Redfox8

But what came first? The jellyfish or the egg??!!

So do you

Oooooffff.....curtesty of the IRA...

Alas I can't find any news reports in the UK stating hundreds of thousands, that's a really significant number of people for the UK, rather tens of thousands. Last year saw 300,000 pro Palestine protesters head to London, but it appears to be an over-'estimation' for this protest. Great to see people still going out in the UK though.

Paper chains around the room!

Alien in 1979..

I spend too much time at my pc or driving so get lower back pain. I recently found this workout that's really good. It's challenging but really works well! I sometimes have to ease back a little, especially on the last part, but it still helps.

Apologies, I can't remember how/where to get alternative YT links.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=4BOTvaRaDjI&si=4FUa7oy5yxuktPVQ

Thanks for clarifying. My point was not to ilicit sympathy, any such violence is ahorant and the perpetrator must take responsibility, ultimately, but rather to illicit empathy. To understand how and why people end up in such a place then creates the starting point to find solutions, or at least, minimise how frequently they may occur within a population in the future.

As such, I'm inclined to think that in at least some of the cases where the individual commits suicide once the police turn up, they have reached a total breaking point, so to speak, and the last option they can see has gone so suicide is sll that's left.

This to me doesn't suggest a 'bad' person, more so someone who has found themselves in a terrible place, particularly in cases where that's no fault of their own, and are wndingvup doing something bad. Being 'bad' to me is closer to gansta/mobster mentality - e.g. killing people is fine, so long as its not us, and i cant imagine any mass shooter being someone like that. There are a myriad of variables of course, and this may only apply to some of the people painted as 'bad' in this infografic.

I understand clearly that you think domestic cats are a natural part of the ecosystem, which they are not. Just because they were introduced a long time ago that doesn't make them natural predators, and just becsuse their impact on native wildlife started a long time ago, that only makes it all the more damaging.

Yes we have wildcats, but like any animal, they have a natural niche. Domestic cats are simply everywhere and their populations are sustained by humans far far above any possible natural population numbers.

Therefore it is completely relevant to keep domestic cats indoors. I don't know about the US approach you're referring to, but I expect that domestic cats can have a similar impact there as anywhere.

There is simply nothing natural about domestic cats in natural ecosystems. I presented four peices of evidence and you still don't see it!

The say the UK lacks predators, you clearly seem to have read one thing about it (I'm guessing about wolves, and therefore large predators, which have a completely different ecological niche to small cats, wild or domestic) and extrapolate that to equate this idea of yours!

You've simply got it wrong.

Absolute BS!

Domestic cats are well known predators of rodents, birds and bats!

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cats-kill-a-staggering-number-of-species-across-the-world/

https://www.felineresearch.org/post/issue-brief-wildlife-impacts-of-outdoor-cats

https://www.birdspot.co.uk/garden-birds-and-cats/cats-and-the-decline-of-garden-birds

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/14/cats-kill-birds-wildlife-keep-indoors

Phwarrr, that's a sexy pose ;)