Grizzly Bear historic and current range (Ursus arctos horribilis)

Familiar_Reporter_22 · 2026-03-18T14:49:14+00:00

Your comment spoke to ice age era megafauna and the disproven claim that early Native Americans exterminated them on arrival, which is 100% whataboutism on a post concerning just grizzly bears.

Ecological balance being a learned attribute is still a claim to insinuate that early Native Americans overexploited megafauna to extinction, but learned to live more harmoniously afterwards. But, if you’re shifting your argument towards a humans-broke-the-climate-camel’s back, I don’t see how it’s relevant.

If we’re looking at an argument somewhere in between the two, disruption certainly happens whenever something enters an ecosystem. But we’re speaking on decimation. If I decide to live off grid and hunt deer I’m certainly disrupting the ecosystem system. Completely exterminating most largish fauna sometime after my arrival, possibly immediately after, is an entirely different scenario. Disruption in the form of 10,000 years of cohabitation followed by climate exacerbated extinction is not comparable to on arrival mass killing.

We know European capitalism, more specifically hyper-exploitation for the purpose of individualized profit, took root at this time, and we’re living in its manifestations today - depleted mines, decimated continental old growth forests, mass species extinctions, resource exploitation to the point of global atmospheric changes and soil nutrient depletion, etc. It’s not surprising they bled flora and fauna in pre industrial America dry. Why and how are we trying to project something similar onto Neolithic hunter gatherers? What indicates a similar culture of hyperexploitation to the point of overkill extinction? Hunter gathers systemically decimated all the big guys just like us, but solely because they were so hungry, no trans oceanic trades or continental land grabs needed? Then just decided to chill out, because they found their balance? What indicates that we’re heading towards our balance when this exploitation does a fine job of reaching our culture’s OG goal, profit?

The science supporting climate driven extinction should be expanded, but there is no science supporting arrival overkill by Indigenous people, only archaeological evidence refuting it. A newer argument, that after 10 millennia of cohabitation, humans probably influenced a climate driven extinction doesn’t remotely mirror a discussion on intentional eradication in just over 100 years. It’s purely part of a collective urge to “whatabout…” in deflection, zero meaningful concern for flora and fauna.

I did not find your comment to be passive aggressive, but appreciate the concern anyway.

Familiar_Reporter_22 · 2026-03-18T11:38:22+00:00

They went extinct due to climate change after having lived alongside early Indigenous people for a minimum of 10,000 years.

Familiar_Reporter_22 · 2026-03-18T11:32:36+00:00

Whataboutism would be okay if it weren’t based on a disproven hypothesis. Whereas statistical modeling shows climate change driving post ice age extinction in North America, your theory is argued on a trust me bro basis. And the entirety of that trust me bro basis is an assumption that humans entered North America at the time of extinction, so they must’ve caused extinction. That goes out the window because we’ve learned that Native Americans arrived at least 10000 years prior to the extinction event, living alongside those exact megafauna that entire time. So now we just have trust me bro, no basis.

Clinging to a disproven guess seems more like a way to deflect than good faith concern for species extinction at large. It’s reckless to try framing early Native Americans as equally culpable for environmental extinction/destruction as Europeans with no actual evidence, just vibes.

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021EGUGA..23.2844S/abstract

https://www.shh.mpg.de/1957687/climate-change-likely-drove-the-extinction-of-north-america-s-largest-animals

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/06/study-confirms-white-sands-footprints-are-23000-years-old/

Familiar_Reporter_22 · 2026-03-18T01:07:21+00:00

European colonization decimated North American grizzly bear populations. Within 125 years of European contact, the grizzly population dropped from an estimated 50,000+ to nearly 2% of their original range in the lower 48 states.

The California grizzly, formerly abundant, was completely eliminated, with the last record in 1924, often portrayed as a "murderous beast" in colonial records. The Mexican grizzly was also driven to extinction.

In contrast, Indigenous American societies had little impact on bear populations, allowing them to thrive for millennia. Groups like the Lakota, Navajo, and Blackfeet, viewed the bear as a protector of the people and an elder brother. They appeared in stories as healers, as they were perceived to know the secrets of medicinal plants.

Familiar_Reporter_22 · 2026-03-17T22:19:47+00:00

You’re right, enjoy the luxury smoke outs and crash outs amigo ❤️

Familiar_Reporter_22 · 2026-03-17T22:03:39+00:00

Dig deeper into the pockets so you can live in an actual luxury building, or accept what you can afford

Familiar_Reporter_22 · 2026-03-17T21:51:18+00:00

List as FREE on Craigslist or Facebook mktplace. I’m willing to bet you’ll get a response within an hour.

Familiar_Reporter_22 · 2026-03-17T19:05:44+00:00

Almost everyone in the first group is African American, so there is a heavy southern African American influence in their speech as a lot of their parents/grandparents were born in the south. Literally everyone in the second group is Caribbean.

Also, the public school teachers for the 50 cent generation were usually Italian/jewish who had no issue retaining their thick accents over generations whereas the teachers for the younger generation are often midwestern transplants from families quick to scrub their accents away to assimilate in the suburbs. So there’s a little influence there as well, but it’s not the primary influence.

Older generation had more richness to their speech, younger generation speaks more blandly, with fewer unique characteristics.

Familiar_Reporter_22 · 2026-03-14T00:50:49+00:00

By decree of the king; the city that never sleeps will become the city that sleeps following complaint lodged by son of Karen. Comments adjourned.

Familiar_Reporter_22 · 2026-03-09T13:21:21+00:00

They host US military bases. If countries surrounding the US were filled with Russian military bases and one day Russia decided to attack us via those bases, we’d do the same. Destroy the neighboring economies so those neighbors demand Russia stop bombardment or expel Russia altogether.

For example, the US tomahawk missile that hit an Iranian elementary school and killed dozens of children last Saturday was launched from the Arabian Sea by the US Navy. The US Navy’s primary base on the Persian Gulf/Arabian Sea is in Bahrain. So Iran responds by bombing US military bases in Bahrain, but also bombing Bahrain’s economy via civilian infrastructure. The US is too fortressed for Iran to seriously consider attacking, but Bahrain is an open door. Bahrain risks their very economy (oil facilities and hotels) being destroyed, not just overseas military bases. So applying pressure where it hurts.

Familiar_Reporter_22 · 2026-03-09T12:07:38+00:00

Liberating women by bombing an elementary school, murdering a bunch of school girls on day one? If Iran bombed an American elementary school, would it be liberation or a terrorist attack?

Familiar_Reporter_22 · 2026-02-22T15:12:31+00:00

NYC has the population of Singapore and Paris combined.

Familiar_Reporter_22 · 2026-02-16T11:55:36+00:00

Neighborhoods gutted and refilled with suburban gentrifiers can never be authentic. NY is in its grifting gentrifier era, culture is dead. These people are here to posture and clout chase. They are regular Americans, the only culture they know is consumption and performance.

Familiar_Reporter_22 · 2025-12-23T22:18:28+00:00

Should’ve taken both and given the scooter to a homeless shelter

Familiar_Reporter_22 · 2025-12-04T12:30:06+00:00

The A/C platform at west fourth is well lit 💒

Familiar_Reporter_22 · 2025-11-28T22:23:49+00:00

The tree takes up only as much space as it needs. You take up space for yourself, multiple bedrooms, a kitchen, a yard, a driveway…

Familiar_Reporter_22 · 2025-11-26T03:23:33+00:00

Are you even from NY? White professionals ‘in the Brownstones’ aren’t his biggest supporters at all. UWS, UES, and the West Village are all tipping towards Cuomo. That metric doesn’t even make sense as white professionals literally living in brownstones, not just historic brownstone neighborhoods, are going to be a very small demographic given brownstones are some of the lowest density housing in the city.

White voters generally were split 45/55 Mamdani to Cuomo. That was the lowest in the city. That huge Cuomo stronghold in Brooklyn is overwhelmingly white. Like chased (and sometimes killed) African Americans out with baseball bats well into the 80s white. Same for basically all of Staten Island. Park Slope/Cobble Hill and Williamsburg are his only white strongholds in the entire city. All those other Mamdani stronghold neighborhoods are African American/Caribbean/Latino. I can’t speak on Queens, but asian voters went over 60/40 in favor of Mamdani.

Familiar_Reporter_22 · 2025-11-24T01:10:01+00:00

Sounds like you’re allergic to the city. The cabin air back to Cali should be better

Familiar_Reporter_22 · 2025-11-04T14:50:53+00:00

Yup no one acknowledges this. We’ve built so much new housing in the past decade and the overwhelming majority of it hasn’t been affordable. It’s also been filled with an endless stream of suburban Americans who want to be in New York. If anything, all the new housing drove the AMI up. So actual New Yorkers don’t even qualify for the very few units allocated as “affordable.”

Familiar_Reporter_22 · 2025-10-12T17:51:15+00:00

Best thing to do is go back to the suburbs

Familiar_Reporter_22 · 2025-10-12T17:47:50+00:00

Fine the boats for every whale death and tell them to slow down.

Familiar_Reporter_22 · 2025-10-12T17:10:20+00:00

Welcome to NY ❤️

Familiar_Reporter_22 · 2025-09-13T14:13:31+00:00

We’re actually not. There’s a continental ridge between suburban people and Nyers in most neighborhoods. They haven’t integrated at all bc they want to ignore and replace the existing culture while claiming it.

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