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Caves are another great example! Being near the Appalachians, I’ve been to a bunch and there’s always a part of the tour that shows where people used to just bust off stuff for souvenirs, touch stuff and mess up the continued growth of the cave, burn marks from fires, etc. People just don’t seem to consider then accumulated impact of everyone using through doing the same exact thing.

You’re in a cave for crying out loud! You can’t get much more exemplary of how small actions of time cause significant change even to solid rock!

Most of the birding groups I follow will take down posts sharing locations of rare bird sightings for this exact reason. Some people are just jerks doing it for the clicks, but everyone has a desire to catch that one rare animal they never thought they’d have a chance to photograph, and then there are hoards more with the same thoughts, and people get caught up in their own moment. One person doing something dumb or intrusive usually isn’t so bad, but when you start getting dozens/hundreds of people with the same poor decisions going to one specific place, well, you end up with the rare frogs now becoming ultra-rare frogs.

I get most of my stuff from Facebook. Since most of you refuse to go there, it really keeps my content fresh 😁

More seriously, since most of my stuff is from non-profits and photographers, it’s still the number one place these people share their stuff since it’s free, easy, and has a built in wide audience.

Other than that, I look for owls in the Google news page once a week, I look up old research papers or read books, I volunteered at a rehab clinic to learn more and get photos and stories, and I go to events and talk with people that work with owls.

I think the most important thing is that I’m genuinely interested in the subject, so even if social media vanished tomorrow, I would’ve stop doing anything I do to source content, I just wouldn’t be posting. I just post because I think you guys will like it and hopefully donate or volunteer yourselves.

This is the main resistance I see. I thought I’d be boring in the beginning. I didn’t know much about the subject I began to post about. But from continuing to interact, I learned more about the subject, and I learned what the people I was talking to liked more or liked less.

If you’re just being yourself and talking about things you’re interested in, you’re gonna be fine. People here are pretty chill, so if you’re not spouting outright lies or antagonizing people, there isn’t anything to worry about.

I don’t know how those people do it. Putting out stuff every day for one community keeps me as busy as I’d want to be.

I could visualize a commercial 55 gallon drum ok, but a barrel for volume measurements is 42 gallons. I’d never even heard of that before today.

Give me metric already. I’ve worked in pharma related fields for 20 years, all anyone cares about there is metric. I can visualize something I never actually seen like a deciliter easier than I can a “barrel.”

I had never heard of it myself, but looking at the definition instantly reminded me of board feet for measuring lumber, but that makes sense as wood is a solid and has a fixed length, width, and height.

For water, especially water you would be moving, I’d think gallons to some per of ten. Moving up from gallons looks to get into barrels it pipes which are also very not-picturable units.

Looking up how ocean volunteers are displayed, cubic miles or cubic km, still seems unimaginable, as what else do we picture on that scale?

I have the Wembley Stadium unit as a spoof of the banana for scale, but even never having seen that in person, picturing a generic stadium of water feels more relatable than whatever acre-feet or cubic miles are.

1 Acre = 4,840 square yards or 43,560 square feet

Britannica:

The Anglo-Saxon acre was defined as a strip of land 1 × 1/10 furlong, or 40 × 4 rods (660 × 66 feet). One acre gradually came to denote a piece of land of any shape measuring the present 4,840 square yards.

An acre-foot is the amount of water needed to cover one acre with one foot of water.

200,000 acre-feet = 246696 megaliters or 0.246696 cubic kilometeres

This is about 64 and a half Webley Stadiums of water.

I can’t get enough Anya Forger, of course. Those facial expressions! 🥰

Plus she’s so fun, derpy, has a power that is way too OP for her, yet she still manages to help everyone else save the day. And her relationship with Becky, Bond, and Damian are all so adorable as well. I enjoy every moment she’s on the page/screen.

Tama, (O-tama) the dumpling girls from One Piece has also left a mark after catching up with the anime. She’s so innocent, yet brave through so many scary situations, and I liked how she made real friends with the giant beasts of Wano and actually made friends with some of the former Beast Pirates, especially Speed/Horselina.

All the girls from Tomo-chan is a Girl, Do It Yourself, Yuru Camp, Super Cub, and Diary of our Days at the Breakwater I remember loving as well.

Summit is peak!

Anti War Quackers (Bangkok protests)

Anti War Quakers

I can’t help but tease, I am from very prime Quaker territory, so I see the mix up constantly. 😜

All in a day’s work, friend!

Tl;dr - Trump ruining environment and economy for the whole world, not just the US.

Didn’t see any new stuff besides some stuff from Newsom and the Pope about how it’s probably wrong to let people die and poison the planet.

More of these guys want to keep the “official” post while dropping the “public” part…

Lol who knows? I mean, I’m sure he’s still better than we would have got with Oz, but that presidential run thing made me laugh too. You already lost half the people that voted for you, and as we’ve seen playing across the aisle isn’t getting anyone anywhere.

Yeah, I got Brian Fitzpatrick as my rep, the “#1 Most Bipartisan Member of Congress” for however many years now. Still votes with Trump 51% of the time, and it’s only on money things he’ll break with Republicans on, very rarely ever is it a moral thing.

Meanwhile Fetterman is polling better with Republicans (around 60% favorable) compared to with the Dems (around 50% favorable).

Want to come up with a compromise on farm aid or disaster recovery? Go right ahead. Compromising on genocide and using the military on US soil? You better not reach across the aisle on that if you want my support. Fetterman deserves to be judged by the company he keeps.

Oct 16 - Daily Beast

Top-ranking Democratic Party officials in Pennsylvania are gearing up to run against Sen. John Fetterman in a 2028 primary contest, according to a report.

Big names in the state who could well run against the increasingly embattled incumbent include House Representatives Brendan Boyle and Chris Deluzio, along with former Congressman Conor Lamb, Axios reports, citing multiple inside sources.

Axios added it was not clear whether Fetterman, who is understood to have ambitions of running for the White House, plans to run again for the Senate or the presidency in 2028.

Fetterman texted Axios saying, “enjoy your clickbait!” and requested “please do not contact” in response to follow-up questions. He also shared an article citing him as one of “the least Trump-aligned Democratic lawmakers in the state.”

“The Yakuza series itself was originally created with the concept of ‘Japanese people making a game for Japanese people,’ so we never imagined it would be accepted globally.”

Besides it being GTA with likeable protagonists, the specific Japanese stuff is what I really enjoy about it. The setting feels authentic because everything is in kanji, the onigiri aren’t jelly donuts, the characters and situations feel culturally different to me (American), and the social issues raised in the game lead me to learn about things going on in Japan, and now Hawaii since I’m working on Infinite Wealth now.

Much the way Golden Kamuy anime/manga got me interested in different Asian minority cultures, Yakuza has exposed me to many things I wouldn’t otherwise hear about in Western media or things made for a more generic audience. I wouldn’t call myself a weeb, so much as I just like to learn about anything I’ve never heard of before, and having media targeted to specific audiences makes me investigate questions about what comes up I’m unfamiliar with.

Plus I think the games just kick ass even if you aren’t interested in that stuff! A lot of story elements are still generic, but there’s a ton of fun fights, finishing moves, leveling up, a billion mini games, karaoke, and so on.

It’s my pleasure. Every week I get new great stories to tell. Last week was my first time with a vulture, so I got to learn how they behave when a new human comes poking around them. I get to see animals up close that I didn’t even know we have in my state like minks, flying squirrels, and the other week we had a brown thrasher, which is kind of like a roadrunner.

I work with really amazing and caring people, meet all kinds of nice people and kids that find hurt animals and want to see them get better, some real weirdos as well.

We had a little boy find a bumble bee that was missing a wing and he took it to his parents, and then they brought it in and he dropped it off to us. We treated it the same as any other wild animal. We gave it fresh fruit, soft bedding, and while bee wings are too delicate to work on (we do repair butterflies though!) we gave that bee the best end of life care possible and we were sad when he passed. It may sound silly, but in a world with a lot of anger lately, to be in a group of people that can see love and compassion in a bee can feel like a really great place to be.

If you want more animal stories and cool anatomy stuff, it’s a bit more niche, but I post on !superbowl@lemmy.world every day. I post cute and humourous stuff of course, but much of the content is sourced from rescues like the one I work at or wildlife photographers, so there’s a serious and respectful undertone to it all, and I can answer lots of questions. I’ll sneak in non-owl related stuff from my personal animal care experiences too when I can tie it in.

It’s all good. Last week there were a lot in a bad mood since they were being weened. Their free ride is coming to an end. 😁