Having lived much of my life in those European countries that are romanticised (Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, Netherlands)…
I really think they are terrible. Like they are obviously better than Putin’s Russia or Trump’s America. But they are still really bad.
I don’t think I can have a favourite government. I don’t know enough about the country for this to be a serious answer, but perhaps something like Costa Rica.
Penguins are technically dinosaurs.
Wildlife officials say the duck is protected by federal law and can be removed, but only by humane methods.
Neighbors say they are trying to keep their distance from the unfriendly duck.
IDK why but that lest sentence sent me rolling
Yeah… Reading Orwell’s hommage to Catalonia was illuminating to me.
Really made me realise those “tankies” would probably shoot me if they got the chance. As always:
Possibly since Australia is in Eurovision
Scientists discover 95% of space related article are gibberish clickbait.
Yes, for example, me an anarcho-communist who thinks western governments are generally terrible. But ALSO thinks that governments like Russia and China are absolutely terrible and committing different forms of genocide, am definitely on a CIA payroll right? That only makes sense?
So having been a heavy drug user in the past disqualifies you from those roles in your mind?
Do archea harm other mammals? Other vertabrates? Other animals? Other eukaryotes? As far as I can tell they don’t.
Why is it a suprise they don’t harm humans?
Also this meme is a bit weird. Because eukaryotes (so animals, plants and fungi) technically evolved from Archea. So if we apply classification biology logic we are Archea. And eukayotes do cause diseases in each other ie. parasitic worms.
But in practice in english Archea excludes the eukaryotic branch.
In voyager your can’t see avatars. A lot of people use voyager.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/16753141
"Columbia demands her children!" Anti-Lincoln, anti-civil war propaganda (US, 1864)
Sourced from the US National Library of Congress
An impassioned attack on Abraham Lincoln and the human toll of the Union war effort. Columbia, wearing a liberty cap and a skirt made of an American flag, demands, "Mr. Lincoln, give me back my 500,000 sons!!!" At the right, Lincoln, unfazed, sits at a writing desk, his leg thrown over the chair back. A proclamation calling for "500 Thous. More Troops," signed by him, lies at his feet. He replies, "Well the fact is--by the way that reminds me of a Story!!!" The artist refers to the false report published by the "New York World" that Lincoln joked on the battlefield of Antietam. (See "The Commander-in-Chief Conciliating the Soldier's Votes," no. 1864-30.)
Author: Baker, Joseph E., approximately 1837-1914.
Created / Published: [Boston : s.n.], 1864.
Sourced from the US National Library of Congress
An impassioned attack on Abraham Lincoln and the human toll of the Union war effort. Columbia, wearing a liberty cap and a skirt made of an American flag, demands, "Mr. Lincoln, give me back my 500,000 sons!!!" At the right, Lincoln, unfazed, sits at a writing desk, his leg thrown over the chair back. A proclamation calling for "500 Thous. More Troops," signed by him, lies at his feet. He replies, "Well the fact is--by the way that reminds me of a Story!!!" The artist refers to the false report published by the "New York World" that Lincoln joked on the battlefield of Antietam. (See "The Commander-in-Chief Conciliating the Soldier's Votes," no. 1864-30.)
Author: Baker, Joseph E., approximately 1837-1914.
Created / Published: [Boston : s.n.], 1864.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/16751749
The Householder’s Handbook explained how to prepare a home for nuclear attack: Whitewash the house, tape windows and create a safe core in one of the rooms. It listed medicines, food, and supplies needed and explained what to do if there was a nuclear attack. Householders would be able to occupy themselves and their families in preparing for the worst.
Even before the 80’s version, Protect and Survive and the CND peace movement’s riposte – Protest and Survive, the handbook seemed remarkably naïve. A 20-megaton bomb detonated 500 feet above St Paul’s Cathedral in central London would have created a blast wave destroying or damaging buildings for up to 17 kilometres and deliver a lethal dose of radiation for nearly five kilometres.
The Householder’s Handbook explained how to prepare a home for nuclear attack: Whitewash the house, tape windows and create a safe core in one of the rooms. It listed medicines, food, and supplies needed and explained what to do if there was a nuclear attack. Householders would be able to occupy themselves and their families in preparing for the worst.
Even before the 80’s version, Protect and Survive and the CND peace movement’s riposte – Protest and Survive, the handbook seemed remarkably naïve. A 20-megaton bomb detonated 500 feet above St Paul’s Cathedral in central London would have created a blast wave destroying or damaging buildings for up to 17 kilometres and deliver a lethal dose of radiation for nearly five kilometres.
It has only been debunked for lose fitting clothing since there is airflow between the clothes and skin. It is not negligible for tight clothing.