Apex predators are really important in any ecosystem. They found this out 'the hard way' in Yellowstone, eh? Otherwise the 'bottom feeders' will eat & eat, their numbers explode until there is no more food! Then they die off in gigantic numbers. That's normal in most difficult ecosystems, but not too high or too low. The predators follow the herd animal numbers, delayed by a couple of years, usually.
So without housecats eating all those birds and rodents? Either they'll enter an unsustainable boom & bust cycle or something else will emerge to eat them. Something we'll like a lot less!
They are now!
Cities, farms, roads & bushland are also part of the ecosystem... now! There used to be a lot of prairie out there, 99% is gone. When humans stopped the routine prairie grassfires? The trees quickly invaded.
So yes, cats are part of the new ecosystem now. Plenty of invasive species have been in North America long enough to be 'native' now.
250,000 victims. That's basically 1 in 3 women of the affected age span in the UK. For decades this went on & authorities refused to even lift a finger to stop them. Starmer himself gave out (iirc) 12,000 "warnings" to Muslim men accused of raping girls. I doubt there was a single conviction when he held the position equivalent to DA.
It's far worse than we imagined, and still nothing will be done. Maybe 300 convictions in all these years, last time I checked. I doubt there's been ANY more added.
The vast majority of birds killed by cats, feral or house pets, are at the lowest end of the endangered scale, Abundant? Overpopulated? Something like that.
Feral cats will eat any bird they catch or they'll starve.
Cats also kill bazillions of rodents too.
My city & many others has a "trap, fix & release" program in place for many years now. They put a chip in them for easy identification as previously caught. 😺
Turbines kill off VERY rare or endangered birds regularly. Lots of bats too. They actually pay a tiny fee to get a permit to kill hawks and eagles! You try getting a permit to shoot bald eagles, lolz!
Killing animals at the bottom of the food chain is normal. That's how nature works. Killing off the top predators is very bad for the ecosystem! It can lead to dramatic "boom & bust" cycles that are far from good for any creatures involved, including the plant life.
That's a special sort of stupid right there!
I know a tiny bit about the small-budget movie industry. We get several of them every year in my city, tax incentives plus an established base of support. They try SO HARD to find people who aren't idiots! Every mistake costs money, and the budgets are tight. It's good work if that's your thing, but it can be hard work too.
If you prove to be a good guy who "plays well with others" you will be sought out for new projects.
Their (women's) groups & organizations tend to sink towards the lowest common denominator over time. That is: the stupidest of them will become the 'normal' for the others.
All the while they're imagining they're getting smarter.
Based!
Source: I watch a LOT of anime! I came to the anime train late in life (like 12 years ago when I was a mere lad of 50) (All Purpose Cultural Catgirl Nuku Nuku (she's still my #1 waifu!)
Anyhow, I do or have watched a lot of genres, plus read a lot of manga, particularly yuri! Mmmm sweet sweet girls' love! Ahem! I can safely say that people saying "heteroslop" even exists are FUCKING IDIOTS. Goddam tourists who know dick-shit about anime.
I too am not (2:30 of the video) into yaoi (faggots) or BL stories (also faggots) BUT I've seen & read a few along the way. Remember: anime is not hentai these stories were PG-13 at the worst.
YEah, they're really going to block the most tech-savvy generation from access?
Remember when Hillary & Tipper's "Moms for Morality" got warning labels & lyrics printed on records (Later CDs too) to "stop obscenity"? One year later mountains of obscene product was pumped out because "there's a warning!" Enter gangsta rap & worse.
They tried the same with TV access. The running gag was "If you don't know how to block access to certain ratings, just ask your 12 year-old" 😂
This is all just cover for what Canada's Liberals really want: unfettered access to ALL the data, ever. No warrants, no probable cause, just endless fishing expeditions against political enemies with unlimited access provided by the Social Media providers 😣
It has merit. The fags kept the straights out of the industry. Not through overt discrimination, but by making it so disgustingly gay the straights avoided it entirely. Then came the "sleep your way to the top" to advance or to even get an entry position. It's the same in many entertainment industries, but the gays in power wanted gay sex or else you weren't even considered.
Cats v Birds! (Think: Alien v Predator)
Damn, they gots guns now! 😸 (That's the bi-line)