There’s some good advice below. I’m not a programmer (vastly different field), but the most important things you can do are to:

• get to know your technical people; their skills, and their personalities

• trust your technical people when they say something is difficult to do.

These two steps will help you get a lot of ‘good will’ from your team and make them feel like you’ve got their back.

Right, I forgot about the children huddling in a hospital in Gaza as bombs drop around them…

Humans were a mistake.

Oh hey, remember how terrible we are to animals?

Imagine some jackass coming up and blasting your bestie with a .45-70. RIP, Bob.

Yes, that’s right - brush piles and windrows of waste wood (from logging) are used to recreate habitat. Cowan et al 2011 (and 2012?; maybe they’re 2021/2022 respectively, I forget) has some great papers on how artificial refuges need to be constructed properly, otherwise they’re unused, or can serve as predator traps. I have the papers somewhere, though I had to request one from him.

If you’re interested, DM me and I’ll send them to you; it will require some digging, and I’m busy today, so I warn you turnaround might be slower than I’d like.

This is actually a really cool article. I did my MSC on a pile of dirt, so maybe it’s just me. Anyway, I like how he gets at how these walls act as a geomorphological feature on the landscape and from there, influence biota. The bit about mammals using the walls is cool, because in restoration and land reclamation we use artificial refuges (rock piles, bat boxes) to encourage animals back to the reclaimed landscape

Good on you for noticing, and not just going ‘meh it’s how I am’, ‘it’s how I was raised’ or a bajillion other cop outs.

Realizing you need to change, having the impetus to do so, and actually rolling up your sleeves and fucking doing something about it are three very difficult things to do. Their difficulty increases as you proceed down the path from realization to action.

It isn’t easy. You’ll fall on your face several times; you may not ever even reach your goal, but eventually you’ll look over your shoulder at the person you were and realize how far you have come.

That’s sure a lot better feeling than sitting there doing sweet fuck all about it.

Everyone owes it to themselves to try.

I’m dealing with a site that was actually impacted by this, lol.

Hahaha, and this is just the extraction phase. The estimated reclamation liability for the oil sands is 200 billion dollars. Alberta currently has checks notes 2 billion in reclamation bonding for the oil sands…

So we have a mostly landlocked, massively polluting industry, with insane operating costs, selling their product at discount on a volatile market controlled by a cartel (OPEC). DEFINITELY too big to fail, right?

Right guys?

Like we certainly won’t be stuck with 198 billion in clean up, right?

Guise?

Guise?

This is fucking huge. Like a mind boggling huge fine. The scale of the disaster was unbelievable, and it was pretty clear they ignored a shit pile of red flags before it happened.

From wiki:

The Mariana dam disaster, also known as the Bento Rodrigues or Samarco dam disaster, occurred on 5 November 2015, when the Fundão tailings dam at the Germano iron ore mine of the Samarco Mariana Mining Complex near Mariana, Minas Gerais, Brazil, suffered a catastrophic failure, resulting in flooding that devastated the downstream villages of Bento Rodrigues and Paracatu de Baixo (40 km (25 mi) from Bento Rodrigues), killing 19 people.[4][5] The extent of the damage caused by the tailings dam collapse is the largest ever recorded with pollutants spread along 668 kilometres (415 mi) of watercourses

The failure of the dam released 43.7 million cubic metres of mine tailings into the Doce River, causing a toxic brown mudflow to pollute the river and beaches near the mouth when it reached the Atlantic Ocean 17 days later.[7][8][9][10] The disaster created a humanitarian crisis as hundreds were displaced and cities along the Doce River suffered water shortages when their water supplies were polluted.

And ignoring of red flags:

January 2016, the leaking of internal documents from 14 months before the disaster revealed that Samarco had been warned about the possibility of the dam collapsing.[24] Joaquim Pimenta de Ávila, an engineer who was regarded as one of the foremost tailing dam engineers in Brazil, had been contracted by Samarco between 2008 and 2012 to design and oversee the construction of the Fundão dam. From 2013, Ávila was hired part-time as a consultant to inspect the dam, and a technical report he wrote from September 2014 lists severe structural problems on the dam (in the form of cracks) and measures to mitigate them, the main one being the construction of a buttress. Samarco claimed to have implemented all the recommendations from Ávila, and that the dam was in the process of being heightened when the impoundment reached its maximum holding capacity and began to leak. However, Samarco failed to comment specifically about the buttress, and claims that it was never warned about the severity of the structural damages, nor about the imminence of a catastrophic failure.

You’re right. I swear this happens sometimes and I have no clue how. I’m literally hitting reply in the thread I’m on.

Sorry for that

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I mean, if someone did this to me in Minecraft, I would be highly tempted to remove their trailer hitch, and put it though their back window for them. Building a window in Minecraft takes a while. Got to mine the ore and such.

Rebel News

Media intimidation

I agree; no one should intimidatw yellow journalists

Thanks. I’ll just delete my community then (can you do that?)

I was looking for a place to shitpost this trash

Seychelles coast guard - nice ship you got there, it would be a shame if someone blew it up

What a non-article.

It sounds like they are both researching salt tolerant crops and remediating land.

Happy to hear that their servers will now be syncing

I’m not a hydrologist, but I suspect it’s due to areas of upwelling warmer water. Alternatively, the ice could have formed, but these spots are where the surface was too unstable to permit that (wind?)

Laughs in Teck Metals

Exactly. They likely give some half ass attempt but given that the supply industry is rife with slavery, and people still buy coffee, they don’t lose sleep over it.

Coffee itself is a highly substituteable good, making a tragedy of the commons scenario for those who try to ethically source their beans