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FireTower, in The US is bringing back nature's best firefighters: beavers
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The TLDR for the article is that it’s mostly the Western states.

Ephera,

The TL;DR I was looking for: The beavers help to ‘fight fires’ in the sense that they prevent forests from drying out. Their dams will occasionally cause floodings or streams to diverge, which helps to distribute the water.

ElBarto, in The US is bringing back nature's best firefighters: beavers
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That beaver looks like he’s just been told he has to go fight fires.

spacecowboy, in No turning back: The largest dam removal in U.S. history begins

Wish there was a video on that link! Cool story nonetheless.

essteeyou,

Here’s another short related video I found.

grue,

I don’t have video of the actual demolition that started this week, but here’s a video I happened to watch the other day that gives interesting background info about the project: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcUrUE6-ZCw

MechanicalJester, in No turning back: The largest dam removal in U.S. history begins

I am conflicted. I mean, yes, I support salmon habitat but it’s 18MW of clean generation going off grid. Maybe it was at end of life?

Hopefully this works out the way supporters hope.

LazaroFilm, in Boeing opens warehousing facility in Uttar Pradesh for parts supply
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Welcome to Boing warehouse discount parts, where you can get your parts at an unbeatable price! Our prices are so low, it’s as if they fell from the sky!

pimento64, in Boeing opens warehousing facility in Uttar Pradesh for parts supply

What precisely is uplifting about an American manufacturer outsourcing blue collar work instead of paying unionized American laborers?

i_have_no_enemies,

more jobs

pimento64,

So if Tata opened a new parts warehouse in Sudan instead of India, because they want to pay workers a dollar a day, would you consider that uplifting, yes or no?

scrubbles,
@scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech avatar

I empathize that they’re happy to have a job - but at the same time they only have a job because they’re being exploited.

We hate outsourcing because we can clearly see them choosing cheaper labor overseas instead of paying qualified workers locally.

They should also hate outsourcing because companies are going to their countries because they are perceived as easily exploitable, will work overly long hours, and be underpaid.

blackfire, in Scientist shares remarkable before-and-after photos of a restored nature reserve: ‘It’s an incredible example’

It sounds like they are just going to put cattle back on the land again. Rinse and repeat?

Hawke,

The article says no, just that it should be capable of supporting “sustainable” grazing if that’s possible. But who knows?

Reverendender,

Yeah, they should mine for lithium instead. /s

someguy3, in Scientist shares remarkable before-and-after photos of a restored nature reserve: ‘It’s an incredible example’

the Department of Agriculture WA worked to fence off sections of the land so they could herd cattle and wild donkeys out of it to then reseed the area with buffelgrass, birdwood grass, and kapok bush.

naevaTheRat, in Scientist shares remarkable before-and-after photos of a restored nature reserve: ‘It’s an incredible example’

Legend. Near where I live, just over the hill an hour, is land that has been utterly destroyed by sheep grazing. It’s so jarring going from world heritage rainforest to just these flat desolate grasslands with almost no biodiversity.

It’s been that way generations now, so people just think that’s how it should be, but the uncleared hills are lush forest. It’s a crying shame how we use land in this country.

troyunrau, in Zero Jet Aircraft Crashes: 2023 Was One Of Aviation’s Safest Years On Record
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In 2024 so far (to the best of my memory), we had one crash on a runway in Japan, but zero casualties (on the jet – several casualties on the other plane – not a jet). And a door fell off a plane in Alaska with zero casualties.

There are always a small number of bush plane or private small plane casualties every year, but they don’t count against jets either.

aniki,

in other words, it sounds like a totally meaningless metric.

troyunrau,
@troyunrau@lemmy.ca avatar

No. Commercial passenger Jets are pretty much the safest form of travel that exists by almost every metric. Comparing them against three seater Cessnas that Billybob from Oregon uses for sight-seeing expeditions is not fair. You don’t compare SUVs to bicycles when talking about safety because they both have tires.

Note that military aircraft are also not included. There were a lot of people who died in Jets this year in military contexts. But would you call that fair when putting together the safety metrics?

What about passengers that suffered heart attacks while flying in a commercial plane? Actually, that might be an interesting example, but not in the context of this article. (Tangent: there’s probably a metric here. If you have a heart attack in a vehicle, what are the odds you’re driving, and what are the odds your heart attack causes multiple fatalities as a result. But your travel time to hospital and survival rate might be higher as a passenger – it takes more time for a plane to make an emergency landing. I’d bet those numbers come in close, but it’ll depend on the metric used.)

You always need to pick a reasonable metric. In this case, commercial passenger jets is a good one, because it’s the largest group.

ramune, (edited )

The Alaska door plug incident didn’t have casualties only because it just so happened nobody was sitting in the two seats directly adjacent to the door plug.

Edit: the point isn’t to dispute whether somebody would have died or not, but to not let a stroke of luck downplay the severity of the actual issue

troyunrau,
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Seatbelts are also a thing, assuming you actually follow the safety recommendations.

ramune, (edited )

We are not talking fatalities, we are talking casualties. You cannot convince me that an explosive decompression at 16k feet won’t cause serious injury at the least.

Edit: seat belts are designed against the forces of severe turbulence, not explosive decompressions. Assuming the seat belt actually holds, all the forces are applied against the single point of contact the belt has with the midsection of the passenger. Reminder that the forces were enough to torque two seats, rip the padding off the closest seat, and ripped the shirt off a nearby passenger. I actually think there is a decent chance there would’ve been a fatality should anybody have sat in the closest seat.

aniki, in Zero Jet Aircraft Crashes: 2023 Was One Of Aviation’s Safest Years On Record

Did Boeing pay for this article?

troyunrau,
@troyunrau@lemmy.ca avatar

Wall of rant incoming, sorry ;)

The website is a general aviation news source, and a decent one. Caveats: Given the size of Boeing in the global market, I have no doubt that they cover a lot of Boeing stories. Furthermore, given the size of Boeing in the global market, I would suspect they also advertise within, causing a bias to creep in there. However, none of the major bias reporting websites indicate anything about Simply Flying being bought and paid for. Furthermore, the numbers they are reporting are not their own.

Air incident doom and gloom stories make for excellent attention grabbing articles for news organizations – clicks sell advertising, so of course they’ll publish every doom and gloom article they can find, and Boeing makes an excellent target. Statistically speaking, due to the number of Boeing planes in the air, a good percentage of aviation related incidents will involve Boeing. But, even more so, there’s now a narrative, and media organizations love articles that reinforce narratives. The narrative may be partially or wholly true, but it is often disproportionately reported.

Simple example: how many Tesla fires are reported my major media organizations, versus Ford fires, even though statistically there are far more Ford fires out there (both in terms of absolute numbers, and once normalized by the total number of vehicles). But that wouldn’t fit the narrative and thus drive clicks.

The narrative in the media is that aviation is dangerous, and Boeing in particular. But the reality is that you’re far more likely to die in a car crash on the way to the airport than you are in an aviation related incident. That, however, is not sexy to report and doesn’t drive clicks.

The reason I’m posting this is because it’s not doom and gloom. People should feel comforted getting into modern aircraft that there are a ridiculous number of safety systems, regulations, inspections, and more going on and flying is literally the safest form of transportation.

(I’d add some exceptions for private bush planes, remote access to the Arctic and Antarctic, etc., where there is added risk due to lack of infrastructure or “cowboy” outfits operating ancient equipment, like the DC-3.)

corsicanguppy,

Can we take a moment and appreciate the 737max aircraft, and what a fantastic piece of cruel cramped plastic shit it is to fly in, yet?

DoomBot5,

Just flew in an airbus A321 yesterday. I don’t want to fly on boeing airplanes anymore after this…

vzq, in 'I can't accept Drum & Bass. We need Jungle, I'm afraid.' - Amol Rajan on how a University Challenge question spawned a remix craze

I miss jungle. It was really really dope.

v4ld1z,
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There’s still a lot being produced. At the very least, there’s so much to listen to from the past that I virtually don’t run out of it

vzq,

I’m realizing that at least part of what I meant was, I miss the 90s club scene. But I’m def going to try and catch up a bit!

aniki,

It’s definitely not the same but if you go small enough you can still find pockets of lads like myself that try and keep the rave atmosphere alive. It’s getting harder and harder to find landlords/property owners to let us throw illegal raves.

v4ld1z,
@v4ld1z@lemmy.zip avatar

Oh, I see. Must have been wild. Any crazy stories to share?

lanolinoil, in 'I can't accept Drum & Bass. We need Jungle, I'm afraid.' - Amol Rajan on how a University Challenge question spawned a remix craze
@lanolinoil@lemmy.world avatar

Someone give me a good jungle playlist

tias, (edited )

This is one of my favorite albums: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_myuHyVRzsBJ…

blackluster117,
@blackluster117@possumpat.io avatar

I put this Jungle compilation playlist together a while back. Fairly extensive, hope it helps.

open.spotify.com/playlist/3kJx8n2Lz1ZhGvn9myqvPx?…

v4ld1z,
@v4ld1z@lemmy.zip avatar

Great playlist but technically not all of it is Jungle. Definitely some Breakcore and DnB mixed in there

blackluster117,
@blackluster117@possumpat.io avatar

Yeah, I did make it a bit of a blend. Hope no one minds.

v4ld1z,
@v4ld1z@lemmy.zip avatar

Not at all. Cheers

oohgodyeah, in Ancient pear tree comes back to life after being felled to make way for HS2

What’s HS2 for those of us that don’t live in Britannia?

Emperor,
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It’s High Speed 2, the second phase of the UK’s high-speed train network.

oohgodyeah,

Thank you from the lazy me!

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