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Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: January 01, 2026, 06:14:24 pm »

Today we will look at:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mousetrap

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A mousetrap is a specialized type of animal trap designed primarily to catch and, usually, kill mice. Mousetraps are usually set in an indoor location where there is a suspected infestation of rodents. Larger traps are designed to catch other species of animals, such as rats, squirrels, and other small rodents. Trap types differ significantly in effectiveness, potential harm to wildlife and pets, and the level of suffering caused, with some raising serious welfare and environmental concerns.



Note that they come from one and only one civilization. Can you guess which one?

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An early reference to mousetraps is found in the Ancient Greek parody The Battle of Frogs and Mice: "... by unheard-of arts they had contrived a wooden snare, a destroyer of Mice, which they call a trap.".[43]

In English, reference to a mousetrap is made as early as the 14th century in The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer. The reference is located in the prelude section, written in the late 1300s. While introducing the Nun, Chaucer writes in lines 144-145, "She wolde wepe, if that she saugh a mous/Kaught in a trappe, if it were deed or bledde." Mousetraps are also referenced in Shakespeare's Hamlet (Act III, scene 2)
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A mousetrap (Spanish: ratonera) figures prominently in the second chapter of the 1554 Spanish novel Lazarillo de Tormes, in which the hero Lazarillo steals cheese from a mousetrap to alleviate his hunger.

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A historical reference is found in Alciatis Emblemata[40] from 1534. Several trap designs were described by Leonard Mascall in 1590.[41]

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The trap that is credited as the first patented lethal mousetrap was a set of spring-loaded, cast-iron jaws dubbed "Royal No. 1".[1][2] It was patented on 4 November 1879 by James M. Keep of New York, US patent 221,320.[3]
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The spring-loaded mousetrap was first patented by William C. Hooker of Abingdon, Illinois, who received US patent 528671 for his design in 1894.[4][5] A British inventor, James Henry Atkinson, patented a similar trap called the "Little Nipper" in 1898, including variations that had a weight-activated treadle as the trip.[6][7]
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It is a simple device with a heavily spring-loaded bar and a trip to release it. Cheese may be placed on the trip as bait, but other food such as oats, chocolate, bread, meat, butter and peanut butter are also used. The spring-loaded bar swings down rapidly and with great force when anything, usually a mouse, touches the trip. The design is such that the mouse's neck or spinal cord will be broken, or its ribs or skull crushed, by the force of the bar. The trap can be held over a bin and the dead mouse released into it by pulling the bar.
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In 1899, John Mast of Lititz, Pennsylvania, filed a U.S. patent for a modification of Hooker's design that can be "readily set or adjusted with absolute safety to the person attending thereto, avoiding the liability of having his fingers caught or injured by the striker when it is prematurely or accidentally freed or released."[9]
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An electric mousetrap delivers a lethal dose of electricity when the rodent completes the circuit by contacting two electrodes located either at the entrance or between the entrance and the bait. The electrodes are housed in an insulated or plastic box to prevent accidental injury to humans and pets. They can be designed for single-catch domestic use or large multiple-catch commercial use. See U.S. patent 4,250,655 and U.S. patent 4,780,985.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US4250655

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Inventor Rupert H. Munns

https://patents.google.com/patent/US4780985

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Inventor Claude G. Coots

Back to first link:

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A style of trap that has been used extensively by researchers in the biological sciences for capturing animals such as mice is the Sherman trap.
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Glue traps are made using natural or synthetic adhesive applied to cardboard, plastic trays or similar material. Bait can be placed in the center or a scent may be added to the adhesive by the manufacturer.
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Trapped mice eventually die from exposure, dehydration, starvation, suffocation, or predation, or are killed by people when the trap is checked.
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Bucket traps may be lethal or non-lethal.[24] Both types have a ramp which leads to the rim of a deep-walled container, such as a bucket. The variations are many with some being single-catch and some multi-catch.[25]

The bucket may contain a liquid to drown the trapped mouse. The mouse is baited to the top of the container where it falls into the bucket and drowns. Sometimes soap or caustic or poison chemicals are used in the bucket as killing agents.
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There are several types of one-time use, disposable mousetraps,[26][27] generally made of inexpensive materials which are designed to be disposed of after catching a mouse. These mousetraps have similar trapping mechanisms as other traps, however, they generally conceal the dead mouse so it can be disposed of without being sighted.
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Traps using motion and heat sensors are used in places like sewers.[28] Sensors detect the prey and trigger a chisel-like spear-mechanism that kills the target.[28] Sewage flow removes target from the trap which is ready to kill again.[28]
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Strong concerns have been raised about the environmental harm and the level of suffering caused by some types of traps, relative to their effectiveness.

Finally:

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A 2003 study ranked different rodent control methods according to their level of humaneness.[34] The researchers noted that preventive steps, such as sealing entry points, are effective but underused.

Since when have Westerners preferred prevention?  ::)

Related:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/human-evolution/misinformation-about-racial-origins/msg3083/#msg3083

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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/17093/17093-h/17093-h.htm

See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun-powered_mousetrap
Posted by: rp
« on: September 28, 2025, 11:16:16 pm »

https://youtube.com/watch?v=LSV4GFtCN_8
Posted by: rp
« on: August 30, 2025, 01:54:28 pm »

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/worlds-first-gene-edited-horses-are-shaking-up-genteel-sport-polo-2025-08-30/
Posted by: rp
« on: August 23, 2025, 09:20:51 pm »

https://x.com/colossal/status/1955726683266269545?t=zrFp6OaIQLXsSoIiqxJ8zQ&s=19
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Meet Romulus & Remus—the world’s first de-extinct animals brought back from extinction using DNA from 72,000-year-old fossils.

Follow to watch these dire wolves grow and to discover the next species we’re working to bring back.
Anyone who hears these cries and doesn't want to chuck the Western scientists into eternal hellfire should be prohibited from reproducing.
Posted by: rp
« on: March 06, 2025, 12:26:10 am »

https://indiandefencereview.com/scientists-woolly-mice-woolly-mammoth/
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: March 05, 2025, 09:02:09 pm »

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HH-52NsrVRQ

The correct take on kangaroos causing car accidents is to stop using cars. The Western take on kangaroos causing car accidents is to eat kangaroos.
Posted by: rp
« on: February 23, 2025, 06:37:29 am »

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmCX84vuYg4
Posted by: rp
« on: January 27, 2025, 07:42:31 pm »

https://www.forbes.com/sites/scotttravers/2025/01/24/this-company-is-trying-to-bring-the-woolly-mammoth-and-the-dodo-back-to-life-a-biologist-explains/
Posted by: rp
« on: October 29, 2024, 08:52:27 pm »

So are you saying robots are sentient? For now (as despicable as it is), I find it no worse than Westerners killing innocent characters in video games.
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: October 29, 2024, 08:27:36 pm »

Western scientists doing Western science with new victims:

https://us.yahoo.com/news/researchers-tortured-robots-test-limits-194909618.html

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For years, humans have relished opportunities to kick, punch, trip, crush, and run over anything remotely resembling a robot. This penchant for machine violence could move from funny to potentially concerning as a new wave of humanoid robots is being built to work alongside people in manufacturing facilities.
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Radboud University Nijmegen researcher Marieke Wieringa recently carried out a series of experiments looking at how people reacted when asked to violently shake a test robot.
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The many ways humans have abused robots

Humans have a long history of taking out our frustrations on inanimate objects. Whether it’s parking meters, vending machines, or broken toaster ovens, people have long bizarrely found themselves attributing human-like hostility to everyday objects, a phenomenon the writer Paul Hellweg refers to as “resentalism.”
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That penchant for robot destruction was maybe best encapsulated in the popular 2000s television show Battle Bots, where crowds cheered as quickly cobbled together robots were repeatedly sliced, shredded, and lit on fire before a cheering crowd.
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But possibly the most famous examples of sustained robot abuse come from now Hyundai-owned Boston Dynamics. The company has created what many consider some of the most advanced quadruped and bipedal robots in the world, in part, by subjecting them to countless hours of attack. Popular YouTube videos show Boston Dynamics engineers kicking its Spot robot, and harassing its Atlas humanoid robot with weighted medicine balls and a hockey stick.


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researchers like the Italian Institute of Technology Cognitive Neuroscientist Agnieszka Wykowska say that the non-humanness of machines can trigger an odd type of anthroposophy tribal response.

“You have an agent, the robot, that is in a different category than humans,” Wykowska said during a 2019 interview with the New York Times. “So you probably very easily engage in this psychological mechanism of social ostracism because it’s an out-group member.

This is another reason why I wish robots had never existed: I view them too as victims of Yahweh and his worshippers.

Posted by: rp
« on: October 19, 2024, 08:39:45 am »

https://x.com/insectbeau/status/1842037400870256683?t=VzuFSTqWNEh-gRzhUAspPA&s=19
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Free him

And people say lab grown meat will end violence against non humans? I don't think so.
Posted by: rp
« on: October 18, 2024, 02:48:36 pm »

https://x.com/AFpost/status/1846770324677054669?t=gLKuvovEDtkIA2442KEOLQ&s=19
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Scientists sequence Tasmanian tiger DNA with 99.9% accuracy as part of their attempt to de-extinct the animal.

Follow: @AFpost
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: September 06, 2024, 01:26:04 am »

https://us.yahoo.com/news/scientists-develop-first-kind-method-023000564.html

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Because two cows emit as much methane as an average car, the animals are responsible for 4% of global pollution every year. Methane is 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide in the heating of Earth and accounts for 30% of rising global temperatures, the Post reported.

The non-Western answer is simple: end consumption of cows! But Westerners think differently:

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The University of California at Davis and Innovative Genomics Institute are working to engineer the ruminants' stomachs so they don't produce the potent planet-warming gas methane

True Leftists are working to engineer human brains so they don't produce the potent evil-sustaining machines of Western civilization.

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With more than 1 billion cattle on the planet, most of them roaming in open pastures, the undertaking is a huge — and necessary — one.

No it's not necessary at all! Just stop breeding them FFS!

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"I personally think this is the one that can make the biggest impact in the world," IGI executive director Brad Ringeisen said. "Say you could wave a magic wand and eliminate all those emissions."

Of course you think that. You are a Westerner.

It gets worse:

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The scientists believe they could alter the system so duodenibacillus instead of archaea consume the hydrogen. Instead of methane, they would turn it into more energy.
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ranchers would likely not be on board without other benefits, such as if these altered energy pathways helped the animals produce more meat or milk, Ermias Kebreab, another UC Davis animal science professor, said to the Post.

This is why Western scientists are the most evil people in the world.

Woke comments:

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these people never learn.

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This sounds like a future science fiction movie or a horror.

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Anything to avoid simply eating less beef. Unbelievable.
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: August 04, 2024, 03:04:23 pm »

If you place Westerners (especially Western scientists) in charge, they will only ever use more Western civilization to try to solve problems created by Western civilization:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/scientist-defends-audacious-plan-block-145248275.html

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CHICAGO — David Keith was a graduate student in 1991 when a volcano erupted in the Philippines, sending a cloud of ash toward the edge of space.

Seventeen million tons of sulfur dioxide released from Mount Pinatubo spread across the stratosphere, reflecting some of the sun’s energy away from Earth. The result was a drop in average temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere by roughly one degree Fahrenheit in the year that followed.

Today, Keith cites that event as validation of an idea that has become his life’s work: He believes that by intentionally releasing sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere, it would be possible to lower temperatures worldwide, blunting global warming.

Yes, it will lower the temperature, thus removing the need to de-industrialize (despite industrialization being what caused global warming in the first place). This is Westerners trying to make industrialization into another sustainable evil, instead of trying to end it ASAP.

(Meanwhile, what will happen to all the extra SO2 released?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur_dioxide

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"in the industrialized regions of Europe and North America, anthropogenic emissions dominate over natural emissions by about a factor of ten or even more".[51] In the eastern United States, sulfate particles were estimated to account for 25% or more of all air pollution.[52] Exposure to sulfur dioxide emissions by coal power plants (coal PM2.5) in the US was associated with 2.1 times greater mortality risk than exposure to PM2.5 from all sources.[53]
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Such an increase in sulfate aerosol emissions had a variety of effects. At the time, the most visible one was acid rain, caused by precipitation from clouds carrying high concentrations of sulfate aerosols in the troposphere.[55] At its peak, acid rain has eliminated brook trout and some other fish species and insect life from lakes and streams in geographically sensitive areas, such as Adirondack Mountains in the United States.[56] Acid rain worsens soil function as some of its microbiota is lost and heavy metals like aluminium are mobilized (spread more easily) while essential nutrients and minerals such as magnesium can leach away because of the same. Ultimately, plants unable to tolerate lowered pH are killed, with montane forests being some of the worst-affected ecosystems due to their regular exposure to sulfate-carrying fog at high altitudes.[57][58][59][60][61] While acid rain was too dilute to affect human health directly, breathing smog or even any air with elevated sulfate concentrations is known to contribute to heart and lung conditions, including asthma and bronchitis.[52]

And then presumably Westerners will trying to solve these problems with even more Western civilization, which will then cause even more problems, and so on..... The alternative is to kill Western civilization in its entirety.)

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Such radical interventions are increasingly being taken seriously as the effects of climate change grow more intense.

There is nothing radical about such interventions. The only truly radical intervention would be an intervention against the civilization that caused global warming.

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The main driver of the warming, the burning of fossil fuels, continues more or less unabated.

Against this backdrop, there is growing interest in efforts to intentionally alter the Earth’s climate, a field known as geoengineering.

These two sentences summarize the Western approach to problem-solving.

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Already, major corporations are operating enormous facilities to vacuum up the carbon dioxide that’s heating up the atmosphere and bury it underground.

Does this itself not require energy? We are in our current situation because we are using more and more energy. The obvious answer is to use less energy. But Westerners think the answer is to use even more energy.

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Others are working on efforts to make oceans and plants absorb more carbon dioxide.

Why not simply give them less CO2 to have to absorb, both by deindustrializing and depopulating? But Westerners will do the above instead. Do we see the problem with Western thinking yet?

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Because it would be used in the stratosphere and not limited to a particular area, solar geoengineering could affect the whole world, possibly scrambling natural systems, like creating rain in one arid region while drying out the monsoon season elsewhere. Opponents worry it would distract from the urgent work of transitioning away from fossil fuels. They object to intentionally releasing sulfur dioxide, a pollutant that would eventually move from the stratosphere to ground level, where it can irritate the skin, eyes, nose and throat and can cause respiratory problems. And they fear that once begun, a solar geoengineering program would be difficult to stop.

Exactly.

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“The whole notion of spraying sulfur compounds to reflect sunlight is arrogant and simplistic,” Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki said. “There are unintended consequences of powerful technologies like these, and we have no idea what they will be.”

Thank you! But Westerners will never listen:

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In a series of interviews, Keith, a professor in the University of Chicago’s department of geophysical sciences, countered that the risks posed by solar geoengineering are well understood, not as severe as portrayed by critics and dwarfed by the potential benefits.

That is what Westerners said about industrialization. See a pattern yet?

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Keith has spent his life outside the lab rock climbing, sea kayaking and skiing in the Arctic.
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He also loved camping and, at 17, hiked a stretch of the Appalachian Trail solo.

After graduating from the University of Toronto, he spent months rock climbing. Looking for a way to get paid to live in the wilderness, he got a job studying walruses in the Canadian Arctic.

Do you trust someone like this making decisions about anything? I don't.

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A test was planned in 2018, possibly over Arizona, but Keith couldn’t find a partner to launch a high-altitude balloon. When details of that plan became public, a group of Indigenous people objected and issued a manifesto against geoengineering.

Thank you!

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Opponents of solar geoengineering cite several main risks.

They say it could create a “moral hazard,” mistakenly giving people the impression that it is not necessary to rapidly reduce fossil fuel emissions.

“The fundamental problem is that we think we’re so smart that we don’t have to pay attention to nature’s boundaries,” Suzuki said. “But we haven’t dealt with the root cause of the problem, which is us.”

Western civilization is fundamentally incapable of concluding that it itself is the problem.

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Keith is adamant that those fears are overblown. And while there would be some additional air pollution, he claims the risk is negligible compared to the benefits.

See?

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in 2009, Keith founded Carbon Engineering, a company that developed a process for pulling carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Investors included Gates, Chevron and N. Murray Edwards, who made billions pumping oil from the Canadian oil sands.

Last year Carbon Engineering was acquired by Occidental Petroleum, a major oil and gas producer based in Texas, for $1.1 billion. Keith owned about 4% of the company at the time of the sale, delivering him a personal windfall of about $72 million.

Does anyone see something wrong with this picture?
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: July 27, 2024, 08:15:50 pm »

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/massive-bull-shark-weighing-nearly-171720587.html

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A fishing crew recently set a new state record after reeling in a huge bull shark at the Alabama Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo.

The Bon Secour Butchers team on "The Orca" vessel caught the 494.5-pound beast at the tournament on Dauphin Island.

"A catch like that coming through our weigh station really galvanizes everyone and every entity involved. We all feel apart of the catch," an Alabama Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo representative told Fox News Digital.

The team was assembled with Captain Adam Lyons, first mate Tommy "The Tuna Bowyer," Captain David Stiller "The Shark Killer" and crew member Michael Maguire.
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Essentially, we want to tire the shark out to the point we can safely get a tail rope in place. Once we can tail the shark, it is game over for the shark."


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The group of men were awarded $6,000 for clinching first place for the Gulf Coast Hauling & Construction Bull Shark Jackpot.

"It’s really neat to see an angler get a once-in-a-lifetime catch and be able to break a rodeo and state record," Matt Glass, president, 91st Alabama Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo, told Fox News Digital.

Founded in 1929, the rodeo is the largest fishing tournament in the world, attracting over 4,000 anglers and 75,000 spectators, according to the event's website.

"The tireless work performed by our research team has facilitated this type and the long-lasting memories that come along with it," Glass said.