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[The Curious Tales @thecurioustales]

🚨 JUST IN: A migratory bird just shattered world records — flying 8,425 miles (13,560 km) NON-STOP across the Pacific without landing once.

The bar-tailed godwit doesn’t stop to eat, drink, or sleep during its migration across the Pacific Ocean. Its journey from Alaska to Australia takes roughly 11 days of continuous flight, covering over 13,000 kilometers through storms, headwinds, and open ocean with zero land beneath it the entire time.

Before departure, it does something almost surgical to its own body. It shrinks its digestive organs down to almost nothing, converting the stomach, intestines, and liver into raw fuel. The bird essentially eats its own gut to make room for fat reserves that will power its wings for nearly two weeks straight.

The brain doesn’t fully sleep either. Half of it stays active while the other half rests, alternating in shifts mid-flight at altitude over the open Pacific. The godwit is simultaneously unconscious and navigating with magnetic field sensitivity that no human instrument in the 18th century could replicate.

What makes this genuinely staggering beyond the physical record is the navigational precision involved. The bird leaves Alaska and arrives in New Zealand with accuracy that would embarrass early GPS systems. It reads Earth’s magnetic field, atmospheric pressure gradients, star positions, and potentially quantum-level compass mechanisms inside its eye that literally let it see magnetic field lines overlaid on its visual field.

Evolution spent millions of years building an aerospace navigation system inside a 300 gram animal.

We spend billions engineering machines that do what this bird does on instinct, fat reserves, and half a sleeping brain.
The longest recorded non-stop flight by a commercial aircraft is around 20 hours.

This bird does 11 days.

Without a runway.

[US Department of the Interior @Interior]

A massive bison pushes forward through the winter snow, its broad face and thick, shaggy coat crusted with frost and ice. Natural insulation gives bison the strength to use their powerful heads and shoulders like snowplows to move through deep drifts.

Photo by Marc Bouldoukian

[Sachin Agarwal @agarwal]

This hike is a 20 minute drive from San Francisco. ❤️

A gentle walk through Tennessee Valley gets you to Tennessee Beach in Marin. It’s an easy, kid-friendly hike with an amazing payoff at the beach, featuring striking rock formations.

[Qadi @Bigqadi]

They look sluggish now but it only takes one shiny object and they will speed off at 1000mph

[Yo Yo Funny Singh @moronhumor]

The Stranger Things ending that nobody asked for 😂😂

[Netflix India @NetflixIndia]

Unfortunately we can’t add villu villu for Will’s entry, sorry guys

[യാത്രാമധ്യേ ഒറ്റപ്പെട്ടവൻ. @Raja751441123]

f "Let them taste their own medicine" had a face😂

[Oku @oku_yungx]

Keep her away from sunlight 🙏🏾

[கோயம்புத்தூரான் @Coimbatoraan]

ஓஹோ!!

[Community Notes & Violations @CNviolations]

When you order a cheeseburger in Tokyo

[u m a m i @u_m_a_m_i]

Why don't they first get them to work in bauxite mines instead of jobs that benefit from human interaction?

[Sam Peak 🇺🇸💡 @SpeakSamuel]

The H-1B was designed to be 6 years. In 2000, employers were struggling because the H-1Bs they had sponsored for green cards were facing a backlog due to the green card caps on each country and their H-1B would expire before they got their green card.

Rather than abolishing the caps on each country and expanding the number of green cards to meet the age of the internet economy, Congress modified the H-1B so that workers in the green card backlog could renew their visa in perpetuity as they wait.

H-1B is now used as an endless waiting room for employees in the green card backlog. Not having a green card after working here for many years causes a multitude of problems. Not only do they have a lot more bureaucratic hurdles and restrictions when it comes to switching jobs, the children they brought with them age out of their dependent visa status when they turn 21, causing them to get kicked out of the green card line and potentially the country. Even the dependents with high paying job offers can be rejected by the visa lottery, or the Department of Labor can take too long to approve their employer's green card petition and they're forced to leave anyway.

They also can't freely travel back home without stopping at a consular office abroad to renew their authorization every 3 years. The renewal process is unpredictable, and people might be stuck in another country for months as the State Department processes their visa renewals.

Why are people still getting in the green card line if the backlogs are so long? Because the government is terrible at projecting how long it takes to get a green card. One year, they say an applicant could get it in 5 years. The next year it could be 20 years. That lack of transparency makes people believe they can wait it out, but it also gives people false hope as their estimated wait rapidly fluctuates.

These people have already bought houses, built families, and have become well seasoned professionals in our broader economy, defense industrial base, and health care workforce.

But rather than worrying about these very real issues, the discourse is centered around imaginary instances of H-1B baristas and cooks making $30,000. Hint: if most RNs aren't considered educated and specialized enough for an H-1B, then a barista certainly is not eligible.

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[nivi @Nivethida]

@NChozhan Kids ofthese people who are not born in US will be on dependent visa , after 21 they will be aged out - can’t stay as dependent so they need to be self deported to the country they are born in even if they have never lived there.

[nivi @Nivethida]

@NChozhan The green car processing is backlogged, currently they are processing applications applied on 2011, there is per county limit 7% for processing the green cards since there are more Indians coming here there is unimaginable delay in processing the application.