Found this post on IG and I’m wondering what this community’s stance is. With winter now officially here*, I think it’s a valid question.

Edit: *where I live

  • Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk
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    16 hours ago

    Nope. Ignore the pandering milquetoasts.

    A stick is a stick. This is not one. Do we have no standards?

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    I just realized there is an entire continent where there are no trees, and thus no sticks.

    And it isnt a small continent either. it is larger than all of Europe and also larger than Australia. We arent talking about an island or archipelago or even some random landlocked desert. It is a continent.

    the fact that there are no sticks that naturally occur there at all… it confuses and concerns me.

    This is deeply unsettling to me.

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      23 hours ago

      It makes sense why there are no sticks. But I agree, the thought of a lack of sticks seems to be unsettling, not a lack of trees or bushes.

      Are we that naturally attracted to sticks because of primate evolution? I wonder if the earliest human ancestors developed this awareness of sticks as it is a primitive tool used to survive.

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      also larger than Australia

      Not all that well-known, but Australia claims about 42% of Antarctica as part of it’s territory.

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        Maybe but usually when people talk about Australia in this context they mean the continent, not the country.

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        So i did a little research. The sad/fun part about my realization is… if you go back far enough in time, before the ice and nothingness, archeologists have pointed out that Antarctica was once a massive forest continent.

        Millions of years ago, it had trees, and thus, sticks for days and days.

        Once again we are living in the wrong time. Too late to explore all continents having sticks. But also too early to live where all continents have sticks. In the grand scheme of things, we exist in the uneven ground.

        It’s a sad equilibrium to be sure.

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    This is likely an extremely powerful weapon that can only be used once before it breaks so save it for the last boss.

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      16 hours ago

      …that’s not a poke!

      Seriously - this doesn’t count as a stick - this is a close approximation of a stick in that it has many similar properties but it is far from it. Watch how in a few hours it dissolves on the ground (or inside?).

      However it does beautifully capture the novelty-based appreciation of sticks. There’s something to this, for sure…

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    Can you poke things with it? Can you swish it around and pretend it’s a sword? Does it bring joy to your heart? Then it’s a stick.

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    “…there are no sticks here. Nothing grows…” so far

    […] we demonstrate a clear but nonlinear trend towards a greater area of vegetation cover across the [Antarctic Peninsula] in recent decades […] Crucially, the rate of change in vegetation cover has increased considerably in recent years

    […]

    Regardless of the complexities discussed in the preceding, the overall statistically significant trajectory of APwide greening from 1986 to 2021 […] provides strong evidence of rapid and ongoing response of AP vegetation to climate change, and presents a compelling case for future widespread changes in the AP’s terrestrial ecosystems.