NEWS: Humans: 1, Baiji: 0

MrStitches said:
And the pollution that killed off the Baiji certainly isn't a problem for humans. Ass.

Overfishing and shipping traffic, whose engines interfere with the sonar the baiji uses to navigate and feed, are likely the main reasons for the mammal's decline, Pfluger said. Though the Yangtze is polluted, water samples taken by the expedition every 30 miles did not show high concentrations of toxic substances, the statement said.

Lycoris said:

Actually, from the article

creativename said:

Instead we're living in a big ass pile of humans.

godchilde said:

I have a few solutions in mind for that one as well...

reprobate said:

And I'm sure each and every one demonstrates how jaded and much more sophisticated than the herd you are without ever taxing your faculties for critical thought or nuance.

reprobate said:

And I'm sure each and every one demonstrates how jaded and much more sophisticated than the herd you are without ever taxing your faculties for critical thought or nuance.

piracy said: my nuance has reached criticality, time for six billion bullets.

sith hippies and mass murder for teh win.

piracy said:

if it numbers in the billions, does it count as mass murder or genocide?

is there a word for eliminating people based on ideology, not genetics? culturacide? memecide?

i should know this. this is really my field.

MrStitches said:

I think when it's six billion people you call it extermination.

reprobate said:

And I'm sure each and every one demonstrates how jaded and much more sophisticated than the herd you are without ever taxing your faculties for critical thought or nuance.

MrStitches said: I'm an ass.

godchilde said:

Sorry, I have nothing to add to that, just quoted for truth.