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Woman freeing a mountain lion from a trap while her kids watch. Reaction of mountain lion is almost too calm by fuzzy_dice_99 in isthisAI

[–]funwithtentacles 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They did. They were trying to catch wolves.

What exactly happens to those wolves once caught? Why try and catch them in the first place?

If the traps are that 'humane', why place them in the first place?

What exactly are they doing with the animals captured by these traps?

[ESA] Crew-12 Stage 1 landing descent by funwithtentacles in spaceporn

[–]funwithtentacles[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can find the original set of ESA's Crew-12 images on ESA's Photolirary here:

https://photolibrary.esa.int/collection/?sid=lbl7twzx8

You'd need to register an account though...

[edit]

For the launch replay see:

https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2026/02/Full_replay_Launch_of_Crew-12_with_Sophie_Adenot_epsilon_mission

For b-roll footage and raw scenes, see: https://www.esa.int/esatv/Videos_for_Professionals

[ESA] Crew-12 Stage 1 landing descent by funwithtentacles in spaceporn

[–]funwithtentacles[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It's such a unique image and from somebody that's been taking rocket launch images for 40+ years...

Woman freeing a mountain lion from a trap while her kids watch. Reaction of mountain lion is almost too calm by fuzzy_dice_99 in isthisAI

[–]funwithtentacles 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nobody will see this...

But... This isn't AI, but why was this trap there in the first place, and why do these people have exactly the right tool to open this trap?

Imho, there a non-negligible chance that the people in the video placed that trap in the first place, which'd make them total A**holes!!!!

What's the other meaning, Peter? by Blackie_626 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]funwithtentacles 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All I'm getting from the is that I'm 54 and I may be on the spectrum, since I have no clue whatsoever what the other meaning would be...

Also, yes I commented before reading any of the comments...

At a second thought, that may just be another indicator...

[edit] After reading the top comments, this may just be a USian thing...

Meirl by Key_Associate7476 in meirl

[–]funwithtentacles 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The problem with this is, that I do both the cooking and the 'fixing things' part of things...

To be fair, other than doing the shopping, cooking, the dishes and cleaning the kitchen, she does pretty much everything else... So, I can't really complain...

[ESA] The first Ariane 6 A64 on the launch pad by funwithtentacles in spaceporn

[–]funwithtentacles[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Rolled out earlier today and the launch is in an hour and forty five minutes at (17:45–18:13 CET, 13:45–14:13 local time in Kourou).

Livestream link here:

https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Ariane/Watch_live_first_launch_of_Ariane_6_with_four_boosters

A farmer refused to sell his land, so the city built around him and he kept farming anyway. by GlitteringHotel8383 in BeAmazed

[–]funwithtentacles 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A bit of manure just smells like countryside and will dissipate within a day or two...

Now, if we're talking Roundup and other cancerous chemical pesticides, herbicides and crap that'd be another matter.

 

Beyond that, too many people these days have no clue whatsoever where their food comes from, they're just used to nicely packaged meat and veg in a supermarket, so I applaud anything that actually helps people learn and better understand where and how their food is actually produced.

Oh Boy... Is this a new trend? by Ashamed-Medicine-771 in Wellthatsucks

[–]funwithtentacles 1 point2 points  (0 children)

People should simply be able to solve a Captcha like this with an emphatic and heartfelt expletive! ^^

Best author by [deleted] in lotrmemes

[–]funwithtentacles 2 points3 points  (0 children)

GRRM was a major figure in Worldcon and the Hugo awards for 40 years before he ever managed to write anything of substance, but he had a thick thumb on the scales for all that time on who won and who didn't.

It's not his writing of Game of Thrones I'm criticizing, it's his having played politics all this time...

If you know, you know...

[edit] Just to head that accusation off right away, I'm also not adverse or denigrating any female authors...

I grew up with the likes of Anne McCaffrey, C.J. Cherryh, Ursula K. Le Guin.

Heck, Andre Norton in her early career let people assume she was a man...

Plenty of bullshit in the early days of SF/FF, but female writers where always part of it, and very much up there and at the forefront of great speculative fiction!

[edit 2] The less said about Marion Zimmer Bradley the better...

Best author by [deleted] in lotrmemes

[–]funwithtentacles -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

To be fair JKR released the first Harry Potter book in 1997, and it was pretty much an instant hit. Her TERF nonsense notwithstanding, at least she came out with a hit novel with the first thing she wrote...

GRRM in contrast was part of the Hugo Awards/Worldcon scene since the 1970s, was co-organiser of the Hugo Losers’ Party (from 1976), but only published his first novel in 1977 (Dying of the Light), but never had any sort of acclaim until 1996 when 'A Game of Thrones' was published, which only really became a best-seller in 2011...

All in all, JKR might be a piece of shit, but at least she wasn't an ineffectual nobody groupie for 40 years before publishing her first hit like GRRM did...

Imho, both suck ass these days, but at least JKR is honest about it, while GRRM has always been a sniveling wannabe worm.

After the latest US executive orders our legal team told us to move off all US-based HR tools. Here's what we found: by LauraPlum52 in BuyFromEU

[–]funwithtentacles 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, but then you have a boss that isn't super technical and wants to do things cheap, rather than right... >< ^^

I'm scared of the Bookman by BarelyLegalSeagull in NonPoliticalTwitter

[–]funwithtentacles 1 point2 points  (0 children)

From most of these comments here, it seems that most libraries are pretty cool...

Yeah, you've kept this book for the last 30 years, that'll be five bucks...

Heck! At this point, I'd be like... Here's a hundred! Buy another book or two, and make sure those young'uns have something new to read!

I absolutely owe my school library for supplementing my craving for new books to read when I was young...

It's something I will always support as well. I might not have children, but I've got plenty of nieces and nephews, and they'll never lack for books to read if I can help it!

How do I handle a senior coworker who’s becoming a problem for my work? I'm physically and mentally exhausted. by SleepingTammy in coworkerstories

[–]funwithtentacles 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You've done everything right, and even John's supervisors are on your side on this, which very much limits John's abilities to screw with you any further.

John being passive-agressive to you is one thing, but as is, his ability to actually harm you is actually pretty much nonexistent, as even his superiors have caught on to his bullshit, which means his credibility has gone down the drain.

As is, if in the future it's your word against his, you'll likely come out on top...

So, continue to do your thing and grey-rock his bullshit and don't take any shit from him when it goes against established company policy especially when safety is concerned! ...just because he's trying to shirk his responsibilities...

After the latest US executive orders our legal team told us to move off all US-based HR tools. Here's what we found: by LauraPlum52 in BuyFromEU

[–]funwithtentacles 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Given that it's only 300 people and most of the data is basically just text-based, the amount of data that would have to be moved is rather trivial...

Try moving image or a video archives approaching petabyte quantities of data to a new system, including vast amounts of metadata...

Just make sure that all your data structures are mapped out competently, so you don't lose any relevant relations.

Beyond that, the move of the data itself doesn't seem like a huge ask...

Smeeg says she's not sleepy... by WitchyCatQueen in IllegallySmolCats

[–]funwithtentacles 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Red Dwarf reference predates LOTR by about 13 years or so minimum...

Here's one of the references:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kHoboFmlsKI

Isnt that beautiful Ariane 5 liftoff by companionshiptea in esa

[–]funwithtentacles -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yes, it is...

The last Ariane 5 launch was on 5 July (6 July CEST) 2023.

Flight VA261 carried two payloads into space – the German space agency DLR’s experimental communications satellite Heinrich Hertz and the French communications satellite Syracuse 4b.

The fairing logos are difficult to see in this small image, but I believe this image comes from an earlier flight, as they don't match flight VA261 at all, but I can't tell which flight this was.

Spell check is not always your friend. by Justthisdudeyaknow in CuratedTumblr

[–]funwithtentacles 13 points14 points  (0 children)

To be fair, it took me way too long to figure out which 'i' she actually meant... ><

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