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Jizzny Princess posted:
I moved back to the US last year after living in Japan for the better part of a decade and the amount of dead animals on the highways is shocking. It's like a couple small mammals every mile and and a deer every ten. I can't recall ever seeing roadkill in Japan, and I was in a very rural area with tons of twisty mountain roads. Tons of alive monkeys and deer, pheasants from time to time, a bear once, none of them plastered into the pavement. First time I went to Texas I was greeted with a parade of smushed armadillos.
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Sep 8, 2023 18:17
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Driving out one spring break I saw a bald eagle flying and on the way back home it was smashed on the road. Metaphor for the American Dream? 
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Sep 8, 2023 18:44
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Dokapon Findom posted:Driving out one spring break I saw a bald eagle flying and on the way back home it was smashed on the road. Metaphor for the American Dream? 
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Sep 8, 2023 18:44
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What a lovely thing to see after three days of no internet connection.
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Sep 8, 2023 18:59
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Jizzny Princess posted:
ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD
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Sep 8, 2023 19:10
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Dokapon Findom posted:Driving out one spring break I saw a bald eagle flying and on the way back home it was smashed on the road. Metaphor for the American Dream? I recently saw one on the side of the road eating road kill. I don't know how this alters your metaphor.
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Sep 8, 2023 19:23
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ben shapino posted:i mean its no endorsement of a senile rapist for president but its pretty good nah, covid thread is full of psycho freaks who do stuff like threaten service workers who dare make fun of their hazmat suits. it's not a normal place, and any endorsement coming from it is incredibly sus (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Sep 8, 2023 19:29
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Thorn Wishes Talon posted:nah, covid thread is full of psycho freaks who do stuff like threaten service workers who dare make fun of their hazmat suits. it's not a normal place, and any endorsement coming from it is incredibly sus 
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Sep 8, 2023 19:38
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Thorn Wishes Talon posted:nah, covid thread is full of psycho freaks who do stuff like threaten service workers who dare make fun of their hazmat suits. it's not a normal place, and any endorsement coming from it is incredibly sus You are the last person to tell anyone they are a psycho or a freak. Thorn Wishes Talon posted:Yeah but those were sexual harassment accusations, e.g. inappropriately touching her shoulders, making remarks about her legs, etc. They are definitely very believable, considering how much more commonplace such behaviors were back then, and also the fact that Biden himself appears to have trouble understanding the concept of personal space. Very inappropriate and cringe stuff.
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Sep 8, 2023 19:42
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https://twitter.com/TheOceanCleanup/status/1699799949276221844?s=20
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Sep 8, 2023 19:44
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i would think insects not splattering on windshields as much anymore is chiefly due to chemicals sprayed on highways like herbicide, west nile prevention, radioactive salt water, etc. and general habitat loss from development along those roads as well. killing a billion bugs/min for a century with cars is still bad tho and not helpful.
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Sep 8, 2023 21:32
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It's rapists and racists all the way down, and not even climate death will change that. Human nature owns
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Sep 8, 2023 21:46
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Thorn Wishes Talon posted:nah, covid thread is full of psycho freaks who do stuff like threaten service workers who dare make fun of their hazmat suits. it's not a normal place, and any endorsement coming from it is incredibly sus lmao
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Sep 8, 2023 21:48
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Zeta Taskforce posted:I recently saw one on the side of the road eating road kill. I don't know how this alters your metaphor. at an old postdoc, we would x-ray bald eagle carcasses, because they commonly had bullet fragments in them. many of them were hit by cars, and the ones that switched to roadkill scavenging were little fatties, which i think contributed to them not dodging cars that well.
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Sep 8, 2023 21:51
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Rochallor posted:I moved back to the US last year after living in Japan for the better part of a decade and the amount of dead animals on the highways is shocking. It's like a couple small mammals every mile and and a deer every ten. I can't recall ever seeing roadkill in Japan, and I was in a very rural area with tons of twisty mountain roads. Tons of alive monkeys and deer, pheasants from time to time, a bear once, none of them plastered into the pavement. Americans do not give a gently caress about animals on the road, that’s for sure. I still remember the sickening “thwack!” of a van hitting a fawn right in front of me. No attempt to slow down, let alone swerve. Just “this baby animal is in my way and I GOTTA GO FAST.” In summary, all climate catastrophe should be inflicted on America (plus most of Europe and Australia)
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Sep 8, 2023 23:21
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gently caress You And Diebold posted:https://twitter.com/TheOceanCleanup/status/1699799949276221844?s=20 but at least our microplastic friends will still make it to the sea 
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Sep 8, 2023 23:27
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ADudeWhoAbides posted:Americans do not give a gently caress about animals on the road, that’s for sure. I still remember the sickening “thwack!” of a van hitting a fawn right in front of me. No attempt to slow down, let alone swerve. Just “this baby animal is in my way and I GOTTA GO FAST.” just on humans in general really
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Sep 8, 2023 23:30
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https://nitter.net/WxNB_/status/1700083931800907936#mquote:Nahel Belgherze
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Sep 9, 2023 00:24
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lakes are good though, so that seems like good news.
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Sep 9, 2023 00:31
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it's good to get the once in ten thousand year storms out of the way, now everyone can rebuild secure in the knowledge that this cannot statistically happen again which provides much needed security for the no doubt much larger populations of the future
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Sep 9, 2023 00:55
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Make Room! Make Room!
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Sep 9, 2023 00:59
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Are we past the "stop showing me that chart" phase, or is that still in effect? https://twitter.com/LeonSimons8/status/1698410404693594417?s=20
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Sep 9, 2023 01:03
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avatar tower restored, my reign of hypocrisy continues
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Sep 9, 2023 01:13
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Stereotype posted:avatar tower restored, my reign of hypocrisy continues You need to get on this banning collapse thing. Where we at with microplastics too? They be fucky. C'mon, ban hammer. Rooting for ya.
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Sep 9, 2023 01:15
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the cops ran over those climate protesters outside burning man because if the hippies couldn't get in then the pigs couldn't arrest them for having fentanyl test strips (burning man is the only place in the nation they are illegal lmao)
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Sep 9, 2023 01:17
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Who was dishing out the Ebola strips then? 
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Sep 9, 2023 01:20
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https://twitter.com/0ddette/status/1700298796670882232?s=46&t=NfFUqnrTGI_gdViBS3OzCg lol
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Sep 9, 2023 01:24
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lmao! https://twitter.com/0ddette/status/1700303432924475500?s=46&t=NfFUqnrTGI_gdViBS3OzCg
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Sep 9, 2023 01:25
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Skaffen-Amtiskaw posted:Who was dishing out the Ebola strips then? ebola is mild it turns out
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Sep 9, 2023 01:25
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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:lmao! rime was right
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Sep 9, 2023 01:25
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Skaffen-Amtiskaw posted:Are we past the "stop showing me that chart" phase, or is that still in effect? how is only the last three years so much higher? is this some crank poo poo? don’t reply with a weed/meth joke
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Sep 9, 2023 01:34
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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:lmao! gummy bears?
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Sep 9, 2023 01:34
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Stereotype posted:rime was right yeah idk why people act like we build these things and they will last forever
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Sep 9, 2023 01:36
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we can burn them and make electricity
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Sep 9, 2023 01:41
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Cold on a Cob posted:how is only the last three years so much higher? is this some crank poo poo? comedy option is bitcoin
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Sep 9, 2023 01:46
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Real hurthling! posted:i would think insects not splattering on windshields as much anymore is chiefly due to chemicals sprayed on highways like herbicide, west nile prevention, radioactive salt water, etc. and general habitat loss from development along those roads as well. part of it is because modern cars mostly don't have flat front surfaces for insects to impact and stick against & hydrophobic clearcoat & stuff like rain-x is more common stuff's dying but even if it wasn't if you're in a newer car the only spot you'll find much bug is around your radiator & grill between about 35 & 60 they'll actually kill a lot less smaller bugs(honeybee/fly sized) than older cars too, the airflow basically sweeps them out of the way if it's not a direct impact, so they're much less likely to take out entire swarms of something. still obv. doesn't help with the stuff under the tires though & cars make much less noise on approach now which makes it worse i think an unaddressed part of this problem is the kind of assumption that animals are always crossing the road, or wandering onto it, and not that they're drawn to parts of road & hanging out on&above it because black asphalt will hold and radiate heat better than most things in most places and some animals are instinctively drawn to open, flat areas, snakes & reptiles love em for basking i think the roads work like kinetic bug & lizard zappers more than a dangerous barrier and i think the damage caused increases with the local density of animal life and rate/speed of traffic on a curve that's more exponential than linear, i bet there's hotspots that kill a shitload of stuff, esp. in places like Florida a lot of animals lives could prob. be saved from studies to find the most heat soaked and populated strips of road in places with vulnerable species and just shade them better or put unused asphalt or some other cheap sunlight soaking material alongside it with a plastic barrier wall alongside even portions of the roads to block some of them it would be really easy to find the worst spots traffic & heat wise w/ thermal cameras and i bet it would make a big difference for insects and lizards/amphibians especially, but ive never seen anything focus on that angle
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Sep 9, 2023 01:49
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i figured the massive global biodiversity loss was contributing to the global phenomenon of 99.9999999999% drops in insects impacting automobiles but I guess we somehow developed aerodynamics that means a 1980s car and a 2020s car are completely different and the 2020s car just shuffles the insects, that are definitely still there, out of the way of the cars. Modern aerodynamics are so good that trucks the size of small houses and 20,000lb SUVs also have this insect repulsion effect. Even 18 wheelers use this technology too.
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Sep 9, 2023 02:05
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I'm blaming 20-30 years more brake and tire dust building up
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Sep 9, 2023 02:32
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i got these hybiscus teabags that claim no plastic on the package but if it steeps all day in my work cup and i forget to toss the bag, the bottom of the tea feels gritty...probably not plastic heh heh phew!
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Sep 9, 2023 02:45
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I think we discussed this a few years ago but the roads in and of themselves breaking up land into a series of disconnected chunks is bad for insects and other living things, before you even get into the poison-treated monocrops and whizzing automobiles Still, gently caress cars Some shithead in a car hit my dog on purpose when I was a kid. Guess he should have been lighter so the aerodynamics would have pushed him out of the way.
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