Americans criticizing Canada for not being able to control 1 billion acres of forrest when they can't even control their own lettuce supply from giving themselves explosive diarrhea.
One of my fellow Michiganders posts about how bad the air quality is because of Canadian 🇨🇦 #wildfires, followed by something along the lines of “we should go up there and handle it.”
Yeah sure buddy. You head on up there 😂
Every wildfire season, a certain kind of American catches a whiff of Canadian smoke over the rust belt and instantly credentials himself as a bonafide expert in managing a few million square miles of boreal wilderness he couldn’t find on a map.
“Why can’t #Canada just put the fires out?”
My brother in continental geography. We can’t put our own fires out…
The US has thrown decades of eye-watering budgets at wildfire. We still lost Paradise in a morning and Lahaina in an afternoon. But by all means, keep posting to social media about those dastardly #Canadians.
Canada is the second-largest country on earth, close to half of it forest, much of it with no roads and no way in. These fires move 20 to 30 kilometers a day. You can watch every acre burn from orbit in real time and still not lay a hose on it.
In the future, maybe support climate science, conservation, and forestry if you want to breathe better.
When I heard about Senator Graham’s death last night, the first thing I thought about was not all the things he said and did in service of Donald Trump. I thought of the time before Donald Trump when he was a brother to Senator John McCain.
A time when senators from different parties could fight about politics and still be friends. A time when a conservative Republican from South Carolina could say of my father: “If you can’t admire Joe Biden as a person, you’ve got a problem. He’s the nicest person I’ve ever met in politics. As good a man as God ever created.”
That is the Senator Graham I will remember today. Not because I have forgotten what came after. Because in that memory there is hope. Hope for a country where brothers can fight like hell over policy and still share a meal, and a laugh, and the loss of the people they love.
I will choose to remember the time before Trump. Because I believe in an America after Trump.
@thevic58@GlobalErgoGuy@SamaHoole Claire Danes did an awesome acting job of Temple Grandin. It truly is a remarkable movie and well worth watching. Such insight into an amazingly strong and devoted person.
@SamaHoole Omg. This was such a GREAT story. I somehow lost the story halfway through, and it meant enough that I had to go through each and every one of the accounts I follow to get it back! Phew! Thank goodness you wrote 'pro-ruminant' In your profile! 😅
In Vinnytsia, Ukraine, a female stork was widowed when her mate died. She is incubating her eggs and is unable to feed herself.
Local residents have started feeding her.