KoboldKomrade

They're so desperate I saw airforce recruiter pamplets in a tropical smoothie. I guess its the only branch appropriate for someone who likes "healthy" food and/or cold smoothies. (Funny since I briefly thought about the chairforce before realizing I didn't want to die for oil.)

IIRC there are experiments where a tomato top is grafted onto a potato bottom. So in theory you can have the tomato fruits and harvest potatoes when the plant is done. Tricky part is grafting it and (I assume) keeping a close eye on it since its seperate species.

They're distant cousins so it works. IDK how far tobacco is, but I assume its a bit further and thus harder.

Fun fact, all three have some level of nicotine in them. Just the potatoes/tomatoes have such a low level you'd die of one of the other alkoloids before you could get a noticable nicotine dose.

$4m is nothing lol. Thats 80 researchers pay at 50k/year, for 1 year (or basically the pay of like 2 people for their career). An acre of land near here is at least 10k, so 400 acres. More realistically, its like 25k, so <200 acres. Its the price of a 'good' mansion + some land for ONE rich family. $4m is fairly reasonable for a "middle class" person in America to earn in a lifetime, or to have total in assests for a small business. It's nothing in the scale of a state (country or provence) level budget.

And that's not going into comparisons with mil-tech. Besides the cost of the planes that can't fly, there's like 200+ people on a carrier. If you're paying ALL of them minimum wage, you're nearly at $4m a year there. (84052*200=~3.3m)

Like, congrats, a dumbass like me could find as much waste off the top of my head for free, as you did over 4 months for unknown cost. These people should be locked up for the rest of the solar lifespan just for this butchery of reason. Again, not even accounting for the crimes against LGBT+ peoples, minorities, etc etc etc etc. The worst leftist (IE, me) could balance the budget, have every program they want, and be 10000x more 'efficient' then the best government these nerd could think of.

Yeah this seems to be following the logic of "there's still snow on the ground, so it can't be getting warmer." Of course ~something~ macroscopic survived each of the mass extinctions, otherwise we'd all be microbes right now.

We know larger species of plants and animals survived all major extinctions. We have similar fossils before, during, and after, that also are relatable to species currently extant. Best example would be birds, many "bird" "ancestor" species went extent during the Cretaceous event, but yet I saw a turkey a week ago. Mammals survived, many reptiles, etc etc etc. They had to survive 1 year of the event, and 75000, and 250m.

I'd say that saying all vascular plant families/genera survived the mass extinctions is misleading. Sure, ginkos still exist, but it is ONE species that was rare until humans spread it. Cicads, tree ferns, horsetails, all were much more common, and now are largely outcompeted in the cooler, dryer environment. Not ~extinct~ but collapsed.

For the 75,000 years? Yes, a short time, but the glaciers were several miles high above where I'm sitting 15,000 years ago... Is it that surprising that portions/all of a land mass could have ~some~ coverage by 75000? By this article's logic, its absurd to say there was no life where I am, because the biodiversity is about average now.

"...estimates indicate that over the past 500 years, less than 0.1 per cent of known species have become extinct." Yeah, because the effects haven't full become reality. This isn't as clearly defined as a meteor dumbbutt. Its 250 years of steady atmospheric change, complicated by mass damage to natural systems by noxious chemicals and improper use. Like, when the great oxygenation event started, it probably took more then 500 years for oxygen levels to get to "dangerous" levels. Would anaerobes be wise in saying "oh only 0.1% of us have died so far" then?

We're primed to think of post-nuclear mad max worlds. But "mass extinction" doesn't mean "no life" or "no life bigger then a bacteria". Mass extinctions are something people study ~because its a time of greater then usual change~. All saying "there were no extinctions" is either a critically poor misunderstanding of a well proven field or trying to downplay currently above-average extinctions. (To me, the 2nd to last paragraph reads more like its the 2nd, not the 1st.)

(Might have gotten some of the specifics wrong, I misremembered PT as the end of the dinos for a minute. I'm not a bio major, and I'm tired.)

Zionists never wonder about the millions of hostages Israel has. Got reminded the other day that to leave Palestine it costs serious $$. Like more then the average American could scrounge up, let alone a person in the middle east (even outside of a blockaded, bombed, and de-industrialized place like Palestine). Last quote I was hearing was minimum $1-2k, 2 years ago. Likely at least double now.

Real "I don't think, but I am smart" vibes from all these jerks.

We need a Nuremberg 2.0 but actually need to punish Nazis this time.

No more letting these freaks be free. If you can't behave yourself and not act like a Nazi, sorry, you're not going to have a free life. 100 years hard larbor or death, for everyone from the newest "agent" to the highest officer.

Source? @gork is this true????

$100 for 1m views??? Cheap asses. Ad payouts are all over the place, but one site I just checked has a minimum of 25 cents for 1000 views. Thats $250 for 1million views.

Why target their bounty when youtube will likely pay you double ~at minimum~ for the same ai slop.

Mutually assured destruction brought to the logical conclusion.

I learned how to rotate text in paint/.net. So I put more effort into this then Biden put into his entire presidency.

Kobolds are good.

No I'm not biased.

This man was never seen again. Still think capitalism is worth it, carboy?