ZeroCool

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Cuba is home to the world’s greatest diversity of snails, but no others have shells with such a range of colors and complex patterns. Painted snails, in the genus Polymita, have long been sought by collectors, who sell the shells to tourists or trade them abroad to the United States and Europe. This demand is one reason why Cuba lists all six species as critically endangered, and why it’s been illegal for more than a decade to take these snails from the wild.

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), which regulates global commerce in wildlife, has banned their trade since 2017.

 

Animal communities, including thousands of tubeworms and bivalves, have been observed at depths up to 9,533 meters in the Mariana Trench, marking the deepest and most extensive chemosynthesis-based ecosystems known. These organisms rely on chemical energy, such as methane produced by microbes, rather than sunlight, indicating that such deep-sea life may be more widespread than previously recognized.

 

I've edited the submission title to reflect Reuters' updated headline.

[–] ZeroCool@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don’t know if he necessarily forgot. The problem with Bill Maher is the same I see with Dennis Miller. After all, they’ve had the exact same schtick for decades, just catered to different audiences, and it was never comedy-first.

They've always been "smug, smartest guy in the room" types that happened to have flashes of cynical wit. They're just insufferably self-important assholes.

[–] ZeroCool@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 weeks ago

That’s a top notch username.

[–] ZeroCool@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago

Resting diddler face.

[–] ZeroCool@lemmy.ca 55 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yep! Gee, I wonder what it is about this holiday in particular that has Trump so upset? Hmm....

[–] ZeroCool@lemmy.ca 51 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Well, the actual headline is:

Massive internet outage: Google services, Cloudflare, Spotify all down, users report

Character.ai is only mentioned in the lengthy list of services that are down.

[–] ZeroCool@lemmy.ca 44 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Elon Musk can go fuck himself.

[–] ZeroCool@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Some even have multiple private label brands. To go along with your example, Walmart launched bettergoods last year. Which is meant to be a more “premium” product range.

[–] ZeroCool@lemmy.ca 44 points 2 months ago

Where have I heard this before....

[–] ZeroCool@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That’s probably why the actual title of the article is:

‘This Is the Scalpel They’ll Use to Ruin the Lives of Individuals the President Is Opposed To.’

Miles Taylor, the author of the ‘Anonymous’ op-ed opens up on life after being targeted by Trump’s executive order.

[–] ZeroCool@lemmy.ca 46 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Dang, the Babylon Bee went four whole paragraphs without saying something transphobic. That's got to be a new record.

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