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anon6789 , 8 days ago

Yesterday there was another AskLemmy about what was the easiest instrument to learn and I felt like anyone asking that question without already having a clear vision in their head of what they wanted to be playing as far as instruments and music was just going to waste their time and money, but even trying to be very polite I thought it was too negative so I didn’t post it.

I think people think music will be a fun relaxing hobby, but it’s really like training to be an athlete. You won’t get any good unless it’s something you truly want to do because it’s a ton of work and a good instrument is expensive and I feel you should really start by taking lessons so you didn’t waste time on trial and error figuring out what to learn instead of learning how to do it.

Craigslist and eBay are full of gear that was barely touched because music is hard. It can be very rewarding, but you will still hate it at times. I tell my teacher all the time that I hate her 3/4 of the time because she constantly challenges me, but by the end of that week, I’ve put in enough time to master the lesson, and then I’m so happy and feel the rest of the time was worth it. It’s like some people love going to the gym and getting those endorphins or runners getting a runners high. Some people live for that, but for others, it’s just hell.

It sounds like you don’t enjoy the time and money you’ve spent. Just live and learn. Maybe come back to it later in life and see if things change. But don’t force yourself into hating it.

anon6789 , 11 days ago

They’re well mannered and don’t take up much space is the answer in seeing in all the search results.

anon6789 , 12 days ago

The increase in monthly is just mainly replacing users leaving as the active 6 month seems to be going down the same rate as active monthly is going up. Am I reading that correctly?

Total users doesn’t concern me too badly, as I’m more happy to see daily post and comment counts going up. I feel activity needs to be our focus rather than headcount. A packed stadium is kinda pointless if nobody is on stage putting on the show! 😁

anon6789 , 12 days ago

I try to put a lot of emphasis on encouraging new posters and commenters. I don’t get why you’d come to the “wild west” of social media to just be solely a lurker. You should want to be an explorer and a settler, forging that new frontier. I won’t hate on the lurkers, they will always be the majority, but why deal with the quirk, less ease of use, and less content to not want to help shape what it becomes?

I came over intending to lurk, hence my crap username, but what I wanted wasn’t here, but I didnt want to crawl back to Reddit, so I started building, and it’s great. People are friendly, you have less competition for attention, and the userbase is largely supportive of whatever you do because you’re doing something.

But ultimately, as long as we arent on an extended downswing, we’re doing well. I’ll keep making posts and giving positive feedback, so hopefully it keeps catching new people with the bug to interact.

anon6789 , 13 days ago

About an hour a day browsing, and another 1+ hour working on content and replying to people.

Somedays I feel bad spending my time here just working on my own stuff and not getting to enjoy what you all are doing!

anon6789 , 14 days ago

Just have the Hussars bring buckets with them next time they come…

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/7ed5388b-f7e0-4e5e-bd9e-27f0c4773bfc.webp

anon6789 , 15 days ago

I try not to spam myself nowadays, but !superbowl has great photos, of course, but I also have a good bit of educational and scientific content and places you can go visit in person.

I post daily, so if you have even a remote interest in beautiful killer birds, give it a look. I just did another ELI5 research paper write up today, and with 250 types of owls, I can guarantee you stuff you’ve never seen before!

anon6789 , 15 days ago

Glad to hear it! It’s fun always finding new things to share.

anon6789 , 15 days ago

I’m hearing from so many new people today! I knew there had to be more of you out there!

Always feel free to chime in with a question, comment, or request.

anon6789 , 19 days ago

I’m a pretty casual gamer, so I’ve pretty much only played the “hits” a few years after they’ve been out.

These are the ones I remember feeling the most groundbreaking and spending the most time with over the years.

• Doom 2
• GTA San Andreas
• Yakuza 0
• Last of Us
• Zelda: Link to the Past
• Duke Nukem 3D
• Carmageddon 2
• Eternal Darkness
• Red Dead 2
• Metal Gear

I got a good laugh out of the other post that is all the Yakuza games, because that’s how I spent a ton of my Covid work from home time playing them on the cheap. They had the fun of the GTA games, but I never like the main characters were bad people, so Yakuza gave me the games I’ve wanted through all the GTA years and then some.

anon6789 , 19 days ago

I never got to have a LAN party but we did do a weekly StarCraft night via modem. It felt so amazing at the time to be able to sync up a game online.

StarCraft doesn’t make my list though cuz I always sucked at it! 😤

anon6789 , 18 days ago

Right?! I saw new Doom on here which I haven’t played, but the lack of people listing Doom 1 and 2 on here is pretty surprising, esp as the Lemmy crowd seems to skew older.

I took a minute to pick between 1 and 2, but 2 felt bigger and I felt I spent more time with it, at least unmodded.

Oh shoot, I forgot the original Deus Ex too! I don’t know if I saw that on here anywhere either. Just too much gold for only 10 picks. I was sad I had to bump off American Magee’s Alice as well.

anon6789 , 21 days ago

I don’t do the espresso machine, but the Baratzza Encore for my pour over or Aeropress has been one of my best food/beverage investments. Between that and a bag of different single origins beans a month almost makes getting up for work bearable! 😄

anon6789 , 21 days ago

After getting it, I didn’t notice the hugest difference at first as I was learning to dial it in, but the first time I went back to my fav preground it just tasted so flat and stale.

It’s given me access to do much great coffee now that I can get whatever I want, and being able to adjust grind to tweak the flavor even more has been great.

anon6789 , 22 days ago

Without more specifics to your scenario, let’s say you’re talking about we make a commutation device for gorillas and cetaceans since they are pretty intelligent, so the most likely to be the first ones we can talk to and understand each other.

Do we still have dominion over them?

Can we come into their homes and take things and trash the place? Do we compensate them?

Do we force our standards of behavior on them? If animals can fight for food and they want to eat your pet and for them might makes right, can a gorilla beat you up and take it? If not, why not?

If we learn they have feelings, a sense of family, or have beliefs where some plants, animals, places are untouchable, do we abide by that?

I think we open this door, we will not be ready for it. I feel it will be like if we discovered a resource rich planet full of sentient creatures with the intelligence of 6 year olds. How have humans done in those scenario before when they have come across those weaker than them? Will we have learned anything?

On a brighter note, if you have not heard of David Brin’s Uplift series of books, you may want to check that out if you’re a reader. I only read The Uplift War, but I enjoyed it.

anon6789 , 22 days ago

As a sci-fi fan, I think there’s an infinite number of great things that could come from it. I mentioned Uplift War, which has humans taking responsibility for raising primates up to be a space faring race and dolphins flying spaceships in water filled suits. The dog race from Fire Upon the Deep learned to communicate, develop Medieval tech, and pass on generational knowledge. Snow Crash has the cybernetic guard dogs. So many cool possibilities exist.

But I don’t know if our race is ready to deal with another intelligent species able to communicate with us as equals or near equals. If we learn the true feelings of one animal, and they tell us all animals have thoughts and emotions like we do, can we eat any animal after that? And after we develop animal communication, if we learn plants are sentient as well? Again, in Fire Upon the Deep, there was a plant race that existed on a time scale we couldn’t grasp because their lives were so much longer than humans. If we learn eating animals or plants now is about the same as eating your neighbors, what do we do?

We have people now that will abuse animals. Not everyone of all races values all animals the same. Much of my animal research involves owls, but they’re a bad omen in some parts of the world so people kill them. Some countries really seem to not value dogs. There’s Japan with their whaling. Do these become new international disputes? Do we help or take in animal refugees?

Who gets to make the determinations about animal “personhood” to determine the new animal rights or how we interact with them. Do we end up with animal embassies? Can an animal press charges against someone abusing them? Can a mouse sue a cat for eating her husband?

As for if aliens would treat us badly or even have no regard for us whatsoever as if we were ants is one hypothesis for the Fermi Paradox. Life could be hiding from a galactic murderer or most have already been wiped out by them. And again, look at our history of what we’ve done to other groups of humans we’ve come across. We’ve had millenia to do almost whatever to all life on this planet, and not everyone would go along with a change this massive.

I just look at all going on around the world and it seems we haven’t even learned to deal with our own species properly. I just don’t think we’d be able to handle another just yet.

Pretty much any aspect of our daily lives or our spirituality would be affected if we had an intellectual peer. It’s fun to think about as a series of hypotheticals, but if it were real, I don’t know how we’d feel about ourselves. I don’t think a lot of species would necessarily be thrilled with us. I wouldn’t want to have to be the first person to speak to a bison on the Great Plains for instance and try to explain why humans did what they did to them.

anon6789 , 21 days ago

I do hope we would do positive things should we gain the ability to talk with animals. I’ve watched a bit about Koko and the other gorillas that learned sign language and it’s very amazing stuff. It seems to get treated as a novelty though.

I don’t know if we can really even assume what another race would do with us. If they’re millennia ahead of us, they could probably trick us like when somebody pretends to toss something to a dog. We could luck out and be overall more advanced than them ala The Road Not Taken.

It’s easy to see most any animal as an individual if you spend any time with them, yet we still spend most of our coexistence with them treating them as NPCs. I don’t know what it would take to win us over as a whole, and I guess that thought just makes me a bit sad.

anon6789 , 23 days ago

Live Nation said Thursday it doesn’t benefit from monopoly pricing, saying that Ticketmaster service charges “are no higher than elsewhere, and frequently lower.” The company noted its overall net profit margin is at the low end of S&P 500 companies.

How do they not make a killing? What are they spending their money on? I can’t remember how many years ago it’s been since I got a physical ticket besides the ones I had to pay them for to print myself.

anon6789 , 23 days ago

Lol exactly, hence the monopoly accusations. We’re on to you Ticketmaster/LiveNation!

anon6789 , 23 days ago

Down with monoculture! Down with monoculture!

anon6789 , 1 month ago

Ouch, so sad only one mention of Summit. I was on Boost for Reddit, and then Liftoff here until that died. Boost development was going slow it felt like, and I just didn’t feel the workflow was what I got used to posting to Lemmy.

Summit felt great to me, has a ton of great features, and the dev is super responsive and has incorporated many of my requests and has fixed bugs I’ve reported very quickly. I love me some Summit for sure and I don’t know why it’s gone relatively unnoticed.

anon6789 , 1 month ago

As a fellow BtB fan, that was my first thought as well. No one should give a damn what Lee said regardless of what side he appears to be taking. He was a terrible person, a terrible general, and only ever seemed to do what he felt would benefit him the most personally.

It’s the same reason I get annoyed seeing media portray Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, John Bolton, and Anthony Scaramucci, etc as a source of valid, balanced, and impartial viewpoints. We all saw what you guys did when you had control, but some of us don’t forget as quickly as others. You’re only concerned for your reputation and legacy and to preserve another chance to do what you did all over again.

Never listen to a traitor, me boys!

anon6789 , 1 month ago

I see people blame Trump, Bush Jr, Reagan, and Nixon for our current political woes, and while not incorrect, how our country canceled Reconstruction and made peace with those who tore our nation apart to be cruel to those they felt were subhuman and gave them back their property and power is a slap in the face to what we supposedly stand for and is disrespectful to all those that died in the war and were formally enslaved before the war and systematically enslaved after it. We just acted like the whole thing never happened. And people wonder why that sentiment of racism, classism, and entitlement still persists…

We had a chance to do something, and we chose to just forget. Stories like this just show we still choose to forget, or worse yet, some people do remember, because they benefited in the long run.

anon6789 , 1 month ago

Very true, but his time in an official position was limited to a matter of days. I was just trying to think of the names that jumped out at me as still being regularly in the spotlight for no good reason. His platform should have ended as quickly as it began, but media is still giving him a voice over better options, and he’s still a symptom of a greater issue in how people get news.

anon6789 , 1 month ago

I was born during the Reagan era, so a bit too young to know much about it from the time, so it never ceases to amaze me how much he helped facilitate the backwards slide of our society. I think his administration was so effective as it was the combined efforts made by conservatives from what they learned by what happened with Nixon. The conservative “think tanks,” the creation of purposefully biased media platforms, the Powell Memorandum, courting the evangelicals, etc. were all effective both then and to this day. There is a ton we can all still learn about from this era.

My thoughts are just that surely much of this could have been prevented if we had taken better action when we had half of American aristocracy backed into a corner, and instead of doing anything about it, we just collectively said, “well, it looks like you guys learned your lesson, so here’s all your stuff back, just don’t call them slaves anymore and try to be discrete with your racism for a few decades.” Our ancestors defended this country, won, but then allowed 90% of the causes of the war to persist. To think they wouldn’t try to claw back the rest of what they had was naive and the “peace” gained by pardoning these people responsible has led to over a century of misery, especially to the people that had suffered most prior to the war, was not worth the cost of us not harshly correcting our national politics when we had the chance.

Seeing Lee and others argue for peace and moving on is no surprise. He was the perpetrator, and the loser of the fight. Why wouldn’t he want the world to forget about that? Who would expect the losing enemy general to call for harsh punishment for their actions? It’s the same reason why these Nixon, Reagan, and Bush officials are willing to publicly bash Trump when he’s not looking like a sure winner. It takes the attention off of what they got away with, and if they keep us mad at Trump, that less time to focus on their actions.

This is why while all this news ticks me off and makes me unhappy, I still try to keep learning about it and at least staying aware of who is saying what. Just because they people are “agreeing” with us now doesn’t mean they really support what they are saying, and it doesn’t make up for the actions they took against the American people.

anon6789 , 1 month ago

Not sure exactly why you’re getting downvoted as that was essentially the point of the article:

Flame retardant chemicals off-gas or leach from the seat and interior fabrics into the air, — especially in hot weather, when car interiors can reach 150 degrees Fahrenheit.

Advocates argue that the risks of these chemicals outweigh the benefits.

But health researchers have found that the average U.S. child has lost up to 5 IQ points from exposure to flame retardants in cars and furniture. And adults with the highest levels of flame retardants in their blood face a risk of death by cancer that is four times greater than those with the lowest levels, according to the Journal of the American Medical Association.

anon6789 , 1 month ago

I think many may now be too young to remember, but in the 70s and 80s, this was a big issue.

NY Times, 11 June, 1983 - DEMAND INCREASES FOR FIRE-SAFE CLOTHING

Clothing that can erupt into flames is coming under increasing scrutiny of consumer and fire safety organizations. They say Federal regulations governing the safety of fabrics used in clothing are too weak to protect the people who are most vulnerable: the elderly.

Those who most often suffer serious injury or death from clothing fires, safety experts say, are retired people who spend many hours of the day in such loose-fitting garments as bathrobes or housecoats. With the exception of children’s sleepwear, for which special regulations were decreed in the 1970’s, Federal standards allow clothing manufacturers to use all but the most extremely flammable fabrics.

Plastic fibers can melt to your skin, which isn’t great considering you’re in contact with the seats and carpets of the car. In an emergency, you’re not prepared to deal with additional complications like that.

The article I linked here is pretty good, so I recommend reading it if you aren’t familiar with this issue from back then. It will really help give you the other side of the issue to see why these chemicals are there to begin with.

anon6789 , 1 month ago

Going by my own car that I bought new in 2008 and still drive, the chemical residue on my inner windshield has been rather consistent throughout the time I’ve had it, so it is still off-gassing after all this time.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/81c94f30-3ea9-43b4-9bfb-359604637c72.png

There are many unhealthy chemicals in just about every part of the car, and heat cycles keep releasing more of them. The source for the above infographic say many studies have been done, but many sounded like they conflict with each other and many seemed to focus on short term health effects.

anon6789 , 1 month ago

The Cool Zone people do put out a ton of content, I don’t know how they do it. I commute and hour each way to work, and between Behind the Bastards and It Could Happen Here, that gets me through almost the whole week.

I know they all have other shows now too. I have listened to Margaret Killjoy’s Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff a few times now as well. It’s like BtB, but more like the BtB Christmas Special where it focuses on people that have tried to make positive changes instead of the villains. It’s nice to have the same quality content but with a somewhat positive spin.

If you want to get into it without it taking up all your time, see if Robert’s or Margaret’s topic is something that really looks good, or if it doesn’t you can check out ICHH, which is split up into segments anyway and you can enjoy that in smaller portions.

Besides those, I enjoy Threedom (comedy show with Scott Aukerman of Comedy Bang Bang, Paul F Tompkins who was Mr Peanutbutter on Bojack Horseman, and Lauren Lapkus of Jurassic World, OitnB, and a ton of other things), How I Built This with Guy Raz, and Planet Money from NPR.

anon6789 , 1 month ago

Thanks for sharing this. I always get excited when I see the coelacanth pop up in the news.

It was amazing to get to see one at the Smithsonian. It felt like seeing something that I shouldn’t be able to see, like something of this world, but not, at the same time. I can’t imagine how thrilling it would be to see them in person and to learn about them directly.

anon6789 , 1 month ago

I think the anger is directed and the agricultural conglomerates and the governments that have allowed those groups to pillage these places while selling out their countrymen, not the farm workers themselves or the citizens of those countries. Probably no matter the issue, that is likely the case. I know palm oil is important to many people, and colonialism is a lot of the cause of these issues for both the people and those that care about the local environments, as many times they are the same people.

Many people, myself included, don’t know much about the current Malay government, so the initial action being mistrust of something like this shouldn’t be a surprise. As people are realizing how much of our natural resources we’ve squandered for quick cash, I don’t fault them for being angry.

As you said though, it’s important to realize there are good and bad actors in all of these situations, plus many doing what they need to survive in many of these regions.

anon6789 , 1 month ago

It’s easier for us to fight each other as individuals instead of focusing our dissatisfaction toward the ones causing these problems, so I didn’t want to see this sink down into that when everyone had valid criticisms. I want to see the people and environment be protected.

From looking it up quick, 90% of palm oil comes from Indonesia and Malaysia, so it is important to understand how it is being produced, so I’ve marked some things to read so I can get better informed. I’m glad you were brave enough to speak up when everyone was pretty fired up on the issue already.

anon6789 , 1 month ago

We all get fed info from everywhere, it’s just our individual responsibility to filter through it and verify it. Nothing to feel guilty over, just post if the joy of the human experience. 🙃

anon6789 , 1 month ago

It will always be a challenge, but we’re also in an era where communication is available to us at the same capacity it is to the propagandists. We’ve got leakers and whistleblowers like never before. We also have crackpots who can do the same, but it’s much harder to isolate and silence those with positive agendas.

All we can do is keep trying to learn all we can and apply our critical thinking and share what we learn. I post a lot here and always try to show references, as itn no expert on anything, just someone with a love of learning.

anon6789 , 1 month ago

NPR Station List PDF

Found this list, and they’re surprisingly spread out across the county.

(There’s 57 of them on the list for anyone that doesn’t feel like clicking)

anon6789 , 1 month ago

As I’ve been doing posts for Superbowl over here, I’ve learned so much about how animal life is way more difficult than we assume it to be. We see these creatures for their beauty and don’t tend to focus much on their daily grind.

Owls are especially delicate for large birds, especially when it comes to getting head injuries due to their eyes being so large, and if anything happens to a male during nesting season, he’s the only one able to leave the nest to hunt, so if he can’t hunt successfully or is injured/killed, the whole “family” will starve to death. Also, the risk of bringing back a poisoned rodent can also end the lot of them as well.

Surviving in nature for many animals comes down to being able to maintain metabolism, and getting that next meal is critical. Each failed hunting attempt makes the next that much more difficult, so disturbing them can lead to their deaths. Imagine if you had to run sprints against a group of people, and each time you didn’t finish in the top 3 you wouldn’t get to eat before the next race. It wouldn’t take long for you to feel that impact. That is why these safe areas for animals are important.

anon6789 , 1 month ago

Lol that comic really nailed it!

We definitely developed all this tech and civilization for a reason. As tough as we still have it sometimes, our caveman ancestors didn’t have it much better than the bird in that comic. People in certain parts of the world now are still going through much the same as well, sadly. We’ve still got a long way to go.

Whenever I spent too much time thinking I’d rather be one of my pets, I always said I couldn’t even handle cleaning up after going to the bathroom like they do! 😂

anon6789 , 1 month ago

Ehhemmm…I believe she specifically said it was his choice of lifestyle. She made her stance very clear. 😮‍💨

“It’s not discriminating against his lifestyle — that’s his choice,” Potteiger said in the meeting. “But it’s him speaking about it.”

I’m just glad this wasn’t one of my local schools this time. We at least ran them out of the school boards here. This is off in the Pennsyltucky part of the state.

anon6789 , 1 month ago

Maybe they will replace this with a self awareness talk…

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/82b5f37d-efff-407d-9b15-7a3072103aa6.png

anon6789 , 2 months ago

I’m an adult learning piano for a year now.

I hate playing to a metronome. I think it’s boring. My internal clock isn’t the best either, so counting rhythms (“1, 2, 3 and 4, etc”) works when I’m trying to hear sheet music in my head, but it doesn’t help me actually play in time.

The 2 things I prefer are either playing to YouTube backing tracks or a chord progression generator.

YouTube has thousands of either plain drum tracks or “band” tracks to play along to. For drum tracks, search for “rock drum track 100 bpm” and for instrumental tracks, something like “pop backing track in e flat major” and you’ll get a list of things you can play over and keep in time.

I’ve also been using the musicca chord player to generate quick chord progressions to play along to. That link is fun because you can turn sounds on and off to keep it basic or more complex.

There are also straight rhythm exercises on YouTube as well.

As someone who tried for many years to learn guitar and bass, but never really got anywhere, with the piano I got a teacher after a few months. I have learned SO MUCH FASTER!

Learning on ones’ own is possible, but think about it like having a list of ingredients, but not a recipe. You can grab bits of music knowledge, but not know how to put it all together. Plus since you don’t know how to do it right from the start, how will you know if you’re doing something wrong?

The teacher works like a personal trainer would at a gym. They don’t just randomly say do this or do that. They let you focus just on doing the work at hand, while they’re watching you, making sure you’re working efficiently, accurately, and not just meandering around wasting your own time or doing things that are ineffective. It is so worth it.

After a year, I’m learning a 2 page song every week, while also doing a theory lesson, a bunch of scale exercises in rotation, working on sight reading and ear training, and learning improvisation skills. My teacher gives me all genres of music to learn so I learn multiple styles and techniques and I never get bored. I look forward to going every week and it’s so worth the modest amount of money for a half hour lesson once a week.

I hope some of those things are useful to you.

anon6789 , 2 months ago

I found a short paper in the NIH library since most sources seem to be from water companies.

Other than the water will taste like it’s missing something, because it is, there doesn’t seem to be any conclusive proof of harm. Calcium and magnesium seemed to be the 2 main things people in even industrialized nations may be short on in their diet that they could benefit from having in their water.

The one thing I did find of interest from the paper was this:

This processed water has no residual chlorine and stored or dispensed in PVC can/bottles provides no protection against probable microbial contamination due to handling which is taken care of in conventional system of water supply having free residual chlorine.

So when you dispense it after distillation, it is more prone to some forms of contamination that treated water.

I’m not sure the purpose of removing minerals to just add them back in. You would have to figure out the “blend” you prefer, and the supplement industry is not free from controversy, so being positive what you’re reintroducing to the water is now a question. With tap water, you should be able to get a report of it’s composition from your water company.

anon6789 , 2 months ago

Most of the time it’s tulips. They’re classic, not overly fancy, come in a ton of colors and a few different petal shapes if you need something a little extra, and they just remind me of spring and the shape makes me happy.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/fd6e154b-a347-483b-90d7-0ee57400a008.jpeg

The one I like that’s out of my league is the fuchsia. I wanted one for a few years, kept forgetting to buy one, and last year I finally got one. It was about double what I like to spend on plants because half of them die because I’m an over-waterer. The fuchsia lasted a week. 😣

This thing looks magical though, and I still can’t believe it’s from this planet.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/d13a2e51-f728-4c79-84cf-a1f8341f7744.jpeg

anon6789 , 2 months ago

They’re just so versatile. Even a single one has great minimalist beauty. A nice bouquet adds a burst of color to match or complement a room. And their straight, controlled shape can make beautiful displays or patterns outdoors. I also enjoy them at all stages of bloom too.

anon6789 , 2 months ago

Oh no! You picked a dark magic one! 😮

They would definitely not be as charming if that happened.

anon6789 , 2 months ago

Do we move to more unpackaged goods and bring our own containers to fill at markets?

This used to seem like a good idea to me too, and from what I’ve since learned, it seems all grocery stores used to operate this way. Sergei on the Ushanka Show YouTube channel said Soviet stores ran that way too until the end of that era.

The problem which becomes clear when you think about it, is imagine if you had to wait in the deli counter line for half of your purchases. The store only has so many employees, and everything you want needs to be measured. That’s a ton of time and labor. Do you want to wait in line for any item not sold in a one size only unit?

Swapping used containers (like we do with 20 lb propane tanks, leave an empty or pay extra, take a full) or compostable wrapping like rice paper or waxed paper seem to be the best shot to save time and material.

anon6789 , 2 months ago

I normal don’t read that type of thing, but if just be curious to see how these people justify wanted to back homeless people getting fed and cleaned up by the church.

Most of the Reddit ones I felt were fake to begin with, and there’s enough real negative stuff I need to read to stay informed that I didn’t need the negativity for “fun.”

anon6789 , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Barred Owls are very successful owls and there is no shortage of them. That’s why they can kill so many of them and it won’t hurt the population as a whole. Anyone who wants a Barred Owl already has one. It’s like how you would immediately overload regular animal shelters if you collected every stray dog or cat and asked them to feed and home them on their own dime. Zoos are a bit different I believe, but raptor shelters are all privately funded and in most states you can count one one hand the number of people licensed to properly care for them. There is a ton of bureaucracy in place, designed to protect these animals, that limits greatly who can do what with them. It’s technically a felony for a person to have a single owl feather.

The real problem is humans have destroyed the environment where these much less aggressive and adaptable Spotted Owls live, and we expect them to survive in a niche that doesn’t work for them. The Barred Owls are the unfortunate scapegoat here.

Without the US and Canada willing to say no to their respective timber industries, I say let them hybridize. Otherwise I’m afraid the Spotted Owl will be gone from the wild in my lifetime. Raising them captive and releasing them has not been working well either. See the article in the edit of my big post.

It’s like if we cloned a mammoth. We can make more, but the environment they lived in doesn’t really exist anymore.

anon6789 , 2 months ago

It does happen and they know about it. This has been going on for years, but not to this scale. The increase in cull numbers is why this is news, not that this process is new. This has been going on since the 1970s.

It gets more and more painful as the number of Spotted Owls dwindles. I feel this is just prolonging the inevitable at this point.

No offense to the OP, but this story wrecks my day every time I run across it because this was all so preventable.