There's no other way

To shape the gentle core

Through the fire escape

You burn or hit the floor

And I'm changing

Someone like me but better now

Countdown from four, three, two, one

And then go

An anomalous bore

Amaranthine

Last one back will lead the next swing

Dedicated to more

And catalyzing

Capricorn shape fire make lightning

Every other day

I give myself the blame

In another hour

I'm bound to change my name

And I'm changing

Someone like me but better now

Countdown from four, three, two, one

And then go

An anomalous bore

Amaranthine

Last one back will lead the next swing

Dedicated to more

And catalyzing

Capricorn shape fire make lightning

Maybe I don't know myself

Like you think you do

Moving on to something else

Maybe you should too

An anomalous bore

Amaranthine

Last one back will lead the next swing

Dedicated to more

And catalyzing

Capricorn shape fire make lightning

During World War II, while trying to stock a remote island in the Bering Sea with an emergency food source, the U.S. Coast Guard set in motion a classic experiment in the boom and bust of a wildlife population.

The island was St. Matthew, an unoccupied 32-mile-long, four-mile-wide sliver of tundra and cliffs in the Bering Sea, more than 200 miles from the nearest Alaska village.

In 1944, the Coast Guard installed a loran (long range aids to navigation) station on St. Matthew to help captains of U.S. ships and aircraft pilots pinpoint their locations. The Coast Guard put 19 men on the island to operate the station.

In August 1944, the Coast Guard released 29 reindeer as a backup food source for the men. Barged over from Nunivak Island, the animals landed in an ungulate paradise: lichen mats 4 inches thick carpeted areas of the island, and the men of the Coast Guard station were the reindeer's only potential predators.

The men left before they had the chance to shoot a reindeer. With the end of World War II approaching, the Coast Guard pulled the men from the island. St. Matthew's remaining residents were the seabirds that nest on its cliffs, McKay's snow buntings and other ground-nesting birds, arctic foxes, a single species of vole and 29 reindeer.

St. Matthew then had the classic ingredients for a population explosion: a group of healthy large herbivores with a limited food supply and no creature above them in the food chain. That's what Dave Klein saw when he visited the island in 1957.

Klein was then a biologist working for U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. He is now a professor emeritus with the University of Alaska Fairbanks' Institute of Arctic Biology. The first time he hiked the length of St. Matthew Island in 1957, he and field assistant Jim Whisenhant counted 1,350 reindeer, most of which were fat and in excellent shape. Klein noticed that reindeer had trampled and overgrazed some lichen mats, foreshadowing a disaster.

Klein did not get a chance to return to the island until summer 1963, when a Coast Guard cutter dropped him and three other scientists off on the island. As their boots hit the shore, they saw reindeer tracks, reindeer droppings, bent-over willows, and reindeer after reindeer.

“We counted 6,000 of them,” Klein said. “They were really hammering the lichens.”

The herd was then at a staggering density of 47 per square mile. Klein noted the animals' body size had decreased since his last visit, as had the ratio of yearling reindeer to adults. All signs pointed to a crash.

Other commitments and the difficulty of finding a ride to St. Matthew kept Klein away until summer 1966, but he heard a startling report from men on a Coast Guard cutter who had gone ashore to hunt reindeer in August 1965. The men had seen dozens of bleached reindeer skeletons scattered over the tundra.

When Klein returned in summer 1966, he, another biologist and a botanist found the island covered with skeletons. They counted only 42 live reindeer, no fawns, 41 females and one male with abnormal antlers that probably wasn't able to reproduce. During a few months, the reindeer population had dropped by 99 percent.

Klein figured that thousands of reindeer starved during the winter after his last visit.

With no breeding population, the reindeer of St. Matthew Island died off by the 1980s. The unintended experiment in population dynamics and range ecology ended as it began — with winds howling over a place where arctic foxes are once again the largest mammals roaming the tundra.

Spain's Ministry of Foreign affairs has asked ministers to stop accusing Israel of conducting a genocide, because under spanish law making that accusation grants every Palestinian a right to asylum in Spain.

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— Faytuks News (@Faytuks) May 31, 2024

>car breaks down, live in it

>Exchange numbers with female store employees

>Rappel into planet fitness via broken skylight (retain cash flow)

>Call in bomb threat to Andreesson Horowitz (it's part of the venture capital game)

>Take peepee pics in locker room at planet fitness

>Post on LinkedIn about not being a stalker

>Chase women for cardio x 4 hours

Sigma grindset

I Found a Tiny Starfish by Dale Anne Dodds

I found a tiny starfish

In a tide pool by the sand.

I found a tiny starfish

And I put him in my hand.

An itty-bitty starfish

No bigger than my thumb,

A wet and golden starfish

Belonging to no one.

I thought that I would take him

From the tidepool by the sea,

And bring him home to give you

A loving gift from me.

But as I held my starfish,

His skin began to dry.

Without his special seaside home,

My gift for you would die.

I found a tiny starfish

In a tide pool by the sea.

I hope whoever finds him next

Will leave him there, like me!

And the gift I've saved for you?

The best that I can give:

I found a tiny starfish,

And for you, I let him live.

Discuss.

When a noodle gets a white 6'5 blue eyes white guy their son will be 5'5 black eyes yellow skin

I hope our sexy Indian dude drama-friends are doing fine considering the current heat wave you guys are going through. But it's possible the 52 C recorded could be due to a faulty sensor.

https://theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/29/delhi-temperature-hits-499c-as-indias-capital-records-hottest-day

Anyway, here are the people at /r/climatechange discussing the incoming collapse and total extinction of the sub-continent and eventually the whole world.

Someone calculated how long until a single heat wave kills a million people in India. It was surprisingly close like 1 decade away. India will be unlivable as a country soon due to heat waves and there will be billions of people fleeing the country. Unbearable is an understatement.

I can't imagine how they are coping. I live in Florida and my air broke over the weekend. It reached into the 90s inside of the house and it was miserable. I couldn't think straight and all I wanted was to just lay down under a fan all day not moving. My pets could not sleep at night it was so hot and humid. I think about all of these poor animals that will die this horrible death so one species's greed

Floridan dramatards, thoughts? I only went to Florida during winter, mild winter close to that of where I live.

I'm surprised India wouldn't be going all-in on renewable technologies/energy if they're starting to see temps above 125F. What is life going to look like in 2040? Millions dying from heat? I hope not

Yes. Exactly. People have modeled it and this is the future.

So, revolution when?

Climate change?

Some people are not having it

Turns out that the temperature reading we're talking about was anectodal, cherrypicked, false, and not even taken in Delhi:

https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/record-breaking-delhi-temperature-could-have-been-due-to-a-faulty-instrument/article68233451.ece

Today in Delhi top temp is around 46 C, which sounds crazy hot to us westerners, but it's totally normal for the hottest days of the year in that part of India, and is expected to drop in the next days.

!ifrickinglovescience

!ifrickinglovescience !physics

And here's more doom!

https://old.reddit.com/r/climatechange/comments/1d4le6a/cleaner_ship_emissions_may_warm_the_planet_far/?sort=controversial

Ok. Let's assume emissions were immediately zero, right? The cleaner air will accelerate the speed of global warming. The rate has doubled since 2010 due to low sulfur bunker C ship fuel regulations.

Taking this example further… James Hansen and the team at Columbia University estimate that the current atmospheric composition would result in earth being 8 - 10 degrees CELSIUS warmer than today. It will take roughly 10,000 years of warming for temperature to equalize. It's an exponential function so the last 1000 years the temperature wouldn't change nearly as fast.

We are F-U-C-K-E-D.

What? Where did he pull that 10 C warming?

Like a month ago I'm getting gas and this Ferrari pulls up at the pump next to me. The guy comes out and starts up a conversation about my Porsche and we exchange numbers. A few weeks later I post a picture of a Vector W8 I spotted and he gives me a call. Turns out he was involved with the guy who started Vector back in the day. I mention taking some photos of his car and he says that would be great. We make plans, the plans fall through a few times, but in the meantime he has a project for me.

He bought a Polaris side-by-side for his neurodivergent son and wants the color changed and it to have a racing livery like a monster truck. I say I could probably make that happen and get to designing.

Today I go over to his house to go over some of the design choices, and he says we can shoot his car tonight but it needs to be washed first. He hands me the keys, says to take it for a spin, hand wash it, and he'll pay me $25/hour to do so. Also there are a few other things around the house that need to be handled and he'll pay me hourly to do that as well.

Oh, and he also introduces me to his house manager. She's stunning.

So I find myself cruising some of my favorite back roads in a V12 Ferrari before carefully washing it in an air conditioned garage.

Tonight, I find myself hanging out the back of my Volvo getting the photoshoot I wanted.

Tomorrow I'm driving a few hours to the powersports dealership to pick up this Polaris. He says he wants me to break it in as well.

This isn't the first time I've fallen into a series of odd jobs, but it's been awhile and it feels good.

Edit: one of the results -

It was ok and I didn't c*m

!chuds yasuke was already in the gaymes long ago