A planet is a pen without fences. You just have to expand your perspective. You've obviously never interacted with a farmer in your life if you've never heard them brag about how many animals they have on the property. And those are just the ones they can count. Im sure some crazy farmer somewhere in India would be mad proud of how many rats he's got running around. They're holy in certain parts.

The pic says "of all the mammals on earth". It's exactly as i said with the pen, just scaled up to a 3d spherical planetary sized pen. The numbers I'm talking about don't change.

There are WAY more rats than cows. Period. They're on every continent except Antarctica, and there might be some weird subterranean prehistoric voles huddled around a hydrothermal vent pool or some shit.

OP just needs to add a qualifier to the graphic. Anything along the lines of "with respect to biomass" right at the start

Okay, so you have 240 rats and one cow in a pen on a farm. How many mammals are in the pen?

This survey would answer that the pen is 90% cow and 10% rat by weight, therefore there are 9 times as many cows as there are rats.

In reality land, where the rest of us live, we would say that there are 241 mammals in the pen and only 1 of them is a cow.

You see why I'm calling bullshit by the way this is worded?

Well thats not what the infographic says. It specifies "mammals", not "mammals by weight".

OK so how many tons of cow are accounted for by whales?

Or does the survey cherry pick land animals too?

Source?

Im gonna go out on a limb and say this is udder cowshit. Rats are mammals, as are raccoons, squirrels, and whole fucking masses of little basically unfarmable varmints. You're telling me that there's like 12 farm cows for every wild rat on earth?

Horse. Shit.

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Well and the amazing sloppy toppy pudding poppy.

Bitch@

My dad lived in Pasadena, TX. The one time I visited him there, it was 95-105 at all times, humidity never dropped below 90%, you could set your watch by the daily thunderstorm (between 11am and 1pm), and it flooded every few months because that part of Pasadena is technically at an elevation of like 7 feet above sea level. Pretty sure king tide put the lawn underwater.

My point is there are plenty of reasons to hate Pasadena besides being in Texas.

You just need a union job. I just started mine and my first day I find out we're getting a new contract with $1/hr raises yearly for the next five years, a new boot benefit of $250 a year, better per diem on travel, and better compensation while traveling.

Welcome to capitalism.

Imo, any card game with "card rarity" is a scam. It takes all the skill out of the game and replaces it with privilege. Im all for deck building and complex card mechanics, but why why WHY would you ever made some cards less common? It's pure greed and monetization, and that permanently turned me off of all similar media.

Former federal employee and member of AFGE here.

My experience with AFGE is that they are maliciously incompetent at their jobs. I worked for 6 months and never heard from the union ONCE, despite reaching out multiple times. Turns out, everyone from the local (1533) had left the union around 2 years before I'd started. The national office just ignored the problem, and purposefully left everyone covered by that local completely unrepresented.

After 6 months of gaslighting, contract violations, and hazing, I'd had enough, and started standing up for myself. I started invoking my Weingarten rights. I started quoting specific sections of the contract. I kept sending emails to the national office for my union.

I was fired less than a week later for "rocking the boat" and making a complaint outside my chain of command. I was a civilian, and I did not have a "chain of command".

About a week after I'd been terminated, the national office FINALLY assigned a union rep to my local. What did the rep finally tell me? While I was correct that I was entitled to union rights as a probationary employee (it was specified in the contract), the union didn't have the funds available to fight for me, so they wouldn't. The most they would do is help me draft complaints about my treatment, which would at best result in a "posting" for the base i worked at. A "posting" is a letter they have to hang on the wall saying what they did and how they'll try their very best not to do it again.

No compensation. No justice. No accountability.

Fuck AFGE sideways for taking my dues and refusing to fight for me. I hope every last one of you gets terminal stage five asshole cancer.

The majority of these people should be in retirement homes. Bad ones.