I don't feel too bad when I'm forced to use Reddit as a resource, because I have a pihole as well as a ton of adblockers, and I don't have a Reddit account anymore. I miss the niche communities, but I find that my life is better without that continual time sink with its constant silent downvoters, so I don't visit just to browse nor do I interact with the site beyond a page view. No upvoting, no downvoting (of course it's already impossible because I'm not logged in).
For some reason, when I tried that, I got a literal firehose of furry porn. Which is fine, I don't want to yuck anyone's yum, but it was...a lot. All at once. And I'm unable to determine exactly where it's coming from (new to Lemmy, and pretty sure NSFW is not allowed on Beehaw).
I never thought of it that way, even thought I know farmers who do not keep cats, and their farms are not overrun with rodents. Terrier dogs are very common for rodent control, but they are generally treated like pets, and probably are far less indiscriminate in their choice of prey. Thank you for expanding my thought process on this.
As a person who lives in a farming area- the farmers keep cats, but they are not pets- they're generally almost completely feral, allowed to breed uncontrolled, sometimes are not fed by humans, and when they inevitably wander into the road and are killed by cars, they are thought of as expendable- there are always more to replace them. I agree that there is probably no better rodent control, and rodent control is very necessary, but there has to be a better way to do it than using free-roaming feral farm cats.
I'm the person who posted above about her dogs killing a cat that came into our garden. It would have been my preference that my dogs were acclimatised to cats rather than seeing them as prey, but that would pretty much require that I had owned a cat when they were young dogs, and I didn't. They honestly react the exact same way to a cat that they would to a hare or a badger, but I'm sure the hare would be faster than them and the badger would fight back.
I agree. I live in a rural area in a country where cats were seen as farm tools rather than living beings and pets until very recently, and keeping a cat indoors is believed to be “cruel” by most, but I see cats killed by cars incredibly frequently.
Also, I have two highly prey-driven dogs who are always controlled except when they’re in my walled back garden. The neighbour’s outdoor cat wandered into my garden, and it ended in a tragedy that left both me and the neighbour traumatised. The cat didn’t survive. It was in no way my fault, or even really the dogs' fault- the cat should never have been allowed to wander into the dogs' space on my property.
Then the neighbour tried to have our dogs put down, claiming that the dogs had come into her garden, killed the cat, and returned to our garden. Thankfully the dog warden who came to investigate saw that this was patent nonsense- we have a double-gated 3-metre wall with wire across the top on the neighbour’s side, it’s not possible for the dogs to escape into the next garden and quickly return.
So the neighbour built a catio for her new cat and does not let it wander. I am deeply sorry that a cat died before she came to that conclusion, but she should have controlled her animal just as I control mine.
I have heard so many stories on accounts being restored after using PowerDeleteSuite, what I plan to do is just delete my account so that my various comments cannot be cross-referenced as coming from the same person. I wish I could wipe it and know it would stay wiped- as a European this is within my GDPR rights, but it seems that good old spez plans to ignore GDPR.
Absolutely, I already was over "sticking to a platform no matter what" when LIveJournal was bought by Russians in 2007. At one time LJ was practically my life, but I took a "scorched earth policy" with my blog there just as I did with all my Reddit content.
Of course it is, and also in memoriam of...lots of people, I suppose. If you like "Wish You Were Here" you probably get it.
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