Bob Vance, Vance Refrigeration

truth, goodness and beauty

[Nabeel S. Qureshi @nabeelqu]

Guy who reads the King James Bible after prolonged Fable use as a prose palate cleanser

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

i'm obsessed with what's happening in AI reforestation right now

this Franco-Brazilian startup called MORFO took a patch of land in Brazil that was rock-hard and compacted from years of cattle farming. they replanted it using a single drone. months later the ground was covered in grass, bushes, and small trees. the land came back to life.

here's how the whole thing works.

1. drones scan the terrain with high-resolution cameras and sensors
2. AI analyzes the imagery alongside soil samples, moisture levels, slope, and surrounding vegetation
3. the system picks from a catalog of 300+ native species, deciding exactly which plants will thrive in which specific spot
4. the drone fires biodegradable seed pods packed with seeds, nutrients, and moisture at 180 capsules per minute
5. satellite and drone imagery monitors regrowth over time, with AI tracking vegetation cover and biodiversity
6. two people and one drone cover 50 hectares a day. a person planting by hand manages about one hectare.

and MORFO isn't alone. AirSeed in Australia drops 250,000 seed pods per day into bushfire-scarred koala habitat, replanting swamp mahogany that koalas depend on to survive. Flash Forest in Canada fires 50,000 pods daily into wildfire-destroyed boreal forest, planning the replanting alongside Cree Indigenous communities. re-green won Prince William's Earthshot Prize after planting 6 million seedlings across 30,000 hectares of Amazon and Atlantic Forest.

five companies across four continents built this same approach independently. nobody coordinated. the physics of the problem demanded it.

knowing which seeds belong in which soil used to require years of ecological fieldwork, manual planting crews, and budgets that made large-scale restoration nearly impossible. now two people with a drone and an AI model trained on local soil data can replant 50 hectares before lunch.

this is the AI work that'll still matter in 50 years.

[BODEGA PEPTIDES @bigsnugga]

craziest 180 in rhetoric ive ever seen, iran had them bent over biting the mattress my god

[badgalsolana @solana_tii]

My sound finally found expression
I’m pumpeddddd
Sounds from the west

[Bob Vance, Vance Refrigeration @MissingDeity]

fin.

[claudia ! @letclaudiatweet]

this wasn’t addressed to me but I’ll respond anyway, fuck it, I’m in this

I was originally more sympathetic to you because your entire situation was so pitiful, your husband behaving like that and then publicly sleeping with her is public humiliation. that’s absolutely psychosis-inducing, a bit of insane behavior is somewhat understandable

but I’ll take you seriously enough to say something besides “yeah she was going fucking insane of course she’s acting like this”

do you understand what’s wrong here. if the honest goal of this was to smooth things over, you did not succeed. if the hidden goal was reputational violence, you also did not succeed, you punched yourself in the face.

1. she is mad at you for hurtful things you said about her when she feels she did nothing wrong

2. approximately one vague snippet of the “apology” is even tangentially taking real personal responsibility for that

3. a large chunk is implying “i was hurting soooo bad. so it was defensible.”

4. another large chunk is defaming the guy. sure, probably valid, and certainly strategically to your advantage… but without evidence, it unfortunately reads like a weak and motivated claim to both an outside observer with no context, and also clearly to some people that know him

5. point 4 reads as an attempt to sour-grapes her. your implicit goal is “if i can’t have him, neither can you.” …it’s giving “hung up on your ex”…

all this said. why should aella want to agree to this bid for empathy? the apology is self-centered, mainly a bid for sympathy and a warning she has no reason to take seriously, not taking accountability for the wrongdoing. her perception is supposedly the reality you are trying to change, if she were the actual target of this message.

but you have enough mutual friends that i suspect the public format was not that, rather a bid for public sympathy, as well as an attempt to humiliate them both and hurt a rival organization. okay fair tbh, those are both things I’d want too if i were in your shoes! this was violence disguised as repair. but it was very clumsy and transparent to many readers.

so… if we aren’t talking about real repair, what are we talking about?

the fundamental question for you is why should they both be forced (by and in front of the public or other key observers) to acquiesce to your framing of events?

bringing “you stole my husband” to the public square has limited impact on both of their reputations. clearly many people know you were married, he has no shame about publicly acting like a simp, and she has no shame about essaying about sleeping with husbands in sexless marriages. so why would public shaming do anything in your favor? it rolls off both of them, at best; at worst, all publicity is good publicity, or they impugn your framing and it works. (you unfortunately landed all three of these i think)

mainly you have sabotaged yourself here, by publicizing the fact that you had this drama in the first place… not a win if you want to paint yourself as a serious person with serious aims.

[Danni @DanniBrener]

@nicolelampert There is no sport in which any woman or girl consents to digital penetration of her vagina by an opponent. This decision is despicable.

[Adeniyi @adenibalogun]

HELP MY MOTHER WALK AGAIN BY SHARING AND DONATING !!

My mom is about to lose both of her legs to amputation. She has till month end to get the surgery on both legs.

Please help save my mom and give her back the chance to walk. We need a miracle right now. Please Help

[Bob Vance, Vance Refrigeration @MissingDeity]

Do you love this shit?
Are you high right now?
Who is John Galt?
Where is Jessica Hyde?

[Demotivational Speaker @OdunEweniyi]

we talk a lot about infrastructure deficits roads, power, etc.

but a people raised on nutritionally compromised food, because they were priced out of better options, is also an infrastructure problem too

it’s just one that lags the present

[Demotivational Speaker @OdunEweniyi]

the affordable choice and the harmful choice are increasingly the same choice these days

but the effects are not abstract they show up later in classrooms, in the quality of public life and everywhere tbh

[Lukas (computer)🔺 @SCHIZO_FREQ]

AI powered bluetooth speaker that detects what song is being played on someone elses bluetooth speaker and emits the exact frequency necessary to cancel it out, rendering the environment silent once again

[Bob Vance, Vance Refrigeration @MissingDeity]

Tommy Wiseau’s - The Room

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

when did you realise you may be watching the greatest tv show of all time?

[Bob Vance, Vance Refrigeration @MissingDeity]

kind intentions do not always produce kind results.

[Mr. Czar @Mrczar_]

Anthony Joshua was lucky to be dragged out by street boys and loaded into a police van - because they recognized his face.

Any other person, including you reading this, would be left sitting in the middle of the road with camera phones in your face, because bystanders are afraid that if they take you to the hospital, they’ll be arrested. And we both know that no emergency service is coming.

Therefore anyone who tells you not to criticize this government over situations like this is gaslighting you, and is a very dangerous person.

We deserve a country that works - and this is not it!

[ST @seyitaylor]

The King at 71% is a travesty

[girly&wordly @Brieyonce]

When K Michelle asked Niko why he had a roommate in Atlanta because rent was not that high

[project hail rusty 🍉 @alittlevillainy]

“omg how is this not a violation of federal law???”

[Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @agraybee]

Whoever coined "between a rock and a hard place" clearly meant that second one as a placeholder term and never got around to changing it.