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  • Why 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.







  • AdmiralShat@programming.devtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldUnprovoked
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    3 months ago

    Hamas is a terrorist organization that kills Palestinians, too, they’re funded by Iran and China, and were not even elected, they literally just took control. Don’t give them the slightest bit of ground to stand on.

    You defending them only validates Isreal’s response against Palestinian in this conflict.

    They’re thugs, they don’t represent Palestinian, but by giving credence to their organization, you basically okay the attacks on Palestinian civilians.







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    3 months ago

    You’re all making jokes about how obvious this is, however I would argue that it’s still a very important thing to study and an important thing to say.

    So many people pull out the suicide statistics of trans people, and for anyone with a brain, would understand that the rates of suicide are so high is because of the ratio of people who hate them simply for existing. How many times can you be told to fucking kill yourself before you do, huh?

    This study validates that not telling kids to kill themselves, and and having loving parents is the “secret” to bringing down rates of depression and suicide.

    So for everyone with a brain this is pretty god damned obvious, it’s sad that it needs to be said, but it does still need to.



  • 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.