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Corvids would like to have a word.Blackhawk wrote: Wed Sep 13, 2023 3:55 pm There are plenty of potential inheritors of the world once we finish wiping ourselves out. Birds are possible - but the lack of manipulative tools puts them a step or two below some other contenders (other primates, octopods.)
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Oh, I'm familiar with their tool use (and that of several other species), but there's a difference between holding a stick and tying two sticks together (by 'manipulative tools' I was referring more to the physical means of manipulating objects - probably a bad choice of words on my part.) An octopus, primate, raccoon, or even certain members of the weasel family are closer to complex manipulations birds are. Birds would have to evolve better physical abilities before they'd be able to advance too far (and everyone knows I'm a fan of birds!)stessier wrote: Wed Sep 13, 2023 6:49 pmCorvids would like to have a word.Blackhawk wrote: Wed Sep 13, 2023 3:55 pm There are plenty of potential inheritors of the world once we finish wiping ourselves out. Birds are possible - but the lack of manipulative tools puts them a step or two below some other contenders (other primates, octopods.)
Or crocodilians like Deinosuchus, that likely devoured dinos and weren't terribly dissimilar to present day alligators, beyond possessing significantly heftier proportions:Holman wrote: Thu Sep 14, 2023 10:20 am Think of all the fish and sharks who've been basically the same for millions of years; there are few terrestrial animal species that can say anything close to that.
Wadn't me. I only hit submit once.
I think she forgot about that
. Well, they didn't install a new prostate... 
That would be: "Like New"ImLawBoy wrote: Fri Sep 15, 2023 4:19 pm I would argue that you have to have all of your original parts, but then I'm an argumentative bastard some days.
It's a used people ad, and vague terminology goes along with it. We come as-is, so it's up to you to look under the hood if you care about a few missing accessories.ImLawBoy wrote: Fri Sep 15, 2023 4:19 pm I would argue that you have to have all of your original parts, but then I'm an argumentative bastard some days.
You could have a person with all original parts (and all parts present) with clogged arteries, dozens of clots hanging on by a thread, brain plaques, rickets, and a dozen degenerative diseases - that's not 'Like New.' 'Gently used', maybe.
Late last month, Hurricane Idalia brought wind, rain and storm surge to the southeastern United States. It also apparently brought flamingos.
In the two weeks since the storm, American Flamingos have been spotted in 10 states, many of which previously had no known sightings in the wild of the tall birds known for their bright pink feathers, although not all have such a hue. According to data complied by the American Birding Association (ABA), the vast majority of the sightings have been reported in Florida, the birds’ native land before hunting wiped them out more than a century ago.
While flamingo sightings are not unheard of today in Florida, they overwhelming occur on the state’s southern tip — Hialeah, Biscayne Bay, the Everglades and the Keys. But since Idalia, there have been many sightings from all over the Sunshine State, Jerry Lorenz, director of research for the conservation group Audubon Florida, said in a video presentation this week.
“We never welcome hurricanes here in Florida,” Lorenz said. “But we did welcome some passengers.”
Flamingos have been spotted far from Florida, too, surprising and delighting bird-watchers. A pair of American Flamingos in Warren County, Ohio — near Cincinnati — set a record for the northernmost point the species had been observed, only to be topped shortly later by a pair in Franklin, County, Pennsylvania — about 160 miles west of Philadelphia along the state’s southern border.
“I am beyond words right now, on my lunch break I decided to check some local ponds for shorebirds, and wouldn't you know I would find the first reported American Flamingos in the state of Pennsylvania,” bird-watcher and photographer John Carter wrote in Facebook post.
“Absolutely stunning birds and I hope many people get a chance to observe them,” he added.
Since the hurricane, flamingos also have been seen in Alabama, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia, according to the ABA. American Flamingos today largely reside in the Caribbean. Sightings of flocks in Florida and North Carolina each included a single bird that had been tagged in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, where tens of thousands of the birds live year-round. Lorenz believes the birds might have been flying between Cuba and the Yucatan when they got swept up in the storm. Idalia entered the Gulf of Mexico by passing between the Yucatan Peninsula and Cuba before slamming into Florida’s Big Bend region as a Category 3 storm.
Nate Swick, digital communications manager for the ABA, told NPR the birds might have flown with the Idalia’s winds or perhaps been in the eye of the storm and moved with it until it broke apart.
Swick added that the flamingos are capable of making their way back home. He predicted they will start heading toward coastal areas.
The first time I noticed this was when I was watching that dude take his cat for rides in his bicycle basket. I kept trying to figure out how the guy with the camera was able to keep his bike so stable and in sync with the cat bike.Daehawk wrote: Sat Sep 16, 2023 9:00 pm Why is it a phone or camera or whatever is at the end of a selfie stick doesn't show the stick itself as it is looking back at the person holding it? Its it some software design or a flaw in the optics or what? Its weirs seeing what is clearly someone holding and invisible stick filming away as they ride a bike pr something. Its like a blue screen stick lol.
EDIT: NM thats just weird.
If this rubs you the wrong way and the only link between your iPhone and your PC is Gmail, then it's easily rectified: simply stop using Gmail, and switch to a privacy-focused e-mail provider instead.LordMortis wrote: Mon Sep 18, 2023 8:01 am I get that when you don't pay for something, you are the product but google truly is insidious. I don't give permission for my apps to talk to each other on my iPhone. The only only link between my iPhone and my PC gmail. Aside from this the only way my computer knows about my appleID is email that gmail for account purposes. And yet, somehow, my iPhone apps regularly target products I've looked for on my computer such as products I've searched on Amazon or with Temu ads for things I've priced checked on Temu. Google shouldn't even know I have these apps installed but somehow my phone apps are tracking my pc shopping and browsing. Even when google is totally uninvolved other email forwards to a gmail address used on both computer and phone.
Indeed, so why not just sign up with a privacy-first e-mail provider, so that you and your data are no longer the vended merchandise?
Lol - um, no. No, I do not.Daehawk wrote: Mon Sep 18, 2023 11:15 pm Remember that 'BeReal' app that would randomly give you 2 minutes to take a selfie of yourself
Red Robin used to have my favorite burger in the world, called the Godfather Burger. As I recall, it was an open faced burger on garlic bread, sitting on a pile of spaghetti, covered in portabellas and mozzarella, and covered in marinara. I may have gotten a detail or two wrong,j as it's been at least 23 years since I've had one, and they discontinued it before that (a few would still custom-make you one while the cooks still remembered how to, which added a year or two to it's availability.)LordMortis wrote: Tue Sep 19, 2023 9:56 am While making meatballs for spaghetti, I decided to press one 1/4 patty and bake it, to see how a marinara burger would work as sandwich and if its different than meatball sub. Looking forward to tasting the results. Maybe it can become pre-spaghetti or replacement for meatball sub thing for me.
I do that for lasagna, although I only use mild or sweet sausage, never spicy. Never tried rolling it into a burger since it get immediately mixed with marinara sauce in the pan.Brian wrote: Tue Sep 19, 2023 11:10 am I sometimes like to mash together a pound of ground beef with a pound of ground spicy Italian sausage.
I do this as well for the same things. Though less often than I used to. A pound ground pork has gotten more expensive and burger often is substantially cheaper when bought in 3 pound quantities, meaning if I add a pound of sausage, I'd need to go through four pounds of meat for one person or mix it and freeze it, which starts to move into hassle territory.Brian wrote: Tue Sep 19, 2023 11:10 am I sometimes like to mash together a pound of ground beef with a pound of ground spicy Italian sausage.
I will make chili, spaghetti, even burgers with that.
A burger made from that combo tastes like eating a burger and a brat at the same time.
Yummy
We got milk. In all of the schools I went to through 12th grade (10 of them), it was milk, milk, or - at one school - chocolate milk. The alternative was the drinking fountain.Daehawk wrote: Thu Sep 21, 2023 6:59 pm I was reminiscing on school lunch drink and suddenly Jungle Juice and Cactus Cooler popped into my head after nearly 40 years.
