You fucking nailed it. This is just Buzzfeed listicle nonsense with io9 lipstick on it. The one about “Pharma Artisan” is particularly Larry-King esque in its vague descriptions and obviously written from the POV of someone who knows zero about the pharma industry

I hope its not because you can’t reconcile your childhood with his adulthood.

In 2050, one of the most important jobs will be

You know the practice of greenwashing? Big Corporate remarketing their products as eco-friendly, yet they’re just as wasteful and destructive as they were before? What every second article by Dvorsky does is sanewashing, remarketing techno-wish fulfillment as not only possible, but imminent. So you got Buzzfeed…

No offense to those who put this list together but....

Oh, this is all gonna go great. Our track record with altering things has really been spot-on.

How are batteries sustainable if you have to dig up the planet to build tons of them, and dig it up again when they run out of capacity holding? That’s like saying oil is sustainable too.

Kawhi Leonard comes back with a vengeance, Clips get tight at home and can’t buy a jumper, Spurs bench outscores Clips bench by 30. Spurs win by double digits.

They thought Yordano Ventura was pitching tonight.

Morrison won the Nobel Prize in Literature... not the Peace Prize.

OK, simple answer before you go back under the bridge: Go watch “Friday Night Lights.”

brendon_b was actually right - you aren’t listening to facts. I can see from your response that you’re not going to, and while it’s entirely your right to argue, it doesn’t make you correct. Listening to others to see if maybe they know something you don’t is how you learn.

Talent which requires a huge amount of resources to even get into. How many 16yo kids get to drive $100k+ purpose built race vehicles?

The only thing remarkable here is the resources that she has been allowed to access. If the majority of 16 year olds had access to these resources, there would be absolutely nothing special about this.

I love how people will recoil in horror at the thought of eating “bugs”... and then happily devour shrimp scampi at their neighborhood Uno’s, or go out for surf-and-turf and *tear apart a lobster with their bare hands*. Cognitive dissonance anyone?

People have been eating bugs for a very long time and only stopped doing it because the obscure phenomenon ‘colonialism’ made it disgusting, which it isn’t considering we do eat shrimps, crabs and lobsters. Which look like bugs. From the deep sea.

You can’t just pick up your orchard and relocate when there’s a drought. A lot of stuff that grows in California (yep, I am talking almonds among other things) don’t grow well elsewhere in the country (too cold, too wet).

picking up operations and going somewhere there isn’t a drought?

Most of what we do is close to optimum efficiency because waste is lost money. Every time someone proposes some radical new thing that will utterly transform the world, there turn out to be all sorts of hidden costs that make it not that much of an improvement on existing methods.

The benefit of entomophagy isn’t that we get protein from feeding them what we feed cows and chickens. It’s that we get protein from feeding them carrot greens, the hard parts of asparagus, celery hearts, lawn clippings, dandilion seeds, ect. Stuff we can’t eat but are byproducts of food or other plants in our…