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Emus aren't as 'dumb' as we thought
Via: Bob Nelson • Pets & Animals • 9 Comments • 6 Likes • 2 months ago
“Emus have a reputation for being "bird-brained" but a new study has found they can innovate - solving a tricky puzzle to access a food reward.”
I once visited an ostrich farm. I'm tall - 1m96 in intelligent units, 6'5" in... whatever... Those birds were looking DOWN at me. That is a BIG FUCKING BIRD. Fortunately, they're herbivorous. There used to be carnivorous cousins. Called TERROR BIRDS. Oh, yeah!
No, 150-Year-Olds Aren't Collecting Social Security Benefits
Via: Bob Nelson • News & Politics • 76 Comments • 6 Likes • 2 months ago
“Elon Musk claims to have found rampant fraud in the Social Security Administration. There's a much simpler explanation.”
So... the other day, I said that Musk's claim that Social Security was paying benefits to 150-year-olds was due to a COBOL date-management glitch. NT's Usual Suspect Fascists jumped on me, howling for a link. Here's a seed.
Hummingbirds Living in a Hive Found for the First Time
Via: Bob Nelson • Pets & Animals • 25 Comments • 8 Likes • 2 months ago
“In a remote mountain cave in Ecuador, hummingbirds were discovered sleeping and nesting together.”
Amid the MAGA madness, there is news of life. Hummingbirds are among my favorite things in the whole world!
How Spain's radically different approach to migration helped its economy soar
Via: Bob Nelson • News & Politics • 17 Comments • 2 Likes • 2 months ago
“As immigration has increased, GDP has surged and unemployment has fallen to lowest level since 2008”
Nah! Let's get rid of all our immigrants. ... ... Well... not all of them. Some are White, after all. Gotta keep those. Let's also keep South Africans. White South Africans, that is...
Making Microbes Great Again
Via: Bob Nelson • Health, Science & Technology • 23 Comments • 6 Likes • 2 months ago
“The Texas measles outbreak is just the beginning”
The anti-vax movement is perhaps the most pertinent proof of MAGA's insanity. The facts are clear: vaccines save lives. But vaccines are science, and for MAGA science is just a bunch of conspiracies. So children must die. MAGA über alles!
Our Government Is Experiencing a Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly
Via: Bob Nelson • News & Politics • 6 Comments • 5 Likes • 2 months ago
“Musk is moving fast and breaking important things”
I don't understand "why". Sure, Trump is preparing for an oligarch fire-sale like Russia when Putin came to power... but many of his actions have little impact other than to hurt his own base. Why?
The all-American plummet, courtesy of the willfully blind
Via: Bob Nelson • News & Politics • 9 Comments • 3 Likes • 2 months ago
“Punxsutawney Phil popped his head from his hidey-hole last weekend and prophesied four years of fascism here in the Turd Reich. Millions of...”
This seed is from our local newspaper, the Yuma Sun. It's a model of what a local paper needs to be, with lots of local news presented by good writers. It has tried to steer a path between Scylla and Charybdis - democracy and fascism - without angering any of its too few readers. Kinda like...