Exactly. It’s quite impressive to watch from the ground and even more from the coast on landing (but be sure to wear a mack since you will get splashed).
There is (was?) a utility that would flip individual F keys on the Mac, although it’s been years since I used it and who knows if it still works post Apple Silicon transition.
TBH, I kind of miss the touch bar. Once they restored the esc key, it was often kind of useful while I tend not to use any of the keys in the F row (even those mapped by IntelliJ since the whole fn+F key thing is a kind of a pain and I seldom have call for the media buttons—actually I just realized I do occcasionally use the mute/unmute feature but that’s about it).
Of course my preferences are normative and anyone who does otherwise is clearly abnormal ;-)
This is one of those things that cause confusion: There are two sets of centuries, each mostly overlapping but not quite identical.
There’s the numbered centuries: e.g., the twentieth century, which ran from 1901–2000.
Then there’s centuries named by the first two digits: e.g., the 1900s which ran from 1900–1999.
I would note that decades are always indicated by the first three digits and (almost¹) never as numbered decades so when people talk about the ’20s they’re referring to 1920–1929 or 2020–2029 and not, e.g., 2021–2030.²
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1. I’m sure you can find somewhere someone talking about the first decade of the twenty-first century, although that’s likely an attempt to get around the awkwardness of not having convenient names for decades like 2000–2009 or 2010–2019.
2. Every ten years you’ll find tedious people who will insist that the decade doesn’t end in ###9. Don’t argue with them. Just walk away.
Deer have become almost a nuisance species closer in to Chicago. I’ve seen them in Oak Park about 2 miles away from the nearest forest land. In River Forest, which actually contains forest preserve, things got so bad the village wanted to hire a firm to shoot the deer, but the residents were too shocked by that proposal and it never happened.
I’m in River Forest and the deer are a pain to deal with. They eat your plants, they’re not afraid of people (because they get hand feed) and they get hit by cars.
They’re lacking their natural predators — and the logical solution of introducing them is ruled out because the local forest preserves aren’t large enough to support wolf packs.
Maybe the coyotes will figure out how to take them down.
You need to shoot the people who are feeding them - that's the logical solution to the problem you posed 8) Their natural predators are now cars because that is how things are now.
An environment is whatever it is at a point in time. You have described how things are around you and that is the current normal. You may not like it or even understand it but that is how it is.
You have to decide whether deer should live within your domain or not. At the moment it sounds like they are a negative factor for you. When you have run out of deer, will you start on the coyotes? When you have run out of creatures with backbones, will you start on arthropodia or amphibians?
Not really. The deer that thrive in suburban areas learn to watch for traffic. Even where deer vs car collisions are common, deer multiply well beyond what car traffic takes out. Really, hunting is the only way to thin the numbers.
Deer eat grass, they can thrive almost anywhere in North America just fine with or without people feeding them.
In suburbs they probably need to capture and slaughter some number of them to keep the numbers reasonable.
Deer can eat grass, but it's not their preferred food, and they can't thrive on it. They eat forbs, shoots, browse (twigs, buds, etc.) and mast like acorns (they are set up to deal with the large amounts of tannin in acorns).
"Although low quality forages such as mature grasses provide adequate nutrition to animals such as elk and cattle, the quicker digestive process of whitetails requires more readily digestible forages to fulfill their energy and protein requirements. On severely overpopulated and depleted ranges, white-tailed deer have starved to death with their stomachs full of low quality forages."
Point taken. Of course, again there is no shortage of shrubbery in suburban environments. And the last point is just what always happens when a species that evolved as prey is no longer hunted.
Well there was a lynx spotted in north Oak Park in the last couple-three years so there’s another potential predator, but yep, they definitely need predation. I’ve seen some sizable herds north of North Avenue in the forest preserve there (along with lots of bread put out by people who wanted to feed the deer). They’re a lot bolder there than south of North.
Look up to my post—the village proposed shooting the deer and residents decided that they’d rather have nuisance deer than see Bambi shot in their neighborhood. (There’s also the safety questions around shooting deer in residential neighborhoods to deal with as well.)
There was (maybe still is?) a handicapped artist working the Santa Monica promenade who created his work on an iPhone. It’s been a while, but I think he clutched a stylus in his teeth to do the drawing. As I recall he either had no arms or severely shortened arms, but again it’s been a long time and I never took a picture because that would have felt exploitative.
It seems like Hoopla does a lot of self-published and indie published books. That kind of fits in with their business model where they charge a flat fee per lending of the book, so they have an incentive to get as many books on the platform as possible.
I’d note also that while the stock is up about 15 percent and a fraction over the last year, the S&P 500 is up 16 percent and a fraction over the same period. Given a company with declining sales, for two consecutive years it seems likely that the stock price is due for a big correction.
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