Finally someone is gonna do it.

Wow pretty cheap. I wonder how long before sea level rise will swallow it up?

Yeah normally I defend accounts that are accused of trolling since they’re usually just grumpy, neurodivergent, or hold unpopular opinions but given that I independently already had an interaction with this user on a completely separate topic that made me wonder if they’re a troll, I’m going to say it might well be true in this case.

Geopolitics aside I love to see less oil going out into the world. Silver linings I guess.

Pretty much any behavioral trait is changeable through natural or artificial selection. That includes intelligence. Actually it’s pretty clear that part of domestication for dogs was making them less intelligent.

Some species may take longer, and it’s generally a slow process. I doubt these animals will be domesticated during our lifetimes but in the future who knows?

This argument is always so silly. Domestication is the process of changing animals so they become more suitable to living with humans. The fact that wild animals aren’t domesticated and therefore have traits that are problematic for that is tautological.

This is a bit of a myth. Many (most?) American cities were designed before the car too. But urban planners in the 20th century went all in on cars and racism and demolished their central cities to to evict all the undesirables and replace them with car infrastructure.

Actually some European cities did this too, but many repaired them later. Still, it wasn’t as common because the racial stuff wasn’t in play and the central cities had way more historical significance.

Admittedly the sheer amount of suburban development we have today is going to be a challenge to roll back. In my view some of it may ultimately need to be abandoned but we’ll see how it plays out. See Detroit for an example.

Are they though? Still way behind European cities.

You got Lemmy users to go out in public? Truly you are a skilled advocate!

Sadly that’s not even true: https://ggwash.org/view/amp/101707

Carbrain in the US is now terminal.

Wow, the mass arrests have really promoted a wonderful sense of solitude!

I recently learned that hpv also caused oral cancer. So if you haven’t got this vaccine you really should. I know I had to ask a few times because they kept telling me it wasn’t worth it due to my age and sex.

Nope. Zero tolerance for .ml communities. Even if I’d otherwise be interested, their admins are so unpleasant that I would not recommend anyone participate in them.

Paraquat is probably the single most toxic herbicide on the market and it should absolutely be banned.

The bubble can’t pop until there’s sufficient housing, or a major economic collapse.

It’s almost like decision-making might be impacted after the country’s entire leadership structure was murdered.

But seriously I think there is a strategy here, which is causing Maximum economic chaos and pain the hopes that Trump will chicken out. It’s not a bad short term strategy but angering other nations may come with longer term downsides.

Unfortunately I think it must be assumed in this day and age that any content posted online publicly may be stored indefinitely, on any platform. Even if you delete it, there are bots scraping all your comments, and you won’t be able to delete from those databases. So I’m not sure how much utility this feature would have today.

I feel very confident this is the case. And I also suspect that most of the “bots” or “shills” or whatever other inauthentic accounts people think they are identifying are just these same types of people who have unusual posting habits or communication styles. I’ve yet to see one iota of evidence that there are any accounts masquerading as something they’re not to influence politics. The only actual bots I’ve seen are the boring spambots who just post scam links at a rapid rate.

Yeah I think it’s way beyond what I would know how to do… I’ve also got some pretty crazy things happening in my life right now so I’m not looking to take on any big projects at this time. Maybe when things are back to normal.

Or I’ll ask around and see if anyone else is interested in doing it.

Wow great comment. But I’d have to figure out who is going to host a local server first. I’m not super tech savvy personally, especially compared to Lemmings.