I think that they are likely already considering these you mention. You can get clothing and gear that aren’t made of plastic, so maybe they are doing that - the methods described on their website specifically call out using leather gloves and taking wind direction into account.

https://missionspiritus.com/expeditions/antarctica/

Nice art. Please mark nsfw for those of use who like to use Lemmy at work.

For me sometimes I scroll Lemmy when I’m on break at work. I would not (and DID NOT) appreciate something like this coming across my screen without an NSFW tag.

Not Safe For Work

Strange that the scout whose shoes we can see appears to have laces…

Cover cropping does not constitute monoculture when done ideally. In my personal experience with cover crops I have used multiple types of cover crop concurrently in one space.

Here is a great source on cover cropping: https://growingformarket.com/articles/cover-cropping-notill-systems

Excerpt from my source: “Rarely in nature do we see a field covered in just a couple of plant species; the natural soil care principle of maximizing diversity inspires us to do better. At Frith, we aim for at least three species in each mix, but some mixes may contain six or more.”

And I don’t think we’ll be able to keep feeding the world with our current style of agriculture, which is generally depleting soil health and setting us up for future failure. We need more people to be active or semi active in agriculture on smaller scale farms and to eat more local food.

Crop rotation is a great thing but still falls within monoculture. Planting a field with only one type of thing is the definition of monoculture.

I seriously believe that cover cropping, intercropping, and examples like MonkderViete posted are the way forward - they result in higher crop yield per square foot and are more resilient in the face of climate change and pest pressure.

You should learn about the benefits of no till market gardens - they are real and they work.

From my perspective this “pinnacle of human ingenuity” is actually a farse, because it relies on a monoculture and is therefore unsustainable in the long term.

Don’t get me wrong, the engineering is cool and I understand how important the mass production of food has been up to this point in human history, but there is another side of the story. The advent of machinery like this is part of why modern farmers use so many pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers - a monoculture depletes the soil of its nutrients and decreases natural pest control, necessitating the use of chemicals. The use of those chemicals has in turn driven huge ecosystem changes that we are only just beginning to understand the impact of (such as mass pollinator die-offs, changes to soil microbiology, pollution of fresh water sources, pollution of cropland soil, and more) as well as impacting humans in ways we don’t understand since some of those chemicals make their way into our bodies.

If the buffer says 7.5 and it makes up 6 when mixed, either far too little of the buffer was used/there was already something else buffering the solution or the buffer was prepared incorrectly.

By selecting the correct buffer and the correct ratio of salt to acid (such as acetic acid and sodium acetate) an exact pH within a certain range can be reached.

IIRC the reason most caps used to be unrecyclable (many still are) is that they had a liner in them made of a different material. Because such caps were composite materials (using different types of plastic for the liner and the cap), they would make an impure product if recycled. The same problem applies if the cap and bottle are different types of plastic, which used to be more common.

Nor do they justify the armored personnel carrier… Talk about over the top. Obviously intentionally over the top to intimidate.

How useful of a platform is it if only selected information is allowed to be shared? From my perspective, it is only useful for Reddit admins want it to be useful for.

In your particular case, it was NOT useful for communicating very important information to your local community, unless I am misunderstanding your post here.

So by you and others continuing to use Reddit instead of committing to another platform, the suppression of information is facilitated/implicitly supported.

Why are you still using Reddit? Haven’t Reddit admins proven over and over that they are willing to manipulate content on their platform to influence their users? Haven’t they shown you that their platform is worth abandoning??

If nothing else, this experience should demonstrate that it is time to switch to Lemmy full time.

This article about spontaneous formation of knots may be relevant:

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0611320104

TLDR: If you put a string in a box and move it around, the string will most likely knot itself.

If you keep dabs in a clear glass container, make sure you store it somewhere dark (preferably in your fridge). I believe UV exposure accelerates cannabinoid decomposition.

This is awesome! Are these all from “I Kissed Dating Goodbye” or were there other sources for the text?

Brought to mind the song “Radio Silence” by Zella Day

Maybe RFK really is just meaning vaccines when he says “environmental contaminant,” but couldn’t he mean microplastics or PFAS or PCBs or any of the other extremely common, poorly understood (in terms of health effects) actual environmental contaminants?

This article takes a very narrow view of the topic in my opinion. The point is well taken that the recent increase in reported numbers does not represent a sudden spike, but there is a serious conversation to be had about the potential link between pollution and autism. From the article:

Zoe Gross, director of advocacy at the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, said some initial studies have suggested an association between autism and environmental factors such as pollution, but she was unaware of studies “demonstrating a causal link between the two.”

Demonstrating a causal link takes a lot of effort! Just because there isn’t a clear causal link doesn’t mean there isn’t an important association. And because some pollutants (like PFAS) are so widely distributed that they are in rainwater pretty much worldwide, you can’t find an “unpolluted” control group, so proving that they are causing health impacts is doubly difficult. The way RFK talks about it is dumb but the topic itself is worthy imo.

Imo music discovery on Spotify is best done by pursuing playlists posted by musicians you like or just hopping by related artists/album features.

The article hits the nail on the head when they say to listen to human curated content - whether it be curated by yourself or someone else, it’s the best way to find something new/good.

To me this is on your management. If no one ever told you that you should have been going faster, how were you supposed to know that speed is preferred over accuracy?

If you want something from someone: Without communication, it is a wish. Living in lala land. With communication it becomes an expectation.

If management had been noticing your slowness and not talking to you, they either suck at their job(s) or it really doesn’t matter what speed you go.

Alaska, Hawaii, Maine, and Vermont.

More than the number of states with all buildings shorter than 200ft (3).

Less than the number of states that border 5 other states (5).

Pretty sure this is “Java moss.” It grows easily but can struggle with getting algae all caught up in it. Definitely a great/popular plant, almost impossible to kill all the way.