The rocks will look different when their chemistry will change when exposed to a warmer climate, different climate migrating species grow on them, and they’re covered in micro plastics, and worn down by more acidic rains.

And possibly become radioactive if things don’t go right.

Unless the R’s hold their constitutional convention and crown Trump Emperor

The honeybees might have come back a lot faster if the US had not turned to chemical miticides and selected for varroa mite resistance instead.

Instead, the vast majority of commercial beekeepers are producing chemical-dependent bees, which is not good in the long term. But chemical miticide producers are happy to make profits.

Because of the ways that honeybees mate, i.e. the virgin queen mates with several drones randomly on her mating flight, the mass of chemical-dependent genetics waters down any progress made in spreading varroa resistant genetic lines.

Modern beekeeping is a lot more complicated with beekeepers having to keep to a strict timetable of varroa treatment to keep their colonies alive.

Do kids still play marbles these days?

Reminds me of the many times I lost face.

Q: Will Putin be okay, because he’s the richest man in Russia?

A: Yes.

Then war will continue.

What it’s all about: Real estate greed.

I’m sure the LNG will make its way to China and India eventually.

Maybe via North Korea through a pipeline that goes directly to the Chinese border and absolutely nowhere near any North Korean cities.

I’m surprised that the Harris campaign hasn’t made more of this to divide Republicans, because supporting Ukraine is popular among Republicans too.

Who believes that authoritarian regimes care about inclusivity?

“Democracy dies in cowardice and greed”

I like that quote, because it’s so accurate!

Think of it as supporting your neighbors.

There is value in keeping money within your own community, instead of giving all the profit to Bezos.

Trying to get in on Russia’s action, I see…

Aerial dogfighting of the 21st Century…

I wonder what that strange yellow smoke was? Chemical weapons?

But you shouldn’t need a shotgun hit that would kill or incapacitate a human to take down a small plastic quadcopter drone.

The drone takedown range for a shotgun should be longer than against a human, but without data I couldn’t say what that is.

Hopefully they’ll actually have enough aircraft for these guys to fly, and enough mechanics to keep them flying.

It’s all going to be pressed through the AP filter anyway. I don’t think it matters where the fines are.

Cold brew really does need to be forced through an Aeropress though doesn’t it?

I tried dripping mine through my usual fine mesh sieve, and it just got clogged.

I suspect that the coffee flavor oils are solid at cold temperatures, and clog up the holes so that even water can’t get through.

And I wind up with a thin puck of very fine particles at the end of the pressing. No doubt a lot of solidified oils are trapped too.