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AnonymusWaterBuffalo t1_jdemenm wrote

I am thinking of starting an online community for people who want to take action on Climate in their daily lives. I have been making sustainable swaps like replacing red meat with chicken and Tofu, and replacing Rideshare with Transit.

But it can feel lonely, and that your actions are just a drop in the bucket. Then I joined a local Climate community and it's been so validating and inspiring now that I can lean on people who, like me, actually care.

It also helped that I could ask people how they were able to successfully become more sustainable in their own lives.

Would people be interested in joining such a community focused on real life action? I feel like everyone who cares about Climate and the Environment should have a support group, wherever they are in their journey.

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bebobbaloola t1_jde0eia wrote

It depends on the material and the local market for recycled material. Some office parks and government centers in my area do a good job of recycling paper and plastic bottles.You can dig into the details here: https://www.epa.gov/facts-and-figures-about-materials-waste-and-recycling/national-overview-facts-and-figures-materials#recycling

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bebobbaloola t1_jddyro4 wrote

Exactly, if you tell your neighbor that you don't recycle, they look at you like your weird. Only aluminum, and (in some areas) steel cans have enough value to make economic sense. Even NPR states that only 10 percent of plastic created has ever been recycled.

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NinjaMoreLikeANonja OP t1_jdc9e2g wrote

Hindsight is 20/20, and engineering hindsight is hyperspectral 20/20 so…

Honestly, there are not that many ham radio modules for Arduino. We were also supply chain limited (this was in the midst of the COVID parts shortages) and the RFM96 was usually in stock.

I just spoke with SBUDNIC’s radio engineer last night and we talked a bit about this because we are in the midst of creating a more formal conference paper that details the project. His feeling is that the board is likely fine, and that we just made some shit assumptions about duty cycle and link margin and the like when we were finalizing transmission protocols. I agree with him.

So yes- I would use it again.

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True-Godess t1_jdbg17r wrote

How do you deal with ignorant politicizing climate deniers and people who are stuck in the right wing confirmation bias bubble? How do you not get angry at such blatant ignorance when more clearly then ever you can see how climate has changed even if they are too lazy to do research, they can’t close their eyes while massive floods drown whole towns and it got so hot this summer 200 Or probably more like 700 cows died from heat Waves that were never seen before so intense in that area?

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DrawingSevere7494 OP t1_jdb62ev wrote

For Ivy admissions, you should actually experiment with crazy chicken wing recipes. The more outlandish the better. Part of Ivy strategy is creating an "Activity for Fun", which is used to answer questions like, "What brings you joy?".

I know this question wasn't serious, but it inadvertently pointed out an important part of Ivy admissions that most people don't know about or expect!

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DrawingSevere7494 OP t1_jdb21gp wrote

It was personal experience. I was one of those kids who everyone thought would get in everywhere. Highest grades in my class, 5's on ten AP exams, founder of multiple clubs, ahead two grades in math, varsity athlete, etc. However, I got rejected from almost everywhere I applied!

I became obsessed with what had gone wrong. Slowly, over decades, I cracked the code. Today, my students have a very different experience from my own!

Thanks for the question!

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DrawingSevere7494 OP t1_jdb042l wrote

So let's first understand what yield protection is. One stat that colleges consider is what percentage of those who are accepted end up enrolling. Ideally, that number should be 100%, but no one, not even Harvard, gets that high. Yield protecting is a way to increase that statistic by rejecting students seen as unlikely to enroll if accepted. For example, if you're likely to get into Harvard, a lower ranked school might not accept you, assuming that you would not enroll if admitted.

Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, and MIT do not yield protect. There is just no reason for them to. However, many other colleges, including lower ranked Ivies, do.

A few years ago, one of our students got into Princeton...but was rejected by Cornell! Princeton is much harder to get into, of course. Equivalent essays were submitted.

This student was so incredibly strong that anyone looking at his application would assume he would go to Harvard, Princeton, or Yale. They would have been right.

More recently, we had a student who got into MIT, Harvard, and Yale, but was rejected from U Chicago. Similar situation - a world class applicant who would seem guaranteed to go to one of the top few schools in the country.

Yield protection is a basic reality of college admissions.

Thanks for your question!

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