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  • psud@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzHabits of Insects
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    15 days ago

    China has a problem. It isn’t good at finding the best people and putting them into science (or whatever else). Instead it gets the loyal people and gives them the best jobs, they then select people below them however they will

    People then strive for recognition and advancement so scientific fraud is rife


  • psud@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzHabits of Insects
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    15 days ago

    This idea has been around for a while. Make government more efficient by putting a private enterprise person in charge

    It never worked because the private enterprise person got efficiency by having a cool project or forceful personality in the private enterprise which let them pay their employees poorly. Or maybe they paid their employees well and had excellent success. But then they have government employees who are hard to fire, have highly specialist knowledge, aren’t in it for profit and so the private enterprise maverick is usually [worse than] useless

    I don’t expect it to work this time either, especially as Musk is more interested in Tesla, SpaceX, and his other companies


















  • psud@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlIt's that easy!
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    8 months ago

    I haven’t yet been convinced that giving up meat can help. Specifically, I haven’t seen the question of what happens to the grazing land.

    If it is left to burn, the carbon it contains cycles grass ➡️ fire ➡️ CO2, particles ➡️ grass, etc

    If it’s left to rot it’s grass ➡️ methane, CO2 ➡️ grass

    If it is rewilded the carbon cycles grass ➡️ meat, methane ➡️ predators, etc

    If left as it is it’s the same, but with us in place of the predators.

    I really feel like there is no way of preventing the carbon emissions of grasslands, but at least if they’re making meat for us we can work on engineering a way out of the methane release, and people are working on that

    And at worst it’s not fossil carbon, it’s renewable, the carbon emitted is captured again when the grass regrows

    There’s carbon in the farm equipment, but that’s the same in all farming