VeteranNoob

@loc12321 @aaron_lubeck There's no correlation between townhomes and homicide rate. You're much more likely to get murdered in the car sprawl of Dallas than the townhome neighborhoods of Brooklyn.

@aaron_lubeck Huh I wonder why

I'll take "Things You Cannot Build Legally in North Carolina for $600," Alex.

@BigBodyBenny72 @MoldyMcChicken @S1apSh0es NYC has some of the lowest rates of violent crime in the country. You're much more likely to get stabbed in the car-dependent sprawl of Dallas than in New York.

@MoldyMcChicken @S1apSh0es Still better than being stabbed. At least I have a seatbelt in my car and can avoid the problem by driving away. Unlike being trapped in a metal tube

It’s sad that America made one mega city with good transit and said, “yeah I’m good. Never again. The rest of you get hellish metro sprawl and 14 lane highways.”

@BigBodyBenny72 @S1apSh0es That's *your* personal taste, but the fact New York has such high housing costs despite being so populous proves that demand to live there is extremely high. Demand for dense mega-city living is much higher than available supply in the US.

@S1apSh0es Ah yes, public transit. I'd mutch rather step in puke and get stabbed by the local crazy person than ride in my own car.

@JonasKilker >"entirely Italian" Actually like most nobles he was partially mixed. He was mostly Italian, but actually did have some French ancestry.

More on Corsica since I didn’t mention much about it in the last video. Don’t hate me for not knowing this previously my historical knowledge is better Pre-Renaissance. (If I have any knowledge at all! Right?)

@usa835196337 @ProfRobAnderson That's how mountain lions were driven to extinction in half the US.

@ProfRobAnderson We should be hunting predators in human populated areas… not building them hundred million dollar bridges. California has lost all semblance of sanity

The reality is even more ridiculous than the headline. The whole reason for this bridge is so that a handful of isolated and extremely inbred mountain lions in the Malibu area can breed with normal mountain lions on the other side of the freeway to diversify their genetics. One of these inbred mountain lions killed my dog in my backyard on a college campus in 2022. The National Park Service had a tracking collar on the animal and knew where it was at all times. They didn’t give any warning to the college or anyone else. After this happened, they only admitted it was their animal after a reporter questioned them. The animal was so inbred that its father was also its grandfather, and then it mated with its father/grandfather. Mountain lions are not endangered in California in the slightest. There are actually too many of them in this area, causing them to kill each other over territory. The NPS catches all these animals every few years to replace the batteries in their tracking collars. They could literally just drive them to the other side of the freeway in a pickup. The mountain lion that killed my dog was hit by a car and killed a few months later. What a waste.

@bungusbongus1 @apodictish @ProfRobAnderson What's immature is leaving your dog outside in mountain lion country then blaming the wild animal when the inevitable happens. Robert Anderson killed his dog through negligence.

@apodictish @ProfRobAnderson You are immature

@hyperionoflight @ProfRobAnderson @douglassmackey Mountain lions aren't dangerous to humans, only 30 people have ever been killed by mountain lions in all of US history. If you keep outdoor pets in mountain lion country, then it's as much your fault when the obvious happens as if you left them to freeze to death in the winter.

@ProfRobAnderson @douglassmackey What is it with modern leftist women and their love for extremely dangerous animals they don’t understand? 🤔

@Smith4Gm @mckt_ @AlexBolewski @ProfRobAnderson Robert Anderson was as much a victim here as someone who's dog died of hypothermia after leaving it outside at night.

@VeteranNoob1 @mckt_ @AlexBolewski @ProfRobAnderson More victim blaming from the Left.

@brainspoon @Cip3of4 @ProfRobAnderson "Please remove the nature from my hiking trail"

@Cip3of4 @ProfRobAnderson Oh yeah - we go walking on the Cheseboro Trail sometimes. You’re right!

@Cip3of4 @brainspoon @ProfRobAnderson Mountain lions are already present on both sides of the bridge & been since before the people moved in. Livestock losses to predators are a risk ranchers have to accept when operating in their native range, not throw a tantrum over & demand the native top predator be exterminated

Yes- from Agoura. Lions or coyotes normally getting to young livestock or less frequently pets. This bridge will make it easier for these animals to get over to the “old Agoura” side which is semi rural, surrounded by protected open space, and full of ranching + equestrian facilities. Disaster waiting to happen unfortunately

@zimm3rmann @Yang_WenIi @AlexBolewski @ProfRobAnderson When your backyard was built in mountain lion habitat, it's your fault for keeping your pet outdoors, not the mountain lion's. Robert Anderson killed his own dog through negligence, as much at fault as someone who's dog dies of hypothermia when left out on a cold night.

@Yang_WenIi @AlexBolewski @ProfRobAnderson I do too. But I wouldn’t want to spend millions of dollars to ensure they get in to my backyard

@zimm3rmann @AlexBolewski @ProfRobAnderson That's not what it does though. The bridge is to connect two preexisting mountain lion populations on either side of the freeway. There are already mountain lion populations on both sides, the bridge is just to allow the two populations on both sides to interbreed.

@AlexBolewski @ProfRobAnderson You don’t have to build bridges for mountain lions to enter dense residential areas where they will then be hit by cars or kill people’s pets. As @ProfRobAnderson pointed out, they know where the animals are, capture them regularly and could move them around as needed.

@ChuckDeVore @ProfRobAnderson You think a top predator species needs to be managed through hunting? Have you ever even heard of ecology?

Ah yes, the California Mountain Lion - protected from wildlife management efforts (hunting) by the sole California ballot initiative to make it to the ballot and pass without the help of professional petition gatherers or ads to boost it. Californians with little connection to nature voted to make things more difficult - for nature.

@mckt_ @AlexBolewski @ProfRobAnderson What's more idiotic is keeping an outdoor pet in mountain lion country then blaming the mountain lions when the obvious happens.

@AlexBolewski @ProfRobAnderson Basing wildlife policy off your imagined utopia is idiotic.

@mighty_tired @ProfRobAnderson You don't know anything about this subject. The LA area has a bunch of small isolated mountain lion populations that are separated from each other by freeways. If these wildlife bridges weren't necessary then these populations wouldn't be so inbred.

@ProfRobAnderson The territorial span of mountain lions is huge. They are hardly an endangered species. In my CA area, they were dying out a bit until the deer population grew again. It didn't require a multi million dollar bridge. By all accounts, this bridge is yes another grift.

@ProfRobAnderson The mountain lions were there first. If there were "too many" of them then there wouldn't be that many to begin with. They're a top predator, their population is naturally capped by prey supply. By "too many" you just mean you want them exterminated from their native range.

@JoshMBingham @ProfRobAnderson If you move into a neighborhood that was built in mountain lion habitat, then don't act surprised if your outdoor pet gets killed by a mountain lion. It's risk that comes with the territory, stop trying to put safety bumpers on the world.

@ProfRobAnderson Was that the P-22 mountain lion? The lady in charge of this wears that “I miss P-22” shirt. I guess she enjoys mountain lions that terrorize neighborhoods and kill pets.

@2nd_Harvest @ProfRobAnderson Oh my god you're stupid. Mountain lions live in literally every biome including desert. They don't even need to drink water, they can get all their water from meat. Transplanted predators often die b/c they need to establish a territory, has nothing to do with the desert.

@ProfRobAnderson California Wildlife Rangers moved two mountain lions to the desert a few years ago. The lions trekked hundreds of miles then died. It never occurred to the professionals they belong in the mountains.

@DunleavMichael @AmanLoodu Exactly what fire infrastructure are they missing?

@AmanLoodu The towers are ugly, have no parking, school/fire/police infrastructure is insufficient to an extreme, no transit infrastructure to support that population. I have nothing idea what Kennedy Stewart was so excited about.

they were forced off of prime beachfront which they relied on for fishing, and that area is now full of single family homes worth millions. They got a small parcel of land back next to a bridge and the current residents in those homes are FURIOUS that they built towers