Well that's a lie.

take my angry upvote and show yourself out! ;D

Can you boil water on top of it? That’s what people here in Japan do!

Did nobody read the article? The original stallion’s sperm was frozen 42 years ago, not that the horse was 42.

I read an article some years ago, that perhaps the right whales aren’t reproducing because their hearts are broken. It was a very eloquent article, Smithsonian or NG, maybe Science mag, it wasn’t a blog post.

One of the reasons passenger pigeons went extinct is because they were too nervous to reproduce when they were in such small numbers. It’s not a psychological problem for many species but it was for the passenger pigeons. I think the article was hypothesizing a parallel to the Right whales.

EXACTLY what I was thinking!

How is your sister doing now?

The tribes of the Pacific Northwest had a little white dog that they would use the shed hair from to weave warm clothes. White settlers put a permanent end to that. Woops, the article did mention the dog!

Is this the one with the sanitized toilet seat wrapper used as a ceremonial headgear?

That was a fascinating read, thank you! The bit about polio survivors getting the symptoms again when they’re older makes me wonder if it’s like the chickenpox herpes virus that re-emerges as shingles when the person gets weak or worn down. Maybe the virus just lays dormant for decades.

I’ve heard it’s related to the fact that the younger generation aren’t as exposed to nature as much on the one hand, but also chemicals in housing on the other. I know here in Japan, in the last few years, allergies are suddenly spiking.

That was very interesting, thank you. Hard to say, since the Great Depression hit everybody hard.

Yep. Because a felon isn’t allowed to vote. One way to get around that pesky 19th amendment. /s, but not about the way the Repubs want to deprive women of the right to vote.

This comment will give you a good rundown and links to YouTube. Basically BlackRock is one of the reasons so many Americans CAN’T own a home anymore.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/zx8iry/zelenskyy_blackrock_ceo_fink_agree_to_coordinate/j1z2w9o/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3

And then force Ukraine to default on those loans, thus taking over and forcing everybody to pay exorbitant prices to rent. I’m aware Ukraine needs the investments. But predatory management companies like BlackRock are not the best.

If they bleed the oligarchs’ foreign bank accounts dry, let them. There’s billions upon billions there.

Marion Biotech: Oh no. Anyway.

Ffs.

Certainly not when its legs are bent any which way because of getting a cheap drone dropped on it.

True on the arrows, lol! But there have been some very good analyses on why Bakhmut is important, having to do with logistics. I also remember that if Ukraine falls back, it is a pretty sizable loss of territory which would make it that much harder to win back.

It’s higher ground literally. So yes, it does have strategic value unfortunately.