Catoblepas

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

The amount of errors I’ve noticed like that in articles from big name news organizations in the past year or two drives me up the wall. Spend the money on a fucking editor!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

Bicolor nosie! 🥹

[–] [email protected] 23 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

I feel like I’m going nuts, is nobody on lemmy actually reading this article? This dude turbo sucked.

Longo brought Peanut him home, ultimately caring for the squirrel for eight months before trying to release it back into the wild. He said Peanut returned to his porch a day and a half later with a broken bone sticking out of its tail, at which point Longo determined Peanut couldn't survive in the wild alone and instead would move in with him.

Didn’t get him veterinary care though, because that would have resulted in his Cool Pet being taken away. What’s wrong with a little risk of sepsis and zero pain control for a serious injury if someone really, really wants to be a special boy??

[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago

I didn’t misread anything; keeping a juvenile squirrel you’re not qualified to care for and just plopping it outside after a few months is naturally going to fail.

After getting injured in a situation it was completely unequipped to handle, it returned to the only steady source of food and protection it recognized. This person then proceeded to get it zero medical care. Why should anyone who thinks it’s acceptable to leave an animal with a fucking bone sticking out of its body be trusted with the welfare of that animal?

Wildlife officials don’t resort to euthanasia every time a squirrel comes in. They want to be able to release it back into the wild, that’s the ideal resolution. Keeping that squirrel yourself because you want a quirky pet for internet attention basically guarantees they’ll get put down after they’ve lost their fear of people and have no survival skills.

Tl;dr: if you want a squirrel that badly, get the education and certification you need to actually understand how to take care of them. Otherwise you’re just going to fuck them up.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

Hormones have helped me keep a baby face but have done nothing for my joints, unfortunately u_u

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Hello fellow old 👋

[–] [email protected] 47 points 18 hours ago

"Streams containing informational or educational content that aim to share knowledge in a neutral, fact-based manner, rather than engaging in any kind of advocacy for an issue or candidate" are not subject to labelling, however.

Oh boy, can’t wait to see which facts (like transition regret being in the low single digit percentages) get determined to be “advocacy”!

[–] [email protected] 154 points 19 hours ago (7 children)

Not saying that’s not frustrating, but don’t fixate too much on the ups and downs of it if you’re not set to retire soon. What the stock market is doing now is barely going to impact the value of your retirement fund in 20, 30, etc years.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

in this case i think that tiktok and peanut's rising popular was the culprit

… yeah, that’s how wildlife officials became aware of the situation. They aren’t remotely monitoring every squirrel.

And don’t feel too bad for him, he isn’t putting the squirrel’s welfare first at all:

Longo brought Peanut home and cared for him for eight months before trying to release the squirrel into the great outdoors. “A day and a half later I found him sitting on my porch missing half of his tail with his bone sticking out,” Longo said.

A fucking bone sticking out and he didn’t even try to get the squirrel veterinary care, because it would have meant the squirrel was taken away. No vet is going to let someone without a rehabilitation license walk out with a wild animal they’re not competent to care for. And having a Really Cool Pet was just more important than, again, a BONE being exposed to the air.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Oh, I don’t even mean from lost sales, I mean because this service is fundamentally going to cost more than the “theft” (lol) it’s allegedly stopping. If any one employee (or even a team) is doing this at scale and a business needs AI tracking customers to pick up on it, there is something drastically wrong.

This service is basically pure AI hype. It’s not doing anything a minimally engaged manager couldn’t already do with the salary you’re having to pay them anyway. Except the AI is also doing it worse and at a higher cost. Yay!

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 day ago (2 children)

About a month ago, Israel-based Corsight AI began offering its global clients access to a new service aimed at rooting out what the retail industry calls “sweethearting,”—instances of store employees giving people they know discounts or free items.

Lol, I hope stores that use this lose millions on this stupid ass privacy invasion. Anyone stupid enough to believe the savings of catching a 10% employee discount used occasionally for friends or whatever is going to offset whatever the fuck this most recent torment nexus is going to cost frankly deserves to be swindled.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Add one to the pile of words the mods over there don't know the definition of, I guess. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ It's pretty funny they're banning people for "brigading" even after their own instance admin told them there was no evidence of that happening.

 
 

Ocean Alliance began working with drones in 2013. Within the last few years, they began collecting exhaled breath condensation, also known as "whale snot."

The whale snot is a biological jackpot with DNA, microbiomes, and hormones. This data was nearly impossible to collect from a live whale. 

"I've seen more unique behaviors from a drone in the last five years than I've seen in the previous 25," Kerr said.

They’re apparently also using the drones to tag them for GPS tracking, really cool use for them.

 

Inspired by me learning that I can check out solar panels (hiking sized, not house sized) at the library.

 

More information on CicLAvia’s website here.

Even if you don’t have your own bike, there are lots of Metro bikes to rent near the route for $1.75/30 minutes. You can find a map of bike stations here.

 

The LA LGBT Center has released a proposition voting guide with their recommendations.

 

You can get involved by using the iNaturalist app and joining the challenge.

The primary objective of this is to both get people more engaged and aware of their local wildlife, and to eliminate white areas with no observations on the iNaturalist observation heat map. This will help researchers learn more about urban ecosystems.

 

Apparently it’s a promotion for Clean Air Day, I had no idea it was going on until I got on the bus to go to the store today.

 

Obviously learning a couple of words in another language doesn't really make you bilingual, or being able to say a few phrases. But there's also clearly some point before full fluency where you can be considered bilingual, but how is it determined (formally or informally)? Is it purely vibes based, you'll know when you see it kind of thing?

I'm vaguely familiar with the CEFR levels measuring how much of a language you speak, but if there's a cutoff point for counting as bilingual in there somewhere I don't know where.

 

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