Alt media's favourite military expert, former Colonel Douglas Macgregor, and his HUMILIATING PREDICTIONS on the war in Ukraine:
March 2022: "In ten days, this should be completely over."
September 2023: "This could go on till Christmas."
May 2025: "Over the next month or two, I wouldn't be surprised if the whole picture changes suddenly."
August 2026: "This thing is over."
@JayinKyiv Indeed, and he's not the only one. Ireland continues to send Putin raw materials for weapons - weapons like the one that committed this atrocity - every fucking day *but pretends it isn't doing so*. We should be a pariah state. https://t.co/QMLGmWSoGn
When India accidentally wiped out its vultures, half a million people died in five years.
The bird doing zoomies in this video runs the most extreme digestive system in the animal kingdom. Vulture stomach acid sits near pH 1, strong enough to destroy anthrax, rabies, and botulism in the carcasses they eat. A flock strips a cow to bone in about 45 minutes.
India had 50 million of them. Free sanitation at national scale, in a country where religious custom means most cattle die natural deaths and every dead cow becomes a carcass someone has to deal with.
Then the patent on diclofenac expired in 1994. Farmers started using the cheap painkiller on livestock. Trace amounts left in a carcass cause kidney failure in vultures. Within a decade, 50 million birds fell to a few thousand. The fastest collapse of any bird species since the passenger pigeon.
The carcasses didn't disappear. Feral dogs took the vultures' place and brought rabies with them. Rotting remains leached into waterways. In districts where vultures once thrived, human death rates rose more than 4 percent. Economists at Chicago and Warwick put the toll at 100,000 extra deaths a year and $69 billion in annual damages.
So yes, the goofy bird sprinting down the walkway is adorable. It's also a disease firewall that evolution spent millions of years building and one generic painkiller nearly erased in ten.
@jamesmerilatt Norwegian Broncos fan here 🇳🇴🏈 If PSLs happen at the new stadium — anyone up for a 1/8 - 7/8 seat share? You keep basically every game, every year. I show up for 1 home game a probably every 5 years - tops. Win-win. Who’s in? 😉
Schibsted/VG fikk kjøpe cupen av NFF. Nekter å ta imot innlegg mot NFF og kjører selv på med kampanjejournalistikk for Klaveness. Betaling kan som kjent komme i ulike former.. https://t.co/7Ww7GxNgyW
NRK med mye rart. (Fullstendig hodemist å snakke om å se «far bli tørket i rævva»), men når tidenes beste spiller skal ta imot plass nummer 2 i VM - aka SØLV - klarer kommentator å kalle Argentina «årets tapere». 🙃
@mikkelickski@europazooropa Pauseshowet er vel neppe topp 10 over kontroversielle episider i dette VM?
Kommentaren i beste sendetid er bunnpunktet i NRKs dekning.