For me, !superbowl@lemmy.world is basically the only active community that I really love on Lemmy and the main reason why I keep coming back here. Other places can be fun too, but Superbowl is just different. There are so many funny owl pictures in them as well as so many informative posts (mainly the Owl-natomy Posts). Also, it is a very positive place. I highly recommend checking it out!

I'll see what I can do

I also have a conspiracy theory where he is a CIA agent and George Harrison is an MI6 agent and they conspire to make Dylan the 5th Beatle to improve relations between USA and UK in the cold war, but this failed because McCartney was afraid of Dylans songwriting capabilities. In the end Dylan and Harrison made the traveling Wilburys, which therefore is actually the Beatles how they should be. I can produce like 20 pages worth of proof for my theory; I may make a post about it someday.

I have a theory:

There's this line that goes: "All along the watchtower, princes kept the view." Right?

Well let us look at the watchtower. There is only one piece remotely close to the watchtower on a7: the pawn on b6. So this must then be a prince. However, we know that this pawn can promote to a queen, but not to a king. This leads me to the conclusion that the pawn is in fact a princess, not a prince; the line would then go: "all along the watchtower, princess kept the view." This makes even more sense when we remind ourselves that there is only one pawn around, so "princes" is impossible in this position.

There can be a debate whether the princess is just a princess or is actually called "Princess", but this is something I will think about tomorrow.

Glad you liked it!

About the ecology, I can't point to anything particular that makes them thrive now. Something interesting that I left out of the post which I read in the article that wasn't available online, was that the owls eat different food in the Netherlands than in Germany. In Germany there are a lot of rodents, but in the Netherlands the rodents populations are smaller because of very intensive agriculture. Because of this, the Dutch owls eat more other species (they unfortunately did not specify what those species were).

One trend that is visible in nature in Western Europe is that smaller fauna are struggling, but larger species are doing really well. In the Netherlands we have seen reintroductions of not only the Eagle Owl, but also the white-tailed Eagle, the beaver, the otter and the wolf (and maybe the lynx too in the near future). On top of that we have seen big population increases of cranes, geese, deer and probably some more that I don't know about. This is mostly because of conservation efforts and hunting being banned.

And I didn't know that about the Kattenstoet, sounds very interesting!

I have no English sources for you, but with some translation app you can probably still check them out. One article that I used is not available online unfortunately.

The Owl Camera(they have other owls and other birds too, as well as some interesting articles. The site is only in Dutch unfortunately).

[Article by NOS](Oehoe bezig aan opmars: 'Mogelijk al boven de honderd' - https://nos.nl/l/2519607), the public broadcasting service. From this article is the ringing video that I talked about in the post.

This German Site which has some numbers about the Eurasian Eagle Owl in Germany. They also have This article that talks about how the Eurasian Eagle Owl was perceived in the past in Germany. It is really interesting, so definitely check it out! They have some more articles that are very interesting too.

Also some random linguistic facts: The Eurasian Eagle Owl is called Oehoe in Dutch and Uhu in German; both pronounced as "oo-hoo". This is the only Dutch owl name that doesn't end in owl; it is also an onomatopeia.

In this NYT article they say that 55 percent of NYC households have no car, and this site claims a modal share of 30% for cars. So most NYC residents already use sustainable transportation, but not all of them.

It was probably Hans Niemann then

Voor kamers zoeken raad ik je aan een account te maken voor Room.nl als je dat nog niet hebt gedaan. Kost eenmalig iets van 30 euro en ze bieden in vrij veel steden kamers aan. Je hebt een grotere kans om een kamer te krijgen als je een ouder account hebt, dus het is handig om dat zsm te doen.

I think so. Some other songs like "idiot wind" or "positively fourth street" have some savage lines too, but those are mixes of sadness and anger, while this one feels like pure hatred to me. His other political songs often don't really blame a single person, but the system, which feels less direct. Examples are "hurricane" and "only a pawn in their game".

I can't think of any other song where he sings something remotely as savage as "I hope that you die".

Ik ben het volledig eens met je sentiment.

Wel even een detail: volgens het knmi (statistieken uit 2022) is de opwarming in Nederland al 2.3 graden. Je hebt dus de gemiddelde opwarming van de aarde genomen in je comment en de gevolgen in Nederland van een hogere opwarming, waardoor die gevolgen ernstiger kunnen lijken.

Dat gezegd hebbende: we moeten inderdaad oppassen dat we niet achterover leunen, want de gevolgen van nog meer opwarming zijn lastig te voorspellen.

I should really start listening to audiobooks more often. I just looked and the book is freely available on Librivox, so I may switch back and forth between reading and listening from now on. Thanks for the tip!