He was a double agent for British intelligence. Won the highest Military honor in Britain AND in Germany. This man lied his way into the spy business, and proceeded to completely hoodwink German intelligence.
To build off of that…Operation Mincemeat. They took a dead homeless guy from Wales, made him look like an Allied military official, and gave him fake battle plans indicating that D-Day would not occur at Normandy. It worked.
I feel that. Went back home for a visit last year and so much has changed. It's bizarre, feeling disconnected from where I live and yet like home has moved on without me.
Many people here seem to suggest the likes of plankton, worms, trees, flies, bees or butterflies. But these are not just one species, they're huge groups of organisms. It is interesting to think about extinction of whole groups, but it's necessary to understand it's on the same level as thinking about the extinction of all rodents or even mammals.
Along with the other good replies here I'll chuck in flies. They're the jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none in the insect world, sure, but they're the very bottom of sooooooo many food chains.
Plus we'd be buried in rotting material without them.
A child-size theme park owned, built and operated by a family of Little People. The site is still there with several new owners and attempts to redevelop it over the years.
I grew up in the middle of Miami, with developed streets and houses in every directions for at least 5 or 6 miles. But I lived in the corner of this dead end that ended at a path There was this huge area of woods like two or three city blocks worth, about 10 feet lower than the rest of the neighbor. There was a steep path down, by far the only stretch of mountain bike - worthy riding anywhere around, and all kinds of trails and huge boulders to climb. It wasn't wilderness--I think it was a coral rock quarry, and all of the trees were an invasive species that meant the original pines had been taken down. But it was just a beautiful place, and all the neighborhood kids hung out there for hours and hours. We could cut through there to get to school, and there was also a big covered basketball court. We could literally play basketball rain or shine, in this huge pavilion. The soccer fields were there so we could cut through those words for our games. There was a pool, too.
Hurricane Andrew came through when I was 14 and destroyed that forest, since those invasive trees couldn't handle the winds. The court and pool made it longer, but it's all gone now. Oddly enough, especially for Miami, it became a park and soccer fields, instead of more houses. My kids and my brothers' kids all still go there to play when they're visiting my parents, but that beautiful magical place from my elementary school years, where I could be wild and free in the middle of the city, is so gone.
The lost cause doctrine and related overall glorification of the u.s. civil war era confederacy. The fact that there are confederate statues in states that fought for the union is insane…
I wish I'd known how nice a place this is ages ago! After 10 years I was so institutionalised to the way reddit was, it was really hard to imagine using anything else and having anything like as nice a user experience. So many times over the last few days I've suddenly realised that for hours I've been browsing Kbin and not reddit. It's a nice feeling. Also, now I've replaced all my reddit bookmarks with Kbin ones which makes it feel a lot more permanent.
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