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[Silver]

Kim Davis's latest legal loss: The infamous Kentucky homophobe loses in court again

Advocate

Seriously, the woman must be in debt with legal fees.

[The Grand Nudger]

What's the "1k" in your equation there? Eggs?

Yeah, a quality layer on good feed in a non factory setting is gonna lay about 250 eggs a year.  4 chickens gets a family of four an egg each a day from early spring to late summer.  Then they molt...and lay very infrequently through the low light months.  You can average it out, and at peak they might lay every 16 hrs, but 250 is a good number to aim for if you want to make the economics of it even close to working.  As an occupation...closer to 300 on average..you force heat, force molt, add alot of supplemental lighting, offset the feed cost with forage, reduce the operating expenses by producing your own layers, and turn your waste into a marketable product with live birds and fresh poultry (which all goes back to feed).  If you do everything right and nature doesn't intervene too harshly, you can sell an egg for 47c...that's ten over average retail out here, and produce it for 14c - a little better than half under average retail.  

Chickens are, imo, relatively cheap pets for people inclined to keep them as pets, and who can.  You get something out of feeding them.  So they're better than a mutt - maybe not better than a cat, certainly not as good as breeding dogs.  A solution to our economy presents itself - just as serious as the one offered.  You buy stuff to make trash to feed the rats.  Feed the rats to the cats.  Feed the cats to the children.  Breed dogs for money.....and use the money to buy eggs.

[Rev. Rye]

On a lighter note: apparently scientists trying to resurrect the wooly mammoth from extinction have created wooly mice.

It’s tiny, but this lab mouse could have a mammoth impact.

With curly whiskers and wavy, light hair that grows three times longer than that of an ordinary lab mouse, the genetically modified rodent embodies several woolly mammoth-like traits, according to Colossal Biosciences. The private Dallas company is behind efforts to resurrect the mammoth and other extinct animals.

Colossal said its woolly mouse would enable its scientists to test hypotheses about the link between specific DNA sequences and physical traits that enabled the mammoth, which went extinct around 4,000 years ago, to adapt to life in cold climates.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/04/science/w...index.html

[Angrboda]

A federal judge on Monday ordered the government-downsizing team created by U.S. President Donald Trump and spearheaded by billionaire Elon Musk to make public records concerning its operations, which he said had been run in "unusual secrecy."

U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper in Washington sided with the government watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington in finding that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was likely an agency subject to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

The ruling, the first of its kind, marked an early victory for advocates seeking to force DOGE to become more transparent about its role in the mass firings being conducted in the federal workforce and the dismantling of government agencies by the Republican president's administration.

The Trump administration argued DOGE as an arm of the Executive Office of the President was not subject to FOIA, a law that allows the public to seek access to records produced by government agencies.

But Cooper, an appointee of Democratic President Barack Obama, said DOGE was exercising "substantial independent authority" much greater than the other components of that office that are usually exempt from FOIA.

Cooper said it "appears to have the power not just to evaluate federal programs, but to drastically reshape and even eliminate them wholesale," a fact the judge said the agency declined to refute.

He said its "operations thus far have been marked by unusual secrecy," citing reports about DOGE's use of an outside server, its employees' refusal to identify themselves to career officials and their use of the encrypted app Signal to communicate.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-judg...025-03-11/

[The Grand Nudger]

The Tate Bros made it home, but US students remain stranded after the botched attempts at illegal impoundment.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education...epartment/

[brewer]

In a large study, hospitalized older patients with dementia, in-hospital and 1-year mortality were higher among patients who received feeding tubes than among those who didn't.

https://www.jwatch.org/na58519/2025/03/0...ients-with

[Nanny]

In a large study, hospitalized older patients with dementia, in-hospital and 1-year mortality were higher among patients who received feeding tubes than among those who didn't.

https://www.jwatch.org/na58519/2025/03/0...ients-with

Can you post the DOI? Article is subscription only. My main sentiment is that not all pts receive feeding tubes and those that do usually have a poor prognosis.

[brewer]

In a large study, hospitalized older patients with dementia, in-hospital and 1-year mortality were higher among patients who received feeding tubes than among those who didn't.

https://www.jwatch.org/na58519/2025/03/0...ients-with

Can you post the DOI? Article is subscription only. My main sentiment is that not all pts receive feeding tubes and those that do usually have a poor prognosis.

Try this: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanet...le/2830454

[Mister Agenda]

Chickens are, imo, relatively cheap pets for people inclined to keep them as pets, and who can.  You get something out of feeding them.  So they're better than a mutt - maybe not better than a cat, certainly not as good as breeding dogs.  A solution to our economy presents itself - just as serious as the one offered.  You buy stuff to make trash to feed the rats.  Feed the rats to the cats.  Feed the cats to the children.  Breed dogs for money.....and use the money to buy eggs.

IMHO, mutts are very underrated. They're healthier and live longer and make better pets than a LOT of purebreds. I would be very happy to have a doodle mutt for my next dog. In a better world, people would pay good (but not ridiculous) money for a mutt.

[Mr Greene]

Russian capt. of Solong arrested after ramming US tanker Stena Immaculate.
Cargo ship's captain arrested over North Sea crash