Drusas

One video I saw some twenty years ago was so disturbing due to how clearly distraught the female was that I haven’t been able to think of koalas the same ever since. Like, she might have developed koala PTSD, it was that brutal.

Just watch a koala documentary and it may well be in there.

I’ve seen enough videos of rapey koalas to know that they sure as hell do pursue females.

That lion has clearly been sedated.

I, too, wanna be sedated.

A llama spat in my general direction at a zoo once when I was a kid, so I have known never to trust them since.

When Benson Wanjala started farming in his western Kenya village two and a half decades ago, his 10-acre farm could produce a bountiful harvest of 200 bags of maize. That has dwindled to 30.

Step 1 might be to not plant the same crop on the same land for two and a half decades straight.

“Signed across them”? What is that even supposed to mean?

Last month Ron DeSantis, the state’s rightwing Republican governor, signed into law a controversial bill that allows the public to shoot and kill bears for a perceived threat to “a person, pet or dwelling”.

The legislation was drawn up by the Republican state congressman Jason Shoaf, a keen hunter according to his biography, who claimed in February that “bears high on crack” were breaking into people’s houses and “tearing them apart”.

At the time the Guardian was unable to find a single documented incident of any bear in Florida ingesting crack, and Shoaf did not return a request for clarification.

What planet do these people even live on?

They did almost literally ask for it.

I don’t think I could ever buy that because every time I looked at it, it would give me a headache.

If polio is a problem, the problem is that people aren’t vaccinated. So yeah, that’s what they should be doing. They should also be vaccinating the Palestinians.

Also, pretty much every army vaccinates its soldiers. As well they should. I don’t know why you would be advocating for them to be unvaccinated, thus enabling them to spread disease.

Monty Python - Always Look on the Bright Side of Life

Oh, I agree. I love adaptive cruise control because it makes driving so much simpler, safer, and more relaxing (especially as someone with a medical condition which makes my legs get tired).

But after getting that loaner, I became extremely concerned about the prospect of people growing up with that level of adaptive cruise control. It won’t be long before we have drivers who never really had to drive their car. I’m sure there are people who said the same about automatic transmissions, but being able to do basic things like stay between the lines when you drive is very different than having to shift gears on your transmission.

This is how I found out that Subaru’s adaptive cruise control from their 2020 (iirc) models is vastly superior to the adaptive cruise control on my 2017. It practically drives the car for you now.

This isn’t what you’re asking, but since your question has been answered, and this might actually be helpful for you:

Sorry for asking something that boils down to “please help me with my homework” but I’m at a loss.

You should put a comma before “but”. Like so:

Sorry for asking something that boils down to “please help me with my homework”, but I’m at a loss.

A comma is required when you are separating clauses which would be complete sentences. “I’m at a loss” is a complete sentence, so there should be a comma before the “but”.

Road trip with the dog

It’s unfortunately easy for parents to get their kids exemptions for school vaccines.

I think most of us actually prefer the British spelling / pronunciation. But it is what it is.

This is more related to the definite vs indefinite article (the vs a) and how that changes meaning in English.

A little bit angry.