Part of the changes in the atmosphere that lead to more contrails from jets are also tied to a warming planet and more warm air aloft.

Now you really want to tweak the conspiracy theorists and juice their paranoia, tell them about noctilucent clouds.

Another byproduct of rocket launches of the past 30 years.

Ignorance… it’s an apt word here…

Well, AI or not… I can vouch for cats bringing dead things into their owners beds.

Why I twigged on it, was that my dads cat, Gandalf the Gray, used to bring him dead mice and leave them by his head when he was sleeping - or if it happened during the day, she’d just leave birds on his pillow.

He would always thank her, give her scritches, then when she wasn’t looking, flush the carcasses…

It was love.

This is awwwwtf. Cat loves its human, and showing it the best way it can… That is so sweet. (gross, but sweet)

A dog will never bring you food.

Burning a flag is a jailable offense now? Really?

Oh dear… - is the Departmet of War now telling Americans to break the law?

As I almost got banned on Reddit for pointing out, Kirk stated he was willing to accept firearm deaths to protect the 2nd Amendment, he also said that executions should be live streamed and thirdly, that children should be allowed to watch them.

Dude hit the trifecta.

Win, place and show.

Now waitaminit!

I like mothssesses.

Best favorite animal!

Saw this one rolling out in slow-motion some 20 years ago when HCA bought out Columbia Hospital systems.

F’kin awful. We so need a single payer to leverage equity out of the picture. (actually private equity needs to die because the billionaires are taxed again, like they used to be in the 1950’s - when America was (for some things) great.

Oh totally right there with the entertainment part.

I tried - really tried - to watch that last Trek TV movie - was it? - with Michelle Yeoh, but I had to bail less than 10 minutes in.

Christ, I can’t even remember what it was called. Oooooffff… that’s bad…

Jazz 2.0 just dropped

LOL!

That or Progressive Acid Folk.

I think it’s gonna eat him alive when the Norwegians ignore him. He only wants it as Obama got a peace prize in 2009.

Old men with dementia after all… can’t keep a grip on reality.

Dad joke for coders? Ooooo… you!

Discovery… was the the one with Jason Isaacs in it? I saw a few of the first episodes and it looked good.

I find it odd that Picard was divisive… then again, I’m just happy to see actors I like getting work.

I mean Sir Patrick, John DeLancie and even a cameo from Will Wheaton? Utterly delightful!

Ain’t that the truth.

If you pull up the ewg.org working map of the perflouro- contaminated sites in the country, it’s horrifying.

Thing is, if the Pro Publica article is correct, these chemicals are afflicting male reproductive viability at the EXACT same time the Trump Administration’s cabinet is filed with natalist-leaning advisors… and they just don’t see it as going into part of why men are fathering fewer children.

They lay the blame on feminism and the birth control pills.

Thing is, globaly, male fertility has been falling for decades. Wanna bet part of it is tied to chemical exposure?

But… we won’t go there…

Nice! I’m just new to lemmy and in all honesty, haven’t been able to catch any of the Brave New Worlds series at all.

Am likely going to just hit the torrents or my public library and start with the first season. Last Trek series I watched was Picard - which was fun enough. (who am I kidding, I’ve been in love with John DeLancie since his days as Eugene Bradford on Days of Our Lives… so any Q episodes are a delight… but I digress…)

Once I get the first season of BNW I’ll drop in and offer my thoughts on it.

I found one of these my junior year in high school. It was on the rear door of the gym, and it was a cold morning so I carefully picked it up and it was vibrating as I brought it inside to ask my science teacher what it was.

I kept it inside until just before first class started and took it outside and set it on the far corner of the small greenhouse that the 4H students had for their agriculture class.

Beautiful animals…

You look at a bug like that, and then at the feet and how… or what the thing is walking on that it would selectively adapt for the insect equivalent of clown shoes.

Does it move like slime molds are known to?

ST:TNG - I rewatched The Inner Light…

Realized how fantastic the ending was when Picard opens the box and finds the flute he’d spent years learning how to play while he was being scanned - and taught - by the Kataan probe.

One of my favorite episodes out of all the Trek series.

This makes me glad that I haven’t bought any Nestle products since the infant formula scandal of the 80’s