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Post by mhbruin on Jul 13, 2023 8:59:06 GMT -8
The Bird is the WordLook up. The birds are taking charge. The hard metal spikes that humans install to prevent birds from perching have been found in nests across Europe. The birds are masterfully subverting their intended use — stripping them from buildings and bringing them to fortify their own homes and protect their offspring. “Just the fact their using these anti-bird spikes to protect their nests … is like the perfect comeback,” Auke-Florian Hiemstra, lead author of a study on the nests published this week, said in an interview. “These rebellious birds [are] outsmarting us.” The birds — mostly of the Corvidae type, which includes magpies and crows — have been spotted making such nests that incorporate the “hostile” architecture in Scotland, Holland and Belgium, according to Hiemstra. The metal spikes are believed to give “structural support” to the nests, in some instances creating dome-like roofs, he said. They also come in handy for “nest defense,” Hiemstra added, to ward off predators and protect eggs, such that “the nest is like a fortress.” His study was published in Deinsea, an online journal of the Natural History Museum of Rotterdam. 
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Post by mhbruin on Jul 13, 2023 9:00:49 GMT -8
Today's Dumbest Story
17 US states could see northern lights this week. Why not Arizona?
Story by Ellie Willard, Arizona Republic
Why Do You Thik They Call Them NORTHERN Lights?
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Post by mhbruin on Jul 13, 2023 9:01:51 GMT -8
This Sucks
Longtime ESPN college basketball analyst Dick Vitale says he has been diagnosed with cancer for a third time.
Vitale tweeted Wednesday that he had surgery in Boston this week, and tests revealed that he has vocal cord cancer. He said he will undergo six weeks of radiation treatments.
“I plan to fight like hell to be ready to call games when the college hoops season kicks off in the fall,” Vitale tweeted, adding that his doctor “feels that scenario is entirely possible.”
The 84-year-old Vitale has previously been treated for melanoma and lymphoma. He celebrated being cancer-free in April of last year.
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Post by mhbruin on Jul 13, 2023 9:02:51 GMT -8
You Might Be at a MAGA Wedding If ...
Reception playlist would be 100% Kid Rock.
Guests will be invited to use their beer cans to "build a wall" around the wedding venue.
It's only Trump-themed if you stiff the venue, caterer, photographer, and priest.
There'll be a wet flag-hugging contest.
Maybe they can shoot up Bud Light cans outside the reception hall.
Stock the venue bathrooms with dozens and dozens of boxes marked “classified.”
Everyone gets a classified document as a take-home gift to remember the special day.
"Nancy, I promise I will fuck your feelings today, tomorrow, and for the rest of our lives or until we get divorced." "Todd, I promise I will fuck your feelings forever and ever, and if we do ever get divorced I promise to make Mexico pay for it."
… then drove away in their rolling coal dualie with two liberals tied to the bumper.
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Post by mhbruin on Jul 13, 2023 9:04:13 GMT -8
How Many Ways Can DeathSentence Screw Flori-Dumb?
There's really no better way to make a state suck good and hard than when an arch-conservative Republican governor decides to play for higher office. No longer interested in reelection, the would-be future president no longer needs to feign interest in whether state residents struggle or prosper or live or die, so long as none of it happens to a degree that might attract national press. That governor can spend every moment of every day thinking up new ways to be a performative asshole to attract national Republican primary voters who absolutely will not vote for you unless they think you're the biggest asshole who ever assholed.
With Gov. Ron DeSantis at least going through the rough motions of a presidential run, this is going to cost Floridians some serious cash. National outlets are beginning to notice what the Capitalist reported a few weeks ago: The DeSantis line-item veto of a pair of federal block grants last month means Florida no longer qualifies for federal programs that would have provided a whopping $377 million in energy money for the state.
The money would have gone towards electrification and energy efficiency, but the biggest losers here are Florida consumers. Much of that $377 million was coming from the federal program handing out rebates for buying energy-efficient appliances, the kind you now find at every Best Buy or Home Depot, which means that Florida consumers alone (?) won't be seeing the consumer rebates the rest of the nation is getting while shopping for appliances.
It's literally free money to help Americans buy new appliances—ones that use less electricity than older models, resulting in lower electricity bills and perhaps more importantly, reduced strain on electrical grids. So why did DeSantis reject the money? Because he's running for asshole in chief and those consumer rebates come from the Federal Inflation Reduction Act, which is the Biden-pressed energy policy overhaul, and Ron DeSantis is a giant enormous baby.
Politically, the move sets DeSantis up to declare that he’s refusing to accept any more federal money from the Biden Administration. The governor’s office did not respond to a request for more information about DeSantis’s reasoning for the vetoes, so it’s not clear if the governor was aware of the cascading impact of his decision. But political insiders view it as a calculated strategy meant to bolster his presidential campaign and take away a Biden Administration talking point highlighting DeSantis’s previous acceptance of federal dollars for other programs.
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