@mcfate Here is a non-paywalled link to NY Times article: https://archive.ph/6rMAu

With the risks from climate change intensifying, RAND researchers identified more than 250 strategies to strengthen some of the most vulnerable critical functions in the U.S. https://www.rand.org/pubs/articles/2024/climate-change-risk-to-national-critical-functions.html

First fatal case of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever in Spain. #ticks #disease #health #virus #Spain https://www.estrelladigital.es/espana/20240728/muere-javier-primer-caso-mortal-de-fiebre-hemorragica-de-crimea-congo-en-espana/

Man's narcissism leads to seeing himself above Nature in intelligence yet that arrogance has huge impacts that eventually affect him. Case in point, seeing carrion eaters like vultures as nothing more than disgusting and vile creatures. Well, accidentally removing them from nature came back to haunt Indians as the vulture population was almost wiped out. With their absence came consequences and about 500,000 human deaths. #Nature #science https://archive.ph/4peVW

@Mark15 Not only will I tread on you but I will slap you silly... #CatsofCoSo #CoSocats https://youtu.be/LLUjHzShZJI

@NiveusLepus primary intent is to cause people to respond and therefore cause more attention. Fortunately, CoSo does not reward posts with likes and promulgate more traffic and incentives to continue with the charade.

#InNewsoftheAbsurd Guy riding his bicycle, shoves a stick through rims, falls over, and blames everyone for their stupidity. In other news...

Great Basin groundwater report: Despite annual replenishment of #groundwater by #snow, the downward trend persists even in notable snow years. Likely causes include declining snow mass, upstream water diversions and increased #evaporation, #sublimation due to increasing temperatures. Dire consequences for humans and wildlife are associated with this large loss of groundwater. #water #aridification #drought #conservation https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023GL107913

#Innewsoftheabsurd When someone does not know about #history and decapitation of Marie Antoinette. #religion #misinformation

#Learnedsomethingnewtoday Rugby has been around far longer than American football going back to Roman times. Back then, it was called "Harpastum" or "to seize". #history #sports #rugby #football https://www.therugbypaper.co.uk/guest-blogs/36933/how-american-football-grew-out-of-british-rugby/

@singlemaltgirl I usually just scroll through a person's posts to give me more insight into their "history". A bio is a snippet of their own reflection.

@corlin @Tacitus_Kilgore There's no wrong/right about seeing the entire picture or the small details. iNaturalist app is a good example of seeing the small details (individual pictures of living things throughout the world) providing invaluable information of flora/fauna in specific areas as well as inferring ecosystem health as a whole. Informing us of new & what once were thought 2 be extinct organisms. Focusing on specific stars provides insight into our own sun's health & eventual surmise.

@corlin @Tacitus_Kilgore Yet still have a moment in time for everyone to see the climate changes as the occur over time. It is a historical snapshot. "A picture is worth a thousand a words"...there's probably some reason for this saying.

#Innewsoftheabsurd One of the world's biggest drug lords, Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, leader of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel was tricked into getting on an airplane thinking he was going to inspect clandestine airfields in Mexico. Airplane landed in El Paso and happily arrested by U.S. Federal agents. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4ng4g31x1wo

Pollution knows no borders: A long-awaited agreement will address Canadian mine waste flowing downriver into Montana and Idaho. #pollution #mining #Transborder #water #fish #selenium #Canada #US https://www.hcn.org/issues/56-7/pollution-knows-no-borders/

#Catlady expressing her true feelings #politics #Hillbilly #CatsofCoSo #CoSocats

#Innewsoftheabsurd Germany challenges Turkey’s protected status claim for the doner kebab. Turkey wants doner registered as its ‘guaranteed traditional speciality’ across Europe, akin to serrano ham and Neapolitan pizza. #CoSofood #foodpron #FoodPorn

#Innewsoftheabsurd How a North Korean applied for an IT job at security company KnowB4, got the job, and was only caught as he installed malware on company supplied computer. #computers #malware #AI #AIgeneratedimage #https://blog.knowbe4.com/how-a-north-korean-fake-it-worker-tried-to-infiltrate-us