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Have a feeder out when they're young. I have one particular bluejay and one particular woodpecker that I can distinguish because they were born in the forest behind my yard and started eating at the feeder when they could barely fly and looked like super awkward tufts of fuzz. Whenever I refill the feeder these days, I notice those two show up first

The 5th Amendment to the United States Constitution affirms citizens' right not to talk to investigating authorities. It's what they're referring to when you see cops in movies tell people "you have the right to remain silent"

Scrubs is well known to be the only really accurate depiction of American hospitals. Mostly because it's the only show where nurses even exist.

Today's high temp and humidity in Rio gives them a Wet Bulb Globe Temperature of 77⁰F, which is not great. WBGT of 80⁰-90⁰F is the danger zone, and recent research has suggested that WBGT 85⁰ is probably a more realistic upper limit of human safety.

Sources if you would like to do some doom math yourself:

https://www.wunderground.com/weather/br/rio-de-janeiro

https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/wet-bulb

https://nicholasinstitute.duke.edu/project/heat-policy-innovation-hub/what-is-wet-bulb-globe-temperature-wbgt#:~:text=Typically%2C%20any%20WBGT%20above%2090,to%20protect%20against%20heat%20stress.

https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/japplphysiol.00738.2021

Can confirm, my juncos are back in Massachusetts as well. Happy to see them!

I mean. I like seeing merch from my favorite creators and sometimes I buy it. T-shirts are cool. It's easier for me to know what's available if there are thumbnails large enough for me to actually see the product.

And these links appear below the video, they are not intrusive to the watching experience in any way whatsoever. So yeah, I genuinely think this is a huge overreaction.

I pay for premium and not even once have I thought anything other than "oh cool, this channel has merch"

So, first things: There's definitely no provision in this Ohio state amendment that allows partial birth abortions. That's just right wing lies. The Ohio amendment only enshrines the individual right to make one's own medical decisions.

But hypothetically, if it did, then the situation kind of all depends on whether or not the federal government chose to enforce its law or not. We've had that situation with cannabis for a decade now after the first states passed laws legalized cannabis for purely recreational consumption.

Cannabis is still banned by the federal government to this day, but legal in 24 states. Over the course of the past decade, the feds have declined to bother trying to override states on this issue. If a state really and honestly did try to allow partial birth abortions, on the other hand, I think the feds would take them to court over it. A federal lawsuit generally puts the state law on pause until the court case is complete and a final decision is issued.

Basically if there's a conflict between state and federal law, they go to court and ask the court to interpret whether or not the Constitution grants power over that particular issue to the feds or not. The Constitution is written in a way that outlines what powers are granted to the federal government. Whatever isn't explicitly stated in the Constitution is assumed to belong to the state governments.

Dr. Glaucomflecken taking notes over here...

I was too young to understand what something like "originally presented in" meant lol

Poltergeist.

It's only been very recently that I've been able to watch that movie and then sleep with the lights off. It just hit at that right time when I was in middle school that it cemented in my mind for life.

I feel like the practical effects still hold up, and the acting definitely holds up from the entire family. Just seeing a mom that freaked out onscreen messed with me as a child.

Also, anyone who watches that now needs to understand the social and cultural context of the 70s and 80s. We had this new technology that could allow recording and sharing of video, but it was slow and low resolution. There was nothing like ubiquitous cell phone cameras of today. So there was this constant sense that maybe mysterious things were happening just beyond your ability to see and document them. Like having bad glasses in a foggy room.

The advent of cell phone cameras really washed away that sense, and made the world feel much more concrete and exposed. But back then, there was still a sense that something like Poltergeist might really be out there happening.

The book similarly scarred us all when we read it in school

You just changed my whole perception of time lol. I was like, "Tales from the Crypt didn't start until the 80s though." I had no idea there was a movie in the 70s (and a comic series before that.) I only knew the iconic HBO Cryptkeeper