Publication of the latest results was keenly awaited to see how effective India’s conservation measures have been. It is partially good news that the declines have stopped, but dashed any hopes that there are signs of recovery. The threat of extinction was very real until the ban on veterinary use of the NSAID diclofenac in 2006. Evidence from these surveys suggests that the ban has been partially effective. However, populations remain at very low levels, following declines of 97.9% for Long-billed Vulture and 99.8% for White-rumped Vulture since 1992, and 48% & 87% declines respectively since 2002.

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Rhys Green, Professor of Conservation Science at the University of Cambridge and involved in vulture studies in India for 20 years, commented “The absence of any sign of population recovery in India is likely to be because veterinary NSAIDs toxic to vultures have continued to be sold widely in veterinary pharmacies. This includes continuing illegal sales of diclofenac, as well as toxic drugs such as aceclofenac, ketoprofen and nimesulide whose use has remained legally approved. The recent banning of aceclofenac and ketoprofen is welcome but will take time to become effective. There is nothing to stop a new NSAID even more toxic than diclofenac being approved tomorrow. Until the pharmaceutical industry is required to provide robust data about the safety to vultures of veterinary NSAIDs before they are approved, the maintenance of viable self-sustaining captive ‘insurance’ populations of vultures, as pioneered by BNHS, will remain essential”.

save-vultures.org

You are suggesting a conspiracy theory. I do not have a problem with that, that’s fine…

Tell me more, if you want.

I am not saying I will be persuaded to believe it, but I like conversations and I am here to keep the conversation on things going.

I recollect Anton Chikitilko (sp?) from Rostov, Russia, had a seuxal disorder where basically he was only able to achieve full arousal and ejaculation when he was doing what he was doing to his victims… So I agree it is a disorder to some degree.

Theoretically, though, you could “remove” even the potential of solving impotence, which would change the game. But IDK. I am not like some luddite here who is fully on board with the policy. I would say I am undecided.

Lol

Iran’s nuclear site at Fordow was hit again on Monday as Israel unleashed strikes on roads leading to the underground facility following a massive U.S. attack over the weekend.

Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it carried out the attack earlier Monday to disrupt access routes to Fordow, one of Iran’s key enrichment sites.

They blew up roads.

And Elvin prison.

I guess I am somewhat surprised how much traction this got - we got like 20 people visiting the Instance or subscribed to it from other places on Lemmy that are decidedly anti-socialist.

(Or anti-pink hair)

I did not expect that.

The standard for whether or not someone has been shot in the US military is whether flesh is broken by a bullet or bullet fragmentation - basically, there has to be blood, but it does not matter if it is a full on through & through shot that destroys a portion of your intestines and gives you all manner of health issues for the rest of your life, or if it is a fragment of a bullet that hits your ear.

I tend to think it is the latter.

Also probably very much a life changing experience for him - and a life ending experience for the shooter.

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It’s a very bad idea considering how easily the Iranians are touching Tel Aviv.

Based & Blessed

Yes - I also loved it. ^^

Alleged footage of the pilot rejecting

https://x.com/warintelghost/status/1933599791281275322

This is the right answer, yes, lol

Riiiiighttttttttttttt to some degree… I have not listened to early Burzum in a long time, but it is the case, as far as I remember, that Varg’s early work never explicitly advocates Nazism. Even in his later, post-jail work, after he had become transparent about his views, he isn’t focusing on espousing specifically any racial theory in his music…

For instance, “Belus” was originally going to be called ‘The White God’ because that is how one of these ancient deities was literally referred to by the worshipers, but this was not actually racial in nature… It was how a bunch of pagans who didn’t know much of anything about different races referred to their god, and there was no motive, and he wanted to avoid confusion over this so he renamed the album to Belus…

Of course, Varg is anti-Semitic and a racist, and he has written extensively about this sort of thing… Yet, I would emphasize that the music itself does not tend to convey that…

But yeah, it is what it is.

I think… NSBM is more explicitly Nazi, though, so like… I hesitate to say Varg’s work is conventionally NSBM.

But I also do not want to look like a Nazi apologist or some anal retentive guy policing what people call NSBM. For all intents and purposes, I think it is safe to call Varg a Nazi musician and say that his earliest work can also be regarded as that, but since it is so seminal in black metal music and is not explicitly lyrically Nazi, I think it’s excusable for people to listen to this stuff - particularly considering you are probably downloading it and he isn’t making a dime.

Burzum - Filosofem

Senator Alex Padilla characterized the protests as “peaceful” and “passionate”. “The vast majority of protesters and demonstrators are peaceful. … When you come into a community like Los Angeles, the way the Trump administration has, you need to expect to be countered with people who are passionate about defending fundamental rights.”

This stuff is really tiresome.

You could also literally say this about the infamous J6, but it would not matter a lick. You would be called dishonest for saying it was peaceful because the majority are peaceful, but it’s standard policy to drag out this line when it is a left wing cause.

This is kind of interesting.

… If I give a ride as an Uber driver to someone who just walked off with $500 they stole and have no knowledge that they did so, I do not think I can be charged with a crime… However, if I was the getaway driver for someone who just walked off with $500 they stole, and I am in on the plan, I am an accomplice…

I think there is also some precedent for this - as in, it is a practice for people to be facilitating undocumented immigration without ever crossing boundaries and just moving people within the state.

I recollected this from another case:

A deputy noted in his report that he pulled over a black van on April 29 at 5:21 a.m. in the Eagle Pass area. He learned that Avshalom Cohen was the driver. While searching the vehicle, the deputy found eight undocumented migrants, a smoke bomb, a loaded gun, a 9mm 50-round drum, and a police badge.

According to the incident report, Avshalom Cohen told the deputy that he did not know the people he was transporting were undocumented. The deputy searched his phone and found messages “with an unknown subject instructing him to pick up at said location and to drop off in other locations.”

ABC13

Yes, and it is also available on Rumble. But I think X is where he primarily goes.

The use of fentanyl and even George Floyd’s BMI are both factors in his death, but since Floyd had a high tolerance for Fentanyl, it was a non-lethal dose.

It’s also the case that Derek Chauvin and the other police who had experience and who had been educated on how to handle drug addicts and the arrests of those resisting should have had the know-how to handle this. In fact, they did, they were just grossly negligent resulting in a dereliction of duty.

The big issue is that Floyd was handcuffed and no longer posed a threat, but he kept him in this position for something like two minutes after he lost consciousness, when he had known that this hold could potentially cause positional asphyxia…

I would even speculate that had Chauvin done everything the same but taken his knee off Floyd shortly after he stopped struggling and tried to render medical aid with Floyd still dying, this would not have been a national news story, and Chauvin would have faced far lesser charges concerning Floyd’s death. So, the real focal point for me was the callous disregard for the health of Floyd…

Now, one thing in your favor, I think, is that Minnesota law classified this all as Second Degree Murder instead of some form of manslaughter, which I think better describes the circumstances. Call me autistic, call me crazy, call me whatever you will, but these sorts of classifications of crime are important to me. How we call a thing is what we know it by, after all.

That’s great - we can be alike in many ways in terms of our goals.

It is a bit of a political football, isn’t it.

I think the interest comes from trying to frame transgenderism as a co-morbidity of other, often more severe, mental health issues.

MOre background:

Karol-Chik and two other men were 18 when they threw rocks at several cars on the night of April 19, 2023. They ultimately killed Bartell when one of the teens threw a 9.3-pound rock through her windshield as she drove on Indiana Street near the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge. The rock struck Bartell in the head.

Denver Post

More:

Jurors had to consider shifting and competing versions of the truth offered by Koenig’s former co-defendants during the two-week trial.

No one disputed that a 9-pound (4-kilogram) landscaping rock taken from a Walmart parking lot crashed through Bartell’s windshield, killing her instantly. The issue was who threw it. The only DNA found on the rock was Bartell’s, making the testimony from the other two, Zachary Kwak and Nicholas Karol-Chik, key to the prosecution.

Lawyers for Koenig said Kwak threw the rock that killed Bartell. But Kwak and Karol-Chik, whose plea agreements on lesser charges could lead to shorter prison sentences, said Koenig threw it. Although Karol-Chik said they each threw about 10 rocks that night, Kwak testified that he did not throw any.

Chief Deputy District Attorney Katharine Decker told jurors the damage to Bartell’s car was consistent with Koenig — who is left-handed and was driving — throwing the rock, shotput-style, out the driver’s-side window, as Karol-Chik testified. Even if jurors were unconvinced that Koenig threw it, she told them, they should still find him guilty of first-degree murder as a conspirator.

Koenig’s attorneys said he did not know anyone had been hurt until Bartell’s car went off the road. They also argued that he had borderline personality disorder, affecting his impulse control and judgment.

Defense lawyer Martin Stuart asked jurors to instead find Koenig guilty of manslaughter, the least serious charge he faced, saying he did not knowingly try to kill her. Jurors also had the option of finding him guilty of manslaughter as a conspirator.

After seeing Bartell’s car leave the road, the three friends circled back a few times to look again, according to testimony. Kwak took a photo as a memento, but no one checked on the driver or called for help, according to their testimony.

Bartell’s body would not be discovered until her girlfriend, Jenna Griggs, who was on a call with her when it abruptly cut out, tracked her phone to the field, she testified.

AP