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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Belgium national team's officialsocial media post after beating theUSA national team in the World Cup:"Overturn this"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re good, it is called the box in English.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone should take this seriously before it happens⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Great tits could be wiped out by climate change in near future

  By Ben Cost

  We mean the birds, dirtbags.

  The unfortunately named great tit has joined a long list of species that could soon disappear due to Earth’s rapidly warming climate.

  “If the changes happen too fast, species can become extinct,” said Emily Simmonds, an associate professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology’s department of biology. She authored an article in the journal Ecology Letters detailing how the food supply of the great tit — a colorful songbird endemic to Europe and Asia — and other bird species can be impacted by a premature season shift caused by rising temperatures. 

  Simmonds argued that warmer winters and resultant early springs prompt plants to leaf earlier, causing tree-eating larvae to hatch ahead of time, Science Daily reported. This can prove problematic to birds like the great tit that depend on the spring bug bounty when they’re babies.

  “When the climate changes, the interactions between different species changes [sic], too,” explained Simmonds.

  Fortunately, some populations of great tits have learned to adapt to the untimely spring by simply hatching earlier — proving that the early bird does indeed get the worm. This behavior, in turn, could potentially be passed on to future generations.

  However, after analyzing statistical models and different climate scenarios, researchers deduced that the songbirds wouldn’t be able to evolve in tandem with their prey forever.

  “The larvae might be changing even faster than the great tits,” said Simmonds, who chalked up the evolutionary discrepancy to the “big greenhouse gas emissions.”

  The report added, “We might reach a kind of threshold where the great tits aren’t keeping up. The rubber band gets stretched too far, you could say.”

  In the worst-case scenario, researchers suggested, larvae hatched approximately 24 days earlier than the 2020 norm would cause the whole population of great tits to vanish by the year 2100 due to lack of food.

  Fortunately, Simmonds said, “populations will be able to survive scenarios with lower or medium warming trends.”

  Great tits aren’t the only fine-feathered friends feeling the heat from climate change. According to a report by Audobon, nearly two-thirds of America’s breeding avian species face extinction due to the global temperature spike.

  More alarmingly, scientists speculate that global warming could wipe out one-third of all animal and plant life by 2070.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Energy Secretary Chris Wright: “I'm thrilled to report that after 35 years, on July 4th, we will end the subsidies for wind and solar projects”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  While I understand this sentiment and do agree that we should have a high sense of climate urgency, oil companies aren’t going anywhere anytime soon. A big first step is simply to stop burning oil, but even if we do that we will still require a huge amount of it. All plastics, ALL of them, are oil derivatives.

  Look around you, wherever you are, and you will see things that are made with plastics. And if they aren’t made out of oil derivatives, they are made by oil derivatives either as a source of energy, or the machinery to make it has plastics. The clothes you are wearing, your shoes, your hair comb, your toaster, car, glasses, pc, t-shirt, birding binoculars, camping tent, the list is never ending because it’s everyfuckingwhere. The prints on your glass, the pen with which you write or the keyboard you type on, it is so incredibly pervasive.

  So we can rant at these oil companies, but an enormous chunk of the economy depends on it and that’s a simple fact. I’m not claiming to have the answers, but we can’t just get rid of oil, which is why I say that step 1 is to simply stop burning it. That will already stop the worst, the bleeding if you will.

  And sure, renewables are good and to have renewable energy is infinitely better than burning oil, but they only solve the most obvious problem. The real issue is what would we use instead of plastics? And as far as I know, there is no alternative.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thats you⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s definitely a type of salad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I mean does anybody really know how to play Chess?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Scholar’s mate school of business.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Im pretty sure Charlie Kirk would have called for your execution⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Does meth have a strong smell actually? I have never come into contact with it and Breaking Bad did not address that afair.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dammit!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I once interviewed a guy after HR had already talked to him. Told him straight up the permanent job would preferably go to an internal candidate, but we still needed someone like him temporarily, even though HR had told him it was for a permanent job. He still took it and the internal candidate was promoted 9 months later. I’m still friends with the guy that took the temp job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NASA scientists says astronauts should not masturbate in space⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Space invaders: genetic boogaloo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨aaand it's closed again⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is obviously a nefarious plot by George Soros.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A name more fitting⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is an affront to the Julii.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨13,492% sudden interest increase in local Alabama news station⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nimis cito, vir, nimis cito.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨rules⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  2 dolphins, one pufferfish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An identification key⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ork clap

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is my wife after getting a wiff. She is really not into my armpit smell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon likes geography⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  New Guinea? The guinea was abolished and never reintroduced.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away."⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If it would allow you to end the commercial early, it would kind of be genius. “Watch this 2 minute ad or say ‘I love McDonald’s’ to immediately continue watching” is something that definitely would work. It would get these phrases or slogans ingrained while providing a better viewing experience.

  Don’t get me wrong, I would hate it as much as anyone any other lemmy user. However from a marketing perspective it’s pretty solid while a significant percentage of the viewership would not only participate, but laud it as a good solution to skip the forced commercials.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Male Masked Trogon⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That wart or whatever it is, is not an ear or normal part of the bird. Beautiful nonetheless.

  Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bro caught slippin⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To abscond should be in more peoples vocabulary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone old enough to have used this before GPS?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  By the time I started driving, we already had gps, but I do remember my dad pulling those folder or foldable maps when driving somewhere for the first time. His advice on how to read these things was “Look for the river crossings. It usually doesn’t matter much which road you take, you will always end up at the same crossings.”

  And this is why, when planning a road trip in the pre-waze days, I would always check the river crossings first and when is a low traffic time to cross them, because you don’t want to be stuck for 2 hours because an ungodly amount of drivers need to be squeezed through a narrow tunnel.

  But nowadays it’s hardly relevant anymore, only to make sure you don’t take too long of a lunch/dinner break or get stuck in said situation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is real. Big controversy regarding cheating in Olympic events because of the size of suit worn by jumpers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Olimpics

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The man who drove his car into 100 people should be able to drive again, Judge rules.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That is exactly how it should work and not nearly enough people recognize that. It’s part of the social contract: You break the rules, you get punished. After the punishment, you are a full member of society again.

  Otherwise you just get punished again and that should not be the case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Question for the Americans. If Canada, Venezuela, Mexico, or Greenland dropped a nuke on Washington DC, would you be angry at the bomb dropper, or would you think we had that coming?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Listen mate, the capital of Greenland is literally Nuuk. Isn’t it always winter there? As if it were a man-made nuclear winter? The Americans merely built the bomb, but the Greenlanders are the bomb. Don’t open your mouth against the Inuit or they will intuit a nuke into it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do we ?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be honest, those baby on board stickers are pretty dumb. Nobody goes “This car doesn’t have a baby on board, awesome, now I can break check them like a maniac”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have seen a lot of movies where the Catholic School Nuns smack a students hand for being disruptive or something is this a trope or a real something? Like most notable in Blues Brothers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A friend of mine is also left handed and I only found out when we started a game of darts and he switched hands. Under communism writing with the left hand was not allowed for some reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not the ending per se, it’s how rushed it all was. Dany going villain was always projected, especially in the last published book. But it’s the rushing of the storyline and the distinct decline in quality dialogue that made it so bad. The storyline could and should have been fleshed out more with maybe even 2 extra seasons. Instead the seasons were shortened and they tried (and failed miserably) to wrap it up quickly.

  As for the dialogue, compare the dialogues of Tyrion and Varys from the first 3 seasons to the last 3 seasons and you will wonder if those are the same characters. They were quick witted and sharp in the first seasons, but in the last 3 it’s all “Hur hur, you don’t have a cock” jokes. And that’s just one of the more obvious flaws. So many story threads had no conclusion, the actions stopped making sense, what should be a multi month voyage is reduced to days, etc, etc, etc…

  It will be taught in movie colleges as a warning for decades, if not centuries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zootopia⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can I pay in fridges?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i am a simple person⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That and Civ V

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨vindication⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The band Steps was just way ahead of its time.

  5. 6. 7. 8. My hoob scoobs baby is driving me crazy, my obsession from a western and we dance all night

  (Or something like that, haven’t heard it in a decade but holy crap that was a nasty earworm)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bruh... 🫩⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m still convinced he’s a sith lord, so I think he doesn’t talk as weird as he does when he’s not playing the bumbling idiot. But I probably would still prefer to look like him just in case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Woke up this morning pondering THIS question⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They build their homes in the pond out of reach of predators like wolves or bears. They also dig escape routes from their den under the water. They’re herbivores so it’s not for fish, btw.