If you're worried about ticks, put up an owl box.
The animal driving most Lyme disease in the eastern US is the white-footed mouse. Ticks that feed on them are far more likely to come away infected than ticks that feed on other animals. The bigger the local mouse population, the worse the next year's tick year.
A single barred owl pair raising chicks can take hundreds of rodents in a breeding season. Owls also don't carry Lyme. The bacterium can't survive their digestive tract, so an owl that eats an infected mouse is a dead end for the disease.
Researchers at the Cary Institute, the leading lab on Lyme ecology, have been explicit about this: "Landscapes that support predators have reduced Lyme disease risk."
One owl box on its own isn't going to fix a tick year. But a yard with owls, foxes, bobcats, and weasels in it has fewer mice, and a yard with fewer mice has fewer infected ticks.
If you have woods or fields nearby, a properly sized barn owl or screech owl box (different species, different boxes) is one of the most useful single things you can do for tick exposure at the landscape scale. Match the box to the owl that lives near you.
The mouse is the problem, owls are the solution.
I actually am increasingly convinced that the mail in ballots and voting machines Trump no longer complains about have been coopted by the GOP and that is likely why Trump literally doesn’t care about the election this November. He knows he will win because he has control over the same system that was used in 2020 against him. Our democracy doesn’t stand. We are an oligarchy teetering on dictatorship.
Hating the guys who just bled for their country to earn a gold medal because they laughed at an awkward joke the president of the country they just bled for made, after chugging 6 beers in 13 mins with dopamine flowing like water, is certainly a choice
Absolutely no one is saying “that’s out of line Mr. President” and ruining one of the coolest moments of their lives for everyone. I’m not a Trump guy but getting congratulatory call from the president, no matter who it is, after winning a gold medal at the Olympics, is a moment as American as apple pie.
These are 20-something year old kids high on life (and USA-crested Mich Ultras). No one’s making a political statement in that moment.
They laughed at an awkward joke, and if I had to guess, most of them were prob like “the fuck was that joke about?” afterwards.
Jack Hughes is an LGTBQ+ advocate. He said his first thought after scoring was Megan Keller’s OT goal. Half the boys watched the women beat Canada in the gold medal game.
But there’s a 0% chance any of them are ruining that insanely cool moment. Idc what your politics are.
And if you truly think they should’ve ruined that moment and made some sort of moral stand, imo youre just completely out to lunch and are missing the bigger picture of how big of a moment this was. Touch some grass, get off social media. Half these kids prob don’t even know the 3 branches of government.
Out of line joke the president made. Shitty joke but that’s on brand for him
But don’t turn this unbelievable moment into some social justice crusade. Just let the moment live.
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I agree, Matt.
Let's start with Budweiser. Since 2008, it's been owned by a Dutch multinational. Plenty of American-owned alternatives. And it's an awful product.
Let's put Budweiser out of business.
What say you?
Some dudes in college would literally drink 4 nights out of the week IN SEASON and still hit .400+ or win 10+ games.
For all the super-domed health optimizers
Your whoop score doesn’t give you Dawg
This Formula shortage is a blessing and a curse, people will have to resort to protein powder, and all the babies will get huge gains. Hard times make hard men Hard Men make Good Times.
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