After reading this comment and the article, I feel there is actually some perspective hidden here that may need addressing.

While a million dollars to most of us seems unobtainable, a billion dollars is still unobtainable to most millionaires. It’s 1000x or 3 factors of 10 or however you wish to look at it. Huge difference. Nobody if offered either a million or a billion dollars would say there’s no substantial difference.

Google tells me Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield are worth about $150 million each. That’s a hell of a lot of money to be sure.

Current market cap on Unilever is around $144 billion. One thousand times more than either Ben or Jerry.

When we’re in a time where some are starting to say even a million dollars is no longer a guaranteed good retirement savings, and when people with 150x that much are being silenced, maybe we also need to update our thoughts on the ongoing class warfare around the world.

While most of us here have different realities than Ben and Jerry, their lives are drifting closer to ours than they are for the billionaire class. To me, that is a bit scary to think of. That’s concentration of power to a much smaller group. About 1.1% of the world population, 59.4 million people, are millionaires, there are less than 3000 billionaires.

When division is what is keeping us fighting each other instead of focusing on who is really calling the shots, I feel this is an important distinction to consider. Maybe getting pissed at millionaires has now become futile. The upside is it is easier to focus on 3000 people than 60 million. That isnt to say millionaires are also an issue, but it may no longer be the most pressing one.

Open to your thoughts, I just think these numbers are pretty staggering.

Honestly, just an oversight on my part due to having his work recommended to me by the algorithm. The main things I’m subscribed to are recues and rehabs, and then every day I sort through a dozen or so pages pushing AI art as real animals, but occasionally I come across things that repeatedly show real images. The only things that had been showing up on my feed is the real guy’s work, and that lead me to assume it was his page since everything I’ve noticed from it had the same watermark and hashtag listings.

Now that you pointed it out, I checked out the actual educationbooks and Simon’s page, and it turns out owls are the minority of content on both. If it pops up in the future, I’ll see if I can image search it back to the original post instead. I’ve gone and fixed this one now.

I appreciate anyone that has reason to correct me. I want to do the best I can for you all and also the ones creating all the content we enjoy.

If it’s meat, the owl will eat! 🦉

Nothing that advanced. There’s just an occasional video worth sharing, but it’s on Facebook, which everyone here is pretty rightly opposed to visiting, so I convert it to an image so I can upload it here.

I loved finding this set. Even when most of these guys share what they call uncropped photos, it still looks like you’re standing within spitting distance of the subject. This is one of the few that actually feels like it gives an idea how hard it is to see and photograph these owls.

I don’t know much camera tech, but I assumed it had to be full of compromises after looking at it and doing a quick read. I was shocked it was a Point and Shoor first of all, and then seeing the price I knew it was a too good to be true thing. It’s cheaper than many of the lenses I’ve seen with less power and it’s smaller so I figured corners were cut somewhere.

One review I read said they were a limited run, but still took a few years to sell out, so I figured it was something very niche, as only so many people want a $1000+ camera with a fixed lens or various things along that line. It’s very interesting to see such a weird hybrid of a camera though, even if I couldnt fully understand why it was so weird.

This site says there are 9. 3 Army, 3 Air Force, 3 Coast Guard.

In 3 months we’re going to have a Secretary of Defense that’s on the Fox and Friends B-Team, and a panel of MAGA generals purging the ranks. I am not ruling anything out of the future timeline we’re on…

These are some of the same people who don’t know who the president of Puerto Rico is, so they might just move in thinking the place is abandoned.

Some will either still say it’s not enough or that their iPhone is just as good. 😆

I watched a few zoom tests of the camera and it’s pretty crazy. It looks to have been a limited run and then discontinued when stock ran out, but it’s much cheaper than I would have guessed based on looking up some of the other mega jumbo telephoto lenses these people mention.

The spotted owls had long known of the impending demolition of Earth and had made many attempts to alert mankind to the danger…The last ever message was misinterpreted as a surprisingly sophisticated attempt to hoot “The Star-Spangled Banner”, but in fact the message was this: “So Long, and Thanks for All the Mice.”

I was thinking today we’re not far from having a new Fugitive Slave Act, only with migrants. At this point, I don’t think we can really say anything is off the table. I don’t know any check or balance that isn’t currently compromised or 1 executive order from elimination.

My first thought was to wonder if we’ll try to buy Greenland again.

Apparently, some have been pushing that last week already…

Sorry, World. 😑

Found an article about ethical animal photography and how harmless activities can hurt or get animals killed. Here is an owl story from it:

Close to where I live, little owls breed (Athena noctua). Although their status is of the least concern worldwide, their numbers are declining rapidly here in the UK, probably because of intensive farming methods and the shocking loss of invertebrates and small mammals on which they feed. Just 7% of Britain’s native woodlands, where they live, are in good condition ecologically. It’s not the photographers’ fault that they are disappearing.

They live on inaccessible private land. Consequently, wildlife photographers entice them by baiting them with mealworms on a boundary fence post. This might seem harmless. After all, they are feeding the birds. However, the fence post is by a road, which increases the risk of the owls being hit by a vehicle; one of them has been. Furthermore, the post is also in the open, making these tiny birds more likely to be predated. As the owls regularly visit the same spot to get food, so too will the bigger hunters that will see the tiny owls as easy meals.

I also always think of Mao and the sparrows. Four Pests Campaign I was going to post some quotes, but after reading them, I decided not to. I’ll simplify it into saying one of the things they did was to purposefully make noise and just disturb the birds in general so they couldn’t rest or eat. About 4 million sparrows were killed. The end result of that misguided effort was a famine that killed 20-30 million people, so it worked out for either side.

Birds live in a very delicate balance. They’ve given up many physical advantages we take for granted to be able to fly. As long as the balance is kept, they do fine. But when their life revolves around flight, and they can no longer maintain the energy needed to fly, they are done for. Energy needs are so high for them.

“Hey lady, I don’t remember ordering a salad here!”

Any mouse not belonging to Disney is in for a tough life!

You should never be afraid to be different!

Found a fun test of the zoom.

Specs I looked up said it was 125x optical zoom!

I wonder if I can achieve this on my Pixel? 🤪