general

we have like 4 feet on the ground rn

at least

well in some spots

cinema

Related to exploding trees, he’s a picture about the weight of ice

's poll What do you do while driving? has closed.

Here's some good ol' ice trees

Theyre gonna explode and kill u

It took a day, but I thought of one

Do you guys ever forget to do basic things because it's the weekend? Like, I forget to drink water usually and I will get a headache on 3-day weekends.

I'll forget to eat and get dizzy.

I do not forget to do things

He hasn't remembered yet...

's poll for sliced bread, which is the supreme (on average, consider all applications, general usability, and your personal preference) has closed.

youtube has decided to open videos from search at arbitrary timestamps now

My neighbors are laying sandbags around the front of their house

how the fuck do people not know what snow is

lmfao

even if you have never experienced snow, we literally live in a world where you can look up what snow is

I've put sand bags in my car for snow. I know no reason someone would put them in their house

Is that so the blacks don't steal your car by sliding it across the ice

I'm going to poll a Phijkchu snow forcast

I added emojis to the Rusp one

I think those 3 represent the extremes of the possible snow

Fire, are you gonna get any snow on your side of the Atlantic ocean?

They are saying 6 inches rn

we already got our snow at the start of the month, it's not coming back

most we've had in years

it was awful, glad it's gone now

I saw a headline saying ontario is going to be the coldest place on earth this week (I assume northern ontario)

hell yeah

AURA

do any other nations have a national animal that's even half as cool as a bald eagle?

spooky can you tell me why the bald eagle is the national animal

i would ask grok but im almost sure you would know

George Washington liked them

idk if there's a more official reason than that

Franklin and some of the other Founding Fathers wanted the Turkey

The bald eagle was chosen as the national symbol of the United States in 1782 when it was adopted as the centerpiece of the Great Seal of the United States. It was selected for its majestic appearance, strength, long life, and status as a bird native exclusively to North America, symbolizing the nation's unique identity and independence. Historical symbolism played a key role—Founding Fathers drew inspiration from the Roman Republic, where the eagle represented power and authority. The bald eagle on the Great Seal holds an olive branch (for peace) and arrows (for war), facing the olive branch to signify a preference for peace. Although it had long been considered the national bird in practice, the bald eagle was not officially designated by law until December 2024, when President Joe Biden signed bipartisan legislation confirming it as the official national bird of the U.S., correcting a historical oversight

grok

I knew that turkey bit

that's funny that Biden technically gets credit

That would've been lame as fuck

Hot damn ontario is stacked

as far as prolific animals go, if eagles didn't exist I'd be ok with a turkey it's unique to us and is sorta US-coded

massive

Its not too bad here

i think bison wouldve gone hard

its only -28

we didn't know about bison yet

right

Errrr

I understand why we did it, but it was kinda lame we mass exterminated the bison

When did louis and clark do that thing

this is, early colonies, the deepest they explored was the Canadian interior and found beavers

1800s

because of Polu I just autocorrect that as st.louis and clark when reading that

thanks polu

1804*

Huh, I guess so then

1600s we knew about all the East Coast animals, and found some Ohio valley stuff in the 1750s-onward

Cardinals, white-tailed deer, turkeys, bears, and all the flavors of small mammals

Good thing we didn't bet on the Passenger pigeon or Carolina parakeet

the Indian dogs were kinda cool looking though

wait Rusp

this is a cool read

there were wild buffalo in Virginia

I wonder if there is any surviving genetics to colossal bioscience them

like, a couple dozen

I didn't know this

Okay, well I guess they knew about them then

RUSP

we thought they were tigers at first

that's how mindfucked we were