Epic protest garb. Want.
This article starts with an ideological objective (in principle, we object to killing owls, here's an impassioned appeal to your heartstrings about how horrible that is) and then cites some research to build a case for the existing ideological conclusion (here's some links to some studies).
And I get, that from a radical animal rights perspective, culls of any kind can be problematic. But as someone who's done a bunch of volunteer work helping manage invasive species, I have a feeling the authors might not object to me spending my time cutting down Russian olives on the Colorado front range, or weeding out invasive Chinese grasses in San Francisco Bay estuaries (both things I have spent many hours of my life doing). IDK how they would feel about me killing and eating Louisiana bullfrogs in California streams and ponds (but those assholes are only there because humans brought them there, and they're eating a dozen native frog species to extinction).
In this particular case, the only reason the barred owls were able to spread from the Northeast the way they did is because humans transformed the Great Plains into an environment they could live in (they need high perches for nesting and sleeping, they didn't have that until European descended humans started planting trees and building buildings).
Spotted owls aren't the only species of owl that barred owls compete with and kill (they also target ground nesting owls, and will happily eat great horned chicks as well).
You can make a radical animal rights argument that "killing owls is horrible full stop." I don't want to stop you from making that argument, but I don't agree with it on that sole basis and I do want to provide a counterpoint to it. I love hearing the great horned owls hooting outside my house at night and if some screechy asshole barred owl is killing their chicks, I will personally shoot that motherfucker and sleep like a baby.
You can correctly argue that human industrial society (and the kind of decision making based in capitalism and the profit motive) is causing all kinds of really bad problems. I 100% agree with that assessment, but I don't think "and therefore we shouldn't kill owls" necessarily follows. I agree that we should encourage ecology to self-heal, but informed management of the damage we're causing is also a worthy goal.
There's a bunch of local organization going on in my state. Look for local mutual aid organizations. Everyone is networking like crazy right now.
If you happen to be in colorado, I can point you in some directions.
Keep doing what you're doing. Do even more of it!
Get out there, meet people, get involved. There's so many projects to get involved in, so many awesome people who could be your new friends and allies, so much energy to tap into and be a part of.
This is how we build a stronger future America.
I've set up Lemmy, Forgejo, Nextcloud and Mastodon. Forgejo is unbelievably easy, Mastodon and Lemmy both are complex but if you follow the instructions you get there pretty quickly.
Matrix is like "Follow a book of documentation, then when it doesn't work anyway, spend hours of your life troubleshooting a bunch of stuff that's NOT in the documentation. Why is this so hard?"
It's so much easier to set up and install than Matrix.
Are they though? Like, is the party watching?
In the "real" world, Alcubierre drives have really interesting (read "devastating") affects on random matter interacting with the warp bubble. The bubble compresses matter in the front and creates micro singularities (which don't necessarily go away when you drop the bubble).
In ST, I'm sure the debris does whatever the writers decide it does. I have no trouble imagining a DS9 episode in which the station gets pelted by warp velocity debris.
This shit sounds like when you’re mom tells you that the Facebook printed out her bank statement on the tax machine.
My dear sweet mother asked me somewhere around 2005-06 "If we can fax paper, why not groceries, or pizza delivery?"
Apparently she had believed, for decades, that fax machines literally transported physical paper over phone lines. She has a college degree, and my family is wealthy.
Do not underestimate the mind boggling technical and scientific ignorance of old people who should know better.
See kids? Monsters not bad! Monsters just... different! And different not bad!
I just donated money to her campaign.