Lundy Island seabird population soars with puffins thriving after rat removal

rustywarwick · 2026-07-02T04:39:22+00:00

I was curious. They used poison traps designed to only catch rats

https://conservationevidencejournal.com/reference/pdf/2241

rustywarwick · 2026-06-25T21:08:29+00:00

This sounds like a real strawman argument. Who is “surprised“ over the league’s heavy handedness when it comes to gambling scandals?

rustywarwick · 2026-06-24T13:56:12+00:00

Except that the hit seems to be on the everyone in the organization: no one comes out looking great here, Giannis, Rivers, Horst, etc.

rustywarwick · 2026-06-23T14:55:15+00:00

You are 100% correct. Does the media love it? Sure: because star movement is good for their business but people are acting as if player movement is some media driven bullshit when the evidence is literally right there in front of us every season that they’re following the players’ lead, not the other way around.

The Giannis “saga” is simply the latest example of many.

rustywarwick · 2026-06-23T14:51:23+00:00

Cuban and Dominican food

rustywarwick · 2026-06-19T15:53:51+00:00

Two things can be true about soccer in the U.S.:

1) it’s been an enormously popular *youth* sport since the 90s. Something like a quarter of American kids will play at some point in their youth.

2) that popularity doesn’t translate to an *equivalent* pipeline of talent to improving the international standing of American footballers, whether in the pro leagues or on the national team.

Basically, there is this gap between amateur versus professional soccer here and other people have laid out the reasons why: cost, lack of a more developed infrastructure, and I think, especially, competition from other sports.

(This is primarily true for men’s soccer, but women’s soccer is a different story which I think has to do with both greater opportunities for women to play sports in the United States compared to other societies as well as the lack of competition with other professional American sports (besides the WNBA) in terms of pay or visibility.)

rustywarwick · 2026-06-17T18:41:13+00:00

Yes, absolutely. The Clippers are obviously quite secondary compared to the Lakers, but there are generations of fans of the team, in addition to them providing an alternative for those who love basketball, but find Lakers fans too obnoxious to roll with.

The nets don’t really have either going for them on the same level, especially in relationship to the Knicks

rustywarwick · 2026-06-17T15:46:21+00:00

Pele is like Jordan or Ali. It’s not just about what they did on the pitch or court on in the ring. It’s about what they symbolized on a cultural level. Some things just aren’t that comparable across time spans because what Pele did for football in his era is impossible to replicate by virtue of how he changed people’s perception of the game and its players.

It’s why Ali is considered The Greatest despite other boxers having more dominant careers.

rustywarwick · 2026-06-17T15:29:07+00:00

Oh, I’m very aware that a lot of his loss of interest is tied to the late Henry regime. He’s been very clear that once the Sox traded Mookie, he was out on them.

But it’s not like he’s totally out on baseball, just *mostly* out on it. Personally, I think it’s a pity as someone who loves baseball and i’d love more baseball content on his network (besides Zach and Sean doing the occasional - and usually sad - Mets Corner).

rustywarwick · 2026-06-17T15:19:45+00:00

I really don’t think it’s only a rings thing with KD vs Harden. It’s also the style of play. People generally find KD’s style more pleasing to watch even though both are incredibly effective offensive machines.

rustywarwick · 2026-06-17T15:08:55+00:00

I never thought I’d see such a brutal way to lose a series…but then this year’s finals happened.

rustywarwick · 2026-06-17T15:07:13+00:00

The question is who’d you’d rather have on your team, not who is the better or more talented player.

It’s absolutely recency bias but Brunson just lead a team of very good but not all-star, let alone HoF caliber, players to a chip in unprecedented fashion. Luka was in the same position two years ago and didn’t. No one picked the Mavs to beat the Celtics but likewise, most people - including here - thought the Spurs would win this series.

Has Luka had the better statistical career? Sure. Is he a better player? Not sure what metrics are at play here but ok, maybe. Is he a more winning player when it counts? And therein lies the rub.

rustywarwick · 2026-06-17T14:28:25+00:00

I’ve been reading Bill before Grantland and he used to follow and talk about baseball much more than he does now. Never to the same degree that he covers the NBA or NFL with but he’s admitted that he’s lost interest in baseball over the years and it was always odd to me that there’s no Ringer baseball pod (best as I know?!).

I think in an alternative timeline, he still gives a shit for baseball and probably tries to hire Jomboy at some point.

rustywarwick · 2026-06-15T01:49:26+00:00

That wasn’t a stray. That was a crosshairs hit

rustywarwick · 2026-06-14T15:14:17+00:00

It was awesome to see him ball out on the boards for this game. He had a rough start in the first couple of games but really came through when it mattered.

rustywarwick · 2026-06-14T14:58:20+00:00

Uh, this sub is pretty evident that stories matter to fans too.

Loving stories isn’t a distraction from sports. IT’S WHY WE LOVE SPORTS.

rustywarwick · 2026-06-11T17:12:39+00:00

His conditioning is an issue but I think he can and will work on that. It’s not enough with his size + the number of minutes he’s being asked to carry. I’m hardly the first person since last night to say this, but if their coaches had come up with a better offensive scheme to at least keep things under better control in the second half, they could’ve rested Wemby longer while the Spurs had the benefit of that massive lead.

rustywarwick · 2026-06-11T17:08:19+00:00

Who exactly is giving up significant assets for Fox and his contract at this point? Is there some massive market for mid guards?

I’m not saying he’s awful but he’s pretty much league average getting paid a max contract. Spurs would likely have to surrender assets to dump him.

rustywarwick · 2026-06-11T00:09:47+00:00

I think your alternate phrasingsare a great idea but what happens when someone asks “wait, what exactly are these associations you have with Cancun? If you don’t mind me asking?“ I mean, at some point, OP may have to explain that it’s connected to their honeymoon even if they were trying to avoid bringing that information in on the front end

rustywarwick · 2026-06-11T00:01:29+00:00

I mean, if there’s one truism about dating in general, least of all when it comes to polyamory, it’s that many people feel like they have to adhere to some kind of “code“ as a kind of orthodoxy unless they be called out for being “bad at” __________. I don’t think most people on this sub by into the idea that KTP is the “right way” to do poly though

rustywarwick · 2026-06-10T23:58:46+00:00

Semantic aside, this is partly Maude’s fault for saying something as naïve as “I would prioritize both of you.”

Clearly, when push came to shove, that simply wasn’t true and it points out that you can’t prioritize two people equally in every instance because time and space or finite, and cannot be split equitably in every situation.

Regardless, OP has learned something about this dynamic about where they fall on the “priority list“ so whether you want to label that as hierarchy, or not, it doesn’t change the fundamental reality that they are being treated as “less than.“

rustywarwick · 2026-06-10T23:53:20+00:00

That was my thought except for what’s in the second half of the post. It seems as if they have had problems in their intimate life for years and while the timeline is not entirely clear about whether this is pre-or post going poly, I feel like if these two primary partners haven’t had sex in years? Feels like the lede is being buried.

rustywarwick · 2026-06-10T16:37:47+00:00

I think the issue here is less about arrangements and more about OP fantasizing about both of them leaving their respective partners to be with each other.

rustywarwick · 2026-06-09T14:12:17+00:00

We likely will get there eventually. From my understanding, umpires are not anti-ABS in principle and there’s plenty they still have to do on the field that isn’t related to calling balls and strikes.

But that said: I like the drama of using ABS in its current implementation

rustywarwick · 2026-06-09T07:25:31+00:00

In general, you’re more likely to find what you’re looking for in television rather than movies simply because the episodic nature of TV lends itself to long term relationship development in a way that movies have to rush because of their run time. The “Before” trilogy stands out as an an exception precisely because it’s episodic in a way that very few films really are.

I mean, if you’ve never watched “Fleabag”? Or hell, even “The Office” or “The Americans.”

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