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I had a NatGeo picture book of polar bears as a kid, and I've always thought they were the coolest mammals. Crazy large, amazing swimmers, super cute and also very powerful dangerous predators. So it's fitting that one of my early hexbear posts was a cozy polar bear.

https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/E3zseSOXOA.png?format=webp

Also, fun polar bear fact: Their fur is actually clear, it just refracts the light to appear white. This is part of why they can survive the cold, the fur allows them to absorb thermal energy from the sun.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    The unseen driver followed Arndt's car into the gas station parking lot. A child could be heard in that car earlier in the video.

    Mequon police said the interaction resulted from alleged dangerous driving, but that was not captured on the video.

    He refused to say what happened on the road to prompt the interaction or his anger. "All I'm going to say," Arndt said, "is I could have used a better choice of words. But my stance on Israel stays."

    He told us, "I am not anti-anyone. I am anti-Israel. I am anti-Zionists."

    Following someone and filming them after the road rage incident is a kind of escalation, right? Not great optics, but this was not some random interaction it seems.

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  • [–] 46 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 child)

    The cattle semen market was reportedly bullish and spunky in after hours trading on news of the blaze and explosion.

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    Loeschenkohl added that he has never had "anything to do with the artificial insemination (AI) side of things before" during his career.

    fry

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    The synopisis: During the Covid pandemic, New York City created an Open Street on 34th Avenue in Jackson Heights and Corona, Queens — which was one of the city’s pandemic epicenter, where thousands died. The Open Street quickly became a lifeline to residents desperate to exercise or socialize in a socially responsible way. But even as the pandemic faded, residents quickly realized that the 34th Avenue Open Street had become an essential amenity in a neighborhood with among the lowest amount of park space per-capita.

    Quickly, neighborhood activists rallied and got the administration of then-Mayor Bill de Blasio to commit to a full buildout of the Open Street into its current configuration: Paseo Park, which, as its name suggests, is a 1.5-mile long promenade for cycling, strolling and just connecting with neighbors.

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