It is if you just check the sources, heres the json:
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[
{
"name": "Nematode",
"emoji": "",
"pop": 5e19,
"category": "Roundworm (Invertebrate)",
"fact": "There are roughly 57 billion nematodes for every human on Earth. They inhabit every known ecosystem, from ocean trenches to polar ice, and outnumber every other multicellular animal combined."
},
{
"name": "Soil Mite",
"emoji": "",
"pop": 1e18,
"category": "Arachnid (Invertebrate)",
"fact": "A single teaspoon of forest soil can contain hundreds of mites. They are the unsung engineers of our planet, recycling dead matter and forming the base of countless food webs."
},
{
"name": "Marine Copepod",
"emoji": "",
"pop": 1e18,
"category": "Crustacean (Invertebrate)",
"fact": "Copepods form the largest animal biomass on Earth. Their daily vertical migrations — traveling hundreds of meters to feed at night — are considered the largest migration on the planet."
},
{
"name": "Springtail",
"emoji": "",
"pop": 7e17,
"category": "Hexapod (Invertebrate)",
"fact": "Springtails can launch themselves 100× their own body length using a forked tail-spring. Despite being soil-dwellers, they are found on every continent, including Antarctica."
},
{
"name": "Beetle",
"emoji": "",
"pop": 1e19,
"category": "Insect (Invertebrate)",
"fact": "About 25% of all known animal species are beetles. When asked what he could infer about the Creator's mind, biologist J.B.S. Haldane replied: 'an inordinate fondness for beetles.'"
},
{
"name": "Ant",
"emoji": "",
"pop": 2e16,
"category": "Insect (Invertebrate)",
"fact": "If you weighed all the ants on Earth, they would rival the total weight of all humans. They farm, wage war, keep slaves, and build air-conditioned megacities underground."
},
{
"name": "Termite",
"emoji": "",
"pop": 1e15,
"category": "Insect (Invertebrate)",
"fact": "Termite mounds can last centuries and regulate their internal temperature within 1°C — a feat no human building has replicated without technology."
},
{
"name": "Krill",
"emoji": "",
"pop": 5e14,
"category": "Crustacean (Invertebrate)",
"fact": "Antarctic krill hold together the entire Southern Ocean food web. A single school can weigh over 2 million tonnes — visible from space as a reddish bloom on the ocean surface."
},
{
"name": "Mosquito",
"emoji": "",
"pop": 1e14,
"category": "Insect (Invertebrate)",
"fact": "Mosquitoes are the deadliest animals to humans in history. Only female mosquitoes bite — they need blood protein to develop their eggs. Males eat only nectar."
},
{
"name": "Aphid",
"emoji": "",
"pop": 1e14,
"category": "Insect (Invertebrate)",
"fact": "Aphids can reproduce asexually, giving live birth to daughters already pregnant with grandchildren — a phenomenon called telescoping generations."
},
{
"name": "Fruit Fly",
"emoji": "",
"pop": 1e13,
"category": "Insect (Invertebrate)",
"fact": "Fruit flies share about 75% of the genes that cause human diseases. More Nobel Prizes have been won using fruit flies as a research model than any other organism."
},
{
"name": "Honeybee",
"emoji": "",
"pop": 2e12,
"category": "Insect (Invertebrate)",
"fact": "A single honeybee will produce only 1/12 teaspoon of honey in its entire lifetime. Colonies make collective decisions by voting with waggle dances."
},
{
"name": "Anchovy",
"emoji": "",
"pop": 6e11,
"category": "Fish (Vertebrate)",
"fact": "The Peruvian anchovy fishery is historically the largest single-species fishery on Earth. Schools can be so dense they show up on radar as false landmasses."
},
{
"name": "House Mouse",
"emoji": "",
"pop": 1e11,
"category": "Mammal (Vertebrate)",
"fact": "House mice arrived on every inhabited continent by hitching rides on human ships. They can fit through a hole the size of a pencil eraser, and have been to space more than most humans."
},
{
"name": "Common Starling",
"emoji": "",
"pop": 5e10,
"category": "Bird (Vertebrate)",
"fact": "Starling murmurations — flocks of millions moving in perfect fluid synchrony — have no leader. Each bird follows just seven nearest neighbors, producing one of nature's most breathtaking emergent phenomena."
},
{
"name": "Chicken",
"emoji": "",
"pop": 3.3e10,
"category": "Bird (Vertebrate)",
"fact": "There are more chickens on Earth than any other bird species — outnumbering humans 4 to 1. The bones of farmed chickens may become the defining fossil marker of the Anthropocene."
},
{
"name": "Brown Rat",
"emoji": "",
"pop": 7e9,
"category": "Mammal (Vertebrate)",
"fact": "Rats laugh when tickled — emitting ultrasonic chirps inaudible to humans. They also demonstrate empathy, freeing trapped companions even when they gain no personal benefit."
},
{
"name": "Human",
"emoji": "",
"pop": 8.1e9,
"category": "Mammal (Vertebrate)",
"fact": "Humans are the only animal known to cook food, write poetry, and wonder about their own existence. We are also the only species to have driven thousands of others to extinction."
},
{
"name": "Sheep",
"emoji": "",
"pop": 1.2e9,
"category": "Mammal (Vertebrate)",
"fact": "Sheep can recognize up to 50 individual sheep faces — and remember them for years. They even show signs of depression when separated from their flock companions."
},
{
"name": "Dog",
"emoji": "",
"pop": 9e8,
"category": "Mammal (Vertebrate)",
"fact": "Dogs are the oldest domesticated animal, with a relationship to humans stretching back 15,000+ years. They are the only non-primate known to understand pointing as a communicative gesture."
},
{
"name": "Domestic Cat",
"emoji": "",
"pop": 6e8,
"category": "Mammal (Vertebrate)",
"fact": "Cats are considered a major driver of bird and small mammal extinction worldwide. A domestic cat's hunting instinct cannot be turned off by a full belly — they hunt regardless of hunger."
},
{
"name": "Cattle",
"emoji": "",
"pop": 1e9,
"category": "Mammal (Vertebrate)",
"fact": "Cattle account for roughly 14.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions. They can form close friendships, and their heart rate measurably decreases when a companion is nearby."
},
{
"name": "Pig",
"emoji": "",
"pop": 7e8,
"category": "Mammal (Vertebrate)",
"fact": "Pigs are among the most cognitively complex animals: they can play video games, recognize their reflection, and outperform dogs and chimpanzees in certain learning tasks."
},
{
"name": "Rabbit",
"emoji": "",
"pop": 1e9,
"category": "Mammal (Vertebrate)",
"fact": "Rabbits cannot vomit. They re-ingest their own soft droppings directly from the anus — a process called cecotrophy — to extract nutrients on a second pass through the gut."
},
{
"name": "Common Pigeon",
"emoji": "",
"pop": 4e8,
"category": "Bird (Vertebrate)",
"fact": "Pigeons can recognize themselves in mirrors, identify individual human faces from photographs, and have served as decorated war heroes in both World Wars."
},
{
"name": "African Elephant",
"emoji": "",
"pop": 4e5,
"category": "Mammal (Vertebrate)",
"fact": "Elephants hold funerals, mourn their dead, and return to bones of family members years later. They communicate via infrasound rumbles that travel through the ground, felt through their feet."
},
{
"name": "Snow Leopard",
"emoji": "",
"pop": 4000,
"category": "Mammal (Vertebrate)",
"fact": "Snow leopards cannot roar — their unique larynx only allows a haunting purr-like chuff. They are so elusive in the Himalayas that locals call them 'ghosts of the mountains.'"
},
{
"name": "Blue Whale",
"emoji": "",
"pop": 1e4,
"category": "Mammal (Vertebrate)",
"fact": "The blue whale's heart is the size of a small car, and its heartbeat can be heard from two miles away. Its call at 188 decibels is the loudest sound made by any animal."
},
{
"name": "Giant Panda",
"emoji": "",
"pop": 1800,
"category": "Mammal (Vertebrate)",
"fact": "Giant pandas have a false thumb — an enlarged wrist bone that helps grip bamboo. They eat up to 38 kg of bamboo a day because their carnivore gut digests only 17% of it."
},
{
"name": "Amur Leopard",
"emoji": "",
"pop": 100,
"category": "Mammal (Vertebrate)",
"fact": "The Amur leopard is possibly the rarest wild cat on Earth. Fewer than 100 remain in the Russian Far East, yet they can run 37 mph and leap over 19 feet horizontally."
}
]
```
Social reasons it would never work. I hate to mention anything race related online but simple truth is America has complicated history and African Americans are 30% more likely to be obese than White Americans and also earn approximately 60% of income that whites earn. A fat tax, especially one that properly allocated the cost burden to the individual, would erode race relations.
fwiw the “tax” in Japan is not paid by the individual, and generally taxing the behavior via e.g sugar taxes rather than the outcome has worked better without much public outcry after the fact
Black population in the US is still concentrated in neighborhoods formed by overt racism and segregation and same neighborhoods tend to be food desert where no healthy or even fresh options exists. Even if we taxed just the bad food, the lack of options and mobility that higher income might provide, basically means it’s something that would be seen as targeted. Not to mention, people will draw the most racist perception no matter how carefully you crafted the tax because race relations are always unfortunately weak and these correlations are being forced/drawn.
Medicare prices are too low to operate on. They generally factor in the bare minimum or slightly less for the variable costs of a procedure but severely under value the fixed costs of providing the same procedure. So those costs largely get pushed to commercial payors as those are the only ones who can shoulder it.
There’s plenty of arguements about waste and executive compensation but when I was a healthcare CFO we had our financials separated where I could see individual hospital performance and all the executive/corporate stuff was separate and it still was an issue as basic capex was hard to keep up with in a hospital that had a low % of commercial patients.
Sure you’re not thinking of Medicaid? Medicare was generally pretty good for reimbursement. When my wife treated Medicaid patients, she often lost money on the cost of the supplies used to treat them, let alone rent and paying the staff etc etc. Most doctors who see Medicaid patients do it as basically pro bono. Some figured out how to game the system with economies of scale but it’s nearly impossible do do and maintain a decent standard of care.
But Medi care was right with the commercial insurers on reimbursement.
Medicaid is usually a big loss for hospitals. It’s just a cost of doing business and another reason why someone else has to pay more. It’s completely a subsidy essentially. This is why certain areas only have a county hospital, it’s likely the same area that is a food desert and has no retail banks, the simple truth is too high of a Medicaid mix will quickly sink a for profit hospital.
Medicare is as I described. Every specialty and procedure has its quirks though, some even make a killing on Medicare and not commercial but the hospital kind of represents a portfolio and the overarching economics in aggregate favor the commercial insurance. I’m guessing your wife’s specialty had decent Medicare rates but it’s not always true.
There’s even some private insurance which is effectively Medicare that has different reimburse ranges (Medicare advantage plans).
Executives like to lament the lose money on Medicare but I never really saw it that way. If you look at it isolated, sure it’s true. But if you look at it as a portfolio where your fixed costs are covered by another cohort, then it’s a huge volume to add and make money at the contribution profit line. You just have to be careful not to run fixed costs as a percentage of total revenues or something like that. The extra volume Medicare brings to a hospital or network of hospitals also has tremendous negotiating power for pharma, medical supplies and devices, etc.
Those are fair points. From our specialty clinic's POV, Medicare has been great as far insurers go[0]. I've not had to deal with them at a hospital's scale.
> Executives like to lament the lose money on Medicare but I never really saw it that way.
We're in the totally opposite boat. We actually prefer Medicare patients vs private insurance not only because of the reimbursement, but the way in which they reimburse us (one lump sum vs visit-by-visit auth that requires manpower to manage).
Some of the requirements can be onerous, but on the whole, they're easier to plan for than the private stuff.
You’re not a hospital then. I see this with some specialties or types of providers. I’ve also seen it do complete 180. As in, Medicare is high reimbursement for a decade or two allowing a specialty to proliferate, then one day they rug pull the rates and the specialty is scrambling because they’ve not been running managed care part of their practice (the part that negotiates with commercial plans). It’s a huge headache all around and I do agree Medicare is easy once established.
Generally speaking Medicaid is worse than Medicare for provider reimbursement rates. In some states, Medicaid plan members are effectively uninsured because they can't find a provider within reasonable distance who will take new patients.
> But Medi care was right with the commercial insurers on reimbursement.
As I said in another comment, I'm with a provider and Medicare is easily one of our best payors. We actually have contracts with private insurers that say they have to reimburse us at least 80-85% of what Medicare would. They also give us the money up front, with a public formula that we can count on vs. a hidden formula that requires us to go back for more auth (and thus needs more people to manage).
That back and forth is a huge time suck. Knowing that Medicare will reliably pay $X for code Y makes life vastly easier. Contrast with, say, UHC: “preapproval? That mean we agree to pay $Z, but only if we want to!”
But you blame the contract as to why commercial pays less, when it’s because that’s what someone accepted. They’re obviously going for a low number and it’s your sides job to negotiate for yourself. I just made another comment about lazy managed care, then you prove my point here.
While you didn’t ask for a definition, you should try and connect the dots.
Curious as someone that doesn't experience the issue but assumes that your system Accessibility settings, maybe high-contrast, would be useful instead of expecting individual sites to tailor their color palette... does that not work?
This comment prompted me to find out about colour filters for mac os. I enabled the red/green filter, which made it easier to see the differences on the site, however the downside is it affects a lot of other colors and images on other sites, so is not a feasible solution, for me at least.
I toggle it on and off with a keyboard shortcut on a rare occasion colors are hard to read for me. Mostly use it on my phone actually (it's a triple click of the lock button on my iPhone). There are shortcuts on Windows and MacOS too. Doesn't seem like it would be too inconvenient for someone that actually suffers from color blindness or a sight issue, I would expect they'd run into the issue more commonly than me and would then know how to solve it for themselves.
A lot more inconvenient for others to have to pick colors that satisfy all potential sight issues, which is primarily why I think it should be an OS solution rather than an individual creator's responsibility. It's not that I don't care about those with the sight issue, it's purely about who is responsible for creating a reasonable solution. And honestly, there's no way every creator is going to study accessibility and so it's just a never ending uphill battle. If you had a tool in your system already that could help, why wouldn't you use it?
Everyone is creating visuals, not just data scientists or designers that probably should know these rules.
I generally am against people who have expectations of how they want others to communicate. Be it colors, pronouns, whatever- you’re just setting yourself up for disappointment and it’s not out of malice so just move on or find your own way to deal with what people are putting out there.
If you’re unsuspecting and the investors get enough return, then it’s really not to hard as no one is going to be watching you or have any reason or ability to audit your finances.
I’d say it’s almost expected that someone in that position would skim off the top in this way. The problem is he stole it all and that’s obviously going to raise questions.
I’ve seen it play out multiple times, highlights precisely why a candidate should never withhold their application based on preference of years of experience with anything. They simply haven’t put much thought into those numbers.
When I saw the headline I immediately thought of the API, this does a great job explaining its relevance in its time! It’s interesting how even programmers then were trying to learn the concept, but now “API” is common language even nontechnical people generally understand and use in conversation
I don’t know, law enforcement in the US is already heavy handed in terms of enforcement. Not that it’s done equally, which is your intention, but it’s that the enforcer already thinks they are overly powerful and already commonly oversteps and abuse their power. This pushes further into a police state.
Maybe my YouTube algorithm just shows me a lot of it, but there’s no shortage of cops out there violating people’s rights because they think when they ask for something we have to comply and see anything else as defiant.
I think we need perhaps less laws so people can actually know them all. Also, I think we need clarity as to what they are and it needs to be simple English, dummy’s guide to law type thing. But there’s a lot of issues that simply stem from things like 1) when can a cop ask for your ID? / when do you have the right to say no? 2) similar question as to when do they have a right to enter/trespass onto your property? 3) as every encounter usually involves them asking you questions, even a simple traffic stop, when and how can you refuse to talk to them or even roll down your window or open your car door without them getting offended and refusing to take no as an answer?
I don’t think we generally have any understanding of what our rights actually are in these most likely and most common interactions with law enforcement. However, it’s all cases where I see law enforcement themselves have a poor understanding of what the law and rights are themselves so how are citizens to really know. If they tell you it’s their policy to ID anyone they want without any sort of probable cause then they say you’re obstructing their investigation for not complying or answering their questions or asserting you have to listen to anything they say because it’s a lawful order; it’s just common ways they get people to do what they want, it’s often completely within your right to not comply with a lot of these things though.
I've always said one of the best non-major-related courses I took in college was Criminal Justice 101, which went through all the most applicable SCOTUS case law for common scenarios. Ignoring the variation in state laws, you could boil it down to about 30 rules of thumb. Many of the most important are covered in the classic YouTube lecture 'Don't talk to the police.'
Teaching this as a requires HS class would be an incredible benefit to society, because, on the flip side, many police encounters escalate to violence because the citizen has an incorrect understanding of where their rights end/don't exist.
The most obvious rule to follow is that you should always assert your rights (correct or incorrect) verbally only, as soon as you involve physical resistance, the situation will deteriorate rapidly (for you.) Any violations of your rights will be argued and dealt with in court, not on the street. Confirm requests/demands from officers are 'lawful orders', and then do them.
Is it? Maybe with survivor bias but what about all the laid off tellers? Did their situation improve? Walmart grew a lot over this time period, maybe most of them had to downgrade and be cashiers for a generally bad employer.
Also, and this might be a different analysis and topic, but tellers in the 80s had a pretty good job. It was often a decent wage with a pension and good benefits. Maybe on par with a teacher or government employee - granted not the highest pay but good, was considered a “profession”. Compare that to how it’s changed, it’s a low hourly rate on par or only slightly above retail and fast food work, heavy part-time status so as to avoid paying benefits.
I wouldn’t say that was a great example and is likely to be what may happen elsewhere once the routine work is sufficiently devalued.
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