Broken clock…

Everyone deserves sympathy. Also I deleted my comment because I misremembered. Hopefully the deletion federated but I feel like sometimes it doesn’t.

FYI this guy is a Christian nationalist.

It’s almost like the 4th amendment exists for a reason or something…

You forgot the Prairieland protesters.

I’m actually quite curious if mega-herbivores would help reduce fire risk on a warming planet. If can be done with mechanical thinning or controlled burns but I don’t see how we get the money and manpower to do this over the massive forested areas of western North America.

But if there was an animal that ate and/or destroyed smaller trees and brush while leaving larger ones, they could reduce fuel loads for free. We know elephants do this in Africa so perhaps mastodons and mammoths did the same thing in the ancient American ecosystem.

Thank goodness. In a mountain of dumb policies from this administration this might just be the dumbest one of all.

I think this is somewhat speculative but there’s only one way to find out…

Unfortunately I think despite the hype from some startups de-extinction is an incredibly hard problem that will not be solved any time soon.

Oh I’m definitely more the latter.

Ok. I can see how it’s at least theoretically possible but considering this is just a post about a classic car it doesn’t seem too problematic in this instance. It’s not much different than just seeing a car on the road. I don’t think anyone is hacking into ALPR systems to track down owners of random cars they see whether in person or online.

Well only if you’re a cop or something right?

Yeah a friend of mine was falsely accused of a crime during a protest and seeing them navigate that process really destroyed any faith I had left in the so-called justice system. All it took was a single lying cop and every single person and institution deemed them guilty until proven innocent from that point forward. The rules might claim to protect people from those types of things but it didn’t seem like many people really cared to follow them too closely. But that was a county level case so I have no experience with federal courts and the DOJ.

Why not? Because they’re dangerous? Obviously there is some uncertainty with extinct animals but I don’t think they’d be any more dangerous than elephants which still exist today.

Can you elaborate? It certainly appeared that way in the Praieland trial but I don’t know how common that is.

So sad these beasties went extinct… 10,000 years sounds like a long time but geologically speaking we only just missed them.

Can you find someone’s identity from their plates or something?

The intercept does good work. Surprised no one has mentioned them yet.

Voters think that though. Waking them up from the illusion may help.

Plus, honestly, most people drink their own kool aid so I wouldn’t be surprised if our leaders did believe this despite all evidence. The desire to think of yourself as a good person can overpower most evidence.

Yeah I realize it would require irrigation but that’s very doable with modern technology.

We could fundraise an electric truck to bring the water or something.

I think it’s quite a bit more complicated than this. The concept of disposing of something always existed, but for most of human history that meant just leaving waste where it fell or at most tossing it at the edge of the village.

It’s only once larger settlements appeared that a need to concentrate waste in one location to avoid despoiling the entire area became necessary. This was greatly compounded with the invention of manufactured materials that don’t biodegrade like glass and plastic. There was no other solution to this than to concentrate and bury waste so it didn’t end up everywhere.