Well, this is how Science is done now, the political party decides what they want to happen, and their 'experts' deliver for them.
Their 'vax', masks, social distancing, denying the actual meds that work? Utter garbage. It is mostly embarrassing that the believers think these were done for their safety as opposed to a way to steal an election (And will deny it's happening in the upcoming election).
Not just "Science," reporting generally. the reports that people were trying to buy Maui property right after the fires was "Russian disinformation" for a couple days before they stopped trying to deny the reality of the story. The roadblocks there, likewise.
The problem is not that some of the suspicions of wrongdoing turn to be true, the problem is believing something that is clearly utter nonsense and has been debunked constantly. Even worse, many of these are pushed by malicious state actors.
I just heard a good podcast on this last night by Ezra Klein (NY Times) with guest C.T Nguyen.
Even the utterly nonsense can become a way to simplify the world and hold it all in your head, like a videogame. The attraction comes not from the plausibility of it but rather, the simplicity after a few challenging obstacles of understanding.
IE: flat earth become a rather easy way to simplify global politics and ruling classes. It's not obviously absurd, as there's a few steps in reaching this "enlightenment"
If you have an artifact in digital format already, you can self serve and don't need my help. Patron services at the org can provide guidance if you are unsure of item value, upload mechanics, collections, metadata, etc.
I ran a website where people uploaded game save files along with an screenshot of their game world for a few years. It had maybe 10k+ submissions and was a mildly popular game. I took it offline years ago though. Is this something worth archiving?
Random on-disk game saves is how some MMO server projects have been revived by communities. It could also help someone re-implement the game engine having various copies of a game save. You would be surprised how useful archiving game files can be for someone who really wants to re-build a legacy game.
New species for what niche? Do you understand what coral reefs are and how they grow? What happens when they die? New species don't magically take their place in short order. Some basic information for you:
Sometimes called rainforests of the sea,[3] shallow coral reefs form some of Earth's most diverse ecosystems. They occupy less than 0.1% of the world's ocean area, about half the area of France, yet they provide a home for at least 25% of all marine species,[4][5][6][7] including fish, mollusks, worms, crustaceans, echinoderms, sponges, tunicates and other cnidarians.[8] Coral reefs flourish in ocean waters that provide few nutrients. They are most commonly found at shallow depths in tropical waters, but deep water and cold water coral reefs exist on smaller scales in other areas.
the way humans have cause massie species extinction isn't very natural, I agree control is useless, but we should rather fix the source issue, ban personal cars, swimming pools, planes, etc..
everything dies, it is part of nature's way. If, however, someone were to massively accelerate a specific individual's death, we would typically consider that a crime.
I would like to think that I will leave this world better than I found it. However, I doubt this goal is achievable. I am actively destroying my children's future, and my hoped for grandchildren's future.
I do what little I can to try to lessen the rate of destruction, but we are all part of society and all share the same guilt.
In America, over the course of the covid crisis, amazingly, Flu cases dropped to almost zero, while covid cases followed an almost exact graphed path to previous flu cases.
Shocker: flu cases drop when people wear masks, stop socializing, and obsessively sanitize every surface. What's next? Eating less and exercising causes weight loss?
Those sort of arguments are always made in bad faith. Is it surprising that <arbitrary infectious disease> was lower during the pandemic, in the midst of unprecedented lockdowns and mask mandates? Absolutely not.
The same goes for any argument that claims that COVID deaths were simply mis-classified to take advantage of special hospital reimbursements, and that people were really just dying of the standard flu. It takes almost no effort to show that the ALL-CAUSE risk of dying in America was excessively high during the pandemic years, which turns their argument from "they're just reclassifying flu deaths" into "there's a global conspiracy to submit extra death certificates for fictional people." [1][2][3][4]
What’s the point you’re trying to make? We literally know what the COVID virus is. We know its RNA. It is markedly different from the consensus flu viral RNA. Are you trying to imply that COVID is the flu?
So someone didn't find out that they had a virus that was so weak that they had to take a test to find out if they had it, and they went about their lives without any problems with the false negative result?
Their 'vax', masks, social distancing, denying the actual meds that work? Utter garbage. It is mostly embarrassing that the believers think these were done for their safety as opposed to a way to steal an election (And will deny it's happening in the upcoming election).