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What’s up with comms towers? High-voltage AM antennas are not that abundant anymore. Are birds getting cooked close to high-power transmitters? Shot to avoid interference with crucial military infrastructure? Is 5G real?
Well the image claims to be based on data from 2015, so no 5G was not real at that time.
That was a joke, and so was the previous sentence (a reference to the birdsarentreal conspiracy. Seriously, how do comms towers harm birds?
Edit: collisions with tall AM towers’ guy wires
Worst birdkiller is Musk
Keeping your cats indoors won’t solve anything. Housecats aren’t destroying the bird population, feral cats are. If you want to help, volunteer with your local vet or animal control to capture, spay/neuter, then re-release stray cats.
Not true. Pet cats are about a third of the problem, according to a 2013 nature paper. Feral populations vary a lot by location - some places have almost no ferals but lots of pet cats.
“About a third of the problem” So, not the primary cause (or solution.)
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms2380
“We estimate that free-ranging domestic cats kill 1.3–4.0 billion birds and 6.3–22.3 billion mammals annually. Un-owned cats, as opposed to owned pets, cause the majority of this mortality.”
The article also states the following regarding more popular studies in the media involving pet cats: “The magnitude of mortality they cause in mainland areas remains speculative, with large-scale estimates based on non-systematic analyses and little consideration of scientific data”
Read the whole paper though. It has percentages. Just sayin
That study’s been going around for years in the media, but mainly because it’s sensational. If you actually read the article, I’d hardly say it’s very convincing, or very accurate. Also, this.
Existing estimates of mortality from cat predation are speculative and not based on scientific data13,14,15,16 or, at best, are based on extrapolation of results from a single study18. In addition, no large-scale mortality estimates exist for mammals, which form a substantial component of cat diets.
I read it, it’s from 2013
Indoor cats are not a problem because they are indoors. Outdoor cats thar come inside sometimes are a problem indeed but most of them were not adopted they just apeared out of nowhere and you now think it’s your cat. So it was feral at some point or at least was born from one.
It will solve for your cat staying not dead, not shitting in other people’s yards, and not fucking other cats.
Maybe, depending on where you live. But that’s not what we’re discussing.
I misread it as “Widows” and got a bit concerned for a second.
Probably plenty of bird widows in the world
The dream.
I’m still not calling it GNU
I pointed this out to people who complain constantly about wind turbines. “Ban windows!” They love that.
So pollution doesn’t kill birds at all? Ok…
Why should it? It doesn’t kill humans, or at least we really don’t attribute very many deaths directly to pollution (even though we know it leads to all sorts of cancers and respiratory issues).
After all, if pollution could kill people, why would anybody modify their truck to “roll coal”? That’d practically manslaughter on a very long time scale.
Why would we be using fossil fuels at all, for cars or for power or for lawnmowers or anything, really. The sale and distribution of fossil fuels would be on the scale of committing genocide.
I see no lies
Cat is a standard util you bastard!
it’s bloatware
Just use bat!
Why is the bar for Windows as long as the bar for cats?
Because it’s by area, not length.
It never even occurred to me to consider the height of the boxes lol
The area isnt the same though.
As are the numbers
Cats shouldn’t have access to windows.
But seriously, your cats are fucking the ecosystem up
Is the plural for CAT cable really Cats and not CAT cables?
Guess it is like mouses for more than one computer mouse.
TIL.
Linux isn’t even on the list but neither is mac. Makes you think
because killing birds isn’t a task of the kernel, it’s the task of a userspace utility part of the coreutils
The one for appending files to the standard output, or the one for murdering unresponsive children?
/usr/bin/stone
Mac is also Unix based. Doesn’t kill many birds.
UNIX-like superiority
Don’t need windows if you live in a basement (and use Linux).
