that would kill almost anything else

Guess what: It's fact check time!!

Anthrax: ❌

Most birds are naturally resistant to anthrax because of their higher body temperature.

Botulism (actually botox, botulism is the illness caused by botox. You can't quite eat an illness): ✅

"Botulism is one of the most toxic substances in the world, and [turkey vultures'] guts are filled with this bacteria, which apparently has no effect on them," says Graves.

(Yes, the article made the same mistake)

Rabies: ❌

All warm-blooded species, including humans, may become infected with the rabies virus. Birds were first artificially infected with rabies in 1884; however, infected birds are largely, if not wholly, asymptomatic, and recover.

Cholera (actually avian cholera, which is distinct from "normal" cholera): ❓

Besides chickens, the disease also concerns turkeys, ducks, geese, raptors, and canaries.

So 2/4 diseases are already irrelevant for birds but they sound scary because they infect humans. But:

Avian cholera barely even counts because it's caused by "Pasteurella multocida" while (human) cholera is caused by "Vibrio cholerae". The two bacteria are genetically as closely related as humans and mammoths. And avian cholera does not kill anything but birds.

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This isn't to degrade the vulture's ability to withstand pathogens and toxins, that is still very impressive. It's just that obviously birds are immune to most human diseases, as pathogens don't tend to easily jump between distant species.

And even if they DO jump between species, they usually do not bring their "deadliness" with them (unless they produce poison like botox) as different species react completely differently. Maybe rabies is the one exception, as adjusting the behavior of your host by rummaging around in the brain has some universally negative side effects.

2 €/L * 84 L = 42€ ?

Ganz einfach:

Nutze Ed und schreib deine Zeitung in HTML.

PKK, AKP, FKK, alles das gleiche.

Reminds me of how automated translation services translate job names into strictly gendered languages. Wihout any context, engineer translates to the male variant and nurse to the female.

Same with translating gender neutral pronouns into languages that don't have them. "Their husband" will translate into "her husband" (assuming you give sufficient context that "their" is singular in this instance).

It is an issue but there are no obvious solutions.

Not really, these laws only apply to services that serve traffic to Britain.

Block all British IP addresses, like Imgur did, and you adhere to the law.

The comment isn't in this thread. It's on a crosspost at !longreads@sh.itjust.works

Shouldn't be dangerous, but there's already less space in that area so it would constrict the walkway unnecessarily.

Like, looking it up, there seem to be variants wirh seats there but look how little space you have to move if two people are sitting there:

I don't see the benefit of having an extra two seats in there compared to just putting in nothing

It is usually? Never been on a bus with a seat there.

I really don't like the turquoise carpet on the left, remove that and I'd be happy.

Note:

He never said that. This quote is from William Pannapacker, a professor of American literature at Hope College in Holland, Michigan.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/werner-herzog-germany-quote/

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