I’m frankly not that surprised. The city and especially the surrounding areas in LI have always had some of the most conservative and fascist populations in the country. There’s something uniquely dangerous about the thin blue line Italian American crowd.

Gotta say though I’m not sure if this covers surgical masks but more ski masks, which are also not uncommon to see.

Immediately I can see this was written by the comms director for the UC Davis ag/vet sciences department. UC Davis has one of the largest and most aggressive research programs oriented towards industrial livestock.

Please and think about the basic logic behind this claim and who benefits from making it a story.

Those are brownstones. That’s like comparing a ranch style house to a McMansion.

Idk if they actually manage to drive into any recognizable area of the Moscow metro area it will be a serious PR disaster, not just to westerners but to wealthy Muscovites who make up significant blocs of support and haven’t had to think about tangible violence. It’s a global city above the fray of war, and has a history of not being taken in advances, so I think the biggest thing is how uncertain anything could go depending how far they get.

I liked Jerry because I was also an annoying little shit.

Wang Yi low key looks like Brezhnev went to a threading salon.

Sadly this is not a good thing for a number of reasons.

Flaco is predominantly eating rats which is not his species’ main diet and is not providing him with nutritional diversity.

While Central Park doesn’t use rat poison, its use is unrestricted in all surrounding neighborhoods and rats can have territorial ranges in the hundreds of meters. Rats tainted with poison are slower and more vulnerable to predation.

The last owl in Central Park (which was killed in a collision with the truck mind you), was found to have near lethal levels of rodenticide in its system and would likely not have lasted very long before the accident. And this does not touch on the non-mortal effects of the poison on their well-being leading up to it.

Flaco is 13 years old; in its natural environment his species can live to 20 years. It is likely he will not last for more than a year at this rate.

Aside from all that, Flaco is non-native and larger than native predators. If he does end up becoming a more proficient hunter there is a significant risk he will disrupt what few native bird populations that remain in the park. It’s not a responsible precedent if we hope to rebuild and preserve extant biodiversity and establish that mindset in the general public.

I know I’m a buzzkill here, and the zoo is in a tight spot with what will be a PR mess regardless of what they do now that it’s viral. But the best thing for Flaco would be to catch him and bring him to a wildlife refuge somewhere away from a prey monoculture full of poison.

lmao at everyone saying trump would never go visit something like the train derailment. I’m not petty :screm-pretty:

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/3864505-trump-to-visit-east-palestine-in-wake-of-train-derailment/amp/

He’d been deliberately silent on twitter since the derailment after posting regularly otherwise. Has to address all the people screaming at him online.

He would go because the people there are his base or what he thinks is his base. He would just listen to what the railroads say about safety and have no problem the dude is oblivious to that kind of harm.