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  • Sleep doesn’t work like a health bar in a video game.

    Different stages of sleep have different efficiencies. For instance, passing out drunk doesn’t count as sleep. You body is still active in digestion which can prevent a good sleep, or intoxication can prevent the brain from going into deep sleep.

    Sleeping is an activity. Humans are just weird for closing both eyes and both sides of the brain at the same time, but it doesn’t mean that we shut down completely. Most animals do not sleep this way If we could experience partial sleeping like animals, we’d probably understand better what a good sleep is…





  • bstixtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldAmerica first
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    4 days ago

    I think it’s perfectly fair to prioritize yourself first. Politicians should do that.

    But why does she want China last? That’s just hatred.

    I remember when political news were pictures of people shaking hands and making trade agreements. These days it’s all screenshots of social media posts made from someone hiding in a basement or gated community. Trump refusing to answer a telephone call from Canada while using his phone to tweet out more bullshit is a new low.

    American politics might be two sided team game, but international politics are not. Unfortunately for the republicans, they desperately need an opponent to make themselves relevant. They simply don’t have anything else to offer.



  • There’s another difference. Fracking produces more gas. Gas can be sold, while crude oil is useless in USA.

    The oil that USA produces is exported to be refined and then re-imported as gasoline and whatever. (There are hundreds of biproducts from the process).

    While I discourage both, at least gas would make financial sense for USA.

    Production of crude oil only serves to dump the oil price. Which also happened last time Dumbass Trump was president, where the price went negative. Of course the industry is not interested. Besides… Texas already learned that solar power is very plentiful and cheap.

    Remember Convicted Criminal Donald Fuckface Trump in 2016 using coal the same way? Save the coal mines, small town coal miners bla.bla… All that bullshit?

    Did you dig any coal since then? Did you buy any coal? Did you burn any coal?

    You know what. I hope Good Ol’ Donald Shit Diaper Trump saves the oil industry in exactly the same way that he saved he coal industry.




  • I used to pack eggs on pallets. We’d throw a sheet of cardboard between every 10 layer to distribute weight. I don’t know the maximum height, because we only stacked them as high as the doorway allowed. About 3 meters from floor.

    For a scooter… I suppose he’ll have to pick them up and carry them through a door eventually, which will set the height.



  • bstixtoScience Memes@mander.xyzlil chubby bear
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    7 days ago

    My favorite theory at the moment is that life has always been here, before the planet.

    Back when the universe was smaller, before mass was formed as stars and planets, the density of free floating mass was at some point high enough that there would have been temperatures around 20°c everywhere in the universe and water and other molecules were floating freely in space. At that point, for millions of years, life could have evolved in space.

    When the universe expanded, mass got separated and formed into galaxies, planets and stars from gravity, while life was just dormant luggage hiding everywhere possible. On Earth the conditions once again got just right to step out of hibernation and evolve, but it could potentially happen on any other planet as well.

    I like this theory because it doesn’t involve as much random chance and it could mean that we can discover life elsewhere in our own solar system, instead of only hoping that future generations will eventually encounter it in other star systems…


  • The resources have not been mined because it’s not financially feasible, yet.

    China who are otherwise masters of long term planning discarded the idea about 15 years ago. They wanted to invest in Greenland by building airports and make a transport hub on Greenland for both cargo and passengers in exchange for mining permissions. They backed out because it’s simply not a good business.

    Despite the ice melting, it’s going to take a long time for it to be worth the effort. Perhaps 30-50 years or so, assuming they’re still worth anything in the future and if transport can be done cheaply by boats. Donald Trump would be long gone by then anyway.