You know how they measure a rat in Biddeford?

Was a time when tickets weren't north of southern CT because Winter temps kept them out.

>he deserves to rest

He's still working. He wants to die at work.

>Winter nuts are never happy.

Fuck that.

What we want is for temps to stay below zero for weeks at a time--like it used to be. What we have is rain, rain, snow, high temps, melt.

Wild turkeys are capable of either fight or flight.

They roost in trees, and are capable of upward flights of ~20'. The muscles required for such movement are formidable.

At first glance, you'd think fighting a turkey would be easy. However, since they are so much shorter than people, humans are actually at a disadvantage.

The average person thinks they can fight, but anyone who has been online long enough has seen plenty of videos where even guys who lift end up swinging punches at thin air. The survival rate of turkeys to adulthood is around 8 - 10%. Any adult turkey you see lived that long by ducking, dodging, and being faster than those who didn't make the cut.

Back to the height disparity: turkeys are operating at a different level--probably no higher than your waist. Your torso--crotch--is directly at attack height for them. Whereas anyone unfortunate enough to try to fight a turkey, has to look down, putting them immediately out of their comfort zone.

Instinctively, people think they're going to punch a turkey, but figure out right away that isn't going to work--your arms aren't going to reach, so they go for the soccer ball kick, but their legs make it so their bodies are actually knee-high, not ankle high.

Now, if the average person can't punch, they are even worse at kicking. Humans can't kick for shit. We're not talking about the French football team.

Turkeys might have small brains, but their eyes allow them to see "faster" than we do, so they excel at dodging--they can also pick up a single kernel of corn off the ground, so their coordination is better than a human's. They can hop backwards, to the side, or do a flying leap at you. And a flying leap means their wings are outstretched (they seem twice as big), and their beak is coming right at you, often with lots of gobbling noises, with a double kick attack (for any TTRPG fans out there this is three attacks in a round. Five if you count wing attacks. And if you think being slapped in the face with a turkey wing is not a big deal, you'd be wrong again because it can bruise your face).

This combination tends to startle most people into stumbling backwards, which is a retreat to the turkey, which only encourages them to press their advantage.

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It's easy to trap turkeys--although this is illegal in most states. And of course it is easy to shoot them, but again, only legal during hunting season, with the proper paperwork, and most certainly not in a residential neighborhood, which is where most conflicts occur.

You didn't see the rat that just went by?

Stares from Westfield

Nationalize that shit, yo!

You'd be wrong.

source: was turkey farmer & have interacted with plenty of wild turkeys.

Last week, so many people in this sub were saying "There's still plenty of time for snow to come and accumulate."

Yeah, it might snow, but it will warm up a few days afterwards, or we'll get precipitation in the form of rain. No lakes / ponds are freezing over; skiing, snowshoeing, dogsledding--never even had a season.

>Didn't one overtop it's levee in NC a few years back?

Nothing would surprise me, as the hog industry has the state legislature by the balls.

Here are some stories of workers dying after falling into containment pools.

Not to be confused with Oklahoma's industrial rivers.

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Do you know about the hog containment pools (shit pits) in SC? Basically acre feet of hog shit with under and over layer tarps. Fill one, cap it, move on to the next. No treatment.

If you want to read it again, just look under 'Educational' in the prison library.

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Anything by Kim Stanley Robinson, or Dan Simmons--both literary sci-fi. Gap Into Space, very weird sci-fi by Stephen R. Donaldson. Samuel R. Delaney, more weird sci-fi.

Ivanhoe, by Sir Walter Scott.

Non-fiction books by Mary Roach.

Gore Vidal, essays, and historical and contemporary literature.

The Name of The Rose

>Shantaram

I'd stay clear of this. Every page has about twenty metaphors / analogies. It is 90% fiction, per recent interview because of the new, now cancelled, miniseries.

It is long though, about 900 pages. There are worse things to read. I read it almost 20 years ago, and wanted to read it again now that I am back in India, and quit at page 70.

You gotta take it to my guy.

Enough so-called "small business owners" (but, really all businesses) complained about it to Baker, and the legislature.

The "compromise" was to raise the minimum wage, and eliminate time and-a-half on Sundays.

At the time, the argument here on reddit, was, "Why should you get paid 1.5x on Sundays just because its Sunday?"

And the answer is that Sunday was historically recognized as a 'Day of Rest', because it was church day--a day to pray, be with family, read the bible, and in the before times, laborers worked six days a week, went to church on Sunday, and then sometimes worked the latter part of Sunday after church was over, too.

As the economy transitioned from agrarian to manufacturing, and the labor movement pushed for eight-hour work days, weekends, and other labor rights, enough politicians felt that if someone till had to work on Sunday, that was time away from their family, and they should be justly compensated for it.

As church attendance waned, corporate propaganda increased, and local communities atrophied, Sunday became less and less a sacred day / automatic day off, and eventually the time came when corporations felt they were able to make the move to strike time and-a-half from workers' rights.

The End.

Fucking hilarious.

No, companies were plenty rich before. They just wanted to be richer.

Fuck you, Baker.

You ain't lyin'.

Fortunately, there is absolutely zero chance I get this.

Sadly, there is absolutely zero chance I get this.

Minnechaug Class of '99 here. I went to school in the old building, which was built in 1954. Not relevant at all.

Too bad the article doesn't state what thee monthly electric bill was--because I am curious, although I can see how the figure could lead to the increasing chance of some asshat making death threats to a town councilor, or superintendent.

Sorry, but you're an idiot for saying this. You might be intelligent enough in other aspects of life, but not this.

The entire world's ecology is based around appropriate seasonal temperatures. It hit 40 C (104 F) in England last summer, a temp which was considered theoretically impossible. Northern CA just got hit with so much rain 20 people died. Forty-five people died in the surprise Buffalo blizzard last month. The Great Salt Lake is at 63% normal surface area, and 20 million migratory birds rely on it for breeding and eating.

Early spring-like temps--instead of Winter temps--are convenient for you softies, but these horrifically abnormal temps are going to disrupt the lives of insects (and the birds that feed on them), plants budding, hibernation cycles, etc.

Color me doubtful.

Eventually, the robots will have coordinated dance routines to improve their PR amongst skeptics, and then they will get back to the human rights violations.

I heavily dispute this.

I feel like temps are at least 20 - 30 degrees higher than they should be.

I was born in 1981, and after 1988 I spent every Winter playing on a frozen lake. It would freeze 20" deep, and ice-out wasn't until the end of April. You could drive a truck on it, and we did. Until about 2013-5, the freezes were long, hard, deep. For weeks the temps wouldn't go above freezing. After 2015, there would be entire Winters where the lake ice would either come close to being safe--but not quite--or just not freeze over at all. This is one of those Winters. No ice.

This is horribly abnormal, and the consequences are going to be mosquitoes in March, insects hatching so early that migratory birds miss the overlap dates resulting in large die-offs for lack of food, etc.

It's bad. It's real bad.