Christ, yeah - I came here to post the same quote. What kind of horrific shit does one need to go through in life to become capable of uttering that kind of horseshit with a straight face?
Go to business school?
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>Less than a month after four towering dams on the Klamath River were demolished, hundreds of salmon made it into waters they have been cut off from for decades to spawn in cool creeks
Do we understand the mechanisms of this "genetic memory" (my words, no idea if its accurate or if there is a better word for it)? Butterflies knowing where to fly even though it was their grandparents that last did it - eels traveling thousands of miles to breed in a place theyve never seen - countless bird migrations - even something as simple as how it takes a human baby 12-18 months to walk but many animals walk as soon as they are born. I would love to understand better how this knowledge is inherited
It is a mystery, like lots of other phenomena that science fails to explain. Personally I think all those creatures are much more intelligent and aware than we give them credit for. Viewing these creatures as simple automatons is as silly as viewing humans as such.
Wonderful! Watching one's closest people age is so cool! I love looking at my wife (we've been married for 20 years) and seeing how she's changing through the years, her eyes, her skin, her figure, it's fascinating. Same for the wrinkles on my mother's hands, or even my own.
For me, there's nothing scary or sad about growing old and then dying. It's natural, it's beautiful, it's just great the way it is.
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Earth worms provide a similar service in mixing clay and organic material to create clay-humus aggregate.
In oceans, whales also mix different layers of sea water with their vertical movements.
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FWIW io_uring does have support for waitid.
https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/io_uring_prep_wait...
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Japan has a terrible demographic and zero economic growth and is doing relatively fine.
Sure, life in the future will be different than life in the past but that has always been the case. Perhaps it will (temporarily) be worse in some areas and perhaps it will be better in other areas. That'll be very hard to predict.
I don't think an economic collapse will happen, we'll have to adapt but a collapse is not in anyone's favour.
Less people does mean lower real-estate prices and potentially more nature. Perhaps we'll have to settle for less gadgets and exotic holidays but we'll have nicer homes and more nature around us.
That seems like a decent trade-off.
Japan seems to be leaning more and more on immigrant labor for maintaining its economy. It's pretty obvious if you visit.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/02/07/japan/society/j...