The Official Treehouse Articles Thread

[cory]

Yes, I was mostly kidding, I think this crowd would be honorable to each other

 

[cory]

Cool buffalo story

One of the First Buffalo...

One of the first buffalo that came to this ranch was a scrawny orphan with a crooked horn. He couldn’t have weighed over forty pounds and no one was betting that he would even survive, let alone thrive.

wildideabuffalo.com

 

[cory]

The Many Ways Scientists Are Turning Birds Into Feathered Field Assistants

From frigatebirds and gulls to curlews and cormorants, researchers are tapping the ”Internet of Animals” to map, understand, and protect our changing world.

www.audubon.org

 

[cory]

rather rad article, probably 8-10 minute read, worth it imo, lmk. Definitely some lols in it.

The Hadza are totally, well, wild.

The Hadza – Michael Finkel

“I’m hungry,” says Onwas, squatting by his fire, blinking placidly through the smoke. The men beside him murmur in assent. It’s late at night, deep in the East

www.michaelfinkel.com

 

[Nutball]

The Growth of Web Page Size - KeyCDN Support

Web page size is an important factor to measure as the bigger a page is, the longer it takes to download the required resources to display it.

www.keycdn.com

1st web page was 4KB. In 2012 average size was 800KB, now over 2300KB today. One news website is 3500KB & 7 seconds to load, but the ads push that up to 16,600KB and 33 seconds.

Are people retarded? I feel like at some point we are going backward. Just the ads and even built in popups get obnoxious.

Imagine cutting a tree for a customer, then stopping just after you got started to offer the customer some recommendations to grind extra stumps they don't even have, and to apply fertilizer around the trees you are cutting down, followed by some paid sponsors to hand the customer some roofing and window replacement pamphlets with the sales pitch whether they want it or not.

I'd like to see the owners of Lowes, Home Depot, ect try to use their websites on a regular basis, or the food packagers try to open the "easy open" packages they still haven't figured out how to get right after decades.

 

[cory]

Animal's wounds heal much faster than humans, fyi

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/science/wounds-healing-speed-humans.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Dk8.qPLR.EK0bhY3ksRnA&smid=url-share

 

[Nutball]

I shot a groundhog the other day, It instantly flipped on its back and laid there. I put the rifle up, came back, and it was gone. Just a penny size drop of blood where it had been laying. Animals are tough.

 

[cory]

Interesting housing article. Before you read, make a guess as to how many houses currently exist in the US.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/business/economy/housing-crisis-multifamily-adu.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ek8.jejI.JJhGKTDoqli6&smid=url-share

 

[Nutball]

I didn't find the answer in the article, I must be a bad reader.

 

[cory]

"This imbalance has turned policymakers and entrepreneurs like Mr. Anderson toward a large and underappreciated market: the 145 million or so homes that already exist."

 

[Nutball]

My first guess was 100mil, then 50mil, then 10mil. I wonder if they subtract the ones destroyed by natural disaster?

 

[cory]

Idk. But anyway the article raises some good points regarding boomers with big houses and empty rooms.

 

[Nutball]

At this point I think rentals, especially big business owned, should be severely limited in number, and maybe the rate should be limited too. Big biz over paying for regular houses just to turn them into overpriced rentals does not help affordability.

Apparently in Australia the government wants house prices to keep rising, and they seem to have similar problems to the US regarding many things like immigration, the covid laws, and such, as if this is some global plan.

 

[Kaveman]

Psst, it's called globalism...

 

[cory]

I'm listening...