It’s amazing how much gains you can get from a simple linear progression - just keep upping the weight a little bit each time and de-load 10-20% when you can’t hit five clean reps and you’ll be double that in the space of a couple months.

Finally started lifting weights again after a long hiatus, doubled my weekly bike miles after getting a bike that doesn’t make my back hurt (although I’m going to miss the old one - sweet classic steel road bike). Looking forward to being able to do some gravel rides!

Have it with my compliments!

Me deciding to work in climate adaptation: “Sure, things aren’t looking good but at least I can do something that makes a difference.”

Me getting the requisite education: “Okay, the best time to act would have been two decades ago but there are still opportunities to avert the worst of the consequences.”

Me working in climate adaptation: “Holy fuck we have zero idea of the hell we are unleashing upon ourselves.”

Honestly hexbear is the best place I’ve found to commiserate because at least people are willing to acknowledge the existence and scope of the problem, but even here I try to keep the extent of my bleakness under some wraps because I don’t want to be that guy (even though I’d imagine I’m 90% that guy). And I’ve shouldered just a small fraction of the burden climate scientists must be feeling. If you see one, give 'em a hug because they probably need it. We’re in for a rough future and the ones who had the power to prevent it but chose not to are going to die safe and comfortable in their beds and that is a damn shame.

Still feeling like I should’ve just become a musician or a hermit pottery gnome or something.

Fun fact, basically the entire history of botany up until the early 20th century consists of nerds traveling the world and naming what they find after their junk.

Nobody can say we didn’t see it coming.

More than a 2-degree increase should be unimaginable. Yet to stop at 2 degrees, global emissions have to peak in 2016.

Peacock spiders! Look at the li’l guy go:

Just get a job that allows you to afford the PC hardware to run the latest games and then never turn it on because you’re too busy.

It’s a little more complicated than that because there are statistical analyses that they do based on the survey sample; essentially you could answer yes to the bottom or to several of the top questions (but not all) and end up in the severely food insecure category. As it stands, the subjective nature of the questionnaire means we’re probably looking at an undercount. Hope things are going okay for you.

Yeah, the disruption of trade in both grain and fertilizers (Russia and Belarus are large sources of synthetic nitrogen) were major issues. International price volatility hits especially hard in Africa.

It’s based on a weighted score of the yes answers, with the weights increasing as you go down the scale.

Answering that would make this a very high effort post - individual country breakdowns are little bit challenging because (a) FAO has a lot of holes, although the data are probably out there somewhere* and (b) because while governance has to be playing a role, we’re also seeing the early effects of climate change in countries like Pakistan (one of the most vulnerable countries in one of the most sensitive regions), which got hit with massive flooding that disrupted its wheat production. Having access to internationally traded commodities (both at the national and individual level) is becoming increasingly important as the scale of production shocks increases and the need to cover production shortfalls increases. In general, South Asia is driving much of the post-2021 recovery for Asia as region because it started at a significantly higher rate of insecurity while Eastern and South-Eastern Asia started significantly lower and generally stayed that way.

*From the report, China’s prevalence of undernourishment dropped from 7.5% to <2.5% between 2004-06 and 2020-22, Mongolia dropped from 28.8% to 8% (not sure what was going on there!) and DPRK rose from 34.3 to 45.5 (I’m assuming markets played a role). Meanwhile Afghanistan’s proportion of severely undernourished almost doubled between 2014-16 and 2020-22, no prizes for guessing what happened there.

Retires? They’re going to string her skeleton up with wires and puppet it around like a marionette for the next fifty years minimum.

Immunity to smallpox is a good way to ensure you’re the last one standing. Never underestimate the power of poor hygiene and living in close proximity to livestock.

Looks like it could be a Xerula although I’m not sure from that pic alone. They’re a pretty common lawn mushroom and good eatin’, with a nice light, almost citrussy flavor.

Spent my early years with a phobia of the landstriders from The Dark Crystal and zero clue about what the plot was.