Please stop spreading misinformation. You're on the internet. Kindly fact check yourself in the future. It's better for everyone, including you!

You can save $1000 a month? Damn!

I'd imagine an increasingly hostile world economy coupled with a then-looming but now beginning climate crisis might have a huge impact there.

It'd be bad. Real bad. An algae bloom of massive proportions. It has one huge issue.

Enough algae to make the rivers run green will use up enough oxygen at night to kill off fish and oxygen hungry invertebrates, starting a chain reaction of death.

Now you have a river full of dead organisms, so they start decomposing thanks to microbes. You know what many types of bacteria love? Oxygen. So they start using up oxygen, multiplying all the while. Night hits and the algae need to use oxygen, but a bunch die because there's not enough. Now the river is full of literally hundreds, maybe thousands of tons of decomposing matter. The river largely goes anoxic (meaning there's no oxygen) so things start dying left and right. A bunch of those bacteria can live with and without oxygen, so they use up what they can and keep on chugging without.

Now we've moved from aerobic respiration to anaerobic. You know what the primary byproducts of anaerobic respiration are? Organic acids and alcohols, which smell. The river begins to smell like an infected wound. It's no longer green but deep, murky brown from the suspension of decomposing organisms. This continues until the river flushes everything out, but it kills what's downstream as it continues until it hits the ocean, where it likely continues to kill everything in the vicinity until it becomes dilute enough.

I'm a microbiologist and worked with algae and cyanobacteria as an undergrad. Never underestimate the impact of uncountable billions of trillions of living organisms.

Not really all that different. I have had multiple autistic friends and coworkers. Only two things really stand out and they're absolutely generalizations that are untrue for some people and exist on a continuum for the rest.

First, I find the autistic crowd interrupts people more, sometimes a lot more, and some ramble quite a bit without getting to the point. It can be frustrating for the NTs and I've had to implement conch shell protocols and thought mapping so we can get through meetings and conversations effectively.

Second, the autistic folks tend to be blunter in speech but also often can take things straight. I don't have to dance around issues as much. We put everything out on the table, work through it, then move on.

Edit: I should mention that I'm neurotypical but have CPTSD due to parental abuse. Those with CPTSD can have significant behavioral overlap with autism. Before getting a lot of therapy, I displayed multiple traits often associated with autism, including alexithymia. Thanks Dad!

I hate it when people downvote questions that aren't obviously sealioning.

I think they're referring to how non-democratic workplaces are the norm in capitalist societies, i.e., the employees who form the vast majority of a business have little to no influence on its operations.

I remember back when someone first ran the idea by me. I initially was confused - that's the way things are, after all! Business owners OWN a business, so they should get to call the shots.

Then I gave it some thought and I began to realize how weird that is. Why should one or a small group of people get to steer the lives of large groups of people with no say in their decisions? For example, if you have a 1000 employee business owned by one person, that single person can make decisions that can result in consequences that strongly affect all of those employees, e.g., reduced income or joblessness, life incompatible changes to work schedule, inhospitable work environments, etc., and face no repercussions from their employees. They're just shit out of luck. It's effectively a mini dictatorship or a part-time fiefdom. This is somewhat antithetical to the premises on which many countries are founded, but many are okay with it because of some combination of it having been the way things have been done and because it directly benefits them.

The response I often hear is "they can just get new jobs". The issue is when businesses are run similarly, they tend to settle into comparable compensation and operation parameters.When the majority of your applicable job market is dominated by similar companies who have settled into similar benefits, having no reason to do otherwise and with many facing investor pressure NOT to do otherwise, moving from one company to the other is just like hopping from one abusive relationship to another: it seems like an improvement, but you're ultimately still tied to yet another scumbag. You can get a new job but, without working to make significant change, you're just repeating the previous cycle.

In this situation, as most businesses are set up to specifically prevent employees from being able to make substantive change to the businesses that employ them, unionization provides a means by which employees can gain sufficient influence to make those changes.

I'm biased because I'm a scientist, but verifying observations and assumptions through empirical methods is typically a good thing. A lot of people believe "common sense" things that are completely wrong, e.g., that lightning never strikes twice, evolution has some sort of goal in mind, to never go to bed angry, etc.

My mother still declaws her cats, despite my telling her exactly what they do. She even had to switch vets once because her main vet began refusing to do it. I can't understand how someone, knowing full well what happens, would still do it to an animal they allegedly love. She originally claimed clipping their nails was too much work and that cats will ruin her furniture, but now just refuses to talk about it after my wife and I have demonstrated practically no cat damage to anything in our home with four fully clawed cats, all raised as (asshole) kittens, over the course of about ten years.

I'll remember all the cats she mutilated (plus all the other heinous shit she did when we were kids) when it's time to pick her retirement home.

Look everyone, a pro-Israel propagandist with a bunch of easily refuted 'talking points' (lies). I'm always surprised they bother with places like Lemmy.

Colonizers and apartheidists really are the scum of the earth.

Another quote from the Journal of Rectally Sourced Statistics.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest the commonality been conservatives and conspiracy theorists is poor critical thinking skills.

There's nothing nonsensical about their comment. Long winded? Absolutely. Do you not agree with it? Probably, but just because you don't like it doesn't make it nonsensical.

But even if it did make no sense, there's no excuse for personal attacks. That's just being shitty.

Don't shit this place up like Reddit. It's not welcome here.