Nöö, hält meinen Körper aber nicht davon ab, 10 min später nochmal zu wollen… 🤷‍♂️

10% higher prices for the US, right?
…RIGHT??

Ich fühle mit Dir, bei mir ist es aber andersrum… 🥴

Google <-> Browser

[Add “They are the same” Meme here]

Yes, as it basically is just foreign, untrustworthy Code executed on your own PC.
But total blocking will make most of the web unusable.
I use a selective Script blocker extension (Noscript), that lets you instead choose which domains are allowed to use Javascript.
Works great after the initial try-and-error setup phase.

No, I am the guy that just a few weeks ago got told that he can’t open the window of the joint staircases anymore to let out the stale summer heat, because then the pigeons would fly in.
I am the guy that can’t use the easternmost quarter of his balcony any more because it is constantly covered under shit from the pigeon-meeting-place above.
I am the guy whose car is covered in off-colour smudges because the pidgeon-piss from the tree above has corroded the paint.

I am pretty sure that most of the people here that like pidgeons would think completely different when they had to live with them in close quarters and have their quality of live noticeably reduced.

Other birds are great, though! We have sparrows, tits, blackbirds, dozens of other types. All great!
Occasionally a pair of crows is visiting. Those are impressive birds! Intelligent as fuck, don’t give a shit but stay out of your way if you don’t want to interact. And, double Bingo: the pigeons don’t like them!

So the more a shame that most times we leave them to their grim fate in the urban hell we brought them to with us!

Given the fact that they mainly were a food source instead of noble mail carriers, perhaps having been abandoned in reality has not been that bad a fate…

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Well, more metaphorically and limited to densely populated areas. I mean, rural pigeons are great!
But their city dwelling cousins are mostly poor beasts, malnutritioned, disease plaqued, often invalid: half blind, missing leg, barely enough feathers to fly even short distances.
On top of that a public health issue. So the rat comparison mostly holds, I am afraid…

And if we are talking about other birds than pigeons - totally different topic!

Sure… a typical setup strictly for growing “lettuce”. Nothing else to see here…!

Happy about airborne rats?
Seriously?

Apparently these are not the seeds themselves but only the remains of the original ovulums that contained the seed when they still existed.

Hey, I already hate peanut butter, you don’t have to convince me any more! ;-)

After having watched all the good and average rated episodes of the X-Files recently, I am now determined to watch the rest, so the worst rated 10% of the Series.
Can partly recommend, some are hilariously bad, some are genuinely interesting but maybe not quite what you would expect from an X-Files episode.
But also about half of them are actually really bad :-)

If we allow for scientific names, the winner would probably be “Aa”, the name of a type of plant.
But I personally would not count them, as not part of everyday language.
I asked an AI if it could come up with other suggestions. It burned up 5000 tokens while thinking and successfully found “Alabama”.
So I think banana lost its first place in any case…

“Strange times for the berry club…”
I love that comic strip! :-)

But is “Ara” an English word? My favorite translation page tells me that the English name of the bird is “macaw”. Still a nice A-ratio, although lower than for banana! :-)

Yes, water combined with earth is scary stuff. The ground not being as solid as one expects is a stuff of nightmares… And growing population numbers let people build houses in areas they shouldn’t.
Be it flood zones, mudflood-prone mountain valleys or areas with unsuitable underground for settlement.
Combine this with this happening predominantly in poorer regions that don’t have the financial and technological means to omit the causes or at least handle the effects and you get the shockingly high number of effected people mentioned in the report.
And this will only get worse as extreme weather conditions increase in the coming decades…

Ja, aber das ist halt nur der übliche Zickenterror, gab es schon immer.

In der Vergangenheit hätte sich die Gute grollend in den abgeschlossenen Bar-Bereich des Weinzeltes verzogen, da ein paar Frust-Cocktails gekippt und übel über die “Ungerechtigkeit” ausgelassen und am nächsten Tag wäre wieder gut gewesen.

Inzwischen gibt es da immer die Versuchung, über Social-Media ein Fass in der Öffentlichkeit aufzumachen, und wenn man dann (absichtlich oder aus Naivität) die richtigen Hebel zieht, um den Mob aus hass-erfüllten Arschlöchern zu aktivieren…