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The article says they are digging barrows. I can understand that when a company spends an exorbitant amount of money on a building with a roof garden and the co

The article says they are digging barrows. I can understand that when a company spends an exorbitant amount of money on a building with a roof garden and the costs of ongoing maintenance they are not happy it is being dug up, especially if they are digging down to the water barrier. On the other hand I think it is pretty cool to have foxes on the roof.

gerdesj 1y ago
Foxes, pigeons, rats etc are generally described as vermin yet they perform vital ecological functions and are somehow maligned for performing it. They are scavengers (int al). They help keep the place cleaner in return for a small amount of crap and some extra disease vectors. What I'd really like to hear is that a bunch of clever kids at Google realise that a city has an ecology all of its own and that they need to fit into it and not the other way around. If they have managed to attract foxes then make the best of it. I wonder if there are there any Plane trees on it?
- owebmaster 1y ago
  Thinking of Google as a place full of clever kids is a quite outdated view.
  - gerdesj 1y ago
    You might not like what they are working on or towards but a big old firm like Google has a lot of talent, bought and paid for, on board. Its a vast organisation and therefore will, even by accident, have lots of talented employees. They certainly have plenty of dosh to entice the "best". I call them "kids" out of habit. I'm 54, so that is probably mostly fair and unfair at the same time - sue me.
JumpCrisscross 1y ago
> can understand that when a company spends an exorbitant amount of money on a building with a roof garden and the costs of ongoing maintenance they are not happy it is being dug up The point of the roof garden is to create a delightful space. Just give the foxes their rabies shots and count your lucky stars that you got such an attraction.
- Fluorescence 1y ago
  The UK eradicated rabies 100 years ago with a vaccination program.
  - hulitu 1y ago
    > The UK eradicated rabies 100 years ago with a vaccination program. I think they missed some politicians. /s

gerdesj 1y ago

Foxes, pigeons, rats etc are generally described as vermin yet they perform vital ecological functions and are somehow maligned for performing it. They are scavengers (int al). They help keep the place cleaner in return for a small amount of crap and some extra disease vectors. What I'd really like to hear is that a bunch of clever kids at Google realise that a city has an ecology all of its own and that they need to fit into it and not the other way around. If they have managed to attract foxes then make the best of it. I wonder if there are there any Plane trees on it?

owebmaster 1y ago
Thinking of Google as a place full of clever kids is a quite outdated view.
- gerdesj 1y ago
  You might not like what they are working on or towards but a big old firm like Google has a lot of talent, bought and paid for, on board. Its a vast organisation and therefore will, even by accident, have lots of talented employees. They certainly have plenty of dosh to entice the "best". I call them "kids" out of habit. I'm 54, so that is probably mostly fair and unfair at the same time - sue me.

JumpCrisscross 1y ago

> can understand that when a company spends an exorbitant amount of money on a building with a roof garden and the costs of ongoing maintenance they are not happy it is being dug up The point of the roof garden is to create a delightful space. Just give the foxes their rabies shots and count your lucky stars that you got such an attraction.

Fluorescence 1y ago
The UK eradicated rabies 100 years ago with a vaccination program.
- hulitu 1y ago
  > The UK eradicated rabies 100 years ago with a vaccination program. I think they missed some politicians. /s