Cat is a standard util you bastard!
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Linux isn't even on the list but neither is mac. Makes you think
because killing birds isn't a task of the kernel, it's the task of a userspace utility part of the coreutils
/usr/bin/stone
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UNIX-like superiority
Mac is also Unix based. Doesn't kill many birds.
This reminds me of the anti-wind-energy arguments about the turbines killing many birds...
Fuckn Microsoft, man!
Bill gates putting microchips in the water to turn the birds suicidal
how in the world are cats so good at killing something that can literally fly
They're built to kill. Crazy good reflexes and eyesight, amazing jump height, claws that grab hold of tree branches, feathers, and skin very nicely. There are a bunch of strays where I live, and they are murdering machines when they don't have a bowl of food plopped in front of them twice a day at their leisure.
Also whenthry do. Cats like to play
The only reason why cats aren't hunting us down right now is because we're too big to be prey. I read somewhere a long time ago that domestic cats have one of the highest predation success rate in the mammalian class. Meaning once they choose to actually try to hunt something they usually get it.
Yeah theres like two species that are better, and they're both also cats.
To be fair they are good at choosing WHO to hunt
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The reflexes of cats are insane and faster then a snake can bite. This video is a little demonstration for that
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And simultaneously can't find the piece of ham I dropped in front of their nose.
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I've watched neighbours cats take out song birds in our garden several times. They're usually too well fed to actually eat them so just "play" the bird gets injured/has a heart attack and dies from that. Something like 1 in 10 homes has a cat on average in the UK. The better fed/kept they are the better they hunt.
There was a mockingbird that would always attack our cats. The grandma cat had a beak-shaped cut in her ear and a bald spot on her head from this bird that would attack her. I was fortunate enough to witness the occasion where she finally got revenge on the bird.
It had been pecking at one of the grandkittens and then flew away just too low, and grandma cat did a lightning-fat swipe in the air and just kept walking along like nothing had happened, not looking at the bird. The bird kept flying and flapped its wings like 2 more times, then fell to the ground dead, completely ignored by the cat.
It was the most badass samurai shit I've ever seen.
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Who even uses cat? Use less or tail.
Keeping your cats indoors won't solve anything. Housecats aren't destroying the bird population, feral cats are. If you want to help, volunteer with your local vet or animal control to capture, spay/neuter, then re-release stray cats.
Not true. Pet cats are about a third of the problem, according to a 2013 nature paper. Feral populations vary a lot by location - some places have almost no ferals but lots of pet cats.
That study's been going around for years in the media, but mainly because it's sensational. If you actually read the article, I'd hardly say it's very convincing, or very accurate. Also, this.
Existing estimates of mortality from cat predation are speculative and not based on scientific data13,14,15,16 or, at best, are based on extrapolation of results from a single study18. In addition, no large-scale mortality estimates exist for mammals, which form a substantial component of cat diets.
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It will solve for your cat staying not dead, not shitting in other people's yards, and not fucking other cats.
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Why is the bar for Windows as long as the bar for cats?
Because it's by area, not length.
It never even occurred to me to consider the height of the boxes lol
The area isnt the same though.
As are the numbers
I actually laughed at that last part.
I don't let my cats outside without direct supervision.
I misread it as "Widows" and got a bit concerned for a second.
Probably plenty of bird widows in the world
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I pointed this out to people who complain constantly about wind turbines. "Ban windows!" They love that.
I'm still not calling it GNU
3.5 billion birds are killed in North America per year? I didn't know anywhere near that number even existed.
Wikipedia says there are about 7.5 million square miles in the US and Canada, so that's over 400 birds killed per square mile, per year, on average.
That's amazing, no?
Misconception. Birdkiller Georg has 3 billion dead birds a year and is also known as New York City
There are more than 8 billion chickens slaughtered every year in the US alone, to give some perspective.
not if we have anything to say about it
-Cats
On a serious note, the problem with wind turbines is not the total number of birds they strike but the species. Larger birds of prey seem particularly susceptible. Tough this risk can be easily mitigated by not placing the wind turbines directly in their primary habitat or migration paths.
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Don't need windows if you live in a basement (and use Linux).
wait, so if windows are so high. What about like, the rest of the building?
I think windows are that high because birds think they can go through them, they probably don't think they can go through buildings, but who knows?
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I know a lot of people don't like Andrew Lloyd Webber but killing yourself is a bit much
Worst birdkiller is Musk
I see no lies
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