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

I have a solid black cat that you can just do anything with. If he’s laying there you can lay with him and he’s happy or you can pick him up and carry him ti a whole other room and put him somewhere and as long as you give him a few pets he’ll be happy.

I’ve tried voice assistants, won’t be viable until there’s at least half a million autistic linux users who iron out all the kinks for a self hosted service.

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

I had so many issues with documentation in Unity just not being up to date at all, and me trying to find answers on the Unity sub reddits were met with “are you too fucking stupid to google” and then link me to the documentation I just said didn’t work. Godot’s documentation is just in the engine and I don’t have to search for it, and it’s almost always either up to date or close enough that a quick Google solves the issue.

I’ve found that Godot’s community was much more forgiving and much more receptive. It did take a bit of a hit when the Unity users came over and started acting like snobs and entitled that Godot NEEDS to make changes because Unity does something a certain way.

Even on slow internet, you can download and make.a new project in godot in the time it takes to open a project in Unity.

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

What about the loss of habitat, anyone who knows even a little bit about birds, at least in the western hemisphere, know that thousands of species only mate in certain areas in certain times of years. The loss of habitats for mating, the loss of food sources in the remaining habitats from pesticides, and the fact that many pesticides and other pollutants LITERALLY DEGRADE BIRD SHELLS AND KILL THEM BEFORE THEY HATCH

House cats shouldn’t be putting a fucking dent in bird populations and it’s both absurd to think they’re the real threat and disingenuous to the causes of ill that plague our ecology

I’m not shitting on you, OP, but in definitely shitting on the person who made this infographic and I’m shitting on the people who continue to push the myth that cats are the leading cause of loss in bird populations. They may kill many birds, but they’re not the reason we’re losing them. Not at all by far.

“God created Eve from ’aḥat miṣṣal‘otaiv (אַחַת מִצַּלְעֹתָיו‎), traditionally translated as “one of his ribs”. The term can mean curve, limp, adversity and side.”, per Wikipedia

Different sources somehow use different words, so I’m curious what the actual words were.

Not an actual argument from your point, as it can still be translated as side, but the video and all other instances I can find differ on the actual words used.

But this is why language context matters, a word being able to be used in multiple ways muddies the waters of intention when viewed from a perspective of 2500 years later.

I like that th sandbox mode easily let’s you change it. I respect the devs for having a vision but letting players play the game their own way.

This has nothing to do with population size, this is two broods emerging simultaneously, something that happens every couple hundred years. It’s in thr article

Can we trust that posts made to reddit to purposefully influence reddit stock are legitimate posts and not manufactured by the admins in some way?

I really feel like this is all super pointless because we have materials that aren’t plastic that we used before plastics and they’re more expensive, which is why companies don’t use them.

Unless this is going to replace car tires or be cheaper than our current plastics, I do not see this as anything viable

I know for a fact some mods remove and ban for it, but I’ve been on reddit a long time and I remember seeing mods ban people over linking similar subs.

Some of them are great, I’ve gotten a lot of help from Rimworld and Dwarf Fortress subs and the DRG sub is nice.

But yeah the majority of the subs get absolutely toxic

I tried it a few years ago and I kept doing front flips for some reason, asked someone on reddit, got called stupid for not knowing and some variations of get gud, so I deleted it

Why with the unrelenting front flips?

I use Boost and can just filter out any posts and comments from any specific instance. Really nice actually

My head just tried to explode

“I have the IP address of the man who ruined my life forever on my hands”

There was only one dev for the original project, but he went by two names. (If someone else had taken up the work I don’t know, I got a steam deck and do all my emulation on that)

Stenzek was his original username, he changed it to Tahlreth to get away from his reputation. He had previously abandoned another project due to harassment that turned out to be over blown. He claimed people were stealing his code and could never prove it and claimed harassment and abandoned his project. Was also a dick to people and was banned from forums for his tone.

Pretty much as soon as I joined this discord he was a dick and claiming harassment, and at the time I didn’t even know it was the same person. I found out later, not too long before he quit this one.

And after he quit Aether he sabotaged the last build he uploaded by making it run worse and putting ads in it.

“If everywhere you go smells like shit, check your shoe”, honestly. Rude, crying all the time, claiming harassment, claiming theft of code, making up and then deleting death threats, etc. Several years of history of just horrible behavior

Aptitude tests aren’t measures of education.