Done!

Forwarded to friends and family.

Jesus, so now we have an owl plague?

Yeah...

But I don't think you understand how bad it is that rodents are immune to rodent poisoning...

It turns the poison into just food, and lots of places just dump a bag full of poison and if it's gone they assume it worked and dump another.

When/if they ever stop, a giant population spreads in every direction carrying any and every disease in the last place.

That new place, turns to to the times tested and Amazon approved poison.

Cycle repeats.

Rodents carry serious disease. And you're ignoring the very important fact, that an indoor cat is what deters rodents from being in a building....

If the cat is outside, the rodents want to be inside even more.

So you put the cat in the house, and the rodents stay outside of the house. And in your trash can, is some used cat litter, which the rodents can smell from very far away.

I really thought that needed to be explained. Like if I said "seat belt saves lives" and you told me your aunt got killed in a car accident when everyone was wearing a seat belt. Then mentioned that she was in the crosswalk and not in a vehicle.

What you're saying isn't wrong, you just didn't understand what people were saying and went off on a tangent.

We do have cats. Millions of them. But this is not Eurasia, and they preferentially kill the native fauna that never evolved to deal with such predators. Feral cats have been the primary driver for numerous species being wiped out completely.

the reduced use of an owl-killing rodenticide.

Mice evolving to be immune was always going to happen, but if people don't stop using it asap, there's a very real chance traditional predators start to consider them poisonous...

Then we're really fucked.

But it's wild we have thousands of years of experience with this problem and an obvious solution is just having cats around.

It's not like that was a fringe benefit of cats, rodent control was the entire point, and so important they were worshiped as gods.

Even before people figured out what was happening, they knew cities with a shit ton of cats didn't get hit by plague and disease as hard. Now we know that's because rodents spread disease, and unless they have a very specific parasite, they'll do everything possible to avoid cats.

At some point people started thinking nature would set up something as vital as the CDS just for companionship...

Yeah, but imagine if the renewables were replacing necessary power generation instead of mining World Of Warcraft Gold (insert this year’s cyber scam).

On face value of this article only I don't see an issue with this at all.

If it gets to the bin chickens, I'm calling full on zombie apocalypse.

You know the drill. Bottled water, canned food, bunker.

Bloody seagulls, next it will be bin chickens

"I'm way less woke than you are!"

mostly green washing bullshit aside, came across this today

Major renewable projects planned for regional Australia face financing hurdles

https://www.farmonline.com.au/story/9318282/albanese-governments-key-renewable-scheme-struggles-to-fund-wind/

Grifter gonna grift - prosecute them all

Oh not at all, nit saying that. I sta d behind my mistakes. Just saying, shit green investments by slimy operatives making big promises.

It's not automatically moronic to scrap green projects.

True, but your poor investment choices are no reason to not support genuine projects either

No shortage of snake oil in green projects. I've got a few stocks down at 2-3% of the money i put in :(

"Only a complete moron would scrap green projects."- fortunately, we know exactly who and where these people are, what their goal is, when they want to get it done, and why - so what's the hold up on stopping the demise? Boycott their businesses, their invested ventures, their daily products - WHY KEEP GIVING THEM MONEY?

Super funds cannot and will not do this without their members asking for it. Some already offer investment options for it, but member's have to transfer their funds into it.

Eg ART's Australian Shares Index investment option's objective is "Closely match the returns of the performance benchmark (S&P/ASX 300 Total Return Index) and maintain a lower weighted carbon intensity." They also have a Socially Conscious Balanced fund. Maybe these earn more than other funds, maybe they earn less.

If you don't like whatever a fund is doing, rollover to a fund who does what you want.

This is not financial advice, I don't know shit about fuck. See a financial adviser

To ger more of an idea, this is Caitlin Johnstone's review:

https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/07/28/earths-greatest-enemy-delivers-a-penetrating-insight-into-the-heart-of-our-dystopia/

Living as I do in a region that is LNP & PHON heartland you hear all manner of arguments against renewable energy projects. For all their 'patriotism', these parties seem to not really care about what we are facing as a nation or as a continent.

If you too come across people of that mind set, this little blog piece can give you some great talking points.

yeah I was thinking for finding things and in general just having a complete map of the globe, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 would probably be near the top

Defence I would like to think that as part of IKT's brilliant defence strategy (if I may say so myself) would be to replicate Ukraines drone wall but with undersea drones, can't sneak a ship through if it could be taken down by a couple of underwater drones

As a continuous observation network looking out for submarines?

If so, maybe, but that would entail an enormous amount of sonar going into the water that could have significant ecosystem effects. But I don't know well enough the effects of sonar on marine life. Something that substantial would certainly bring in the cost verse benefit analysis.

I think its a better idea to think about Space/low earth orbit satellite networks in terms of continuous observation of frontiers first. More cost effective and a wider range of uses.

I'm not sure what other purpose but defence you could put continuous monitoring of the seabed to use in. I suppose there'd be marginal benefits from seafloor disruptions through tectonic plate movements.

tbh i was thinking the other day that it may be possible in our lifetime with uav’s and if the ships up top are big enough and can charge with maybe a battery/charger on board to deploy them across the ocean

would be expensive but could be done

From Article,

BEFORE: Low resolution bathymetry (AusBathyTopo2009 of northern NSW to southern Queensland) prior to seafloor mapping by RV Investigator. Image: Rob Beaman, JCU.

AFTER: High resolution bathymetry (AusBathyTopo2024 of northern NSW to southern Queensland) following seafloor mapping by RV Investigator. Image: Rob Beaman, JCU.

Wow! What a huge difference in resolution!

Detroit would never!

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