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Loughla commented on Why you can’t grow cool-climate plants in hot climates crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

NooneAtAll3 · 8 hours ago

do you mean greenhouse?

I guess in this case it would have to be greenhouse with good AC?

Loughla · 7 hours ago

AC drops your humidity first and cools second. Plants like water and humidity, when cool weather plants (sometimes especially cool weather plants).

Loughla commented on Bluesky Goes Dark in Mississippi over Age Verification Law wired.com/story/bluesky-g... · Posted by u/BallsInIt

throwaway290 · 14 hours ago

We don't think that people who think there's a bearded man in heaven are crazy, even if that's crazier than thinking earth is flat.

We don't think they are crazy because they are not 1%, they are majority.

Most people think flat earthers are crazy not because they proved them wrong. Just most people around them think flat earthers are crazy and that's enough.

Loughla · 14 hours ago

No we think flat earthers are crazy because it's trivial to prove wrong, whereas religious belief is a matter of faith that can't really be proven one way or the other, regardless of how silly the belief is.

They're just different.

Loughla commented on Our Response to Mississippi's Age Assurance Law bsky.social/about/blog/08... · Posted by u/Kye

hobo_in_library · a day ago

To be fair, their concern tends to be a more consistent "Don't push these corrupting agents towards me or my society"

If the school curriculum aligned with their belief system, they won't be talking about a need for control

Loughla · a day ago

If they had control of the school they wouldn't be talking about needing control of the school?

Loughla commented on The US Department of Agriculture Bans Support for Renewables insideclimatenews.org/new... · Posted by u/mooreds

jackschultz · a day ago

Go to usda.gov and two recent press releases are

1 - Secretary Rollins Blocks Taxpayer Dollars for Solar Panels on Prime Farmland

2- Secretary Rollins Prioritizes American Energy on National Forest Land

Both have quotes about putting "America first" to confuse people to make them think this is better for all. We think the USDA is about getting healthy food to people, but really they're about maximizing the money for farmers and people who own the land. Terrible.

[1] - https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/press-releases/2025/08/... [2] - https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/press-releases/2025/08/...

Loughla · a day ago

Farmers also want solar panels is the thing. It brings their costs down.

Loughla commented on The US Department of Agriculture Bans Support for Renewables insideclimatenews.org/new... · Posted by u/mooreds

UncleMeat · a day ago

It doesn't matter.

Outright banning solar and wind in red states and then watching as power generation companies flee to blue states as these energy sources outcompete fossil fuels in the marketplace doesn't matter. They still got to say "fuck you, libs." That's all that matters. Pointing out how this hurts their own voters won't change anything because the thing they want is not actually human flourishing. The thing they want is "fuck you, libs" and they got that already.

Loughla · a day ago

Hurting the voters in this way is a win for Republicans though.

They can use it as a wedge issue.

Look, Republicans in Republican states, they're leaving you without jobs and giving your jobs to immigrants. See, slightly red but mostly purple States? This is what will happen to you. And the energy companies take the blame, not legislators.

Politics today is ruled by cynicism.

Loughla commented on The US Department of Agriculture Bans Support for Renewables insideclimatenews.org/new... · Posted by u/mooreds

fknorangesite · a day ago

Planned malice. There are plenty of sections in Project 2025 demonizing renewable energy.

Loughla · a day ago

And why? That's the part that gets me. What's the reason? If we can develop renewables that brings the cost of energy down, how is that bad?

Loughla commented on All managers make mistakes; good managers acknowledge and repair terriblesoftware.org/2025... · Posted by u/matheusml

a3w · a day ago

Will a manager that acknowledges his/her/their mistakes get promoted as frequently, as if when downplaying them?

Loughla · a day ago

My experience is that managers who acknowledge their mistakes are worse at office politics, so they will reach their peak sooner and lower than those that do not admit fault.

but that's anectdata, so grain of salt and all.

Loughla commented on Scientists No Longer Find X Professionally Useful, and Have Switched to Bluesky academic.oup.com/icb/adva... · Posted by u/sebg

closewith · 2 days ago

Do I want to know what that means?

Loughla · 2 days ago

Pedophiles. They call themselves Minor Attracted Persons to try to square their pedophilia in their own heads.

Loughla commented on AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard' theregister.com/2025/08/2... · Posted by u/JustExAWS

qsort · 2 days ago

Isn't that happening already? Half the usual CS curriculum is either math (analysis, linear algebra, numerical methods) or math in anything but name (computability theory, complexity theory). There's a lot of very legitimate criticism of academia, but most of the times someone goes "academia is stupid, we should do X" it turns out X is either:

- something we've been doing since forever

- the latest trend that can be picked up just-in-time if you'll ever need it

Loughla · 2 days ago

I've worked in education in some form or another for my entire career. When I was in teacher education in college . . . some number of decades ago . . . the number one topic of conversation and topic that most of my classes were based around was how to teach critical thinking, effective reasoning, and problem solving. Methods classes were almost exclusively based on those three things.

Times have not changed. This is still the focus of teacher prep programs.

Loughla commented on Home Depot sued for 'secretly' using facial recognition at self-checkouts petapixel.com/2025/08/20/... · Posted by u/mikece

dahcryn · 3 days ago

your compensation is speed, you get to go home faster. Is that not enough?

Loughla · 3 days ago

I have never experienced a faster checkout with self checkout.

If it's super fast, it's just for a few items, and a cashier would've been just as fast. If it's for a lot of items, there's a decent chance I have to look up some codes or something; which a cashier is better and faster at.

The trade off of self checkout is cost savings for the business. These savings are not passed on to me. Therefore, I don't give a flying rat's ass about them.

I'm with OP. If I'm working for the business, they will compensate me. Willingly or unwillingly.

u/Loughla

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Employed in higher education. Expertise and graduate degrees in critical pedagogy in secondary and post-secondary educational leadership. Have now written more than 82 million in grants (as of May, 2025). The ROI on my salary is pretty ridiculous.

Looking to change the world, one boring spreadsheet at a time.

If you're looking for someone who excels at technical writing as well as breaking down complex technical documents into human readable material, shoot me an email.

Contact me at LoughlaHN (at) gmail (dot) com. But note that I only really check that one occasionally.

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