Guys, dolphins know how to get high. 🤷🏼♀️ And here is how.
They use pufferfish. When a pufferfish gets threatened, it releases a potent neurotoxin. The dolphins figured out that if you bite the fish just gently enough, a tiny dose won't kill you, it just completely alters your perception.
So they pass it around to their friends like a joint, taking turns for 20 minutes straight. Afterward, they just float near the surface, barely moving, staring off into nothing.
Besides humans, they are the only animals known to intentionally seek out altered states just for the pleasure of it. Pure stoners of the sea.😏
California's Central Valley produces 80% of the world's almonds. Each almond requires 3.2 gallons of actual irrigation water to grow. Not rainfall. Actual tap water pumped from aquifers.
One gallon of almond milk requires 162 gallons of irrigation water. Compare that to dairy milk at 8 gallons of tap water per gallon, with the rest being rainfall that falls on pasture anyway.
But here's where it gets properly grim. Almonds bloom for exactly three weeks in February. During those three weeks, California needs every pollinating bee in North America transported to the Central Valley or the crop fails entirely.
Commercial beekeepers truck in 31 billion honeybees. That's two-thirds of America's entire managed bee population, all concentrated in one valley for three weeks. The bees are packed into trucks, driven across the country, dumped into almond groves drenched in pesticides, worked to exhaustion, then packed up and shipped to the next crop.
The mortality rate is catastrophic. Beekeepers report losing 30 to 50% of their hives annually. That's billions of bees dead. Not from natural causes. From being used as disposable pollination machines for your almond milk.
The pesticides don't help. Almond groves are sprayed with neonicotinoids which scramble bee navigation systems, fungicides which weaken their immune systems, and herbicides which eliminate the wildflowers they'd normally forage on between almond blooms.
Meanwhile the aquifer depletion is permanent. The Central Valley has sunk 28 feet in some areas from groundwater extraction. That water took 10,000 years to accumulate. It's being drained in decades for almond milk.
Your vegan latte killed more bees and used more water than a year's worth of dairy milk. But it's got "plant-based" on the label so you're definitely saving the planet.
@libsoftiktok@netflix Speaking up is great, but the show grandstands the normalization of young children claiming a false gender identity, which feels irresponsible in a public forum. It’s also outrageous that medical doctors are being shamed into going along with it.
What Erica did is difficult! Modeling herself after Christ, powerful. We don't see the act of forgiveness often and in this case, it was swift. I believe Erica had to forgive to move forward, continue her mission, and non-forgiveness would eat her alive. The battle for good and evil is a real one.
@PennStRealist @gunsnrosesgirl3 There are signs a baby is struggling with vision, which a pediatric ophthalmologist can determine by examining the child's vision.
@realDonaldTrump Dear President Trump,
I am angry with the Biden administration. How dare this man scare me to death.
I worked hard my entire life.
I am a senior citizen and I need Social Security to help with the cost of living.
Please help me understand what is happening with Social Security.