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I make no claim of long-term planning.

Longtermism is a philosophy that Musk has been writing about for many years.

Elon isn’t one for careful planning.

He is one for careless disregard of short-term consequences while seeking what he has determined to be a long-term good.

I have personally argued for restoring the central valley swamp ecosystem in California. Doing so should be a delicate task, because the valley is no longer hydrologically or morphologically tuned to swampland. The entire overland water transport hydrological system in the valley was redesigned by humans to support farmers in a dry basin decades after the cotton farmers drained it.

Just dumping water into what used to be the lakebed is reckless. It is an action taken with no long-term planning for rebuilding an ecosystem that emerged from the last ice age thanks to careful maintenance, gardening, and stewardship by indigenous peoples; building this ecosystem required human ingenuity and careful planning; so will rebuilding it. It is an action taken without even short-term planning for what happens to the water next as it refills a basin now adapted to dry conditions; it is one of our nation’s agricultural powerhousen.

I believe that he thinks that just putting the water in the right place without anyone helping develop the new swamp ecosystem is enough to restore California’s wetlands. Maybe he’s right, on a long enough timescale. I think we should prefer to be careful and to work with the various relevant communities in that area to ensure that any further changes we make to this ecosystem are done responsibly.

Because the water would go where they want it to go. You just don’t understand where they want it to go or why.

You think they want it to go to where the fires are. That’s wrong.

They want it to go into the central valley to refill the giant lake and swamp ecosystem that used to be there.

They don’t care about the short-term needs of people who need to drink or put out fires or grow crops. They are making decisions entirely from the perspective of longtermism. They see restoring the central valley’s swamp ecosystem as the overwhelming long-term good, regardless of any short-term consequences.

Right idea, reckless implementation. It’s also not clear that just dumping as much water as possible into the central valley is the best way to restore the swamp ecosystem. So much of the valley’s hydrology and ability to retain water have been damaged since the cotton farmers drained the lake after the civil war. This is a restoration that needs to be done slowly and deliberately, both to not kill people who currently rely on that water and to manage the environmental impacts on the basin of suddenly reintroducing water that it’s spent 150 years adapting to live without.

That means try with energy conservation, and if that fails you’ve got a lagrangian to try least action.

Weeds are a healthy part of the environment and soil restoration.

Malicious misinformation is toxic and prevents anything healthy from growing.

What’s that supposed to be in the picture?

Right, but this isn’t weeds in my garden, this is someone intentionally dumping toxic waste that’s killing me and anything I try to grow, including any weeds that might have tried popping up.

I’m more struggling with the intentional and ill-willed type.

That misinformation is too hard to fight.

“We haven’t really figured out the chemistry part of the puzzle yet,” said Vos. “But these results are really exciting because they are showing us that the abundances of molecules like methane and carbon dioxide could change from place to place and over time. If we are looking at an exoplanet and can get only one measurement, we need to consider that it might not be representative of the entire planet.”

Especially important because exoplanet transit spectroscopy can only look at a planet at one specific phase (time of year, seasonally), when the star and planet line up from the POV of Earth.

functional ovaries

I don’t want a pill. I want a full organ integrated into my body that releases hormones responsive to my body’s natural rhythms and diet and environment.

I don’t care if it’s via cybernetic augmentation or a stem-cell grown uterus combo package.

Free Mike Gravel for life!

I tried googling about the rule but only got pictures of couches with their cushions parted and covers unzipped.

What a wild ride. I did a lot of cool shit, and my best to do good for the world. Overall I’m proud.

There are still some niggling details I’m trying to figure out. Reverse? Or just revisiting? Regardless I feel it irresponsible to move forward if I leave the loose ends dangling.

Democrats cannot continue to fall into the trap of discussing toilets and sports as if these are the pivotal issues of our lifetime. We should make it clear that the mistreatment and abuse inflicted on trans people is an attack on us all.

Absolutely. Toilet desegregation campaigns won before in this country. Let’s do it again. All toilets should be for anyone that needs them.

Highschool sports are about having fun. That’s the most important fact to come back to. That’s the target for any discussions.

Individuals staunchly opposed to gender-affirming care for trans youth and active duty trans military personnel should consider what type of life they expect for them to live while they ‘hurry up and wait’ until either age 18 in the case of the youth or retirement in the case of active duty personnel. Instead of engaging in the abstract, the Democrats can humanize trans and gender non-conforming youth by posing these very real questions.

That’s not enough to work. “Individuals staunchly opposed” to trans issues have a different understanding of gender than the queer community does. There is a language barrier that prevents the proposed questions from being adequately posed such that everyone understands them the same way. There is a lot of communication necessary leading up to these emotional appeals being understandable to most of the country.

How we communicate with voters and prospective voters looking ahead is an economic issue, a national security issue, and a social fabric issue, and it is time that we start acting like it. The Democrats’ next step should not be a reverse in the party’s social and civic-minded positions. It should be towards working to repair a loss of trust with voters by hitting restart on how the party communicates, looking further to find capable and moving messengers, and creating a culture – one that Biden himself said he wanted to foster – of proudly and loudly boasting Democratic wins and policy positions that meant something to people.

Great finish.

I agree that he couldn’t have made things better, but he could have made things much worse.

For one, he could have caved and signed away the mineral rights.

He also could have engaged in the clown show at the white house last week. Instead he refused to even play dress-up and stood his ground. He communicated the truth well to anyone who cared to listen.

France burns Teslas

The UK buys them…

America’s role in WWII is too “woke” for the current administration.

You just want to see the words those brains excrete?

Ukraine has been caught between two dictators with an alliance before.

I’m glad Europe is uniting.

Ontario has already ripped up a $100-million deal with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to bring Starlink’s high-speed internet to rural and northern communities and remote First Nations.

Article claims it’s already happened!