It’s not that we’re not doing anything about the climate crisis, we’re just waiting to see if we actually go extinct before acting. No need to rush into these things and accidentally end up improving human welfare for no good reason.
It wasn't just Ottawa: #MicrosoftTravel published a whole bushel of absurd articles, including the notorious Ottawa guide recommending that tourists dine at the #Ottawa#FoodBank ("go on an empty stomach"):
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
In the oldest hunting manual in #England (written between 1406-13), we are taught that if “evil befalls in the ballock purse” of a dog, to boil linseed in wine, dunk a cloth diaper in it & tie it around the backside of the dog - but leave the important bits out so that he may “scombre and piss”.
If humans are indeed the most evolved species, why do so many of us suffer from developmental or genetic diseases? Phys.org explains why, unlike our ape ancestors, humans are still paying the price for losing our tails. https://flip.it/DX01o9 #Science#Humans#Biology#Evolution
We all need to vent after a bad day, right? It’s the equivalent of releasing steam from a pressure cooker, it’s long been believed. Researchers at Ohio State University, however, found “not a shred of scientific evidence” to support catharsis theory, as it’s called. In fact, venting might increase anger. Science Alert has more, including effective methods of managing your rage. https://flip.it/2GK2Gq #Science#Health#Anger#AngerManagement#Behavior#Humans
The pattern of lines and whorls on each human fingerprint is unduplicated by any other finger, right? A team of researchers is casting some doubt on that long-held belief. Science Alert has more: https://flip.it/iTAS_T #Science#Humans#Fingerprints#Biology
I no longer think #hurricanes are the most terrifying of #storms; not even close.
Because we #humans have pumped so much #CO2 (and #Methane) into the #atmosphere, we'll be seeing more storms like this, in more places.
"This is not planet #Earth as we found it. This is a new place—a #fire planet we have made, with an atmosphere more conducive to #combustion than at any time in the past 3 million years."
I moved from #reddit over to #lemmy last week... Much like I said here when I first got this account... it very much feels like the early internet.
Know what else it made me realize?
Redditors are fucking ASSHOLES.
I think I shall stay here and Lemmy, where true conversations can be had as opposed to snarky responses to... literally everything... for no good goddamn reason.
You know how some folks watch #wildlife encounter vids & they're like - OMGosh, that's so cute/awesome how they're feeding wildlife from their hands/decks/cabin or car windows?
I'm like - Fuck those dumbass people who are gonna get more wildlife shot because they're #ignorant & #selfish#humans who want a great photo with wildlife more than they care about wildlife.
None of those kinda people "love wildlife". All of those selfish people only love to show off that they've been near wildlife 🤡
I like working on projects that enable marginalised persons to take back their autonomy on and offline. I subscribe to #diy and am a voracious #autodidact. I make #bots for #mastodon and the #fedi. I'm building a replacement for #bandcamp and #spotify.
Here's a graph of the growth in human population globally over the past 2024 years. I updated it this morning for a first-year lecture. On it I mark the years my grandparents and parents were born, when I was born, and when my teenage daughter was born.
I still find it hard to grasp just how quickly and massively the human population has exploded. There's 6 billion(!!!) more people on the planet today than when my grandparents were born.
Researchers previously thought that humans arrived in the Americas 13,000 years ago. But discoveries in recent years puts the number as high as 31,000 to 33,000 years ago. Live Science has more: https://flip.it/WCPcpB #Science#TheAmericas#Humans
From the Law & Political Economy blog. Today's must read:
"Fredric Jameson once noted that 'it is easier to imagine the end of the #world than the end of #capitalism.'
That’s the famous version. What Jameson wrote in context is, 'Someone once said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism. We can now revise that and witness the attempt to imagine capitalism by way of imagining the end of the world.'
#ClimateChange offers a vivid illustration of Jameson’s point. Through climate change, the end of the world as #humans have known it is now imaginable to an unprecedented degree. And capitalism, viewed through the lens of climate change, appears to some observers to be a terminal #planetary#disease."
Ancient humans may have paused in Arabia for 30,000 years on their way out of Africa (theconversation.com)
Genetic evidence reveals a long, previously unknown period of adaptation to cold climates in the history of ancient human migrations across the globe.
Unraveling the Mystery of Human Taillessness: A Genetic Perspective (www.infoterkiniviral.com)
Humans, despite their numerous remarkable traits, lack a feature common to most vertebrates - a tail. The reason behind this absence has long been a