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  • KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.workstoScience Memes@mander.xyzIt's just loss.
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    8 hours ago

    A planet is a pen without fences. You just have to expand your perspective. You’ve obviously never interacted with a farmer in your life if you’ve never heard them brag about how many animals they have on the property. And those are just the ones they can count. Im sure some crazy farmer somewhere in India would be mad proud of how many rats he’s got running around. They’re holy in certain parts.


  • The pic says “of all the mammals on earth”. It’s exactly as i said with the pen, just scaled up to a 3d spherical planetary sized pen. The numbers I’m talking about don’t change.

    There are WAY more rats than cows. Period. They’re on every continent except Antarctica, and there might be some weird subterranean prehistoric voles huddled around a hydrothermal vent pool or some shit.

    OP just needs to add a qualifier to the graphic. Anything along the lines of “with respect to biomass” right at the start


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    12 hours ago

    Okay, so you have 240 rats and one cow in a pen on a farm. How many mammals are in the pen?

    This survey would answer that the pen is 90% cow and 10% rat by weight, therefore there are 9 times as many cows as there are rats.

    In reality land, where the rest of us live, we would say that there are 241 mammals in the pen and only 1 of them is a cow.

    You see why I’m calling bullshit by the way this is worded?






  • Americans don’t think lmfao especially the police. Did you know that it is legal to discriminate against applicants to the police if they are too smart? There’s whole court cases about this. Apparently, the argument is that people who are smarter will be less obedient when given an order because they might just employ some critical thinking skills instead of blindly following directions.

    Police don’t want thinkers. They might be “bored” or “dissatisfied” when they figure out they’re nothing but bullies to keep the citizens in line.

    So no, if you see a cop in riot gear at a protest, do not expect a thinking, feeling, or compassionate human being. A cop in riot gear is a goon through and through, and a trusted goon at that. Goons only understand force, and if you show them more force than they’re prepared to handle, their core programming as self serving cowards will come to the surface. Self serving cowards are people who can be salvaged. Goons are not.












  • Former federal employee and member of AFGE here.

    My experience with AFGE is that they are maliciously incompetent at their jobs. I worked for 6 months and never heard from the union ONCE, despite reaching out multiple times. Turns out, everyone from the local (1533) had left the union around 2 years before I’d started. The national office just ignored the problem, and purposefully left everyone covered by that local completely unrepresented.

    After 6 months of gaslighting, contract violations, and hazing, I’d had enough, and started standing up for myself. I started invoking my Weingarten rights. I started quoting specific sections of the contract. I kept sending emails to the national office for my union.

    I was fired less than a week later for “rocking the boat” and making a complaint outside my chain of command. I was a civilian, and I did not have a “chain of command”.

    About a week after I’d been terminated, the national office FINALLY assigned a union rep to my local. What did the rep finally tell me? While I was correct that I was entitled to union rights as a probationary employee (it was specified in the contract), the union didn’t have the funds available to fight for me, so they wouldn’t. The most they would do is help me draft complaints about my treatment, which would at best result in a “posting” for the base i worked at. A “posting” is a letter they have to hang on the wall saying what they did and how they’ll try their very best not to do it again.

    No compensation. No justice. No accountability.

    Fuck AFGE sideways for taking my dues and refusing to fight for me. I hope every last one of you gets terminal stage five asshole cancer.