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    1 month ago

    Tldr: they get everywhere and the population grows super fast, smaller bodies of water may have issues with the boom before the population reaches equilibrium. Not an expert, just from Ohio, Lake Erie anecdote below. And I don’t know if they displaced anything else to occupy this novel niche.

    Zebra Mussels got into Lake Erie bunch a years ago and the population exploded so fast people were worried the colonies would block stuff, whole waterways by some estimates. But it turned out they were living off something in the water “that made the water cloudy and brown”, idk pollutants or an algae thing? So after a few years there was less of that food source and the Zebra Mussel population found an equilibrium. There were issues, something about getting them off boats, so people were at work to protect infrastructure. Now Lake Erie is clearer and they just found those 40 circles on the bottom, there were some great headlines a week or two back, but they’re just sinkholes, not alien structures, whomp whomp





  • Everybody’s broke, no one is immune to fomo, and It’s expensive to be poor. Corporations are the one’s aiming for the cheapest profits, they’re who landed on slavery and pollution as a means to cheaper profit. This isn’t a permission structure, it’s just what’s happening. Why have feelings toward your broke friend for getting some summer 'fits, instead of railing against the suppliers with the dangerous practices? Pshh… outta here with that personal responsibility > corporate accountability, fuckin grifters get more protection than the grifted






  • Fig 1 is a modified emotional change curve applied in learning and business settings. The term “Valley of Despair” is used in both concepts, and it’s cool, memorable verbiage, but it shouldn’t imply relation between Dunning-Kreuger and the change curve

    https://forfengdesigns.com/tips-on-clawing-your-way-out-of-the-valley-of-despair-when-you-are-starting-a-new-business/

    Image description: A modified emotional change curve from Evocon with Y-Axis being “attitude during change process” and X-Axis is time. There are 6 emotional phases described on this chart: 1. Neutral attitude, no knowledge; 2. Initial excitement, motivated; 3. Denial, indifferent, passive, apathy; 4. Resistance, frustration, doubt, anxiety (this phase falls below neutral and is described as “The Valley of Despair”); 5. Exploration, energized, small wins, creative; 6. Commitment, enthusiasm, problem solving, focus, team work.






  • Glad to see people watching NZ! So in Series 9 of UK Taskmaster, Rose Matafeo says that every Kiwi has a poster of New Zealands common fish hanging in their shed/out building. She brought one in for the episode 8 prize task “Best thing from a shed”. And then NZ Taskmaster has a fish poster in their outbuilding and the memorable live task: Memorise the names of the fish on the poster in the shed (S03E02).

    My question, American here, is this true? Do Kiwi’s have fish posters? Or is this a Taskmaster fiction NZ is happy to play along with?

    P.s. Paul is such a good Alex, he/taskmaster team come up with some of the best tasks.