here from new scientist magazine: .
whale sharks gulp down air to float vertically while feeding.
life 12 may 2021by christa lesté-lasserre.
Whales can have huge mouths, but their throat is the size of a quarter. Their mouth/teeth filter out anything wider than a blade of grass.
Whales do exist in the Mediterranean so the stories are based on folklore but not possible given their biology.
a new african statue has been unveiled in new york.. .
i'm sorry, but there must be africans looking at this and going 'what the hell is that?
it looks like a f**king alien!
I’ve seen similar faces as a mask to keep evil away, the exaggerated features resemble central/East (deep) Africa.
But the way this is used seems very inaccurate as if the artist had some idea about African culture but then completely missed the point and added a very western twist to it.
Basically the artist saw “African art” in a local museum and thought that was how all African art was done, notwithstanding that the art he is attempting to imitate has nothing to do with slavery to the new world (West African and Arab slave traders wouldn’t cross half a continent through jungle and disease, they sold their own and nearby coastal population), he is imitating art from the wrong area of Africa.
so in my area osb is up to 60 a sheet.
this is bsc insane.
from 10 to 12 bucks a year ago.
The CDC finally updates its guidance, but Biden is still double masking. Quite a message.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/10/business/chipotle-wage-increase/index.html .
@GrreatTeacher: I have a 2-family ~3000 sq ft house with 6 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms and an acre of land. I pay $1200 in mortgage + taxes.
$2000/month? Minimum wage does not entitle you to a mansion or live in a penthouse apartment somewhere. Neither do you need to live downtown SF or NYC, move out to somewhere cheaper, there are currently 8M job openings in the US.
The "sweet spot" where you make too much for help and not enough to live on is ~$44000. I've lived through the range of incomes, even then, my girlfriend got pregnant and we got $1200/month in food checks - for 2 people with a then-combined income of ~$100k - yeah, that was a LOT of food given out to family and friends.
israel retaliated and some are accusing israel of an “act of terrorism”.
evidently these rockets are trying to get to tel aviv but the dome is getting overwhelmed.. i wonder if the usa and other nations will come to israel’s defense..
@joey jojo: That is not at all true. The Temple Mount is controlled by the Palestinians, the most holy site for Jews and the third most holy site for Muslims. If this were a religious conflict, don't you think the Israeli government would've just occupied all the holy places which Hamas is currently using as a platform to attack Israel?
Israel is a very moderated relatively non-religious state, Arabs are in the high courts, in the government in Israel, how many Jews are in positions of government in Iran or Gaza?
Israel did not displace Arabs, the other way around happened in the early 20th century and later wars, Iran and Jordan tried to populate the area after Israel changed desert into fertile ground. Israel won all those wars, they have the right to the land, but gave it up to Arab immigrants anyway, who in turn burned the greenhouses and farms to the ground and continue to complain. You are free to live in Israel as an Arab, there is no religious suppression there, but the Iranians want to turn it into a Muslim state.
Off course Amnesty International, the UN and a left-wing US government have always supported anti-semitism, but you have to realize, if the Muslims got their way, the Jews would be no more. Giving them a finger doesn't work, they're a lot like JW's in that way.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/10/business/chipotle-wage-increase/index.html .
@GreatTeacher:
What are you buying to not have $15/h be enough? $15 at a regular 9-5 full-time job is $30,000/y in straight cash (as those wages enjoy negative tax rates) and with government subsidies roughly a $3000/month net income.
Rent: $500-700 (~1/2 of that paid for by government)
Car payment: $200-300 (I've paid that amount for a luxury sedan and a mid-size suv)
Insurance: $0 (paid for by government)
Health care: $0 (paid for by government)
Cell phone plan: $0 (paid for by government)
Public transportation: $0 (paid for by government)
Food: $500/month ($500 paid for by government)
the news had mentioned how some stations were charging over $6 a gallon for gas.
they also brought up that the government had promised to come down hard on anyone that was price gouging.. my question is, is it possible to price gouge when there isn't an actual emergency?.
i think there are some benefits to raising prices even in an emergency.
It is possible to increase prices whenever demand outstrips supply. That's not really price gouging, it's just the market doing its job to decrease demand. At $6/gallon, fewer people will be buying gas. If the government artificially reduces that cost, the government (read: tax payers) are making up the difference somewhere else.
Government does not produce anything, so it cannot increase or decrease prices on anything, if it does so, it must do this by taking money from one pot and putting it in the other (robbing Peter to pay Paul).
Biden reversed a lot of the cybersecurity policies Trump had set in place. According to the gas line company, they had funds and were looking to hire a CISO (Chief Information Security Officer) until ~3 months ago, operating cost increases suddenly made this cost prohibitive and the DHS dropped those requirements. I wonder what happened ~3 months ago - oh right, Biden increased taxes and regulation on our aging oil and gas infrastructure in order to fund his pie-in-the-sky green new deal and reversed all Trump regulation because "orange man bad"
I work in IT security, the first post to start cutting cost is always IT security and regulation compliance. As the price of oil artificially increases through carbon taxes, we'll see a lot more of that.
israel retaliated and some are accusing israel of an “act of terrorism”.
evidently these rockets are trying to get to tel aviv but the dome is getting overwhelmed.. i wonder if the usa and other nations will come to israel’s defense..
@joey: you should really read up on a bit of history. Israel is the only place where Arabs and Jews in the region live together. Gaza Strip, Iran, Jordan, Egypt, all places where Jews get murdered. Jews and Arabs have lived in that area for thousands of years, but the Jew hatred has been exacerbated during and after the Second World War, when Muslim extremists came to power in the region, helped by Hitler and Russia.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/10/business/chipotle-wage-increase/index.html .
That’s not entirely uncommon for high end managers and regional managers of fast food places, especially as they get bonuses and profit sharing. I knew a girl once that was a Radio Shack manager that made a ton of money too, I couldn’t believe how much a good sales month would bring in bonuses.
Waitresses made an average of $50k before the pandemic between a $12/h average taxable wage and an average of $13/h untaxed tips (which quite honestly I can’t believe is that low as doing 6 tables/hour should give you ~$50 around here)
Good employees deserve to be payed well. The problem recently however is that the government handouts have killed the job market. Why go to work when between unemployment and other poverty benefits you effectively make $45k/y doing nothing at home. This is driving the cost of commodities up as people need to be paid effectively $25/h or more for ANY job, even the low-end simplest jobs.
