Notices by Curt Thomas (conditional_soup@mastodon.social)

@HistoPol @arstechnica
Better plant grasslands then. Redwood forests tend towards an overall density of 80 trees/acre. That's 160 kg * 80 trees per year or about 12 tons of carbon removed (or about three car-years' worth). Grassland ecologies can do about 49 tons per acre, and all without destroying your native ecology. But if you really want to cut down carbon emissions in the UK, stop trying to have US-style car centrism and bring back bikes and public transit.

@ChrisMayLA6 I think a lot about my dad doing NDT at a place in South Carolina. Their job was to inspect metal parts sent to them, and either certify them or reject them. They routinely got jet engine parts, and the supervisors would come along to pressure my dad to just certify bad parts because his rejection rates were "too high" for some middle manager with not enough to do. They usually shut up when he asked if they planned on doing his jail time when the NTSB came knocking.

@cstross
Perhaps I'm missing something, but isn't this the "artificial" in AI?