Huh. tar tf and unzip -l. I’m not sure I’d even bother to write a shell function to combine them, much less install software.

Zips just exploding to files is so common, if you just mkdir unzpd ; unzip -d unzpd file.zip it’s going to be right nearly all of the time. Same with tarballs always containing a directory; it’s just so common it’s barely worth checking.

You write the tools you need, don’t get me wrong. This seems like, at most, a 10-line bash function, and even that seems excessive.

function pear() {
case $1 in
  *.zip)
    unzip -l "$1"
    ;;
  *.tar.*)
    tar tf "$1"
    ;;
esac
}

Barn owls seem to sleep in groups, at least, so I get it’s not universal. That makes sense about territory and feeding, though.

Gini is wealth and income inequality, which is States in the page you linked. In developed nations, income inequality is strongly correlated to wealth inequality.

The Gini index for Russia was 0.88; the US was 0.85. There was more of a delta between US in 2008 and US 2021 than that. There’s more difference between the US and almost every other western developed country in 2021, than there was between Russia and the US in 2021. Russia is higher; it’s not much higher.

The US entered into it when you replied to the comment:

Average monthly salary in USD: $1256

the only possible reason was to put it in US context. Not just USD, but US salary, which is specifically a US thing. Your reply was that it was a huge deal in Russia because of wealth inequality, implying, via your response to a comment about US salaries, that it wouldn’t be a huge deal in the US. To which I suggested it was, because the US, too, has a wealth disparity similar to Russia’s.

What’s confusing about that?

Most owls are solitary, aren’t they? At what age do GHO stop being OK with being in an enclosure with other owls old this?

No, not on porpoise.

15mph is certainly reasonable, and not “as fast as a car.” A parked car, maybe, which in city traffic may feel the same.

But yeah, 15 is reasonable; humans can run that fast. Sharing a bike lane with a motorized bike going 25 is where it starts feeling dangerous, and where it starts to be in car range.

Thanks for pointing that out.

Well, once someone converted it to dollars and started comparing it to costs in the US, it kind of opened the topic, don’t you think?

Also, according to both the link you provided and the income inequality page by country, the US and Russia are on par; they both have Gini coefficients of 85-90, and PIP (poverty & inequality plaform) indexes in the 35-40 range.

Which metric did you see that says Russia’s wealth inequality is worse than the US’s?

They were absolutely having sporadic outages a few days ago, but they’ve been Ok recently.

No, this is a specific configuration Midwest.social has enabled. It actually modifies posts and replaces external image links with proxies through the Midwest.social server. It results in really slow image serving in posts, and frequently outright breaks images. The server is also not correctly configured for mime types, so SVGs aren’t served properly: even if the origin has the right mime-type, the forced proxy breaks the mime-type. So I can’t embed SVGs on this account.

I appreciate the service, but I’m really going to have to abandon this account. The comment modification and hijacking of image links doesn’t feel right.

I have no idea! It seems to be the human material. Have you ever heard of a solution? I can be aware of it and resist it, but what I hate is that instinctive, negative impulse, and I don’t think wishing it away is going to help.

I’d love to watch it once, but Imgur blocks VPNs.

There isn’t a massive disparity between the wealthiest and poorest in the US?

Not that kind of “use!”

That’s… a big gap. I think I’d just be confused all the time if I had to switch between them.

I’m lucky. I live in a place where stonecrop is native, and it grows like a weed. Except it doesn’t spread (quickly), and I love the look.

We had some landscaping done and they moved some stonecrop and forgot to move one back. it wasn’t even planted; it just grew right there where they’d left it!

Great plants.

No.

Devonian all the way, baby. Gimme some deep-fried, breaded dunkleosteus!

Also, biological monsters would overheat very fast.

That’s why they tend to breath fire n stuff.

Old Godzilla movies got it right. He did look like he was walking on the moon. Not bouncing, but he probably had atrophied muscles from being in the water all the time.

Poor guy. Overheated and tired, no wonder he was grumpy!

Sometimes it do be like that

🖖

That’s brilliant. The thumbnail spoils it… at least, it shows me the punchline.