In addition to the other thing, dams have a dramatic and disastrous impact on the ecology in the immediate area and the entire riparian system they connect to. It’s “green” in terms of emissions but they’re still harmful and we should be phasing them out for lower impact alternatives as much as possible.
Lots of people really enjoy competitive games. Competitive multi-player games attract the most cheaters, resulting in the strictest anti-cheat measures (which still barely work, honestly).
Why assume that an illusion must have a constructor?
I’d rather be nuked than starve to death.
A lot of those island colony-states aren’t self-sufficient and will have massive famines when the trade routes stop.
Pretending to read instead of engaging with the lesson is going to do that, yeah.
Ecology is my favorite, and the focus of my secondary education, but it can’t come before chemistry and biology and those build on algebraic math and require and understanding of science built from “general science”. Should probably also have some statistics. Geology and cartography are going to be in there, as well as the history of conservation, there should be some anthropology… It’s all very iterative. Ecology specifically encompasses a ton of disciplines.
I’ll add that introductory stuff can happen early. In my state we learn about the salmon life cycle in grade school and that includes a tiny bit about watersheds and streams and clean water. But it’s very rudimentary.
No, that wouldn’t actually provide a baseline understanding of a variety of topics. Things like media literacy can only be taught by reading and watching and analyzing a wide range of things, and that takes several years of just one general thing. Basic biology, enough to understand fundamental things like how/why vaccines work or the importance of diet and exercise also builds on many years of learning. Math should be confidently understood at least through algebra in order navigate taxes, bills, budgeting, and other legally important but boring situations.
A lot of stuff doesn’t feel important while you’re learning about it and partially that’s just teachers doing a bad job contextualizing the lessons but yes many topics just aren’t intrinsically interesting to everybody. It’s still good to have a robust base of understanding because that makes tangentially related things easier to parse.
And that’s not even getting into “electives” that would be super useful for most people if they had the time, things like cooking and shop class so folks are more self-reliant, or music or art or crafting because hobbies can also be menaly stimulating and fulfilling, or better or more varied PE types because it’s also important to develop some decent health habits early in life. In a perfect world a lot of that would be introduced or reinforced at home by family and friends and neighbors, but that’s not the world we have.
Because a broad educational background is important and people can’t know if they’d be into old literature without being exposed to it.
I had a Game Boy, that got a lot of use.
That assumes that interstellar travel is possible. Physically, economically, socially, there’s a lot of boxes to check for near-light extrasolar expansion (let alone FTL, which probably is impossible)
I think the easy solution to the Fermi Paradox is that we’re stuck in our fish bowl and so is everyone else.
Tempered glass is still sharp but it breaks into tiny pieces so it can’t cut deeply.
Hey Withers, here’s 100 gold to turn a better character into whatever role I need.
PNW weirdo here. I like things to be green and alive, I like my skin unburned, and I like being able to poke around tide pools on a lonely beach. Clouds and rain help all of that.
It’s currently sunny and about 77°F, which is about as warm as I want it unless I’m going swimming. Late summer when it approaches 100° is miserable, but for now the bright weather is fine and good for the plants.
Raw mushrooms are borderline wasteful to eat. We can’t digest the chitin and cell walls so most of the nutritional value passes straight through.
Well sure, but “end the concept of Intellectual Property” is already a radical position to argue. Fully Automated Space Gay Communism is a little beyond the scope of the topic and a hard sell to normies.
You are desperate to give rich fucks an avenue to maintain an advantage over everyone else.
Why, though? It still pointlessly favors people who already have money. Just get rid of it.
I don’t see the predictable effects of dropping IP laws as more harmful than the current reality. The idea is to protect small creators but the implementation does the opposite.
The solution, as is with so many societal issues, is UBI.
Yes please performance class tiered licensing.