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Principals in El Salvador have started greeting students at school gates to inspect haircuts and uniforms

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Yet over the past 66 million years, mammals across the globe have repeatedly gone down this path—not once or twice, but at least a dozen times. From anteaters and aardvarks to pangolins and aardwolves, the so-called myrmecophages (animals that feed on ants and termites) have evolved similar traits: they’ve lost most or all of their teeth, grown long sticky tongues, and learned to consume insects by the tens to hundreds of thousands each day.

A new study reveals that this extreme dietary specialization, once thought rare and mysterious, has emerged independently in mammals at least 12 times in the last 66 million years (i.e., since the Cenozoic era began). This is a striking example of convergent evolution and shows just how powerful ants and termites have been in shaping mammalian history.

“The number of distinct origins for myrmecophagy was certainly surprising, as was the discovery that their origins seem to quite neatly follow the trend of growth across ant and termite colony sizes throughout the Cenozoic,” Thomas Vida, first author of the study and a researcher at the University of Bonn, told Ars Technica.

Military will “eliminate the ability of these cartels to threaten” America, spokesman says

I’ve been dealing with depression (and anxiety) for well over 5 years now. I’ve tried so many different medications and treatments with no apparent success. Inevitably, in the course of the treatment, the doctor will ask if I’m starting to feel better to see if it’s worth continuing the treatment, up the dose, or swap to something else. And… I never know what to say. If it’s not going to get dramatically better all of a sudden, I don’t really know how to recognize any incremental progress if it’s happening at all and without being able to do that, I might be passing on treatments that could have helped if I gave it more time.

So if you’ve been in this situation, how did you recognize progress? To the extent that you can put it into words, what did it feel like to slowly get better as you were treated?

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Kenya is facing global criticism after tourists were caught obstructing the Great Migration in the Maasai Mara, forcing panicked wildebeests back into the Mara River—where crocodiles were lying in wait.

The recent incident, which unfolded near Purungat Bridge, has triggered a wave of public and conservationist anger, with calls for urgent regulatory changes to protect one of the world's most iconic wildlife spectacles.

Footage circulating widely on social media shows tourists stepping out of safari vehicles and clustering along the riverbanks, leaving the animals barely a metre to pass.

The Supreme Court declined to block the law earlier this month.

After a two-day, very heated debate in the Dutch Parliament, Caspar Veldkamp – the acting foreign minister – decided to resign.

He was increasingly getting frustrated by the fact that he wanted to push for more sanctions against Israel … but the other ministers, his colleagues, were against it. He also came under increasing pressure from lawmakers, especially from the opposition in Parliament, who have been really requesting stricter sanctions against Israel.

A Colorado judge has rejected a plea agreement for a funeral home owner who acknowledged abusing 191 corpses.

Unprecedented deal comes after president demanded CEO Lip-Bu Tan to resign over his ties to Chinese firms

Report says Doha gave firm owned by PM associate Einhorn $45,000 per month for 2 years, of which $18,000 went to Netanyahu spokesman Urich; separately, adviser Feldstein got $11,000

Qatar paid senior Israeli officials, including several top advisers to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a total of some $10 million in recent years to boost the image of the Gulf nation, the Kan public broadcaster reported Sunday evening.

Citing estimates by law enforcement officials involved in the Qatargate probe, the report says that Perception Media — owned by Yisrael Einhorn, a former campaign adviser to Netanyahu — was paid $45,000 per month over two years, from 2022 until the project was scrapped in late 2024.

Some $18,000 per month out of the payment to Perception went to Netanyahu aide Jonatan Urich, the report says.

Separately from the payments to Perception, $11,000 per month went to another Netanyahu aide, Eli Feldstein.

The rest was paid to then-senior defense officials, former Mossad officials and employees of a tech firm, according to Kan.

"Antiyanks" is back at it again and has switched tactics to spamming a massive number of comments in a short period of time. In addition to being annoying (and sad and pathetic), it's having a deleterious effect on performance and drowns out any discussions happening in those posts. That spam also federates as well as the eventual removals, so it's not limited to just the posts being targeted.

Looking at the site config for the home instance of the latest ~~two~~ three alts, the rate limits were all 99999999. 🤦‍♂️

Rate limits are a bit confusing, but they mean: X number of requests per Y seconds per IP address.

The comment API endpoint has its own, dedicated bucket. I don't recall the defaults, but they're probably higher than you need unless you're catering to VPN users who would share an IP.

Assuming your server config is correctly passing the client IP via the XFF header, 20 calls to the /create_comment endpoint per minute (60 seconds) per client IP should be sufficient for most cases, though feel free to adjust to your specific requirements.

Edit: A couple of instances accidentally set the "Messages" bucket too low. That bucket is a bit of a catch-all for API endpoints that don't fit a more specific bucket. You'll want to leave that one relatively high compared to the rest. It's named "Messages" but it covers far more than just DMs.

Public health officials are recommending that all children at a Brantford, Ont., daycare get vaccinated for rabies after a child found a dead bat and handed it to a worker last week.

Grand Erie Public Health (GEPH) is hosting a series of clinics where children can receive rabies post-exposure prophylaxis. The treatment includes one dose of rabies immune globulin, plus four doses of rabies vaccine given over a two-week period, according to a memo to parents and guardians that was viewed by CBC Hamilton.

The treatment is being offered "out of an abundance of caution, given the presence of other bats associated with" Creative Minds Daycare, Dr. Jason Malenfant, acting medical officer of health, said in an email. "While the daycare has assured us that children were always under supervision, and therefore the risk of any other direct contact with a bat remains low, young children may not be able to reliably report whether they had possible contact."

Last week, the daycare, which is in the city's southwest, closed Aug. 11 after a bat tested positive for rabies.

GEPH investigated and reported two people had come into direct contact with the bat. It recommended they get treatment and gave Creative Minds the go-ahead to reopen Monday once a wildlife management company had taken steps to prevent bats from entering the building.

The daycare said one live bat was captured and released inside the daycare a day after the dead bat was found. Owner Vicky McNabb said no one came into direct contact with it. Creative Minds also said workers found bats outside in June but there was no contact then either.