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Mount Everest is visible from Kathmandu for first time in living memory

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Re: Mount Everest is visible from Kathmandu for first time in living memory

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Post by acslater00 »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #11
RcouF1uZ4gsC wrote: post #2

> Many of our COPD patients who need regular follow-up haven’t shown up because their symptoms have eased. Some have called to say they don’t require oxygen therapy anymore.” If this is at all similar to the experience in the US, while some people may have seen their symptoms improve, a lot of people are avoiding doctors and hospitals out of fear of getting COVID, and are skipping out on routine checkups and care.

COPD + COVID sounds like a death sentence, so if I suffered from it, I too would avoid hospitals (and anyone else) like the literal plague.

I can't speak for COPD but I'm very familiar with a different chronic pulmonary disease (Cystic Fibrosis), and it seems to _strangely_ not be a huge risk factor for poor COVID outcomes.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S156919932...

No one really has a good story for why (and it may not hold) but it seems to be consistent with the idea that the most important variable is truly just age.

Re: Mount Everest is visible from Kathmandu for first time in living memory

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Post by [deleted] »

torwayburger wrote: post #49
rxhernandez wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, not equally argued. We didn't put asteroids into motion that can destroy the earth's ability to sustain human life. I'm sure you could infinitely fill a list of things we have no control over that could make humans extinct.

Agreed. Those are non human events. I was literally referring to all the human activity that could end in extinction, though.

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Re: Mount Everest is visible from Kathmandu for first time in living memory

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Post by knolax »

mmaunder wrote: post #9

This is why we need less humans on this planet. No one says that, because having as many kids as you like seems to be considered a basic human right. But imagine Earth with a stable 10% of our current population. Clean, abundant, and without the catastrophic extinction event already underway.

After you.

Re: Mount Everest is visible from Kathmandu for first time in living memory

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Post by riffraff »

catalogia wrote: post #28
chipperyman573 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mostly a severe reduction in air travel (airplane fuel is really really really bad for the environment)

Is there any reason jet aircraft couldn't burn something like ULSD? ULSD has a sulfur content of 15ppm in North America, whereas jet fuel can apparently be 2000ppm or more.

Because it's cheaper, I believe. aviation SE has a larger answer https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/13042/why-do-je...

Re: Mount Everest is visible from Kathmandu for first time in living memory

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Post by aSplash0fDerp »

mmaunder wrote: post #20
mmaunder wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Correct. I’m 46 years old, healthy, fertile, heterosexual and I don’t have any kids. How about you?

And there it is. A sudden torrent of downvotes. Dropped from 4 to zero in seconds. Like is said, having kids is considered a basic human right. We’re so arrogant, yet so basic as a species.

Yeah. Some folks need to grow another mouth to tell themselves what they wanna hear.

Not being status quo is probably a bit too much for them.

The exchange of opinions concept does work well for most though.

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Post by daseiner1 »

mmaunder wrote: post #20
mmaunder wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Correct. I’m 46 years old, healthy, fertile, heterosexual and I don’t have any kids. How about you?

And there it is. A sudden torrent of downvotes. Dropped from 4 to zero in seconds. Like is said, having kids is considered a basic human right. We’re so arrogant, yet so basic as a species.

“having kids is considered a basic human right...so basic as a species”

uh, the very definition of a species is intimately tied to the ability and choice to successfully reproduce..

Re: Mount Everest is visible from Kathmandu for first time in living memory

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Post by axaxs »

mmaunder wrote: post #9

This is why we need less humans on this planet. No one says that, because having as many kids as you like seems to be considered a basic human right. But imagine Earth with a stable 10% of our current population. Clean, abundant, and without the catastrophic extinction event already underway.

Fewer humans is a cop out. We need humans who won't pollute the earth to death. We need borderline Authoritarianism that protects the environment. 90 or so percent of humans just want to survive. If society tells them they need a carbon emitting vehicle to survive, they do that. Humans aren't the problem, our society is.

Re: Mount Everest is visible from Kathmandu for first time in living memory

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Post by jcims »

mmaunder wrote: post #20
mmaunder wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Correct. I’m 46 years old, healthy, fertile, heterosexual and I don’t have any kids. How about you?

And there it is. A sudden torrent of downvotes. Dropped from 4 to zero in seconds. Like is said, having kids is considered a basic human right. We’re so arrogant, yet so basic as a species.

I had a rather mundane but profound moment in my life about a year ago in which I felt like a non-verbal (cerebellum, amygdala, I dont know) part of my brain communicated with the part of me that I know as ‘me’ and talks to myself in my head. Ever since then I feel as though ‘I’ am just the captain of the ship, and that a good portion of my actions are influenced but not fully controlled by that part of me.

That same part of others might be the part that’s downvoting you. The reflexive, non-verbal, maybe not even particularly cognitive part of us that run the engine room of our human machine. The part that really likes to reproduce.

One exercise that might help draw the distinction I’m talking about is to pick a part of your body, esp a specific hand or foot or even more specific...select fingers or toes. Then do something totally normal like make some coffee or go brush your teeth. While doing this, pay very close attention to the nuances of motion and coordination of that part, and observe how specific those are vs the rather coarse-grained instruction in your head...if there is one at all. For example, the automatic rolling of the toothpaste cap into your ring finger for storage and the way your pinky is cradling the bottom of the tube while your other fingers close in cadence to squeeze the toothpaste in the right direction. I sometimes wonder if this part of us is responsible for some of that silent hand on the Internet.

Anyway, not sure what this has to do with visibility in Nepal, haha

Re: Mount Everest is visible from Kathmandu for first time in living memory

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Post by baddox »

torwayburger wrote: post #49
rxhernandez wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, not equally argued. We didn't put asteroids into motion that can destroy the earth's ability to sustain human life. I'm sure you could infinitely fill a list of things we have no control over that could make humans extinct.

Agreed. Those are non human events. I was literally referring to all the human activity that could end in extinction, though.

Forced stagnation might be able to effectively eliminate human-caused extinction, but you still have to worry about the external extinction events (like changes in solar output, or asteroids, or supernovae).

But without stagnation, yes, you have the human-caused problems to worry about, but you also have people working to solve those problems, as well as people working to solve the external problems.

Re: Mount Everest is visible from Kathmandu for first time in living memory

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Post by ponker »

acslater00 wrote: post #46

It's amazing and wonderful how much environmental damage seems to be recovering. Air pollution is down, carbon emissions are down as much as 17%, fish and sharks are repopulating shorelines and beaches - and to think, all it took was the most severe public health crisis in 100 years, a catastrophic global recession, and an overpowering wave of human misery and death

Well, the day that humans manage to wipe themselves off the face of the planet will be a day of rejoicing for all species other than rats, raccoons, and cockroaches.
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