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Insects, but the cats don't help.

In some parts of the world, one can still celebrate their 40th birthday with their grandparents and their grandkids at the same party.

Even though I no longer want or need this memory, I will never be able to forget the sound of Bonzi singing Daisy Daisy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XuUyfywhGQ&ab_channel=c1yd3...

The Atlantic has a fascinating article about what actually happens to these returns: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/free-re...

TLDR: We imagine they're processed/cleaned/resold, but the reality is that the majority of online retailers just throw the returned product away.

Corey Arnold's photography of bald eagles in Dutch Harbor is fascinating - they truly look like a nuisance: https://story.californiasunday.com/dirty-birds/

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Gridlock vs Bottleneck Simulator: https://setosa.io/blog/2014/09/02/gridlock/

The best managers I've have were all people managers. Like a gardener, they "planted" me in my role because they wanted my skillset, and now they "cultivate" me to make sure I thrive as they know I'm capable of. When opportunities arise for my own advancement, I'm in the best condition I can be (thanks to their tending) and can naturally move up to the opportunity.

I know it sounds hokey, but sometimes I feel there's way too much emphasis put on tactics of management. A good manager, at least in my industry, is spending their time to make sure the team is running and nothing is weighing negatively on their staff.

This exactly. The level of austerity that comes with traditional homesteading can be shocking to most Americans.

In a related note, people are always surprised that Ansel Adams also photographed Japanese internment: https://www.loc.gov/collections/ansel-adams-manzanar/about-t...

potato starch emulsion!

I'm curious to see what scientists the community here holds us. I'm looking specifically for scientists currently working today, not necessarily the historical giants.

I'll add mine: The work of Laurent Ballesta and others studying shark interactions is fascinating to me. His work really underscores how little we understand of the natural world around us, and how stereotypes of a species are often very wrong.

Wasn't that the whole premise of Ask Jeeves? And then much later, Wolfram Alpha awed with that same 'plain language' functionality?

The stock market is an excellent point. Feels like there is lots of under-indexing (no pun intended) for the sentiment associated with 40% passive growth in one's retirement account since the start of the pandemic.

"Yes, I think this is driven by corporate friendly mainstream media to mostly drum up for support for more corporate welfare while simultaneously painting Americans as lazy and undeserving of welfare themselves."

I think you are overindexing on the corporate-media outlet connection and ignoring how simple it is for a journalist to write a trend piece from personal anecdotes. All it takes is three friends of a journalist to resign before said journalist feels like this is a 'nationwide trend'.

Let me ask you: would you expect the quality/tone/curation of r/science to hold up 50 years from now? Would you be surprised if, in 50 years, r/science didn't have the special sauce it has now?

All things are ephemeral, especially in media. We're just marketed at to believe otherwise.

*A year to learn, a yearn to earn, next year churn.

One counterexample to this might be the field harvesting of bison. Starting to see more 'artisanal' buffalo ranching that stress the positive ethics and efficiency of slaughtering in the field as needed. Of course, they still do need a partnership with a local processor to make field harvesting work.

This weekend we also saw the loss of Tom Lovejoy, one of the most important conservation biologists of the last century.

https://news.mongabay.com/2021/12/tom-lovejoy-prominent-cons...

Not to mention the quality of the attraction itself -- there are plenty of B-level Colorado "resorts" that most upper middle class won't bat an eyelash at because the vert/terrain/natural snowpack just isn't as good as what you'd get in, say, Breck.

Great. We acknowledge the importance of this developmental period. So what are the options, and which option contains a downside that is more palatable than the others?

I.e. we fear the effects of total isolation of a four year old more than the risk of their stunted facial recognition practice etc etc

Propublica has a fascinating series on the failures of the modern Navy: https://features.propublica.org/navy-uss-mccain-crash/navy-i...

Flying as a GA pilot in Montana, I can't rely on VOR for two reasons: signal interference from terrain and the fact that the FAA is actively decommissioning the VOR system. I can't rely on ATC radar because of terrain, either.

In their minds, is the greater risk a side effect from the vaccine popping up years from now or the debilitating effect of long-term COVID symptoms? Because right now, we're seeing hundreds of thousands of people not dying from Covid, but still suffering for more than a year with no end in sight to their symptoms.

Also curious if their fear of long-term vaccine side effects has been their line since April? I'm seeing a few anti-vaxx friends switching to this line of anti-reason in the last few weeks, now that the FDA approval is right around the corner.

The flip side to this jealousy, like many things in life, is the unsexy realities: even an investment in an index fund this past year would’ve outperformed the average year’s ROI several times over. The upside is right there, available just by following the same common sense, safe investing advice being preached for decades.

Definitely not as fun as making millions on meme’d speculation.

Yes, but no one mentions the downside: that timing the exact bubble end, catching the proverbial falling knife without getting cut, is nearly impossible for the vast majority of bubble investors. The key would be to take your profit we’ll before the collapse, which you’ll notice is antithetical to the whole “HODL” and “never sell” mantra being spoonfed to the first-time meme stock/coin investors.

Not as much as you might imagine. White balance correction, some exposure compensation in the shadows, some sharpening. No overt pixel shifting/manipulation. Brian Skerry is an excellent photographer and knows how to make these types of images better than nearly anyone else alive.

Source: I’m a former NG photo editor.

Similar to many of the newer $GME investors. Everyone is happy to keep investing in the hype bubble as long as they can enact the exit they imagine faster than the other guys. No one acknowledges how hard it is to catch a falling knife, and everyone over-indexes their ability to harvest the profit at the speed necessary to beat others in the bubble.

Could not agree more. I also maintain the unpopular opinion that speculatory colorization of black and white historical imagery is also doing damage to the accuracy of the general historical canon.

Not to traffic in huge generalizations, but it was very hard working in parts of the United States with a press badge and business card reading Al Jazeera. Best response I had from a subject who canceled on an interview last minute: "my pastor told me it would be sinful to speak to you."

We had constant internal turmoil stemming from poor leadership with racist, sexist and outdated ideas: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2015/05/06/al-jazeera-a...

Icing on the cake was when we discovered our general counsel lied about licensing to practice law: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/09/business/media/general-co...

Editorially speaking, the coverage was fair, we had huge budgets to cover worthy stories that we deemed newsworthy (rather than by popularity/eyesballs/clicks) and the employee compensation was excellent (they poached nearly 1000 journalists from other outlets when launching).

As a former employee of Al Jazeera America, I can’t stop laughing.