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I think that for a technological civilization to rise, you need some things to line up. First, life has to be evolved enough to have animals, beings with a brain. Then, a species has to evolve intellence to become a tool making species. This species also has to become the dominating species on the planet. Meanwhile, extinction events, ice ages, climate change and population bottlenecks are always influencing the evolution process.

This is for me the great filter, to have all these conditions line up perfectly for an intelligent, tool making species to evolve and thrive.

It’s probably a great hobby, with pleasantly little potential to turn into a side hustle.

I get that the OP asked a question, but did you have to answer it with this level of detail?

In fact, most scientists throughout history were Christians sponsored by the Catholic Church.

Which is why the dark ages is where all the science happened in Europe.

It could have happened, if Helen Viola Jackson would have applied for the pension.

Hedgehogs?

Regarding the prefacing; it probably won’t even work because people will read it as a “I’m not racist, but” kind of statement.

Regarding the problem you’re stating; I’ve quickly after joining installed a tampermonkey script which allows me to hover over the name of an instance, magazine or user and display a small context menu where I can block them. Blocking certain magazines made all the difference for me.

It’s actually becoming less normal in a lot of places since every creep has a smartphone with a camera these days. Women have found their pictures or filmclips back on the internet, which was not the reason for going topless.

Also, it’s been allowed in the last 50 - 60 years for most countries, not so much before.

They will go bankrupt, but the shareholders will already have cashed out and moved to the companies of the next country.

I had a Wordpress blog set up like that once, and it should still be possible. Although you might get a lot of spammers that way. I did this 15-20 years ago, on Wordpress 2.0. Edit: just checked on my test install, it still works.

You know what, you’re right, it is time to end this discussion. Have a nice weekend and don’t smoke too much weed, or drink too much alcohol.

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Ah, you’re going for the technically correct. So, how does it work out for you, smoking fresh cannabis flowers? Also, fermenting sugars is not a chemical process, but a biological process (just being nitpicky).

That was not the initial statement. The initial statement is that alcohol is easier to make than marijuana.

Don’t bother answering here, the THC crowd is downvoting everyone who says alcohol is easier to make. It feels like reddit to be honest.

Fine by me. But please show me a clip of wild animals getting high from THC found in nature to prove your point, here’s the drunk animals.

And hope there’s enough THC in there, because pollination basically ruins the THC content.

To make marijuana, you need to dry the flowers of unpollinated female cannabis plants. It takes some effort and time to grow them like this. To make alcohol, you squash a bunch of overripe fruit, put it in a semi closed container and forget about it for a week or two. There are even video’s of animals in the wild eating overripe fruit and getting wasted from it. So yeah, it is easier to make.

It will be technically a bit more challenging, but I don’t think you need to use the lantern power monitor software with the device. The device seems to be built around two MCP3008 IC’s, which are basic 8 channel analog to digital converters. The values from these can be read and processed (like, sent to home assistant) using a python script on the raspberry. This is the kind of minimal programming effort someone with no experience could do using chatgpt.

Yo, Netherlands at number 7, right below Israel!