I like random stuff...

[MEJHarrison]

Personally, I probably would have just stayed in the car and died of starvation.

That's the difference between you and I. I wouldn't have been in a car on that road in the first place. If there was truly no other way around, I would have walked. Or sold my car before the road gets bad, then try to find one for sale on the other end.

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

That's the difference between you and I. I wouldn't have been in a car on that road in the first place. If there was truly no other way around, I would have walked. Or sold my car before the road gets bad, then try to find one for sale on the other end.

I agree with you there. Even when I know something bad isn't going to happen, watching those type videos puts my stomach in knots. I can watch people getting torn to bits all day long, but somebody perched on a ledge at the top of a skyscraper....fuck that.

 

[Yoused]

The proper way to apply a shipping sticker

Spoiler

 

[SuperMatt]

For fans of Twin Peaks…

 

[JayMysteri0]

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1489347661119512583/

 

[Renzatic]

Personally, I probably would have just stayed in the car and died of starvation.

I'd write off my losses, pop a free car sign on it, and let someone else try their luck.

 

[Yoused]

Scottish footie game had no viewers in the stadium, so they had to watch it on tv. The broadcaster decided to use robot cameras programmed to track the ball.

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1321847136330391554/

 

[Thomas Veil]

Is that dude wearing a white cap? Because if he isn't, he's got the whitest head I've ever seen. No wonder it got mistaken for the ball.

 

[JayMysteri0]

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1490326645328261122/

 

[JayMysteri0]

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1490641675991109636/

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

 

[Yoused]

Apparently the cause is unknown

Stuck in KUOW purgatory: Seattle Mazda drivers can't change the radio dial

Over the past couple of weeks some people who listen to KUOW in their Mazdas say their car radio is permanently stuck on 94.9. It’s only affecting KUOW, Mazdas from 2016, and we have no idea why.

www.kuow.org

 

[SuperMatt]

They interviewed this guy on the PBS News Hour for his insights on Ukraine. Check out the painting on his wall…

Michael Kofman, a proud Trekkie!

 

[Yoused]

Michael Kofman, a proud Trekkie!

Looks more like a portrait of Gurney Halleck to me.

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

41 million people have watched this video. I'm willing to bet a good number of the members aren't part of that count. Worth it.

 

[JayMysteri0]

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1492907396846567428/
https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1492908402091122688/

 

[Renzatic]

So I'm sitting on my patio, enjoying the crisp evening weather, when I hear this car off in the distance...

bbrrrRRRRAAAHHHH BRROOOOOOWW BRRROOOOOOOO!

It sounds like someone putting the pedal to the metal, and I'm expecting to see a car fly by a 100 MPH at any second.

...instead, I see this little Kia casually driving by, going maybe 15 at max. Guess whoever owned it thought it'd sound badass if he took the muffler off the thing. Needless to say, it wasn't what I was expecting to see.

 

[JayMysteri0]

WTF?!!!!



https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1493395384462237696/

 

[Renzatic]

WTF?!!!!

It doesn't look like they dropped dead out of the air. More like they decided to divebomb the ground en masse, with some of them being killed by the impact.

...that's weird.

 

[JayMysteri0]

It doesn't look like they dropped dead out of the air. More like they decided to divebomb the ground en masse, with some of them being killed by the impact.

...that's weird.

It's believed they fell from the sky.

Hundreds of birds fell from the sky in Mexico. Here’s why.

Experts agreed on one possible explanation.

interestingengineering.com

The victims in this mysterious incident were the yellow-headed blackbirds, which belong to the Xanthocephalus species. Native to northern America and Canada, these birds migrate to the southwestern parts of the continent during winters. When the residents reported the matter, the local police arrived to find about a hundred birds dead on the streets.

A local veterinarian who visited the site after a request from the police attributed the bird deaths to inhalation of toxic smoke, possibly from a nearby heater, while media reports suggested that the birds were possibly victims of air pollution due to heaters, agrochemicals or they may have been electrocuted by an overload on the power lines. And a video captured by a security camera is the only evidence of the incident.

It's possible they some did dive to the ground, but to avoid what was killing the others. They can't prove that either.

Another prediction is that there might be a predatory bird involved with the case, experts told The Guardian. Although no such bird is seen in the video, Dr. Richard Broughton, an ecologist with the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology is certain that a predatory bird was responsible for pushing the flock of birds towards the ground.

As seen in the video above, the birds descend from the sky as a unit, a phenomenon called "murmuration", often seen in starlings. Broughton is confident that the flock reacted to the predator in this fashion but was forced too close to the ground where some of them crashed, and never was able to recover. Even after the flock moved away, many birds can be seen taking to the skies from the ground.

Dr. Alexander Lees from Manchester Metropolitan University in the U.K. also agreed with this explanation and added that the collision with infrastructure was quite common in birds.