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I believe the SAG(Screen Actors Guild) just had a big strike about AI likenesses without proper compensation.

No. I am saying it is not solved and that articles like this are skirting the real problem, which is probably pesticides and herbicides.

The decrease in bird populations of North America is new phenomenon and has only started some time since 1970. Notably, a lot of the songbirds affected are grassland species that dine on insects, seeds and berries, all of which are covered in or have ingested pesticides at farms. And is known, though not well documented, that insect populations are also plummeting but at a much steeper rate that songbirds.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyall%27s_wren

Wrong. Feral cats, plural, leftover from the construction workers that built the lighthouse and facilities on the island, are blamed for the extinction.

Lol, Person points out logical flaws in only blaming cats and suggests the root problem is known problematic pesticides and herbicides that are doing things like creating the conditions for "colony collapse disorder" in bees.

Also I'm up to date on my booster shots.

thats my point

If house cats were actually some kind of living natural disaster, birds would have driven extinct millenia ago. To solely blame housecats for the mass extinction of songbirds that have existed beside them for hundreds to thousands of years without any appreciable population effect is insane.

Also while DDT has its own host of issues regarding it building up in the food chain, my concern here is the post-DDT ones.

*Slava.

No it absolutely doesnt.

It absolutely states that birds are considersbly more at risk, and that we dont know how by how much. Try reading more than the intro next time.

I said that cats arent the problem, they're a symptom of it. That is a definition of a multifacted problem. That paper absolutely says the same thing.

The reality is that you could keep every housecat inside and it would not stop the decline.

Say you didn't understand what any of those papers said without saying you didn't understand what those papers said.

I too have seen that scene from Doctor Who.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg4mcdhIsvU

Dropout.tv is what I dropped Netflix for and I absolutely don't regret it. They do Dimension 20 dnd shows as well as a number of comedy and skit shows. You can generally find a lot of the stuff on Youtube.

People are being sterilized en mass.

Equally, before the post-DDT pesticides(when the decline started), housecats didn't exist, never went outside and never killed anything.

/s

Go look at the other reply where I sourced my opinion.

Https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8640698/

1. We didn't know or study the effects of pesticides in various wild birds. And it varies wildly between species, with chickens not being a good general case. Also that birds are considerably more affected by pesticides than mammals.
2. Simple logic. Housecats do not have access to deep woods or exist in large populations outside of cities and suburbs in North America, yet the populations are declining there. This implies that they are not the cause of the decline.
3. This logic is backed up by https://www.birds.cornell.edu/home/bring-birds-back#:~:text=All%20told%2C%20the%20North%20American%20bird%20population%20is,declined%20by%2053%25%2C%20or%20another%20720%20million%20birds.

LWhich points out that it is a multitude of factors and that grassland species(i.e. farmland) are the most affected, with wetland and forest species being less affected.

4. Further logic is that the decline is a relatively new phenomenon. But housecats killing birds is not new. Therefore something else is behind the decline, and simply keeping cats inside will not fix the issue.

That its only a symptom of the real problem and won't actually solve anything.

The animals they catch are weakened from pesticides.

She might well go to church.

But given what she gets up to in public theaters, I think her attention might not be on the priest.

Doesnt really change the joke.

1. One of the points of the books is that the laws were inherently flawed.
2. Given that we're talking about a Google product, you might have more success asking if they're bound by the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition?

Don't hate spiderman. Hate the writers roughly since 2000 that only let him have a break from misery when he's in an alternate universe where he never became spider man.

Bing also grabs w3Schools as the top / AI result. However, the AI result also lets you swap to a Stack Overflow result.

And it has a bar across the top linking to different parts of the official website, including the landing page for the documentation.