Good for you Donald! As a prison abolitionist who wants to focus on rehabilitation rather than punishment I'll be cheering you all the way!

dude thanos lmao

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.

How?

— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) May 18, 2024

!neolibs

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

!christians !chuds

!macacos

AITA for demanding my stepson goes to live with his mother?

My husband and I have a blended family, I have a 14yo boy and my husband has a 17yo boy. So for the most part, everything has been amazing until…..

His son had seemingly taken on the big brother role well, however things I've seen over the past couple weeks, completely changed my opinion of him.

My son was showering and I was in the bathroom getting towels, the stepson walks in, doesn't see me, and just opens the shower curtain to talk to my son. I yelled and he quickly moved, and said he just wanted to use his laptop.

Then I found them both asleep, shirtless cuddling.

This morning at 6am, my son walked out of the stepsons room naked, and ran to his room. We usually aren't up until 7am.

I confronted my son and he started crying and said they've done sexual things, but not to be mad because it's not that bad and it's mutual.

I told my husband his son needs to go live with his mother in Ontario. This has caused a massive argument and my husband is livid, however I'm sticking to it, I think his son is disgusting. AITA?

weird amount of people defending a 17 year old fricking a 14 year old in these comments

NTA but y'all might as well divorce. Ain't no coming back from this one

Why did you go into the bathroom while your son was showering? That's worse than whatever two consenting teenagers were doing to each other.

What's gross to me is everyone thinking s*x is bad. Sit down and talk. Make s*x a healthy conversation.

This is a tough one for me. Kids experiment. They just do. So this could be no big deal and just hormonal boys experimenting.

So is it disgusting because your 14 yr old Son is having s*x? Or that your Son is having s*x with a 17 yr old? Or that your Son is having s*x with a person of the same s*x?

14 yr olds of both sexes (& those not yet decided) are having s*x these days. Not that they are usually emotionally ready to do so, they just are. So maybe you should first have a calm conversation, with no recriminations, about being sexual (in whatever form) at that age, with your Son.

Your Husband should have a conversation with his Son about what happened, how it got started & what he was thinking.

ESH except the kids. Gay kids experiment often with family members/older boys. (I was definitely younger than I should've been)

>Gay kids experiment often with family members/older boys.

Why don't you send your son away? Do you think the stepson is disgustingly because he is gay/bi and you're homophobic? How many grades apart in school are they?

I don't think you can put all of the blame on your stepson.

What grades are they in?

How long have they known each other?

How long have they been living together?

YTA , you should seek help for both of your sons considering they are both partaking in incest behavior. Btw your son is also involved and should not be getting off Scott free and in your own words disgusting as well and even defended the actions. Also btw I'm sure that having another broken home isn't what is best for your son considering you had one comming into this relationship. Maybe you should act like a family and get help for the involved people instead of resulting to ostracizing.

Overnight oats with dried raisins, sultanas, sunflower and pumpkin seeds with orange jam preserves. I abuse the milk set out in the break lounge for tea and coffee and leave it in the corpo fridge so I always have lunch there. Topped with strawberry jam too.

Also it's smoothie day today I got raspberry.

!besties

OP

Where are they now?

In their 30s and 40s working for the man?

If you decided to protest I'm curious where are yall at now in life? Like are yall happy? Do yall think we can recover this economy and stop inflation now?

Can we do it again?

They bought GameStop 🚀🚀🚀

Co-founder of occupy Wall Street is a Crypto Bro

Already off to a great start.

I work for homeless services in New York City.

I work for homeless services in Philadelphia.

I use to despise leaving a digital footprint of any kind. I was doing pretty well. Than I turned 30 😂 and all my fears of AI became true and I just said frick it.

Working as a business consultant and outreach coordinator. Still an idealist. But I like money too.

>business consultant and outreach coordinator

Is there a more bullshit middle-man type gig?

nah...quit my job in the legal field, dropped out of the US economy to the greatest extent possible, left the country, started a band, currently planning local festivals on the Pacific Coast and monitoring the headlines for my next move.

What do you think he really does?

The problem with Occupy Wall Street is that it had no specific objective.

There's a bunch of drama under this. Mostly r-slurs saying nonsensical thing that don't make sense and random

I also thought Occupy Wall Street was way to nice. I would have launched Molotov cocktails at every CEO's Mercedes as they left their parking garages. At the very least, those buttholes would have been afraid to show their faces in public. Greedy bastards.

You can probably this guy though !reportmaxxers

Occupy Wall Street was infiltrated by powerful people and was subverted from within and turned into the current day identity politics stuff we see everywhere.

The divide and conquer strategy is working exceedingly well for bankers.

So yeah, it goes on like this for over 700 comments.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Millennials/comments/1d3prjm/what_happened_to_the_occupy_wall_street/?sort=controversial

!chuds !anticommunists

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.

https://t.co/jOgu1DSmWa pic.twitter.com/P6Xx9j9f2w

— Faytuks News (@Faytuks) May 31, 2024

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=198728069006496

https://www.boredpanda.com/adoptions-unites-two-best-friends/

Anyways on to the pondscum of 9strag https://9gag.com/gag/ae90j7b#comment

FIRST THE NEGATIVITY:

You know darn well he is the house "Help"

"Poor kid. 12 and already part of a gang."

"Poor kid, he lose his parents once, now he will lose his father again when he need something to smoke..."

You guys get the idea - racists and chuds spaz the frick out and nogposts like hooligans in the early moments of the post, and at first it seems like it's gonna be another Poltard thread.

Basically a torrent of racism which would make the liberals on rdrama.net lose their mind, when compared to the genuinely lukewarm chuds here on this site. Like really you guys are surrounded with reddit level civilized posts which are usually purged by jannies of all racism and chud posting, compared to 9strag.

Yet remarkably all of these racist posts are all controversial and downvoted into oblivion, whereas in usual circumstances the degenerates of 9gag would basically post endless 13/50

Instead for today all the top posts are all remarkably positive!

one post making self-aware funny joke about how 9gag morons can't fit in their racism into this particular wholesome story.

even the negative comments are downvoted.

of course 9strag wholesomeness comes with its own caveats, and their own particular r-sluration.

@Aevann pin to prove you're not racist.