“seven-foot waves” from passing tugs? haha... that puts into question everything you wrote. Exaggerate much?

Alaska is part of the continental US. I believe the term you’re looking for “contiguous US”.

Why was that a bad date?

If/when you run over a mouse, will you be crushed forever? Or do you only feel remorse for running over the cutest animals? Is it ok for you to run over the mouse, but not ok for your cat to catch it? Just trying to make sense of this.

Not a bad company, but some of these remind me of the time our CEO was so enchanted by a salesmen that he hired the guy as our VP of IT, despite the fact that his minuscule tech background was 10 years old.

Did the toxic startup atmosphere disintegrate their ability to proofread? SO MANY SPELLING AND GRAMMAR ERRORS!!!

Haha. Honestly, at one point does an invasive species cease to be invasive? How many animals in any given ecosystem have always been there? The truth is that there are plenty of animals we now consider native that we introduced.

Some species are bred by people, but the majority reproduce on their own. Most of the cats you will find at shelters, pet stores, etc weren’t specifically bred in the way you’re suggesting. The argument you’re trying to make is not about breeding, but allowing for the population to grow by keeping them fed, but again,…

The same is true of livestock, which have a much more significant impact on the environment. You think all those farms and the harvested fields to feed them haven’t marginalized wildlife? To say nothing of the unnaturally large amounts of methane...

I wasn’t advocating keeping them outside altogether. You let them roam, explore and be free and interact with them. That’s ideal, imo. You sound like a great cat caretaker.

Perhaps that is because the list of commonly domesticated animals is rather short. Excluding livestock (some of which do roam free in parts of the US), there are only really cats, dogs. Certain rodents, birds, fish, and reptiles are kept as pets, but all have counterparts which do roam free without much issue and to…

If you honestly think that cats (and not say... humans?) are the greatest threat to the extinction of various species, then maybe you don’t understand how ecosystems work.

These titles are just so.... 90s cheezeball.

Any “cat-lover” who traps an animal that desperately wants to go outside and explore in their own little personal zoo, needs to reevaluate what “love” means.

Seriously? This crap again? Do you really feel so self-important that you think it is your responsibility to protect rodents and birds from their natural predators?

Sorry, but that’s just not true. Even on a relative scale, a rock hitting the Earth didn’t “just barely miss the moon”. Its not like either are stationary ‘targets’. An asteroid could strike the Earth when the moon is directly (based on trajectory) behind it, or conversely could hit the moon when the moon was in front…

I think its a very interesting paradox. It is easy to see how our species mingling shenanigans wreak havoc on delicate ecosystems, but one can also argue that it is somewhat natural for us to be doing this.

Yep. We’ve been invasive for most of our existence. The real question is when does an invasive species just become part of the normal ecosystem?

Eh, not really. “invasive” essentially refers to the advent of something which causes harm, disruption, or takes possession of something. In this case, one invasive species dominating a food source, which causes disruption. We don’t know how life began, but if it was essentially a chemical reaction (as opposed to an…

You’ll notice some of the other systems have changed in the side-by-side. We don’t know that the black hole is only feeding from the star, it is possible other objects (say a colossal gas cloud) had moved into close enough proximity to “feed it” again.