Cat is a standard util you bastard!
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Just use bat!
it's bloatware
It's coreutil
Linux isn't even on the list but neither is mac. Makes you think
because killing birds isn't a task of the kernel, it's the task of a userspace utility part of the coreutils
The one for appending files to the standard output, or the one for murdering unresponsive children?
UNIX-like superiority
Mac is also Unix based. Doesn't kill many birds.
This reminds me of the anti-wind-energy arguments about the turbines killing many birds...
Why is the bar for Windows as long as the bar for cats?
Because it's by area, not length.
It never even occurred to me to consider the height of the boxes lol
Don't blame cats
Those aren't birds, that's chicken. Dummy.
I'm a fat cat now
~~Fucking furball.~~ Fluffy!
how in the world are cats so good at killing something that can literally fly
They're built to kill. Crazy good reflexes and eyesight, amazing jump height, claws that grab hold of tree branches, feathers, and skin very nicely. There are a bunch of strays where I live, and they are murdering machines when they don't have a bowl of food plopped in front of them twice a day at their leisure.
Also whenthry do. Cats like to play
The only reason why cats aren't hunting us down right now is because we're too big to be prey. I read somewhere a long time ago that domestic cats have one of the highest predation success rate in the mammalian class. Meaning once they choose to actually try to hunt something they usually get it.
Yeah theres like two species that are better, and they're both also cats.
To be fair they are good at choosing WHO to hunt
And simultaneously can't find the piece of ham I dropped in front of their nose.
they cant see things that close to them, a certain distance away they will be able to see it
They're kind of the perfect predators, and birds need to land sometime.
Basically their only weak point, biologically, is their kidneys.
Birdbrains
Who even uses cat? Use less or tail.
3.5 billion birds are killed in North America per year? I didn't know anywhere near that number even existed.
Wikipedia says there are about 7.5 million square miles in the US and Canada, so that's over 400 birds killed per square mile, per year, on average.
That's amazing, no?
Misconception. Birdkiller Georg has 3 billion dead birds a year and is also known as New York City
There are more than 8 billion chickens slaughtered every year in the US alone, to give some perspective.
I'm still not calling it GNU
Don't need windows if you live in a basement (and use Linux).
I know a lot of people don't like Andrew Lloyd Webber but killing yourself is a bit much
I actually laughed at that last part.
I don't let my cats outside without direct supervision.
I see no lies
wait, so if windows are so high. What about like, the rest of the building?
Not sure if you're making a joke, but windows kill birds because they're transparent and birds fly into them not realizing it's there. The rest of the building doesn't really kill birds because they won't fly into it.
mostly musing on the clarification of what a window is, because not all windows are transparent, in fact, the majority of them, i would venture to argue, are not.
Skyscrapers are weird.
Is the plural for CAT cable really Cats and not CAT cables?
Guess it is like mouses for more than one computer mouse.
TIL.
Is this even a meme? It's a screenshot of yet another Windows/windows joke.
Just curious but how are Comm towers killing birds? Do they fly into them or something?
Both because they're hard to see (especially the support wires) and they fly into them and because if they come close to a high power transmitter the radiation is deadly.
What's up with comms towers? High-voltage AM antennas are not that abundant anymore. Are birds getting cooked close to high-power transmitters? Shot to avoid interference with crucial military infrastructure? Is 5G real?
Well the image claims to be based on data from 2015, so no 5G was not real at that time.
That was a joke, and so was the previous sentence (a reference to the birdsarentreal conspiracy. Seriously, how do comms towers harm birds?
Edit: collisions with tall AM towers' guy wires
Worst birdkiller is Musk
I've seen this statistic for the number for birds killed by cats, but I've never seen where it comes from. How did they come up with this number? That's also why we should use Linux.
I def have more penguins than windows in my house.