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Human relationships can be deeper but they're harder to conceptualize for a random viewer. Animal relationships are simpler and purer and it's easier to fully grok for a viewer.

Horses are only fast because of the shape of their four long legs. You can't just give someone a carrot and long ears and expect them to be a horse. That just makes them a cat rabbit.

Yeah, but there are a lot of neglected emaciated horses from people that shouldn't have horses.

The lithium should burn to lithium oxide. So it should still be recycled to recover most or almost all of it.

There's a plausible case where either a very stupid OTA software update or a faulty charger could in fact cause a bunch of them to catch fire at once.

Replacing a few people at the top doesn't mean that much. The Senate is still wildly against Russia.

Nah, Finland and Sweden joining NATO and Russia burning up almost all of its Soviet horde mean russia is pretty much done for as a major military power. They can sneak little bites of their unallied neighbors but they will never be the world's second strongest military again.

Cows right now isn't even grass, they're fed mostly grown crops. The trophic energy loss at each stage is generically 10% , so plants to cow to human you lose 90% of the energy each time. So for eating meat you only get 1% of that energy from the sun. If you ate wolves who ate cows it would be .1%.

For energy this will, once it's at scale, be able to be more energy efficient pretty easily. Because for one cow you have to have the entire life of the parent animal then wait 2 years for the animal to grow up. It has to eat and move around and waste energy that entire time. Less than half of that animal has the desired final product, so you waste more there. So the idea is that with growing this you just start with some cells and then increase their size until you get enough and then package that.

But all those estimates might be wrong, cars are being electrified faster and the way China basically made all the solar panels worldwide they are making a ton of super cheap EVs. They are cheap and not amazing but they crucially will mean the global south will probably use them and not buy a billion more ice cars.

Demand for oil might drop sharply while there is still plenty of supply in 20-30 years.

There were houses in the US that were only 25k just before the great recession. Not everywhere certainly, small houses in major cities, we used to have cheap houses not too long ago. It was only after COVID that all the houses went up to a national minimum because of WFH and other things.

All species spread from when they evolve as far as they can based on their niche. Humans just happen to be competitive in every environment. But lots of plants and animals have spread to every part of the earth, they're just not as noticeable.

That's incorrect. We will not run out of oil. The eroei will go up and increasingly everything will be electrified with cheap solar and wind. Coal is already uncompetitive by price.That's not to say we won't have massive warming but demand will start to decline and we will never actually run out of oil.