Let's fucking goooooo

The measure, called Question 3, prompted heated debate in the months leading up to the election. Central Maine Power and Versant Power, the state’s dominant utilities, poured more than $40 million into a campaign opposing the referendum, outspending Pine Tree Power advocates 34 to 1. Political groups funded by the utilities and their parent companies mailed flyers and aired ads on TV, radio, and social media, urging Mainers to reject the measure, which would have effectively put the two companies out of business.

Researchers at Stanford University and UC Berkeley, led by Chan Zuckerberg Biohub San Francisco Investigators, found that gene signatures associated with head development were found in juvenile sea stars, but expression of genes that code for an animal's torso and tail sections were largely missing. The researchers used high-tech molecular and genomic techniques to understand where different genes were expressed during the development and growth of sea stars. They also found that molecular signatures typically associated with the front-most portion of the head were localized to the middle of each of the sea star's arms, with these signatures becoming progressively more posterior moving out towards the arms' edges. The research suggests that over evolutionary time, sea stars lost their bodies to become only heads.

Starfish are basically heads crawling around using their lips. Uhhhhhh

If you've been on the fence about buying a firearm, especially if it's because you're financially constrained, please consider this a heads up:

I have seen in multiple newsletters and as banners on a few gun websites that price increases are coming. Usually this is to be expected going into an election year, as panic buying from chuds drives shortages and price increases. But I haven't seen it broadcast so explicitly before. Prices are definitely lower than they've been in two or three years, and I'm sure this is as low as guns and ammo will go. That said, I can't help but wonder if this is an attempt to further clear out old inventory, or otherwise drive sales. They may end up just making the panic buying worse.

All of that said, now is as good a time as any to stack deep on ammo and magazines, or to buy that first firearm.

Remember those headlines about "90% of snow crabs mysteriously vanish" from a while back?

:desolate:

tl;dr water was too warm which requires more energy (food) for them to sustain themselves, plus too many of them from a previous population boom

Why don't you come over here and shit in my pants?

That's what I thought.

I'm listening to a presentation on a gigantic housing grant my city is applying for. (PRO Grant from HUD, if you're familiar). They're proposing spending millions on regulatory reform to promote missing middle housing, which, ok fine, that's a big task in a major city, but that should already have been done in 2023. Other money would go towards vague stuff like an accelerator program for bipoc affordable developers. After all of that, they're proposing only 120 "deeply affordable" (under 30% ami) units with the grant.

We have a shortfall of tens of thousands of those units in our city, and this multimillion dollar federal grant would fund just 120.

JUST FUCKING BUILD PUBLIC HOUSING CO-OPS

I swear the neoliberal public-private partnership brainworms these people have is beyond terminal. "We have to strategically leverage this potential pot of funding" no you fucking don't

Who is this dumb fckn pigeon

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It is fascism though, plain and simple, and there's literally nothing at all wrong with that.

Movie isn't perfect and definitely a product of the time, but pretty cool scene nonetheless.

Link to the entire film on Vimeo

In the current study, the researchers conducted five experiments in which they measured or induced a sense of scarcity in participants, and examined how the choices people made changed depending on whether that scarcity was related to a shorter- or longer-term need.

Overall, they found that when people feel that they don't have enough resources to meet an immediate need, such as food or shelter, they are more likely to make decisions that offer an immediate payout, even if it comes at the expense of receiving a larger payout later. But when scarcity threatens a longer-term need, such as replacing a run-down car, people experiencing scarcity are no less willing to wait for larger, later rewards—and in some cases are more willing to wait—compared with people not experiencing scarcity.

Wait poors are human beings?????