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@norman_cal5445 Everything is always part of the ecosystem! Invasive vs Native is just whoever was part of the ecosystem when we wrote it down

@benjiunderscore It’s pretty obvious what’s invasive and what’s not. Native species are part of the ecosystem and invasives aren’t. White oak feeds 400 native Lepidoptera and tree of heaven feeds none. There are a handful of niche cases in niche places like black locust in parts of New York State

No. All the science is very clear on this—you SHOULD kill invasive species. They degrade ecosystems, reduce biodiversity, and are bad for One Health. Eradication of established invasives may not be possible, but it’s worth trying. Natives can and will succeed if you help them.

@MnmzzzCS Orgs: "Hey, we would really appreciate if you could use this official logo on your website" dust2us: 🤬🤬🤬

I strongly dislike how Valve have effectively and explicitly named HLTV and Liquipedia as the effective arbitrators of what the "commonly known" name for teams are in Counter-Strike esports. It is another example of Valve abdicating responsibility for the content in their games and their Majors and forcing it on third parties with no help or guidance. It is not talked about openly but behind the scenes it is becoming increasingly common for organizations to approach sites and ask incessantly or even in some cases issue legal threats to try and get title sponsors or sponsor-friendly logos to be used on these sites as these organizations know that they will be financially rewarded for getting sponsors into one of the world's most popular titles; or in some cases be punished for failing to do so. As someone who values editorial independence and the ability for coverage sites to present information in the way they believe best suits their viewers, Valve really needs to put out more clear guidelines about what they want to see in their game and protect coverage sites that are at risk of coercion from organizations with a lot to gain from winning them over.

@IamthejuanG @TrueSlazac If we're actually minimizing harm, keeping the nuclear powers separate is probably most important

@benjiunderscore @TrueSlazac un ironically maybe the solution with less genocides is all the world united and Africa divided in 9 (there would still be genocides)

Your task is to divide the world into ten countries or less and anger as few people as possible

@IamthejuanG @TrueSlazac But what's the solution? You only have ten spots.

@benjiunderscore @TrueSlazac the civil war that would ensue in Africa would be like nothing humanity has ever seen

@DanieldelasHer5 @TrueSlazac You could make the case that North Africa should join the black MENA country, but Japan is definitely the hardest thing to place reliably. And for that reason I figured it was best left alone

@benjiunderscore @TrueSlazac Because the whole of Africa would happily accept being bunched together instead of including Japan alongside other very similar countries (comparatively speaking)

@DanieldelasHer5 @TrueSlazac The goal was to anger as few people as possible. I figured a Pan-Africa was less controversial than a combined East Asia

@benjiunderscore @TrueSlazac All of Africa together but Japan being independant is comical.

@IsItJustin1 @DeNickols @HiddenPowerPod I don't, but you can't say, "Omg but Unova has my favorite pokemon" and have most of the list inaccessible to 50% of players

@benjiunderscore @DeNickols @HiddenPowerPod Do you have an issue with Charizard, Ekans, Dragonite, Gengar and Mewtwo?

The most HATED thing about every Pokemon region:

@IsItJustin1 @DeNickols @HiddenPowerPod Can't use, okay, starter, trade evo, okay, version exclusive, version exclusive, okay, okay, okay, pseudo/can't use, legend legend legend.

@DeNickols @HiddenPowerPod Dang, really? Man I just super disagree. Unova has some of my favorite Pokemon ever. Zoroark, Darmanitan, Serperior, Gigalith, Scolipede, Gothitelle, Lilligant, Haxorus, Golurk, Bisharp, Hydreigon, Reshiram, Zekrom, Kyurem.

@aizyesque Everybody's fine with kicking the IGL until you need somebody to do the IGL things

mouz just have no huevos man no ability to right the ship one could generously compare them to pre-gla1ve astralis but gla1ves don't grow on trees

@PranavSriraman I don't think that's fair to the Heat. They've proven that they can go the distance from any seed in any given year. (Plus it's not like they're trying to win games, Spo is just too good of a coach to lose them)

Tanking is perfectly fine. I respect it more than teams like the Bulls and Heat assembling middling talent to push for the play-in every year. Tanking is in the best interest of prioritizing winning.

@M3OWMENTUM One more star will fix it, just one more star. Come one, just one more star player.

as much as i want parivision to win im afraid that it might kick off the beginning of the end, culminating in the calamity known as “falcons donk”

@alt_ccc The Priebus/Ryan wing built the monster that killed them. If only there were any famous stories about that they could have learned from

The mea culpa I’m gonna make regarding our current predicament: The American center-right made a grave mistake by not getting behind Hillary Clinton in 2016

@austinahlman If they're "kind, goodhearted people" then they already vote Democrat.

Reminder that this was a thread of three real people’s suffering and the people continuing to mock them knew that from the start.

@BillSimmons It's his job to take the blame for it. It's 30 other guys that have to make the call.

This is ridiculous. It’s literally his job to decide on stuff like this.

@saqdaddy @discoque90 And that's why those teams have rings since drafting those players

@discoque90 But if you want to win championships, you have to draft better than this. Gotta find that Terry in the 3rd, Aman in the 4th or Puca in the 5th. UDFAs can be good kick returners.

@ArmandDoma "Did you hear? Rahm Emanuel is-" "Who?" "Rahm Emanuel." "Who?" "He's mulling a presidential run" "Oh of course! That Rahm Emanuel. I have deeply held opinions of him and his policies!!"

I’m willing to wager real money Rahm has zero plans to actually run for President but knows that “mulling a run for President” gives reporters an excuse to cover him

@xFleXy_ Unlike racing games, people actually play fortnite

Bro Ferrari are like the hardest license to get a hold of that even most racing games struggle so how the fuck did Fortnite manage it 🤣

@agraybee Ranking AOTC and TPM that low??? The Gen Z redshift against Pritzker is going to make Kamala's performance look like Bernie...

If he volunteered the title "Star Wars" instead of "A New Hope" then I will rent an apartment in Iowa so I can claim residency and caucus for him.