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Gisschace t1_ja9y5nb wrote
Reply to comment by RikikiBousquet in TIL a year after the defeat of the Spanish Armada, the English sent their own Armada to Spain, leading to similar losses of ships and men, and an ignominious English defeat by malektewaus
Yes in English history defeats are actually glorious and heroic victories which we venerate for ever.
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Reply to comment by cdtoad in Apple is convinced my dog is stalking me. A vital AirTag safety feature is incorrectly notifying me every day. by MayoFetish
I have mine on my cat - she is definitely stalking me. Even if she’s hiding somewhere she’s still well aware of where I am
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Reply to comment by DirtyProtest in Flaco the escaped zoo owl can remain in the wilds of NYC by citytiger
You sent me down a rabbit hole as I had no idea we had them here.
> The Scots Gaelic, Manx, Welsh, Cornish and Irish Gaelic languages all have words for them
So interesting to see they used language as a way of determining whether we used to have owls
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Reply to comment by MyDadsGlassesCase in TIL of the Storegga tsunami, a tsunami that struck the North Sea in 6000 BC submerging an area of land the size of MD by MyDadsGlassesCase
For europeans you could use 'as big as the area between the UK, Denmark and The Netherlands'
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Reply to comment by SocialWinker in (Virology) Has SARS-CoV-2 outcompeted all the other coronaviruses which have been called the ‘common cold’? by jsgui
This is a shitty site but explains it, dogs have a mutation in their ACE2 which means they have a natural resistance to it, which cats don’t. So they can catch it but the virus replicates poorly and so it doesn’t really spread to us or other dogs.
https://www.aaha.org/publications/newstat/articles/2020-08/the-reason-cats-get-covid-and-dogs-dont/
Gisschace t1_j7hqt4o wrote
Reply to comment by SocialWinker in (Virology) Has SARS-CoV-2 outcompeted all the other coronaviruses which have been called the ‘common cold’? by jsgui
If I recall; dogs and cats can carry it but it doesn’t really effect dogs that badly whereas Cats can have similar symptoms to us
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Reply to comment by ElegantBob in Three foxes curled up on the roof of a shed in London by ElegantBob
They’re only a pest cause we’re dirty bastards who waste food and leave our shit around.
They don’t really cause any damage or issues aside from that.
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Not uplifting at all
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Reply to comment by jctwok in A pioneering rewilding project has had an early surprise: a bouncing baby bison. It is the first wild bison to be born in the UK for thousands of years. by grab-n-g0
There aren’t really any truly wild areas left in the UK, almost all of it is managed in some way.
The reason for the enclosure is more for their protection as they’re big beasts and if they wander on to a road or something then it won’t be good for anyone.
The ‘rewild’ bit comes from the work the bison are here to do, which is rewild ancient woodland.
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Reply to comment by hudson2_3 in TIL a year after the defeat of the Spanish Armada, the English sent their own Armada to Spain, leading to similar losses of ships and men, and an ignominious English defeat by malektewaus
Yup Dunkirk also