Agiel
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A tool-using cow is challenging what we know about farm animal intelligence
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You would think Thune would at least have called the White House to tell them "You didn't think we have enough problems going into an election year as it is?". With the capture of Maduro it is in effect what Putin had hoped to achieve with the Desantnik at Hostomel. However I kept telling this to anyone who would listen that destroying the legitimate political leadership of Ukraine and shattering its conventional military was always going to be the "easy" part of the "SOM" and that even prior to 2022 the Russian military was not at all prepared to handle a counter-insurgency against a hostile population. Now can anyone picture the US voting public wanting to spend a single dime on an actually earnest and dedicated nation-building project in Venezuela?
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Perhaps this also explains the current administration's weird obsession with striking some notional grand bargain with Putin. *In fairness to Czarist Russia serfdom would be abolished about the time the American Civil War kicked off, two years before the Emancipation Proclamation, and almost four before the 13th Amendment was ratified.
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My shake at venison au poivre vert with (store-bought) spaetzle and creamed spinach: Half-serious question: Does the Rémy Martin for the sauce count against my Sober October?
Seems appropriate to post this video: Personal story: Among the reasons my own family is heavily pro-vaccine was the fact that growing up I had a daily reminder of what it was like to live in a world before then. My father walked with a permanent hobbled step as one leg was left shorter than the other as a result of polio. And having got Chicken Pox in 1994 I was probably among the last kids in North America to have gotten the disease since the vaccine only came out a few months later. It put things in perspective when I realised that future generations would be bewildered by this story arc from Calvin and Hobbes:
