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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • They react very, very quickly by adjusting orientation and shape.

    They experience time slower, to them a second just feels longer. It’s like Neo in permanent “bullet time”.

    When I was a kid it was pretty easy to catch one alive in my hand. But now my reflexes have slowed and I can only do it from experience and luckily having large hands.

    But my big ass hand smacking one out the air and catching it in the same palm is going to hurt it more than going out a window, and weirdly enough I’ve never killed a fly catching it.

    They’re a lot sturdier than people think. Any amount of bounce and they’re cool.









  • Removing fertilizer would cause a major economic downturn but most agriculture isn’t grown for human food. It’s calorie crops that get turned into feed and fuel.

    Everyone is agreeing with that…

    Good land doesn’t stay empty for long.

    The problem is “good” land.

    Even if we only grew the most efficient crops and utilized proper crop rotation, we wouldn’t be able to feed just humans without fertilizer.

    And not only are we going to run out, the runoff into the environment is fucking shit up.

    Like, that’s what people aren’t understanding, and I honestly can’t think of an easier way to explain it.




  • Saskatchewan produces 30% of the world’s fertilizer and it’s nowhere close to the end yet

    As I said:

    any that thinks we can isn’t thinking on the right timelines.

    I’m assuming you’re talking about ammonia fertilizer tho.

    Do you know that process requires fossil fuels?

    Do you understand that burning fossil fuels isn’t sustainable?

    Phosphate and potash are both mined, and eventually we’ll run out of that just like the liquid natural gas to get the ammonia. But we need all three in specif percentages, we can’t just use any combination, they don’t do the same thing…

    Continuing to use fertilizer to support an ever expanding population is as sustainable as turning the AC up to mitigate climate change.

    It only “works” if you don’t understand the problem, unfortunately lots of people get belligerent when they realize they’re not thinking thru something.




  • No we can’t…

    Even if everyone switched to a full vegan diet and we culled every farm animal immediately, it would be a bandaid.

    We’re propped up by non renewable phosphate fertilizer and virtually no country tries to reclaim what is used.

    I’m pretty sure one small wastewater plant in England reclaims it, the rest gets flushed out to the ocean where it causes further issues and becomes for all intents and purposes irrevocable.

    Like, I’m not saying going vegan is pointless, I’m just saying it’s the equivalent of paper straws on a global timeline.

    We’re fucked, and we’ve been fucked longer than any human has been alive, we just haven’t realized it yet.