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Stereotype posted:Reply All did a story about the feral hogs tweet, they found the guy and he is actually super chill. there is a legitimate feral hog problem in a lot of rural areas though. Like tens of thousands of animals that weigh hundreds of pounds who will absolutely gently caress you up if they feel trapped and threatened. They destroy crops and cause erosion and multiply exceptionally fast and are just insanely invasive animals. In the podcast they interviewed several serious smart sounding scientists and ecologists all saying that you couldn’t eradicate them if you tried. It’s actually a problem. Yeah people have been trying to defund the police for a while now, but the infestation is too entrenched.
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I feel like if we brought the full might of the US Military Industrial Complex, we could wage a 20 year hellwar against feral hogs and have fewer deaths than Afghanistan.
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fool, have you learned nothing from the Emu War
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I'm far from a gun expert but is an assault rifle really what you want for hunting pigs anyway? Surely you need a spear.
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Karia posted:I feel you there. But even outside of dysphoria poo poo being above average height sucks. I'm only 6'1" and I've never had an apartment where the countertops are tall enough. I'm sure my posture would be poo poo regardless, but having to slouch to cook dinner certainly doesn't help. Standard 3-section bar sinks are so, so much worse Always made sure to have good cushioning for my feet, but when you've got to bend down to a sink that tops out at barely above your knees you get used to stretching to compensate or you get hosed longterm (that's just the worst example, but every bar sink I've had the displeasure of working with has been significantly below waist height)
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Roblo posted:I'm far from a gun expert but is an assault rifle really what you want for hunting pigs anyway? That’s what got Bobby B..
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I am not a farmer nor am i 30-50 feral hogs but it feels like a big part of the problem is large scale mechanised agricultural practices that have eliminated all forms of natural balance and our ability to manage the land in a way that doesn't result in these sorts of failure cascades Like "how can one person manage a thousand hectares of monoculture land by themself??" the problem seems to be in the question
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boofhead posted:I am not a farmer nor am i 30-50 feral hogs but it feels like a big part of the problem is large scale mechanised agricultural practices that have eliminated all forms of natural balance and our ability to manage the land in a way that doesn't result in these sorts of failure cascades No. There wouldn't be and isn't a natural balance to them because they are a domesticated species that has gone feral and become invasive with its extreme adaptability and huge birthrate. These ecosystems don't have an equivalent that would allow them to deal with that.
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Atticus_1354 posted:No. There wouldn't be and isn't a natural balance to them because they are a domesticated species that has gone feral and become invasive with its extreme adaptability and huge birthrate. These ecosystems don't have an equivalent that would allow them to deal with that.
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Splicer posted:More wolves and bears I'm definitely in favor of that plus more badgers and catamounts. But that wouldn't solve the problem.
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boofhead posted:I am not a farmer nor am i 30-50 feral hogs but it feels like a big part of the problem is large scale mechanised agricultural practices that have eliminated all forms of natural balance and our ability to manage the land in a way that doesn't result in these sorts of failure cascades What I'm hearing here is that we need autonomous armed drones for farmers. 
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How is killing farmers going to help!?
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mrpwase posted:How is killing farmers going to help!? Radical problems require radical solutions. No more questions.
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I work out in a swamp in Florida and have passed by 30 wild hogs on the road to work. You see them as roadkill a lot just because there’s so many. One mama hog will have 4-5 baby piglets trailing after her if the gators/hawks don’t get them. So far none of them have been aggressive or made me wish for a high capacity magazine rifle to walk from my car to the front door. The little piglets are cute but my god there’s so many of them. They will just block the road too, they don’t give a gently caress.
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Atticus_1354 posted:No. There wouldn't be and isn't a natural balance to them because they are a domesticated species that has gone feral and become invasive with its extreme adaptability and huge birthrate. These ecosystems don't have an equivalent that would allow them to deal with that. Nah i was thinking more along the lines of restricting the conditions in which they breed without limit, so less monoculture, more general biodiversity and smaller allotments per farmer, which would make land and pest management easier/more nuanced. I'm not talking about like dumping a bunch of polar bears in there or whatever It's more a reflection on modern large scale mechanised agriculture inevitably creating the conditions for large scale pest crises, which you can't solve by doubling down on large scale mechanised solutions, nor can you expect nature to fix itself when the context we've created is anything but natural But if the options are "radically revisit the agricultural economy" and "killer drones" you can bet which one they're gonna pick
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boofhead posted:I'm not talking about like dumping a bunch of polar bears in there or whatever
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boofhead posted:Nah i was thinking more along the lines of restricting the conditions in which they breed without limit, There's a lot of problems with modern agriculture, but that has nothing to do with why they are breeding like that. It's a problem even in areas with smaller farms and even no farms.
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boofhead posted:Nah i was thinking more along the lines of restricting the conditions in which they breed without limit, so less monoculture, more general biodiversity and smaller allotments per farmer, which would make land and pest management easier/more nuanced. I'm not talking about like dumping a bunch of polar bears in there or whatever Smaller allotments just means more farmers complaining about 30-50 feral hogs. We literally need to dump polar bears in.
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The solution is simple, we just need to introduce wild Gauls to the environment. One small village ought to do it.
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https://twitter.com/iximeow/status/1471341443071414273 https://twitter.com/adrierising/status/1471002928832040962 https://twitter.com/joshgondelman/status/1470900710384582665 https://twitter.com/EleanorMorton/status/1471210627532218371 https://twitter.com/wigu/status/1471150276291842059
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The one benefit of a wild hog infestation on your land is that you are generally encouraged to go, for lack of a better term, hog wild to get rid of them so long as the general public’s safety is ensured. So all the stupid high power stuff comes out along with the military cosplay armament as it’s the only time you can shoot them at stuff without having to worry about it being particularly efficient or sane. Eg- A 300 mag rifle will kill the everloving gently caress out of a deer but can utterly ruin the meat/skin and more or less waste a slot/tag you have for the season. Hogs are always open season and you don’t particularly mind if your method of yeeting metal down range has the side effect of converting hog to aerosolized pork.
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:fool, have you learned nothing from the Emu War Send the emus after the hogs
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The Neal! posted:Send the emus after the hogs are you nuts? that's how you end up with an emu-hog coalition
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Atticus_1354 posted:catamounts I like that you can look at this word without ever having seen it before and just know it used it to be "cat o' the mount[ain]." "A vampire! Stay back!" *shows the sign of the Cross* "Meh. You people have been doing that to me even before I was turned."
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Warbird posted:The one benefit of a wild hog infestation on your land is that you are generally encouraged to go, for lack of a better term, hog wild to get rid of them so long as the general public’s safety is ensured. So all the stupid high power stuff comes out along with the military cosplay armament as it’s the only time you can shoot them at stuff without having to worry about it being particularly efficient or sane. I would absolutely pay 1k to shoot a fuckload of feral hogs with a machine gun from a helicopter.
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OPAONI posted:I would absolutely pay 1k to shoot a fuckload of feral hogs with a machine gun from a helicopter. Jack Merridew starts sweating uncontrollably and doesn't know why.
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IshmaelZarkov posted:The greatest thing that ever happened to me was being able to build a house with counters, shelves, and doors big enough for me (6'5") to work at without crouching over. Everyone who comes to my house pauses at the door for a second to just marvel at it. Absolutely fantastic. I'm 5 feet even and I just bought a house custom built by a tall person. The kitchen counters come up to my sternum and the bottom of the bathroom mirror starts at my forehead. My partner's tall so at least he gets to enjoy a showerhead that's actually above his head instead of next to it for a change.
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OPAONI posted:I would absolutely pay 1k to shoot a fuckload of feral hogs with a machine gun from a helicopter. Gonna make a spotify Playlist consisting of CCR. Springsteen, Mellencamp, etc. that's just titled "hog shootin music"
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OPAONI posted:I would absolutely pay 1k to shoot a fuckload of feral hogs with a machine gun from a helicopter. That is 100% a thing you can do but iirc you’re going to need to head down to Texas or our west somewhere to do so.
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zedprime posted:enough bark and roots for explosive hog growth. Hello new online dating profile text.
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non podhoretz (@crookedroads770) has vanished from twitter. A dark day.
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Feliday Melody posted:non podhoretz (@crookedroads770) has vanished from twitter. A dark day. I saw a whole bunch of new posts and thought I'd come in to find a celebrity death or something. I... guess that counts?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYtQXtUMWvQ It's a family tradition.
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canada is apparently having a similar problem except the hogs are hybrids that mate with local boars and adapted to the cold. so we're going to be facing a war on two fronts in the future
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Stexils posted:canada is apparently having a similar problem except the hogs are hybrids that mate with local boars and adapted to the cold. so we're going to be facing a war on two fronts in the future I originally read this as "mate with local bears" and 
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IshmaelZarkov posted:The greatest thing that ever happened to me was being able to build a house with counters, shelves, and doors big enough for me (6'5") to work at without crouching over. Everyone who comes to my house pauses at the door for a second to just marvel at it. Absolutely fantastic. https://twitter.com/evilrooster/status/1471130908812062726 Gravitas Shortfall posted:The solution is simple, we just need to introduce wild Gauls to the environment. One small village ought to do it. 
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organburner posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYtQXtUMWvQ Pretty sure I recall that John Morgan Of Morgan & Morgan got so many duis he's never allowed to drive again, but now his Wikipedia is just about how he wants to legalize weed with Jimmy Buffet so I'm conflicted. Not really, gently caress him and his commercials
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