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California's AI data centers target drought-hit communities, consuming 96% more water since 2019 while bypassing oversight in vulnerable reg
They are, deliberately, targeting areas with the least water to put in data centers, that have other cooling options they won't use, to consume and pollute all the water.
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This administration will spend millions to harm citizens and wouldn't spend pennies to help one.
The Grammy-winning singer was known for his towering ballads, including âIâm So Into You,â âLet the Feeling Flow,â and more
Itâs kinda crazy that to Kira, her boss is literally Jesus and sheâs a devote Christian
Okay, but consider: Major Kira, who thinks her boss is Jesus, versus Weyoun, who thinks Jesus is working as a mall cop.
Technically its more Kira, who thinks her boss is Jesus, vs Weyoun who thinks Apollo is working as a mall cop.
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Indulge me with a quick poll, lads. Explanations below if you want more details before voting
Out of the following three academic disciplines - Architecture, Construction and Environment - which would you expect to have most and least female lecturers?
Environment most, Construction least
Environment most, Architecture least
Architecture most, Construction least
Architecture most, Environment least
Construction most, Architecture least
Construction most, Environment least
Architecture: largely what it sounds like. This is the part art, part science, part engineering mashup that is training to be able to safely design buildings without getting people killed. You need artistry and creativity in abundance, but also the technical-mindedness to make sure the building will actually stand/won't turn into a death ray in the midday sun
Construction: a very broad church, as this ranges from practical building techniques through computer modelling and all the way to civil engineering. Doesn't stop at simple buildings, either - sustainable urban drainage systems, for example, come under here too
Environment: another broad church. This ranges from habitats and ecology (i.e. save the whales), to waste management and recycling, to renewable energy, to GIS computer mapping, to climate science, to water/soil testing, to sustainable development.
I'm asking because we had an email around about female staff wanted for creating a marketing piece for International Women's Day, and I suddenly realised the gender balance wasn't what I'd have expected. I'm wondering if my expectation is particularly common/unusual
I am sure things have changed wildly since my days, and this may reflect differences across different countries, but I went to a uni known for it's architecture program and while the student body was surprisingly well mixed, the architecture professors were almost exclusively men. I think I saw a single gender not obvious name my entire time there and one female architecture professor who I think technically fell under a different college's department. And while I was not an architecture college student I did sort and deliver their mail for three years.
In 38 years of life I have learned 1 thing;
If anyone is ever training you to replace them in a position and tells you 'its an easy job I don't do much' what this means is that you are about to spend six months to a year catching up on all the stuff they didn't do and sorting out the stuff they did poorly.
In related news I finally managed to finish un fucking my predecessor's lack of a filing system.
And if they start a sentence with "You're not supposed to do it this way but...", you're about to learn some shit to make OSHA go:
My job is literally in safety and emergency management and that phrase makes me break out in hives. Which is to say that you are entirely one million percent correct.
Alternatively by 'an easy job where they don't do much' what they mean is that they've got so much unwritten knowledge and experience stored up in their heads that they *genuinely believe* it's an easy low effort job and then leave you with a learning curve like a rocket launch and frantically spawning spreadsheets of all the shit they know off by heart
Considering I usually get replaced by three people when I leave a job, and that started when I was a high school part timer in retail, sometimes "an easy job where I don't do much" means "this job was built for someone who didn't want to try and then someone with a work ethic got it and brought it up to their level to not be driven insane by perfoming the illusion of productivity while accomplishing nothing". Or, as has happened to me before, "this job used to be a job but my predecessor was so incapable and uncreative the job was chipped away at until it was a pale shadow of what it was while still somehow keeping just enough to not be eliminated". Or, if the job is being done by a middle aged white guy in a corporate office an easy job where they don't do much means "my secretary/lower level female staff member does the actual work and I attend the meetings and submit the work as my own" (see: accounting, finance, and HR upper and upper middle management). Sometimes, if the "easy job" was done by a contractor and the company is now bringing the work in house they didn't do much because the goal was maxing billable hours and not actually solving the issue and the work is 95% made up for the con.
Sometimes "this is an easy job" because my coworkers are so incapable of learning how to do anything, including how the Nespresso in the break room works, that I spend 15min of every working hour doing push ups and stretches and half an hour sketching and outlining random ideas and still outperform all of them because the bar is in the gutter. Why yes, I am slowly going insane and my temper is at its breaking point, how did you know?
Iâm losing my mind at the implications that this show was so gay that two men kissing wasnât going to add to itâs gaynessÂ
This is probably fake but DAMN!!!
I believe Mads has said at convention appearances that they told the producers that they were willing to kiss, saying they had no problem doing gay openly on screen. I can't recall if they just ignored Mads and Hugh or said "that's not where we are going right now". I believe he said they even did a take of the cliff scene where they did kiss.
But this show was a case of "sometimes having is not so great a thing as wanting".
The tension of it was what made it all so good. Any release of that tension and it would be done.
The losses after the massive junkyard fire in Opa-locka have been difficult to process, employees say.
Pensacola is alleging EMR Southern Recycling had âdeficienciesâ in implementing fire marshal-recommended safety changes, causing a public sa
The plant has a history of fires. The state and the Department of Environmental Protection have sued over at least a dozen fires at the same
Fire at DeLand scrapyard near Garfield Avenue and Samuel Street. Avoid area due to health risks from smoke and fumes. Crews working to conta
Firefighters battled the fire for six hours over the weekend, with smoke visible for miles due to a gas storage area going up in flames.
A large fire at a junkyard in West Milford prompted a major emergency response May 20.
These, and purportedly more, all happended in the last 30 days.
I'm sure it has nothing to do with the government's dictate that cars have a govt controlable kill switch. The timing is just a coincidence. Don't, don't pay attention to the number.
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For decades, Pajaro Valley apple farmers relied on S. Martinelli & Co. as their primary â and often only â buyer, but the companyâs decision
I have zero sympathy for these farmers. First the peach farmers and Del Monte and now apple farmers and Martinellis.
Why is destruction the first, last, and only answer they all turn to?
No attempts to find alternate sales channels, no pivots to different income streams, complimentary secondary income produce, nothing. They lose their one buyer, maybe look half heartedly for another conglomerate to choke them, and then destroy decades worth of trees.
They could do pick n pay, sell at farmers markets, partner with a bunch of smaller buyers, add events, do festivals, raise pigs and bees between the trees, grow other crops between the trees, or a little of all of the above.
But nope, instead they chop it all down and cry that the evil corporation they chose to tie themselves exclusively to found a new chew toy. No one paid them to destroy everything. No one told them to. They were getting fucked in the ass and now that someone else isn't doing it they decide to do it to themselves.
It's not like the agricultural industry has functional alternatives like co-ops that have existed for decades to show them a better way. Oh, wait, yes it does.
even before i lived in a place with a massive population of feral cats decimating the wildlife i had read the studies and knew the data said that TNR did not work and we need to be trapping and euthanizing feral cats but now that iâve lived in a place where there are an enormous number of feral cats itâs like, inconceivable to me that anyone supports TNR, not just for the health of the world but for the sake of the fucking cats
nobody will even acknowledge it not even in most conservation circles. We have a solution to a massive, massive problem that is more humane, cheaper, easier, takes less time, prevents animal suffering, and saves valuable members of our disappearing ecosystem. And nobody is even willing to theoretically acknowledge that it exists outside of a few very small circles.
it works. It works. It is better for the cats. Itâs better for the cats. Living in a place where you cannot drive 10 minutes without seeing a new roadkill cat almost every single day really makes you think about how much suffering could have been prevented if we just dealt with the problem we have created. Itâs not a pleasant way to go, being hit by a car. Or being ripped apart by a predator, or eating a poison, or starving to death, of dying of an infection, or an illness, or any of the hundred thousand ways an animal in the wild passes without human intervention. Euthanasia is simply falling asleep. It is fucking wild to me that saying you think we should take responsibility for our mistakes and ensure that cats fall asleep peacefully instead of capturing them and then hurling them back out into the world SPECIFICALLY in order to allow them to die in agony makes people treat you like a fucking serial killer.
And if you donât care about cats dying in agony do you care about the world around you? Thereâs a species of bird we only know ever existed because someoneâs cat brought home our only example. Thatâs horrific. Weâve lost so much biodiversity because we simply wonât listen to the research, which again, has proven that TNR is not effective.
a peaceful death is not the worst thing that could happen to an animal.
@cathartidae sources for ya!
Sources:
https://ask.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/UW468 âHow Effective and Humane Is Trap-Neuter-Release (TNR) for Feral Cats?âÂ
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6523511/ âA Case of Letting the Cat out of The BagâWhy Trap-Neuter-Return Is Not an Ethical Solution for Stray Cat (Felis catus) Managementâ (also has a thousand references attached that are handy)
Not a reference so much as the human society actively admitting that TNR does nothing to decrease population, actively contributes to harming wildlife, and doesnât actually help the cats in any way, just reduces some of the nuisance behavior that people complain about: https://www.animalhumanesociety.org/resource/real-impacts-trap-neuter-return
Unscientific from here on out as i donât feel like trying to find the studies i read in like January of last year:
https://hahf.org/awake/the-trouble-with-trap-vaccinate-neuter-return/ âThe Trouble With Trap-Neuter-Re (Abandon!) from the hillsborough animal health foundation, articles also link to studies
https://abcbirds.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/The-Evidence-Against-TNR.pdf from the american bird conservancy, has scientific articles quoted.Â
Even More Sources on TNR being non-viable and ways that cats are impacting the world from birds to *hawaiâiâs monk seals*
Animal Emergency and Referral Center of Minnesota. (2022, October 26). Indoor cats vs. outdoor cats. Animal Emergency & Referral Center of Minnesota. https://aercmn.com/indoor-cats-vs-outdoor-cats/
Campbell, V. (2017, January 25). The Obituary of the Stephens Island Wren. All About Birds. https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/the-obituary-of-the-stephens-island-wren/
Castillo, D., & Clarke, A. L. (2003). Trap/neuter/release methods ineffective in controlling domestic cat âcoloniesâ on public lands. Natural Areas Journal, 23(3).
Coe, S. T., Elmore, J. A., Elizondo, E. C., & Loss, S. R. (2021). Free-ranging domestic cat abundance and sterilization percentage following five years of a trapâneuterâreturn program. Wildlife Biology, 2021(1). https://doi.org/10.2981/wlb.00799
del Hoyo, J., Collar, N., Kirwan, G. M., & Sharpe, C. J. (2022, October 25). Guadalupe storm-petrel (Hydrobates Macrodactylus), version 1.2. Birds of the World. https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/species/guspet/cur/introduction
Dickman, C. R., & Newsome, T. M. (2015). Individual hunting behaviour and prey specialisation in the house cat Felis catus: Implications for conservation and management. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 173, 76â87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applanim.2014.09.021
Edge. (2019, June 19). Guadalupe storm-petrel. EDGE of Existence. https://www.edgeofexistence.org/species/guadalupe-storm-petrel/
Galbreath, R., & Brown, D. (2004). The tale of the lighthouse-keeperâs cat: Discovery and extinction of the Stephens Island wren (Traversia lyalli). Notornis, 51(4).
Hawaiâi Department of Land and Natural Resources. (2025). Feral cats. Feral Cats. https://dlnr.hawaii.gov/hisc/info/invasive-species-profiles/feral-cats/#:~:text=Feral%20cats%20on%20islands%20have,kill%20approximately%202.4%20billion%20birds.
Loss, S. R., Will, T., & Marra, P. P. (2013). The impact of free-ranging domestic cats on wildlife of the United States. Nature Communications, 4(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms2380
McGregor, H., Legge, S., Jones, M. E., & Johnson, C. N. (2015). Feral cats are better killers in open habitats, revealed by animal-borne video. PLOS ONE, 10(8). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0133915
Medina, F. M., Bonnaud, E., Vidal, E., Tershy, B. R., Zavaleta, E. S., Josh Donlan, C., Keitt, B. S., Corre, M., Horwath, S. V., & Nogales, M. (2011). A global review of the impacts of invasive cats on Island Endangered Vertebrates. Global Change Biology, 17(11), 3503â3510. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02464.x
National Research Council. (1992, January 1). Scientific Bases for the Preservation of the Hawaiian Crow. U.S. National Library of Medicine. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK235935/
NOAA. (2024, August 29). Toxoplasmosis and its effects on Hawaiʝi Marine Wildlife. NOAA Fisheries. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/pacific-islands/endangered-species-conservation/toxoplasmosis-and-its-effects-hawaii-marine
Read, J. L., Dickman, C. R., Boardman, W. S., & Lepczyk, C. A. (2020). Reply to Wolf et al.: Why trap-neuter-return (TNR) is not an ethical solution for Stray Cat Management. Animals, 10(9), 1525. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani10091525
Reed, L. (2022). The effects of free-roaming cats on native wildlife populations. Wildlife Rehabilitation Bulletin, 40(1), 17â21. https://doi.org/10.53607/wrb.v40.250
Salano, E. (2024, October 5). Eliciting the effect free roaming cats have on Native Hawaiian wildlife using stable isotope analysis. UKnowledge. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/biology_etds/103/Â
Steele, J. H., Thorpe, S. A., & Turekian, K. K. (2009). Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences. Academic Press.Â
science says itâs long past time to stop prolonging the suffering of feral cats, for the sake of the people, the native wildlife, and the goddamn cats themselves.
I was at a friend's house to check on carcasses I had macerating in his yard. A little grey cat ran up to me, yelling her head off in friendliness and wanting nothing more than to be pet. I had nothing to give her but let my friend know he should catch her since she was so friendly. I am ashamed to admit I didn't give her much thought beyond that, finishing my work and giving her a last pet before going home.
My friend told me how he'd seen her before but she always vanished before he could catch her. He works far too many hours and is always tired so he couldn't prioritize catching this cat.
Three months pass with no sign of her. I go back with my partner to check on carcasses and this same little grey cat appears. This time, however, a tooth has been snapped off and her tongue is so badly cut that she can't keep it in her mouth. She was thin and dirty and screaming to please be given some food.
This time I couldn't look away. I asked my friend's girlfriend if I could borrow a cat carrier. She loaned me one and a tin of wet food that the grey cat willingly followed into the carrier. She didn't care at all about being put into the carrier - all she wanted was a hand on her. She'd arch up against the top just so my hand would rest on her back for a moment.
We drove through rush hour traffic to the only shelter still open. We knew we couldn't keep her and I couldn't stand the thought of putting her back out on the streets to die slowly.
The shelter couldn't take her. Her ear was clipped so she was a "community cat" and outside their ability to help. They tried desperately to offer alternatives to me as I cried over her carrier, knowing I couldn't take her home but also that if I didn't I couldn't live with the thought of her back on the streets.
I made a Hail Mary call to a local friend who is very connected in our city. They didn't have my number saved but answered all the same to hear me sobbing about a cat I'd found and to please help me find a place for her. Please. If I don't find something then she'll be alone on the streets again to die.
My friend came through. I could keep the cat in their garage overnight and in the morning my friend would be back in the city and could find someone to help the cat.
The shelter folk gave me a crate and some food - their hands were tied but they didn't want to leave me with nothing. They were good people doing the best they could in their own system. Community cats were ones they weren't allowed to "waste" resources on. Ostensibly they'd been dealt with and their fate decided. There was nothing the shelter folks were allowed to do for them.
I took the cat to my friend's garage. She was settled into a crate on towels, happy as a clam to be warm and safe. This was a cat made to be loved and to love, as she immediately began trying to groom one of my friend's roommates. He stayed in the garage with her, giving her food and water and in exchange having no say on whether she was in his lap or not. She was always in his lap.
Nobby Nobbs (so named for the only other character known to man that is as scrungly as she is) was then formally adopted by my friend. Her tongue has healed, her fur remains scrungly, and she's every bit the rabid love bug I suspected her to be when she came to me yelling to be pet.
She's a TNR cat. Someone thought they were doing her a kindness in that and if nothing else she didn't add kittens to the world but that doesn't negate the pain she suffered before I found her - the broken teeth, the lacerated tongue, the ulcerated cheeks, the flea-bald patchiness of her coat.
I say this as someone who adores this cat and has the privilege to see her loved and cherished: I wish she'd never had to suffer what she did. I wish people were alright making the harder call that leads to less misery on the side of the cats.
TNR is a polite fiction, nothing more. Just so the humans can pretend they've done right by the same cats they're letting loose to die miserably somewhere else. As long as the humans don't see it it's fine.
The shelter folks told me she's a community cat and that I could take her home and release her by my house. Then I could feed her myself and keep up with her and know where she was! I could still keep her, after a fashion.
I am not proud of how I snarled back that I would never exchange a quick death for a slow one. I would be giving her a different funeral plot, not giving her a life. Even near me she'd be just as vulnerable to the innumerable predators that find cats quite delicious, let alone cars and poisons and the other cruelties humans practice on stray cats.
She's the second stray cat I've met that when I held them the cat melted in my arms, purring and so desperately wanting to be loved. The first cat I was able to trap and take to a local shelter only to find when I called to check on him a day later that his health had been so terrible, so beyond help, that he'd been put down. All the love in that tiny body lost because the people I lived beside didn't care enough to trap the cats they had.
My partner was asleep. I woke her up to crawl into her arms and sob, my heart breaking for the stupidity of the humans who hadn't cared enough to grant this poor little cat the chance to be either an indoor cat, loved and cared for, or to grant him a quick death long before I met him. I've other stories of the cats they kept around, essentially feeding the poor souls to the predatory birds and wandering dogs that frequented our area.
TNR doesn't work. It is a lie humans tell ourselves so we can pretend we haven't failed these animals on a massive scale. Cats are invasive and cause massive harm in their turn. It is humanity who needs to deal with this crisis, this horror we've made, and I pray one day we look it square in the face and vow to make it right.
Let's put aside TNR, euthanasia, and all that for half a second.
Many feral cats (and dogs) exist because people refuse to fix their animals because they think "it's kinder" to their pet to leave them intact. And then, when the inevitable happens, and babies happen, they toss the babies out the door. I have seen this over and over again, we read stories about this all the time. And yet, when you say sacrificing their pet's offspring to whatever the world can do to them is far crueler than having their pet undergo a standard medical procedure under sedation they lose their shit.
Even when no cost, no questions free spay/neuter programs for pets are available they will refuse to use them. I offered to personally pay for someone to take their dog to get fixed and he refused and then the poor girl was raped by a feral dog and died from the pregnancy. How is that kinder?
Even where fixing a pet is mandatory unless you get a breeder's license, people will buy from an unlicensed backyard breeder, never take their animal to a vet to avoid being reported, and then sell the inevitable offspring for a quick buck. Which just results in more unfixed animals but now with fun, untreated issues and diseases to spread. And when those issues pop up the owners, who don't want to deal with the cost of treatment nor the fine for an unfixed animal, will throw it out to survive on its own.
Fix your gods damned pets. Unless you are going to do the work to be a proper, licensed, educated breeder and do the paperwork and the socializing and the veterinary visits and proper genetic screening beforehand, fix your pets.
Even if your cat gets outside, or more improperly is let outside, if they are fixed they won't add to the feral cat population. No surprise offspring means less cats adding to feral colonies from domestic origins. Less cats born without a plan means less cats that need to be euthanized for their sake and the ecosystem's. TNR does nothing about the world's dangers to a cat and their danger to other animals, but combined with domestic animals being fixed universally will actually reduce the size of feral cat colonies instead of just pretending to. Because the solution to "too many" is quite literally "make fewer". And isn't it better to make fewer by never making than killing?
Stumptown!!! was just added to Tubi!!!
"Attacking mosquitoes with pesticides is unsustainable because they're becoming less effective over time."
What, and I cannot stress this enough, *the FUCK*?
Why is Google involving themselves is mosquito control efforts?!?!?
Why would ANYONE trust Google with ANYTHING right now?!???!
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A new case report provides the first documented evidence for cat-to-human transmission of H5N1.
In the US buses will drive across active opposing traffic, run red lights, almost run over pedestrians who have the right of way, and generally be a menace to anyone around or in them, and still be 20 minutes late.
