I see what you mean, but energy isn’t currently free, and as we built more headroom, crypto and AI have simply eaten up that headroom. Don’t take my word for it, simply look at the statistics on how much more energy we are using than 10 years ago, and then look at corporate energy usage now on those two things. Renewables haven’t kept up because large corporations keep eating more and more. In fact, governments have had to **de-**decomission a few coal plants because the energy usage was so high. Here’s an article on one of them that is supporting a massive crypto farm.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m absolutely 100% glad that the energy is not all coming from coal plants anymore, but also it isn’t like none of it is.
And no energy is emission free. You still have to pay the environmental cost to create and maintain the equipment gathering the energy in the first place.
In short, renewables are great. Corporate overusage of energy is not, especially for incredibly selfish gain like crypto and “AI”. I’m not going to cheer for the shares at corporations to be higher simply because we have renewables offsetting a tiny bit of the massive power they suck up.
“Oh, nice!” - Companies haphazardly adding AI into everything whether you want it or not and eating up three times this energy produced for short-term shareholder gain.
That paper is not really a source, it’s a literature review. That’s not inherently bad, but essentially all it does is pull things in from other (if you check, quite outdated by nearly 60 years, which is a lot, ESPECIALLY for biology) articles and say “… and therefore this other thing may be true.” It’s essentially philosophizing.
The paper neither invalidate nor proves anything, it simply makes a loose connection to a strange claim.
The author is correct that we do have characteristics of herbivores. However that is not something anyone was questioning; that’s literally one of the requirements for being an omnivore. We also have characteristics of carnivores. And even obligate carnivores will often have some characteristics of herbivores due to evolutionary holdovers.
The paper is, essentially, saying nothing of value.
Errrr… are you looking for me to provide you a primary scientific source for how teeth work in animals with differing diets? Most of that is in veterinary texts (which is an amalgam of info), but it’s akin to asking for a scientific evidence for gravity. What you’re asking is too broad to be covered in a single paper and shows a misunderstanding of how scientific studies focus and function. I was simply giving you a primer since you asked, and that blog is good enough for that (and accurate from the portion I read).
Human teeth also have sharp peaks and deeper valleys within them which is the case for the overwhelming majority of omnivorous creatures. Most obligate herbivores have flatter teeth or will regrow them unless they have teeth explicitly for a particular use case.
Source: You can check out scads of scientific resources on herbivores versus omnivore versus carnivore teeth. I assume you know how a search engine works, but here’s a solid article on differences.
Also my sister has been one of the veterinary bigwigs at several zoos through her lifetime and we’ve had multiple discussions on it.
A few recommendations for various reasons, some known and some less-so:
Romance:
What Dreams May Come - Robin Williams in a kind of version of Dante’s Inferno. Deals a lot with death and a non-religious afterlife. I’m a stoic 6’4 dude and weep openly every time I watch this.
Love Never Dies - Did you know there’s a real official sequel to the musical Phantom of the Opera? There is. It’s okay, not great, but pretty fascinating more as a cultural artifact. I think I remember a decent song, but nothing like the first. It would have been better to make it straight up fucking weird like Starlight Express.
The Fountain - This is one of the most artistically-sound and crushing love beyond time movies I’ve ever seen. I’ve watched it about a dozen times and swear there’s at least three movies in here once you understand it. Amazing visuals, and great performances and one of my favourite films of all time period.
Thriller / Horror:
Dave Made a Maze - So a guy makes a spatially-impossible cardboard structure in his house. It’s… fun. There are minotaurs. Also made of cardboard.
Cigarette Burns - From the series Masters of Horror. It’s 1 hour long, but is extremely well-done and handles dread amazingly with a great pay off.
1408 - The best version of a “haunted room” movie I’ve ever seen, actually creepy in many places, and one of Sam Jackson’s all-time best “MOTHERFUCKER” moments.
Dog Soldiers - This one is a tad more common, but it’s the best werewolf movie I’ve found and gets the monsters 100% correct. Low-budget, but astounding creature effects for werewolves. A lot of Alien vibes.
Drag Me To Hell - Another common one, but it’s one of the best things Sam Raimi has done outside the Evil Dead series, and definitely the closest he’s come to Army of Darkness since. If you’re even a casual fan of Evil Dead or horror-comedy, and haven’t seen it, what are you even doing?
Comedy:
The Birdcage - Was big at the time, but I haven’t seen anyone mention it in ages. One of the great Robin Williams performances for both comedy and drama. He runs a drag club with Nathan Lane.
Action:
Equilibrium - Came out roughly the same time as The Matrix and got completely buried. Excellent action scenes. Christian Bale does a 1984 / F451.
Batman: Assault on Arkham - One of the best DC Animated movies ever. Yes I know that Mask of the Phantasm is better, but this is still really good and legitimately funny.
“Bad” Movies That Aren’t At All Bad:
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice - Nick Cage does basically a Pirates of the Caribbean and it’s a shitload of fun.
Drive Angry - More Nick Cage. It’s needlessly badass in the dumbest way possible and is hilarious.
Based on our interaction, I’ve made our new Weekly Thread. You may be able to snag a few more converts… Your post was great and you could always repost it in the thread if you’d care to!
Full Report: Acquired the movie right after we messaged.
My wife was working on our book and about ten minutes in wound up putting it down and watching it with me. This is notable because I haven’t been able to convince her to watch known great movies with me. She will not watch Lord of the Rings and hasn’t found the time to watch Edge of Tomorrow with me since release. She gives no fucks about any Godzilla or King Kong movies. This? Well… the moment the gorilla flipped off The Rock, we were in.
She had a hard out at 11 PM due to work, but requested I stop and watch the rest with her tomorrow. What the fuck kind of magic shit is this?
I don’t know how to describe it. Maybe it’s a bad movie very well told and sold by everyone involved? Everyone was likeable and seemed to be having fun. There were a bunch of solid actors in it we both knew from other things, and (most surprising of all) the comedy actually worked. I’d actually say it was probably one of the best 3 video game movies ever, and I’ve seen all but 2. I know that may not seem like a lot, but… 14 year old me loved Mortal Kombat at the time, so it’s some kind of praise.
The Nick Cage movie “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” (and maybe also Drive Angry) is one of the only other movies in my collection that I consider in this camp. It’s not great cinema, but it’s a really awesome ride.
You sold it 100% accurately, and I really appreciate it!
I… Am kinda taken aback here and legit don’t know what you’re referring to. I could delete my posts if it would help?
I’m sorry if I pushed buttons I should not have, but I genuinely do not grasp the friction here and would very much like to. I was enjoying the discussion and was happy that a thread actually took off for us for once.
If this is a touchy subject that you would rather move on from, then we will.
I wanted to make sure I came back to this when I had the time in real life. For what I state, you should know that I was an extremely meek child and hardly a troublemaker.
When I lived in Saudi Arabia as a white 14-year old male. I was held at assault rifle point multiple times and robbed.
When I lived in Thailand at 15, I was sexually assaulted by a trans-woman.
When I lived in Cincinnati at 16, I was beaten by a group of African American kids I went to school with.
When I lived near Edmonton at 17, I was beaten by a teacher for missing my homework.
When I lived in Medicine Hat at 10, I was punched in the face by a teacher for sitting in the wrong spot.
None of these are made up or exaggerated experiences. Cruelty wasn’t the point of any of these. The point was (in order) robbery, sexual gratification, power, power, and power.
Misassigning motive is harmful because it stops you from addressing the issues presented and assumes that people are “lost causes.” I don’t believe that to be the case. You can’t fix something where the point is cruelty, because people can’t get a fix of cruelty in other ways. You can try to repair other issues however.
We want the same outcome, but I want to find out how to get there without pushing people out of the solution.
Why were they acquitted? I have no idea as I was too young at the time to be following trials, but it doesn’t mean anything about my previous statement was incorrect.
People can be cruel, but the goal is not often cruelty. In this instance, the goal for the officers was most likely to regain a feeling of power in my best estimation - a “how dare you not do what I say” attitude and they used cruelty to get it.
Again, their motivation doesn’t explain why they got off, however. I disagree with that decision wholeheartedly.