Hank

Did you take a look at the cabin? Seems in line with something like a private jet.

How many dead skydivers do you have to see to rank them?

I’m not a fan of healthy young people using e-bikes but the speed argument is in bad faith. To hit 20mph for more than a short moment you have to be a fit, experienced rider unless you have a fancy race bike which is tricky to ride and will massively limit where you can ride, the comfort and safety for anyone who doesn’t basically live on their bike.

I’m not a nerd.

Federated content is stored in the balls.

Isn’t that a kbin exclusive bug? Tbh it brought me more entertainment than annoyance so far

Maybe he wants to get rid off the somewhat smart people on Twitter so the rest can be easily radicalized with the intend that they vote against their interest and for the interests of rich people?

I’d say it’s either that or he wants greater reach to feed his narcism.

For me it’s Skyrim but finally it’s a game you’re so familiar with that you don’t need any motor skills besides your muscle memory.

Can someone hook me up with shitty Balkan memes? I love to watch them talk shit about each other but I guess they’re probably not the kind of crowd that ends up on Lemmy.

I see your concerns. I think we can’t avoid using our land. The alternative would be not existing. Also we have to agree that most people demand a degree of consumerism that puts a strain on the resources we have. That’s the reality we face. Paper is a very necessary good and probably will be forever. The production of paper is resource intensive. Removing lignin would reduce our demand of resources.
I don’t see big poplar forests with the whole purpose of harvesting cellulose as that problematic if we keep in mind that this also gives more space for habitats we have to protect.What this research promises is that we can make the best of what we have because that is all we have left after we ravaged the planet and are not willing to stop that.

Poplars are probably the best way to get a lot of biomass quickly. I doubt hemp is a competitive alternative.

And they’re not engineering a new species of tree, they just modified the trees to reduce the lignin content so the cellulose can be processed easier and less resource intense.

While what you’re saying is generally true about trees, they’re creating poplars for the paper industry. They will grow in big monocultures and get mowed down after just a decade. That’s pretty much worthless as an ecosystem.
They’re grown in a similar way for biomass for the energy sector. Poplars are probably the easiest way to build up a lot of biomass.

Did you read the article? They’re just reducing the lignin content in the wood so it’s easier to process cellulose. I don’t understand where you see the difference to let’s say selective breeding to produce bigger and sweeter fruits. CRISPR is just an optimised and probably better results promising alternative to the massive amounts of trial and error we had to go through to isolate promising genetic traits.

Aside of changing abiotic factors we’re rapidly losing biodiversity. Not only species but genetic variation in populations. If a species has little genetic variety it has less capacity to survive extreme events as a whole. I wanted to point that out just in case someone comes to the conclusion that you can just bounce back all willy nilly from a shrunken population.

This is like the always sunny episode where Boko Haram endorses Wolf Cola.

The only way that would be avoided were if we kill the majority of the human population and the rest agrees to live in caves and shit in holes.

At least this takes off pressure on other resources.