Publication of the latest results was keenly awaited to see how effective India’s conservation measures have been. It is partially good news that the declines have stopped, but dashed any hopes that there are signs of recovery. The threat of extinction was very real until the ban on veterinary use of the NSAID diclofenac in 2006. Evidence from these surveys suggests that the ban has been partially effective. However, populations remain at very low levels, following declines of 97.9% for Long-billed Vulture and 99.8% for White-rumped Vulture since 1992, and 48% & 87% declines respectively since 2002.

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Rhys Green, Professor of Conservation Science at the University of Cambridge and involved in vulture studies in India for 20 years, commented “The absence of any sign of population recovery in India is likely to be because veterinary NSAIDs toxic to vultures have continued to be sold widely in veterinary pharmacies. This includes continuing illegal sales of diclofenac, as well as toxic drugs such as aceclofenac, ketoprofen and nimesulide whose use has remained legally approved. The recent banning of aceclofenac and ketoprofen is welcome but will take time to become effective. There is nothing to stop a new NSAID even more toxic than diclofenac being approved tomorrow. Until the pharmaceutical industry is required to provide robust data about the safety to vultures of veterinary NSAIDs before they are approved, the maintenance of viable self-sustaining captive ‘insurance’ populations of vultures, as pioneered by BNHS, will remain essential”.

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You are suggesting a conspiracy theory. I do not have a problem with that, that’s fine…

Tell me more, if you want.

I am not saying I will be persuaded to believe it, but I like conversations and I am here to keep the conversation on things going.

I recollect Anton Chikitilko (sp?) from Rostov, Russia, had a seuxal disorder where basically he was only able to achieve full arousal and ejaculation when he was doing what he was doing to his victims… So I agree it is a disorder to some degree.

Theoretically, though, you could “remove” even the potential of solving impotence, which would change the game. But IDK. I am not like some luddite here who is fully on board with the policy. I would say I am undecided.

Lol

Iran’s nuclear site at Fordow was hit again on Monday as Israel unleashed strikes on roads leading to the underground facility following a massive U.S. attack over the weekend.

Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it carried out the attack earlier Monday to disrupt access routes to Fordow, one of Iran’s key enrichment sites.

They blew up roads.

And Elvin prison.

Good pic, too.

I remember as a kid seeing these from time to time, an older person in my life pointing it out. I do not think I saw when after elementary school - I became too cool to go on fishing trips anymore, and then I moved to a big city after HS where these sorts of things were impossible to experience.

I used to see them with some frequency, but now I probably haven;'t seen an owl in the wild in a quarter of a century.

Some part of me is far poorer because of that.

I guess I am somewhat surprised how much traction this got - we got like 20 people visiting the Instance or subscribed to it from other places on Lemmy that are decidedly anti-socialist.

(Or anti-pink hair)

I did not expect that.

The standard for whether or not someone has been shot in the US military is whether flesh is broken by a bullet or bullet fragmentation - basically, there has to be blood, but it does not matter if it is a full on through & through shot that destroys a portion of your intestines and gives you all manner of health issues for the rest of your life, or if it is a fragment of a bullet that hits your ear.

I tend to think it is the latter.

Also probably very much a life changing experience for him - and a life ending experience for the shooter.

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It’s a very bad idea considering how easily the Iranians are touching Tel Aviv.

Based & Blessed

lol bro bro bro slow down here - let’s let LUSCIOUS THIGH GANG take a moment to espouse the virtues of intercrural copulation, and let the footies take an L, just once, in this thread.

Luscious Thigh Gang is never talked about - let them raise their profile via memes.

I knew a man in Asia who was asked to be a stand-in for a Caucasian friend at a wedding that he couldn’t attend. He had to give a very brief speech, pretending to be that person, and then eh was invited to the subsequent party afterwards.

Yes - I also loved it. ^^

Alleged footage of the pilot rejecting

https://x.com/warintelghost/status/1933599791281275322

This is the right answer, yes, lol

Riiiiighttttttttttttt to some degree… I have not listened to early Burzum in a long time, but it is the case, as far as I remember, that Varg’s early work never explicitly advocates Nazism. Even in his later, post-jail work, after he had become transparent about his views, he isn’t focusing on espousing specifically any racial theory in his music…

For instance, “Belus” was originally going to be called ‘The White God’ because that is how one of these ancient deities was literally referred to by the worshipers, but this was not actually racial in nature… It was how a bunch of pagans who didn’t know much of anything about different races referred to their god, and there was no motive, and he wanted to avoid confusion over this so he renamed the album to Belus…

Of course, Varg is anti-Semitic and a racist, and he has written extensively about this sort of thing… Yet, I would emphasize that the music itself does not tend to convey that…

But yeah, it is what it is.

I think… NSBM is more explicitly Nazi, though, so like… I hesitate to say Varg’s work is conventionally NSBM.

But I also do not want to look like a Nazi apologist or some anal retentive guy policing what people call NSBM. For all intents and purposes, I think it is safe to call Varg a Nazi musician and say that his earliest work can also be regarded as that, but since it is so seminal in black metal music and is not explicitly lyrically Nazi, I think it’s excusable for people to listen to this stuff - particularly considering you are probably downloading it and he isn’t making a dime.

Burzum - Filosofem

Senator Alex Padilla characterized the protests as “peaceful” and “passionate”. “The vast majority of protesters and demonstrators are peaceful. … When you come into a community like Los Angeles, the way the Trump administration has, you need to expect to be countered with people who are passionate about defending fundamental rights.”

This stuff is really tiresome.

You could also literally say this about the infamous J6, but it would not matter a lick. You would be called dishonest for saying it was peaceful because the majority are peaceful, but it’s standard policy to drag out this line when it is a left wing cause.

This is kind of interesting.

… If I give a ride as an Uber driver to someone who just walked off with $500 they stole and have no knowledge that they did so, I do not think I can be charged with a crime… However, if I was the getaway driver for someone who just walked off with $500 they stole, and I am in on the plan, I am an accomplice…

I think there is also some precedent for this - as in, it is a practice for people to be facilitating undocumented immigration without ever crossing boundaries and just moving people within the state.

I recollected this from another case:

A deputy noted in his report that he pulled over a black van on April 29 at 5:21 a.m. in the Eagle Pass area. He learned that Avshalom Cohen was the driver. While searching the vehicle, the deputy found eight undocumented migrants, a smoke bomb, a loaded gun, a 9mm 50-round drum, and a police badge.

According to the incident report, Avshalom Cohen told the deputy that he did not know the people he was transporting were undocumented. The deputy searched his phone and found messages “with an unknown subject instructing him to pick up at said location and to drop off in other locations.”

ABC13

A woman in Brazil is currently under police investigation for “transphobia” after she posted a joke online about archaeologists being able to discern a person’s sex by observing differences in bone structure. Speaking at a women’s rights protest in Rio de Janeiro in April, Karen Mizuno revealed that she was notified by police that she was facing possible criminal charges because she had mocked a trans activist who had stated that “archaeologists are transphobic.”

Mizuno explained that her ordeal began after an article was circulated about Lucy, a well-known fossil of a female human ancestor which dates back approximately 3.2 million years.

“The situation was, there was an article going around about the bones belonging to the fossil of Lucy, and how the archaeologists found out that she was a woman, because of the pelvic bone,” Mizuno said. “Trans activists were saying that attesting that Lucy was a woman, because of her female pelvic bone, was transphobia. In other words, they said she could be a trans man. They really think that someone who lived three million years ago had a ‘gender identity.’ It’s an unreasonable argument, an anachronism.”

She continued: “I took screen shots of the tweet with these accusations of alleged ‘transphobia’ by the archaeologists, which said exactly the following: ‘This tweet reminds me of something I never see people talking about. Archaeologists are indeed transphobic. That so-called Lucy, for example, are they inferring she was a woman based on the bones alone? Does that mean that if I die, in 500 or 5000 years someone might disrespect my gender because of that?”

Mizuno took a screen shot of the comment and posted it with her own commentary, writing: “With each passing day, human extinction ceases to become a fear and becomes something to hope for.” Mizuno explains that it was intended to be a light-hearted joke.

“I said nothing about ‘trans,’ there was no hateful speech, I only suggested that the question in the post was ridiculous, and clamored for the extinction of the planet.”

Mizuno told Reduxx that months later, two police officers came to her home to notify her that a criminal investigation had been opened into her comments.

“I was notified on November 19, 2024. The police came to my house but I wasn’t at home. They told my mother if I didn’t go to the police station on the scheduled date they would arrest me,” she said. “In other words, I could literally be arrested for agreeing with the archaeologists that a 3 million year-old fossil, which had a female pelvis, had been a woman.”

Brazil is really becoming a tyrannical place.

I think Bolsonaro and Glenn Greenwald got more people in the anglosphere paying attention to Brazil, and I find myself increasingly horrified by what I see.

Yes, and it is also available on Rumble. But I think X is where he primarily goes.