I posted the one about the 3rd grader they abducted.

Hope you’ve been able to enjoy Veteran’s day with your daughter. Thank you for your efforts to catalog everything.

Great write up, well said.

I feel like a lot of the conversations about AI can be too black and white. “100% of the output is garbage, never going to use it.” vs “I use it for everything and blindly copy/paste the output, I get so much done!”

We’re missing some of the more nuanced conversations that this post highlights well. Thanks for sharing!

Also, your English is great, I’m a native speaker and I never would’ve guessed it’s not your first language if you hadn’t mentioned it. :)

cheers :)

I was curious so I reverse image searched it and found a couple Pinterest posts from 2019 with a yellow/orange version of the image.

I can’t find the actual original, but it looks like someone ran a version of this one through AI to change the colors?

You’re so right.

I’ve been in the same location pretty much my whole life, I can easily call out weather/species changes just in my local area from when I was a kid til today… I miss all the animals and bugs! Heh.

It truly boggles my mind that some folks are able to turn the destruction of our planet (and our collective future) into a “belief” or an “opinion”…

I mean, I get not trusting the govt obviously, but the scientists who are sharing fact-based information and predictions? Especially when we can see so much with our own eyes, too?! Trying not to be too much of a doomer but…

An obituary is a good idea. Even if it doesn’t sway any opinions, it could help some of us to grieve. I might try my hand at that when I’m in the right headspace. Thanks. ❤️

Oof… I didn’t know what an epishelf lake was, just in case anyone else doesn’t either

Epishelf lakes form when an ice shelf acts as a dam, trapping a layer of freshwater floating above seawater connected to the ocean. The Milne Fiord epishelf lake, located on northern Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, supported freshwater microorganisms near the surface and marine species below.

And the article goes on to say

“Epishelf lakes can signal when an ice shelf is under stress, and that’s what we saw here,” said co-author Dr. Bernard Laval, a professor of civil engineering at UBC who leads its environmental fluid mechanics research group. “The data showed the ice shelf was failing. Once the ice is gone, the ecosystem goes with it. There’s no coming back.”

“Epishelf lakes are remarkable because a freshwater ecosystem sits directly above a marine one, separated only by a thin boundary between fresh water and salt water,” said co-author Dr. Andrew Hamilton, a research scientist at the University of Alberta who completed his Ph.D. research at Milne Fiord. “When the ice shelf broke apart, that unique ecological structure disappeared.”

“These systems took thousands of years to form and were lost in months,” said Bonneau. “On any human timescale, they are not coming back.”

Ugh. So beyond sad. I’d like to say that I hope this will be a wakeup call for folks, but if the multiple scientists’ warnings and all the other signs weren’t… sigh

Next time they do something horrible, you can say there was some guy on the internet a SpaceCowboy that knew about it ahead of time.

Sorry username is too relevant there to pass up including it. It must be called out as a space cowboy’s prediction. Haha.

Article that’s linked in the OP article link: https://www.kjrh.com/news/local-news/man-with-a-gun-dies-after-being-shot-by-police-near-51st-and-sheridan

Including this because it adds more context (*).

The officers knew the call they were responding to included someone with a gun*, and “she told the police that he was autistic, that he was in crisis.” and then somehow within 1 minute of of them arriving, they tried to de-escalate* then decided (or knew?) it wasn’t possible, responded with lethal force, then didn’t give any medical care for 9 minutes?

Forgive me if this is an ignorant question, but don’t they literally have several non-lethal options that would’ve still stopped any immediate threat? And if what’s in the articles about the context is correct, shouldn’t they have gone into it more prepared to respond to a distressed person?

“I didn’t know what to do because it was beyond what I could do on my own,” Tyler said on Feb. 11. "I thought I was trying to save his life by dialing those numbers (911). But I sealed his fate.

Heartbreaking. 🥀

Yea… I’m not familiar with this source, and initial searching doesn’t give me confidence… Also, reading the article, it contradicts the headline…

“What you just observed was a distinct and concerning neurological event, and you got to watch it cross both hemispheres in his brain,” Garrison stated in a video posted to YouTube that has since gone widely viral.

Garrison was firm about the limits of what he could conclude from video alone. He stopped well short of claiming Trump had suffered a seizure or experienced dysphasia. “I’m not insisting that’s what’s going on with him, but it is clearly something neurological, whether it’s post-stroke or something else,” he said.

I think this is what they intend to be the “leak” that will “shock” us? Even though we’ve heard a bajillion similar stories at this point?

Yess! Our local convenience store honored it, too! It had to be the complete image, if it was partially cut off, it didn’t count! I didn’t know it was never the intent… I remember going through the bin trying to see which ones had a star visible without unwrapping them… Haha.

And now this is reminding me of also trying to peer up through the 20oz soda bottles without opening them in hopes of being able to read the inside of the caps so I could get a free one. Heh.

McDonald’s fruit & yogurt parfait. For $1. I loved those things. Yes, I can just get yogurt, granola, & fruit and make my own, but they’re not the same. Haha.

You answered what I was confused about in your post. I just had to re-read/let it marinate. I’m on piefed.social now, thanks again for your help! :)