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Generally campsites do not need the small-scale timber “clearing” that happens when humans go camping and look for firewood for their small fires. All that ends up happening is a brutal macro-deforestation in the 100 yard radius of the site. The “protection” is to stop idiots from cutting every sapling in sight, which really does nothing to reduce that forest’s overall composition and fire risk.

I’ve often wondered about the ‘herd immunity’ that forms as a result of widespread cancel culture.

Initially I assumed that prolific canceling would lead to a general societal understanding of the unsustainability of the cultural. The idea that in Presidential elections in 2059, every candidate would have so much ‘dirt’ against them that it might level the field a bit.

But as this article suggests, another alternative might just be a deadly-to-democracy silence.

Can anyone recommend an inexpensive fingertip oximeter?

The practice of compassion and empathy. Many people will tell you these are soft skill that doesn't need practicing, but the more you engage with these qualities in person, the richer your life can be.

I suspect you’re getting downvoted for the pneumatic tube sentence, because tube systems like that have proven to be way too inflexible for a rapidly changing city. And expensive. And hard to maintain.

But I agree with the rest of your comment.

At both TIME and NatGeo, it wasn’t uncommon to focus group different headlines and covers before going to print.

This coverline caused particular rage internally amongst staff: https://images.app.goo.gl/cGhZ8usRNCBqhcp49

I imagine arranging payments was also part of the 90-min average.

Thanks. I'm getting slopping here in the house with only a single conversation partner most days!

Public health is a constantly changing landscape made up of frequently shifting inputs and analysis. It’s only in recent decades that our desire for absolutes has really given people the idea that these things should be simple.

Every country on earth has to move the goalposts during a pandemic — this is a sign the system is still working.

I understand what you're saying about the hyperbole, but we're also at the point where there are multiple, overlapping problems of a very serious nature to a species with 7.8 billion beings sharing a planet. The hyperbole isn't useful, but the larger idea that the time to act IS NOW shouldn't be diminished.

Re: Alaska, beavers are already getting there first and exasperating the climate effects upon the tundra. A fascinating read: https://alaskatrekker.com/2017/11/beavers-moving-northern-al...

Thanks for sharing. I admire this guy's drive.

The ideal world is one where environmental sustainability and server efficiency are hand in hand like this.

As a DC resident, it does feel really frustrating, at a time when the nation's politics feel especially important, to not even have a representative to speak with/pressure. Especially when the chief argument against DC statehood has been that it'll tip the Senate to the left. BS.

With all the Amazon clones/fake/crap, I've found that eBay is quickly filling my needs. I used to overlook eBay because the same problems Amazon now has, but I'm finding eBay an easier platform to weed out the fakes...and things tend to ship quicker.

Source?

Non-paywall link: https://archive.vn/xj2db

Not necessarily. There are many moments during the operation of an aircraft where full attention is paramount. Yes, you see a pilot leaving the cockpit to use the lavatory while the co-pilot is monitoring the autopilot, but the margins are just as small as operating a motor vehicle.

I'm not sure I agree. Most of the US public lands are actively managed, and even the lesser-touched 'Wilderness Areas' are still highly influenced by the surrounding human communities.

The continuing 100+ year old debate around the Forest Service's wildfire policy is one example of how these relationships aren't as natural as we believe on first look.

Sure, their headline is accurate, but the way it is written creates ambiguity by relegating the factual turn to the end. Headlines are often skimmed and propagated. Unless every viewer reads the headline in full and every aggregator replicates it exactly, the headline may be misleading.

Journalists aim for clarity in communication, an ethos that is infringed on increasingly more as web-only publications live or die off clicks.

I agree that we shouldn't "blame the media", but we can blame Business Insider for playing with ambiguity in this headline's structure.

Surprised, but not surprised, that Business Insider would run an ambiguous, panicky headline in a time like this. Imagine if web journalism wasn't funded by clicks and precision of headline/reporting was the metric that mattered.

I’ve noticed amongst my peers in their 30’s that the action of trying new things is intrinsically linked with buying new things. Maybe it’s a product of being raised in 1980s USA, but it isn’t enough to just try to put new soup ingredients in the pot you have. You must buy something that ‘sparks joy’ or ‘inspires’ the action. Value isn’t derived from the practice of something new unless accompanied by the dopamine bump of status symbol acquisition (and perhaps peer reaction to display of such symbol).

Want to start exercising? Gotta buy new $140 Lululemon tights to help inspire the action, because willpower isn’t enough.

Does anyone remember messing around with ‘chromeless windows’?

A misleading phrase that means something completely different to a newer generation...

I love your CV. As a society, we don't talk enough about our failures, much less compile them as a list. But we all fail, and to pretend we don't is complete ignorance to the basic human condition.

I had a similar experience on a five-day isolated, silent retreat in a mountain hermitage. Losing track of the calendar and the clock was an incredibly disorienting, and thus fruitful, experience. By day three, I was estimating time with the sun, wind and shadows.

In my experience, editorial departments of most outlets are no longer separate from ad sales. On paper, maybe, and as a concept/line that too brass can say publicly, but the four major outlets I’ve worked all had edit staffs that end up being influenced heavily by the business side. Sometimes censorship, sometimes decision making and influence.

Your comment reminded me of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s thoughts - how wanderlust can keep us from leading meaningful lives. Worth a read: https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2019/04/wanderlust-keeps-...

The oldest millennials are now 38 years old.

The Community of Christ (formerly RLDS) began marrying and blessing same-sex couples in 2013: https://www.kcur.org/post/community-christ-oks-gay-marriage-...

Are you RLDS/CofChrist members, by chance?

Me too (Toyota owner all my life), although I can’t figure out/don’t understand the emissions fight they’re currently in regarding CA standards.