This seems more like intimidation than propaganda

Alzheimer’s doesn’t make you a genocidal fascist, don’t let them off the hook that easy. Also turning Alzheimer’s into an insult is kinda hurtful for people who actually have it and their loved ones.

Simpler version that fits comfier in my head:

What’s the opposite of the correct answer to this question?

• A) There’s no correct answer
• B) There is a correct answer

Don’t let the sailors tell you you have to cross oceans to circumnavigate the globe! Just walking around the headwaters of the Pregolya River is equivalent.

While this would have worked in Euler’s time, the puzzle in fact became unsolvable around 1873 when canals were built in the Masurian lakes effectively connecting a tributary of the Pregolya with a tributary of the Vistula to the south and cutting of this route. I assume the canals were constructed by mathematicians trying to close this loophole. Maybe hopping across lock gates when they’re closed doesn’t count as a bridge tho?

The Wikipedia page on ant mimicry is full of fun facts, but the relevant bits:

Jumping spiders in the genus Myrmarachne are Batesian mimics

Batesian mimics lack strong defences of their own, and make use of their resemblance to a well-defended model, in this case ants, to avoid being attacked by their predators.

Studies on this genus have revealed that the major selection force is the avoidance of ants by predators such as spider wasps and other larger jumping spiders.

But also (not specific to Myrmarachne):

Ant mimics can be myrmecophilous, with the mimics and their ant models living commensally together. In the case of ants, the mimic is an inquiline in the ants’ nest. Such mimics may in addition be Batesian or aggressive (predator) mimics. To overcome ants’ powerful defences, mimics may imitate ants chemically with ant-like pheromones, visually, or by imitating an ant’s surface microstructure to defeat the ants’ tactile inspections.

How screwworms managed to jump the barrier in 2022 is not fully clear. But in the years immediately before, the coronavirus pandemic reportedly created supply-chain snarls at the fly factory in Panama and disrupted regular cattle inspections that might have set off the alarm bells earlier.

Still, the screwworm advanced relatively slowly through Panama and Costa Rica for the first couple of years.

800,000 cattle a year are raised illegally in nature reserves [in Central America] and then smuggled by boat and truck up to Mexico. This allowed the screwworm to spread much faster than it can fly [beginning in 2024]. The line of new screwworm cases followed known smuggling routes

That’s gorgeous!

wait did ‘holy water’ just mean ‘the strong stuff the monks are brewing’?

This is super cool! That video mentions heavy rain could cause some interference, anyone know how significant of a concern that is? Like how heavy of rain has what kind of impact on speeds?

I saw a post recently about a proof-of-concept solar railway in Switzerland

That makes sense that grass is a good option in some climates (especially with the diversity people have pointed out is in the 2nd picture). I guess I’m wondering what would be a good option for arid parts of North America, or other places where grass would be a poor choice?

Maybe I’m seeing a problem where there wasn’t one! I hadn’t noticed the diversity in the second picture. Most of the tram tracks around me have gravel or concrete between them, I’m just dreaming about what could replace that.

sounds like the sort of compost we need to nourish a better society

That’s a helpful nuance! At first I just saw them both as grass = lame

Ooh that sounds nice!

It’s a classic cop routine:

• Step 1: do some violence
• Step 2: realize it looks kinda bad, look around and arrest somebody else for what they just did
• Step 3: profit (time and a half for their trouble)

This passed a couple days ago and will be signed by the Governor today! Takes effect July 2027.

It looks like Puente Arizona and the Phoenix Legal Action Network have one, but it might just be in the Phoenix area. 480-506-7437, more info here.

We’ve got a hotline in Colorado! (844) 864-8341 They verify reports and share info with the community, and dispatch volunteer legal observers and immigration attorneys. Not sure if orgs in any other states have stood up something similar.

I think that’s true for the Aedes egypti species at least, they’re not native in the Americas and are a main disease-spreading species