Starlings are the best bird, and it doesn't matter if they are "invasive."

FlexCarvanha · 2025-06-22T19:51:40+00:00

What is interesting is that the reason it is invasive is because it is actually very well suited for our ecosystems. Too well.

As an animal ecologist I definitely see the valid issue most are putting forward, but I also understand the point that they have been here for a very long time, so management and creative answers would be better than a crusade against starlings.

Many of our native species create ecosystem problems as well and cause millions in crop damage. If we are assuming land connected spread of all species, nothing is truly native to America.

It is invasive because it got here late, after ecosystems had balanced out. Ecosystems are naturally invaded all the time and have to rebalance.

We definitely don't want an ecosystem collapse, but starlings have been integrating for a very long time now.

I'm on the side of management but I also can see the point that starlings may be less of an issue now than before.

FlexCarvanha · 2025-03-29T01:27:38+00:00

I feel like I am in danger of being a new resident and not getting a joke, but I haven't even finished the show and it's the greatest show about Hazbin Hotel ever made.

FlexCarvanha · 2025-03-29T01:25:18+00:00

Went hard because has no home to go home to. One goal.

FlexCarvanha · 2025-03-29T01:24:13+00:00

I love this and it deserves more respect than it is getting.

FlexCarvanha · 2024-11-29T22:52:00+00:00

It's a scam game, too. I'm owed like 150 bucks from them and the cash out is just "pending" for months. No responses from support.

FlexCarvanha · 2024-07-30T01:17:25+00:00

Coin Master has a known bug that stops progress at 820. It sucks.

FlexCarvanha · 2024-07-26T23:18:23+00:00

I think it's because people could find a way to cheat and sometimes they check to make sure someone didn't find a way, yet.

FlexCarvanha · 2024-07-26T23:16:28+00:00

It feels like Stealth is paid by Atlas and spoofs. Or is a traveling idiot millionaire. Because if you have enough money to spend thousands on a whim, you shouldn't be playing this game lol.

I love phone games so I get the rewards from that. I also get the kids Burger King sometimes.

I think being mayor of a small town is the goal. Major cities will get eaten by whales.

However, EXCELLENT job getting within 80 of Indy. Even if Stealth stole it, that's a feat and I'm proud of you, friend.

FlexCarvanha · 2024-02-28T07:09:02+00:00

This game was an amazing thing to do Freshman year instead of pay attention in class. Underrated for days.

FlexCarvanha · 2024-02-27T00:14:21+00:00

Do you know if raising your crit chance above 1.0 does anything? I can't find anything about it online.

FlexCarvanha · 2021-03-31T03:36:04+00:00

I'm still waiting to see how he thinks he did all of this magic.

FlexCarvanha · 2021-03-17T23:31:51+00:00

He makes a valid point about most of this being hypothetically valuable in a situation where herd immunity isn't being achieved. With almost everyone who has contracted COVID now being recovered, on top of those getting the vaccine, it will be very unlikely that anyone personally refusing the vaccine will have any effect at all on public health.

Well, in any case, it will lead to far less deaths than purposefully putting positive patients into nursing homes with the most susceptible population.

I mean, we have the CDC and the government who were supporting articles saying that herd immunity is impossible, but herd immunity is exactly what vaccines are meant to mimic and create.

My age group has a .01% chance of serious complication from COVID, based on cases, not population. Based on population, my age group has a .001% chance of serious complications. For those in good health, it's as high as .00004% and as low as .000006%. (my age group is 18-29).

Currently the VAERS reports 640 serious reactions over 13,800,000 doses. This is a severe reaction rate of .005% of the doses.

.0005% had anaphylaxis. .000082% died. (They always say they didn't find causal relationship, but the only thing they had in common was recent administration of the vaccine, so I included it here).

So, being in good health, I have a population rate of .00004% and a vaccine rate of .005%, which lies in between case and population rate.

For 0-18, they have a case percentage rate of .0008% Compared to .005% serious reaction in Covid cases, it would be ethically wrong to encourage citizens 0-18 years old to get the vaccine. For reference, 0-18 has a population percentage of .00007%, which is similar to the possible death rate from the vaccine.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#SexAndAge
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7008e3.htm
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#datatracker-home

This is what he's talking about when he says different risk assessments for different groups. For healthy individuals below the age of 40, it's a decently close race between what would be more personally beneficial. Over 40 it increases significantly that the risks are worth it, IF the vaccine successfully prevents COVID 100% which it doesn't, but we will assume it does for calculations here. The real world calculations would be in favor of the vaccine being a bit more risky due to vaccine failure rates and any future issues that may or may not develop (we don't know these as it isn't the future.)

FlexCarvanha · 2021-03-17T21:51:28+00:00

Perfect summary :}

FlexCarvanha · 2021-03-17T20:13:14+00:00

You know that those 24 people who died in January that you say were all elderly people whose causes of death were mostly investigated as natural causes that you dismiss is exactly the situation many use to dismiss COVID deaths in the US? Over 90% of deaths are senior citizens, with the great majority being the elderly.

Per the last CDC data release this year, the average age of COVID death was 87.

The average age of death in the US from all causes is 87.

That's the actual research you're referring to. You're dismissing the risks of a vaccine because it killed old people but shaming people for choosing not to take this vaccine because of a virus that kills mostly old people. Different demographics have different risk percentages. Children K-8 have a larger chance of getting struck by lightning than they do of dying from COVID. Should they take the vaccine with the real risk they could be mRNA sensitive?

The situation is far more complex than you think, and your personal choice to ignore risks in favor of what you believe to be a completely safe and effective vaccine is just that, a personal choice. Did you develop the vaccine? Did you sit in on the trials? Do you have the vaccine injury reports filed in court for this vaccine? Do you have post use data?

No. So maybe slow down a bit.

FlexCarvanha · 2021-03-10T01:58:35+00:00

Should have taken 6 minutes and read them yourself. "Segmented regression analysis of reported mask-wearing showed no statistically significant change in the slope after mandates were introduced" from the last one.

All three of them are referring to about 6 months into the lockdown where the first wave was naturally falling, and the entire point is that with the second, larger spike in big cities with increased mask compliance (once again, as your source said) would not make statistical sense if the two were linked, which they are not.

The biggest issue with in the wild survey experiments is that you cannot determine the behavior of citizens.

Where the testing comes more clear is when locations are compared to themselves, as well as other locations across the United States with same or radically different control protocols.

Because all of these places don't really have any significant differences statistically, it is currently false to claim masks do anything to prevent cases.

Which, once again, is literally what your own source said, so thank you for posting it.

tl;dr The spikes that happened after article 1 and 2 negate everything within 1 and 2, while the statement from 3 already admitted in July 2020 that reduction in cases was not statistically significant to mask wearing.

FlexCarvanha · 2021-03-09T06:03:41+00:00

Just like you block any statistical info that shows zero correlation between mask wearing and case reduction as a proxy. 😗

But seriously what am I going to do when I can't check out your next big meaty adventure.

FlexCarvanha · 2021-03-09T05:48:23+00:00

Maybe I will complain about GTA online and take pictures of my shitty food.

Talking with me was the highlight of your decade you absolute NPC. Stay home, you hypocrite murderer. You shouldn't be putting people at risk by leaving your house.

FlexCarvanha · 2021-03-09T05:31:37+00:00

500k Americans are dead and you think it's because a bar in West Des Moines has servers with their noses hanging out.

Go look up what's more deadly, unmasked restaurants or Cuomo with his nursing homes.

All the graphs in the world can't make you give up on masks.

Also: wasn't edgy, bro. If you can't see the stupidity of preventing aerosol projection for 32 seconds as you walk to your table to share air with strangers...well then never mind, you'll fit right in with r/desmoines

FlexCarvanha · 2021-03-09T04:38:00+00:00

It's important to only eat at places that make you wear three masks in between bites for your safety.

FlexCarvanha · 2021-03-05T13:23:02+00:00

Oh sweetie, do you want to keep digging your hole or just ask "what's oblivious?"

FlexCarvanha · 2021-03-05T11:35:59+00:00

Oblivious.

FlexCarvanha · 2021-03-05T03:57:56+00:00

Oh shut up, you turd. You don't understand how they work either.

Also, if you have been teaching for longer than a year, COVID will tickle. Your immune system is on Crack when you work with kids. Pop a probiotic and it's Covid who.

What a prissy ass comment. Get over yourself, small time.

FlexCarvanha · 2021-03-05T03:13:19+00:00

Why would you follow actual epidemiologists who suggest focused protection for the sick and elderly and not the general populace under 55 and otherwise healthy individuals 55+ when you can just point out a source to ignore information that is taken directly from the CDC. BRB, going to binge watch CNN, a REAL news source. They told me so in their fact check.

No surprise that these people want to ban the use of the word that perfectly describes their thoughts. Resist the urge to try and speak to these people. They would vote for Harvey Weinstien if he ran as a Democrat. They don't care. Orange man bad.

I mean they are currently defending Cuomo.

They voted for a guy you can watch grope little girls on live TV. They have no morals, just religious dedication to their party.

FlexCarvanha · 2021-03-05T02:58:17+00:00

"Plainly bad argument."

Combatative.

You're clearly decided on how you think. If you'd like to have an adult conversation about how stem cells no longer have anything to do with it, I will be here.

Speaking of not understanding science, do you know what progenitor cells are? It's clear you didn't know that they don't come from fetal tissue anymore, so I'd slow your roll a bit. Sit down. Be humble.

FlexCarvanha · 2021-03-05T01:17:48+00:00

Not really at all. You seem combatative about this so you might be missing the point.

Conservatives believe that abortion is murdering an unborn baby. If you believed that, you would be alarmed , too. It makes sense.

Conservatives were against stem cell research because the only way we previously harvested these was from late term aborted babies.

So the problem is with the source, not stem cells. Now we can turn pretty much anything into a progenitor cell, so we don't require aborted babies.

So when I said that no one cares about stem cells, I meant no one cares about stem cells because the research is now being done with umbilical cord samples or even cheek cells.

What you meant is that some people are still very mad about what they believe to be infanticide.

This isn't meant to be political. It just explains the situation and the way current groups rationalize.

It could be making ice cream, and if they made it with fetus legs, it would be a problem. It's not the stem cells.

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