Awkward On Land

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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kineticpenguin

At the risk of sounding anti-intellectual, I think that college should be free and also not a requirement for employment outside of highly specialized career fields

kineticpenguin

At the risk of sounding like an effete intellectual, I do actually think you should be allowed to just take college courses indefinitely

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gringos get off on describing the brazillian education system

kineticpenguin

Yes. This is a sex thing for me

dancingspirals
homunculus-argument

Reading a book about slavery in the middle-ages, and as the author sorts through different source materials from different eras, I am starting to understand why so many completely fantastical accounts of "faraway lands" went without as much as a shrug. The world is such a weird place that you can either refuse to believe any of it or just go "yeah that might as well happen" and carry on with your day.

There was this 10th century arab traveller who wrote into an account that the fine trade furs come from a land where the night only lasts one hour in the summer and the sun doesn't rise at all in the winter, people use dogs to travel, and where children have white hair. I don't think I'd believe something like that either if I didn't live here.

smoothestjazz
todaysbird

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up to one billion birds in the us alone die of window collisions annually. if you support bird conservation, campaigning against wind farms should not be your first action.

cows-quack

This is why you should consider getting anti-collision uv stickers for your home. It’s cute and it works!

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hierophanthistorian

UV stickers are actually not recommended because many birds cannot actually see UV light (particularly nocturnal species) and they are least effective in the morning when most collisions occur.

This text is a link to a page from Safe Wings (whose primary focus is bird-window safety) about effective window treatments and those they do not recommend.

This text is a link to a page from Safe Wings specifically about solutions they do not recommend.

In short, the best thing you can do is use visual cues on the outside of the window that are spaced no more than 5 cm (2 inches) apart, or completely coverings such as screens.