“The reason most public transportation is seen as ‘losing’ money is precisely because it charges for trips. If you don't charge fares, suddenly it can't ‘lose’ money. It just costs money, the same as the roads.”
This random comment has given me my new favourite argument for removing fares from public transit.
Please don’t confuse what is legal with what is right. There is some overlap, of course, but not as much as one might think. Laws are generally written by the rich and powerful to protect their interests, often at the expense of the poor and weak. Many atrocities are lawful, and many acts of mercy are unlawful. I say this as an attorney.
ok so i just wanna say: Buster Keaton would have RULED TikTok.
- silent comedy meant to be accompanied by music
- clever use of editing and backgrounds (see fig. 1)
- dangerous stunts people would totally try to copy
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The little Audubon's warbler hung out at the cylinder feeder for a while, chasing off bigger birds, and then hopped on to a bare branch near the window to show off his lovely yellow throat and chest streaks! Then the mountain chickadee AND one of the busy white-breasted nuthatches were in the tree at the same time, making their differences obvious 😊
Hopping around on the ground near the back fence was a decent flock of fat robins. Rounding out the orange-bellied boys were a pair of spotted towhees, and reporting in for the corvids was one lone scrub jay eagerly divebombing the flat feeder.
I don't know if it's the light or if it's breeding season already here, but everybody is putting on their brightest show, colors popping against dull trunks and patchy snow.
Wow, happy bird day to me! I guess it's warmed up a bit out, at least enough for a huge variety of birds to descend. A flock of about twenty kinglets all clustered on the cylinder feeder, only to explode out when a Northern flicker decided to get in on the action. Lots of pink-sided juncos poking around, followed by a couple of very bright house finches, and our friend the curve-billed thrasher was back to terrorize the little guys.
There's a local agglomeration of juvenile crows (they don't seem premeditated enough for a murder, maybe a 3rd-degree manslaughter? reckless endangerment?) that likes to hang out down the street but rarely comes into the yard proper. Well, they came to hang out and yell in the upper branches of a couple of the trees the other day. The corvids here are surprisingly cautious, compared to California or Washington.
CHICKADEE ALERT WE HAVE A MOUNTAIN CHICKADEE!!!!
It's been pretty quiet at the feeders lately because of the snowstorms (plural!) but over the past few days little flocks of juncos and house finches have stopped by. A ring-necked dove roosted in the middle of one of the trees for a while. And the curve-billed thrasher was back to cause some chaos.
SUCCESSDAUGHTER HAWK CAUGHT A ROBIN IN MY YARD!!! The young female sharp-shinned hawk that's been hanging around got herself a nice dinner, and Johnnemann spotted her gleefully ripping it apart on a low branch. Good job, hawk!
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