Land based plants exist in an arms race between access to sunlight and water/nutrients. They have to physically occupy two separate areas. In contrast, water based plants only need to occupy one location, the water closest to the surface. Since there is no evolutionary advantage to starting to grow tall, water based plants don’t grow as tall.

Seaweed grows large, but it doesn’t need the kind of rigid structure trees have.

Damn. I didn’t know what brown could do for me.

And he does lift, bro.

I get that there is more stress, but I also feel like there is a greater distance of friends and a higher “minimally acceptable reason to see friends” which makes the bar to seeing friends seem higher.

Led a group of engineers in assessing damage to bridges after a hurricane.

I look at the question more as whose interview disappointed you, not their appearance.

I get that you are supposed to get prestige from peer review, but the system is breaking down.

What I’m asking is if an independent group got together where they would peer review the research for a fee that can get built into a grant. Or maybe a grant giving research organization builds it in house, where all research performed under a grant goes through their internal peer review with qualified reviews.

Why’d you repeat yourself?

That’s usually more a case when you add a friend group rather than replace one.

It is weird how a lot of the new norm for parents is to isolate yourself from your friends. I remember a generation ago where parents were a lot more social while still having kids.

Dumb question, but what would happen if the act of peer review was a cost that had to be paid? I assume that’s the reason why journals have such high fees to read documents, that’s how they fund peer review.

All the southern Italians. I point this out because standard Italian settled on a northern dialect as the standard. So the Italian those immigrants brought has some differences.

It helps when a lot of the senior leadership gets killed off, including the assets.

It is also hard to revolt at the beginning of a war without being treated by the rest of the country as traitors.

Yeah. The system can be very successful in certain cases even if it only pushes recycling.

My statements were made in the context of a maximalist scenario. Every container sold is made to be reused and recycling is seen as a failure. In a maximalist scenario, I see a lot more breaking down in a way where a beverage industry like beer standardizing on a bottle size wouldn’t.

But a lot of container-deposit legislation as mentioned in the Wikipedia article pushes the container into recycling programs, not reuse.

I git my name put onto a credit card as a kid to help do things like buy groceries. After I went to college, parents had financial issues and the credit card that my name was on didn’t get paid. My credit was great except for non payment on that credit card.

So, yeah. It can be better if the parent doesn’t have to open a credit card so that a kid can buy things which require a tap and cash isn’t accepted.

The UK’s privitizaton model was crap because it mandated service and only allowed operators to compete on price paid to the UK government, ensuring that all operators were lowest bid and trying to spend the least money on running trains.

Divorcing running trains from maintaining track seems to work better on price since railroads owners are more incentivized to have more trains run on their tracks to gain revenue. However, this system seems to only be tested on rail systems with competent rail operators, which DB is not.

I do think that divorcing owning the tracks and owning the trains is something that should be forced on American rail companies.

Yeah, it isn’t impossible. However, I expect there would be a radical rethink of food supply chains. This would likely include more grocery stores adopting the Aldi/Trader Joe’s model of fewer brands and selection of product since the cost of differentiation gets borne more by the store. There would likely be an increase in public markets with several vendors as each vendor is effectively a brand of food.

I think enshittification will hit and don’t grocery stores will either stop offering container sanitization as a service or will start selling the service independently and incorporating the higher cost in shelf products. Grocery stores operate on thin margins, so I expect this cost to get transferred to consumers somehow.

I also think a lot of existing companies will fight this tooth and nail as their bottling and canning lines provide a massive barrier to entry for competition. I also think a lot of customers will fight this since it radically changes how they shop.

Yeah, that’s how I look at a lot of products. There will be faults and there are some red lines that I won’t cross, but I’d rather a company have done minor faults, be open about them, and fix them rather than be brand new and possibly hiding a lot worse.

Ok, but even communist run systems wouldn’t require the massive sorting system of hundreds of different types of glass jars. At best, they’d force standardization so there are only a few jar types in the country and make all labels easy to remove.

However, what most likely would happen is everything is going to be bring your own container and the shoppers are going to be responsible for cleaning the old jars.