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I don't want to diminish the tragedy, but... this reminds me of a joke I first heard told by Garrison Keillor, but it was already old when he told it. Here's a link to one version: https://www.maxtrescott.com/max_trescott_on_general_a/2011/02/aviation-joke-hunting-for-moose-in-alaska.html

The following is a joke -- not real -- the NBC story is real, but the following is NOT:

Two hunters hire an Alaskan bush pilot to flythem in his float plane out into the Alaskan wilderness for a week long moose hunt. After landing on a lake and dropping them off with all their gear, he reminds them of of the terms, saying, "I’ll be back in a week to pick you up but you can only have one moose between you. The airplane’s not big enough to carry any more than that." The hunters agree and head out as the pilot flies off.

A week later he returns to find the hunters waiting with their gear and a wealth of meat including two whole moose heads complete from racks to delap to neck. The pilot is furious. He shuts down and jumps out of the plane. “You idiots, I told you one moose. Now we’re going to have to leave the other here to rot. What were you thinking?”

One of the hunters replies, “Last year we paid the our an extra $500 and he flew us out.”

The pilot refuses, "It's not the money, it's the weight!"

"Well that's B.S.," says a hunter, "Cuz' our pilot last year had the same type of plane as you and he took off just fine."

After much back and forth, the pilot relents. They load up all their gear, strap one head to each wing and the pilot fires up the plane to takeoff. The aircraft hops and skips on the water, lifts off and stays in ground effect until the last possible moment. The pilot pulls up, clearing the trees at the end of the lake by inches. The aircraft climbs out slowly but not high enough to get over the low, forrested hills and they crash in a tumble of spruce.

Everyone survived with minor injuries, but the pilot was knocked unconscious in the crash. He was attended by one of the hunters. As he came to, and, as so often is the case, he asked “where are we?” The hunter looked toward the crash and then back to the lake. ”I’m not absolutely sure,” he said, “but it looks as if you got us about a quarter mile further than our pilot did last year."

Predatory fish like tuna accumulate extra mercury by eating other fish.

Sardine (Wikipedia): :

Because they are low in the food chain, sardines are low in contaminants, such as mercury, relative to other fish commonly eaten by humans, and have a relatively low impact in production of greenhouse gases.

For comparison (bluefin tuna):

since bluefins require so much food per unit of weight gained, up to 10 times that of salmon, if bluefins were to be farmed at the same scale as 21st-century salmon farming, many of their prey species might become depleted

Gomez further criticized the FCC for overstepping its authority in "intervening in employment matters reserved for other government entities with proper jurisdiction on these issues" by requiring Skydance commitments to not establish any DEI programs, which Carr derided as "invidious." But Gomez countered that "this agency is undermining legitimate efforts to combat discrimination and expand opportunity" by meddling in private companies' employment decisions.

That's Fascism!

You can argue that requiring equal opportunity programs were also government overreach, but even a cursory look at the history of those programs shows they were done to combat a deep history of racism combined with the statistics and figures proving discrepencies. Equal opportunity programs were publicly debated and approved to solve a problem. This is being done without review or evidence at the whim of the administration.

I'd love to do it nearly-daily, but it is expensive and I typically don't have most the ingredients on-hand. Right now I have a huge amount of watermelon and a bit of salami, but no suitable cheese or veg., and it takes so much time and planning to get everything together it just doesn't happen except for large gatherings.

Antipasto or charcuterie with grilled veg, crostini or other bread, cheese and maybe some meat (salami or such) -- but particularly grilled asparagus. Something like this:

@diegantobass@lemmy.world has the best answer. Write a letter. Tell him stuff you remember doing together. Maybe include a physical printed photo of the two of you and/or the family together.

Alaska. Remote, expensive, so cold your car's tires freeze with the flat spot they had while you were parked so you thump thump thump down the graveled roads until they stretch out, and to paraphrase @poccalyps, 'ice storms, earthquakes,... and some of the dumbest, most entitled Jesus-humping maga fucks in the country.'

Very common saying with lots of links (merriam-webster, dictionary, wiktionary, grammarist)

Is your wife from somewhere very isolated or exotic? Or does she simply want you to add more variety to your discourse? Toh-may-toh/Toh-mah-toh

"Silliness leads to tears" typically said after energetic goofiness has led to an 'owie'.

Bonus: Grandparents were fond of "Children should be seen and not heard."

They'd be welcome on !creative@beehaw.org

I have to disagree on this one. I loved the movie then immediately read the book, whereupon I discovered that as good as I'd found the movie, the book was even better. While I've ended up seeing the movie several times (when it happens to air), I've only reread the book once, but the book was, is, and will always be superior.

I think my view of the English came from a cross between Monty Python and the Alec Guiness in both Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Bridge Over the River Kwai -- maybe with an unrelated bit of The Man Who Would Be King thrown in for good measure. Anyway, I only have the best things to say about the TV version, and I'm only now realizing that nere in the U.S., we missed 25 minutes of it to editing.