Still, technically it's right. Since USA are not at war with Russia, this is literally piracy.
ThirdConsul
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All the science says don’t let your cat out.
Not really, no.
Cat wellbeing doesn't say that. Cat depression rates in high enriched indoor environments neither. Keeping the cat indoors is like keeping the people forced to stay in home during Covid - it has negative wellbeing consequences.
Pointing at one specific stat and ripping it apart and claiming victory is exactly how we allowed climate change to just slip away for over 60 years now.
What the heck are you talking about? What stat? There are studies that show that the cats kill mostly rodents (Lowes et al.), and that average bird prey is old or sick. The biggest problem with bird population dropping is not invasive cat species, but invasive human species.
Bird loss is a function of habitat shrinking, climat change, pesticides and pollution. Any fix must focus on that instead of a cheap scapegoat. Do you know how I can tell that? Because the birds are dropping world wide (over 66% of bird species are in decline), outside of outdoor cat heavy areas you seem to want to focus on.
Plastic straws didn't cause the climate change.
Midjourney is profitable.
Investing in OpenAi makes Altman money, not Chat Gpt. They spend last year trying to decrease the cost of a query after all.
If you have money to spend you might want to go to a small claims court (consult the lawyer first). It would be extra funny if you've managed to get a lien over OpenAi infrastructure lol or just get int and start taking their laptops and such.
While it's true that situation in China is bad (especially to internal cross district migrants and youth), I want to share this little gem:
Poorest 50% of Chinese has more wealth* than poorest 50% of USians.
(Of course in purchase power parity, so it measures the shit they can buy locally. But basically it means if an USian can buy 100 hamburgers, a Chinese can buy 130)
I'm from EU. I've noticed that the maturing and openness is related to not being under the influence of USA culture (social media, tv, movies, etc). As in - the open, expressive, thinking guys in my bubble happen to be not watching TV, social medias, youtube and such.
I don't have a cat. Nor a dog. I do have a book on bird watching and binoculars though.
Yes, but the TV cost inflation adjusted lowered dramatically since then.
If a TV were to cost 1000$ in the 1960 today it would cost 8$.
Source: https://www.in2013dollars.com/Televisions/price-inflation/1960-to-2025?amount=1000
Oh god, another time I see that cat killing birds statistics.
- Cats prefer to kill rodents and are more equipped to it. And the same study Loss et al estimates cat killing rodents to be 4 times more than birds.
- Rodents (e.g. rats) eats bird eggs. Same researcher fails to calculate how much...
- All studies (well, 1 study in Australia) that compared bird population with cats in rodent areas confirm that removal of cats hastened decrease of bird population 2 times.
- Loss at all is a metastudy. Some of the data sources on cat predation and other collisions are 70-100 years old. Some are more recent, but overall data quality on bird death is local, from small sample, and estimated. My favourite was a study on 10 cats in 3 villages estimated over a whole damn country.
- The graph seems to be missing all other non-collision sources of bird population death, e.g. rodents eating birds, pesticide related deaths, electrocutions form powerlines, etc. etc.
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Except it was France in 1791.