rkw_social

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[–] rkw_social@beehaw.org 6 points 2 months ago

A different article indicated that other evidence already exists that Neanderthals cared for the infirm. There are skeletons with advanced arthritis and skeletons with old injuries that have loved long beyond their physical usefulness to the group.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/ancient-bone-could-reveal-how-neanderthals-cared-for-a-child-with-down-syndrome-1.6943167

[–] rkw_social@beehaw.org 3 points 2 months ago

Have you tried straining it? You can probably pull out a lot of the whey like that's.

[–] rkw_social@beehaw.org 5 points 8 months ago

Said Candyman in the mirror five times. Don't know what I was expecting. If it worked, I'd be brutally murdered. If it didn't nothing would have changed. There was no positive outcome to this action, onlybad and neutral..

[–] rkw_social@beehaw.org 3 points 9 months ago

Apologies double didn't realize the double asterisks would screw up the formatting. 1.4 trillion trillion cubic meters ocean volume. 4 trillion cubic meters fresh water consumption

[–] rkw_social@beehaw.org 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Assuming:
Current ocean salinity = 35 kg / m3. Current ocean volume = 1.4 * 1018 m3. Current human fresh water usage = 4 * 109 m**3.

(35 * 1.4 * 1018) / (1.4 * 1018 - 4 * 10**9).

= 35.0000001 kg / m**3. = New ocean salinity.

I think they'll be okay.

[–] rkw_social@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago

$12,000 / year * 600,000 homeless people in the USA =
$7,200,000,000 / year

Maybe let's start small and help some homeless people get off the streets for the low low price of ~0.1% of the country's annual spending.

I assume that once you have a stable situation, the supreme gets cut off. As more homeless get off the streets, this number should decrease (but probably not disappear [my cynicism says that we'll probably never completely solve homelessness]). As more homeless become taxably employed, federal government revenue will increase; spending should decrease as various programs can be throttled back. I'm sure some sociologist-economist can give you a calculated estimated ROI figure on this investment, but I feel that the numbers would probably balance pretty evenly with the added benefit of helping a bunch of people and communities.

UBI would be great but I don't expect that to occur without a tonne of baby steps

[–] rkw_social@beehaw.org 7 points 10 months ago

Full disclosure, I am not an astronaut, nor do I have full context behind the quote. I think that curiosity and exploration would help. Also, warp drive made all those planets a whole lot less lonely

[–] rkw_social@beehaw.org 8 points 11 months ago

Labs for teaching in university students will often look like a much older version of the above. Actual research labs will tend to look like below

[–] rkw_social@beehaw.org 3 points 11 months ago

Basing this solely on the trailer, the King is not wrong. Not everyone's wishes should be granted. As the ruler / government of the country, choosing the wishes that have the best impact on the well-being of the kingdom is kind of his job. Catching the person who is granting wishes randomly, or just all wishes is a reasonable course of action for the King. Of course, he's probably a baby-eater or something equally villainous to make the audience hate him.

[–] rkw_social@beehaw.org 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I would think the romulans would have some questions.

Hey Starfleet, you developed that cloak awfully fast even though you weren't supposed to be researching it until five days ago.

[–] rkw_social@beehaw.org 3 points 11 months ago

Does kindergarten mean something else in Belgium? In Canada l, those age groups would be grade 6 and 9s; what I would consider appropriate ages to begin learning.

[–] rkw_social@beehaw.org 2 points 11 months ago

Star Trek adjacent, but the Orville had an episode like that I think.

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