• flan [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    more importantly are the endangered birds extinct now?

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Probably not but I don't think they enjoyed this. At least it cleared the pad (in a way that frankly looked a bit "oh fuck oh fuck get this thing downrange NOW!"

    • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      I'd imagine this a time of year they're nesting. Perfect chance to cause them to scatter and never return to the area, like when Johnny Cash almost wiped out the Californian condor with a forest fire.

        • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/09/05/priority-johnny-cash-accidentally-started-wildfire-destroyed-500-acres-killed-49-refuges-53-endangered-condors/?firefox=1

          In June 1965, his camper caught fire during a fishing trip with his nephew Damon Fielder in Los Padres National Forest in California, triggering a forest fire that burnt several hundred acres and nearly killed Cash. Cash claimed that the fire was caused by sparks from a defective exhaust system on his camper, but Fielder thinks that Cash started a fire to stay warm and in his drugged condition failed to notice the fire getting out of control.

          When the judge asked Cash why he did it, Cash said, “I didn’t do it, my truck did, and it’s dead, so you can’t question it.” The fire destroyed 508 acres (206 ha), burning the foliage off three mountains and driving off forty-nine of the refuge’s 53 endangered condors.

          Cash was unrepentant and claimed, “I don’t care about your damn yellow buzzards.” The federal government sued him and was awarded $125,172 ($939,914 in 2016 dollars). Cash eventually settled the case and paid $82,001.He said he was the only person ever sued by the government for starting a forest fire.

            • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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              2 years ago

              Yeah tell me about it. I was watching some Le Tigre and Bikini Kill videos yesterday and memory holed that Kathleen Hanna wrote a song called "I'm With Her" a month before the 2016 election.