i know why they don’t do it but i really would like a proper block function on youtube. not just the “don’t recommend me this video for the next 2 days if you feel like it🥺” function that exists i mean never seeing that channel ever again. no videos no collabs with other channels just completely blasted out of existence
You’re not supposed to apply stickers, paint, or markings to hard hats because they might conceal damage. You are ESPECIALLY not supposed to apply large amounts. You can get away with your name and mayne a small sticker. But that many? Garfield is getting a write up.
You’re doing gods work
The time to wear that hat is not when you’re working.
It’s crazy that countries on the edge of the Sahara desert are reversing desertification by just digging half circles
The ground in these places is too compact for water to soak in during wet season which leads to flooding but digging these holes gives the water a place to stop and soak in. And they’re pushing back the desert with this. By just digging holes.
The new plants also help even more water soak into the ground which reduces flooding even more.
These places also give people places to grow food and graze animals like people are turning completely dry compact desert into a refuge for wildlife and plants and solving regional food insecurity just by digging holes.
The half-circles are called zaï! They’re a traditional farming practice in the Sahel desert, and their introduction + reintroduction can be largely credited to Yacouba Sawadogo, the man linked above! He reintroduced and innovated on the zaï on his own farm in the 1980s, and did extensive outreach (along with scientist Mathieu Ouédraogo) to encourage other farmers to adopt them as well.
He also promoted the use of cordons pierreux, which are basically just lines of rocks to reduce erosion, preserve sediments, and increase water absorption.
Immensely cool dude. He’s been a personal hero since I learned about him.
Ooooh, Mr. Sawadoga innovated the traditional zai method by adding manure and other biological matter to the holes! This put nutrients in the soil as well as helping even more with water retention and attracted termites whose tunnels helped loosen the compacted earth, all of which supported plant-growth like no zai before! Which increased water-retention even further! Oh excellent, excellent work!
Never forget and never forgive the people who did this to us. When this is all over, when he is dead and gone, we must hold every one of these terrorist thugs accountable.
Folks are really out there arguing that generative AI represents the death of truth in advertising like we haven’t spent decades watching TV commercials pour motor oil on pancakes because real syrup doesn’t look like what people expect syrup to look like.
I think what the present discourse about generative AI in advertising really highlights is that a concerning number of people genuinely have no idea how far removed your average TV spot is from the reality of whatever it’s trying to sell you. Like, I don’t just mean camera tricks and good lighting – I mean that more often than not, the thing on screen simply objectively does not depict the thing you’re buying. We’re trading one maliciously deceptive simulacrum for another.
Well, it’s officially one full decade of our intelligence and intellect finally being increased by drugs and linking our brains directly to computers 😊
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