• Cethin@lemmy.zip
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      8 months ago

      It's funny. Of all people who could use the supposed benefits of a large pickup, since they're offroading and carrying this shit, this seems to be a fairly standard size pickup. It's almost like a standard size pickup is actually reasonable and useful and the big ones cause more issues, if you're actually using them for their purpose, than they solve.

  • Wheaties [she/her]
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    8 months ago

    if only there were already an established species of large ungulates - ideally herbivores - to fill the niche and prevent hogs from over-expanding

    • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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      8 months ago

      Gotcha, we're going to introduce gorillas into the environment to fight the boars

      • robotElder2 [he/him, it/its]
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        8 months ago

        The beautiful part is that when winter comes the gorillas will all freeze. :good-lord (we should have a skinner emote)

        • odmroz [he/him]
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          8 months ago

          Not if we allocate funds to get them all hats and scarves. Will be introducing this bill to various southern state governments within the month.

        • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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          8 months ago

          Kind of surprised

          I could have sworn we had a "No, it's the children who are wrong" emote

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      8 months ago

      You know what this continent needs? A wide ranging social apex predator that uses pack hunting techniques and controls the population of large herbivores!

      • Poison_Ivy [comrade/them]
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        8 months ago

        In all seriousness hogs are not native to North America wolves would cull the population but what would be better if the hogs were outright removed

      • Wheaties [she/her]
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        8 months ago

        Buffalo, im saying we need to bring back wild buffalo

        • peeonyou [he/him]
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          8 months ago

          Nah, then the white man will just slaughter them to spite the Native Americans all over again

  • MorelaakIsBack [comrade/them]
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    8 months ago

    in the future americans will turn to a more nomadic life, following the massive herds of horse-sized boars that will fill the grazing void left behind by our first great abomination against nature, the extermination of the buffalo

    • glans [it/its]
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      8 months ago

      wasn't that an abomination against humanity?

      my vague understanding is that bison were carefully managed by indigenous people pre-1492. like a lot of things Europeans mistook for "natural" because they were unable to grasp the scale of the ecological interventions being made and the sophistication of the agricultural methods. And also by the time the norther parts were assessed by europeans, there was significant ecological disorganization caused by the genocide. And then, the genocide was furthered by intentional destruction of these animals in a strategy to destroy the humans.

      eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bison_hunting#Native_American_plains_bison_hunting

      • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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        8 months ago

        Mostly yes, a little bit no. The bison did experience a bit of a population boom after the population of native stewards got ravaged by disease and displacement. Then gun toting white people went buckhogwild. Most "wild" things whites encountered except in the decades immediately after 1492 were in a huge state of instability or desolation.

  • FALGSConaut [comrade/them]
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    8 months ago

    I need my 57mm M1 anti-tank gun to defend my small children from the truck sized feral hogs assaulting my position.

    • SuperZutsuki [they/them]
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      8 months ago

      Can't wait for the first megalohog that rolls around in an oil spill, then runs through a wildfire, finally making it's way into Lubbock as a distressed, flaming behemoth.

  • Dessa [she/her]
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    8 months ago

    The Forest Spirit saved him? Saved the life of this loathsome runt? Why didn't he save Nago? Is he not the guardian of the forest? Why?

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    8 months ago

    These are almost always forced perspective or photoshopped. Feral swine can get real, real big, but it's more common for them to be between 75-250 lbs (so I am told by the US government webpage on invasive feral swine).

  • Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]
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    8 months ago

    I WANT TO CREATE THE MOST BIGGEST PIG POOP BALLS YOU EVER SEEN, WITH THESE PIGS, YOU HEAR ME, LET'S GO spongebob-i-fucking-love

    ppb-gigachad

    pigpoop PIGPOOPBALLS

    horsepoo-theory

    All THE WAY, B----ES

    DROWN IN THE TROUGH AND GET INHALED THROUGH THE SNOUT, YOU LITTLE MUD LOOKING SHITS!