Thursday, June 24, 2021

Newly Minted Red Breasted Nuthatch





24 comments:

  1. The Supreme Court decides not to light the housing market on fire. [Click] “SCOTUS is forced to clean up a $124 billion mess of its own making.”

    Missouri becomes newest COVID-19 hot spot as variant spreads [Click] Now 20% of new cases, and much more dangerous for younger adults.

    Nikole Hannah-Jones Won’t Join UNC Faculty Without Tenure, Attorneys Say [Click] “Earlier this month, renowned chemist Lisa Jones withdrew her candidacy for a role at the school over its treatment of Hannah-Jones.”

    GOP Official In Ohio Admits to Voting Twice [Click] World’s worst excuse: it was “an honest error” [to forge the signature of his father, who was dead.

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    1. Wow! That cheers me up. Couldn't have happened to a nicer rat.

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  3. Holy Shit!!!!!

    So, as I told you last night, my FB account mysteriously disappeared, and I established a new one. Just now I was fiddling with it,, specifically putting in my Fun Trivia profile and YouTube channel, when suddenly a message popped up saying my account had been found to be in violation of FB's community guidelines, and demanding I upload a photo of myself,well lit, with my face showing and no other people in the frame. This would, they claimed, let them see that it was really me. Once that was done, they displayed the following message:

    We Received Your Information
    If we still find that your account didn't follow our Community Standards, it will remain disabled.
    We're always looking out for the security of people on Facebook, so until then you can't use your account.


    Why me? I didn't do anything wrong! I don't incite bloody insurrections! The only thing I posted today was that my "Fully Vaccinated" buttons arrived. I don't understand!

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    1. Are you CERTAIN that message demanding your clear photo came from Facebook and not hackers?

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    2. This FB info might help:
      https://www.facebook.com/help/community/question/?id=645048285520516

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    3. Well, whomever or whatever that message is from, it shows up when I put facebook.com into my browser bar and click. In other words, I'm locked out of FB.

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    4. Facebook's algorithms are notoriously erratic.

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    5. Glad to hear your Fully Vaccinated buttons arrived, at least!

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    1. What I want to know is what's in the bill.

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    2. Interesting, but cynical beast that I am, I'm not going to be holding my breath until it becomes a reality.

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    3. Extracted from behind a paywall:

      Biden and Pelosi make it clear to everyone, very definitely including Senators Manchin and Sinema, that it is going to be the infrastructure bill PLUS the reconciliation bill, or neither.

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    4. Thanks for the link, listener. Passenger rail was my big thing, of course, and it's there. I assume the Rail Passengers Association will be telling me how much this telps.

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  5. Dinosaurs lived in the Arctic [rather than just migrating there], research suggests [Click] “Discovery of tiny fossils indicates dinosaurs raised young in freezing region – and may have been warm-blooded.”

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    1. But it wasn't freezing in those days, was it? I mean, the landmass moved, right? Like, weren't Australia and Antarctica one landmass, or even part of a bigger one? Oh, I don't remember, Lorasia or some such, some time after Pangea broke up??

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    2. I'm not clear how much continental movement occurred in this time period. The researcher seems to think northern Alaska was already artic, but I don't know.

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    3. The article says that winters were harsh, but the land was covered with conifer forests. Not like the days when crocodiles were paddling around Baffin Island.

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  6. Looks like the stock market likes the infrastructure bill. The Dow was up over 300 points, today.

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  7. https://news.yahoo.com/border-patrol-chief-backed-trumps-033801473.html

    "Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott has been asked by the Biden administration to step down, The Associated Press reports, and he told agents on Wednesday that he will "continue working hard to support you over the next several weeks to ensure a smooth transition."

    Scott was appointed in January 2020 and supported former President Donald Trump's hardline immigration policies. Scott was especially keen on Trump's unfulfilled promise to build a southern border wall, and did not go along with the Biden administration's directive to use the term "migrant" rather than "illegal alien," AP reports."

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