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i think you forget 2 things: 1. deaths directly by car are not the only deaths to account for. look at the history of lead poisoning from gasoline and the ramifications we're still…

personally lose someone, no, but i've gotten the chance of being a citizen first responder to a lost of life one. i feel like your's and OP's response are because you've never seen…

dude... where do the imports of petroleum and fixed nitrogen which are critical for Ag come from? hint: look at the US ports and see what surrounds them. farming and suburbia are s…

> a few tens of thousands of deaths in car crashes a year, is vastly outweighed by the time saved by everyone else compared to even an excellent public transit system. what in the …

You reference the laws of thermodynamics, but I'm not sure which laws you're applying to the human body? Is it the first which requires the measured system to be closed which a hum…

> don't involve spending an appreciable fraction of your day shopping. if you're concerned about how your time is spent, i think you're missing a fundamental piece of the puzzle: h…

This reeks of being an outside observer. WA has no income tax, but has a sales taxes which homeless people are subjected to. The only taxes are from property which renters also don…

hey, if y'all get outdoor cats for "pest" reasons, i'll take care of the outdoor cats i see as pests :)

not only that, but which geneticist that was quoted in the nat geo article? lol

i'm sorry, which evolutionary geneticists? the 1 sentence in a nat geo article about the genomes being similar, or... https://www.science.org/content/article/genes-turned-wildcat..…

> cats in small city apartments are especially cruel. nah, you're just an uncreative person. you can be involved in your pets stimulation. seeing that you think having a pet inside…

fair. projection on my part. i interpret seeing people say indoor cats lives are miserable (and using that idea uncritically to affirm their own choices) are doing so from a holier…

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dude, it isn't a giant SUV divers that are advocating for indoor cats. they are the same people that hold onto the whimsy that "cats a natural and belong outdoors! :)"

> domesticated themselves ... so they are domesticated and not native... ???

you can walk your cat on a leash. you can play with it to give it stimulation. letting your cat roam outside isn't a replacement for your laziness.

1. those collars don't work. birds didn't evolve alongside cat w/ flashy collars, so it doesn't always trigger flee instinct 2. if your cat wants to go outdoors, you can leash them…

how are you going to be like "my anecdote is actually important" with an N of magnitude 100. long-term and wide-scale research and monitoring has tracked millions of birds and have…

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wow, what a spiteful, judgemental message. people always beat their children to discipline, so should we keep that relic from the past even though we know better? a cat indoors is …

does it go back any further than end of 2021?

> all living people have a risk of loss of freedoms you realize that the justice system doesn't equally impact everyone, right? people with more wealth, more access are demonstrabl…

> These problem cases can cost communities hundreds of thousands so let's continue to spend more on incarcerating them as a bandage rather than fixing the issues :) > incidents of.…