nerb

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by nerb 2y ago
i think you forget 2 things: 1. deaths directly by car are not the only deaths to account for. look at the history of lead poisoning from gasoline and the ramifications we're still reckoning with today from that. think of the rubber, h
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by nerb 2y ago
personally lose someone, no, but i've gotten the chance of being a citizen first responder to a lost of life one. i feel like your's and OP's response are because you've never seen or been impacted first hand what dying
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by nerb 2y ago
dude... where do the imports of petroleum and fixed nitrogen which are critical for Ag come from? hint: look at the US ports and see what surrounds them. farming and suburbia are subsidized out the wazoo. and a lot of Ag doesn't go to
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by nerb 2y ago
> a few tens of thousands of deaths in car crashes a year, is vastly outweighed by the time saved by everyone else compared to even an excellent public transit system. what in the absolute f** are you talking about? have you ever experie
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by nerb 2y ago
You reference the laws of thermodynamics, but I'm not sure which laws you're applying to the human body? Is it the first which requires the measured system to be closed which a human body is not? Is it the second about entropy al
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by nerb 3y ago
> don't involve spending an appreciable fraction of your day shopping. if you're concerned about how your time is spent, i think you're missing a fundamental piece of the puzzle: how much time you spend driving. you could
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by nerb 3y ago
This reeks of being an outside observer. WA has no income tax, but has a sales taxes which homeless people are subjected to. The only taxes are from property which renters also don't pay. When people complain about the rent seekers it&
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by nerb 3y ago
hey, if y'all get outdoor cats for "pest" reasons, i'll take care of the outdoor cats i see as pests :)
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by nerb 3y ago
not only that, but which geneticist that was quoted in the nat geo article? lol
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by nerb 3y ago
i'm sorry, which evolutionary geneticists? the 1 sentence in a nat geo article about the genomes being similar, or... https://www.science.org/content/article/genes-turned-wildcat... http://www.jabg
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by nerb 3y ago
> cats in small city apartments are especially cruel. nah, you're just an uncreative person. you can be involved in your pets stimulation. seeing that you think having a pet inside is just confining, i feel pretty correct assuming y
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by nerb 3y ago
fair. projection on my part. i interpret seeing people say indoor cats lives are miserable (and using that idea uncritically to affirm their own choices) are doing so from a holier-than-thou position. to me, it's an uncreative and lazy
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by nerb 3y ago
dude, it isn't a giant SUV divers that are advocating for indoor cats. they are the same people that hold onto the whimsy that "cats a natural and belong outdoors! :)"
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by nerb 3y ago
> domesticated themselves ... so they are domesticated and not native... ???
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by nerb 3y ago
you can walk your cat on a leash. you can play with it to give it stimulation. letting your cat roam outside isn't a replacement for your laziness.
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by nerb 3y ago
1. those collars don't work. birds didn't evolve alongside cat w/ flashy collars, so it doesn't always trigger flee instinct 2. if your cat wants to go outdoors, you can leash them like any dog-owner is required to do. t
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by nerb 3y ago
how are you going to be like "my anecdote is actually important" with an N of magnitude 100. long-term and wide-scale research and monitoring has tracked millions of birds and have used models to extrapolate to the billions. your
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by nerb 3y ago
wow, what a spiteful, judgemental message. people always beat their children to discipline, so should we keep that relic from the past even though we know better? a cat indoors is not miserable; rather you lack creativity to get it the stim
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by nerb 4y ago
does it go back any further than end of 2021?
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by nerb 4y ago
> all living people have a risk of loss of freedoms you realize that the justice system doesn't equally impact everyone, right? people with more wealth, more access are demonstrably treated better and have better outcomes with regar
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by nerb 4y ago
> These problem cases can cost communities hundreds of thousands so let's continue to spend more on incarcerating them as a bandage rather than fixing the issues :) > incidents of... pooping... i'm sure they just do this out
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by nerb 4y ago
that "[point] of the justice system" only works if you consider everyone in a vacuum and have the false notion everyone has equal access to resources. parent already outlined why people living on the street don't have the mea
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by nerb 4y ago
you could take up quilting yourself
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by nerb 4y ago
probably due to the horizontal distance it would have to traverse to get back to land (and uncontrollable factors that would limit that, e.g. wind magnitude and direction during launch). your sources don't give an overview of how far t
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by nerb 5y ago
cool, the typically slippery slope. wonder if there could be other reasons for latin american countries being destabilized... hmm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...
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by nerb 5y ago
b/c there could be no other reasons for this to be the case, and the only solution is to arrest, jail, or fine people potentially exacerbating their poverty? this sounds like pearl clutching and not wanting to think more about an issue
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by nerb 5y ago
what was the "ethnicity" of the people stolen from their land and brought to the US for free labor for hundreds of years? and then oppressed through new and improving ways of covert racism? love the idea of people in the US admoni