Without the feeders, birds with larger beaks might not be able to find food as well than birds with slimmer beaks, which would make them less likely to live long enough to reproduce. The feeders have allowed birds that have DNA to code for bigger beaks to survive and make it to adult hood, have offspring, and pass those genes along. Evolution at it’s finest.

I sang that in the style of Guns N Roses.

My best guess is that you are from Iran? If memory serves, this got kicked off via the Anglo-Persian oil company, 51% owned by the Brits. (They go by BP now.) The company was a private entity that was treating the Iranian workforce poorly in terms of qualify of life and profit sharing with workers. The ruler in Iran was tired of their country and land being used to generate profits for foreign entities. The profit sharing with the company was renegotiated in the somewhere in the 1930s. (my memory is a bit spotty on the exact date.) In Narrator voice: The company did not abide by that agreement. During world war 2, the allied forces basically occupied Iran to secure the oil fields to keep supply chains intact during the war; so this would have been happening in the 1940s. This created a push for nationalizing the company and supply of oil, leading up to the 1950s and in 1951 is when Iran nationalized it under prime minister Mossadegh. There was lots of back and forth between the Brits and Iran, and threats of going to international court. The Shah was a bit more friendly to how business was being done between Iran and the Birts. This led to an attempt by the Shah to replace Mossadegh in 1952, and led to riots against the Shah and perceived foreign intervention. This failed. Mossadegh was pissed and eventually Mossadegh expelled the British embassy in October 1952. The brits cried to the USA, which led to the CIA to depose Mossadegh via the Shah, using underhanded bribery and corruption type shenanigans. This led to another 2 decades of Iran getting fucked by the brits and the USA, which eventually was a factor in the hostage crisis in 1979. Yeah, America was pissed about that. I was born in 1979 and have very early memories of Reagan saying shit like we won’t negotiate with terrorists. When Iraq went to war with Iran, the US was on the books as supporting Iraq. There was an embargo preventing the US from selling weapons to Iran. That didn’t stop the USA. They funneled weapons and training to contras in Nicaragua who would then supply Iran, simply because the USA didn’t want Iran to be influenced by the Russia and communism. This is not taught in American public schools at all. American history curriculum usually ends with the civil rights movement. This was all stuff I had to learn on my own after hearing about it first hand from my best friend who lived through the Iraq/Iran war in the 80s. Yes, we are the baddies.

There are so many factors to consider, but the main things one should research in terms of disparate health outcomes are: Income, access to healthy food, access to a healthy environment (again see income and housing disparities,) and access to medical care (see income again as well as bias in healthcare that affects outcomes.)

https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2021/demo/p60-273.pdf

https://www.nrdc.org/bio/nina-sevilla/food-apartheid-racialized-access-healthy-affordable-food

https://hub.jhu.edu/magazine/2014/spring/racial-food-deserts/

https://www.kff.org/racial-equity-and-health-policy/issue-brief/racial-disparities-in-maternal-and-infant-health-current-status-and-efforts-to-address-them/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4638275/

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2024/07/more-black-americans-die-from-effects-of-air-pollution.html

https://www.lung.org/clean-air/outdoors/who-is-at-risk/disparities

Black people are more likely to be impoverished. This means they have fewer choices and access issues when it comes to housing. They are more likely to live in areas that are affected by different types of pollution; which have long term health impacts. They have a harder time accessing healthy food because there are less likely to be decent grocery stores in their communities. If you read the article, you know that black babies are more likely to die of perinatal conditions, which are health conditions before, or right after birth, (see my point about access to healthcare and disparity of health outcomes based on race.)

While racism that causes these disparities isn’t overt, it’s baked in beneath all of these complex factors. Racism is absolutely a factor, it’s systemic racism.

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I am assuming your post is sarcasm. Just in case anyone didn’t know, Bernie Sanders is Jewish.

Following Trump’s Rose Garden announcement, a White House official told NOTUS’ Jasmine Wright that Russia is “not on this list because sanctions from the Ukraine war have already rendered trade between the two countries as zero.” Obviously I think this is bullshit, but that’s the rationale.

HUG. Do you have insurance to get treatment for your depression at least? I will be your family. You are more than welcome to show up at my place for Thanksgiving, and Christmas.

Would this sub be driven with an x-box controller and going to visit the Titanic?

Oh, no. Thoughts and prayers.

Say hi to Jennifer Piggot!

This cunt is a raging bigot.

Trump cast her out,

fucked around and found out;

her eyes gush tears like a spigot.

I know someone that’s involved in the organ transplant industry. What I was told is that when someone is on life support, the hospital and agency involved in the transplantation process aggressively try to get the family to sign off on the organ harvest, without full confirmation that the person is actually brain dead. It happened in KY in 2021

This is some Darth Vader shit right here, “Pray I don’t alter the deal further.”

😂

The Houthis, is a Zaydi Shia Islamist political and military organization that emerged from Yemen in the 1990s. It is predominantly made up of Zaydi Shias, with their namesake leadership being drawn largely from the Houthi tribe. The group has been a central player in Yemen’s civil war, drawing widespread international condemnation for its human rights abuses, including targeting civilians and using child soldiers. The Houthis are backed by Iran. The Houthis emerged as an opposition movement to Yemen president Ali Abdullah Saleh, whom they accused of corruption and being backed by Saudi Arabia and the United States.

The market goes through boom/bust cycles. This particular bust cycle is being precipitated by shitty political policies. You should be studying the prospectus for the stocks/products you are buying through your 401K. The prospectus tells you what company stocks make up the investment product, and will show you the long term performance. If you’re worried about US markets, you can move your some of your holdings into European/Asian stock products for a bit more diversity. In terms of risk, the stock market is riskier than the bond market, however bonds tend to preserve the purchase value over time rather than generate profit. The higher the risk, the higher the reward. What I have done is take my dividends/profits out of the stock side of the market, and use them to purchase bonds. This way I preserve the profit, and the original investment used to generate the profit stays in the risky part of the market to hopefully keep generating profit. Since the market is taking a big hit right now, now would be the time to buy, while the prices are lower, understanding that you are betting on a recovery which might not happen. Any financial advisor worth their salt would at the very least tell you to diversify your porfolio, as in don’t put all of your eggs in one basket. I would take this a step further to say, you should build up a savings account and not count on something risky like the stock market to be there for you when you retire. The stock market is just gambling.

Many of the Arab Americans that voted for Trump voted that way out of pure misogyny. They didn’t want to vote for a woman. Let’s face it, the home grown Trumpers voted that way for the same reasons, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, and racism. Anyone that proudly voted for Trump gets no help or sympathy from me. FEAST YE LEOPARDS!

Do we have a leopards at my face group? My bad, we do have one. https://lemm.ee/c/leopardsatemyface

🤢 eww

We should stop referring to them as Fox news and start calling them Fox entertainment, since they themselves said no reasonable person would believe they were reporting facts