All of Oceania is this. There’s a lot of unique land animals that evolved with no threat. European colonisation really fucked that entire region and the ecosystems within.

On average, each roaming, hunting pet cat kills more than three animals every week. The numbers add up. On average, over a year each roaming and hunting pet cat in Australia kills 186 animals. This number includes 110 native animals (40 reptiles, 38 birds and 32 mammals).

That’s for Australia’s 3.7M pet cats that aren’t kept indoors 24/7. So that’s approx 407M native animals killed each year by cat lovers that don’t responsibly take care of their cat—71% of cat owners. Factor in other contamination and habitat destruction, you can expect that to be closer or even over half a billion native animals killed each year.

So, yeah, Oceania countries will hunt and kill cats. And anyone that doesn’t keep their cat inside or at least bell it’s collar, is a real piece of shit. Certainly doesn’t give a fuck about animals and the environment. It’s a totally different part of the world to Eurasia where it’s fine to just have strays all over the countryside because they’re actually a part of the functioning ecosystem.

Source: https://biodiversitycouncil.org.au/resources/the-impact-of-roaming-pet-cats-on-australian-wildlife

SQL enjoyer?

Every time I use it I feels like I’m going back to the 90s. No variables, no functions; Oh but you can do a CTE or subquery…👍

UNION ALL, UNION ALL, UNION ALL… “There’s got to be a better way, surely…”

looks up better way

“Oh, what the fuck?!.. Nope, this will just be quicker…” UNION ALL, UNION ALL, UNION ALL…

Join in a table sharing column names… Everything breaks. You gotta put the new prefixes in front of all the headers you called in now. In every select, in every where, etc… Which is weird because that kinda works like a variable and it’s fine…

“When you see this little piece of text, it means all this, got it?”

“Okay. Yep. Easy.”

“So why can’t you do that with expressions?”

SQL SCREAMS MANICALLY

“Okay, okay, okay!.. Jesus…”

And then you try put a MAX in a where and it won’t let you because you gotta pull all the maxes out in their own query, make a table, join them in, and use them like a filter…

I hate it. It has speed, when you can finally run the script, but everything up to that is so…ugh.

Thought I’d make a “What is my purpose?” meme

Needed a picture of a chicken to cover the robot…

Welp, no need to make the meme anymore…

We probably churn through that amount every six months 🫤 But would they even still exist without us? The existential crisis of the chicken.

They didn’t have one and just doubled down on them not having vertebrae so therefore weren’t part of the animal kingdom.

Yeah, we had originally thought mice until our brains went exoskeleton.

Edit: That makes it sound like we were so open mind d our brains fell out 🤣

I was at a trivia night and a question was, “Apart from humans, what’s the two highest populated species in the animal kingdom?”

Now, I’m not the smartest brain inhabiting a future corpse, but I did do basics in school.

I say to my group, “Maybe plankton? But I don’t know if there’s some technicality over that being a plant or something. If I were to guess, probably ants and then flies.” We agreed and went with that.

NOPE!!!

Cats and dogs apparently!!!

This didn’t even make sense to us if considering just the mammals.

I protested.

The quiz master said “The question is about the animal kingdom.”

“Well, if insects aren’t animals, what are they?”

He dug in his heels, we weren’t getting the points. And to make things even more bizarre, most other teams said cats and/or dogs to get 1 or 2 points.

We found a new trivia night.

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First of all, wash your sheets if you aren’t doing it regularly. Then have a quick look around fo mould. Lastly, minimise laundry left on the floor and vacuum more if they’re carpeted. A third of our time is in our bedroom, so things can get blocked up if stuff is in the air.

If that’s all good, okay, time to start considering the cat 🥺 The most common allergy is from their saliva on themselves from cleaning, or skin falling off from cleaning. If they’re cleaning themselves in your bed or shortly before coming into bed, that’s most likely it.

Way to flex your indoctination

Press the buttons on the top.

Actually turns out he’s a great guy and this video was edited together by a competitor trying to ruin his reputation.

Have never met a Samir that wasn’t a great guy

Use it all the time (UHF). But only get comms on other off-roaders, all the trucks, or caravamers. It’s very useful. I give out handhelds to friends if we’re travelling together.Honestly, phones are pretty shit in comparison.

I’m glad it’s not popular for other drivers, though. One of the main benefits is most people don’t use it, so the bands don’t get clogged with shit.

And somehow crawling is silent mode.

Maybe if someone lets Miss Universe know she can send the message on.

Restart to find out.

“Couldn’t reboot because these programs”

9 of them

“Restart anyway?”

Technically it’s true. There’s a high chance bits and pieces of you have been used in other life several times, though you were more likely parts of plants than other creatures.

And when you die, you’ll be reused again. Nature has always been like that.

It’s going to look tacky. You’ve seen what he’s done to the Oval Office. It’ll be $230M for that slap-dash look of awful design populated with gilded nonsense to try seem classy.