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On July 1, Idaho becomes the only state without a legal requirement or specialized committee to review maternal deaths related to pregnancy.

I have a question for all those MAGA’s out there. What do you think of Trump and his election lies now that Fox News has admitted in court they were all lies and they knew it.

This also applies to everything else for the most part. When will you all wake up and realize that because you had no actual core beleifs you were duped.

Now is the time to develop a true philosophy and then follow it.

Do you really beleive in the constitution and individual freedom from control? Or only for you but others should follow your beleif system? Understand the religion has nothing to do with government? Understand that business and private people can do what they want as long as they do not interfere with your individual rights.

Do you really beleive in rule of law? Meaning all those you supported should go to prison for breaking it?

Do your really believe in free trade for all? Study and find out the long term problems with tariffs and who they really harm.

Do you understand that capitalism is not cronyism? All business is good and the free market should monitor it not government. Government regulation in business is limited to actual protection of people not control.

Do you understand that what you think and beleive is right for you and your family is not necessarily right for others and allowing them to be as free as you is not wrong but the constitutional rule. Unless you can show how their belief actually cause you physical harm or harm to your property then it is none of your business and you have no right to interfere. This applies to all social issues as they have nothing to do with government or our constitution.

Have you actually studied history and found out how destructive populism is? How it is rarely right/correct. That is the reason we have a Republic instead of a straight democracy.

Have you studied history and found out the long term damage Nationalism does to a country and society? Our founders did and did not want that. That is why we have a constituion which is based on ideas not a country.

Have you realized what authoritarianism does to a country and society?

How it is against our constitution?

Have you realized that just because you do not agree with something or do not like it, it does not necessarily become a political issue. People will never agree 100% on anything but again live and let live. Not your issue so not your problem.

Have you realized how you have been used/conned? You fear things you do not understand and are easily swayed with more fear.

Have you realized how much your fear of what is not exactly like you has been used to turn you against immigration? Study facts and find out how beneficial it is. How countries that have fought it are dying out. How many jobs we have unfilled that immigrants are willing to fill. Have you realized that our founders wanted open borders and gave no immigration law ability to the government other then under security measures - meaning background checks and medical checks. Nothing else. Have you learned from history how the benefits far outweigh any detriments? Have you realized the issue is our immigration laws not our borders. You should be proud that people are willing to die to come here. We represent ideas that do not exist elsewhere and we want those that share those ideas and ideals.

There is so much more but if you study and use our constitution as your guide as it was intended then you will learn the truth about all the other issues.

everythingfox

When the pool is cold

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The U.S. nuclear power regulator has certified the design for the NuScale Power Corp's small modular reactor, the first such approval in the

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Mother and her cub

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tandicoofficial

I’m not good with the science of this or anything (someone who knows more feel free to add) but fish can play??? Fish can play like any other animal?? People saying it couldn’t breathe, do human kids not hold their breaths to go under water for fun? It’s just the opposite. Air is water, water is air. In the same vein as a kid being thrown up and into the pool and enjoying it, the fish is playing.

shiekah

okay… as someone who studies marine biology I need to clarify something:

fish are unable to hold their breaths. They literally cannot take a deep breath like mammals do.

We have lungs that can take in a specific volume of air, fish have gills that work when they are ventilated enough. There are different kinds of gills, yes. Some fish have something called ‘operculum’ which is like a cap on top of the gills, helping to protect them and increasing the water circulation through the gills. Some fish DONT have this structure and need to swim in order to be able to breathe.

But the fact that they cannot hold their breaths doesnt mean that they cannot survive without water for a while - in fact, fish can (usually) survive being without water WAY LONGER than we could survive being without air.

I cannot tell if this fish does this for fun, but it sure looks like it. But I am not a behavioural biologist, so I can’t tell for sure.

dovewithscales

It is abundantly clear the fish is a willing participant. It’s sort of arrogant to assume animals other than humans don’t play like humans.

slimedivine

Im not a behavior biologist either, but I have spent a lot of time around fish and ive spent a lot of time talking to and helping people that care for fish. (Former petstore fish guy that took his job too seriously)

That fish is having fun, and fish absolutely DO have fun!

There was a regular who came into the store I worked at a lot, and he kept several varieties of chichlids, a very smart, aggressive type of fish.

He would come in and talk to me about all the drama his fish get into. The different territorial disputes they were having, who had paired off with who, who broke up (yes chichlids are like this)

But he had a jack dempsey in particular that LOVED to chase his hand around the tank, not his wife’s hand, not his friend’s hand, it HAD to be him. He said that as soon as he entered the room where this fish’s tank was kept, the fish would TEAR UP the tank decor, knocking things over and acting a fool off his shits until this dude stuck his hand in there and let the fish chase it around back and forth.

He theorized that his fish learned that if he knocked the tank decor around, his owner would obviously have to stick his hand in to fix it. So when he wants to play “chase dad’s hand” thats naturally how he knows he can get the hand to appear. He wont do this behavior for anybody but this one guy and he won’t tear up the tank anymore after he had received sufficient “play time”, usually once a day when the guy got home from work. He likened it to having a dog that wont leave you alone till you play tug o war for a bit.

I had a betta that would spend twenty minutes at a time just swimming up to the waterfall of the filter, letting it push him down to the bottom of the tank, only to swim back up and do it again, like it was a fucking slide.

Bettas are weak swimmers, and they dislike strong currents, but this guy was using the filter current like a slide. Kinda like how we don’t really like getting thrown around, but we still enjoy rollercoasters.

I also have countless stories about goldfish trying to “give hugs” (re: shove themselves into their owners hands during tank maintenance)

My betta knows how to lie and he will only beg for food in front of those he knows have not fed him yet.

There is so much evidence I’ve seen that fish are waaaay smarter and affectionate than we think. They absolutely have fun and I honestly don’t think enough studies have been done on fish brains and fish behavior in general.

And honestly, having worked in a pet store, fish are generally treated like they don’t have brains by even the fish care brands that claim expert knowledge.

Its definitely worth noting that hard scientific evidence presenting that the very opposite is true would probably lead to more robust animal welfare laws that would definitely upset the aquatics industry. Food for thought.

dovewithscales

I think you’re absolutely right on that last point. The misconception that fish are too thoughtless to have feelings facilitates the abhorrent conditions in which they are kept and ways they are treated by the industry.

I used to have a lovely tank, I think it was 50 gallons, and among other things I kept glass catfish. All the research at the time said they were hard to keep in captivity and prone to refusing to eat and starving themselves, and that they did not live long in captivity. But I was fascinated and had to try it. It took me about three days to realize none of the literature said a word about them being nocturnal. I started feeding them at night right before bed, and had zero problems getting them to eat, saw they were incredibly active as soon as the lights went off (I have exceptional night vision) and I kept them in excellent health for years. Exponentially beyond their captive life expectancy.

I think the commercial pet fish trade is abysmal in terms of actual working knowledge of fish.