Deep Impact is to Armageddon as Volcano is to Dante’s Peak.

That would be pretty damn good, actually.

I’ve got to say that of all the games I expected to be remastered The Thing was not one of them. An unexpected surprise, but a welcome one.

Time to break out ol’ faithful

Let’s push for surgical equipment to be made more environmentally friendly, rather than dismiss a global iniative to reduce plastics

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7068768/

Also, sterilisation isn’t dependent on the equipment being made of plastics

https://www.cdc.gov/infection-control/hcp/disinfection-sterilization/sterilizing-practices.html

He’s one hoopy frood

This is never not appropriate with stories like this.

people migrate illegally from everywhere. you’re suggesting the UK should fix what exactly? every undeveloped nation everywhere?

I mean, not on its own, no, and only those nations from which it’s reciving the bulk of the immigrants. But long term that is the only viable option. As I understand it these are not people who are leaving their country because they particularly want to, they leave because things are so bad at home that literally risking their lives is better than staying. I imagine given the chance they’d prefer to stay at home, so at some point we need to help ensure that’s possible.

In the mean time a refugee camp of sorts would allow them to remain in their own country and provide suitable housing etc, meaning they wouldn’t have to leave in the first place.

Address the issue at the source. Find out why these people are willing to risk their lives to leave and try and fix that. At the very least you could create a safe encampment in their home country where they can go to live, receive aid, food, housing etc. Get the UN involved to protect it or something.

This is kinda the same issue as with arresting homeless people for sleeping rough - it addresses (poorly) the symptom, not the cause.

The Gentlemen is a great series

Yeah, this is my concern to. Is this item just going to end up on a burning trash heap somewhere, or is it actually going to be recycled? Better to at least try, but even so it’s frustrating…

Hey, good for you! Well done!

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More likely to be the result of the news media’s short attention span. They’re moving on to other topics like the elections, Gaza etc. I’ve not seen any credible evidence that Ukraine is ‘losing, badly’. The situation remains fluid and complex, but Ukraine continues to surprise against enormous odds, so I don’t think anyone can really say either way atm.

Those pictures are the best, thank you!

I mean, I don’t disagree per say, but I do think people tend to approach the use of technology in too a binary way. To take your example regarding carbon capture vs holding companies accountable - we can do both, and I’d prefer we deploy every option, idea and ‘1 in a million chance’ as we’re long past having the luxury of waiting. At least that way we can say we tried everything we could.

A lot of people on Lemmy need to understand this, because all too often they are ready and eager to pounce on any positive news with dismissive arguments along these same lines i.e ‘why are we wasting money on X when we should be spending it on Y. We’re all doomed’. It’s becoming a tired trope on this platform already.

I mean, I don’t disagree but ultimately it’s going to be which ever option goes down the easiest with the general population: ‘eat less beef’ or ‘continue eating beef’. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for reducing the amount of meat we eat in general, and I’ve been doing that myself, but from my uneducated view-point lab grown meat appears to offer greater benefits, and fewer disbenefits compared to trying to persuade people to adopt the current alternatives. Not just from a environmental point of view but ethical as well.

And don’t forget: we can do both. We can research improvements to lab grown meat and other alternatives at the same time. These shouldn’t be binary choices.

That’s true as of now, but if we stopped subsidising farmers and spent that funding on lab grow technology then, much like solar, it would go from expensive niche to cheap mainstream a whole lot quicker. All decisions like this do is slow that process down.

A good step in the right direction.