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Who wore it* better?
*the inability to sit like a grownass human being in a chair
Maxed out at 10 images but I had two more lined up
I've clearly decided that the two of them are linked in bisexual fandom status.
I desperately need a photo of DT on a skateboard
Adding to this cuz it's making the rounds, which reminded me that I'd found photos of Kate on a skateboard
Now that everyone is discussing Nolan's Odyssey movie, I feel like it's a good time to let non-Italians know that the production dumped plastic props into the Italian sea. Weirdly enough I could not find any article in English about it but it's a fucking problem nonetheless.
I might translate this article later today. This one was the most complete one, even in Italian news it's not talked about that much.
Non è la prima volta che la produzione solleva un vespaio in Sicilia. A Lipari una squadra di sub sarebbe però già impegnata a bonificare i
They dumped plastic skeletons in environmentally protected areas, against the literal contracts they had to sign to get the permits to film in environmentally protected areas. Like they not only did a bad ecological thing that freaked out some divers, they literally broke environmental protection laws and their contract with the Italian government
if you build “community” around hating other people, just know that the second you step out of line—regardless of your moral uprightness or the hypocrisy on their part—you’re the next person they’re going to tear to pieces.
This is a lesson I learned in middle school when I expressed a concern that my friends were talking about me behind my back. Whoever I was talking to (my older sister, maybe?) said that if we weren't talking about other friends when they weren't around, the same friends probably were not suddenly doing so without me present.
OP is talking about the correlative of that lesson, which is that if you ARE talking shit about people in your own group when they are absent, then they are probably doing the same to you.
Yahoooooooooo!!!!
There was some kind of Weather Event (80mph wind, hail, flooding) that came through my mom's town yesterday and today my neighbor's kids found a painting floating in the bay that had clearly been delivered to someone's doorstep and then went for a swim.
do u agree with the phrase adopt don’t shop ?
I don’t tend to agree with any simple hashtag/blanket statements in topics regarding animal welfare.
I disagree with the premise of shaming people for where they got their dog from. Because it doesn’t actually help the dog or put backyard breeders and puppy farms out of business.
It can also make well meaning people adopt a dog they were not ready for, thinking that they’re doing the Right Thing by adopting from a shelter but being matched poorly or taken advantage of by an irresponsible rescue.
Good, responsible breeders will always have a policy of taking back a puppy or dog so that the dog they bred doesn’t end up in a shelter.
Genetics plays a massive role in dog behaviour- we have genetically selected for specific traits over thousands of years to ensure that. Yet there was this bizarre movement that came up in the early 2010’s that, in response to breed specific legislation, the message of “it’s all in how you raise them” got pushed and suddenly people decided genetics didn’t matter and it was all about training.
Nature-nurture debates always ends with the same answer: it’s both. And if you want the best chance of getting predictable behaviour in a dog to fit a specific role - whether that’s a working dog, sports or just a good pet, a good breeder who is health testing and breeding good dogs is your best bet.
A rescue will be less likely to be as predictable. That doesn’t mean the dog is immediately going to have lots of issues and be aggressive - but your expectations need to be far more tempered and reasonable.
Getting a rescue can be absolutely amazing - my rescue greyhound is a joy and I’d never change a thing. But there were certain expectations I had to lower for him. He wasn’t overly cuddly to start, very little food drive (he had to learn how to eat food on walks), he had some resource guarding issues, he’s extremely environment focused so it can be difficult to do off leash work with him and he wasn’t very interested in doing lots of training or sports. We’ve worked through a lot of that together and I’m a better dog guardian for it.
But when I got Myx, who was initially a puppy the breeder kept but then decided to find a home for, it was so different. She loves to train all the time, she loves sports, she snuggles in bed with me. All my needs were met and they both give each other confidence in different areas.
I’ve had clients take on rescues in a very well meaning way but are disappointed when the dog is far too anxious to be the cafe dog of their dreams and they have to lower their expectations. It might be a goal they can work towards over time but it’s going to be an ongoing process and needs patience.
In contrast, a friend of mine is doing puppy raising for an assistance dog program. She had this 14 week old puppy already settling on a mat in the middle of a busy cafe, relaxed and resting - with hardly any training at all.
That’s genetics - training only gets you so far.
I don’t want to discourage people from rescue either - but picking the right rescue who will match you with the right dog and provide transition support is just as important as finding a responsible breeder.
You shouldn’t bring a rescue dog into your home because you felt pressured or guilty or have some sort of moral obligation. You should bring a rescue dog into your home because you found the right match and you are able to provide for that dog’s needs. Some dogs transition just fine with no issues, others need more support. As does a puppy from a breeder, mind you.
Anyway, adopt don’t shop does very little to stop the source of the problem (puppy mills, whoops litters, backyard breeders, shitty landlords and no pets policies for rentals) - it doesn’t stop shelters and rescues filling up and can lead to well meaning people adopting a rescue they were not prepared for.
If you want to “shop” you have the responsibility to source a puppy from a responsible registered breeder who is ensuring the longevity, health and behavioural soundness of the breed.
If you want to “adopt”, ensure you are going through a rescue who is matching you to the right dog. Any rescue that lets you go in and pick a dog without any sort of matching criteria and/or home visit is a red flag. And if you do want to adopt, do it because you have the capacity to have a rescue dog and not just because it sounds nice. Make sure you have the resources to get help or have the skills required to do any sort of behaviour rehabilitation work.
That doesn’t mean there aren’t rescue dogs that immediately transition into home life with no issues, but you shouldn’t immediately be expecting that because not every dog is quite so resilient.
Basically… Get the dog that’s right for you and your home and not based on some moral superiority complex.
Adding @rhewkath ‘s tags because yes absolutely learning and socialisation history is massively important to consider too!
My two cents: humans have been selectively breeding dogs for desired traits for tens of thousands of years, resulting in the vast array of breeds that we have today, that are adapted to different situations and purposes. It would be a stupid, careless waste to leave that project entirely in the hands of people who are churning out litters simply for a profit and/or too stupid to get their dogs fixed.
The two ethical choices for getting a dog are A) responsible rescue/shelter, or B) responsible breeder.
Good rescues/shelters clean up the mistakes made by unethical breeders and careless owners. If you're looking for a household pet, and especially if you want to bring one home soon, looking into rescues is a great option. A good rescue will have workers/volunteers who can tell you a lot about the dogs in their care, and can match you with an individual dog whose needs and personality are a good fit: no guesswork of the "this is what this breed is usually like" variety.
A responsible breeder is breeding dogs for a reason: sports, showing, work, improving the breed, something other than, "This breed is cute/popular and will sell well." They're matching carefully-selected dogs with the hope of producing offspring with specific traits--and for avoiding known health problems with the breed.
They're producing small numbers of litters--3 litters, total, is a reasonable number to breed from a given female dog, over her childbearing years; maybe 4 or even 5 at the outside, if she has an easy time of it and gets an early start. (A responsible breeder is not going to start her dogs having litters as soon as they physically can; first of all, it isn't good for them, and secondly, she's not going to make the decision that their genes should be passed on, until she's seen them succeed in the activity that they're being bred for.)
A responsible breeder with a large kennel (and circumstances that allow her to make this her full-time occupation) may have a litter almost every year, but usually it will be a lot less often than that. She'll often have people lined up before the mating even takes place, who are interested in a puppy--especially for whatever fraction of the litter come out as show/sport/working prospects, but likely also for the "pet quality" puppies, too. (No matter how carefully you plan a match, some puppies will get a bigger helping of the desired traits than others.)
Depending on how the litter turns out, once they're born and big enough to start assessing, she might have one or three available to "pet homes," which will be screened just as carefully as the "show homes" (or agility homes, or working homes, or whatever it is).
TL:DR, if somebody is advertising an entire litter on Facebook Marketplace or w/e, they are, by definition, not a responsible breeder. They could be a perfectly decent person who ended up with an "oops" litter, for entirely understandable and sympathetic reasons, but you probably don't want to be encouraging that behavior by giving them money for their oops. If you want an "oops" puppy, getting one from a rescue is how you know that your adoption fee isn't going to result in your puppy's mama getting bred again as soon as she's able.
(My late dog, Sophie, was breeding stock at a puppy mill, who was dumped when she had some kind of trouble with her last litter. The shelter was able to nurse her back to health, and I think I was able to give her a great life for the few years she had with me, but she had a lot of issues, physical and mental.
I think about her puppies sometimes. They must have been so stinking adorable. I hope they're OK, and they all found good homes. They should never have been born.)
A few thoughts to add to these excellent notes
The dog we had when I was born was from Bideawee. She was wonderful but also a psychopath who had led other dogs to their presumed death on two occasions (they were let out together and she came back alone, grinning)
My childhood dog was an "oops" puppy, my second grade gym teacher's dog wasn't spayed. She brought the puppies to class in a laundry basket 😍 I don't know if she then had the dog spayed
In the UK, dog rescue is pretty much focused on animals whose owners die, or can't take care of them anymore. Breeding is regulated so heavily with actually enforced fines that there are not hundreds of unwanted dogs in every city that kind people desperately try to find home for. A better world is possible!
My last dog was a rescue of sorts (purchased from a shitty breeder by someone who immediately decided to unload him, a couple steps before he got to me). He turned out to be deaf and then developed some probably related neurological issues and I ultimately had to give him up to a breed rescue group. It broke me.
My current dog is in our life because my disabled wife did a fuck ton of research to figure out what kind of dog (size, temperament, activity level, etc) would fit in with her physical needs and my still recovering emotional ones from having a reactive dog in a crowded city. He's from a breeder that as far as we can tell really does the work.
I have done the puppy thing too many times to want that again. There will be a mourning period when our dog dies and then we will likely get a dog who is retired from breeding or carefully vet a rescue.
Wait.
In season 1, we've got Hardison bailing on a job to stay up all night gaming (which ultimately works out to the team's advantage)
We've got Parker doing whatever risky nonsense triggered Nate to insist she do jury duty (which resulted in a new case)
We've got Sophie pulling her David bullshit that actually blows everything up
And we've got Nate being a drunk unreliable asshole
But does Eliot ever keep a secret or go overboard or fall to have everyone's back for even an off screen minute that's referred to? The closest I can think is that he didn't tell them the client was his ex in the Two-Horse Job, but it comes out immediately and doesn't have any effect on the course of action
It seems like they kept Eliot's betrayal for later, for the big one, when they find out he worked for the Big Bad. But that's several seasons in. Am I thinking too hard about this? Or did the writers keep Eliot, with all his secretive history of violence, as the one crew member who is ALWAYS there for the others, never has an ulterior agenda, never withholds crucial info, never goes off duty.
And then it hits harder.
do you have any friends that are 4x your age or more?
Do you have any friends that are 4x your age or more?
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In conversation with multiple posts going around discussing technical literacy and typing skills…
I HAD typing classes: my typing speed is less than 35 Words Per Minute
I did NOT have typing classes: my typing speed is less than 35 WPM
I HAD typing classes: my typing speed is 36-45 WPM
I did NOT have typing classes: my typing speed is 36-45 WPM
I HAD typing classes: my typing speed is 46-55 WPM
I did NOT have typing classes: my typing speed is 46-55 WPM
I HAD typing classes: my typing speed is 56-69 WPM
I did NOT have typing classes: my typing speed is 56-69 WPM
I HAD typing classes: my typing speed is faster than 70 WPM
I did NOT have typing classes: my typing speed is faster than 70 WPM
I'm on mobile/ vanilla extract option
➡️ Take a typing test here (and you need an actual, physical keyboard for this):
The industry-standard benchmark used by employers and typing certifications worldwide.
➡️ 'Typing classes' refers to computer skills classes you might have had in school; you can also count games or other related typing training your parents might have had you do.
➡️ Across 3 different typing test websites*, the (english language) world average typing speed is 40 WPM.
*typingtest.now, typingtestgo.com, typerworld.com
i think being proud of where you come from is one of those things that becomes fun the more specific you get. like "proud to be english" bad rancid vibes. makes you sound like the kind of person who rants about immigrants. "proud to be from yorkshire" better vibes. i cannot deny the yorkshire cultural heritage. "proud to be from pocklington" absolutely fucking hilarious please never let anybody kill your pocklington pride.
i love the USA: weird vibes. dont trust that.
i love muskegon michigan: you are experiencing a kind of personal joy that i can and will not take from you
My dad died a month ago and my sleep and appetite are still incredibly fucked and also the gas is out in my building (gas stove) and I barely know how to use our air fryer but I made dinner for myself tonight that I ate all of thanks to pantry items (corn meal), last week's CSA (escarole + garlic scapes), and an egg, and I'm proud of that victory.
It's 10:30pm and TBD how it sits in my stomach but I got calories and protein and vegetables into my belly tonight in spite of technical difficulties. I used to be amazing at scavenging dinner and making best use of CSA veggies and I am very out of practice. But maybe it's like a bicycle after all.
I try really hard not to be this daughter with either of my parents but the bed in the room my wife and I sleep in when we visit my mom is SO OLD AND UNCOMFORTABLE I'm going to have to ask my mom to at least buy a mattress topper if not an entirely new mattress
It used to be her bed WHEN THEY FIRST BUILT THE HOUSE 45 YEARS AGO and I'm pretty sure it's the same mattress. It is not an unreasonable ask I just don't think she knows it's a problem
things you DO NOT need to be a man
a dick
he/him pronouns
XY chromosomes
things you DO need to be a man
the swiftness of a coursing river
the force of a great typhoon
the strength of a raging fire
the mysteriousness of the dark side of the moon
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im going to keep posting occasional rebuttals to people saying this because yes it does count, yes it can make you permanently ill, yes even from food poisoning you dont notice. i am ver sorry to contamination ocd followers because this is one area where paranoia gets justified which is really tough
"Marth's team experimented with a dose of Salmonella so low that there were no significant symptoms."
Marth's team experimented with a dose of Salmonella so low that there were no significant symptoms or death, and all of the Salmonella were successfully eliminated by the host. "This type of study had never been done before and the results were shocking," says Yang. "We observed the onset of a progressive and irreversible inflammatory disease caused by previous infections. That was quite surprising because the pathogen had been easily cleared by the host." By the fourth infection, which had been separated months apart from the first, the inflammation had steadily increased and colitis was now present in all subjects. Surprisingly, the disease did not improve despite the cessation of repeated infections -- indicating that the damage was already done. "We have discovered an environmental and pathogenic origin of chronic intestinal inflammation in the course of modeling human food poisoning as it occurs repeatedly over the adult lifespan," explains Marth. "Remarkably, Salmonella have figured out a way to disrupt a previously unknown protective mechanism in the gut that normally prevents intestinal inflammation."
Small bacterial infections that may go unnoticed and which the body easily clears without treatment, such as occurs during mild food poisoni
anecdotal but as someone who has been hospitalized 3 times for food poisoning (once was from raw chicken, once was typhoid fever, other time probably shigella) i've managed to temporarily un-fuck* my digestitive system with a high daily intake of fiber (25g-30g) which is not something that naturally happens with most modern diets.
*unsurprisingly if I go a few weeks without hitting that fiber quota, I get symptoms coming back. it's not a permanent fix but it's a hell of a lot better than nothing.
After visiting a GI and the nutritionist who works with her office, I have also added more SOLUBLE fiber into my diet plus INSOLUBLE fiber via supplement. I don't think I'm up to 25mg/day though.
I have thought for years that this was all post-COVID sequelae because my digestion used to be really easy and not something I thought about much. Now I'm wondering if years of eating things that didn't make me symptomatically sick were actually causing long term fuckery in my gut
maybe if we keep speculating about mitch mcconnell more different repub senators will drop dead
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