jephson

I recall being 6 years old and singing the "Wonder Woman lost her bosoms" variant at primary school in New Zealand. This was 1982 so definitely sung internationally prior to The Simpsons.

> Interesting that he died of a heart attack at a relatively young, healthy man(61).

He had an earlier heart attack at age 25, long before COVID-19.

> really improbable that anyone else would try to replicate the endeavor.

Not so, this week I bought one of the cameras mentioned in the article for the same purpose.

> from blobs-of-HTML-in-a-database

Gutenberg has doubled down on blobs of HTML in the database: everything within `<body>` is stored as one big blob if using "full site editing", including additional markup defined using HTML comments. There is far less separation between data and how it's presented than there ever was with the "classic" editor.

> Page performance from sites made with WP's block editor is pretty good compared to other editor plugins

Perhaps, but it's never been a great idea to use editor plugins at all.

> There's also a performance team (for general WP performance, but also covering the editor/JS) that meets regularly and posts minutes.

Gutenberg is about to enter its 6th year of development while the performance team has only just formed and is yet to contribute anything meaningful in this capacity.

This is certainly evidence that cats are killing birds but characterising the numbers in the studies you've cited as absolute decimation seems unfair. I'm genuinely surprised at how low some of these counts are. For example: 37 bell-free cats deemed "prolific killers" only managed to kill 82 birds between them over the course of a year-long study? Even allowing for a large number of unknown kills the impact here seems small.

The lighthouse story is tragic and maddening. While I opted not to adopt a new cat when my last one died, I don't support the predator-free approach to conservation.