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My name is Carole Turek and I have been consistently feeding hummingbirds for 25 years. My home in Studio City, California now attracts hundreds of them daily. There are so many hummingbirds here now that I decided to share them with the world on a live cam.

I began photographing my birds and my passion for photography grew to where I had to find more species of hummingbirds to photograph. I started with trips to Arizona, but to find more and more beautiful hummingbirds to photograph, I had to start traveling to Central and South America.

My last trip before all travel came to a halt was to northern Colombia to photograph the Blue-bearded Helmetcrest, one of the rarest hummingbirds in the world. To reach this critically-endangered hummingbird one must seek permission from the indigenous tribes and then trek up to an elevation of 10,000 feet to arrive at the last remaining territory of this hummingbird. The bird is so rare that it was thought to be extinct until five years ag

Thanks, Bungo. These destinations, despite not being fan favorites, will be missed. Looking forward to their potentially reprised versions from DCV.

I remember a scientific study that was done a while back, which concluded that human beings can only REALLY care about a certain number of people. That's similar to what I'm talking about.

I really think it's ridiculous to expect someone to not only keep up with, but either care deeply about or take action against, every cause for concern in the world. It's just an illusion that the internet has created, this false sense that everything around the globe is happening right outside your window and you are obligated to protest it.

For instance, all of the posts popping up about how BLM has overshadowed the Hong Kong protests. Bringing attention to the HK protests is a pretty worthy cause, but is that really your intention? With your meme with a cat in it? No, you just want everyone to upvote you for how much you "care."

I'm not advocating "ignorance is bliss," more like "acceptance is bliss." Do what you can, when you can, to a reasonable extent. Just accept that there is a limit to

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I've recently come to the conclusion that I think the only reason my parents had kids was because my mom wanted to raise an extension of herself in order to boost her own ego and self-image and pride. My mom is a teacher so it felt like all she cared about was how i did in school but I never felt like I was allowed to develop my own identity without her micro-managing my personality. Both my mom and dad are immigrants by the way from Europe

My dad however probably just agreed to it because he might have felt like my mom would divorce him if he said no and without my mom, he couldn't financially support himself. My parents have always been lower class barely making money to get by. My dad spent all of his day at work every single day and still didn't make enough money to support a family. I don't know why he didn't choose to get into construction business like every other immigrant did in this country which could have allowed him to work less hours and make more money. So in turn,

And all I can think about is kissing yours

I remember being super mind-blown by NFC tags when I got my galaxy S3 many years ago. I thought, "This is going to be the future! Everything is going to use NFC!". Years later, it's still very rarely actually used in the real world aside from payments. I was thinking to myself, "Why dont routers come with NFC stickers for pairing your devices? Why don't car phone mounts come with NFC for connecting your phone to your car stereo? Why doesn't everything use NFC to connect to everything else?"

One of my favorite features was the ability to easily Bluetooth pair things. No more "what's the device name?" "Why isn't it showing up yet?" "What's the connection pin?" Just.. touch and you're done

Then I realized because if manufactures started pushing NFC, only android users would be able to take advantage of it. Even tho iPhones have NFC chips, they have them restricted to payments only. It's really frusterating to me, our phones already have the chips, it already only costs cents to make

Below I go into detail, I think you'll find them quite significant as a type of setting and genre.

 

A secondary world is a world like Arda (of Lord of the Rings) or Planetos (of A Song of Ice and Fire). I'm looking for sci-fi settings like that, settings with at least a modern-day level of technology.

In the Tolkienverse and the ASoIaF-verse, planet Earth has never existed. Unlike sci-fi settings like Dune, Warhammer 40,000, and Battlestar Galactica.

EDIT: I was badly mistaken about Arda. but what i'm trying to explain remains unchanged

So, like LoTR and ASoIaF, I'd like to see an alternate secondary world/planet being the homeworld of humanity, the planet on which the human race of that setting originally evolved, and with planet Earth nowhere to be found.

The setting of Star Wars has a different problem, with humanity's homeworld not having been conclusively established in the canon.

Also, Arda and Planetos are markedly different from planets like Lyra's w

Hi everyone, i have a copy of XCOM 2 and Planet Coaster to giveaway so hopefully they can go to a good home!

Leave a comment saying which game you want and write something positive (can be literally anything) and the winners will be choosen randomly later on today.

Thanks!

EDIT:

Thanks for all the comments.

Winners are:

XCOM 2 - Dankme1

Planet Coaster - levinalx101

Police brutality is racism and it is and it should be stopped.

Racism is systemic. If you want to know if those wealthy liberals and politians are truly against racism and ask him to increase funding to schools and see what they do.