I laugh my ass off reading this and thinking of all the old, privileged, annoying, self-important hunter clubs who boast endlessly about their vital ecological mission and benefits of eating game. Stuff your fat faces with cessium and I’ll just stand here and hope for as painful a consequence as possible.
I am from a country in Europe where “hunters” are the slapstick version of rich, douchey deep state. Tons of politicians, religious figures, business people are hunting for hobby and I wouldn’t bat an eye if they did it in compliance to law, common sense and rules of wildlife management. But they do not and are famous for:
blatant poaching
corrupting local forest management to allow for excessive shootings
the corruption at one point has reached the country parliament and a country-wide green light was given to cull boars because several sick ones were found in one region.
running events which have nothing to do with traditional hunting, nothing to do with wildlife management, but are instead shooting rows with random animals ran across a yard and being shot. Then their children (often as young as 7-8 yo) get to pose for instagram pics with fresh, bloody carcasses.
shooting people (both themselves and innocent mushroom pickers) and then getting acquitted after saying “I thought that was a boar” (the phrase is a meme now, but it still works in courts from time to time)
handling firearms in a way that would get any other person in jail (including neglecting psych checks, wrong storage, littering forests with lead ammo)
Frustrating title. It's not the wild boars of Europe, but of (per the article) Germany and Austria. And they actually talk mostly/only about Germany and Bavaria.
Eastern regions of Bavaria. Same goes for mushrooms. Boars shot in that region get tested for contamination. Everywhere else wild game is the best meat.
Yeah, and since you don’t see real ones that often the fakes are kind of convincing if you’re not paying attention.
Found one in a river once while tubing. Was excited for about an hour until we got out at the dock, I pulled the bill back out and gave it a closer look, and realized it was a movie bill.
Over here in Norway I can’t recall the last time I handled cash, it must have been at least 10 years, now, if not 15. I get a bit nostalgic when visiting e.g. the US and pay for things with cash. It’s nice.
Meanwhile I was thinking that it’s obvious that I handle a lot of other people’s money, as I knew exactly which was which, because I could instantly spot the differences on the prop bill.
So how do we correct this? I ask because we have a strong push for nuclear as a cleaner energy source, but we know energy providers have a spotty history with safety. If we’re going to take this route then we should have some reliable plans in place to decontaminate when the need arises.
Well, as the article points out, one of the biggest causes of the radioactivity is from nuclear weapons testing 60-80 years ago. We already stopped that so that bit is taken care of. It will just take a lot more time for the radioactivity to decay down.
The article is really poor though. The title says it’s because of Chernobyl, but the study actually found that it was weapons testing more than Chernobyl.
Do they not have editors anymore, or are they just worked to death? I swear I see minor but annoying errors like this in a huge portion of online news media now.
Nitpicking aside, I wonder if similar studies have been done on feral boar in the southwest US, where there has also been historical nuclear weapons testing?
So relieved to see someone else mention this, was starting to question whether I’m just being neurotic when little errors like this have me concerned about whether the underlying content is being thoroughly reviewed
A lot of European money has the face of the current living monarch on the bank notes, which also seems insane if you think about it; for the rest of their life that person gets to trade drawings of themself for things.
“If we had your levels of productivity in my day I’d have dived headfirst into a pool of prostitutes and not come out for a decade for anything but more booze and cigars, you pussies.”
It doesn’t look that well covered, no? I think I already saw geologists with some sort of reflecting gear to shield themselves from radiation. This must make things even more unbearable.
I’d like to see screen shoots of well known movies with close ups of the money they used. Pictures like these are cool but it never looks like that in a movie.
It’s like it’s magic.
Of course, that was for a close-up of the bill itself which was actually relevant to the plot.
Iirc, there’s nothing stopping a production from simply using real bills, aside from the cost. It’s really only when you see them in bulk that props are necessary. Plenty of shots where someone is counting their money will also use real bills just for simplicity’s sake, but that cash is tightly controlled by the props department and they’ll switch it out for fake bills for general use.
A quick google search “purchase motion picture money” says yes. The first website propvin{dot}com says… “A duffel bag full of double-sided printed bill cash costs about $1000… using blank stackfillers, with only just one printed bill on top of a stack will cost only about $300…”.
You’re thinking of older US paper currency, which was shades of green for a lot of its history. Over the years they’ve modified it to include other colors and introduced numerous security features, all in an effort to make it very difficult to counterfeit.
Here are a couple of examples of how bills looked when I was young:
Mate, your money does still seem monochromatic to modern eyes. I use it when I visit, and the other notes don’t have that rainbow on them. I admit I am rarely exchanging more than fifty US at a time . I’m comparing those that I use to modern notes.
And security features? The shops there still accept cheques. I was surprised the economy still functioned when I found that out.
Oh I’ve seen colorful foreign currency from around the world and how dull US currency looks in comparison. It would be nice if different denominations used different colors but honestly I rarely use cash these days so it really isn’t important to me.
A lot of places still accept checks here but more and more don’t anymore. However it’s not a problem in most cases though because fewer and fewer people use checks. A lot of young people don’t know how to write a check because it’s basically an unnecessary task anymore.
Oh yeah it’s freakishly rare to see in retail and restaurants. Some older people still write checks to pay their bills these days. My mom does that, but she always uses plastic when she’s at stores, restaurants , etc.
Getting work done for the house checks are still the “best” option. Around here they charge a 3% fee for plastic which when you’re talking about thousands of dollars of work it’s no question I’m dusting off the checkbook lmao.
Both the uniform coloring and the size of US currency has long been a challenge for the vision-impaired here. Most other civilized countries have implemented different sizes for their bills and/or tactile features like “windows” that make it easier to identify a bill by touch.
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