Camera Traps | Missouri Department of Conservation

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“Catching wildlife in the act”

There's A Fine Line

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“THERE IS A LONE BRISTLECONE PINE that grows above timberline, on a slope of cinders.”

Long ago, when I had access to a public library, Arizona Highways was always on the reading list.  I even subscribed for a while until life happened and we drifted apart.  Finding the magazine again is like meeting an old, lost friend.

A Budget 22 Precision Rifle Can Improve Your Shooting Skills

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“Everyone loves shooting 22 rifles, but purposeful practice with a precision-style 22 can improve your shooting skills dramatically”

Is This Heaven? No, It’s the Small Iowa Town With One of the Most Iconic Movies Sites of All Time

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“Home to the Field of Dreams Movie Site, Dyersville brings baseball fans from all over. Here’s how to spend a day there.”

America Is Atomizing

Via: Nerm_L  •  News Viners  •  4 Comments  •  1 Like  •  3 months ago

“A nation of us versus them and them and them.”

These arguments read like a sad attempt at institutional CYA to distract from the damage they've caused.  Anyone using the internet will be herded into a hyper-personalized experience intended to maximize profit.  People in our high-tech society are monetized like products traded between Big...

America's AI boom is a jobs opportunity, not an excuse for universal basic income

Via: Nerm_L  •  News Viners  •  2 Comments  •  1 Like  •  3 months ago

“Universal basic income is not the answer to AI job fears. Skilled trades like electricians and pipefitters are building data centers and power...”

Correct -- AI is no excuse for Universal Basic Income.  But anyone buying the unmitigated financial fabrication of perpetual infrastructure work is sufficiently naïve to need UBI. One lie does not justify the other lie.  AI is not going to be a magic money tree.  Every Big Money win is going to...

The Most Popular Car by Year You Were Born, 1950-2000

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“Take a drive down memory lane, past the Studebaker, Skyline, Supra and Saturn, with this nostalgic list of the most popular cars by year.”

A trip down memory lane needs a proper ride.

Some Republicans Are Finally Realizing They Wrecked the Middle Class

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“If recent comments from JD Vance and others are any guide, the future of GOP economic policy is going to be strange.”

Even the political far left is beginning to vaguely understand what MAGA was supposed to be about.  Revival of the working class was promised but has yet to be delivered.  The ultra-libertarian monetary extremism in the Republican Party pushed 'free market' chicanery to the very limit of...

Yep, There's a Decimal Point on That Speed Limit Sign. Here's Why

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“Have you seen a speed limit sign with a decimal point? How do you even comply? We talk to a traffic expert to get to the bottom of this.”

Election Time!

By: Nerm_L  •  Satire  •  24 Comments  •  3 Likes  •  3 months ago

Anticipation for the upcoming election is rapidly building.  In just two or three weeks, the pace of the campaigns will become frenetic.  The first "AI slop" election may prove entertaining as well as deeply annoying.  We've come into the season for the biannual tradition of hearing the...