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I was thinking today about how I've been very pleased with my most recent set of work boots today and thought it could be interesting if anyone else had any particular favorite clothing items that they have really been enjoying.

Clothes are a very personal choice, as we're all built differently and do different things, but I'm curious to see if any trends show up in what we like.

I got the Keen Braddock Low Tops almost a year ago. I had a previous pair of Keen's imported boots a while back, and my new job makes us go through their provider instead of me getting reimbursed for buying my own boot of choice, and I wasn't thrilled with the idea of buying safety toes without getting to try them on first, as some can be pretty uncomfortable. I saw they had the US made Braddock though, which I had been wanting to try to see if it was an upgrade from the now discontinued boots I had from them.

I like Keen's because my old ones held up tremendously well. The thick rubber toe may look a little odd, but it doesn't scuff up like a leather cap boot, and it's asymmetrical so it fits my big foot better than many safety toes where both caps are the same shape. They feel very sneaker like, which is nice since my feet don't need serious protection from a super stiff and tall boot. I like the design is enough to be interesting, but nothing too wild.

These have been holding up very well, though I have 3 pairs in my rotation now, I also have a pair of leather CAT steel toe low tops and a pair of Carhartt composite toe fabric low tops. They each have their ups and downs, but the Keen is my all-arounder. It's not as light as the comp toe, it's a little bulkier than the leather boot, but it's the most comfy and feels to be the best built of the 3.

Edit: Just noticed the rules say the post needs to end with a question mark...

What is your favorite clothing item and why?

BBC: How decline of Indian vultures led to 500,000 human deaths 25 JUL 2024

More than two decades ago, India’s vultures began dying because of a drug used to treat sick cows.

By the mid-1990s, the 50 million-strong vulture population had plummeted to near zero because of diclofenac, a cheap non-steroidal painkiller for cattle that is fatal to vultures. Birds that fed on carcasses of livestock treated with the drug suffered from kidney failure and died.

The unintentional decimation of these heavy, scavenging birds allowed deadly bacteria and infections to proliferate, leading to the deaths of about half a million people over five years, says the study published in the American Economic Association journal.

“Vultures are considered nature’s sanitation service because of the important role they play in removing dead animals that contain bacteria and pathogens from our environment - without them, disease can spread,” says the study’s co-author, Eyal Frank, an assistant professor at University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy.

“Understanding the role vultures play in human health underscores the importance of protecting wildlife, and not just the cute and cuddly. They all have a job to do in our ecosystems that impacts our lives.”

The authors estimated that between 2000 and 2005, the loss of vultures caused around 100,000 additional human deaths annually, resulting in more than $69bn (£53bn) per year in mortality damages or the economic costs associated with premature deaths.

These deaths were due to the spread of disease and bacteria that vultures would have otherwise removed from the environment.

“The vulture collapse in India provides a particularly stark example of the type of hard-to-reverse and unpredictable costs to humans that can come from the loss of a species,” says Mr Sudarshan, an associate professor at the University of Warwick and co-author of the study.

It is amazing to see what a difference these birds most take for granted contribute to our success as a species.

Many find vultures to be creepy, but after learning about some of their amazing abilities and understanding why they've evolved to become what they are, they are superbly designed animals that excel at doing a very important job.

White-rumped vulture (Population loss since 2000: 98%)

Indian vulture (Population loss since 2000: 95%)

Red-headed vulture (Population loss since 2000: 91%)

This cutie of a hootie is Decatur, an animal ambassador at the Vermont Institute of Natural Sciences.

Every day I post cute owls like this guy at !superbowl@lemmy.world for you to enjoy. You can come for just the pics, or I've also started posting some in depth writing about owls, packed with tons of info and detailed photos so you can learn how owls get their stealth, night vision, extreme flexibility, super hearing, and many other amazing powers you may not have known about.

I've also been posting places in every US state where you can go to see owls in person, and for everyone else, I sprinkle in owls from around the world, aaaaand I even started a while back posting things in metric measurements also so you know what the heck I'm talking about!

If I haven't won you over yet, here's some baby pics of Decatur!

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And Tall!

I don't know if you guys will like this or not, but I think it's fun. I was in a Beehaw thread talking about Halloween themed food, and most of the comments were they were either hard to make or looked good, but didn't taste good. That made me remember back to when I made the Meat Hand!

It's just regular meatloaf, so use whatever recipe your family likes, but instead of a loaf pan, shape it into a hand on a sheet pan. Top it with some sliced cheese before baking so it gets all crisped up and creepy looking, and cook it. Then place it on mashed taters.

I went simple, but you can add some panache with some onion slices for fingernails and a chunk for the wrist bone like in this pic I grabbed from Google.

It's simple, tastes great if you're into meatloaf, and some ketchup will give an added touch as some "blood" as well. And it looks pretty good for not much work. If you need a spooky Halloween dish for fun family dinner or for a party, give it a shot!

I'm not sure if I'm missing something, but I'm a bit confused on how post creation works in Boost.

I've been using Liftoff since Boost got kicked off Reddit, and the post screen there seems to be what I'd expect. I cut out the useless half screen of whitespace, but it looks like this:

I'm not sure why Boost has different screens for different types of posts, and that may be where I'm getting confused.

The Text Post interface has this nice bar with the markup tools.

The Image Post screen doesn't have that toolbar and it has a really small box for text.

Isn't it easier to just have one post interface or is there a benefit I don't understand? The layout style of Liftoff seems to handle everything on the same screen. If the toolbar was added to the image post screen, then you could have the image add as an option and just have one post interface. Something like this.

Again, I'm not saying what Boost is doing is bad, I just don't understand why it's broken down how it is. My posts are a main image used as a thumbnail, but then the text is pretty long and will contain at least 2 links to sources and sometimes additional photos. I want to switch back to Boost, but I don't know how to do what I need to do on it.

I dont think I ever posted on Reddit, so I don't know what it was like on old Boost, but I'm trying to post a few times a day here to get things going, so I'm pretty new to this still.

Thanks!

In payback to be enjoying the discussions in the Nimona thread, I wanted to give some recommendations back to this group and keep it active.

I'd been wanting to see some movies showing life for non-combatants during war, and I found 2 I really enjoyed. Both are somewhat tough to watch, but very touching stories in a heartbreaking way. I don't watch war movies for the combat so much, I enjoy ones that show the humanity of the people involved. Good or evil, it is all done by regular people and I feel it's important to remember that.

THIS IS IS NO WAY ME SUPPORTING OR CONDEMNING EITHER SIDE!!! I watched these as stories from the POV telling them, that's all, no politics of mine involved or intended, I'm just sharing fictional stories of fictional characters that I have watched. One is about prisoners, the other about school age girls. Neither are groups involved in combat.

If you want to discuss related morality in this thread, I'm all for it if it stays civil and not personal. I think both movies present many things that should be thought about and discussed in a constructive way. With that said, here's the movies.

Land of Mine Danish army demands German POWs remove the 2 million landmines left buried on the coast. The story follows the squad commander training and supervising a group of very young POWs considered "disposable". I thought it was intense every time they were in the beach, and there is great character development as everyone gets to know each other and as you learn if their individual dreams and fears.

Flowers of War Big budget movie from China, starring Christian Bale as a priest running a girls school in Nanking. A group of girls from the red light district tagged refuge in the school. The groups initially dislike each other, but through many dangerous situations, they see they are not as different as they thought. Many scenes of bravery and sacrifice. Very character driven, and I was very invested in what would happen to them.

If you watch this one, I really recommend you follow up reading up on Minnie Vautrin, whom the Christian Bale character somewhat fills in for. She was an American missionary in China credited for saving 10,000 schoolgirls in Nanking. A very touching and sad story in itself.