It's very disappointing that they don't link directly to this video[1], unlike the New York Times which always links directly to their sources and references. It seems like the New York Times is the only mainstream news site that's not absolutely terrified of letting their readers go to another website.
Killing invasive species is now a competitive sport
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Re: Killing invasive species is now a competitive sport
#12you haven’t had fun on this planet until you've gone hunting for invasive hogs in florida or texas. stars, night observation devices, suppressed semiautomatic rifles. regardless of your stance on guns or killing things almost as smart as humans, you should give this fun and useful activity a try sometime. you’ll learn some skills and make solid friends along the way.
The ecological need is easy to understand, but turning it into a "sport" tells you a lot about the caliber of people we're living with. The people engaging in this activity are worse than poachers; at least poachers kill to earn a living.
Re: Killing invasive species is now a competitive sport
#13Better writeup here: https://ourworld.unu.edu/en/systems-thinking-and-the-cobra-e...
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#14Re: Killing invasive species is now a competitive sport
#15you haven’t had fun on this planet until you've gone hunting for invasive hogs in florida or texas. stars, night observation devices, suppressed semiautomatic rifles. regardless of your stance on guns or killing things almost as smart as humans, you should give this fun and useful activity a try sometime. you’ll learn some skills and make solid friends along the way.
It sounds like a great way to earn the company of fellow psychopaths. The ecological need is easy to understand, but turning it into a "sport" tells you a lot about the caliber of people we're living with. The people engaging in this activity are worse than poachers; at least poachers kill to earn a living.
Re: Killing invasive species is now a competitive sport
#16you haven’t had fun on this planet until you've gone hunting for invasive hogs in florida or texas. stars, night observation devices, suppressed semiautomatic rifles. regardless of your stance on guns or killing things almost as smart as humans, you should give this fun and useful activity a try sometime. you’ll learn some skills and make solid friends along the way.
It sounds like a great way to earn the company of fellow psychopaths. The ecological need is easy to understand, but turning it into a "sport" tells you a lot about the caliber of people we're living with. The people engaging in this activity are worse than poachers; at least poachers kill to earn a living.
Sausage is yummy, and pigs do ecological damage.
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#17Re: Killing invasive species is now a competitive sport
#18A big part of that is identifying foreign species:
https://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/ikenomizu/
Edit: link to commercial https://youtu.be/Uh_WKODddx4
Re: Killing invasive species is now a competitive sport
#19you haven’t had fun on this planet until you've gone hunting for invasive hogs in florida or texas. stars, night observation devices, suppressed semiautomatic rifles. regardless of your stance on guns or killing things almost as smart as humans, you should give this fun and useful activity a try sometime. you’ll learn some skills and make solid friends along the way.
It sounds like a great way to earn the company of fellow psychopaths. The ecological need is easy to understand, but turning it into a "sport" tells you a lot about the caliber of people we're living with. The people engaging in this activity are worse than poachers; at least poachers kill to earn a living.
If you enjoy undoing environmental damage, you're a psychopath!
Re: Killing invasive species is now a competitive sport
#20By any definition humans are an invasive species. Unfortunately killing our fellow humans has been a competitive sport from time immemorial.
Edit: Given your username, I’d expect more faith in humanity, not less.