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@rokkbert that's sure how windows made me feel

@IChingTruth Nobody does, I guess. Many _use_ it but they live in constant fear ;-)

This is what a giant Sequoia looks like next to a human

Take thirty seconds and roll up the soccer net in the backyard. It's a quiet killer. An owl crossing the yard at night doesn't see the netting and hits it at speed. Wildlife rescues find them wrapped up like a burrito, if they're found in time at all. A groundhog turned up tangled in a backyard soccer net just last fall. Loose garden and fruit netting does the same thing, snagging birds by the leg or wing and leaving them to starve, and groups like the RSPCA get called to it constantly. The worst offender hides in plain sight every October: fake Halloween cobwebs. Stretched across a bush, that stringy webbing is strong enough to ensnare a screech owl, and it catches hummingbirds, bats, and birds all season. The fixes are all easy. Roll up or take down sports nets when nobody's using them. Pull any netting you keep up drum-tight, and check it morning and night. And skip the fake cobwebs outdoors, because nothing alive benefits from them. Loose netting is one of the few backyard hazards that kills for no reason at all. Yours can stop today.

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$2. A handmade sandwich. From a vending machine. Inside a train station in Japan. JR Sapporo Station, Hokkaido. The machine belongs to Sandria, a sandwich shop founded in 1978. The first 24-hour sandwich shop in the city. No preservatives. The egg filling is packed all the way to the edge of the bread. Every bite hits. The machine runs from 6 AM to midnight. Staff restock it 5 times a day. It still sells out. Commuters at the other ticket gate begged for their own. So the station added a second machine. The best seller is the Double Egg. 300 yen. About 2 dollars. Tour groups grab them for breakfast before their bus leaves. What can you get for $2 at your train station?

"Tiny homes" continue to grow in popularity. These are selling for around $140,000 for just over 600 square feet in Texas.

Everyone's grandma had this TV back in the day:

Two young seals are freed from an entangled net, a reminder of the impact marine debris can have on ocean wildlife.

@KaynakNews vax evil

Wait for the end😍

I ran across this video and I just had to share it. Is this not the most precious thing you’ve ever seen?

@paulhayes55 that is a really lovely picture!

Iran just dropped the receipts. In one single night, Iranian missiles struck more than 21 U.S. military bases across the region. From Ali Al Salem in Kuwait, the Fifth Fleet and Isa air base in Bahrain, Al Udeid in Qatar, to Al Minhad and Al Dhafra in the UAE — multiple strategic bases were hit, including a THAAD radar system and an MQ-9 Reaper drone that was taken out of the sky. Satellite imagery has started confirming the damage, with clear impact marks inside the perimeters of several bases, including one in Jordan where F-35s were stationed. While CENTCOM continues to downplay the strikes, the evidence is becoming harder to ignore. This is what happens when you poke the wrong side. Sacred Defense. #IranWar #SacredDefense #PersiaBoi #USBases #MiddleEast #IranLego

Confirmed: Iran has attacked a US destroyer, the ship has been destroyed. Source: Ynet.

@harperlee789 @Kris6Tina a bell for a bike

A self-taught Irish schoolteacher wrote a book in 1854 that almost nobody read for 80 years, until a 21-year-old MIT student picked it up and realized it could be used to design every computer in human history. His name was George Boole. The book is called An Investigation of the Laws of Thought. Boole was born in 1815 in Lincoln, England. His family was poor. He left school at 16 to support them. He taught himself Latin, Greek, French, German, and Italian. Then he taught himself mathematics. By 19 he had opened his own school. By 24 he was publishing original papers in the Cambridge Mathematical Journal, competing with men who had spent decades inside the best universities in Britain. He never had a degree. He never had a mentor. In 1849, Queen's College in Cork hired him as a professor anyway. In 1854, he published his masterwork. What he built inside it was something nobody had attempted before at this scale. He turned logic into algebra. Before Boole, logic was philosophy. You argued in sentences. You reasoned in paragraphs. It was powerful and completely impossible to automate, because there was no formal system underneath it, just language. Boole stripped it down to arithmetic. He showed that every act of human reasoning could be reduced to operations on two values. True or false. One or zero. AND, OR, NOT. If both conditions are true, the result is true. If neither is, the result is false. Every judgment a human mind makes, every decision, every deduction, could be written as an equation following those rules. Logicians read it. They found it interesting. Engineers building machines had never heard of it. For 83 years, the book sat there. Then in 1937, a 21-year-old MIT master's student named Claude Shannon was working on a thesis about electrical relay circuits. Switches that could be open or closed. Current that either flowed or didn't. He read Boole and understood something nobody had connected before. An open switch is a zero. A closed switch is a one. A circuit with two switches in series only carries current when both are closed. That is AND. A circuit with two switches in parallel carries current when either is closed. That is OR. Shannon proved that every possible logical relationship Boole had described could be physically built using wire and switches. That single insight is the foundation of every computer ever made. After Shannon, chip designers stopped thinking about electricity and started thinking about logic. Every transistor on every processor running right now is implementing a Boolean operation. Every if-statement in every codebase is Boolean logic. Every database query using AND or OR. Every neural network threshold that fires or doesn't fire. All of it is running the algebra of a self-taught schoolteacher from Lincoln who died 160 years ago. The strangest part is what happened to Boole at the end. He was walking to class in November 1864 when he got caught in a rainstorm. He lectured for hours in wet clothes. He went home sick. His wife, Mary, believed in homeopathic medicine and thought the cure should mirror the cause. She wrapped him in wet sheets and poured cold water over him repeatedly. He died a few days later. He was 49. He never saw a transistor. He never saw a circuit. He never saw a single physical machine run a single one of his rules. His book is in the public domain. Free to download. Most engineers use the word Boolean dozens of times a week. Almost none of them know who they are saying. The man whose logic runs inside every phone, every server, and every AI model on Earth died soaking wet in a small Irish town, 83 years before anyone figured out what he had actually built.

Coot running on water! 😁😍 Taken last week at RSPB Ham Wall. 🐦

when I was a kid 75 years ago I had an uncle who shot them and claimed they were good eating.

Isky @iskykapin

16 hours ago

I wonder, is it okay to eat squirrels?

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🚨🚀🚀BREAKING: Iran has just released footage of shooting down an American MQ-9 drone The Pentagon has lost 20% of its MQ-9 drone fleet since the start of the conflict

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