They say it "could have weighed up to 200 pounds". How do they know? Are they just guestimating based on modern animals about the same size? Or maybe weighing/measuring a modern beaver and scaling up size and weight?
There's some debate over how useful this is for dinosaurs, but something that died out 10k years ago with closely related existing species is probably easier.
That's a better article than the link, since they actually bothered to get answers to the question from definitive sources. NPR also linked directly to the NOAA copy of the report, lending credence to the "sloppy relocation" theory of the case:
If they already fired the staff of the agency, it's actually pretty believable that the dedicated website would get shut down. Talk about burying the lede.
I live in an apartment building on the side that faces the woods. I obviously have to park on the other side, and my fob doesn't reach. I don't care about remote start anyways, but there are absolutely situations where fobs can't reach but cell service can.
The only time I really go to Google is when searching for a product or local business. Google excels there, but that's obviously because they have several decades of business-provided information.
My interpretation is that they wanted the poster to create an invoice for the $105, plus an additional $4 to cover the fee PayPal charges on invoices. I assume this is so if the terms aren't followed, they can get a refund from PayPal. I don't think they were asking the poster to pay the fee.
Anecdotally, I'm a near daily user and have noticed the platform has significantly more latency, a massive uptick in spam as well as strange / intermittent bugs.
For the last decade I have always signed up for Twitter, used it for a few months, deleted the account and stayed away for months/years and then returned. This is largely because I get addicted to Twitter.
My last return to Twitter, a few months ago, was the first time since the firings. And it is awful. Glitches all over the place. Bots all over the place.
This is the longest I’ve had a Twitter account because I have absolutely no reason to delete it since I have no desire to use it.
Also, I don’t use Twitter for politics at all. It’s almost entirely for sports/tech/science so it’s not a partisan thing.
All that being said, I think it’s absolutely true that Twitter could have reduced its workforce somewhat. Like every other tech company they had massively over hired during the pandemic and all of them have had deep layoffs. And Twitter was the poster child of “why does tech company X need so many employees”. But even then the impact of the cuts are very evident to me at least.
> Twitter was the poster child of “why does tech company X need so many employees”.
I think Twitter and Reddit share that title.
Reddit has something like 2000 employees, yet their platform's availability has never been amazing, and new web UI and the official mobile apps are both unusable. What do they do all day?
Seems to happen on my computer and phone, wifi and lte. Click her photo on the main page and it goes to a page about CBD gummies. Click the more link at the bottom of the home page and it's some drug. The bottom of the art analysis page has links to valium, adderall, and tramadol.
Upon deeper review, it definitely appears there is something strange with some of the content on the site, so while I'm concerned there might be an integrity issue, the site has been archived so that original sources from the subject's website can be cited or referenced on their Wikipedia page via Wayback (and to prevent link rot if and when the domain or hosting expires). Thanks for calling this out. My apologies for not making the time to dive deeper into the site content when you first mentioned it.
