If you use median, removing or not of 1000 people from a pool of millions indeed has zero impact. My guess is that they worded it like that because they assume people don’t knownwhat a median is, so they describe the practical effect

They are not excluded, it’s just the the number of people is used, not the amount of money

For Harris, yes. For Biden: just “not anymore”. Which can happen when you have geriatric folks doing this kind of job.

Bolivians don’t need CIA approval to plot a coup

I’m pretty sure they’ll do increasingly farcical votes for some time after.

That’s a short but touching poem.

Electric cars do charge when braking. Obviously the energy recuperated is less then waht was needed to drive that fast in the first place. Using driving wind would just increase the energy needed to drive that speed and would be net negative.

NDA, not BJP, got 293 seats

And here I am with 35 days, which we’re expected to take.

“Made unusable”: that’s not how it works. Even with occasional vandalism, there’s so much more people positively contributing, that overall the map just keeps on getting better and better.

It won’t, but at least you’re not part of the problem anymore. You might inspire other people to. And every person who goes plantbased makes it more politically viable to enact policies to encourage plant based over the most destructive other foods. Try to avoid discouraging people who try to do the right thing, help them make a bigger impact instead.

Didn’t they have 3% economic growth last year?

I get the reasoning, but not a single country has ever been kicked out of the UN for having crazy/terrorist/genocidal leaders. So why should having a palatable government be a criterium to join? And anyway, I thought Hamas only controls Gaza. The West Bank is larger, and has a slightly larger population, and it is controlled by Fatah (AFAIK). So the seat would likely end up under Fatah control, no?

I don’t know, there’s lots of things I would risk doing at home that I wouldn’t try on a spaceship. It’s also a metaphore that can hopefully speak to the kind of people who think a fresh planet would be the solution.

No matter how much we fuck it up, this rock will always be more liveable than anything we can realistically find elsewhere. This planet is our spaceship, we better start treating it like one.

IIRC, this actually happens. When the balance is disturbed, the mushrooms go wild and destroy young sapplings. Could be I recall incorrectly and it’s actually other species. I cannot recommend The Mother Tree enough, it goes into great detail of the history of research into this

Depends on the molecule. The ones used in vaccines are nit dangerous. See for example https://www.gov.scot/publications/foi-202100244467/

And we are still increasing the rate at which we are making it worse…

It’s a laughing stock here in Belgium