Whoever is asking about opinions on the MBTA should hit me up because BOY do I have some.
I just posted he video, but I’d still love to hear your opinion!
Like I get the point of the MBTA entirely and its a great thing to protect our wildlife at all costs but making it illegal, like criminally illegal, to pick up a feather you found on the ground is pretty crazy.
Living and collecting in multiple countries has given me the chance to compare the legislation a bit more than the average vulture. Specifically in the US (Which has the MBTA) and the EU (which does not). Places in the EU are typically able to handle things like roadkill/natural death collection case to case. Some countries require you apply for a permit (which is MUCH easier to get than the US, its actually available to members of the public rather than being only available to educational establishments and large companies like in the US.). Where I live now in the UK its legal to salvage dead things you found on the ground, of course there are some protected species but its not EVERY species. Of course I have to be careful to collect proof and evidence of the animals being collected lawfully. I usually keep a record of all the things I find and collect along with some photos and such.These types of things CAN be handled case to case, Thats how it works in many countries. Its not a matter of “How would we know they didn’t shoot a seagull and take a single feather from its body?”. Just… use common sense. Do they own a gun? How many feathers do they have? Are they selling them for profit? When red flags start popping up then then you take action to insure wildlife isnt being poached.
Now I wouldn’t have such a strong opinion if It was just one of those old laws that’s not well enforced. Not enforced unless they really suspect something fishy is going on. But no, they actually arrest people for collecting feathers, people who didn’t even know it was illegal, who caused absolutely no harm whatsoever.
Specifically my friends dad. We lived in a really small town up in Michigan. He had a whole framed collection of feathers he had found and picked up all his life. Hundreds of them. I will admit having an entire picture frame full is a bit excessive but the guy was really into birdwatching. Just individual ones. Now it was obvious this guy didn’t go out hunting random birds to take a single feather from each bird. Just knowing the guy I know he meant no harm, just loved bird watching and had shelves full of Audubon bird books. But a year or so after I moved out of that town he ended up getting arrested for having them. Guess the small town police had too much time on their hands? (They think it might have been someone who reported him because they didnt like him but I don’t know the details)They fined him for a LOT of money. I dont know exactly how much because they wanted to keep quiet about it, but they were struggling for a long while after. He also ended up with “Wildlife/poaching offences” on his record.
I got a lot of my interest in wildlife from their family back when I was little and it really hurt to know that they were screwed over like that.
Overall I think its pretty unnecessary to shove down a blanket law like that that can catch out people who arent even aware that doing something as simple as picking up feathers can land them $15,000 fine and jail time. Protect the species that need protecting. Get some more specific laws in there, maybe allow members of the public to apply for a permit to own legally collected feathers and use the money for more conservation.
Anyway sorry for the rant but thats why I cant stand the MBTA. lol
do you think this is what lovecraft meant whenever he described something as being beyond description
“It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster than any subway train—a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and un-forming as pustules of greenish light all over the tunnel-filling front that bore down upon us, crushing the frantic penguins and slithering over the glistening floor that it and its kind had swept so evilly free of all litter.”
— H. P. Lovecraft,
At the Mountains of Madness
This.. actually makes a fine reference to what a lovecraftian eldritch abomination SHOULD BE. not just.. tentacles and darkness. Perpetually changing, not cemented in form, with an otherworldly feel to it. Completely unrecognizable by most human descriptions, and only able to be viable perceived by those fine enough to be an adept wordsmith.
I think that this is very nearly an ideal representation of a lovecraftian eldritch horror, because the video that we see is (I’m fairly certain) footage that has been fed through Google deep dream.
The reason the frog looks so weird is because the program is trying to look at the frog, figure out what it is, and then overlay other images of the same thing.
The the thing about lovecraftian horrors issn’t just that they look conventionally weird or gross or scary. Instead, they are things that are so utterly alien that the human mind cannot properly comprehend what it is looking at. They defy description because they defy understanding.
And here we have a video of a computer, a simple silicon substitute for the human mind, struggling to understand what it is looking at, in much the same way that you would be hard pressed to understand a shoggoth.
A little rain frog [possibly Breviceps montanus, the Cape Mountain rain frog] found and photographed by Lize Joubert-van der Merwe. I especially like the caption that was posted with these images:
“A perfectly round shape spotted in the footpath… It appeared more like a mushroom than a frog at a first glance. Next to a river. Fynbos not burned recently. Facial expression – grumpy. Not a happy camper. No jumping. Only crawling. It only sat quietly in the darkness of one of the hikers’ hands (in the darkness). The frog was treated with respect, and nobody had sunblock on their hands – no damage to the frog’s skin.”
Everyone in Infinity Wars gonna be complaining about how hard these last few years have been for them until Thor rolls up with no hair, no hammer, and one eye.
Don’t forget “my planet had to be destroyed to keep my sister from killing like the whole universe so now me and all my people are refugees. But hey, Loki’s back, that’s good news!”
Peter(raises his hand in the back): “…My homecoming date‘s dad turned out to be my arch nemesis and a building fell on me!“
Thor (smiles and gives a thumbs-up): “Good for you! (aside, to Tony)…Who is that person? Do we know him or did he just show up?”
T’Challa: My dad died, too.
Thor: I apologize for your loss, I know how it feels
Thor: (To Steve) Who is that handsome man dressed like a kitten?
Starlord: My dad turned out to be this giant, planet eating god and tried to kill me so I had to kill him.
Thor: These things happen sometimes.
Thor: (to Banner) Are we just picking up strangers with sad family stories or…?
This is now canon, you can all go home, there’s no need to see infinity war
sometimes life is like that
Somebody did beautiful fanart???? Of a post I contributed to?????? This is amazing????????
This is so fucking awesome xD
This is the plot of IW. Everything else can go back to the script.
The candy crab is a very colourful crab that grows from 1.5 to 2 cm. It lives on various species of soft coral in the Dendronephthya genus. It camouflages itself by mimicing the colours of the polyps among which it hides. It adds further camouflage by attaching polyps to its carapace. Colours vary depending on the colour of the coral, and may be white, pink, yellow or red. This crab is widespread in the Indo-Pacific and it feeds on plankton. photo credits: digimuse, Brian Maye, divemecressi
Sam: *walking about like a cat in booties* oh no… Oh no…
Frodo: *stands up* *immediately falls down*
Merry: you just spend all your time with your feet in… jail? In foot jail?? This is the worst
Pippin: *stomping about* haha Merry look, I’m a human! Get out of my way! I’m in a hurry! Where’s my horse? My name’s Boromir- *trips over laces and goes down hard* ow
Pippin: Merry help I’m stuck Merry *wrenching at shoes* STOP LAUGHING i’M A TOOK WE HAVE WIDE FEET
Merry: why are there so many laces this is so over-complicated
Frodo: *frantically kicking off shoes* nope nope nope nope nope
Gimli: Sam just walk normally
Sam: I don’t know where my feet are!
Gimli: they’re at the ends of your legs lad!
Sam: Mister Frodo help
& while all this is happening literally every other member of the Fellowship losing their gotdamn shit at the sight of a bunch of grown men (+Pippin) unable to figure out how shoes work
Frodo: alright I’m going to try again *stands up* *WHAM* oww
Aragorn: *sobering up* Okay Frodo seriously take those off before you really hurt yourself
~later~
Pippin: I suddenly have a new respect for all you shoe-wearing folks
Boromir: Pippin no offence but that is literally one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever heard anyone say
You can buy cat motorcycle helmets.
Neko-helmets are lightweight, they
have breakaway ears that cause zero
drag, and they come in various styles-
some of which are painted to look
like cat faces. Source
>$400 >Not snell approved >Not even DOT approved >Ears cause major drag despite what site says >600 if you want any sort of option >Company known for extremely poor quality with their predator helmet
This is shit. You don’t skimp with PPE. You don’t wear a helmet to look cool, you wear a helmet to get back up after you hit the ground. This company also makes a predator helmet that’s extremely poor quality with dreadlocks that detach, a shell that gouges easily and extremely poor fit and finish.
This will not protect you in a crash, it’s too expensive to be a cosplay prop, and they don’t elaborate on how the ears are “perforated” to prevent the massive neck strain that would come with wearing these. Nowhere on the site is there a rear view of the helmet.
tl;dr this company is bad and is going to get people hurt.
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