Damn fine cup of coffee!

Like bro, the first beavers in 75 years were released last year in NorCal…

I think you misunderstood the headline. Beavers are not extinct in CA other than the one place in your article. I’m well aware of the impact of beavers on reintroducing and rehabilitating wetlands. I live on one of the rivers where beavers were reintroduced in the 1940’s. I literally work with ecologists and hydrologists that work on some of these projects.

But guess what? That same river basin that has had beavers damming it for more than 75 years and has had a ton of work from the forestry service, CCC, and beavers had a massive wildfire two years ago. Reintroducing beavers is not enough to stop wildfires in California. There’s literally not enough water and streams compared to the area of forest.

edit: but cool, just downvote and move on when shown to be wrong. Leave this to the people that have some knowledge of the issue

No, I’m not saying that the beaver reintroduction isn’t going well; I live in an area in the NorCal mountains where I have 3 beaver dams within a mile of my house.

I’m just saying that beavers aren’t really a good way to mitigate wildfire danger because they only help in areas that have year-round water flow, which is a tiny portion of the Northern California forests. As close as I am to beavers, I still can’t get wildfire coverage in my neighborhood, because the beavers only make an impact within about 15 yards of the river, and there just aren’t that many year-round rivers in NorCal (at least relative to the amount of forest land)

What water are they going to use? NorCal is dry as a bone in the summer, and we won’t see rain or snow until late October (if we’re lucky).

It’s not that they “no longer have the ability.” Most people have never been able to comprehend things on that time scale when it’s happening in real-time. It’s only after the fact that people are able to look back and see clear signs and the early groundwork being laid.

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,

Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

My God, is there nowhere I can be safe from being reminded that my beloved SFG are utter trash this year?

Wait, it’s all projection?

🌏 👨‍🚀 🔫 👩‍🚀

Always has been.

As someone who lives in this same town, black bears are more like overweight raccoons.

Fun fact, our “city hall” is at the tiny community airport, which also had a restaurant with the best chicken wings in town (salt and vinegar wings FTW). The restaurant was still going when this happened in 2019, so my guess is the bear smelled the food and went looking for the kitchen, only to get sidetracked by the city council meeting.

Weird, it didn’t show up for me on Voyager or on the desktop site until this morning. Huh.

Oh, well. Cheers

Even if the connection between songs seems obvious to you, you’re supposed to write a quick description of what the connection is…

An all-time great video.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, let’s not overreact here. There are only a few cases where wishing that upon a person is acceptable, and I’m not sure this qualifies as a war crime.

po-tay-to, po-tah-to

Conservatives already are a true minority.

Conservatives have not won the popular vote in a presidential election since 1988 with one exception (Bush Jr.'s reelection during the post-9/11 surge of patriotism). So, in the last 8 presidential elections over the course of 32 years, conservatives won the popular vote once (edit: and I’d argue that even that win was an aberration caused by 9/11 and the Bush administration’s misinformation campaign regarding WMD’s in Iraq).

I used Sync at first because of the similarity to reddit, but I finally got tired of the obnoxious ads and the hypocrisy of using an ad-supported app to browse a completely ad-free service, so a month ago I switched to Voyager and I haven’t looked back. It’s not perfect, but it’s a lot better than Sync and it’s ad-free.

This is the crossover we desperately need.

The meme template uses the UK spelling of “neighbours” instead of the US spelling (neighbors). While I agree the content is obviously US-centric, the spelling and some other irregularities make it unclear whether this meme was made by someone who has ever spent time in the US, which is what OP was pointing out.

I figured, but I love Jagger and I can’t stand Clapton, so I legitimately felt compelled to “correct” the joke.

Man, I tried so hard to not ruin the joke, but I can’t stand Mick Jagger getting confused with that right-wing nutjob, so fuck it:

That’s Mick Jagger as JSTOR, not Eric “Asshat” Clapton