In Texas we trap them, blow them up, shoot them from helicopters, and shoot them from quads while chasing them at 50mph. They're too smart to shoot them from a standing position.

I've seen packs of 15-20 running along together while riding my motorcycle along county roads in the middle of nowhere, San Saba County. But they normally stay out of sight; they're super smart.

Good luck.

"I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure."

- Agent Smith, The Matrix

I've always thought of this as another perspective on Shakespeare's

"There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio,

Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

To believe otherwise is to have lost the wonder of discovery.

"Becoming a full-stack reverse-engineer" [1] is a great high-level overview. It lays out a roadmap of three years.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vKG8-TnawY

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