Conservatives spent a decade crying how liberals call them "racists" and "bigots" as a way of shutting down debate. Now, 80% of the pro-Israel discourse is composed of screaming BIGOT and ANTI-SEMITE at everyone who isn't loyal to their sacred foreign country.
And just like white Democrats call black conservatives "Racists" and "White Supremacists" for not voting for their party, these Israel First fanatics routinely scream ANTI-SEMITE at Jews who refuse to pledge loyalty to Israel. Utter clones of everything they pretended to hate.
Bill Gates shows up to testify about his direct connections to Jeffrey Epstein's child trafficking network with a big smirk on his face.
The testimony will be behind closed doors with no cameras.
Gates knows he will get away with his crimes against children.
Our entire government is a joke.
I think I had a dystopic dream about driving around and seeing excessive numbers of surveillance cameras trained on us everywhere, but that actually might have been real life, yesterday.
@InsightTweeting Heh, that was hilarious when I saw it. Our school's Drama Club did Shakespeare for the masses but their hearts were with the 20th Century stuff. Beckett and Brecht especially. They never did Genet - in the mid 70s that was still too daring.
If you're an arugula-munching brunchlib who romanticizes remote "work" during lockdown orders, do you really give a shit if a wholly-expendable homeless doordasher dies doing their job delivering bistro food to your door? No. You don't.
A severe drought in Spain has revealed one of Europe’s most astonishing archaeological treasures — a 7,000-year-old megalithic monument, now confirmed to be older than both the Pyramids of Egypt and Stonehenge.
Known as the Dolmen of Guadalperal, this prehistoric stone circle had been submerged under a dam reservoir for decades. As water levels fell, the stones re-emerged, giving archaeologists a rare chance to study one of humanity’s earliest ceremonial sites.
A single ragweed plant can release hundreds of millions, and in some cases billions, of pollen grains. The wrong plant takes the blame for it.
When your eyes start itching in September, you look around and the thing you see blooming is goldenrod, tall and bright yellow on every roadside. So goldenrod gets cursed and torn out.
But goldenrod is innocent. Its pollen is heavy, sticky, and built to ride on the bodies of insects, far too heavy to float into your nose. About the only way it reaches you is if you press your face into the flower.
The real culprit is often growing right next to it, unseen. Ragweed blooms at the same time, but its flowers are small and green and easy to miss, and its pollen is light enough to travel for miles on the wind. Ragweed is one of the leading triggers of seasonal allergies in North America, especially in late summer and fall.
Meanwhile goldenrod provides late-season nectar for bees and other pollinators heading into fall. Removing it does nothing for your allergies, but it does take away an important food source for wildlife.
Tripod fish live at depths of up to 6000 m below the surface. They are practically eyeless because of its super-dark habitat but their long fins can feel the vibrations made by approaching prey on the seafloor
[📹 Schmidt Ocean]
New York City spends part of every summer renting goats to fight invasive plants.
Two dozen retired farm goats get trucked in from upstate and turned loose on a two-acre hillside too steep and tangled for human crews to work safely. They go straight for the plants nobody else wants to touch: porcelain berry, mugwort, multiflora rose, English ivy, and poison ivy, which they eat with no reaction at all.
A goat puts away about a quarter of its body weight in vegetation a day, and the herd grazes the invasives down to the root, again and again, weakening them and making them easier to control.
It isn't a gimmick. Goats reach terrain machines can't, can reduce or even eliminate the need for herbicides in some areas, their droppings fertilize as they go, and clearing the tangle is exactly what lets park staff come in behind them to plant native trees and understory that hold the slope.
Cities from California to the Carolinas now rent goats to clear brush and cut wildfire fuel.