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  1. also Florida...  77lb Whitetail

    Python attempts to swallow 77-pound deer. Photo: Ian Bartoszek

    The Conservancy of Southwest Florida on Thursday shared images and video showing a Burmese python attempting to “ingest” a 77-pound white-tailed deer.

    The adult female python, photographed in South Florida by conservancy biologist Ian Bartoszek, measured 14 feet, 8 inches.

    Bartoszek stated: “Watching an invasive apex predator swallow a full-sized deer in front of you is something that you will never forget.

    "The impact the Burmese python is having on native wildlife cannot be denied. This is a wildlife issue of our time for the Greater Everglades ecosystem.”

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  2. 10 minutes ago, BehoId, The Underminer! said:

    no, its very useful.

    Spockvarietyhour: does anyone understand a word I'm saying here?...

    csb: Was in the Athens airport waiting for a flight.  We were camped out in a crowed little airport cafe and an OLDER couple looked in hopefully to find a seat, but there was no room.  I told them they could sit with us if they liked and they gladly accepted.  I had the kids scrunch down the bench and we managed to get all 6 of us seated around the small 4 top.  The couple was quite old but clearly well travelled and they asked about our trip.  At one point I mentioned how in the Peloponnese the road sign and the city names never seemed to match up and it was slightly confusing.  But I also said that Greek seemed like a difficult language to learn and it probably wasn't worth the hassle.  With a rye smile the old man proceeded for the next 5 mins to tell me all about the benefits of learning ancient Greek. (who knew there were any!)  Evidently he was an antiquities/language professor of some sort at Yale.   Which was cool because I had had the kids watch Kagan's Yale course on the Peloponnesian wars.  He got a chuckle out of that.

    PS the difference in the city names on street signs is if they are in Greek/Byzantine Greek/ or some other regional dialect of Greek. But they are used interchangeably.

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  3. 12 minutes ago, LCHorn said:

    That’s part of it, Big Sort and all. 

    I also think that the old German pioneer, independent and yet community building spirit curdled into selfish NIMBY’ism.  The old German families resent the Mexican Americans that now outnumber them so the demographics are more like apartheid South Africa.  

    That's some ironic shit, because the german pioneer families swore fealty to Mexico in exchange for land.

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  4. 2 hours ago, RDCanecutter said:

    OK, this morning I woke up to the lovely Mrs. Canecutter bringing me coffee. I had just been dreaming something about being in Costa Rica feeding kibble to monkeys, so I told her about it.

    She came back with a long detailed dream that she just had, where something big had happened, and she and I were crossing the country headed west to California, on scooters. Mine was a Ruckus covered in saddlebags.

    We were financing the trip by selling off our silver to MAGA types with ashtray voices who were mocking us, saying "Y'all used to look down on us for buyin REAL money, now you wish you'd bought more yourself." We still had a handful of gold two-peso coins stashed away.

    We were on scooters because by the time of the dream they no longer needed registration. We were on county highways because the US ones have cameras. We were going to California because it was affordable. All the jobs had gone. Except for one Chemistry job that she was going to take.

    Unrelated, she thinks some of her East European ethnic Magyar crew might have been Gypsies who changed to something else in America.

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  5. 4 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

    Dying medium can't give a significant portion of their subscribers a reason to cancel. This is where we are now. 

     

     

     

    Or struggling media that serves a valuable public service parasitized by investors to extract value for share holders over viable modernization strategies.  

    Where we are now?  Grift > Integrity  Michael Milken & Ivan Boesky American Heroes!

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  6. 12 minutes ago, texasdago said:

    PSA:  If you're clicking a paywalled news link, click the link then quickly hit ctrl+p  Then you can read the article in the print preview or save it to a PDF.  

    Fuck these assholes

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  7. In blue Broward Fl, The Sun-Sentinel won't endorse a Presidential candidate.  Fuck them all

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    The South Florida Sun Sentinel has joined other major newspapers across the nation in not endorsing a candidate for president this year.

    As the paper explained in an editorial previously posted by the newspaper's editorial board, the Sun Sentinel stopped endorsing candidates for president, U.S. Senate, and gubernatorial races in 2022 under a "company-wide decision" — roughly a year after the paper was acquired by Alden Global Capital, a hedge fund.

     

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  8. 10 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

    Excuse me, she has to be PERFECT.  Otherwise, I just don't know who to vote for.

    Listen, she should have thought about all that before making so much melanin and not growing a cock in the womb.

    10 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    And companies can’t really lower prices now because their employees have all received wage increases that won’t come down. And they also have suppliers who won’t drop their prices. We had craziness for a couple of years but prices have now stabilized.

     

     There is a lot more to it... namely shareholders & stock buy backs

    9 hours ago, Bullneck said:

    Hold onto your hats.  We have dodged a baguette ullet:

     

     

     

    9 hours ago, TeeDubya said:

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    1. I can hear this gif
    2. He's Swedish and you know it!
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  9. 3 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    Lawdogs- wouldn’t that be trespass to chattel? I seem to recall Scot Powe talking about this when he taught some undergrad history of the Surpreme Court (he was awesome). That’s one of the big trespasses, along with person and land, right?

     

    Do you think people brought their own TV to the gym?

    Also it just turns the TV off, not damages it.

    I'll hang up and listen...

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