We need splurge guns for this fight

Hey look at this rock that looks like a peice of meat! Oh so coool. I know let's set it in gold and admire it through the ages!

Ahhh it was carved, shame https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat-Shaped_Stone

At least it looks good next to the jade cabbage!

Based on the more informative article by the bbc: https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20260817-the-giant-shark-that-seems-to-appear-from-nowhere

& as studied by the Shark Research Foundation: https://sharkresearch.org/, though I couldn't find anything about them on their website.

Oh good reference! And now for sport with Alan Partridge.

The access to the gargantuan amount of money the great orange turd is amassing perhaps? She won't have to wait decades to weedle into his will and cash in.

I very much doubt he'd hand out money, there'd have to be a deal with him somehow. That's why he's surrounded by sycophants, that nose has got to be the brownest of browns to get something from him if you can't offer money!

Sounds like a power surge as the microwave doesn't stop correctly. Either my home's have always had better breakers or the microwaves I've had are designed so it doesn't create a power surge if you open the door as an off switch (in the UK btw). Never had anything happen in over 20 years of doing this, but a fair warning to give :)

As torture method? Don't follow you! Are you thinking along the lines of iron age -> bronze age step up? If so what's the link of maiden to bull?

Edit - I thought I'd double check my understanding of the use of maiden in the name and found this, ahem, interesting article, including mention of the Greek Brazen Bull, which I now recall. So I understand you now!

https://allthatsinteresting.com/iron-maiden-device

Direct link to the report

https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6795/Starving-civilians-in-northern-Gaza-lured-to-aid-sites-and-executed,-revealing-brutal-pattern-of-Israel%E2%80%99s-genocide

It amazes me that no-one ever seems to say (not that I have seen, at least)...Isreal is a western, democratic state with nuclear weapons in the middle east.

It's basically a major power base for the west in the predominantly arab part of the world.

Anything else is a side arguement as far as I'm concerned.

These people hoard money, every penny is as important as the next 1000 dollars.

Its so that people with lower cognitive ability know where to look!

Makes sense, use the prey's weight and momentum to do the hard work, rather than the relativly feable arm of a much smaller creature!

I suspect a surprising percentage of people just follow the crowd. No effort required to formulate any bigotry or predudice or whatever, just copy others and you're part of the gang. If there's nothing to copy they just shrink out of view.

Meanwhile, here in the Uk our government is making sure we won't have enough money to buy more than two days of food at a time.

Many species of butterlies and moths eat honeydew, aka aphid poop, so no nectar needed. Also the larvae do the bulk of the eating. Imagos of lepidoptera only need to survive not grow so food requirements are fairly low.

For trying to find a runaway girl a safe place to sleep & not get sucked in to homelessness or worse? The police may not be the best option, depending on who comes out & where they live, but arguably better than nothing. You can't second guess why they ran away, but shitting on someone for trying to help with a single word response...good job keyboard warrior.

I also disagree. All you need is to say "I don't want/like that" and to understand that something could be lost or suffered to yourself or others, given a particular scenario. That can then be used to create a system of morality where the majority are in agreement with each aspect.

Oh and empathy. That's pretty critical!

I'd say that spirituality and religion is then formed off the back of and alongside general or universal moral beliefs and that many aspects cannot exist without morals in the first place.

Yes that's a youngster that's probably fallen out of the roost. I doubt it'll survive without getting back, which it probably won't be able to do itself. You say you're in Italy yes? Where abouts? I can see if any of my contacts here in the UK know who could help.

P.s. some species of bats carry rabies so at the very least where gloves if you do need to handle ir move it. A youngster is less likely to bite if handled and you could only catch it if they bite.

Also so thus link for advise on how to handle and safely contain the bat https://www.bats.org.uk/advice/help-ive-found-a-bat/bats-in-need-of-rescue/contain-the-bat

Directly below in my feed is a meme saying "I'll do it when I get home...me when I get home..." with a cat flopped out on a shelf. A small but gloriously serendipitous moment!