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by The Infidel
2024-05-31 06:05am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Trump and the Jan 6 investigation
Replies: 278
Views: 31765

Re: Trump and the Jan 6 investigation

Equality before the law, liberty within the law, nobody above the law. That, in brief, is what the Rule of Law means. A lofty idea that we often fall short of, but still one we should and must strive for lest "Justice" become nothing more than a stamp of legitimization for the rich and po...
by The Infidel
2024-05-31 06:02am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Trump and the Jan 6 investigation
Replies: 278
Views: 31765

Re: Trump and the Jan 6 investigation

Can a convicted criminal run for president?
by The Infidel
2024-05-29 09:43am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Musk vs Unions in Sweden
Replies: 11
Views: 640

Re: Musk vs Unions in Sweden

I found another source in English from IG Metall (the union): https://www.ifmetall.se/aktuellt/tesla/background-information-on-if-metalls-conflict-at-tesla/ Background information on IF Metall’s conflict at Tesla The main reason for IF Metall to take industrial action at Tesla is to ensure that our ...
by The Infidel
2024-05-29 09:34am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Musk vs Unions in Sweden
Replies: 11
Views: 640

Re: Musk vs Unions in Sweden

Like Enterprise said: Since Sweden is a part of the Schengen area, Tesla can get workers from its places in other countries. It is extremely frowned upon, but not technically illegal (I would love to see the work contract on those hired in people. They work for Tesla in other countries.). When Musk ...
by The Infidel
2024-05-25 02:15pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Musk vs Unions in Sweden
Replies: 11
Views: 640

Musk vs Unions in Sweden

I don't mind EV's. I don't mind Tesla cars, but would never own one myself as I like buttons in my car, but I don't like Union breakers and it gives me a warm, fuzzy feeling that Elon Musk still not quite understands his problems in Sweden when he refused his workers a collective agreement, somethin...
by The Infidel
2024-05-22 02:53pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Cooking and puttering about the finnish countryside
Replies: 153
Views: 41468

Re: Cooking and puttering about the finnish countryside

That SAAB looks really nice. Always been a Volvo man myself. I once had a mint green Volvo 740, like your mother likes. :)
by The Infidel
2024-05-11 04:00pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Live from the eagle's nest
Replies: 26
Views: 4743

Re: Live from the eagle's nest

The original couple won and there's 3 eggs in the nest. It's all routine now. Male hunts fish, gives fish to female. Female flies away to eat while male keep the eggs warm. Female return after a while and they swap. Male goes hunting. Repeat.
by The Infidel
2024-04-10 08:34am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Political Cartoons Thread (NO DISCUSSIONS)
Replies: 745
Views: 633366

Re: Political Cartoons Thread (NO DISCUSSIONS)

Trumps bible. Fuck yeah!

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by The Infidel
2024-04-08 05:33pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Live from the eagle's nest
Replies: 26
Views: 4743

Re: Live from the eagle's nest

The nestcam is back, now with sound.

The osprey couple from last year is back, but another couple also claims the nest. Who will win the right to it? Time will show.
by The Infidel
2023-11-19 01:55pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: You must not sleep (poem)
Replies: 1
Views: 2765

You must not sleep (poem)

A strong poem by Arnulf Øverland. He wrote it just before the start of WW2, but it's just as valid today. English translation first, then the original: YOU MUST NOT SLEEP! I awoke one night from a disturbing dream; It felt as if a strange voice spoke earnestly, Low as a faint, subterranean stream. I...
by The Infidel
2023-10-17 10:54am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)
Replies: 551
Views: 135131

Re: TIL: Today I Learned... (Join in!)

TIL that the Cheesecake Factory is a real thing and not something dreamt up for the Big Bang Theory.
by The Infidel
2023-10-04 02:30pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Live from the eagle's nest
Replies: 26
Views: 4743

Re: Live from the eagle's nest

The mother is currently in Morocco. The whereabouts of the others are unknown, since they don't have trackers. The nest is empty and the camera has been taken down. https://i.imgur.com/1syfq67.jpg https://i.imgur.com/S2Qk7vW.jpg https://i.imgur.com/sMPLqxZ.jpg A branch behind the camera the birds of...
by The Infidel
2023-09-25 09:52am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Live from the eagle's nest
Replies: 26
Views: 4743

Re: Live from the eagle's nest

It seems like the ospreys have left the nest now. Only a crow is sometimes visiting from time to time, in hope of a snack left behind. The fledglings won't come back to Norway until 2025, if they survive, and not to the same nest. If the parents survive, they will try to use the same nest next spring.
by The Infidel
2023-09-19 01:03am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Live from the eagle's nest
Replies: 26
Views: 4743

Re: Live from the eagle's nest

I wonder if the correct term in English of these fish eagles is Ospreys.
by The Infidel
2023-09-18 12:48pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Live from the eagle's nest
Replies: 26
Views: 4743

Re: Live from the eagle's nest

Most certainly not desert in the nest now. Cold rain and the forecast say it will stay this way for a few days. https://i.imgur.com/5aEOvJ7.jpg Mother is now around Le Mans, France. (She has a tracker.) If a fledgling isn't able to catch its own food soon, it will starve and die. They're already lat...
by The Infidel
2023-09-16 03:57pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Live from the eagle's nest
Replies: 26
Views: 4743

Re: Live from the eagle's nest

The mother has now left the nest to migrate south. Her goal is a place in west Sahara. The fledglings and father remain a little while longer, but soon the fledglings will depart south, then the father will "close" the nest for the winter and leave a little later. The kids have both manage...
by The Infidel
2023-09-04 12:10pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Live from the eagle's nest
Replies: 26
Views: 4743

Re: Live from the eagle's nest

Both eaglets are now grown up in size and fly around and often sit on branches outside the camera's coverage. They still get fed from the parents. Nest is often empty, but not always. Is is correct to call them eaglets when they're grown? They are now like late teenagers, I guess. Kinda fully grown...
by The Infidel
2023-09-04 12:07pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Live from the eagle's nest
Replies: 26
Views: 4743

Re: Live from the eagle's nest

As I have often pointed out to people, in nature predators don't hunt to kill , they hunt to eat . With sometimes unfortunate implications for the meal. Concepts like "a clean kill" and "a humane death" are entirely human concepts, and not even universal amongst our kind. There'...
by The Infidel
2023-09-03 02:00pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Live from the eagle's nest
Replies: 26
Views: 4743

Re: Live from the eagle's nest

Well, it's a bit fuzzy, but when they leave the nest for good they're definitely eagles. Before that use your judgement - do they look more like adults or babies at this point? Definitely more like grown eagles now. Maybe just call them the offspring for now. Mother came with a very alive fish arou...
by The Infidel
2023-08-25 03:39am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Live from the eagle's nest
Replies: 26
Views: 4743

Re: Live from the eagle's nest

Both eaglets are now grown up in size and fly around and often sit on branches outside the camera's coverage. They still get fed from the parents. Nest is often empty, but not always. Is is correct to call them eaglets when they're grown? They are now like late teenagers, I guess. Kinda fully grown,...
by The Infidel
2023-08-21 04:04pm
Forum: Pure Star Wars
Topic: The Empire!
Replies: 9
Views: 3358

Re: The Empire!

bilateralrope wrote: 2023-08-21 10:28am
Juubi Karakuchi wrote: 2023-08-20 09:09am It's not working. Was it posed by SWFT?
Are you viewing this board through http or https ?

Because youtube embedding only works for people using http.
I use http all the way, both forum and link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxtvvRmZFWU
by The Infidel
2023-08-20 01:43pm
Forum: Pure Star Wars
Topic: The Empire!
Replies: 9
Views: 3358

Re: The Empire!

Juubi Karakuchi wrote: 2023-08-20 09:09am It's not working. Was it posed by SWFT?
Working fine here. Yes, by SWFT.
by The Infidel
2023-08-19 11:58am
Forum: Pure Star Wars
Topic: The Empire!
Replies: 9
Views: 3358

The Empire!

A rather nice video about the galactic empire.

by The Infidel
2023-08-18 03:16pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Live from the eagle's nest
Replies: 26
Views: 4743

Re: Live from the eagle's nest

One eaglet is now flying around a little while the other is still at most just hovering a bit above the nest. Just a few days more, and they will both be flying around.
by The Infidel
2023-08-03 07:21pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Live from the eagle's nest
Replies: 26
Views: 4743

Re: Live from the eagle's nest

>cough< In English a "chicken" is a very specific type of bird, Gallus domesticus . Needless to say, the most recent posts in this thread were confusing to me because the only reason I could think of for a G. domesticus to be in an eagle's nest would be very, very bad for the G. domesticu...