n7gifmdnAs if we need another reason to switch to GNU/Linux
ElderberryLowI see no lies
UntouchedWagonsWhy is the bar for Windows as long as the bar for cats?
ZephrCBecause it’s by area, not length.
It never even occurred to me to consider the height of the boxes lol
TimeSquirrelThe area isnt the same though.
As ate the numbers
Cat is a standard util you bastard!
Just use bat!
it’s bloatware
uisIt’s coreutil
No flu, I guess?
snooggumsIs the plural for CAT cable really Cats and not CAT cables?
Guess it is like mouses for more than one computer mouse.
TIL.
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?
In Unprecedented Feat, Scientists Figure Out How Many Wild Birds Live on The Planet
In one of the biggest data studies of its kind ever carried out, researchers have put a figure on how many wild birds are inhabiting the planet right now – so before we tell you, make a guess and see if you were anywhere close.
MegaUltraChickennot if we have anything to say about it
-Cats
Justas🇱🇹You forgot to include Mexico, but even with it it’s pretty high.
I checked again and yeah, it’s more like 9.5 million square miles, so an average of more like 370 bird deaths per square mile, per year. But now that I know that includes chickens and turkeys, and Mexico and Greenland and the Bahamas, it’s OK.
Match!!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.
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
SonotsugipaaThe one for appending files to the standard output, or the one for murdering unresponsive children?
/usr/bin/stone
bdonvrUNIX-like superiority
Mac is also Unix based. Doesn’t kill many birds.
DestideI know a lot of people don’t like Andrew Lloyd Webber but killing yourself is a bit much
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 mitigated by not placing the wind turbines directly on their primary habitat or migration paths.
I was going to say, I doubt your pet tabby is killing any California condors at any appreciable rate.
ɯᴉuoʇuɐThis 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
I def have more penguins than windows in my house.
ChaoticNeutralCzechWhat’s up with comms towers? High-voltage AM antennas are not that abundant anymore. Are birds getting cooked close to high-power transmitters? Shot to avoid interference with crucial military infrastructure? Is 5G real?
Well the image claims to be based on data from 2015, so no 5G was not real at that time.
That was a joke. Seriously, how do comms towers harm birds?
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.
It will solve for your cat staying not dead, not shitting in other people’s yards, and not fucking other cats.
Maybe, depending on where you live. But that’s not what we’re discussing.
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.
The impact of free-ranging domestic cats on wildlife of the United States - Nature Communications
Free-ranging domestic cats cause wildlife extinctions on islands, but their impact on wildlife in mainland areas is unclear. This study presents an estimate of mortality caused by cats in the United States, suggesting that 1.4–3.7 billion birds and 6.9–20.7 billion mammals are killed annually.
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.
I read it, it’s from 2013
“About a third of the problem” So, not the primary cause (or solution.)
“We estimate that free-ranging domestic cats kill 1.3–4.0 billion birds and 6.3–22.3 billion mammals annually. Un-owned cats, as opposed to owned pets, cause the majority of this mortality.”
Read the whole paper though. It has percentages. Just sayin
It does indeed.
“We estimate annual mammal mortality in the contiguous United States at between 6.3 and 22.3 billion (median=12.3 billion) (Fig. 1b) with 89% of this mortality caused by un-owned cats.”
MissJinxIndoor cats are not a problem because they are indoors. Outdoor cats thar come inside sometimes are a problem indeed but most of them were not adopted they just apeared out of nowhere and you now think it’s your cat. So it was feral at some point or at least was born from one.
As Bob would have wanted. RIP in peace, my sweet prince.
ZerushWorst birdkiller is Musk
Who even uses cat? Use less or tail.
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?
i would assume so, but most sky scrapers are entirely glass, and those technically aren’t windows from the outside. So do those count?
Though i guess they also have air patterns surrounding them that would make it difficult to bonk into.
Not sure if you’re making a joke, but windows kill birds because they’re transparent and birds fly into them not realizing it’s there. The rest of the building doesn’t really kill birds because they won’t fly into it.
mostly musing on the clarification of what a window is, because not all windows are transparent, in fact, the majority of them, i would venture to argue, are not.
Skyscrapers are weird.
EmperorHenryI actually laughed at that last part.
I don’t let my cats outside without direct supervision.
BigBananaDealerhow in the world are cats so good at killing something that can literally fly
And simultaneously can’t find the piece of ham I dropped in front of their nose.
they cant see things that close to them, a certain distance away they will be able to see it
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
Don’t know for birds but apparently they can win a fight with snake because they have better reaction time. So maybe something similar is contributing here too