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@futurebird Allow me to play devil's advocate: it's fiiiiiine. We've got stomach acid. We've been doing this for ages. It's fiiiiiiiine

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On Marketplace, I explained why those who believe in capitalism should support regulating car bloat:

"For decades, people who buy enormous, heavy cars have been creating societal costs that they aren’t paying for. That’s what’s called a market failure."

marketplace.org/2024/01/04/the

#cars #safety

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Inside a leaf nest of Polyrhachis robsoni rattle ants. The big one's the queen.

#Polyrhachis #Ants #Insects

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Arthropod Photo of the Week: January 3, 2024
Ant tending treehopper nymphs
Ectatomma tuberculatum
Hymenoptera: Formicidae
By Tom Myers, Kentucky, USA
#arthropodPOTW
#entomology #insects #photography

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@alexwild I get that some instances of plagiarism are less malicious or intentional, but I feel like calling any of it run-of-the-mill isn't the best choice of words. We don't want to normalize carelessness or dishonesty

@DaveMWilburn @futurebird I've read (somewhere, who knows when) it's the latter. I'm surprised that excavating falls to the older workers, though. Maybe digging is more dangerous than I'd have thought?

@GatekeepKen @w7voa and that makes it right to supply Russia so they can keep bombing Ukraine? Dumb fuck

@w7voa I'd love to see the aid for Israel decoupled from the rest

@rodhilton
Didn't know he was dead. Less gooooooo

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lol god DAMN this is the entirety of the White House statement on the death of #henrykissinger.

This is about as close as I think you could get to Biden publicly saying "fuck that guy I'm glad he's dead."

@alexwild
If people park in bike lanes, maybe APD can get off their asses and get themselves some ticket funding. Sounds like a win-win

My dentist friend was telling me about how she's the one dentist at a practice, but the practice is owned by some guy out in California. So I figure he's a denture capitalist

@capntransit @streetsblognyc @nycmayor

"Cops charged the driver, identified as Hector Yepes, on Friday with failure to yield to a pedestrian and failure to exercise due care"

I'll never understand how this isn't, say, manslaughter. It's no big deal to kill someone as long as you do it while driving a vehicle, apparently.

I suppose it's worth asking my extensive mastodon network: I'm trying to buy a ticket to Austin City Limits this saturday. Anyone looking to sell a day pass?

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Here's a short video from Latvia showing why you shouldn't treat railway lines as a playground.

#MetroTrains

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This is possibly the funniest social insect study of all time. To keep them from eating all the food, female wasps stuff male wasps head-first into empty cells and threaten to sting them if they try to escape.

#Wasps

nature.com/articles/38931

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