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- grafician1
these are the f news everyday...
- grafician0
Very concerning news:
"'I've never seen or heard of attacks': scientists baffled by orcas harassing boats"
"Reports of orcas striking sailing boats in the Straits of Gibraltar have left sailors and scientists confused. Just what is causing such unusually aggressive behaviour?"
"In the deep: a pod of highly intelligent killer whales, or orcas. Constant harassment by boats affects their ability to hunt, and has a negative impact on their behaviour. Photograph: Rand McMeins/Getty Images"
"Highly intelligent, social mammals, orcas are the largest of the dolphin family, and behave in a similar way. It is normal, she says, that orcas will follow close to the propeller. Even holding the rudder is not unheard of: “Sometimes they will bite the rudder, get dragged behind as a game.” But never with enough force to break it. This ramming, Espada says, indicates stress. The Straits is full of nets and long lines; perhaps a calf got caught."
https://www.theguardian.com/envi…
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We don't want to mess with these guys, they are the apex predator in the waters...
- they are the tigers of the sea, fight like no one._niko
- Imagine a highly intelligent species of sea predators telling you "yo bro, chill with all these boating and fishing, we need to eat too!"grafician
- not long before trump brands them terrorists or worse, radical leftists and starts a campaign of extermination._niko
- There's beautiful beaches south of Barbate, mentioned in the article. Spanish fishermen just dump their old lines and fishing hooks on the sand.Nairn
- ..like, right by kids playing on the beach. I love Spain, but some of the most profoundly ignorant and backwards people I've met are Andalucians.Nairn
- The roads in the hinterland are befouled by rubbish that's just thrown out of car windows. Finished at the beach? Leave all your shit behind!Nairn
- And then there's Gibraltar - a population of 35k people and ALL of their sewage is dumped straight into the straits, entirely untreated. Disgusting.Nairn
- 3 years ago!i_monk
- imbecile3
John Cage musical work changes chord for first time in seven years
Fans have flocked to a church in Germany to hear a chord change in a musical composition that lasts for 639 years.
It is the first change in the piece, As Slow As Possible, in seven years. The work is by the avant-garde American composer, John Cage. It began 19 years ago with a pause lasting nearly 18 months.
- grafician3
"Signs of Life discovered on Venus and atmosphere.
Announcement on September 15th, 2020."
- fadein112
Regarding grafician's post.
Is there life floating in the clouds of Venus?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/scien…
- so damn cool_niko
- So Nasa's planning on sending a mission in 2030 to float some baloons in the atmosphere but the crazy thing is, the Russians already did it in 1985!_niko
- Amazing what we acheived when there was an arms race in science, space and discovery, when politicians didn't exist for their own ego and to pander to the dregs_niko
- I guess in times of relative peace, stability and prosperity demagoguery and tyranny is inevitable._niko
- So what has the Russian's learned about Venus? They have had a 35 years head start.utopian
- Venus is a much likelier place for use to set up a base on than Mars is - the DeltaV to get there is lower and there's an atmosphere we can refineNairn
- ..it just wouldn't be on the surface is all. Or, at least, not for long.Nairn
- Well, not 'much likelier'. I've just always thought the idea cool since realising the Russians dropped balloons there, as _niko mentioned.Nairn
- Thinking about it (I just went for a walk) - if there is a stronger possibility of life on Venus, that would go a LONG way to shifting budget priorities.Nairn
- Not really, Venus is a hell hole save for a narrow strip of atmosphere. Some moistened bacteria won’t be enough reason to shift strategyGnash
- You don't? So why do we spend so many billions trying to find life on Mars? Venus would be a cheaper mission.Nairn
- I can imagine a not-too distant entirely private funded expedition if a Chemical or Bio-Tech Company felt it migyt be worth the investment.Nairn
- Bio-tech company collecting alien life-forms... what could go wrong? ;)Gnash
- imbecile-2
Why Hundreds of Mathematicians Are Boycotting Predictive Policing
"Given the structural racism and brutality in U.S. policing, we do not believe that mathematicians should be collaborating with police departments in this manner," the authors write in the letter. "It is simply too easy to create a 'scientific' veneer for racism. Please join us in committing to not collaborating with police. It is, at this moment, the very least we can do as a community."
- Ben Shapiro and Sam Harris will be upset.PhanLo
- Create the conditions for crime to thrive in an area, add police who are disconnected to the area and never bother to fix social conditions.PhanLo
- And repeat.
Don't need mathematicians to explain that.PhanLo - Defund calculators!Gnash
- #mathematiciansLives...nbq
- scarabin3
- Who brings a gun to a prostrate exam?Gnash
- Some people would pay extra for thatimbecile
- Is that the pic of the doctor, or the guy who popped a spunky during his cherry tomato tickle?Akagiyama
- And the guy should have known better. He was at the dentist, FFS!Akagiyama
- Lol_niko
- Floriderputopian
- Homophobici_was
- Will become his kink now.PhanLo
- 50 yo closet gaydrgs
- I mean, clearly he liked itsarahfailin
- clearly, I have the wrong doctorTurboslacker
- Again, if I've not mentioned - I'm glad you're back, Scarabin. This shit here's good ol' old internet quality content.Nairn
- imbecile0
A rat had basically no brain. But it could still see, hear, smell, and feel.
One day, a scientist in Craig Ferris’s lab was scanning the brains of very old rats when he found that one could see, hear, smell, and feel just like the other rats, but it was walking around with basically no brain—and likely had been since birth.
“One of the things I always get a kick out of is the hubris that we have about how highly organized our brain is—and how complex it is,” Ferris says. “We’ve really focused so much attention on the cortex, and here you have these cases where you can almost eliminate the cortex—large portions of it—and it’s not making a heck of a lot of difference.”
- Spine, the first brain.shapesalad
- The stomach is part of the brain, iircPhrenological
- Has long the rat got his penis, he's good.ApeRobot
- Gut > nervous system > braingrafician
- we know so much yet so littleinteliboy
- There are humans like this too.monospaced
- grafician0
"Tom Hardy Cast As 007th James Bond
September 18, 2020 By Emre Kaya
Daniel Craig’s successor has been found: Tom Hardy will be taking over the role of James Bond. Now there’s a name to die for.As already known, No Time to Die (currently set for this November) will be Daniel Craig’s fifth and final outing as the fictional MI6 agent. Naturally, fans have been speculating for years about who they think will be taking over from Craig after No Time to Die. Today I’ve learned that this successor is none other than Mad Max and Venom actor Tom Hardy."
https://www.thevulcanreporter.co…
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To be confirmed in November, but my money was on Idris Elba...
- Meh, should've been a pansexual ethnic transsexual midget.Nairn
- It's the charisma, Tom is very good, but Idris would have taken 007 to whole new levelsgrafician
- I'm not convinced, weird choice, but so was Daniel Craig and he pulled it off impeccably.spl33nidoru
- Henry Cavill would have been a great choice for the 007 role toografician
- Btw I knew Tom Hardy would go for the next 007 since his role in Inception, he was impeccablegrafician
- ^ good call on Cavill, very enjoyable actor and he was born to play it, but maybe not rough enough for the current guidelinesspl33nidoru
- I think back to Layer Cake when both of them were pretty much nobodies. They've come a long way..SteveJobs
- ^Layer Cake was phenomenal +1grafician
- Fucking lame-o imo. Shoulda been Idris. Maybe he didn't even go for the part though.inteliboy
- hope they don't do another origin story over multiple films - but just more bond spy mission as the established 007.inteliboy
- @inteliboy the part with the origin story in Skyfall was pretty interesting to me growing up with 007 and not knowing his back storygrafician
- but you're def right, I just want to see next level plots even way past what Ian Fleming imagined in his stories!grafician
- BUT Tom being younger than Daniel Craig, I guess we could see some sort of younger Bond backstory, think his 20-30sgrafician
- I <3 tomscarabin
- grafician0
And another one...
Been listening to rap since I knew music, West Side all that, but I DIDN'T KNEW THIS!
Jay Z man...gotta give him credit, that man is a beast!
- also this, with so many top level producers admiring Jay Z's genius man https://www.youtube.…grafician
- I can't stand Monotone Camel Joeutopian
- Gets you thinking... Red side vs. Blue side? Maybe it's all the same?jmckinno
- imbecile0
Yemen: Coalition Bus Bombing Apparent War Crime
(Beirut) – A Saudi-led coalition airstrike that killed at least 26 children and wounded at least 19 more in or near a school bus in the busy market of Dhahyan, in northern Yemen, on August 9, 2018, is an apparent war crime, Human Rights Watch said today. Countries should immediately halt weapons sales to Saudi Arabia and support strengthening a United Nations independent inquiry into violations by all parties to Yemen’s armed conflict.
- https://www.hrw.org/…imbecile
- Saudi's are a US partner on the "war against terror". And the military planes and it weapons are all American made. All Charges dismissed!utopian
- https://www.cnbc.com…helloeatbreathedrive
- Krassy6
'Defund the police' activist Alyssa Milano calls 911 sparking massive police presence in her quiet California neighborhood claiming an armed an gunman was on her property - but it was really a teen shooting at squirrels with an air gun
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news…
- Moronic on so many levels.BusterBoy
- definition of hypocrisyKrassy
- She’s a wing-nutGnash
- lol the tanpango
- still hawtbezoar
- This is confusing... why didn't she just call a social worker, or maybe a grief counselor or perhaps even an art therapist?PonyBoy
- Great questions, PonyBoy.MondoMorphic
- No she did exactly what DTP activists are calling for: Suspected gunman in your neighbourhood? That call goes to the Police. The grief councillor is there forben_
- the dead squirrels' family. You two are thick.ben_
- I don't know about this one. If I saw an armed gunman on my property, I might call the police, even though I'd like to defund them...CyBrainX
- Defunding them from military gear, tanks, heat rays and roles they weren't trained for doesn't mean I don't want them completely eliminated.CyBrainX
- and yes, still hot.CyBrainX
- She did exactly what any normal human would do, fellas... the police have always been there for such a thing. This isn't some new novel reasoning... lol.PonyBoy
- The fact she suddenly realized the value of a cop is what's humorous here... talk all that shit 'til you need help—chances are people will pick on you little :)PonyBoy
- cake and eat it toodeathboy
- *value* For example should police get same budget as military? what's the proper budget that reflect the police "value"pango
- The fact you think "defund the police" means total elimination of police...just means you're dumb cuntz.BusterBoy
- Don't defund the police = All lives matterpalimpsest
- Well said BusterBoy. Nuanced topics like this are just too deep for a lot of people to understand... And all it takes is some research to figure it out.brandonp
- lol... SO DEEP!! You HATE Cops until you need them... such deep thinking! //PonyBoy
- yes thinking the check and balance system is skewed = hating cop.pango
- if teachers can do their jobs with their salary and edu budget in the US. Cops will be fine with their ridiculous high budget.
https://i.imgur.com/…pango - on second thought... have they actually been doing their jobs? its hard to believe that some time.pango
- ACAB tho... :)
I don't see ATAB everywhere. (T is for Teacher!!)
You're not even coming close to an apples to apple comparison w/that one, pango. :/PonyBoy - why is it not? they all take money from government. one's budget gets cut all the time and you guys seem fine with it.pango
- i guess fuck edu, keeping people in their place is more important.pango
- Teachers aren't doing so well w/the budgets we've given them (most teachers spend plenty from their own pocket on their students)... they 'do' their jobs...PonyBoy
- Lol, pangoGnash
- ... but arguably much like the police if you funded and trained them appropriately you'd have a much better edu sys than the joke we have in the States.PonyBoy
- FUND THE POLICE!
That sounds STUPID... yes? Well so does DEFUND the police... it's moronic. They need MORE training... so defunding them makes zero sense.PonyBoy - Shit... I just proved it to actually be an "apples to apples" comparison w/out meaning to. You're sneaky, pango. :)PonyBoy
- at least you're admitting there are problems with the police. i'll take that.
how about more check and balance. more whistleblower protection?pango - and instead of having the prosecutor the same police work with daily to work on police misconduct, having someone who can be more impartial.pango
- all fair ideas...
... all gonna require more money tho :)
(I'm all for spending in these areas... not defunding)PonyBoy - the idea of defunding came from many things and its not accurately "defunding". the downside of not actually have an organized boy to hire marketing.pango
- boy... = body... d key didn't want to respond for some reason.pango
- Bluejam7
- The more you know!jmckinno
- this might have saved my lifed_gitale
- Unfortunate, but the shitty taste should be a warning.bezoar
- Those doctors in the piece would have their own heart episode if they visited Sweden or Finland. People here eat licorice like a motherfucker.face_melter
- "Finland's death rates from coronary heart disease were two or even three times those of other European countries and Japan."imbecile
- https://www.knowable…imbecile
- That's what people who like licorice deservedrgs
- This is nuts!nb
- Man cannot live on licorice alone.dbloc
- This reads like an actual Chris Morris headline.garbage
- Is that Dan Marino or Hasselhoff?stoplying
- yesimbecile
- Wtf, I love licoricei_was
- RIP. Star anise is one of the best spices of all time.see_bee
- this top post made the QBN menu disappearKrassy
- oh shit i thought it was hasslehoff but now I think it's matino, this is the new blue dress gold dress lol_niko
- oh shit i thought it was hasslehoff but now I think it's matino, this is the new blue dress gold dress lol_niko
- oh shit i thought it was hasslehoff but now I think it's marino, this is the new blue dress gold dress lol_niko
- oh shit i thought it was hasslehoff but now I think it's marino, this is the new blue dress gold dress lol_niko
- @sea_sea Fun boring fact: Star anise is different from the plants licorice is derived from, but they both have antehole, which is where the flavor comes from.garbage
- A flavor that's best used sparingly in rice or cocktails, not transformed into deadly disgusting rubber sticks.garbage
- I guess you won't be interested in the salty licorice icecream we have here. Which, depsite being mad popular, tastes foul.face_melter
- I'll try anything once, but I'm already queasy.garbage
- fooler0
Police in Vietnam have confiscated an estimated 345,000 used condoms which had been cleaned and resold as new, state media reported.
- Continuity2
'Argentinian politician quits after kissing partner's breasts in online legislative session'
- sheesh, of all the fucked up shit our politicians do both to us and the planet, this is the least serious of all, maybe if they all took a second to suck on a_niko
- tittie once in a while the world would be a better place! lol_niko
- Haha, you're not wrong!Continuity
- But hey, points for accountability here.Continuity
- "...and I kissed her tits, and that was all,”
Legendary.ideaist
- sarahfailin8
People who have been convicted of possession of one ounce or less of marijuana in Colorado are being pardoned by Gov. Jared Polis.
Polis signed an executive order on Thursday issuing the pardons, according to a news release from the governor's office.
"We are finally cleaning up some of the inequities of the past by pardoning 2,732 convictions for Coloradans who simply had an ounce of marijuana or less.It's ridiculous how being written up for smoking a joint in the 1970's has followed some Coloradans throughout their lives and gotten in the way of their success," Polis said.
- About fucking time. You can pick up an ounce at the store on the way home from school now ffs.monospaced
- I wonder what effects living in prison had on them and what life will be like as they try to rejoin society..SteveJobs
- Yet another failed Ronald Reagan policy. I guess the "War on Drugs" was just another Republican scam that got exposed.utopian
- I remember Nancy’s “Say No to Drugs” initiative.dasohr
- Crime Dog McGruffimbecile
- bravoneverscared
