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im on the net me boys posted:hey so who the gently caress https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2018/12/12/sea-lions-have-enemies-now-someone-is-shooting-them-head/ It's like Texas and wild pigs, but they're just annoying instead of harbingers of the apocalypse.
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Imagine murdering a sea lion and feeling all pumped up about your life choices.
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poo poo POST MALONE posted:Imagine murdering a sea lion and feeling all pumped up about your life choices.
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poo poo POST MALONE posted:Imagine murdering a sea lion and feeling all pumped up about your life choices. Theory of Mind is a double-edged sword.
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poo poo POST MALONE posted:Imagine murdering a sea lion and feeling all pumped up about your life choices.
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Dec 13, 2018 18:15
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poo poo POST MALONE posted:Imagine murdering a sea lion and feeling all pumped up about your life choices. Whoa. Just killed a sea lion and I feel great! I gotta do this more often!
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poo poo POST MALONE posted:Imagine murdering a sea lion and feeling all pumped up about your life choices. It's easy when you justify it in endangered salmon lives.
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Dec 14, 2018 03:06
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Freakazoid_ posted:It's easy when you justify it in endangered salmon lives.
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Dec 14, 2018 03:27
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Sometimes you have to do something bad to prevent something worse.
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Is there a study or research that plots the demise of salmon as attributable to see lions? No, there is not.
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porkface posted:Is there a study or research that plots the demise of salmon as attributable to see lions? No, there is not. Sounds like somebody is spending a bit too much time on logic and thoughts, and not enough imagining murdering a sea lion and feeling all pumped up about your life choices
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porkface posted:Is there a study or research that plots the demise of salmon as attributable to see lions? No, there is not. They harm an already fragile population of salmon. Of course they are not responsible for all of the salmon that die on the way upstream but unless we are going to start removing the dams on the Columbia and other rivers then killing sea lions that come to far inland is an easy thing we can do to help protect the runs. California sea lions like the ones in the Columbia river are not endangered or even threatened, and as warmer water pushes them north they are having a greater impact on the salmon who are endangered. therobit fucked around with this message at 16:24 on Dec 14, 2018 |
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It's almost as if this is all symptomatic of some larger problem, but I can't quite put my finger on it.
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therobit posted:unless we are going to start removing the dams on the Columbia and other rivers That is what we should do.
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Shifty Nipples posted:That is what we should do. If we had enough capacity of non-carbon-producing energy to offset it and a plan to resettle people living within areas that would become more flood prone when we remove the dams I would agree with you. Given where we are with climate change I am not sure it is reasonable to start removing hydroelectric dams.
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therobit posted:They harm an already fragile population of salmon. Of course they are not responsible for all of the salmon that die on the way upstream but unless we are going to start removing the dams on the Columbia and other rivers then killing sea lions that come to far inland is an easy thing we can do to help protect the runs. California sea lions like the ones in the Columbia river are not endangered or even threatened, and as warmer water pushes them north they are having a greater impact on the salmon who are endangered. Can you quantify the impact?
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So serious question here, but what would be the harm in a legitimate hunting season or controlled culling of sea lions? If their populations are abundant to the point of becoming invasive, why is this a bad idea? And to be certain, I'm not in support of assholes just shooting them because they feel like it.
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porkface posted:Can you quantify the impact? On the lower columbia it's 13k salmon every spring for 100 sea lions. I don't know the whole population distribution but there are over 300k California sea lions in the wild. therobit fucked around with this message at 20:41 on Dec 14, 2018 |
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Dec 14, 2018 20:38
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Someday sea lions will murder humans for crashing the fragile salmon population.
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Relatedly, apparently we've got some out of control population of wild horses somewhere and the state's solution is to pay a thousand bucks a head to get people to adopt them rather than, I dunno, charging $50 a tag to let hunters take care of it instead. There must be some piece of data I'm missing that makes this make sense.Solkanar512 posted:So serious question here, but what would be the harm in a legitimate hunting season or controlled culling of sea lions? If their populations are abundant to the point of becoming invasive, why is this a bad idea? The opposite of them are the people whose brains cannot comprehend that controlling numbers of any wild animal can ever be useful. KILLING ANIMULZ = BAD. They're the same people who will hit a deer with their prius and call 911 like dispatch is gonna scramble a veterinary ambulance or something. These people are loud and screechy and vote. I wish they'd let us hunt them for a while. I'd be curious to try some sea lion steaks.
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Since all the sea lions are going to die once the food chain collapses from ocean acidification, I say we avoid killing them now.
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pseudorandom name posted:Since all the sea lions are going to die once the food chain collapses from ocean acidification, I say we avoid killing them now.
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Javid posted:Relatedly, apparently we've got some out of control population of wild horses somewhere and the state's solution is to pay a thousand bucks a head to get people to adopt them rather than, I dunno, charging $50 a tag to let hunters take care of it instead. There must be some piece of data I'm missing that makes this make sense. People have a weird affection for horses which is why we can't eat them either. We should shoot them and eat them.
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Poor Jimmy Marr https://www.wweek.com/news/courts/2018/12/18/white-nationalist-hospitalized-after-street-fight-in-corvallis/ 
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Teabag Dome Scandal posted:Poor Jimmy Marr For a second i got him confused with Johnny Marr, the Smiths guitarist. I know he lives in Portland occasionally.
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Teabag Dome Scandal posted:Poor Jimmy Marr I wonder if it was his fellow nazis or someone else that was responsible.
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dont know how much attention you pay to little olympia in here, but the battle for space for homeless people has been heating up lately. also, really i just wanted to post this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JV-wDAmxl2k
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She sounds unwell.
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Spokane seems like its having an extremely normal one right now. https://www.seattlepi.com/local/politics/amp/Spokane-Valley-council-to-vote-on-proposal-to-13472933.php
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Saman posted:Spokane seems like its having an extremely normal one right now. Nah, that was just the PI getting trolled by someone and thinking it was real news. We're stupid over here, but not THAT stupid.
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Relentless posted:Nah, that was just the PI getting trolled by someone and thinking it was real news. One of the guys that suggested it also wants to kill gay people and all men that refuse to join his holy war. People reelected him in spite of (probably because of) this so you can't really say they are making smart decisions.
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Relentless posted:Nah, that was just the PI getting trolled by someone and thinking it was real news. It's incredibly difficult to surpass "we re-elected Matt Shea" stupid.
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Well, yes. There's a reason I don't live live in the Valley anymore. This side of the state also re-elected freaking McMorris Rodgers, so clearly we LIKE assholes who don't care about their constituents.
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I mean obviously it's not happening, but I could have sworn the holy war dude wasn't literally an elected official until I saw this pop up via a friend going 'what is up with your state' at me. I know it's 2018 and the world is wild but drat y'all. I wonder just how badly it would go for that theoretical state though, tax revenue's gotta be pretty low...
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Saman posted:I mean obviously it's not happening, but I could have sworn the holy war dude wasn't literally an elected official until I saw this pop up via a friend going 'what is up with your state' at me. I know it's 2018 and the world is wild but drat y'all. I wonder just how badly it would go for that theoretical state though, tax revenue's gotta be pretty low... There's a small subset of people want to turn the east side of the state into ghetto West Idaho for Freedom and Reasons. Meanwhile, they won't move to Idaho because they'd have to pay income tax and pay more for health insurance. Really, this all boils down to they don't want to have to drive 15 minutes to save 20 cents a gallon on gas.
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the answer is obviously to give the sea lions guns & let them deal with the human overpopulation
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I can’t loving believe Pat Shanahan is going to be acting SecDef. What the gently caress does that guy know about anything outside of PowerPoint charts?
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I have some bad news about military officers and PowerPoint charts for you.
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therobit posted:If we had enough capacity of non-carbon-producing energy to offset it and a plan to resettle people living within areas that would become more flood prone when we remove the dams I would agree with you. Given where we are with climate change I am not sure it is reasonable to start removing hydroelectric dams. Hydroelectric dams create methane with anaerobic decay down at the bottom, they're not actually great for global warming.
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reignonyourparade posted:Hydroelectric dams create methane with anaerobic decay down at the bottom, they're not actually great for global warming. This is a terrible standard to go by, and the important figure is how much damage does it do to the environment compared to other methods of energy generation. Hydroelectric is far better than nearly every other method of energy generation.
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