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The account of AI6YR Ben, on his own server. Also at https://mastodon.radio/@ai6yr (ham radio). Yes, I'm the guy who found that hiker using only the selfie of his feet. If you want to support this server, https://patreon.com/ai6yr

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ai6yr, to random
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AP: Recreating a jump into Normandy D-Day zone 80 years later, British paratroopers face French customs https://apnews.com/article/dday-80th-anniversary-uk-paratroopers-france-customs-brexit-7e551795ab6b964110d798b86f7b438e

ai6yr, to tesla
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"Tesla's unsold inventory is creating stockpiles you can see from space

Where have all the Teslas gone? Stored in parking lots, every one. "

https://sherwood.news/business/elon-musk-tesla-extra-inventory-satellite-imagery/

ai6yr, to Health
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STAT: A new discovery about carbon dioxide is challenging decades-old ventilation doctrine (TLDR; viruses like CO2 levels being high) https://www.statnews.com/2024/06/04/co2-ventilation-research-virus-airborne-life-haddrell-celebs/ #co2 #ventilation #disease #health

ai6yr, to id
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CNN: ‘Catastrophic landslide’ closes critical mountain highway between Wyoming and Idaho #TetonPass #infrastructure #WY #ID

ai6yr, to random
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118F at Furnace Creek, Death Valley National Park at 6/6/24 2pm. Unsure if the hottest part of the day was earlier or coming up... forecast to 121F.

ai6yr, to climate
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NOAA: "Carbon dioxide is accumulating in the atmosphere faster than ever — accelerating on a steep rise to levels far above any experienced during human existence, scientists from NOAA and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography offsite link at the University of California San Diego announced..."

"...“Over the past year, we’ve experienced the hottest year on record, the hottest ocean temperatures on record and a seemingly endless string of heat waves, droughts, floods, wildfires and storms,..."

https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/during-year-of-extremes-carbon-dioxide-levels-surge-faster-than-ever #keelingcurve #co2 #climateemergency #disasters

ai6yr, to wildlife
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Wood Rat: Stay out all night! Drink lots of free beer! Eat a slug or two! What else would you do?! #garden #wildlife #beer

Wood rat standing on the top of a Mason jar chugging beer
Closeup of wood rat after hours of serious drinking

ai6yr,
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**technically, this is a slug trap for the garden. Practically, it is an all night (and day?) bar for the Wood Rat that lives in my backyard. (the Dusky Footed Woodrat, Neotoma fuscipes -- native of Southern California -- also known as the "pack rat")

https://www.nwf.org/Educational-Resources/Wildlife-Guide/Mammals/Dusky-Footed-Woodrat

ai6yr,
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If you're wondering where the loose change you dropped on your back patio is... likely it's back in the pack rat midden...

From the NWF: "Members of the genus Neotoma are also called packrats because they have a tendency to hoard things, especially shiny objects left out by humans. Woodrats are also called “trade rats,” because when they come across a new treasure, they’ll drop whatever they’re carrying in order to pick up the new item, effectively trading one token for the other. " #traderats #treasure #woodrats

ai6yr, to meta
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Yeesh... Meta is using AI to answer questions in discussion groups... with made up people.
https://theconversation.com/ai-chatbots-are-intruding-into-online-communities-where-people-are-trying-to-connect-with-other-humans-229473

ai6yr, (edited ) to random
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This hill on fire in Santa Clarita. #JoraFire #SantaClarita #CAwx

ai6yr,
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Follow the fire on WatchDuty here: https://share.watchduty.org/i/21212

ai6yr, (edited ) to wildlife
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I've come for you, the vulture does say,
As they do in that Edgar Allen Poe way,
I'll sit right here and wait for some lunch,
On your rotting bones and flesh shall I munch
Oh wait, I'm wrong and you're not dying alone?
That smell's just your brand new cologne?

(human poem, mine. Also my photo, from a few minutes ago!).

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** not sure what the vulture smells... probably something dead there on the hill. I hope not smelling the demise of a neighbor. (When my last dog was dying -- literally on her last legs, dying of old age -- about 7 vultures showed up in the backyard the day we ended up taking her to the vet to give her a humane end. They knew the end was near. )

ai6yr, to random
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If you were a wood rat, would you prefer your beer warm or cold? 🤔

ai6yr,
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Formally renamed the camera. "Slug Party" is now "Wood Rat Bar"

Camera now named Wood Rat Bar

ai6yr, (edited ) to wildlife
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Wood Rat Bar & Grill open for business! Topped off the beer and added a sign! #wildlife #backyard #garden #beer

ai6yr, (edited )
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Oh wow, forgot to check the cameras, the Wood Rat already was already drinking at 3:50pm!

ai6yr,
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And, the drinking begins!

Wood rat chugging beer

ai6yr, (edited ) to diy
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Electronics repair of the day. Air pump/inverter/USB charger/jump box. We use it a lot. Someone suggested it get tossed. I bought a new battery and it's back in business. #righttorepair #diy #repair

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A new unit is $180 to $350 depending on who you buy it from (why the difference, I do not know). A new battery, bought locally (Batteries Plus) was pricey, at almost $70... but having been bitten by a large number of either counterfeit or fake batteries at Uncle Jeff's Online Emporium (Amazon), I have switched to local purchases until someone here can suggest a better alternative....

ai6yr, to random
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AP: Records tumble as early heat wave scorches Southwest U.S. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/records-tumble-as-early-heat-wave-scorches-southwest-u-s

ai6yr,
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"...But at a campaign rally for presumptive Republican presidential nominee" <redacted> "in Phoenix, 11 people fell ill from heat exhaustion by late afternoon and were taken to the hospital, where they were treated and released, fire officials said."

ai6yr, to StarTrek
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Picard on a plate, LOL ($5!) k

ai6yr,
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Apparently a massive Star Trek donation to our library foundation.

Star Trek The Telephone

ai6yr, to random
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NY Times: Personal Conflicts, Even Violence, Are Not Uncommon in Long-Term Care

Arguments, verbal abuse and aggression are not unusual in elder care settings. Better staffing and training can ease the tensions, experts say.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/09/health/conflicts-violence-long-term-care.html?utm_source=press.coop

ai6yr,
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*** Personal opinion, from knowing too many first responders:

"Your relative laying in a pool of vomit or excrement for hours (and maybe dead) before someone calls 911 is not unusual, and staff usually won't help them.... depending on the facility"

ai6yr, to gardening
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It's a slug party,
and I've bought them all a beer
Let's invite them to come right over,
and have a great cheer
It was the cheapest beer they sell nearby
But for a party it will fly
The question is really,
Will they just get drunk, or die?

#gardening #beer #slugs #poem (human poem, mine)

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ai6yr, (edited )
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Official count of beer drowned slugs: zero.

ai6yr,
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Wood rats eat slugs! Apparently, beer marinated slugs taste good! After the drunk slugs stumbled away from the bar, the wood rat got the muchies from all the beer earlier and appears to have eaten as many beer marinated slugs as possible! Slug beer traps work! #wildlife #beer #slugsn

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THE SLUG Party was a hit! Here is a slug going in... and coming out fatter and happier, and probably slightly inebriated.

Same slug crawls out, significantly faster and full of cheap beer

ai6yr, (edited )
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Thank goodness. Junior Norway rat skipped the bar... someone checked ID

ai6yr,
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No slugs. But Wood Rat... yes.

ai6yr,
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So, the conclusion here is:

Beer Traps Work*

But not in the way you think, at least in my experiment (sample size n=1).

The beer attracts slugs, and saw dozens of slugs climb INTO the slug trap, drink beer, and leave much fatter.

The wood rat in the backyard (after swigging a bunch of beer itself) then ATE a bunch of those slugs... must have spent 15 minutes finding all the beer filled slugs and tearing them to bits and eating them.

So, the slugs are dead... but not DIRECTLY through the beer.

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