Eh depends what you define as pain. It could be completely different from what we feel as humans. Like, does a tree feel the same as we would feel if a chainsaw cut off our leg? Probably not, but it probably feels something. Does a bacterium feel pain as it explodes when coming into contact with certain chemicals like we would with a grenade going off in our torso? Probably not.

I think any country that allows things like this should get ignored by the ICC for any criminals that they want to have arrested. France looking for a criminal that stole stuff from the Louvre or something? Nah, ask someone else.

I’ve just started using MapQuest like many others since the lake ontario thing. It’s been pretty good and I find it a lot more functional and accurate than the Foss options at the moment. It’s not perfect but it’s also not Google or apple.

Yes but they are tiny.

I’m talking about blue whale type equivalent to aquatic plants. The biggest mammal on the planet lives in the ocean why not the biggest plant or fungus?

Its definitely already world war three.

You have two “superpowers” currently at war (not directly with each other, but everyone else involved ties them together).

Iran vs US and Russia vs Ukraine, but Iran is already helping Russia attack Ukraine with their drones and America is helping Ukraine attack Russia and now Ukraine attacks Iran. Even though the US is not attacking Russia directly and vice versa its all one big war at this point. And then you have Israel being Israel and attacking fucking everyone. It’s a cluster fuck.

I feel like any lawyer should only be able to bill half their rate if they lose the case

Marketing and advertisers

Most trading these days is probably just AI and algorithms. They see a positive headline and starts making buys or selling stuff if it’s negative. It’s all a money printing machine for the rich and a casino for the poor.

They should train them to bring down a little can on a string so you can talk to them 😂

How much do you wanna bet Trump wouldn’t be so gung ho on Greenland if he saw this map? He probably thinks he is going to double the size of America.

All Europe has to do is strong him along with promises for three years (hopefully)

Wholly run on sentence batman.

That entire first “paragraph” is a single sentence…

Who the fuck doesn’t have at least that much tariffs already?

Well not as an individual but the owners/caretakers of the land are legally required to remove it and remediate the area.

Depends on the rules. Some places it would be illegal to disturb anything in conservation areas like parks but other areas it would be illegal to ignore invasive plants and not remove them.

PNW… Himalayan Blackberry

I feel like any paper that’s published that cited a paper which got retracted, should automatically be reviewed and assessed to determine if they should also be retracted.

The article I read which had this photo featured stated that Putin had invited a bunch of reporters to Kupiansk to see how the Russian forces had surrounded the city.

Then Zelensky went there and took this photo to be like “oh no, Russia has this place surrounded? I would have never known”

No Idea if that’s true, but that’s the gist I took away from that post.

All I know is that if I were in constant pain and shitting myself because I had no more bowel control and had no ability or freedom to move myself anymore, and I could no longer do anything I enjoyed like hobbies and I was confined to sleeping 95% of the day away…

I would put myself down.

Russia was for? They are literally trying to take over another country at the moment.