I had heard that a majority of jobs are acquired through networking. Being open about your network seems healthier than hiding it. Especially if it’s a case of choosing one qualified candidate from a pool of qualified candidates and not hiring a bad fit just for nepotism’s sake, but even then seems better to tell people yourself and not let it be exclusively gossip behind your back.
It has repeated with often horrific results across many cultures. European with hunts, Mao’s Cultural Revolution, Khmer Rouge (Cambodian genocide), etc. Seems to be a bug in the human source code.
The low-residue diet (to avoid poop stops) takes a lot of planning. I have zero desire to do that myself, but am kinda glad people I know who did that were open about what was involved. Seemed more like a public service announcement than a flex.
The campaigns get donations. Some donations are money, and other donations are time. Seems fine to me.
Presidents not labeled here, but you can look those up separately to figure out what you want: https://history.house.gov/Institution/Majority-Changes/Majority-Changes/
It’s mostly a safe assumption for wild birds, too, though, and for similar reasons. It’s easier to find a young oblivious bird, or a desperately hungry bird taking a risk in a less protected feeding spot, to snack on if the population is healthy, and when the population is smaller there is less predation because they all fit within the safe feeding areas. If a wild population is large, there will be more deaths due to disease (which spreads faster in crowded conditions), and more deaths from hunger as they outstrip their food sources. If the population is kept in check more by predators than by disease or hunger, it’s generally not a threat to the size of the population.
There are some specific locations that have certain animal populations actually under threat by domestic cats, but those are almost all ground animals and not birds.
Birds that get eaten tend to have high reproductive rates, and if predator levels drop their population gets so high they start to die from hunger or disease (which spreads faster in crowded conditions). Many predators eat an incredible number of animals - a large owl may eat several small birds every day for itself, and a multiple of that if feeding nestlings. Cats aren’t unique here.
Domestic cats can be a threat to specific populations already endangered by other factors, but usually those are ground animals. Cats being a threat to population levels of birds in most of the world just isn’t believable to me.
The fluff sticking out of the wing where presumably it was just preening is a great detail. Kind looks like a foot is picked up to help the twisting to reach, too (I know their head swivels impressively, but guessing the leaning down to preen might be more comfortable with a leg lifted.)