@purplepumpkin Previous mass extinctions happened because of climate change, asteroid impacts, massive volcanic eruptions or a combination of these causes. The one occurring now is due to human induced forces.
Have you ever heard of the passenger pigeon? The last one died in captivity, in a Cincinnati zoo in 1914. There were once billions upon billions of them flying over North America. The birds flew at an estimated speed of about sixty miles an hour. Observers reported the sky was darkened by huge flocks that passed overhead. These flights often continued from morning until night and lasted for several days. Their winter roosts were so crowded that tree limbs would break under their weight. Then man came along and discovered they tasted good, and that, was that.
https://blog.history.in.gov/flocks-that-darken-the-heavens-the-passenger-pigeon-in-indiana/

Xenu approves...as long as your checks continue to clear.

Breaking ball...breaks balls.
https://youtu.be/Ro-psCXkVBU

To paraphrase Maya Angelou, When soup shows you what it is, believe it the first time.

Not sure if Beth Harmon would up or decrease her meds, if asked to play with these chessmen.

The turtle is on the left.

I was wondering why the ice would develop this unique angular geometric surface. Best explanation I could find, suggests that it's thin, individual sheets of ice colliding with each other and then their respective upturned edges freezing in the resulting shapes.

In 2015 BMW released an advertisement titled “April Fools Day Special”. The ad said, “Be the first person to bring your car, along with this coupon, into the BMW Newmarket dealership this morning, ask for Tom and we’ll swap your old car, whatever it is, for a brand new BMW”.
Such ads, especially on April Fool’s Day, look like pranks but when Tianna Marsh saw it in the New Zealand Herald she decided to take a chance. She, along with her friend, arrived at Newmarket BMW dealership shortly after 5 a.m. Upon arriving, she was wondering whether it was a joke and she would go back with a matchbox-sized, toy car instead of a real BMW. But to her surprise, the ad turned out to be real and she swapped her 15-year-old Nissan Avenir for a brand new BMW 1 Series worth about $50,000.

I'm sure there was an uptick in duct tape sales wherever this show aired, lol.

This was a result of the lobbying efforts of the dairy industry. Butter gets its traditional yellowish colour from the carotene in grass, while corn fed cows produce a very pale butter. They argued it was OK for them to tint it more yellow, but not for the margerine makers to do that with their almost white product. In fact, they wanted margerine dyed pink, brown or even black to prevent margerine from being passed off as butter. Courts eventually ruled they couldn't be forced to adulterate their product, but wouldn't allow them to dye it yellow either. Hence the dye capsules workaround. The consumer did their cosmetic work for them. This lasted till 1967 in the States and coloured margerine only became legal in Quebec, with their powerful dairy lobby, in 2008.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/25638/surprisingly-interesting-history-margarine
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/food/the-plate/2014/08/13/the-butter-wars-when-margarine-was-pink/

Got impatient, sought the complete strip online, found it and had my tears jerked. The most important thing, was a post strip message, from the artist about black cat syndrome. It seems that shelters have a very real problem finding homes for black or very dark cats. I guess the message is, if you're adopting, give them a bit more than a cursory once over.

1) Relaxed, happy anticipation
2) Abrupt re-evaluation
3) Mounting concern over an uncertain future
Basically the world's first 3 months of 2020 personified...dogified?

Undercover video of Russian Intelligence "pranking" dissidents.

This is the hot looking, but CRAZY trope we've all heard so many times, personified. I commend the guy for resisting what must have been an almost irresistible urge to drop her like a sack of potatoes. When I heard that poor pup yelp...

I just love the fact that some random engineer at a plumbing manufacture, got the go-ahead to spend some time and effort to design such an aesthetically pleasing, but ultimately, otherwise useless feature. I'm sure it helped clinch the sale to the airport. Great marketing.

This guy is on a MISSION!

So beautiful, looks like a wingless dragon.

I'm just going to tell myself the mouse pulled some kind of ninja level/Neo type, last second, escape maneuver.

I like the little teeth the picture on the right seems to depict.

These pizza slices were still probably eaten, so who cares where they temporarily rested. It's not as if it was a video depicting Big Ass BBW Chocolate Cake Sitting.(Do NOT search the capitalized character string immediately preceding this warning) 3-2-1...LOL.