find ones with removable wings

Why stop at children? Why not prohibit addictive features for every one? The people I see most addicted to social media are >60 years old

Agreed. OP is really asking: do my problems rise to the level of needing to see some sort of medical professional? The answer is yes, OP is describing medical problems that interfere with their daily living. There’s no way strangers over the Internet can tell what’s going on here. If you don’t think one medical professional is taking your symptoms seriously, get another opinion.

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Yeah, this is the answer. The headline isn’t a new idea/finding

The SiFi movie “In Time” staring Justin Timberlake is meh quality wise, but the premise is really interesting… That the currency of that universe is the time someone has left to live. They do an interesting job playing with how wealth inequality changes behavior of people with and without time to spare

Yo dawg, I heard you like old memes, so I put an older meme in your old meme

I’m out of the loop, context?

Agreed. Sure there were some freshman level courses that were pretty basic and lectures that were skippable. But all of the Junior and Senior level courses were much more challenging and I really needed to understand everything for science lab work to not just be a pile of burnt crap. There were also the exams that were so hard they let us have open textbooks, just studying alone at home wouldn’t have gotten through those exams.

The non-Goodwill thrift stores around me are still affordable and they support local nonprofits