Thx RTH. The article describes how Prince Charles's Aston Martin is converted to run on fuel derived from white wine and cheese whey. Presumably over-priced organic cheese from his own estate's production, and wine from his own vineyards.
But whatever fuel is employed, surely an Aston Martin (or any other luxurious fuel-guzzling status symbol) is never green?
Hypocrisy runs deep with the Queen of England and her family. They love their unaccountable privilege.
Re: Weird Headlines
Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2021 10:30 am
by bill_g
Re: Weird Headlines
Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2021 11:01 am
by Cyrus Breckenridge
Sam the Centipede wrote: ↑Sat Oct 16, 2021 10:22 am
Thx RTH. The article describes how Prince Charles's Aston Martin is converted to run on fuel derived from white wine and cheese whey. Presumably over-priced organic cheese from his own estate's production, and wine from his own vineyards.
But whatever fuel is employed, surely an Aston Martin (or any other luxurious fuel-guzzling status symbol) is never green?
Hypocrisy runs deep with the Queen of England and her family. They love their unaccountable privilege.
A bit harsh! Would you have them going around in a Fiesta?
a simple pill could keep people infected with the coronavirus
a case of bad highlighting in the NYT Daily Newsletter
Full sentence reads of course as: "Molnupiravir, an antiviral medication made by Merck, could herald a not-too-distant future when a simple pill could keep people infected with the coronavirus from dying or falling severely ill."
“It was logistically difficult to move them around, so the authorities just left them there, probably thinking the animals would die,” Nataly Castelblanco-Martínez, a Colombian ecologist working at the University of Quintana Roo in Mexico, told the BBC earlier this year.
Instead, the hippos flourished. In the 27 years since Escobar’s death, the group of four has swelled to between 80 and 120.
Re: Weird Headlines
Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2021 1:15 pm
by Foggy
I love happy endings!
Re: Weird Headlines
Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2021 1:37 pm
by Suranis
Ya, and they are starting to spread beyond the lake Escobar had them in, and people have been attacked by them. Hippos are utter bastards. The Egyptians called them Water Demons.
One of the problems is that the locals haven't got the message that Hippos are dangerous, so they have been going up to them thinking they are passive like cows.
Re: Weird Headlines
Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2021 1:44 pm
by Sam the Centipede
It's not just what Suranis says, it's very much not a happy ending for the other river life, as the hippos make a total shitpile of the water and the river bed. Beavers (in the right environments) are sometimes described as ecosystem engineers; hippos are ecosystem demolition contractors.
For the sake of the ecosystem, they need eradicated or reenzooed.
Re: Weird Headlines
Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2021 1:49 pm
by RTH10260
One usually thinks of invasive species of something much smaller, sometimes greener. Do hippos feed on Asian carp? Move them to the US river systems!
Re: Weird Headlines
Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2021 2:00 pm
by Phoenix520
Move them to the Cincinnati Zoo and lets have our next meet up there!
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Re: Weird Headlines
Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2021 2:10 pm
by Sam the Centipede
RTH10260 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 18, 2021 1:49 pm
One usually thinks of invasive species of something much smaller, sometimes greener. Do hippos feed on Asian carp? Move them to the US river systems!
No, they're herbivores. Like many herbivores they might eat an occasional bit of meat, but they don't have rods or nets to go fishing.
Re: Weird Headlines
Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2021 2:11 pm
by roadscholar
Yeah, the article says they have become a nuisance and the locals are starting a program to sterilize them before the population explodes.
And yes, most people don't know that the #1 (non-microbial) killer of people in Africa is not the Lion, Snake or Alligator, but the Hippo. Powerful, surprisingly quick, foul-tempered and aggressive.
Re: Weird Headlines
Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2021 2:58 pm
by jcolvin2
roadscholar wrote: ↑Mon Oct 18, 2021 2:11 pm
And yes, most people don't know that the #1 (non-microbial) killer of people in Africa is not the Lion, Snake or Alligator, but the Hippo. Powerful, surprisingly quick, foul-tempered and aggressive.
Maybe what I'm remembering is the most prolific killer among mammals?
Re: Weird Headlines
Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2021 3:39 pm
by RTH10260
roadscholar wrote: ↑Mon Oct 18, 2021 3:20 pm
I stand corrected.
Maybe what I'm remembering is the most prolific killer among mammals?
Homo sapiens sapiens
Re: Weird Headlines
Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2021 4:06 pm
by Foggy
I knew they kill hundreds of people every year, but they're vegetarians? They don't eat people they kill?
I heard that in the Zoo they eat Soylent Green.
Re: Weird Headlines
Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2021 4:10 pm
by jcolvin2
roadscholar wrote: ↑Mon Oct 18, 2021 3:20 pm
I stand corrected.
Maybe what I'm remembering is the most prolific killer among mammals?
I have seen it pointed out that hippos kill more humans than crocodiles* (which would be a non-mammal) in Africa. It is conceivable that hippos kill more humans than any one single species of poisonous snake. Or, maybe whoever was saying this did not really consider all of the options.
* Alligators are native to US and China, and as far I know do not live in Africa.
Re: Weird Headlines
Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2021 4:13 pm
by Azastan
Pedant here.
There are NO poisonous snakes. You will not die from eating one.
There are, however, VENOMOUS snakes. You may die if one bites you and you are envenomated.
Re: Weird Headlines
Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2021 4:14 pm
by Foggy
Oh yeah, that's "Nit of the Week".
And ...
... they taste like chicken!
Re: Weird Headlines
Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2021 4:36 pm
by raison de arizona
As long as we are picking nits, a few snakes do exist that are both venomous _and_ poisonous.
a case of bad highlighting in the NYT Daily Newsletter
