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Another interesting (free!) book is Utah State's Riverscapes Restoration Design Manual [1], which is about "Process-Based Restoration" of streams. Unlike the more common "form-based" restoration, PBR provides materials in the form of hand-built structures of natural materials, especially large pieces of wood.

Actually, I'd really recommend first just looking at all the pictures in the "pocket guide" version of the book. [2]

[1] http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.19590.63049/2

[2] http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.28222.13123/1

I believe that the group pulling out the dead trees was wrong. A good search term for this topic, btw, is "large woody debris".

I wouldn't say 4chan's smarter than other social media. I'd say "stupid people not pretending".

Kinda with you, but outside of those two there is still a bias towards antisemitism and misogyny among other uncouth worldviews.

I mean, yeah, full-time live-in servants would be fantastic.

They could be at an evolutionary equilibrium already.

You can bet your right ass cheek there are all kinds of shenanigans going on right now. The president himself has broad immunity and is a known grifter, and for his lackeys of course there’s the pardon power.

People definitely pick phones for hardware too.

How so?

'Course the epigenome affects the genome to via natural selection at the population level.

To me, the real luxury is labor, and I bet servants would be cheaper in Thailand than the US.

Hmm. I'm just spitballing, but maybe as a path to U.S. citizenship in order to take advantage of more favorable tax codes and enforcement for the wealthy?

> You'd think that management consulting firms, you know, who are supposed to be good at optimization and reducing costs, would have figured this out.

Maybe they've figured out that enabling their employees to stay a few extra hours without worry to finish a deal is worth it.

So it's okay that anybody in Trump's White House can break any law? I disagreed with Biden pardoning his son and I disagree with this.

Maybe some people with sensitive stomachs are able to detect things like this quicker than others. Further, maybe the gene for a sensitive stomach confers a survival advantage not just to the individual, but to relatives of the individual (who can ‘free ride’ on their relative’s discerning stomach).

Muscle mass comes back quicker too, independently of strength. See this forum post and the attached paper. https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/t/muscle-memory-revisted/1...

What grandparent said wouldn’t lead to people dying though.

It’s not that the sky is falling, it’s that we’re autocratizing. Usually that’s a gradual process.

Democracy Forward has brought many of the lawsuits against the president’s executive overreach IIRC. Democracy Docket has had a lot of success protecting voting rights.

Free range birds cannot be quarantined?

There are certainly sympathetic federal judges, including on the supreme court, but as a whole the judiciary is not (yet) owned

You said “it's well-known it's not a physique that correlates with actual physical strength” when the reality is closer to it being perfectly correlated, so no, I wasn’t nitpicking.

The courts have already rebuked Trump on multiple counts.

Yes, I think Trump is violating the Impoundment Act and the courts should set him straight.

They are mostly pushing for a strong Unitary Executive theory-based government. At least so far, their grabs have been within the Executive branch

It’s not that it’s from my country, it’s that the top athletes from a pool of 350 million or so people are all competing to play it at the top levels. I’m not sure how many are competing to be ice skaters, but that’s why I said it’s ‘one of’ the most competitive sports.

Yes

I meant currently successful, not throughout history, but yeah I can see that.

If you define strength as one-rep max, sure.

Yes, but they are stronger than 99% of people. You claimed that their muscle size had no correlation with strength, which is absurd.