Captivity programs to repopulate critically endangered species are absolutely fantastic. Although the main ones we are aware of are all animals. We have no idea of the impact from the possible extinction of numerous other critically endangered plants, insects, and microorganisms that aren't as cute or marketable.

We simply have too much of an impact and effect on our surroundings to the point we're likely going to drive our own extinction.

Wow, it sounds a great trip to take!

I'd love to travel to Australia and New Zealand, never been there… it seems so far away from Spain. Actually New Zealand is in the antipodes from Spain!  🙂

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A few people haven't been able to decipher my last (cryptic?) message, so to be clear:

Luke Perry was buried in a biodegradable mushroom suit that reduces the carbon footprint left by burial or cremation.  The suit will help decompose his remains into nutrients that return to the soil.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-woman-who-made-luke-perrys-mushroom-burial-suit-is-shaking-up-the-death-care-market-2019-05-07

https://www.bbc.com/news/48140812

The BBC article included the accompanying photo.

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@boyboyboyboy:

what? that is insane. I really enjoyed seeing him growing up. RIP.

Looking at this again, I now get that you were likely not saying:

I really enjoyed seeing him growing up.

… but rather ...

I really enjoyed seeing him {implied:  while I was} growing up.

Apologies on that and for Rocky, RIP.

RIP

RIP

@raphjd:

This crap has been going on for at least 2 decades.

There are even companies with no connection to the copyrighted item trying to profit by claiming.   About 10 years ago, the EU had several such companies doing this.

Extortion is the best word for it.   They threaten to sue you for massive sums but say they will drop it if you pay several thousand.

I know, it's such a fucking racket out there. Makes me want to be a pirate even more. If they have all this money to try and "break the war on piracy," to not gain any profits (because it's more likely the people they're suing has absolutely no money), then they're making too much money. Fuck them….. I don't feel guilty anymore. No one can afford these prices anymore, and they promote to the poorest communities too.

There's also the issue of using it to prevent the homeless from sleeping in them.

They won't supply them with housing and won't let them sleep in other places.

Yes, I'm afraid my analogies got a bit off-center in the last post.  Your glory holes in England are indeed man-made, as was the one in my original post and video clip (although they are related to meteorological events, such as rain/flooding).

I'll move on from my truly mediocre work determining the origin of the term "glory" for these overflow pipes.  Something tells me I've got house upkeep that is, well, slightly more pressing than this ephemera.  But I appreciate your coming along on this bumpy ride…    :blink:

This just won't happen. It's just unworkable. This policy will keep getting postponed in the hopes that everyone will forget it was ever mentioned to it can be dropped