Rhaedas

Canon.

Also a fun fact: “I Love Lucy” is even better in the original Klingon.

The second part really wasn’t needed, NYT, but thanks. Unless it’s a standard now to add that to the end of anything he says.

I had heard over the years that it wasn’t that bad of an EV. Sounds a lot like the story of Saturn and GM. Kill a car that’s actually popular because someone on the board wants to go a different direction.

The one dependable thing has always been that all models end up underestimating results. “Worse/faster than expected” was never funny, but now it’s so cliche that I don’t even see it mentioned much anymore.

Hardly a cold call, they’ve been connecting for a while at that point. But can we give props here to Denethor who (unseen in the movies) had been front and center with Sauron as well and didn’t succumb to power like that weak Maiar did. Sure, he went mad with despair, but he still held out since you know Sauron tried to seduce him to the dark side first.

You’re not overthinking, as it obviously means something to you if you’re concerned about it. But in the end it’s about what it means to you two, and that’s it. Perhaps realizing that will downplay what you end up doing, or help you find a solution that works. Others have given some ideas to retain some show of connection, so there’s answers out there if that’s what you need.

For what it’s worth, as a straight couple married for 35 years, I’ve worn my ring for almost all of that time. She stopped wearing hers years ago when it became annoying (probably for a similar reason as you, fitting well). In the past years through age my fingers changed in size and my ring had been there so long it has literally created a small groove it sat in. I could not take it off using any of the methods I found. It didn’t bother me, but looking at it it was a concern, mostly to her as she envisioned a degloving incident at work (which is certain a problem even for rings that fit). Finally not too long ago I decided to go ahead and get it cut off (10 secs at a jeweler, no charge). I could expand it and wear it more, but it’s not a huge deal to either of us and would cost money to…do what? Its absence on my finger (and hers all these years) means nothing to us. I will say it’s been enough time where my finger has recovered and I can barely see where it was.

So…the rings and any other embellishments are symbolic between you two, and can mean as much or as little as you want it to.

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by neglect, ignorance or incompetence. Jesus, the incompetence.

Also, thinking things are part of a big conspiracy helps some people rationalize that there is intelligence behind all this chaos. Because if that’s not true, then there’s no one at the helm who has a clue, and THAT is frightening.

In the article one of the paper’s writers uses that wording, that’s where the title comes from. In large range graphs CO2 levels lead temperature over and over throughout history.

You should read the article/paper. Yes, CO2 is the main driver of temperature over geological timescales. Not anything new really outside of more confirmation. But the really important part is how denialists (I refuse to call them skeptics, that implies they’re thinking about it) are using such graphs out of context and hacked up to say that it was warmer before, so no big deal.

It is absolutely a big deal, as when it was warmer lots of other variables of the environment were different and the species at the time had adapted to that heat. The species alive today can’t live in that type of climate, and the rate of change, the most important thing, is so fast this time nothing large will have time to adapt. That includes us. And honestly with the rate of change and all the feedbacks possible, we could push Earth into a hothouse scenario that might be far past any regression to cooler millions of years from now. So sorry, future life, sucks for you.

“You just sound like one of those alarmists.”

Dude, everyone should be alarmed. The house is on fire, there’s no firemen coming to put it out, and we can’t leave.

That’s why there are limited numbers. The solution is simple, get rid of the restrictions that stop most people. Once enough people lose their job and have their family in danger, they’ll protest. They’ll do more than protest.

If he cuts social security enough, he might generate the same impulse from seniors who have the time, and the ones who are able will show up quite livid. I don’t think he realizes that you can’t push people all the way and not have consequences, you do have to keep some semblance of bread and circus intact for control.

I wish that commenting would automatically upvote a post. It’s far too late to fix the use of an upvote as approval of subject discussion and not just an agree arrow, but I often…no, I almost always forget to upvote the initial topic even after leaving a few paragraphs. One would hope whatever algorithm is used also considers activity and number of comments in a rating or suggesting it to others.

I read through the summary, and it sounds a lot like how evolutionary development is perceived by the layperson vs. how complex it really is, including the deception that we are at some high point. So the next question in my mind, and based on the summary the authors left to explore as the answer is probably a difficult one to find - are there paths that could have been traveled which didn’t lead to similar messes like we find ourselves in? One assumption is always that capitalism and consumption and all that comes with them is inevitable. Maybe not? It would ruin this meme that I found very fitting for society, but that’s again based on an inevitable conclusion to be true.

That will stop that line from increasing. Well done.

Change posture, but also get up and move around. Take breaks away from the screen to let your eyes rest.

Of course doing this can also mess up the flow of ideas sometimes. Nothing worse than coming back and trying to recapture the zone you were in.

Dependency

Moller’s answer to this in their 1980s development was to have it very automated. That was the least of their car’s problems, of course, but it was realized that lifting even part of the general traffic and its tendencies into the skies as is would be a bad situation.

Looks like just posts from Lemmy instances. Now, are replies posts? I don’t think so, I think it’s original topics. But many replies from Lemmy users are going to be to outside sources, so there’s a lot going on!

As would the Moties.

It’s fine, we’re probably done with violent weather for the rest of the year anyway. /s

The goal of both is to start reducing or simply stop large scale actions that are doing damage to the environment. If peaceful protesting is being prevented or simply is just being ignored, then the next step is directly stopping things. If it’s vandalism or misdirected damage, that’s not really accomplishing the goal and can be used against activists and their message.

The caveat is that most changes either through successful protests or more direct measures will harm others at some point, but I fail to see a way around that when we live in a society where everyone is dependent in many ways on the society continuing its destructive path. The longer we wait to change, the worse it will be for more people, and at some point it won’t be protesters that cause the change, but the environment or some other factors like demand exceeding supply that cause huge suffering.