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Don't discount disturbed land. Early successional habitat is even more biodiverse than old growth forests, and high quality early successional habitat is very rare in the south.

Is it possible that that influenced IKEA's decision to make the Skyrim mod in OP? That way, they have a stronger trademark case, because it's more likely for a consumer to confuse the fake IKEA game with the real one.

Chex Quest was awesome and got a ton of playtime in my household.

What about IEMs with custom earmolds?

> it's obviously advantageous to defend it religiously as "better than everyone else

Or laugh at ourselves about it, which is what we normally do.


To be fair, he wasn't wrong!

I would've thought it was obvious we shouldn't introduce beavers to South America if they aren't native there.

So obvious, but Argentinian government didn't see it coming. Thousands millions of dollars in damages caused by amateurs with power in Argentinian government.

Another example: Beavers are native from Sweden, but beavers on Sweden should be removed.


I do believe people still hunt beaver, but they usually trap them instead of shooting.

When I got my hunting license, part of the safety course was about trapping. The impression I got from that was that trapping is basically torturing animals to death and infinitely worse than shooting them with rifles.


> We won't be matching the power of the dinosaur comet anytime soon, and even that gave rise to mammals

Great, biodiversity will be restored in 100 million years, just in time for my great-great-great-great......grandchildren to enjoy.


Lol you wouldn't be here without it though.

> biodiversity will be restored

Restored? What are the appropriate levels of "diversity"?

Some facts humans cannot handle: - lifeforms suffer unimaginable agony every single day. - life is finite - humans are not beyond the natural order, human made global warming is natural, it won't end the planet or even us. - humans think because suffering makes them sad, suffering must be the bad. (Apart from when we don't like the other person or they've transgressed us in some way, were ethically clear to mete out violence)


> Lol you wouldn't be here without it though.

And?


Another disaster would be great the for the universe the same way we think we were great for the universe

Yeah they have rebounded a lot and we should celebrate that.

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