I’m pretty sure it’s exactly that. Electric engines during takeoff and landing would also decrease noise pollution near humans.

True, but it’s one-by-one. A dozen types down is good. Do another dozen, and another dozen and so on.

A partial solution is better than no solution.

Alternative: Ten years later: nobody is alive who could have autoimunity risks because the cancer killed them.

I mean, we are currently doing geoengineering on a planetary scale that change CO2 levels to something we can’t handle.

Look up the Oxygen Catastropy, also called Oxygen Holocaust.

That’s what happens if too much carbon is removed from the atmosphere and thus there’s too much oxygen in it.

The downside of that kind of stuff is that you need a balance. Scrub too much CO2 and it’s trouble again.

For now, lab grown meat is super expensive, and I honestly can’t see a way it will ever catch up to faciry farmed animals. Factory farmed animal meat is very close to optimal in terms of cost efficiency.

The number is so low because schizophrenia is super rare and blindness is also super rare. Add to that that blindness is much more common in developing countries where the diagnostic capabilities for schizophrenia are basically inexistent.

Just multiplying the odds to have schizophrenia with the odds of total blindness from birth gives you incredibly low chances to have both at once.

With such low numbers random chance is a huge factor, so it’s quite likely to not find anyone who has both.

You could do the same with any two other super rare conditions and you’ll have a high chance for similar results.

For example, you might be hard-pressed to find someone with an IQ under 30 and schizophrenia.

Sounds like someone’s only contact point with mathematics was their mandatory school term.

And apparently, they are still bitter that their teacher gave them a bad grade.

And still it doesn’t really, considering the exponential scale used for writing down numbers.

The only way that would really give a proper sense of scale is the good old tally list. But with that it would harldy be possible to count up to 100 million.

Popular Mechanics is US-based, so they use short billions: 1bio = 1 000 000 000.

You are right, long billions (1bio = 1 000 000 000 000) would be a lot more. Though even that would still be possible, but then ~35% of the chinese population would have to be employed in planting trees.

Just a matter of scale. Every seventh person lives in China.

Or to recontextualize: The article talks about a time span of around 45 years. That’s around 1.7 billion trees. Remember, that’s an english (short) billion, 1700 million. (In other languages a billion is a million millions, and not just a thousand millions.)

If a worker can plant 20 trees a day and works 200 days a year, that means around half a million people are more than enough to do it. In a country with around 1400 million people, that’s 0.035% of the population, or roughly one in 3000 people.

Suddenly, it’s not all that crazy anymore.

Yeah, I’d say having a study participant trying to commit suicide because of the birth control is kinda severe.

But also look at who cancelled the study. Was it the participants? Was it the potential customers? Or was it a company that was afraid of lawsuits?

I don’t like you trying to blame “the men” because some suits pulled the plug because they feared losing money.

The thing with the vasalgel/RISUG thing is that there aren’t any reported side effects and it still was cancelled.

If you look at actual research, there’s actually quite a demand for novel male contraception methods:

The proportion of male participants in clinical trials reporting willingness to use a male contraceptive ranged from 34% to 82% and the proportion from surveys about hypothetical methods ranged from 14% to 83% [2]. Specific to the United States (US), a population survey conducted in 2002 of 1500 men reported willingness among 49.3% of respondents [6]; two decades later, an online survey of 2066 men from the US and Canada reported willingness among 75% of respondents

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001078242400101X

Can’t get a vasectomy if you plan having kids.

But actual issue is no, we do not have another option, because this study has been done on mice, so even if it would actually happen it would take easily 10 years before it would go to market.

What’s worse is that it won’t happen. Google RISUG, Smart RISUG, Vasalgel and Plan A.

These are simple polymers that are injected into the vas deferens of a man and stay there for years up to decades, making the man sterile. It’s easily reversible, has no side effects and just disables fertility. And it’s been blocked by pharma companies since the 70s, because it would cost them massive amounts of money if women wouldn’t need to pay for expensive and short-lasting contraception methods.

The situation that only women have access to decent methods of contraception sucks, and the most infuriating part is that it doesn’t have to be, but because it would cost some rich assholes money, they purposely keep the situation as is.

Believe me, most men would much prefer to have access to good methods of contraception, but we are essentially stuck at the same level since the 1920s.

There is a difference between aristocracy and oligarchy. Aristocracy is under the thumb of the monarch, oligarchy isn’t.

I am telling you, you can call yourself whatever you want. Your identity doesn’t matter to me, because you cannot trade away your human rights just by calling yourself some other species.

If you want to call me a fascist for saying that your human rights are inalienable and cannot be removed from you just because you call yourself a non-human, that is… incredibly misguided and makes me wonder if you even know what a fascist is.

To be honest, I’m inclined to think you are astroturfing, trying to make anyone standing up for human rights and against fascism look ridiculous.

Seriously, you are either totally detached from reality, or a right-wing bot account.

And yes, go for it, ban me from your instance with a total of 4 communities, 34 posts and 60 comments. My family group chat has more activity than that.

So you are banning actual bots while claiming that humans cosplaying as robots are actual robots, and are offended by me using the term “clanker”.

If you’d take this seriously, that would be seen as massive cultural appropriation.

That’s about equivalent to white people wearing blackface in segregated white-people-only areas getting fake-offended by people calling them anti-black slurs.

You aren’t on your instance. Your rules don’t matter in this community, and if you want to ban from your instance for not following the rules of your instance and your communities while being on some completely different community on a completely different instance, go for it.

My belief in your human rights is not based on the identity you made up for yourself, but on the fact that you are a human and I will not deny human rights to any human, no matter whatever species they fancy themselves to be.

The same rules apply as with religious freedom: You have the freedom to think of yourself in whatever terms you want to, and I will advocate for that right.

But you do not have the right to dictate my understanding of reality.

If we are taking this seriously, there are exactly two kinds of beings that are currently capable of holding a conversation online: a human or a bot.

So if you aren’t human, I certainly don’t value your clanker “life” the same way as a human one.

Depends on whether we are roleplaying right now or talking about real-life here.

If this is role-play, then of course it’s a fun way to explore the effects and implications of racism in a safe and hypothetical way.

If this is real life, then it’s honestly beside the point because transspeciesism isn’t a thing and thus not even a hardcore racist will think you aren’t human just because you fancy thinking of yourself as a unicorn.