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It's so weird how your job becomes a huge part of how other people view and treat you. And how unfairly some jobs are seen as more respectable than others, especially in the social and care sector

If you have a conflict between independent science on the one side and market forces/economic factors on the other side, there is no compromise.

Between the unchanging laws of nature and a human-made system to quantify value, exactly one side can be influenced, changed and compromised with.

This has been like this with tobacco, chlorofluorocarbons, DDT, fossil fuels, neonicotinoids, endocrine disruptors... The list goes on.

Yet, more often than not, independent science is ignored by those in power for the benefit of lobby groups, industry and more "realistic" and less "idealistic" solutions. Leave those people in an enclosed space with a car engine running and ask them again, which is more "real": The molecules in the air or the money in their wallets.

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Brooke: "We love in a simulation"
Woke: "We love in a South Park episode"

How else would you explain the headlines of the past few days!

It's so discouraging to look at climate politics rn.
I'm used to people not doing enough to fight it but a lot of factors point towards regression and destroying progress we already made or were on the track to making.

And all because people don't understand that we need to let go of our ill-gotten gains, even if it hurts our wallet. In a fight between market forces and basic physics, there is only one long-term winner

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Die Netflix Werbung zu Blood & Gold wirk auf einmal recht passend...

I wrote a lot of E-Mails with different people in the last few weeks and one thing I noticed is that no one seems to use encryption. Even when sensitive data is sent.
Please, just use PGP when sending E-Mails. It takes literally 10 min to set up.

I'm currently planning a vacation in Sweden and so far, all of my solo vacations have been pure long distance hiking trips. Now that I want to try something different, I... kinda don't know what to do except hike. Like, what an I gone do the whole day? Look at old buildings?

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Ostern wäre nicht Ostern ohne die Bizzel-Schokobons.

Seriously, 5e isn't perfect but out of all the changes I would have liked to see, none have been tracked so far. On the other hand, you get shit like making wildshape boring and stuff like this. I'll go back to 3.5e before I play OneD&D

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I don't know why everyone makes such a big deal about wizards removing the "half-" races from D&D.

It's not as if someone will actually play OneD&D...

Hank Green on LinkedIn is such a menace and I love it. That whole platform has such a huge stick shoved up its ass.

Lichen is pretty cool stuff (1 cent coin for scale)

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85 years ago.

In April 1938, Guy Callendar published his seminal paper showing that Earth’s land areas had warmed over the previous 50 years.

He also suggested that man-made CO₂ emissions had caused around half of the observed warming.

85 years ago.

rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/

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Navigational Warnings for the inaugural launch of SpaxeX's STARSHIP have appeared, with a window from April 6 to 12.
They indicate a ~26.3 degree inclined orbit. Read more in my blogpost here:
sattrackcam.blogspot.com/2023/

God, I wish flat hunting were as relaxed as job hunting

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Nüchterne Bestandsaufnahme: #FDP, #SPD und #Grüne haben gerade das Pariser #Klimaschutz-Abkommen endgültig in die Tonne getreten, getrieben von #BILD #CDU #CSU und Co. Keine Partei in Deutschland hat derzeit ein Interesse, die Klimakatastrophe noch aufzuhalten. Warum?

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