@SecureOwl

i'm in the South (Louisiana) & i do offer cold water and / or soft drinks but most of the contractors have told me they have a cooler with their own drinks...

this gives me the impression it is not common any longer to offer cold drinks to workers because they have already planned for an alternative

@hyc

i told all yall!!!!!!

SIGH

(down here in New Orleans i remember pointing this out in the early 1980s, now one of these useless boondoggles is 40 years old & aging beyond its expected life span in a regulatory environment that does not respect human life, esp. the life of the ordinary people of Louisiana)

@kimlockhartga

yeah i think it's more accessible BUT it really should have been 700 pages not 1200+ by the end of it i was really getting wearied by the endless digressions

"as mary sue said to tommy joe at the 2001 new year's eve party where that 10-year-old kid accidentally fired off a rifle into the chandelier and..."

(not an actual quote, the actual digressions were increasingly rambling as the book went on & would take too long to type)

@ombialik

it makes you wonder what else we will learn when more is known about the other species of hummingbirds (there are ballpark 350 species)

we have already learned that an unrelated bird species, the white-throated sparrow, has 4 genders

there is always something new to discover!

@ombialik

i don't know what hummingbird they are illustrating but i think this was brought home in hummingbirds when a VERY widespread & (we thought) well-known hummingbird, the white-necked jacobin, was discovered that if you did the DNA test, around 10-20% of the birds in "male" plumage were "females" (capable of laying eggs)

@VeroniqueB99

Free Luigi

@pelle@veganism.social

people being animals who need to eat food is not the cause of global climate change & your derail is probably unhelpful

@evacide

awesome news, now bring back the small sedan

@rightsprung @appassionato

"geez, dude, take a picture, it'll last longer, you act like u never saw a bird fly before"

his expression really does make the photo, i sometimes what people miss looking at these photos on phones....

@appassionato

"i believe i can fly"

@mrundkvist

they don't really believe that, no person with spark of intelligence can really believe there is a positive purpose to emptying public resources into the pockets of the few

we need to start mocking them more & respecting their "arguments" less, rational argument doesn't work with those who don't operate based from logic