Althouse: Turtle crossing.

May 24, 2020

Turtle crossing.

28 comments:

Big Mike said...: Poor things get out onto the asphalt to try to speed up their warming and get their cold-blooded metabolism going. They’re a few million years of evolution behind the ability to recognize the inherent dangers of going where cars go.; 5/24/20, 8:35 AM
RK said...: Saw a dead snapping turtle near there the other day, which caused me to have me mixed emotions, including a bit of shame for having mixed emotions.; 5/24/20, 8:44 AM
Fernandinande said...: In case you were feeling optimistic about humanity, Save the Turtles! Experiment Shows that Many Drivers Enjoy Running Them Over; 5/24/20, 8:44 AM
Tommy Duncan said...: This time of year there are lots of turtles crossing the roads near the Mississippi River to bury their eggs in spots where the sun will warm the eggs. The automobile-turtle carnage is predictable. I used to stop my car to help the turtles cross the road, but now as a senior citizen I'm afraid I'll become part of the carnage.; 5/24/20, 8:50 AM
Howard said...: https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2020-05-22/did-japan-just-beat-the-virus-without-lockdowns-or-mass-testing?__twitter_impression=true

Some explanations:

- lotsa masks
- fewer preexisting health problems
- army of contact tracers
- no lockdown, but also no indoor crowding; 5/24/20, 9:09 AM
Temujin said...: It's our job here to monitor sea turtle nests and try not to have a beach party where they are nested. Mote Marine; 5/24/20, 9:21 AM
WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...: Interesting read.

some snips...

Then, just a few months after its Abbot Kinney opening, it all began to unravel. The company got hit with a class-action lawsuit from employees alleging labor law violations. Miffed investors sued the founders, accusing them of self-dealing and other underhanded tactics. A former chief financial officer filed a blockbuster complaint in a Los Angeles court accusing the founders of a slew of misdeeds, from manipulating MedMen’s stock price, to bank fraud, to seeking private intelligence groups to get dirt on their enemies, to calling an L.A. city councilman a “midget negro” and making an illegal straw man contribution to a Nevada politician.

[...]

But instead of following in the footsteps of Apple, MedMen has gone the way of its 5th Avenue neighbor. It has become the WeWork of weed, an overhyped startup whose sky-high valuation has come crashing back down to Earth.

In the wake of its fall, the firm has left behind a trail of unpaid bills and unsettled legal allegations. After riding, and driving, the legalization revolution, it has come up against the quotidian realities of local red tape and federal inertia. It has lost more than 95 percent of its market value, and an irritated creditor is setting its eyes on the deed to Bierman’s waterfront mansion.

Now, having served as the face of one of the great marketing blitzes of recent years, Bierman, 38, has gone uncharacteristically silent. Neither he nor his co-founder, Andrew Modlin, 33, responded to requests for interviews. Lawyers for the two men at the firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan also did not respond to requests for comment. A spokesperson for MedMen declined to comment “after giving it some thought.”

MedMen stands as a cautionary tale of American Wild West capitalism.

Greedy, take-it-all & spend it up front before the real wealth materializes - glitzy pretty goop-boys, who vote democrat, run in democrat circles -> they get to slime "capitalism" with their greed and stupidity.
Meanwhile, normal folks, who run small businesses, work hard and restrain themselves from buying mansions and fancy cars - but they get beat over the head. By the democrats.

Happy to see goop-boy false kingdom crash to the ground.; 5/24/20, 9:58 AM
MadTownGuy said...: The sign by Tiedeman's Pond used to say "Salamander Crossing." Guess that didn't make people slow down so it was changed to "Turtle Crossing."; 5/24/20, 9:59 AM
Nichevo said...: - no lockdown, but also no indoor crowding

No indoor crowding? They literally shove subway riders into the cars with poles. Japan is the size of California, 80% unlivable IIRC, with almost half the population of the US. It's really hard to figure how they would avoid indoor crowding.; 5/24/20, 10:00 AM
Terry di Tufo said...: Yes, that time of year! Turtles on the move everywhere. See them in CT on almost every road close to a pond.; 5/24/20, 10:23 AM
Dad29 said...: One of my grandchilluns was responsible for a Turtle Crossing sign up in Waunakee. Don't know if the turtles can read, though....; 5/24/20, 10:25 AM
rcocean said...: Why not build the turtles a little underground tunnel underneath the road? Wouldn't cost that much, and you wouldn't need to stop for a slow moving turtle.; 5/24/20, 10:27 AM
narciso said...: that's like everytown putting the tsarnaev brothers as victims of gunfire,

https://dailycaller.com/2020/05/24/new-york-times-coronavirus-death-list-suspected-homicide-victim/; 5/24/20, 11:32 AM
stevew said...: How do they get the turtles to cross there? Our turtles cross wherever they damn well please, without regard to the directional signs.; 5/24/20, 12:10 PM
Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...: You're my pride and joy et cetera

That lazy lyric was written by a Turtle

as another slow creature similarly said:

"All men and women created by the — you know — you know the thing.”; 5/24/20, 12:31 PM
Big Mike said...: Why not build the turtles a little underground tunnel underneath the road?

They wouldn’t understand the need to use it. It’s not as though reptiles have a lot of frontal lobes.; 5/24/20, 12:36 PM
Meade said...: “How do they get the turtles to cross there? “

They have a little band of frogs, geese and river otters continuously performing the Hunter/Garcia “Terrapin Station.” Not the part on the album— the second part, never recorded or performed by the Dead.; 5/24/20, 1:05 PM
Sebastian said...: "Turtle crossing."

Ah, that must be why the chicken crossed the road.; 5/24/20, 1:11 PM
Meade said...: Oh, and before I forget — also in the little band — a couple of crickets and 3 cicadas singing their rare and different tune.; 5/24/20, 1:18 PM
Rick.T. said...: If I see a box turtle crossing the road and I can safely stop, I'll bring 'em home and let 'em loose in the garden/woods. It's the least I can do for our state reptile.; 5/24/20, 1:46 PM
gadfly said...: Terrapins take a long time to crossover one thousand feet when racing against rabbits or playing football against the Badgers.; 5/24/20, 2:53 PM
jaydub said...: "It's really hard to figure how they would avoid indoor crowding."

Hell, they can't even avoid outdoor crowding. Ever tried to walk down the sidewalk in the Ginza district or wait for a train at Shinagawa station platform?; 5/24/20, 2:54 PM
Rick.T. said...: Turtle crossing, look out for the cars. Can you spell that without any "R's?"; 5/24/20, 3:11 PM
Char Char Binks, Esq. said...: If beating Whitmer to a bloody pulp saves one person from Covid it will be worth it, and even if it doesn’t.; 5/24/20, 3:28 PM
narciso said...: https://twitter.com/bdomenech/status/1264632989918642176?s=20; 5/24/20, 3:34 PM
narciso said...: French's mustard removes all doubt,

https://twitter.com/CalFreiburger/status/1264619276411064320?s=20; 5/24/20, 3:36 PM
WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...: I see I posted that in the wrong thread.

Too many photos snaps in a line confuse me.; 5/24/20, 4:30 PM
stevew said...: May I ask, where is Farmer? Did I miss a memo/post? Hope he is well.; 5/24/20, 5:45 PM