Yeah I knew they weren’t plants but it made the analogy easier to pretend they were 😅
They have plant-ey vibes

They were all like “let’s get the Calvin cycle up in this house, lets light it up!” And so they did, and the atmosphere caught fire

Very cool!

It reminds me of my fav, The Oxygen Catastrophy, where basically a plant did something new and caused the earth to freeze. In this case, by converting methane to carbon dioxide, a much weaker greenhouse gas.

I like it!
I kind of feel like “locomotive” itself is a niche so this is more like a collapse of a niche rather than a mass extinction, but I love the analogies

That’s my fav too.
“The Oxygen Catastrophy” is just such a cool name.

• Also some upstart bacteria just start pumping out poison that kills almost everything (oxygen)
• Causes the ocean to rust
• Causes the atmosphere to catch on fire
• then causes the earth to turn to a snowball

Fuckin metal

I’m judging you, as I said I would

That’s the Holocene, and I’m judging you.

I was asking for extinction events, aka mass extinctions.
But this is still very interesting! Thanks for sharing it with me

I’m judging you, not because you chose the Holocene, but for how easy it was to get people without interesting opinions to identify themselves 😏

That’s true, but that’s also just the general populous, who weren’t ever contributing to open source anyways.
I don’t think the quality of coders (professional or hobby) has really declined that much.

Young people today are struggling to make ends meet - they don’t have enough comfort and free time to be able to donate their labor.

Oh this is neat. I wonder if the license will accommodate my work (and my work is willing to allow a nonstandard diff)

I didn’t realize there was a 3rd. I’m gonna have to go find it now

None: SEO is fucking everyone, and it’s not something that search engines can control. If a search engine gets popular, websites will optimize for it.

And its always the websites that optimize the most that you’re least likely to actually want

I’m all about that bass, bout that bass.

Thanks for reminding me 😑

Pepper Coyote has entered the chat

When riverwash pug, then that is a pugwash, and it becomes a pugwash river. Then if you wash another pug, pugwash riverwash pug. And if the river is full of pugs instead of water, that is what they call a … engages dr Seuss mode

They’re missing a wolf. And a moon.

I know, I actually live in Nova Scotia 😌 Although I don’t think I’ve ever visited that river. Between Truro and Amherst I don’t think I ever leave the TransCanada lol

Pugwash river? No. Riverwash pug.