That’s a short but touching poem.

I mean traditional-farm animals, so animals at a traditional farm. Sorry, not a native speaker.

Oh I know. My point is that traditional farm animals basically don’t exist, in the same way that manually harvested grain doesn’t really exist anymore

Yes, possible in theory. Quite hard to find in practice

In case anyone takes that seriously: farmed animals mostly eat industrial agricultural food. And they need 10 kilo of food for every kilo of meat. So you’re basically killing ten times as many farmland animals when eating meat compared to earing plants directly.

I did, and enjoyed them!

Popped to mind immediately upon seeing the word Portia

While we should absolutely use our backyards to make some space for nature, there’s going on more than this. Even in nature reserves, insect counts seem to be going down. Last I heard, it’s still not entirely clear what’s going on, but probably related to certain types of pesticides.

Ancient AI proven

Read till the end. About 50% on foot and 30% with public transport.

The mapcomplete.org/notes theme does that, and has some other fun features as well

IIRC, this actually happens. When the balance is disturbed, the mushrooms go wild and destroy young sapplings. Could be I recall incorrectly and it’s actually other species. I cannot recommend The Mother Tree enough, it goes into great detail of the history of research into this

It makes me so mad we don’t just tell the flight industry that by date X no planes that use traditional fuel can be produced, and by date Y that they won’t be allowed to fly. Doesn’t even need to a global agreement, if the European market is closed, than that could be motivation enough. And it would focus innovation on efficiency instead of frivolous stiff like this.

OpenStreetMap offers so many new things to learn :) Here’s an example overpass query for myself: https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1FG7 Just move the map to you area of interest, and in the code change the “user” to your username. Then click “Run” (or something similar, depending on the language). You can change the “way” part to “node” or “nwr” to extract different types of data. Or you can add [“building”] to just show buildings you last touched. Minor warning is that this shows things you were the last to edit. So if someone else is active in your area, your edits will disappear. If you’ve been active for a while, but only see your recent changes, we can add (newer:“2023-01-01T00:00:00Z”) near the username.

http://umap.openstreetmap.fr is really pretty self-explanatory. It is similar to Google MyMaps, but built by the OSM community. A beginner’s guide is available here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UMap/Guide

You could manually draw polygons in a umap to do this. Or you could use an Overpass Turbo query to show all the ways you edited recently to have a visual of where you have and haven’t worked. I can give you some queries to start with if you like.

And we are still increasing the rate at which we are making it worse…

It’s a laughing stock here in Belgium

The impact of beef is still gigantic compared to other food sources, even if it’s local or grass fed.

That’s just paid leave. You get as many sick days…as you are, you know, sick.

Well, to be honest, there are some limits in place for long term sickness

Ooh, fascinating. Do you happen to know where I can read more about that neutron star collision? (Found an article, but no mention of a link to life)