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@HTGJava @froggytonic @theserfstv It's not exclusive, but is an extreme majority. Whenever it's non-native people, it's usually someone LGBTQ identifying, or someone the cop just personally doesn't like.

@froggytonic @theserfstv These weren't exclusively for indigenous people. I know a white guy who was taken for one of these

RCMP being kinder to wildlife than they are to Indigenous people is the most Canadian thing ever

@nucksjaysnraps @DrewCouver56 @Aaronpete_ Even when they survive the multiple catches, the females are often so stressed, that they stop spawning, and are known to have even absorbed their eggs. Catch and release in reality is basically no better than killing, especially for long lived species.

@DrewCouver56 @Aaronpete_ It's catch and release in BC... he can't take that sturgeon.

Went sturgeon fishing in beautiful BC.

@Ocie_Casts Do you hold this argument for sports? Like if someone absolutely dominated in hockey in the KHL, but then went to the NHL and was just average, are they just an okay player?

A lot of the arguments surrounding my post here rely on the idea that you can be considered 'good' simply for being in the upper percentage of players. But this alone has many implications. - Most players in Bronze->Diamond are CASUAL players and are not making efforts to improve - An influx of new players entering low ranks would cause (according to this logic) all Diamond/Masters players to automatically be considered "better" Overwatch players overnight, despite not actually improving at the game whatsoever - Entirely ignores relative effort At the end of the day, I think it makes people uncomfortable to know that being Diamond/Masters doesn't mean you are good, and that you've barely scratched the surface at that point. Only knowing a little of what Overwatch has to offer and being kinda bad is OK, I think that should not be seen as such a negative. But of course being told that is the case will always result in very emotional responses.

@illustrationrec @ericson4smith @anishmoonka Sorry you're right. I'm gonna just drop invasive species all over. Just leave em there. Fuck it. Who cares anymore. There should be 5 species of life on the planet, Himalayan blackberries and English ivy being two of them.

@GallopingWalrus @ericson4smith @anishmoonka Why not kill Mfs like you preaching bullshit in the first place?

Colombia has 200 wild hippos right now. They all came from 4 that Pablo Escobar smuggled in for his private zoo in 1981. Three females, one male. After he was killed in 1993, officials left the hippos behind. They escaped into the river. That was 45 years ago. 16 hippos by 2007. 40 by 2014. 120 by 2019. Around 200 today. Colombia is the only country outside Africa with wild hippos. And these hippos hit breeding age earlier than African ones, so they multiply faster. Each one eats 110 lbs of plants a night. They also dump 13 lbs of waste a day, almost all of it into the water. The waste feeds tiny organisms that suck the oxygen out and kill fish. It's pushing out 3 native species running out of space: the West Indian manatee, the Dahl's toad-headed turtle, and the Magdalena River turtle. Colombia spent 12 years across 3 governments trying to sterilize the hippos. It didn't work. Sterilizing one hippo needs a crane. The surgery is dangerous for the vets. A 2023 study said it would cost $1 to $2 million just to slow the breeding, and even then hippos would still be around for another 50 to 100 years. The government asked 7 countries and 2 international zoo groups to take some. Zero said yes. Then Anant Ambani made his offer. He runs Vantara, a 3,500-acre wildlife center in Gujarat that holds 47,000+ animals (200+ elephants, 160 tigers, 200 lions, 900 crocodiles). His proposal: take the 80 hippos Colombia plans to cull, fly them to India, cover their care for life. But the math has a catch. The cull was for 80 of the estimated 200. If Vantara takes those 80 alive instead of dead, it's a humane trade. The other 120 stay in the river. They breed faster than African hippos. The original 4 became 200 in 45 years.

@slime_machine Turning 30 this year and finally encountering health problems. What base methods should I employ to become funnier? Like research methods.

turning 36 today, offering life advice to anyone younger than me ONLY, expires at midnight

@ericson4smith @anishmoonka Maybe you don't. I work with my peoples organization to mitigate damage done by invasive species, plants and animals.

@GallopingWalrus @anishmoonka When I say nature takes I balance I don’t mean in the way that we wish. The environment would eventually work with hippos. Other species would go away. And that’s ok! The only certainty is change. This happens everywhere in the world every day and we say nothing.

@ericson4smith @anishmoonka It doesn't. There are thousands of species of plant and animal extinct because of invasive species. The real solution here, is to kill the hippos. Just go out there, and shoot every last one. But that's not the popular option so it won't get employed.

@anishmoonka Why do people always try to control invasive species? It does not work. Nature will always come back in balance.

@burnedzombie @F0ODHub Of course you think that. You're 12.

@F0ODHub Coleslaw. That crap isn’t needed

Remove one thing from this plate..

@capstellium Good. Induction is the future.

my mom has a beautiful gas oven she is getting rid of at the same time we are redoing our kitchen and my husband doesn't want to take it because he thinks i'll leave the gas burner on and kill our family

@iky_fwjett Honestly, this is almost certainly correlation, not causation. Hilarious correlation, but correlation nonetheless.

@swordposting We already made awesome gunblades, they're called bayonets. These are just rich people having fun before we had twitter and tik tok.

Gunblades are fucking stupid

@ShitpostRock2 No one actually used them. They were "issued" even but they were fucking awful guns and worse melee weapons. Also this is why I don't take history news from a chud pundit like rock solid the fucking loser.

WAIT GUNBLADES ACTUALLY EXISTED??? I LEGIT THOUGHT IT WAS ONLY A FINAL FANTASY THING

@Sirregenal1 @MarcusCVance "He's standing straight up. Oh no, is this, deatreza?" And he just shits his pants.

@MarcusCVance "Judging by his stance he has studied italian rapier. No wait, hes tricked me!!! Clearly they have studied spanish!!!!!"

Why am I imagining what a sword-focused medieval European anime would look like. Someone switches to fingering the guard and you jump to shocked reactions from all the onlookers. A 2 minute monologue on its pros and cons while the fighters stand there

@ManoThigasx Most of these just aren't important to people, and the ease of just launching steam and buying it is better than multiple sources for games. Integrated friends lists, messaging, not having to get around DRM. For most people, steam is better.

Fun fact: Steam não oferece serviço melhor que pirataria. Pagar $0 em um jogo, ter suas conquistas, save na nuvem, backup no seu PC, NUNCA perder acesso, NÃO precisar estar online, não ter risco de ter sua conta banida/hackeada, jogar em quantos dispositivos quiser.

@vipr38 @systole_ Who the fuck calls Vancouver the bay. Is Vancouver new San Francisco?

@GallopingWalrus @systole_ Nah the bay sucks , not a ocean city .

I want to live near the sea and I want to live near the forest and I want to live near the mountains and I want to live near a café and I want to live near a library and I want to live near a park and I want to live near a museum and I want to live

@Prackprack Yeah every like 9 weeks I see a new mammal that's fucked up. It's been like 2 years but Slow Loris and Sun bears have been my favorite new guys.

"if it's a mammal then it's not an obscure animal" yeah well tell me what is a zokor, a yapok, a gerenuk, a saola, a dorcopsis, a mulgara, a pacarana, a tuco-tuco, an agouti, a falanoka, and an oyan

@_skobee_ And then they're kind of a pest where I live lol. Just hundreds of them at the landfill.

there’s bald eagles that fly around the back fields and I found out recently that if I find a feather on my property I can’t keep it because if I’m found in possession of a bald eagle feather I would face more punishment than someone that fucks kids.

@permanganato_ "absurdly high caliber" Weaker than 7.62x39 by the way.

Pesa 2 toneladas, usa munición de un calibre absurdamente alto, tiene un retroceso infernal y a alguien le pareció buena idea hacer de metal la pieza que cubre el cañón provocando quemaduras en la mano de quien dispare más de 2 tiros con este cacharro. LA WUNDERWAFFEN

@SteelDiver @MilkPls68 This is so stupid. Most blocks aren't static parties, they're active parries, in which the attempted parry would go towards your blade, and then when your blade is turned off, the "defending" blade would keep going and cut you.

@MilkPls68 I practice the forbidden move

My new test of a persons character is if they say they like Star Wars I ask them what saber combat style they prefer and if they have an actual articulate response I rip their spine out of their back