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checkerbored.bsky.social @checkerbored.bsky.social · 3d

"Instead of starting at the very top with the high-stakes confrontation with Harvard and working their way down, the new tactical approach is to start with whichever prestigious schools seem likeliest — for various reasons — to be amenable"

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checkerbored.bsky.social @checkerbored.bsky.social · 4d

Right! I am an enzyme engineer and tend to think more about single molecule or reaction scale themodynamics than process scale, but I see your point that lignin is currently more problem than opportunity. Odds seem good to me of that changing in coming years, if less for energy than for materials.

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checkerbored.bsky.social @checkerbored.bsky.social · 4d

Yes!

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checkerbored.bsky.social @checkerbored.bsky.social · 4d

Biofuel from lignocellulosic waste makes good sense, especially where electrification is not a good option yet (e.g., aviation), but biofuel as primary agricultural product is a poor value proposition.

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checkerbored.bsky.social @checkerbored.bsky.social · 4d

More reading: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Use of U.S. Croplands for Biofuels Increases Greenhouse Gases Through Emissions from Land-Use Change

Most prior studies have found that substituting biofuels for gasoline will reduce greenhouse gases because biofuels sequester carbon through the growth of the feedstock. These analyses have failed to ...

www.science.org

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checkerbored.bsky.social @checkerbored.bsky.social · 7d

So that's why they call it "serving fish"...

checkerbored.bsky.social @checkerbored.bsky.social · 18d

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checkerbored.bsky.social @checkerbored.bsky.social · 19d

Forget it, he pulled up the ladder behind him.

checkerbored.bsky.social @checkerbored.bsky.social · 22d

Nebula is mostly only relatively high-effort videos from career creators. Some creators post only to Nebula, most post early or extras. There are no ads and videos are censored for copyright and content much less. Of course the selection is less but the quality is better. Overall worth it imo!

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checkerbored.bsky.social @checkerbored.bsky.social · 22d

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a person walking down a street with the words there is still time written on it

ALT: a person walking down a street with the words there is still time written on it

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checkerbored.bsky.social @checkerbored.bsky.social · 25d

Yeah hit them with the Illest Noise.

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checkerbored.bsky.social @checkerbored.bsky.social · 26d

There's overestimating small proportions and then there's "more than one in every five American adults is transgender." I feel like there's got to be more going on there than a neutral overestimation bias, no? That is a truly insane estimate.

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checkerbored.bsky.social @checkerbored.bsky.social · 27d

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checkerbored.bsky.social @checkerbored.bsky.social · 27d

Bush was worse...

a cartoon of homer simpson and bart simpson with the words that you know of so far

ALT: a cartoon of homer simpson and bart simpson with the words that you know of so far

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checkerbored.bsky.social @checkerbored.bsky.social · Sep 13

AIAI? Aye, aye...

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checkerbored.bsky.social @checkerbored.bsky.social · Sep 12

This made me angry, have a like.

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checkerbored.bsky.social @checkerbored.bsky.social · Sep 9

Lmao?

checkerbored.bsky.social @checkerbored.bsky.social · Sep 6

From the claim website: "LibGen & PiLiMi Pirated Books Class made up of all legal or beneficial owners of the exclusive right to reproduce any ISBN- or ASIN-bearing book that Anthropic copied from the two pirate sites."

Scientific article authors may be out of luck?

checkerbored.bsky.social @checkerbored.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thanks for letting me know! By the way, you might be more persuasive in the future if you don't assume that everyone else is as stupid as you are. Good luck with your historically unpopular billionaire party!

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checkerbored.bsky.social @checkerbored.bsky.social · Sep 5

That's a different topic. None of these images even feature Mamdani at all. It's concerning for the soundness of your political project if you're not able to stay on topic for even two consecutive messages.

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checkerbored.bsky.social @checkerbored.bsky.social · Sep 5

You're mad at him for not wanting to vote for Biden in the PRIMARY?

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checkerbored.bsky.social @checkerbored.bsky.social · Sep 5

If RFK's voice could prevent disease, that's the only thing that could make him want to shut up.

checkerbored.bsky.social @checkerbored.bsky.social · Sep 4

??? The bathrooms are not the point, that's what I'm saying. Transphobia is not just about fucking bathrooms. If you insist on a racial metaphor, this is like telling a Black person in America that anti-Black racism is over because Obama was president. It's so much bigger than that.

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checkerbored.bsky.social @checkerbored.bsky.social · Sep 4

If you can't see how much of an oversimplification this is, you really shouldn't be commenting on it in the first place. And if you can, then you know how unhelpful you're being. Either way, please work on that, for everyone's sake.

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checkerbored.bsky.social @checkerbored.bsky.social · Sep 3

Just a shame that book has such a problem with women! Still, worth reading these days for sure.

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