Jesus beating himself. Rule 34 has got you covered

And more learned today! Thank You! :)

Thank you! I learned more about birds today than I ever have 🙂 Ahhh, if I had the time and money, I’d volunteer at rescue to learn more about them.

Have a good one!

Does one have to be very careful when handling owls (or bird in general)? I imagine their bones are quite brittle, but when I try to break a chicken leg, it’s actually quite tough. Hens and roosters don’t fly though and I’m guessing their bone density is a major factor.

They are walking billboards.

I’ll have to read up on what “vector control” is. But free diagnosis, treatment, and education are definitely good. They expand beyond just malaria, and I wish more people could see that.

Thanks for the link!

Joining the EU? Would that have even been possible?

I mean, I think it would’ve been awesome to be able travel to Russia without a VISA and just start working there…

The article is very light on information. I for one would be interested in knowing how they got rid of malaria. There’s only this sentence about methods, but that’s from 100 years ago.

The UN public health agency said first efforts to limit human-mosquito contact in Egypt began in the 1920s when it banned rice cultivation and agricultural crops near homes.

ASML Holding, a Dutch company that supplies photolithography systems for the semiconductor industry

You’re one search away from the truth, my friend

Not a biologist, but I’m convinced it’s possible.

With induced pluripotent stemcells (stemcells made from nearly any cell of the body which can grow into anything too), we’ll find a way to make an egg from a man using any cells he provides. Then all you need is the other male partner’s sperm and a donor womb. Btw, the womb won’t have to be within a woman - artificial wombs are being researched.

Someone already posted the 3 parent technique. So it is at least already partially possible.

Since males have the XY chromosomes, they should be able to (theoretically) have female (XX) and male (XY) offspring. With advanced microbiology and artificial wombs, there’s no doubt in my mind that we’ll reach that point before the end of the century.

It’s the same as in every business: those making decisions think that the decision making is the hardest and most important part of the equation. Not only that, they believe that it is their right and that they worked very hard to get where they are.

There are two reasons they have to believe that:

1. if they didn’t, they’d feel that they didn’t deserve it
2. it also explains (to them at least) why there is inequality

The common argument that is brought up against change now is capital flight: “if businesses and rich people were taxed too much, they’d leave the country”. There is a great fear that they will leave and take all the good jobs with them. The counter argument to that is: they aren’t the only ones with brains to get a business going. Rich people aren’t smarter than non-rich people, businesses that leave did employ people from whence they left and they also probably sold to the people in that area or country.

Now, of course the speed of departure, the political reaction, and the location are important.

Speed: instant departure can have a serious impact as the jobless might not be able to find other employment quickly. A graduated departure allows that however and also makes it possible for people to focus on other jobs/specialisations in the first place.

Political reaction: depending on where you are, providing recertification and training courses, having good welfare programs, and most importantly having an exit tax can help soften the blow of departure

Location: A big employer leaving a small town can be devastating. A small employer leaving a city, less so. A big employer leaving a city can burden the city, but the other factors are important.

Thanks for the background. I asked because I do know of birds that hunt others for example in cities there are some hawks that hunt pigeons. But pigeons are smaller and probably easier to carry that a owl for a hawk.

Do hawks successfully hunt adult owls?

How?

Digital fiefdoms like who, you ask, as if you don’t already know the answer? “Valve is the most egregious example,” says Gavrilović. He hopes for a future where devs, not digital feudal lords, have more power, “but I lack the imagination to envision the replacement of Valve with a community owned alternative. That ‘winter castle’ will not fall as easily, but we should at least start openly discussing alternatives.”

Make an opensource game store that’s owned by a non-profit and paid for by the game studios that want to sell on it, giving them a say on how things should run.

“I can’t afford this”

*pull out credit card*

Google just wants to copy the fruit store. They want total control and have seen how the fruit store does it. Competition is bad for business.

I never really considered there’d be useful content on there.

I’m saying that beyond politics, everything is a war on the US. The war on drugs, the war on schools, the war on free speech, the war on our streets, the war on …

It’s very USAmerican to frame everything as a war.