That’s honestly an awful comparison. Wild predators don’t consume more than the environment can sustain, domestic cats represent either an artificial demand for farmed meat, which is bad for the environment, or they hunt themselves which is awful for the environment as well as they’re an invasive species everywhere and already the cause of dozens of extinctions.
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Everyone obviously already gets that
The first comment of this chain literally says:
easily prevent all the damage to the local environment by just keeping your cat inside.
So no, mybe it’s not obvious for everyone and maybe even obvious things need to be said occasionally for oblivious folks.
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pics@lemmy.world•I had a run in with a scorpion at work the other dayEnglish
2·2 days agoWith scorpions its the size of the parts that counts.
Big pinchers: Probably hunts without venom -> probably safe
Big tail (like this fella here): Probably hunts with venom -> probably unsafe
But even venomous scorpions are pretty chill tbh, they spook me way less than spiders
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Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Heroes of Might and Magic III hits 'Mostly Negative' Steam reviews because Ubisoft forgot to add the gameEnglish
29·2 days agoAt this point I just want Ubi to go under and sell the IPs to literally anyone else
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Gaming@lemmy.zip•Rockstar finally break silence on "heartbreaking" GTA 6 leak, say it's "unfortunate that the intended game experience may now be impacted by some spoilers"English
6·2 days ago“Intended game experience” = “We can’t milk the FOMO as effectively now”
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Technology@lemmy.world•YouTube Premium is getting yet another price hike for users across the globeEnglish
2·3 days agoUblock on firefox mobile seems to work well for youtube, never had that break
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Technology@lemmy.world•GTA 6 leaks prompt Take-Two to subpoena Microsoft for Windows device IDs of everyone in three Discord servers — daily gameplay leaks shatter cloud of secrecy around the much-hyped gameEnglish
2·4 days agoTelemetry is usually non-identifiable (by law if your country follows GDPR).
This form if ID is also pretty circumstantial. That might fly for advertisers but in a court of law I have my doubts.
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Technology@lemmy.world•GTA 6 leaks prompt Take-Two to subpoena Microsoft for Windows device IDs of everyone in three Discord servers — daily gameplay leaks shatter cloud of secrecy around the much-hyped gameEnglish
2·4 days agoIf you allow everything and all cookies most things are possible in theory. In practice most distros are secure enough and most users savvy enough to not accept everything blindly that it probably doesn’t happen.
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memes@lemmy.world•With an almost 100% success rate, I'd be scared too.English
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Political Memes@lemmy.world•Musk's ~~Lottery~~ BriberyEnglish
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As opposed to 2001 I understood Interstellar, which means it must be worse
Rocky Horror “so bad it’s good”!?
I’ve never been this offended by xkcd
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A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•Conservative Americans are legitimately braindeadEnglish
4·5 days agoRepublicans and establishment dems are all bought by AIPAC but at least the dems are waking up to that and voting out establishment candidates. Republicans are never going to “wake up” and start fighting against the money because conservatism is inherently beholden to status and power.
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A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•Conservative Americans are legitimately braindeadEnglish
16·5 days agoYou’re right but Zohan is a bad example because it’s more Israeli propaganda than art
GNOME visually reminds me of iPadOS (not good) and just hasn’t been as intuitive as KDE. Both are usable, KDE just came easier to me.
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Linux@programming.dev•A question for GNOME/KDE usersEnglish
16·6 days agoThe best thing about this comment is we all know which is which
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Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Christian metal band sues netflix because google won't show them anymore.English
407·9 days agoThey’ve been a band with a trademarked name for 25 years.
They trademarked “Demon Hunters” in 2022…
Their case is shit, its frankly a miracle they were even able to trademark “Demon Hunters” because it’s so generic. I see this going nowhere.
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2·12 days agoI wish all of us had taste, RAMs and DODGEs even existing on our roads proves otherwise, those blowhards would buy a cybertruck too if they could
We absolutely could help by not fucking spreading an invasive predator to every corner of this globe just because we find them cute. That’s morally reprehensible considering how dangerous cats are to local fauna:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1602480113
“Introduced rodents and cats are major agents of extinction, collectively being listed as causal factors in 44% of modern bird, mammal, and reptile species extinctions.”