YBG Don

Youth Building Greatness

[YBG Don @Donob137]

How do I possibly balance my budget next month when I’m gonna spend several thousand on fireworks

[YBG Don @Donob137]

@PapkeGerhard @dale_wen The Germans failure to adopt renewables and nuclear are in the top 2 worst things that nation has done and leaves them critically dependent on Russian oil

[YBG Don @Donob137]

@HamuelBN When ur huffin tha paint while ur home boy sippin on purple drank

[YBG Don @Donob137]

Now that I think of it, why did room service in Berlin steal my Chili’s gift card? there isn’t a chilis within 3,500 miles of you

[YBG Don @Donob137]

@anon_opin I can’t be blamed for what I do after a couple airport espresso martinis

[YBG Don @Donob137]

@JonesJaden17609 Wow what a question

Do the free beers extend to sports events and concerts?

[YBG Don @Donob137]

@Alaygroundss @juegosnoguey Mt Hood?🤨

[YBG Don @Donob137]

@WestEschaton @hunterbonair The point of the larger zone is to remove the grazing debate. Make the zone one half ball lager but require >50% of the ball within the zone. Doesn’t really take into account the 3d nature of the strike zone but at that point it’s pedantic

[YBG Don @Donob137]

Fuck my stupid chud life clicking on phishing emails

[flanthippe @flanthippe]

I'm glad you asked. One thing that sets me apart from the other candidates for this position is that I am honor bound to the warrior code of Bushidō,

[YBG Don @Donob137]

@sdrx902 Not an urban design chud but this creates one hell of a bottle neck at a campus entryway that already gets backed up

[colin @bonyromo]

They’re doing doing pussy analytics and I’m one of the old assholes in moneyball who’s like look pal I know good pussy when I see it

[YBG Don @Donob137]

W the rise of so many shitty products a new side hustle has arisen- did you know the FCC pays 100$ for every uncertified product you report

[RodeoProfessor @RodeoProfessor]

This is a pretty interesting case. I’ve hesitated weighing in on it because it is better covered in its own book(s).

Sea lions are having measurable population level impacts on Columbia River salmon particularly at what are called bottleneck sites like the Bonneville Dam (these fish live in the ocean and swim upriver to spawn, called anadromous fish in ecology). Sea lions hammer them as they wait to climb up the fish ladders to pass the dams.

Columbia River salmon management is an extremely complicated system, so I’ll hit on the highlights. There’s not a single stock of salmon that do their spawning run up the Columbia, there are different stocks that enter the river and pass dams at different times. These 13 different stocks are managed as “evolutionarily significant units” (ESUs). ESUs are designations under American endangered species law to define distinct populations of salmon that might be endangered (2 of 13). ESUs mean fish with a reproduction process is isolated from other stocks and they’re an important part of the evolutionary legacy of the fish (unique coloration, size etc).

There are two federally endangered Columbia River salmon ESUs (and many more threatened) these are the Upper Columbia River Spring Run Chinook and the Snake River Sockeye. These are the earliest arrivers so predation is heavy when the sea lions congregate below the Bonneville. To address this, strict federal protections on marine mammals (Marine Mammal Protection Act MMPA) will need to be lifted to allow for regulated hunting to protect Endangered Species Act listed salmon stocks.

The reason Congress is stepping in here is because the MMPA is a statute enacted by Congress and changes to it can only be made by Congress. There is a section in the MMPA for limited seal/seal lion removal under the condition when impacts to ESA listed species occur. In 2018 for example some tribes were given hunting privileges and some nonlethal removal has occurred in the past but it’s extremely expensive and slow (federal permitting). So to make lethal removals faster and cheaper while still complying with the MMPA, Congress has to give states more flexibility (without federal permitting) to enable a harvest.

Because these are lib states, my guess is 1) none of this will ever happen because the NGOs will step in and stop it with lawsuits, 2) instead of state agencies opening a season for resident and nonresident hunters (could be a huge revenue opportunity) it’ll be an expensive and unpopular government cull.

[YBG Don @Donob137]

@Xaufmon @RodeoProfessor The dams produce 75% of our electrical generation and export a large amount to neighboring states as well.

[YBG Don @Donob137]

@RepMGP can I hunt sea lions yet

[YBG Don @Donob137]

God the space shuttle was so cool, we really stopped flying them birds?

[YBG Don @Donob137]

@SpaceKoala Pluto has a wobbly ass orbit because it can’t even resist the gravity from it’s own moon, corny ah beta dwarf planet as it should be

[YBG Don @Donob137]

Some mornings I be driving in the wrong lane js to feel British for a sec