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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • I think it’s intended as a tongue-in-cheek comment about phones already tracking you, and the OEMs selling that data.

    Also they’re completely ignoring the immense personal safety benefits that come with knowing if, say, an abusive ex has slipped an airtag into your car somewhere. This is actually a responsible move for once (assuming it works as intended) because it addresses an unintended but dangerous use for the product, and attempts to prevent it rather than just killing a useful product.





  • (obligatory I’m not a biologist)

    Looking at the article, it seems like the influence bison have is by stimulating and cycling the ecosystem in Romania. In other words, they graze across the area, eating the plants and shitting out the waste. This helps pump more nutrients into the environment, helping even more plants grow. It’s those extra plants that remove and store CO2. Interestingly, the fairly new series America’s National Parks covers the benefits Bison bring to ecosystems in s1e4 (Badlands National Park). Def worth a watch if you want to learn more about the most beautiful parts of America.

    As far as the comparison to cows, I think the biggest reason cows emit so much methane is the diet we feed them. They don’t just graze free across massive tracts of grassland. They are fed mostly corn and corn byproducts, supplemented with grasses, and digesting the corn is (I think) the source of the methane problems.