Starting a new playthrough of Pokemon Black 2 and I was faced with what seemed like a throw away line... it's not a point that the game delves on, and I'm not sure if it's ever brought up again in the entire series.

But in that line is a realization: Field Research.

Bianca mentions that it's good that you're out there with the pokedex in order to update the habitat information.

Like, I know on the face of it the line exists to hand-wave why pokemons that previously didn't exist in the region, or lived in different parts of the region, now are where they are. But on a practical level, the more I thought about it the more sense it made.

Like, if pokemon living habitats are as volatile as implied, then it makes perfect sense why you'd constantly need to have people out in the field to update the information. Which in turn leads to why it makes perfect sense why the professors are exploiting cheap child/teen labor to get it done.

Loud typing is nice to listen to if you don't need to concentrate or type something yourself; if you do, it will drive you crazy

I had a thought the other day, and I haven't made time to do any research, but I'm wondering: Which do you think has been worse for local wildlife, Letting house cats go out or lawns?

There have been tons of studies that show that house cats wreck local wildlife because they're such good little hunters, but grass lawns and the infrastructure around them also have a major negative impact on local flora and fuana. Surely the best option is to just have cats inside and no lawns outside of park fields, but lawns have to be worse overall, right?
If people had rock gardens, trees, and local wildflowers then the birds, mice, etc would have better places to hide and more food so that cats wouldn't have such a negative impact?

This is probably not exactly true as I remember hearing about a lighthouse off the coast of, I think, Australia where a keeper brought a cat for company and pest control and the cat ended up hunting a local bird species to extinction. But that was a very small island and the birds didn't have a predator before that.

Look, I like when I meet a cat outside and I don't like lawns.

Too bad we called it "punk" instead of "agitpop." Missed opportunity.