787 karma · joined October 8, 2015
seriously though, ecosystems are interdependent and predators have their place. I remember watching a documentary about white wolves on a remote isolated island keeping the local population of yaks and rabbits from eating the island clean. They are absolutely vital for that particular ecology. Similarly it is not our place to rank animals by importance, since we are as a species quite obviously imbeciles.
Sustainable forestry would only take out some of the trees, leave the stumps and replant. The forest would still look like a forest but only a little sparser for a while. there are studies proving this leads to greater yields.
The only time you need brakes is keeping still and emergencies.
I just had my 2012 Volt rear brake discs replaced due to corrosion. The discs were almost unused but too corroded to pass inspection.
If you write a comment saying x is y. Then rename x to be y. The comment adds a layer of abstraction. Now every time you encounter x you refer to the table of abstractions to get to y.
In a similar way the library has shortened function names. This is another layer of abstraction so you need to decompress the shortened function name once again.
Your child might be gifted.
We are all humans. All life is sacred.