Re: Today's Bad News Reply #475 – 2021-06-06, 10:23:04 Returning to serious things,94% of mammal biomass (excluding humans) is livestock. This means livestock outweigh wild mammals by a factor of 15-to-1.4 Of the 28,000 species evaluated to be threatened with extinction on the IUCN Red List, agriculture and aquaculture is listed as a threat for 24,000 of them.And there's more: Our World in data https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food
Re: Today's Bad News Reply #476 – 2021-06-06, 14:56:51 Not bad news if you are a cow, though probably bad news even then, as you know your time on top is ending. It's all downhill from here. To repeat, we really should have a cow thread. Quote from: jax on 2021-04-26, 05:12:56I could go with that. We really should have a cow thread. It interacts with all other threads on this forum, including this one.Bos taurus may be the dominant and most successful mammal species, as measured in biomass. There are probably more of them than of us, or any other mammal (Sus scrofa is on a distant third, all other mammals a distant fourth). Last Edit: 2021-06-06, 15:29:43 by jax
Re: Today's Bad News Reply #477 – 2021-06-22, 14:22:58 Dehumanization continues...Oregon has become the third state in the US to legalise a new end-of-life process of human composting or “natural organic reduction” of the human body.
Re: Today's Bad News Reply #478 – 2021-07-05, 16:04:20 Gulf of Mexico is burning. Firefighters are trying to put it out.[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3yBnodXI7E[/video]
Re: Today's Bad News Reply #479 – 2021-07-06, 05:20:26 Fire is out. You could argue it's a bad thing (I did). https://twitter.com/jaxroam/status/1411336256378839041
Re: Today's Bad News Reply #480 – 2021-07-06, 13:33:36 I guess they were afraid it would cause something even worse by shifting over to the oil platform?
Re: Today's Bad News Reply #481 – 2021-07-07, 16:28:48 Another eventful bad day. Haiti president assassinated and an Estonian ambassador expelled from Russia.Quote from: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/haiti/article252616688.htmlThe assailants claimed to be agents with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, according to videos taken by people in the area of the president’s home. Moïse, 53, lives in Pelerin 5, a neighborhood just above the hills in the capital.On the videos, someone with an American accent is heard yelling in English over a megaphone, “DEA operation. Everybody stand down. DEA operation. Everybody back up, stand down.”Quote from: https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/estonia-decries-detention-of-diplomat-in-russia-2021-07-06Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said it had detained St Petersburg-based diplomat Mart Latte after he was "caught red handed" receiving confidential information from a Russian citizen."This activity is not compatible with the status of a diplomatic official, and its nature is clearly hostile to the Russian Federation," the FSB said in a statement. "Measures in accordance with the norms of international law will be applied to the foreign diplomat."Russia's relations with European countries have been hurt in recent months by a number of spying accusations against Russian diplomats in Europe. Italy, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Romania are among EU countries with which Moscow has exchanged tit-for-tat expulsions.
Re: Today's Bad News Reply #482 – 2021-07-18, 13:54:26 Woman arrested for training squirrels to attack her ex-boyfriend Geez, isn't police telling anymore how to pose properly for mug shots?
Re: Today's Bad News Reply #483 – 2021-07-18, 14:53:57 Quote from: ersi on 2021-07-18, 13:54:26Geez, isn't police telling anymore how to pose properly for mug shots? I'm sure they did their best, but that does look like the mug shot of someone that would train squirrels to attack her ex.
Re: Today's Bad News Reply #484 – 2021-07-18, 16:59:16 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_News_Daily_Report
Re: Today's Bad News Reply #485 – 2021-07-18, 17:18:09 For a decade or more, my favourite fake news site has been this one http://ironictimes.com/I think it was founded before the term "fake news" was a thing.
Re: Today's Bad News Reply #488 – 2022-03-24, 23:14:23 Have you heard her impressions of Putin, whom she met in 2000?
Re: Today's Bad News Reply #490 – 2022-03-25, 07:53:14 From her op-ed in the NYT:QuoteMr. Putin spoke unemotionally and without notes about his determination to resurrect Russia’s economy and quash Chechen rebels. Flying home, I recorded my impressions. “Putin is small and pale,” I wrote, “so cold as to be almost reptilian.” He claimed to understand why the Berlin Wall had to fall but had not expected the whole Soviet Union to collapse. “Putin is embarrassed by what happened to his country and determined to restore its greatness.”(Putin's Moves On Ukraine Will Be a Historic Mistake)(I remember her saying more about his personality previously...but I can't source it. )But there is more about his mission and mindset here (from a 2000 article). Last Edit: 2022-03-25, 08:22:26 by OakdaleFTL 1 Likes
Re: Today's Bad News Reply #491 – 2022-04-06, 23:24:08 Some sad news to report. The user “Jimbro37” that was with us on myOpera for years, and also on here as “Jimbro3738” passed away. RIP Jim. 4 Likes
Re: Today's Bad News Reply #492 – 2022-04-07, 01:48:40 Can we agree that Albright got him wrong? Quoteshe was taken with his ''can-do approach'' and his lack of dogma.{source)Or must we admit, he's willing to use any trope — to expand his personal ambitions?Is the West at war with Vladimir Putin — or Russia?That's kinda the problem with strongman regimes: Until the "strongman" leaves the stage, there's no distinguishing between the two.
Re: Today's Bad News Reply #493 – 2022-04-07, 05:05:28 Quote from: Colonel Rebel on 2022-04-06, 23:24:08Some sad news to report. The user “Jimbro37” that was with us on myOpera for years, and also on here as “Jimbro3738” passed away. RIP Jim. That is deeply sad. Among my favourite virtual friendships. As will be the fate of all of us he has now gone to the Great WebArchive in the Clouds.Just now, post mortem, did I see we shared a non-love for music. 2 Likes
Re: Today's Bad News Reply #496 – 2022-04-07, 12:20:15 Quote from: Colonel Rebel on 2022-04-06, 23:24:08Some sad news to report. The user “Jimbro37” that was with us on myOpera for years, and also on here as “Jimbro3738” passed away.Well that is sad to hear. RIP Jim.
Re: Today's Bad News Reply #497 – 2022-05-01, 11:48:20 According to Ukraine's secret service, this newspaper will appear tomorrow in Transnistria and Transnistria will enter the war https://twitter.com/loogunda/status/1520676951756787712
Re: Today's Bad News Reply #498 – 2022-05-13, 19:43:48 Jen Psaki leaves the White House after holding 224 briefings — more than all of Trump’s press secretaries combinedQuote from: https://www.businessinsider.nl/jen-psaki-leaves-the-white-house-after-holding-224-briefings-more-than-all-of-trumps-press-secretaries-combined/Psaki has not yet announced her next job, but has reportedly secured a gig at MSNBC.Will she be on TV asking questions in interviews, instead of answering? That's a very different job.
Re: Today's Bad News Reply #499 – 2022-05-14, 00:54:23 Quote from: ersi on 2022-05-13, 11:43:48Will she be on TV asking questions in interviews, instead of answering? That's a very different job.Not so different: Instead of saying "Ill get back to you..." she'll parrot "People are saying..."