It’s funny because the characters act in a way that is blatantly inappropriate for the situation, a lot of humor is like this, even including violence.

There’s a difference between understanding a rule and it’s rationale and breaking it because you know it isn’t ideal in this circumstance, and breaking a rule without a full understanding of why it is there and what the results may be, I suppose.

This was me with peas growing up, hated them so much that I’d carefully swallow them without breaking the skins to taste them less, but they were one of the more common vegetables for my family. I’ve developed more of an appreciation for a few other vegetables since growing up but not those.

The pigeon, on the other hand, appears unimpressed

I don’t remember if it’s come up, does the federations/earths dislike of genetic and other such augmentation extend to animals? If not, I wouldn’t think it entirely impossible for them to have found an actual cure to aging, sufficient to make the lifespan of an organism indefinite until killed by some accident or infection, for some common species like a dog, but found that the technique requires the use of tech they aren’t willing to deploy in humans (though the aversion to it would have to be crazy strong to give up that temptation I’d imagine.)

I’ve been pretty happy with how the instance I use has been run thus far, but it is focused around furries, so it won’t be something most people outside that subculture like I expect. Still, the fandom is big enough that someone in it looking for an instance might look at this thread, so I mention it anyway.

Sure, but if unforested land is artificially forested, or deforested land is reforested faster than would occur naturally, or human activity causes an increase in plant cover unintentionally (for example, if increased carbon dioxide spurs in increase in plant growth beyond the previous norm), then the photosynthesis done by those extra plants would be caused by humans, surely?

I don’t really get why this source first emphasizes that carbon molecules have an effect regardless of source, but then says that it is wrong for humans to “take credit” for photosynthesis. If something, human caused or otherwise causes an increase in plant cover such as to cause an increase in carbon stored in plant biomass, the atmosphere doesn’t care if humans did that or if plants did.

I mean, presumably it isn’t truly free so much as factored into the ticket price you already paid, right?

My fursona is somewhat OP (compared to like a regular guy anyway he’s not like a god or anything), so probably have a momentary sense of elation and then a panic of realizing that a bunch of people might get hurt if the wrong choices are made, myself included.

Even there though, what is the actual point of a phone app controlled smart toilet, even if you open sourced the whole thing? Unlocking one’s phone and tapping the app icon, and then presumably a button on the app, is going to take more time than one press of a lever that one is right next to anyway, and the latter doesn’t present as many points of failure.

In the case of climate change and being a profit seeking business, I’d assume attempt to identify things whose demand will increase, like land in the areas predicted to remain most comfortable to live, farmland in areas least likely to lose productivity, companies that produce things like water desalination infrastructure, etc, and buy those things early before they become more expensive.

Not a fan of being out in nature, personally, at least not actual nature as opposed to like an urban park with deliberately laid out trees and flowers or something. I find city downtown areas more comforting. I imagine the bugs and forest creatures probably don’t particularly miss having one more human stomping around their habitat though.

everyone knows when you cut the sandwich in half, you get two sandwiches instead of one. You cut diagonally because the triangle sandwiches are bigger than the rectangle ones you get from cutting down the middle. /s

Every time I see this meme, I’m reminded of this, which basically argues that the shire is just a specific type of feudal system, that looks like a place of rulerless plenty because the main characters are mostly that systems informal equivalent of nobility.

My headcanon for this is that the events between the early 21st century and the show’s time, given they were full of some rather devastating wars, led to the true history of what he actually was like getting largely forgotten, leaving his pr campaigns the main source of information history has to go on him, and this leaving the people of the future with an idea of who he was that is much nicer than reality.

no no, see, youre supposed to use a finger gun. Rock paper scissors shoot, and all that.

Imagine the shock he’d be in for if he ever met Q.

Roughly equivalent to human wildlife photographer taking photos of a chimpanzee I’d say

I’ve not seen much of lower decks tbh. I’ve tried watching it a couple times, trying different episodes in case its just a case of it taking a few to get in stride, but I’ve just not liked it the same as other trek shows, the characters just seem annoying and everything happens too fast.