TheIvoryTower

joined 1 year ago
[–] TheIvoryTower@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

I took part in a postgraduate course on evolutionary biology, and we talked about ring species, and the problems with all the definitions of species.

The end conclusion most of us came to was that there is no generally useful definition of a species.

[–] TheIvoryTower@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nooo my cranberry juice.

I mean there are other cranberry juices, but they don't have recyclable packaging.

[–] TheIvoryTower@lemmy.world 83 points 1 week ago

In a parallel universe, someone is memeing about how teachers waste our time on useless stuff and never taught us to convert between units.

[–] TheIvoryTower@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Exactly.

If I dream of sex, I know what that’s about: I want sex.

If I dream that a snake has caused my teeth to fall out, I’m going to google to find out what the fuck is wrong with me.

Two that stand out: highly religious Nigeria, where people who dream of sex are googling what is wrong with them, and highly irreligious France, where people who dream about an ex are googling what is wrong with them.

[–] TheIvoryTower@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just put ads up, we'll live, and if we cant, we'll make another website

[–] TheIvoryTower@lemmy.world 54 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He means ‘legally immune for crimes committed as president thanks to the latest Supreme Court ruling’

[–] TheIvoryTower@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Such diversity in each meal. Good stuff.

Whats the name of the potato stew in the bottom right?

[–] TheIvoryTower@lemmy.world 35 points 2 months ago (1 children)

All I know is you shouldn't drink a ton of red gatorade midway through a night of heavy drinking.

When you start to throw up, your friends will assume you are vomiting blood and call an ambulance or possibly an exorcist.

[–] TheIvoryTower@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

No joke. What exactly don't you understand?

People in the US have been burning carbon at an extraordinary rate since the Industrial Revolution, in the 1900s.

Still to this day they burn carbon at a rate of 14.44 tonnes per person per year.

Chinese people burn 8.85 tonnes per person per year.

They burn that carbon running cars, generating electicity, living their lives.

If we are measuring how much CO2 countries have contributed, China has decades of shitty energy production up on the US. They may be a ruthless authoritarian communist state, but they are the not the ones responsible for climate change.

Also, half of the emissions they create are producing your cheap plastic crap to be bought on Amazon

[–] TheIvoryTower@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)

That's exactly what I mean.

More importantly, the per capita rate for the US (and Australia and Canada etc) is far worse. You may hate the chinese government, but can you explain to me why Chinese people dont have the right to drive cars and run refrigerators, but people in the US do?

[–] TheIvoryTower@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Fuck China, but when it comes to carbon emissions, they could burn coal for another 50 years and still not be as bad as the united states.

 
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