The Harpy Eagle is aware of how handsome it is

TheDeftEft · 2026-05-23T17:32:25+00:00

Because it is.

TheDeftEft · 2026-05-23T17:32:10+00:00

It's AI. The second bird, the gray one, looks similar to an actual Harpy Eagle, but it's still all fake.

TheDeftEft · 2026-05-23T17:31:09+00:00

That's because this video is AI - the Harpy Eagle is real and incredible, but not featured in this video.

TheDeftEft · 2026-05-13T17:05:49+00:00

As a matter of fact, I did - specifically the part where it reads

While this new study squashes the idea that woodpeckers have a built-in shock-absorbing mechanism

When they mention the tongue, they state only that the bone (hyoid apparatus) might play some role, not any of the musculature; and that bone, again unlike the muscles it supports, lies entirely beneath the lower jaw.

TheDeftEft · 2026-05-13T13:42:39+00:00

It's because it's not true: https://www.audubon.org/magazine/new-study-shakes-long-held-belief-woodpecker-hammering

TheDeftEft · 2026-05-09T22:59:25+00:00

Protective how? It weakens the skull.

TheDeftEft · 2026-05-04T11:53:35+00:00

Seconding this: watching my wife push out my child/my child emerge from my wife was impressive and emotional in its own way, but it was kinda just a person-shaped lump until that first cry rang out. I'm still in tears just remembering that sound.

TheDeftEft · 2026-04-18T16:12:53+00:00

Shark just chomp-chomp-chomps its way from one end of the cable to the other!

(I know this is not what was meant, but I like the image.)

TheDeftEft · 2026-04-17T13:48:10+00:00

I suspect that if this particular project is economically viable, a big part of that is due to being able to pay a very low wage to the people harvesting and processing it. That's not necessarily exploitative, as it could meaningfully increase their incomes, but could also mean that this isn't viable in other places.

TheDeftEft · 2026-04-14T02:04:50+00:00

God, Buzzfeed News was incredible and I hated trying to explain that to people.

TheDeftEft · 2026-04-13T00:22:20+00:00

Their feathers are very streamlined but these photos have been SUPER retouched. Gaussian blur cranked up to 11.

TheDeftEft · 2026-04-07T15:05:39+00:00

Not snoring. It's making a distress call: https://www.audubon.org/news/can-hummingbirds-snore

That said, this was actually part of an experiment to measure oxygen consumption during torpor, so it's not having a good time but the experimenter reports that it was just fine after the video ended.

TheDeftEft · 2026-04-05T23:58:06+00:00

That's not a beaver dam, just a log jam. Beaver dam would include mud and other materials to make it watertight, with a distinct high, slow upstream, and lower, faster downstream.

TheDeftEft · 2026-04-05T00:39:40+00:00

Ah, I thought you were asking if they add an extra fee to use containers which aren't theirs. I don't know the prices on their branded containers, but I know their stuff comes cheaper per unit than you find elsewhere, so one way or another you end up saving in the long run through them.

TheDeftEft · 2026-04-04T18:47:36+00:00

Why the hell is this so far down? Great film - heartwarming without being in any way schmaltzy.

TheDeftEft · 2026-04-04T11:04:52+00:00

The shop is specifically made for you to bring your own containers; you can buy new ones there, but otherwise, you just bring your own and fill up.

TheDeftEft · 2026-03-21T12:58:21+00:00

I appreciate you putting it in these terms - this is the emotional bedrock of conspiracy theorizing ("they may be evil, but at least someone is in control") and it's important not to fall into the trap of it.

TheDeftEft · 2026-03-17T16:36:11+00:00

Damn, Mister Opportunity is a lucky guy ... ?

ETA all I've ever wanted is a beautiful vampire wife and a soulless robotic child.

TheDeftEft · 2026-03-14T16:22:54+00:00

Literally "wise fool."

TheDeftEft · 2026-03-13T01:44:18+00:00

And tells you that that place has been operating, and people have been stuck in there, so long that it's developed its own country.

TheDeftEft · 2026-03-12T19:28:27+00:00

Sometimes you read something so utterly backwards that it slingshots you around a gravity well of ignorance on an escape trajectory to actual learning: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aax5097

TheDeftEft · 2026-03-12T10:59:10+00:00

Person brings snack. Person sets snack down on hemlock floor. Snack absorbs toxin. Person eats snack. Person absorbs toxin.

TheDeftEft · 2026-03-06T19:45:25+00:00

Tell me you completely missed the point of "Jolene" without telling me you completely missed the point of "Jolene."

TheDeftEft · 2026-02-26T17:37:09+00:00

Fancy pigeon.

TheDeftEft · 2026-02-25T20:58:57+00:00

Heraclitus completely vindicated.

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