People never seem to want to hang out at animal habitats. If they can’t see something immediately, they just leave. If you’re patient enough to stay, sometimes incredibly magical experiences happen. Like this one.
Those are California condors. Biggest wingspan in North America, incredibly endangered, and the only species with approval from USDA for emergency use of the poultry avian flu vaccine.
Towards the end of the day, once things got quiet, I sat down near where one was foraging and just hung out. Then… they noticed me.
I can only upload one video so I’m going with the one where I was showing them my glasses, since they kept trying to peck at my shoelaces and fingers and I wondered what else they’d be interested in.
They stayed there with me for at least five minutes, given the duration of video I took. Just chilling, watching me, interacting a little. It was just us - nobody else approached. Until eventually they chose to go do their own thing, and I sat there in awe for a while.
It’s worth it to wait, when you can.
Official nature post
They have such gentle yet silly faces. I love these creatures.
Jean Arthur was, by her own admission, shy and uncomfortable in social settings. She avoided parties, had trouble connecting with people—even those she had known for some time—and had very little confidence in both herself and her ability as an actor. “I am not an adult, that’s my explanation of myself,“ she said. “Except when I am working on a set, I have all the inhibitions and shyness of the bashful, backward child… Unless I have something very much in common with a person, I am lost. I am swallowed up in my own silence.”
It was in animals that Jean found the great friends she lacked in humans, and she valued them immensely. “When I’m walking down the street I don’t pay much attention to the people,“ she commented. “I only see the animals, and I go up to them like old friends.”
Jean was arrested in 1973 for trespassing on a neighbor’s yard when she attempted to console a frantic German Shepherd that was chained outside. She was convicted of “trespassing and of cursing and abusing the policeman who arrested her on the neighbor’s complaint.“ None of this seemed to bother her—she firmly maintained the animal’s needs as being far more important than her situation.
She said she was concerned about the dog, whom she believed was being neglected “because he barked all day and most of the night, and he cried like a child.” She added: “It kind of broke my heart.“ Jean explained that she would occasionally sneak into the yard to pet the dog and bring it food and water. She had threatened her neighbor that she would call the Humane Society, but after he continued to ignore the attentions of the dog he kept constantly chained outside Jean took the matter into her own hands. According to reports, the former Hollywood star—then seventy-three years of age—had to be physically restrained and handcuffed.
LaTeX is the venerable, gold-standard layout package favored for
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code has been improved by community contributions over the years and is
very robust and full-featured! (via Evil Mad Scientist Labs)
Argentina has, historically, the right to public FREE quality university for all citizens and residents on its soil. This is considered a right and, although the system has its faults, it’s considered the pillar of Argentina’s middle professional class and a tool for upward mobility.
Last week, against HEAVY popular citizen support for the national public university system, Congress decided to support Javier Milei’s veto that halts the public university’s funding to inoperative levels.
Although the goverment and other friendly politicians assure this is about keeping numbers balanced, the money the Argentinian goverment gives to the system is less than 0,14% of the GDP. This is ideological. This is about less rights.
The President has claimed in interviews before and after his presidency that he considers free university “a degeneracy” and useless, although the Argentinian public university system has been lauded internationally (with high global rankings of UBA, Universidad de Cordoba, UNLP and Nobel prizes for its graduates) and is considered one of the tools for the working class’s social mobility and the creation of Argentina’s professional middle class.
The response to these measures that directly goes against the people’s wishes have been instant.
There are now massive university takeovers all over the country, including very conservative areas and faculties with a population that refrains from these measures and have indeed voted for Milei’s Libertarian party. Argentinian’s Student Movement is historic, relentless and goes back to the 1916 Reform. It has coordinated and birthed several historical moments country-wise and was famously targeted by authoritarian regimes (like 1976’s US-backed Military Dictatorship'a genocide and 1990s Neoliberalist Menem’s policies).
The last two decades the movement has been disjointed, even fangless, but it seems Milei and the Congress’s blatant corruption and disregard for what is considered a basic right has awakened a dormant beast.
I’m running a DnD campaign with my siblings and mom, who are all big MythBusters fans, so obviously I made Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage NPCs. Adam is a human and Jamie (JAM13) is a robot. Adam claims to have built JAM13, and is not satisfied with his inability to emote properly, but is very satisfied with his walrus-like facial hair. JAM13, however, claims to have grown Adam from a test tube and named him after the biblical figure, and says he is “clearly a very primitive approximation of a human being.” Insight checks on who is lying are useless because both of them fully believe they’re telling the truth.
You know that post that was going around like a year ago. That said something like ‘hey you don’t need to wear any makeup’ and people kept commenting shit like 'yeah just a little eyeliner is enough’. This is how this post feels to me
I’ve been watching the show 9-1-1 since it first aired 8 seasons ago. I have come to call it my “guilty pleasure” show.
Because it is stupid.
And ridiculous.
And wildly unrealistic.
And spectacular.
The show constantly challenges itself to create more and more insane disasters and crazy emergencies. And you’d think they’d eventually run out of ideas. But then some writer is like “what about a bee tornado?” and I just think “why the hell am I still watching this?”
Because it’s a tornado made of beeeeeees.
This show is what Snakes on a Plane should have been.
“I’m tired of these monkey fighting bees in this Monday-to-Friday tornado!”
Now people are discovering this crazy-ass show and I feel like that smug hipster that knew about it beforehand.
Along with like 10 million other regular viewers.
It’s actually very popular and always has been. But I guess a new batch of folks discovered it.
I think the most ridiculous part is not the bee tornados or the flying bouncy house or the anger sandwiches.
It’s that oscar winning actress Angela Bassett is the show’s lead and gives an acting master class every week on the goddamn bee tornado show.
Okay, obviously, DO NOT DO THIS, it is MASSIVELY unsafe for the animal and for you.
HOWEVER I am reblogging this because it is EXTRAORDINARILY satisfying to watch Immense Murder Floof get the head scritchies of all time right on her big ol’ noggin.
considering how comfortable the animal and the person is, i suspect it might be a rescue “couldn’t be released into the wild and is thus taken care of” situation.
Unsafe to do so in the wild. only slightly safer here.
I’m going to add to this with advice for any teacher running into this situation.
Ask to borrow the kid’s computer for a second, and use the AI. Pick a word, then pick a letter that is not in that word. Ask chatGPT how many times that letter appears in said word. (Avoid “how many Ns in Mayonnaise” because that went viral and got trained out.) Hell, give ChatGPT multiple tries. Ask it to demonstrate each time that letter appears in a word.
Let the entire class witness chatGPT fail. Because it cannot count. It cannot spell. It cannot think. Please put your lesson plans aside for a class and use it as a learning opportunity.
To add to your arsenal for educating these kids, please look into the concept of AI hallucination. AI cannot perceive things and has no ability to think critically, which means it cannot tell what’s real and what’s not. Really drill into these kids that they are better off asking advice from a toddler.
I used the characterAI bot instead of chatGPT in this case, but chatGPT has the same issues, because neither bot is capable of thinking about what it’s saying.
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