https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/hawks-helping-keep-oakland-streets-safe-by-dispersing-crow-roosts/

while Baz insists he has nothing against crows, it’s the mess they leave behind that has people crying foul.

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I know which of you supports the Democratic Party and I will not help you survive the end of days.

If he ever decides the “end of days” is in progress, I think it would be safer for everyone not to be around him anyway.

Incendiary devices found at shipping hubs could be Moscow putting pressure on West not to support Ukraine

Yeah, that’s totally how countries react to terrorist attacks.

That’s what I’m secretly training the crows for.

I doubt the falconer would have any issue with me—I’m helping to keep them employed.

You can’t keep your shit and throw it too.

The Scouring of the Shire is probably the most explicit anti-industrialization section of the books—more so even than the destruction of Isengard.

I’m indifferent to squirrels… but my city has hired a falconer to scare the crows away with hawks, so now the crows symbolize the oppressed masses being persecuted by the state.

A crow-calling whistle and a small tin of peanuts.

As many others are pointing out, cultural hegemony plays a major role—but I think there’s another factor at play as well:

Greek, Roman, and Norse mythology have been dead and fossilized for a thousand years and more, and in the meantime a long tradition grew up of mining them for allegory, with their prior religious significance stripped away. Most other world mythologies, on the other hand, still form part of active belief systems, or recently died out under colonial occupation and so carry postcolonial political overtones. So borrowing from them could be more problematical, whereas classical mythology has basically been left up for grabs by its former adherents.

I know the political environment has been getting increasingly polarized, but that’s taking it a bit too far.

The classical Romanization was more accurate in its time—the issue is that the common pronunciation of classical Latin changed after the classical era (for instance, the “c” became soft in many contexts, instead of always being pronounced as “k” as it was in classical Latin).

If you use the original classical pronunciation for Latin, you’ll also pronounce the classical romanized Greek names correctly—and if you spell them the classical way you’ll recognize them more easily in Latin sources. The modernized romanization is most useful if you’re only interested in Greece and not in the classical world as an integrated whole.

Utnapishtim.

Someone needs to invent a waterproof suction-mounted device dedicated to recording actual shower thoughts.

How does it compare to Biden’s early vote lead?

Why are they comparing it to the last election the Democrats lost, instead of the one they won?

Blood Meridian as an illustrated children’s book.

Minor point: Harris is ahead in the poll aggregate; Trump is ahead in the forecast model.

What’s the purpose—research? Tax evasion? Shits and giggles?

So the brain worms are transmissible?