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_Robert_ wrote:

https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-spending-u-s-compare-countries/#item-start US costs are pathetic… Provide our citizenry universal healthcare, make it a profit-free zone, you know, like the military…(If one still wants to buy private insurance, fine, do it.) Then maybe the next generation will inh…

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Davis, that slanderous article about cats was full of shit. The fact is, experts are arriving at the conclusion that DOGS are, I’ll use their words, “social parasites.” who have domesticated man to their advantage.

One of America’s best science journalists, Stephen Budiansky, wrote about this genomic research in a cover article for The Atlantic m…[Read more]

As long as I can remember, I’ve found cats totally fascinating. If I’m in the room with one, if it’s awake and active, I can hardly take my eyes off it. Dogs…ho hum.

Her untimely death was sad but hardly as traumatic as when I lost my first dog (the worst moment of my life).

Then I sincerely hope your parents are still alive.

Cats are far more linguistically complex than dogs. Dogs have around 10 distinct woofs barks, yowls, and yelps, but with cats their meows, yowls, growls, clicks, chirps, chatters, cackles, etc., add up to nearly 100.

Wild cats don’t meow once they assume maturity. Domestic cats meow because being around people has taught them that it…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:

Since _Roger_ didn’t explain, I’ll say that during WW2 they used to camouflage ships this way. This doesn’t appear to be a warship (I could be wrong) but from a distance, a ship painted like this especially with terrain in the background would make it very hard for a submarine commander to identify…[Read more]

What color is a zebra? Because they often have a large white belly patch, many would say that they are white with black stripes. However, science says the opposite.

And why are zebras striped at all? It’s all about an insect.

_Robert_ wrote:

For years I used to think this was a just an unfortunate side effect of free society. A relatively small price to pay for efficiency. Not to worry because ‘charity’ will step in and fill the need. I never understood the depth of  the “us and them” divide. It has now become obvious, this silent doctrine.

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Davis wrote:

If you prefer being a cruel sociopathic society leaving people to die from simple health issues or the homeless to rot in the gutter and marginalised people living in abject poverty (people to fend for themselves)…then you will pay a very high social cost, higher levels of crime and disfunction and most of your government programs w…

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Davis wrote:

I was actually thinking of some case in the future where we relied on diamonds for some form of technology and needed an abundance which would make diamond mining so essential. In fact scientists believe there are even diamond planets. I suppose we could even make our entire wardrobes out of diamonds couldn’t we? What would the new s…

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Hippos are now an invasive species in Colombia.

Maybe this one isn’t astounding, but I bet most people think of a large wolf as being about the same mass as a German Shepherd, which, for a large male is around 90 lb according to most kennel club standards. Incredibly, that’s about half the weight of a large Timber Wolf which could weigh 175 lb. Look at how big the head of this Canadian Timber…[Read more]

It sure looks like birds were hip to quantum mechanics long before genius human scientists.

Simon Paynton wrote:

The whites around our eyes may be there to help humans communicate and cooperate, by showing directions of things to others. http://www.bbc.co.uk/earth/story/20150808-gorillas-with-human-eyes

I’ll have to try that sometime. LOL

Also, when you do an eyeroll because someone is doing or saying something stupid.

Davis wrote:

I think it’s particularly interesting just how difficult it would be to “mine” those diamonds. Considering the amount of pressure it takes for those diamonds to form so quickly we would need some space ship made out of a near indestructible material just to get down there (and survive air compression on the way) AND the ability to re…

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Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

Apps to access Parler have been removed by Apple and Google from their stores.

The apps are still widely available from many sources, including Parler itself.

You can drive the crazies off Twitter, Facebook, and the rest, but they’ll go to Parler.com and the people who want to hear their shit will follow them.

And are…

Ivy wrote:

“The day America realized how dangerous Trump is” https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/09/politics/donald-trump-dangerous-capitol-riot/index.html it’s hilarious. Took y’all 4 fucking years to figure that out? Seriously 😒 America is STUPID!!!

“I don’t much like Trump but I LOVE his policies.” LOL

BTW, if you want to keep tabs on the insane underbelly of US politics, give yourself an account on Parler.com. Unlike Facebook, Twitter, and the other more “normal” social media platforms, its appeal is that it has virtually no rules.