• moosetwin
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    676 months ago

    there is actual potential harm when feeding birds, they can spread disease and become reliant on humans for food, if you want to do crimes pirate a game or something instead

    • @[email protected]
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      246 months ago

      People also often feed bread to birds, but bread is harmful to birds because it doesn’t provide the nutrients they need while filling them up so that they don’t go find more nutritious foods.

      • @[email protected]
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        76 months ago

        So apparently there was a campaign in the uk telling people to stop feeding bread to ducks, but when it worked loads of ducks died because you know. Less bread. Idk. Seems pretty silly to me just let people feed bread to ducks whatever man there are way more serious problems to worry about imo.

    • @DeestanOP
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      -76 months ago

      They are reliant on humans. Go follow some rules that aren’t cruel.

      • Bob
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        256 months ago

        It’s arguably crueller to feed them chips than to feed them nothing.

  • @[email protected]
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    6 months ago

    Maybe they should say, “don’t poison the birds,” because that’s what you’re actually doing.

  • TragicNotCute
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    136 months ago

    Hell of a shot though. Looks like a Starling of some type. Maybe Eurasian? Maybe just common.

    • @DeestanOP
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      46 months ago

      Not sure! They are kinda new in my town, few years. Super interesting birds. Saw two of them stare down a teenage girl at the bus stop until she gave them part of her sandwich.

      • @[email protected]
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        66 months ago

        two of them stare[d] down a teenage girl at the bus stop until she gave them [her food]

        Wonder why the city wouldn’t want people feeding lil featherbirbs :)

        (For context I love birds enough to be concerned about doing right by them even though feeding them is fun and initially seems like must be benign if not actually helpful)

        • @DeestanOP
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          46 months ago

          To make my crime less exciting, I can add that the rule isn’t about the birds really. We have recently developet rat problems, but: a lot of people feed birds by dumping sacks of bread which the rats eat. And on top of that some rat activists (yes) proceed to dump huge piles of food specifically for the rats but claim to the law that it’s bird food.

          So it’s “forbidden” only as a technicality to be able to prosecute rat feeders. Bird feeding, and especially direct feeding, they don’t care about.

        • @[email protected]
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          6 months ago

          My entire country advises against feeding birds or any wildlife, it’s harmful to them.

      • @DeestanOP
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        26 months ago

        Part of a oatmeal raisin scone.

  • WashedOver
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    106 months ago

    Is it because they aren’t real and robots don’t need food?

    /s

    • nifty
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      26 months ago

      Robots do need food, it comes from your wall outlets or batteries

  • @Bytemeister
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    86 months ago

    You should avoid feeding any wild animal if you can. Except maybe hummingbirds.

  • @JustUseMint
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    56 months ago

    Sometimes these rules exist for a reason, and I have a feeling you’re too young to understand that.