AdmiralShat

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

While they physically kill the most birds by volume, the biggest decrease to bird populations is the ecological destruction of the environment. The pesticides we use actually make their egg shells non viable, but for some reason none of the studies count this figure in the "birds killed" category. It would double cats.

On top of that, we have deforestation wrecking their mating areas. People like to measure forestation in ground covered squared, while ignoring that the vast majority of migratory species only mate in specific areas.

Circling back to pesticides, the food supply has been wrecked. The food that is left avaliable is often filled with chemicals still that cause diseases, make their already fragile bones even weaker, cause feather malformation, blindness, organ failure, and cause outright sterilization.

But for some reason that's not listed in the "birds killed" figure.

Cats might kill a bunch of birds, but with a figure that's as broad as 1 to 4 billion, you need to question the validity of the argument and wonder why they leave so many other factors out of these figures.

It's the same kind of thing where they shame us for individual level consumption of pollutants and plastics, while corporations greatly outweigh consumers pollution. Both are a problem, yes cats do kill a shit load of birds, but this reddit level factoid keeps getting spread around and the reap threats aren't being educated on. You can't really say they're the "number one thing killing birds" unless you're using the figures that outright ignore other important information

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

I actually managed to get mine done early this year, April 13th at 4 am.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

I was just saying the other day to one of my friends that I have never had a USB-C port fail on me in anyway.

Two sides of a coin I guess.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Don't forget that the south was trying to force the north ro send back escaped slaves, depite the north using their states rights to say no. The south would also send Bounty hunters to go kidnap free born black people to sell into slavery. So yeah, states rights was an issue. The right to identify people as human.

But let's not also forget that the confederate constitution had a passage that says that there will not be any laws capable of being passed that infringe on the right to own black people

Article I Section 9(4) No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed

[–] [email protected] 50 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I said that because in some of his comments he told people to go back to reddit, so I'm trying to poke at him

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Someone's past their nap time

Go back to reddit

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Are you fuck

Are

You

Fucking

Stupid

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (10 children)

Realistically, though, that's no different from blaming climate change on plastic straws.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago

Beacon of free speech? That's not only a huge stretch, I'm gonnq say thats bullshit altogether, go look at the modlog and you might change your mind. They delete and ban people for having different opinions, even when they have sources and evidence.

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