posted by
martyb
on Monday April 27 2020, @01:32AM
from the so-long,-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish dept.
from the so-long,-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish dept.
Dolphins reclaim Bosphorus as virus silences Istanbul:
A lull in boat traffic and a fishing ban in Istanbul forced by the coronavirus pandemic has proved good news for some of the city's most-loved inhabitants—the dolphins that swim in the fish-rich waters of the Bosphorus Strait between Europe and Asia.
[...]Spotting dolphins in the Bosphorus—a usually very busy narrow waterway connecting the Mediterranean to the Black Sea right through the heart of Istanbul—is often a source of joy for the city's residents.
But the lockdown has meant fewer ships and more fish in the water, encouraging the mammals to come closer to shore and prompting more frequent sightings.
How long before deer are sighted in Central Park?
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(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 27 2020, @01:49AM (3 children)
Dolphins are good "fish".
Covid-19 is dolphins' retribution to the Japanese. All hoomans love dolphins.
But the Japanese slaughter them, for what, I don't know, I don't think they even eat them.
Dolphins, you sexy smart things you.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 27 2020, @01:55AM (2 children)
Dolphins are not fish. Dolphins are mammals. Goodbye and thanks for all the fish.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 27 2020, @02:52AM (1 child)
That's one whale of a fish!
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday April 27 2020, @07:25PM
A whale is not suitable for your porpoises.
Why is it so difficult to break a heroine addiction?
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday April 27 2020, @02:06AM (4 children)
People are now starting to realize that city life even in San Diego has no fucking redeeming qualities once you take away the beach, restaurant access, nightlife, universities, and freedom of movement. Fortunately some parks have already opened and beach access will be opened tomorrow, so we'll hope that goes well. The rate of wearing PPE for family and dog walks I see around here is approximately 65%, the rate for joggers and cyclists is probably like 15-20%.
Anyway, that's a good thing. People will seriously start to consider decentralizing the population and pushing massive changes toward allowing people to lawfully choose working from home (like Germany just did). City folk will have more respect for those rural hicks they spent the past 50 years demonizing and there will be more mingling, although unfortunately that will lead to Californians and New Yorkers moving to South Dakota and voting for dumb-ass policies. That is a double-edged sword, for city folk could also be seduced by the rural conservative/libertarian way of life and start firing guns and doing all that hipster shit like meat slaughter and chopping firewood for real. And of course our supply chains will hopefully move back.
It will lead to our AG industry becoming more mechanized as it should have already been done if there were no cheap quarterly highs of Mexican labor, and a newfound disdain for all the H1-B's and other visa abusers in the country while Americans are out of work.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday April 27 2020, @02:30AM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink [wikipedia.org]
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 27 2020, @02:38AM
Da fuk? You finally got sober now? You still dumb as rock, but at least sober.
Did some jew sock some sense into you thick skull?
Nah... some chollo kicked his head more likely.
(Score: 3, Informative) by ChrisMaple on Monday April 27 2020, @07:03AM (1 child)
San Diego has a really good zoo.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 27 2020, @01:50PM
Oww! Damned with faint praise.
I heard their Mexican food's great, if you don't want to drive the extra 20 minutes to TJ.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 27 2020, @02:14AM (1 child)
So no mackerel sandwiches?
Dang, I miss kokorech from a street vendor. I used to be young and good-looking back then.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 27 2020, @02:19AM
I used to be young and foolish.
Now I'm older.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Monday April 27 2020, @02:18AM (3 children)
The reduction of human activities has been good for nature in general the world over.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 27 2020, @03:04AM (1 child)
Now if only the humans could figure out how to continue to feed everyone when only essential jobs are being done like food production and transportation.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 27 2020, @03:42AM
Bbut... who will make 100s of shit movies every year stuffed with product placement and mind-breaking adverts hawking Doritos to bovine Americans? You know, the real world.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday April 27 2020, @07:28PM
Yea! I knew something good would come from a zero exercise program!
Why is it so difficult to break a heroine addiction?
(Score: 2) by black6host on Monday April 27 2020, @02:55AM (1 child)
While dolphins in the Bosphorus may be real some accounts of animals returning may not be: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/03/coronavirus-pandemic-fake-animal-viral-social-media-posts/ [nationalgeographic.com]
Admittedly an older article but in today's streamlined dispersal of news comes the reality of streamlined dispersal of bullshit! :)
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday April 27 2020, @04:58PM
(Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 27 2020, @03:20AM (1 child)
I try to read SoylentNews from Turkey, on the Bosphorus, and I am blocked? What areas of the world is SN actively geo-blocking, so that none of Ethanol-fiddled or Runawaycolon's posts incite WWIII? Asking for a Friend. Seems no SN in China, either. Or North Dakota, but that was to be expected. No Dolphins in NoDak, as we always said.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday April 27 2020, @07:29PM
SN isn't geoblocking.
The dolphins are.
Why is it so difficult to break a heroine addiction?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 27 2020, @03:27AM (3 children)
Deer have left my part of Texas. None seen for two months. Rabbits, coyotes, Bob Cats, Birds but no Deer or Wild Boar. I guess the deer have died of the CV19.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by PiMuNu on Monday April 27 2020, @12:22PM (2 children)
Still loads of deer in rural UK.
In Texas maybe they all got shot?
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 27 2020, @02:45PM
That's just because Brits haven't learned how to stab a deer to death yet. Currently they are perfecting their knife skills on fellow humans.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday April 27 2020, @07:30PM
So deer are not anti vaxxers.
Why is it so difficult to break a heroine addiction?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by bzipitidoo on Monday April 27 2020, @06:20AM (1 child)
Lot of ecologies would rebound astonishingly fast the moment the constant pressure of human activity and overexploitation is removed.
For marine life around Europe, WWII was good times.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday April 27 2020, @07:31PM
Wait for all the nuclear plants to fail in some spectacular way.
Why is it so difficult to break a heroine addiction?
(Score: 4, Informative) by ChrisMaple on Monday April 27 2020, @07:36AM (4 children)
There are already deer in Staten Island and the Bronx, probably from New Jersey and Westchester county, respectively.
If there were deer in Brooklyn or Queens, they'd probably come from farther east on Long Island. If there were deer in Manhattan, they'd most likely be in such small park-like areas as exist on the waterfront. It's several uninviting blocks from there to Central Park, so unless people plant them in Central Park, the deer aren't likely to show up soon. The Central Park Zoo webpage doesn't indicate that they have any deer.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Phoenix666 on Monday April 27 2020, @11:42AM (2 children)
Gagh! Soylent is losing a step. Not one "I Am Legend" reference.
Q: How long before deer are sighted in Central Park?
A: It's not clear when, but Will Smith will be the first to sight them.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 27 2020, @01:55PM
I Am Legend - was that the Converse advert he was in?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 28 2020, @12:33AM
All the way from his throne in Belaire?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 27 2020, @05:47PM
The deer are afraid of being shot while riding the subway.