well yeah there used to be a concept of “noblesse obligee” which basically means “from everybody according to their abilities” - in the aristocrat context, it means that the higher-ups should care about their people because they can afford to, not because they’re forced to. it was no always implemented, of course, but the concept was there.

Consequence of people needing income from research grants without actually having the qualifications to write good research papers.

On the lower end of estimates, Israel has dropped more than 70,000 tons of bombs on Gaza since the start of the war. That’s the equivalent of roughly six Hiroshima bombings on an area less than half the size of Hiroshima, but with six times its population.

People used to feel that instinctively.

Then capitalism, especially in the US, incentivized people to always look “fit” so people hide their true emotions.

i think they want them for everybody else as well, maybe?

The ecosystem is so hollowed out that higher-up the foodchain species like beaver have a tougher time feeding themselves, while lower-down species have to re-populate an underpopulated environment. of course you’d rather be a mouse than a beaver in these days.

lemmy has 30 K users by now worldwide btw, it started in late 2019 iirc. maybe we can get a million by 2030.

i think lemmy skews older because of the more complicated sign-up process and people being more tech-inclined around here and a bit more mature than the general public. and i love that, btw. less shallow “entertainment” and more memes and especially based arguments about things.

i wish there was a useable german instance for the general public.

discuss.tchncs.de is great but as the name says, rather for techy people

feddit.org is borderline unusable garbage between political shit-takes (constant bickering and non-constructive arguments) and generally a very non-open mood, it feels to me.

i heard a great phrase that goes “i continue to cut but it’s still too short”

i feel it’s an abstract but highly accurate metaphor for how many raise their children. they’re trying to be even more strict to make the child behave well, but that inflicts even more damage on the child and the child misbehaves even more.

it’s called “unwinding” and also staring into the abyss hoping to find answers about the future there to cure the mental depression and anxiety that dwells in us all (or most of us) since we don’t know what the future will look like

if you stare into the abyss long enough, the abyss stares back at you

it’s not so cool for the spaceships that attempt to land there as they’d be squashed to death, presumably, but yeah, from a scientific point of view, it’s cool :D (not really since it’s rather hot inside)

yeah i read up on it and all four giants (jupiter, saturn, uranus, neptune) have no “clear” surface: they all have a gaseous atmosphere on the surface, but when you go down, it goes above the critical point and therefore continuously changes into a liquid phase with no clear line in between. very deep inside, they all have cores made from rocks, but it’s rather small compared to the total size of the planet.

ooooh i’m so sorry i didn’t know it :D

should i take it down?

i guess liquid surfaces count as liquid because organisms can live there (cyanobacteria can swim by buoyancy). in gas that’s not possible.

mars’ surface area is approximately as big as earth’s land surface area, i.e. everything excluding oceans. since oceans cover a large part of earth’s surface, there’s that.

probably? according to this diagram, it consists mostly of metallic hydrogen, which i interpret to mean “hydrogen in a solid phase”.

It should be noted though that objects need to have a minimum mass of around 10²¹ kg to be able to hold an atmosphere, so that excludes a lot of the smaller objects. An atmosphere is important because it gives potential settlers a constant source of gases (e.g. CO₂), stabilizes the temperature between night and day, and protects them somewhat from radiation.

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