Pretty sure I know the factory that this butter comes from. The Miraka plant; north of Taupō. Geothermally powered, restricts it to a relatively small region in NZ.

Pretty much.

The ocean is a war zone, an endless battle between bacteria and viruses. Trillions of dead every day; weapons developed and discarded as the tide of battle ebbs and flows.

I assumed that they are using some foreign keyboard.

Didn’t take long to parse the “th” from the symbol. Though sometimes it catches me and reads as a “p”

Ancestry.com was founded in 1997… 20 years seems appropriate

Looking great @Dave@lemmy.nz

Basically all of our technology it based on the manipulation of electromagnetism.

I doubt that possible discovery is exhausted at all, there are three other fundamental forces we don’t know how to manipulate yet.

Hell there may be fundamental forces we are as yet unaware of.

Other than nuclear power and weapons; which liberate energy from the weak force. We don’t use any other force directly.

At this stage, direct manipulation of the other fundamental forces, is science fiction. We don’t know how… yet.

Just to point out a, the first “modern” plastic, polystyrene, was discovered in 1839. The widespread use of plastics didn’t occur till the 1950’s…a full 110 years later. Carbon fibre was first developed in 1958, and is widely used today, less than 70 years later. I would say CF is more widely used today compared to plastics in the 1950’s.

If you look at the very first thing that could be called a plastic, you’d need to go back around a thousand years.

Don’t let perspective bias fool you, things are developing faster than ever.

Material Science, the decades of research with carbon are starting to become evident in real products. Superconductor research continues to move forward.

Medical Science, the advancements are crazy. Especially in the surgical space. Targeted treatments are Just on the cusp of being viable. mRNA vaccines are a whole other level, their utility over the next few decades will be immense.

Bioscience, the rate of progress in this field is so interesting. So many problems that are falling to custom microorganisms, it is great to see.

Agricultural gains, are not even close to finished. I agree to era of brute force agriculture is over, but intelligent targeted farming has huge potential.

The second space age is happening right now. We are watching in real time, the rapid advancement of aerospace technology.

I could go on and on. Just because computing tech has hit a temporary plateau, doesn’t mean that the rest of science has slowed down.

Back to the futures: quantum superposition edition

Shaun the sheep movie

Should be doable with anything modern.

While that may be true for individual technologies; in aggregate across all technologies.

Technical growth seems exponential; maybe sometime in the future technical advancement itself will resemble the ‘S’ curve; but for now we are still growing our technical prowess extremely quickly.

Well they are not that big, they only go into a few meals

/s obv

Avenger: the reach around, it is only fair

To be a pendant; this is not a strawman. A strawman is an argument that like a training dummy is stood up so that you can easily knock it down. The MAGA in the comic makes no argument at all; let alone one that is easy to defeat.

If it fits into any type of fallacy; it would be appeal to absurdity. The comic paints the MAGA as a mindless idiot; a caricature of reality.

If anything it shows that the woman; with the bored look on her face, knows what she is doing is pointless, yet she persists. Knowing her efforts are meaningless.

Great title.

It is easy once you are used to it.

But so many ways to make it easier.

Phone/web app.

Subscription based, with the ability to input “actual readings” whenever you want, with a cross check at WoF time.

Could also make it GPS enabled, but that would have major privacy and accuracy concerns.

The current system with ordering them online is good, but could be much better. Also remove the need to display your km ticket for light vehicles.

So millihelens then?

Cow

Shaun the Sheep: Farmageddon