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[newmedman]

outrageous good stuff. At least the assholes who are paying 15 dollars for a straw most likely won't use them. A cheap crack pipe,'er I mean, rose vase costs a buck and you can suck down whatever your choice of drink is through them too!

What the fuck is wrong with a biodegradable straw?

As for the pooch, kudos to that guy. I really loved my dog while she was here and she was most likely just as smart but I never thought of making it my life's work to teach her nouns.

She had at least ten toys and would pull them out on command for some sweet potato. Dogs are smart, I guess it's just how you want to use them. My girl went too early. She literally did find a capillary tube in a haystack more than once. Her AKC name, because we needed an S, was "Seeker".

We got her in 2006 and, no shit, I named her pcohantas. She just looked like an a native american princess to me and proved every bit of it. She came to be known as 'poco'.

The rest is history. My ex took the flash drives.

Seeker Pocohantas by Precocious of Chablis will forever live with this owner that didn't teach her more nouns.

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353,633,660 trees

Ethiopian officials say that volunteers in the country planted more than 350 million tree seedlings in 1,000 sites in just 12 hours in a day. It was a mass effort to counter deforestation and climate change. The world record for single-day tree-planting had been held by India, where 800,000 volunteers planted more than 50 million trees in 2016. [BBC]

7 frozen tiger carcasses

Speaking of single-day hauls, authorities in Vietnam seized 275 pounds of rhino horns at Hanoi’s Noi Bai Airport and seven frozen tiger carcasses from the vehicle of a wildlife trafficking suspect. While it’s illegal, some believe rhino horns have medicinal properties and they are “a status symbol in some circles.” Unrelatedly, and the horrors of poaching aside, Frozen Tiger Carcass is a pretty good band name. [Gizmodo]

52 inmates

Fifty-two inmates died in a prison riot in Brazil on Monday, according to officials there. Sixteen of them were decapitated. The deaths follow gang-related prison riots elsewhere in Brazil in May, which killed 55 people. Human rights groups say the Brazilian government has done little to prevent such violence and accuse it of “even facilitating clashes by allowing the cells to become overcrowded.” [CNN]

Your link - https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/significant-digits-for-tuesday-july-30-2019/

"Significant Digits For Tuesday, July 30, 2019 " .. Interesting stuff.