Whoa, this is amazing! I know there are an insane amount of spoder species out there, but how we keep discovering completely new hunting techniques is awesome.
What’s next, spiders with harpoons?

yt/r60hx-pVPrY, yt/Da7MCEz1dhs (more info)

On the basis of submersible observations, the density of whale remains reaches up to 759.5 individuals per square kilometre. The concentration of whale falls and fossils in the Diamantina Zone raises fundamental questions about the origin of this whale necropolis.

These beaked whales possess extraordinary physiological adaptations for deep diving, routinely reaching depths more than 1,000 m and holding their breath for more than a hour. The maximum dive depth for beaked whales is estimated to be more than 3,000 m on the basis of lung collapse and oxygen storage. Thus, foraging at depths exceeding 3,000 m would be too physiologically taxing for beaked whales and may heighten the risk of fatal exhaustion or decompression sickness. Ultimately, the V-shaped topography of the Diamantina Zone may further contribute to this accumulation by funnelling and concentrating onto the sea floor the sinking carcasses caused by natural and accidental mortality.

Moreover, the investigated whale fossils, preserved for more than 5 million years, serve as an archive providing a direct, continuous record for tracing evolutionary trajectories. Comparative anatomical analysis of these remains can elucidate feeding behaviours, locomotion and ecological roles of deep-diving cetaceans. Thus, the Diamantina Zone necropolis constitutes a deep-sea fossil megasite: one that offers a window into the evolutionary history, palaeoecology and population dynamics of beaked whales from the Pliocene to the present day. Similar whale necropolises probably exist in other core beaked-whale habitats, such as South Africa, the Iberian Peninsula and off the Crozet and Kerguelen islands, as indicated by the recovery of abundant fossils by trawling, indicating that comparable hidden archives may be widespread in the global deep oceans.

Classic Lego scene.

They are also a costumer of theirs, they are supporting Google by reselling their phones.

disconnectable

That’s a Google (design) feature, in fact the majority of phone models have this “feature”.
These Nitro dudes can just do it for you before shipping it to you - still need to open the phone to reconnect/reinstall it.

Just add a thousand monies to get the TB - that is way cheaper than four 256GB models!!

They will label the drives for minimal additional cost, just make them print “assembled in EU”.

Well, no.
Modern birbs became a proper distinct group around that time (no teeth, modern wing structure, etc).
They cohabited with proper dinosaurs & flew around along with “pterosauromorpha” (flying lizardos). (At the time they didn’t have any flying mammals tho.)

And the distinctions come from bone structures & the few feathers that we discovered - so if someone with knowledge would say that feather came from a bird (with features found in modern birds today) and not a dinosaur, I would be inclined to believe them.

Maybe it came from a pillow …

No worries, I get mistaken for a stupid person all the time (… but I added the word “mistaken” there out of my own hubris, deep down I know those are no mistakes).

(That was the joke. Well, an attempt at a joke at least.)

What if we used a time machine, go back in time, place a mosquito on a dinosaur, then when all full of blood place it into a cryogenic container that can last say 70+million years, go back to the present, find the container, and sequence the DNA?

Ok, but besides the bylaws, treaties, & other whathaveyous, afaik Canada has systems (trades, standards) way close to USA than to continental European countries. From the integration pov this would be a giant task. And if Canada would gain significant power (which it would) a lot more of “USA” things & ways of life would leak to “euEU”.

It’s a very complex hypothetical question that can hardly be judged via sentiment tracking at “this stage” (which isn’t even a stage).

Nevertheless positive responses are very nice, yay friends!

Oh, I totally agree with you & support this post’s endeavour, actually I felt bad about my (very indirect) contribution.

It’s just that rich owners or very profitable firms (especially in a field where other competitors don’t achieve the same financial results) usually have a lot of immoral (but legal) practices. All of them count, eg pushing on local municipalities to lower their fees/taxes in exchange for company’s “investment in their own company” (??) or threatening to go next door, exploiting the labour force, forcing suppliers into vertical integrations, etc. That just fucks everybody & it’s just an additional wealth transfer bcs of a position of power or even corruption (no intrinsic value added).

But again, I absolutely agree, identifying & cutting out nazi-aficionado megacorps is (atm) more important than cutting out imperialist-unregulated-market-enthusiast megacorps (which are the reason we have a nazi problem tho!).

But identifying such companies is a bit hard bcs they do have strong PR departments (or consultants) that monitor & prohibit such affiliations (bcs of tangible direct threat to revenue). Eg you can envision that not too long ago a nazi-salute in USA would be the immediate downfall of a company. Now it isn’t. Europe isn’t at that bar yet so finding out who (& how) supports political pastries hellbent on doing autocratic harm for it’s own power is hard.
That’s why I decided to post my two cents about (additionally!) identifying evil megacorps by their profit margins or owners.

Basically avoid anything megacorp related (which takes a lil bit of research, but not that much - especially for products you buy repeatedly).
(Or ultra rich families related, even in non-ownership ways.)

It’s because the system (capitalism) only has one metric (financial profit) & by definition any company with enough money “should” (by definition or obligation to shareholders) influence local, country, and EU politics as much as possible. Companies that don’t will lag behind or get squeezed out of the markets (b2c, b2b, labour market, supply chains, etc).

And all of it is basically always bad for the consumer & other citizens in the long medium run.

We need regulated markets & less imperialism.

(It’s also why EU directives include so many agencies, specialists, public hearings, and separately input from the companies that get affected. It takes time, but it’s transparent & at least semi-successfully eliminate the politics from directly affecting legal frameworks at it’s core goals. Also directives are subject to scheduled reviews which is when market participants, ie companies, voice their grievances/costs, suggestions for simplifications, or even improvements. Not via lobbyists directly to politicians. Not that there isn’t any of that.)

Just another image :/ (with only slightly more pixels)

Here is more MBs:
https://www.esa.int/var/esa/storage/images/esa_multimedia/images/2025/12/europe_at_night_from_space/27044305-1-eng-GB/Europe_at_night_from_space.png
And a comparison between 2017 & 2022:
comparison between 2017 and 2022
(Via: esa.int/Europe_at_night_from_space)

And a bunch of neat pics over at wiki/Category:Europe_at_night_seen_from_space.
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(Europe, North Africa and Western Asia at night by VIIRS, 13,500 × 13,500 pixels)

When equities & bonds?

There were some legislative changes for local financial institutions to invest more easily in such projects (which in turn would also mean less feeding monies to the USA megacorps).

According to a monopoly more options will harm competitiveness.

Lmao, they even open with that.