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RodeoProfessor

@RodeoProfessor

about 1 month ago

When an REI lib tries to tell you that American hunters and anglers aren’t ackshully the ones paying for fish and wildlife conservation they’re citing a very famous activist “study” called the Molde study that was published around 2015 to demoralize hunters and take away your power to make wildlife decisions in your state. The Molde study is an activist NGO report that states its own explicit purpose: lessening decision-making power of hunters and anglers on state wildlife commissions. The aim to do this despite the fact that hunters and anglers are the largest financiers of fish and wildlife conservation activities through excise gear taxes and licenses (under the North American Model of wildlife conservation). The Molde study always comes up in mountain lion contexts because one mountain lion NGO pushes it really hard in their online material and the AI platforms prioritize it in this context. The Molde study has a lot of fatal flaws beginning with the fact that it was bought and paid for by an NGO that’s explicitly anti predator hunting. The study states in its opening pages that it’s less rigorous research than it is an activists tool to fight hunter influence on wildlife commissions. That’s what we call a conflict of interest in research but activist extremist NGOs don’t care about that and AI lookups treat it with the same priority as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s data. Then, the methodology is a farce, it counts the entire American land management agency budget line for agencies like the BLM and Forest Service as contributions of “non hunting taxpayers” to conservation, even though large parts of the budgets of some of these agencies have nothing to do with wildlife. They also don’t attribute all excise taxes on guns and ammo to hunters, not using self reported sale data, but just taking a guess of who not to include. I could go on, but long story short, when an REI American tells American hunters and anglers they’re not ackshully paying for wildlife conservation, they’re trying to demoralize you with activist nonsense and your response should be to go buy more ammo or soft plastics or flies.

RodeoProfessor's tweet photo. When an REI lib tries to tell you that American hunters and anglers aren’t ackshully the ones paying for fish and wildlife conservation they’re citing a very famous activist “study” called the Molde study that was published around 2015 to demoralize hunters and take away your power to make wildlife decisions in your state.

The Molde study is an activist NGO report that states its own explicit purpose: lessening decision-making power of hunters and anglers on state wildlife commissions. The aim to do this despite the fact that hunters and anglers are the largest financiers of fish and wildlife conservation activities through excise gear taxes and licenses (under the North American Model of wildlife conservation).

The Molde study always comes up in mountain lion contexts because one mountain lion NGO pushes it really hard in their online material and the AI platforms prioritize it in this context.

The Molde study has a lot of fatal flaws beginning with the fact that it was bought and paid for by an NGO that’s explicitly anti predator hunting. The study states in its opening pages that it’s less rigorous research than it is an activists tool to fight hunter influence on wildlife commissions. That’s what we call a conflict of interest in research but activist extremist NGOs don’t care about that and AI lookups treat it with the same priority as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s data.

Then, the methodology is a farce, it counts the entire American land management agency budget line for agencies like the BLM and Forest Service as contributions of “non hunting taxpayers” to conservation, even though large parts of the budgets of some of these agencies have nothing to do with wildlife. They also don’t attribute all excise taxes on guns and ammo to hunters, not using self reported sale data, but just taking a guess of who not to include.

I could go on, but long story short, when an REI American tells American hunters and anglers they’re not ackshully paying for wildlife conservation, they’re trying to demoralize you with activist nonsense and your response should be to go buy more ammo or soft plastics or flies.

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Ben Horne

@benjamin_horne

about 1 month ago

NYC is no longer a city, it is an algorithm. If you live in, say, Cincinnati, when you go to get ice cream with your friends, you really are just going to get ice cream with your friends. In NYC, this is not possible. You cannot just go to get ice cream, because, against your will, you are very self-consciously “someone who lives in NYC, going to get ice cream with their friends, in NYC.” You are never able to achieve full presence of mind because you are constantly placing yourself inside a chapter in some made up, schizophrenic and highly disorienting book. Put another way, as a New Yorker, you do not live in a city, but a massive, procedurally generated simulation of one. You are nothing more than a vapid unit of flesh and bone trapped since a Baudrillardian infinity mirror, where the references have their own references. You become more of a vague concept than a real person—some strange, soulless mix of ambition and violent/sexual impulses—and in your constant confusion you fail to ever become a true subject. You pay $17 for the ice cream cone. Then, you pull out your list of saved Instagram Reels which tell you where to get reservations for pasta later. When you arrive, you find yourself stuck in yet another long line, with people who look just like you. The longer you wait in lines like these, the harder it becomes to ever recover the soul of the person you were before you moved into your East Village studio.

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Sean M. Pond @seanmpond

3 months ago

This is the part that breaks my heart about Colorado. Most people do not even see it happening. The federal government has limits. It can only do what the Constitution allows. The State of Colorado is different. It can do anything unless the Constitution clearly says no. Anything. That means the power over your land, your water, your job, your way of life is not really in Washington. It is in Denver. And if the people in charge do not live like you, do not think like you, and do not respect your way of life, they still have the power to control it. That is exactly what is happening. Then we made it easier. Ballot measures sound like power to the people. But big money figured out a long time ago how to use that system. They do not have to live here. They do not have to understand this state. They do not care about rural Colorado. They just bring money. They flood the airwaves. They shape the message. They pass the law. And now it is forced on you. That is the system we are living under. And here is the hard truth. Washington is not coming to fix it. They cannot. This power sits at the state level. So while everyone is distracted by national politics, Colorado is being changed from the inside out, piece by piece, law by law. Until one day you wake up and realize the place you grew up in does not feel like yours anymore. That is where we are. And I am not okay with it. I am not going to lie to you and pretend a U.S. Senator can wave a hand and fix Colorado. They cannot. But they can do something just as important. They can stand on a stage big enough that people actually hear the truth. They can call it out. They can fight federal overreach so it does not make things worse. And they can wake people up to what is really happening at the state level. That is why I stepped into this. Because I watched it happening in real time. I watched decisions get made that hurt people I know. I watched voices get ignored. I watched outside influence take over a state I love. And I realized something. If you do not have a platform, people do not hear you. So I stepped onto one. Not for a title. Not for politics. Because someone has to say this out loud before it is too late.

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