Rabies is virtually eradicated in the UK. Bats and imported animals are a potential risk, but the chance of a squirrel having rabies is nearly zero.

You are defending the murder of children.

Video of the speech from ABC. The award was for best scripted variety series. Music starts at 0:58, so I guess they're allotted a minute.

The Sarah McLachlan joke is presumably because she's an animal rights activist, and appeals for donations are normally set over somber orchestral music?

It's a lot funnier without the caption.

I went up from the Jordan unto Bethel. And as I was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked me and said unto me, “Go up, thou bald head! Go up, thou bald head!” And I turned back and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord. And there came forth Ganon out of the wood, and tore forty and two children of them.

Robert Molesworth in a session on 12th August 1720:

in his Opinion, they ought, on this Occasion, to follow the Example of the ancient Romans, who having no Law against Parricide [...] adjudg'd the guilty Wretch to be thrown alive, sew'd up in a Sack, into the Tyber. [...] As he look'd upon the Contrivers and Executors of the villainous South Sea Scheme, as the Parricides of their Country, he should be satisfy'd to see them undergo the same Punishment.

No specific mention of snakes, but that was part of the Roman "punishment of the sack".

Ed Balls

They're both men, but neither of them are Men.

I think this generally is true of American liberal / centrist politicians, which is what Carlson probably means when he says "the Left". There's no great public discord in the Democrat Party's representatives, certainly not when compared to the Republican Party.

The actual Left, on the other hand...

*IR light, in the interest of avoiding confusion.

Thanks - looking forward to it!

Its functionality to integrate with whatever LLM you use - local or SAAS. I can't say I'm excited about the feature, but I think it's also a bit silly that people are angry about it (though I take the point about development priority).

It's healthy for Firefox's market share to keep feature parity with Edge and other browsers that have the same function but with a manufacturer-pushed service.

I am the most inexpert of laypeople on this subject, but I've wondered whether the incursion into Russian territory has been to give Ukraine a better position to negotiate on a mutual return of territory in talks, if they come about.

Very much looking forward to V2! I've had to switch to Voyager for working spoiler markdown -- it's also excellent, but I generally prefer Mlem.

Cheeky questions while I'm here:

1. Voyager also seems to handle GIFs in comments better, is that something on the cards for Mlem?
2. Is there a plan to introduce swiping forward? I frequently accidentally swipe back to the community list and lose my place in the feed.

Exact location and LIDAR imagery, for those interested, courtesy of @SK53@en.osm.town on Mastodon.

water bosses

Why is the AP writing as if their audience are children? I understand it from the Mirror.

I'm jealous of people with newer watches, but $1200 is way too much for me to justify, personally. I got my Fenix 5 Plus for about $160 used and that felt like a splurge.

I applaud the sentiment, but it's a park-and-ride car park served by buses. While it would be great if infrastructure was such that it was affordable and practical to exclusively use public transport, this was specifically built to stop people from driving into the city, reducing car traffic in the urban centre and improving air quality and general QOL for pedestrians.

IT'S AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT K- oops, just read your username, sorry.

*afriad