From what I understand you really have to work at getting a Gila to even bite you. I think there may be more to the story. Here’s a from last year’s season of Kings of Pain. It’s a bite from the Gila’s less venomous cousin, the Mexican Beaded Lizard: https://m. Link to video

@Horace said in Racism update 2024/02/20: He speaks and performs well, for an overbearing blowhard. I mean it's not just me. The comments under that video are almost unanimous. Those who know him by reputation still have a lot of respect for him, but in that sense he is a figurehead, and he is a figurehead because he was promoted to be such. And he was promoted to be such due in large part because the west loves to promote people of color to classically white figurehead positions. Anyway obviously this is not provable and we can disagree. I'm not convinced that there is no bullpen behind him containing one or more white faces. Not that I care about who is or is not the popular face of science, I just can't not acknowledge the skin color aspect of that position and how giddy the culture is to promote an appropriate looking person in that role. I think we're talking about two different things. You're talking about his reputation now and why it exists in the way that it does. I don't disagree about that. I was only speaking to how he got from research scientist at the Hayden to someone people outside of planetarium conventions pay attention to. Speaking to that, you may find him annoying, but start hanging out with other planetarium directors and then reassess. The life of the party they absolutely are not, so in comparison, Tyson's an obvious choice for a more public face. The events that led to his presence beyond his field, sure, I could see it being a bit of a woke sensibility thing.

Well, along with “build the wall, and have Mexico pay for it,” “healthcare reform to replace Obamacare,” “cut the deficit,” paying the legal fees for those who punched the protesters at his rallies, etc., you just can’t be sure if he really means it, or even if he does, he simply hasn’t been competent enough to deliver.

Too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious Says the guy who ironically illustrated his article with an AI-generated image made off the backs of artists who will never get a dime from the theft.

Be there Wednesday

Dr. says not RSV but, bacterial sinusitis. Not contagious. I probably have allergies seeing it's freaking 61f / 16c on February 22nd in Wisconsin!

No rational human being could possibly want him as president. If you thought Carter was a lightweight...

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https://www.foxnews.com/us/gabby-petitos-parents-reach-settlement-laundrie-family-attorney-steve-bertolino-florida-lawsuit The parents of Gabby Petito, a 22-year-old travel blogger whose fiance Brian Laundrie killed her in Wyoming on a cross-country "van life" road trip, have reached a settlement in a civil lawsuit against his parents and their attorney Steve Bertolino. "Christopher and Roberta Laundrie and I participated in mediation with the Petito family and the civil lawsuit has now been resolved," he told Fox News Digital Wednesday evening, after the parties met with a third-party mediator for much of the day. "The terms of the resolution are confidential, and we look forward to putting this matter behind us." Nothing had been officially filed Wednesday evening, but both sides acknowledged the settlement had been reached after an exhausting session. Petito's parents, Joseph Petito and Nichole Schmidt, sued Christopher and Roberta Laundrie and later added Bertolino to the case, accusing the trio of inflicting emotional distress by misleading them about the missing woman's whereabouts before her remains were found north of Jackson, Wyoming.

Good read. But it's still Fort Polk for me.

@Jolly said in Prosecution: we are just a banana republic with money. ...for now.

We all know it's Buying Votes II, the sequel.