If extreme temperatures continue, the southern yellow-billed hornbill will become extinct in the hottest parts of its range by 2027
Source: Goodbye Zazu: Climate Change Will Roast Desert Birds Into Extinction In Just Five Years
Sadly Too Many Have Failed to Recognize the Reality
They are us. These oppressive laws are not built on a secular or rational foundation, they are entirely the product of peculiar religious beliefs of a minority that we’ve encouraged to flex and grow.
Source: The corruption is next door. Wake up!
The situation is old, it’s been this way my whole 60+ years of life as explained to me before I was 10 years old by my American Baptist Minister Dad. He clearly taught me that many, sometimes a majority, of religious people want to have their peculiar beliefs forced on everyone else by government. We were Danbury style American Baptist so our faith included the absolute separation of church and state, unlike the regressive and oppressive majority of Baptists (southern & independent).
Emma Camp is a Whiny Snowflake
She seems to be conflating normal human behavior with some sinister plot to silence conservatives and her (she claims to be liberal but appears to mostly hold pseudo-oppressed conservative opinions).
Fuck Chris Crouch
He’s an ultra-selfish, anti-science, anti-vaccine moron that only comes around when it’s HIS wife and child that nearly die.
Source: Careless selfishness and the harm done to the most vulnerable
When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying the cross
Title is a quote from “It Can’t Happen Here” by Sinclair Lewis. Go read PZ’s post for more details.
It’s an unfortunately under-reported fact that our recent attempted insurrection had a strong unifying force: White Christian Nationalism. You didn’t see many atheists or Muslims or Jew…
Golfing Cockatoos
A really interesting and fun to read article from GrrlScientist.
A new study finds that problem-solving cockatoos can combine simple tools to accomplish a task, which is a thing that only a very few primates were previously known to perform
Source: Golfing Cockatoos Demonstrate Their Ace Tool Using Skills To Play Golf
This is why I voted No on the last Right to Repair ballot question
Josh Siegel, an assistant professor of engineering at Michigan State University who studies connected-car security, says the automakers might be right, and the system envisioned by the law may not be technically doable. Siegel says the ballot measure may have been “well intentioned,” but it wasn’t written “with a full understanding of the complexity of automotive telematics systems.” Those systems give access not just to data about what’s broken and why but also to the driver-assistance systems that enable emergency braking and elements of the drive-by-wire system that helps drivers control their cars. Asking the automakers to pull together a safe and open telematics system in just a few months wasn’t realistic, Siegel says.
“I think that they could create a platform that would meet some of the requirements of what the legislation is calling for,” he says, “but I wouldn’t want it in my own car.”
Source: A fight over the right to repair cars turns ugly | Ars Technica
Numerical Predjudice
A fun comic from the The Perry Bible Fellowship today.
Big Numbers – The Perry Bible Fellowship
Clicking the random comic button got me another great one from the past.
A Tennessee Quack Protection Law
Go read the details at:
The Antivaccine (Anti-Science) Party
Although there is much that is very good in the story, the overall framing is one that I see all too often (and that annoys me), namely that it’s “unexpected” that the right would ally with antivaxxers. It’s not unexpected. It never was unexpected. But the mainstream media have long labored under this delusion even though it hasn’t been even remotely true for at least several years, if not much more than a decade.
Source: One more time: The Republican Party is the antivaccine party – RESPECTFUL INSOLENCE
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