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  • I really like their song “The Old Apartment”. I’m about to move back to my hometown soon and I’m gonna be commuting past a few places I used to live in or grew up around, and it really encapsulates the surreal feeling of seeing people living in a place that used to be yours, changing it, and that weird unreasonable sense of feeling like you should still have ownership over it.

















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    2 months ago

    Animals eat animals. Humans are animals. We are not removed from nature. We are very much part of the ecosystem and have been since homosapiens as a species and every proto human before us.

    Responsible hunting is beneficial for the environment, especially in areas where we irrevocably already fucked the environment by removing all of the predator species such as bears and wolves. The deer would overpopulate and destroy the environment like locusts without something (us or predators) to keep them in check.

    Essentially, our hands are already muddied from the environmental atrocities of generations before us. Stopping would make it worse at this point. For example, in my hometown, fishermen are required by law to kill invasive species of fish that came from freighter ships from Asia. They have no natural predator and are therefore exhuasting the resources for the native species and driving them to near extinction. If we simply backed off now, the native species would likely go extinct from starvation and predation. We can’t make it exactly how it was before, but we can make it better.

    That being said, I’m all in for meat alternatives and cultured meats. Less farmland for inhumane & inefficient meat farming that can instead be returned to nature, and reintroduce predators into those reclaimed areas so hunting is not required to keep prey populations in check. It would be wonderful to live in a world where eating animals is not necessary, wild or domesticated.

    And of course, the ultimate over all caveat: This is all simplifications and environmental rectification is extremely complex and varies from location to location. In some locations, yep, the answer really is just “leave the animals alone”.




  • Well, the idea is to make the roads safer – not turn a profit. If people stop speeding so much, they can always take them down again. 6 a day seems like a very achievable number for a long time though.

    If the streets are safer for it, then its a worthwhile investment. Especially if you consider the alternative of enforcement would be hiring another police officer, which undoubtably would cost more and be limited in their ability to catch every person speeding. Suppose an argument could be made to say these cameras are taking police officer’s jobs, but frankly I think traffic enforcement should be below them, and let them focus on more real crimes going on.