Phew. This one took, uhā¦ a bit longer than expected due to other projects both irl and art-wise, but itās finally here. The long-awaited domestic animal infographic! Unfortunately, I didnāt have enough space to cover every single domestic animal (Iām so sorry, reindeer and koi, my beloveds) but I tried to include as many of the āmajor onesā as possible.
I made this chart in response to a lot of the misunderstandings I hear concerning domestic animals, so I hope itās helpful!
Further information I didnāt have any room to add or expand on:
š āBreedā and āspeciesā are not synonyms! Breeds are specific to domesticated animals. A Bengal Tiger is a species of tiger. A Siamese is a breed of domestic cat.
š Different colors are also not what makes a breed. A breed is determined by having genetics that are unique to that breed. So a ābluenose pitbullā is not a different breed from a ārednose pitbullā, but an American Pitbull Terrier is a different breed from an American Bully! Animals that have been domesticated for longer tend to have more seperate breeds as these differing genetics have had time to develop.
š It takes hundreds of generations for an animal to become domesticated. While the ādomesticated fox experimentā had interesting results, there were not enough generations involved for the foxes to become truly domesticated and their differences from wild foxes were more due to epigenetics (heritable traits that do not change the DNA sequence but rather activate or deactivate parts of it; owed to the specific circumstances of its parentsā behavior and environment.)
š Wild animals that are raised in human care are not domesticated, but they can be considered ātamed.ā This means that they still have all their wild instincts, but are less inclined to attack or be frightened of humans. A wild animal that lives in the wild but near human settlements and is less afraid of humans is considered āhabituated.ā Tamed and habituated animals are not any less dangerous than wild animals, and should still be treated with the same respect. Foxes, otters, raccoons, servals, caracals, bush babies, opossums, owls, monkeys, alligators, and other wild animals can be tamed or habituated, but they have not undergone hundreds of generations of domestication, so they are not domesticated animals.
š Also, as seen above, these animals have all been domesticated for a reason, be it food, transport, pest control, or otherwise, at a time when less practical options existed. There is no benefit to domesticating other species in the modern day, so if youāve got a hankering for keeping a wild animal as a pet, instead try to find the domestic equivalent of that wild animal! There are several dog breeds that look and behave like wolves or foxes, pigeons and chickens can make great pet birds and have hundreds of colorful fancy breeds, rats can be just as intelligent and social as a small monkey (and less expensive and dangerous to boot,) and ferrets are pretty darn close to minks and otters! Thereās no need to keep a wolf in a house when our ancestors have already spent 20,000+ years to make them house-compatible.
š This was stated in the infographic, but I feel like I must again reiterate that domestic animals do not belong in the wild, and often become invasive when feral. Their genetics have been specifically altered in such a way that they depend on humans for optimal health. We are their habitat. This is why you only really see feral pigeons in cities, and feral cats around settlements. They are specifically adapted to live with humans, so they stay even when unwanted. However, this does not mean they should live in a way that doesnāt put their health and comfort as a top priority! If we are their world, it is our duty to make it as good as possible. Please research any pet you get before bringing them home!
People who don't speak government might not realize it, but this? This is as close as the President can get to saying "Fucking FINALLY, rot in piss". This is "I've hated him my entire career, I've done my best to undo the damage he did, he hung around far too long and never stopped being obnoxiously wrong, and I guess I'm kinda sorry for his family but I'm glad he's finally dead".
People who don't speak government might not realize it, but this? This is as close as the President can get to saying "Fucking FINALLY, rot in piss". This is "I've hated him my entire career, I've done my best to undo the damage he did, he hung around far too long and never stopped being obnoxiously wrong, and I guess I'm kinda sorry for his family but I'm glad he's finally dead".
Anyway last week my professor told the class "coworkers will put up with poor technical skills but they won't put up with weird" and after class I just went and sat in my car and cried bc how am I supposed to survive if I still don't seem "normal" even though I've been doing behavioral therapy since first grade but masking hurts so goddamn bad that I'm only doing two classes a week rn but I'm still falling apart and barely functioning every day and barely getting my work turned in bc i come home from class and collapse for days at a time and its just not fair, its not fair, why do other people get to be the normal, why do jobs get to be easy for other people, why are 66% of autistics unemployed/underemployed its not FAIR
Weird is fine. I do not give the slightest fuck about weird coworkers. Coworkers who can competently manage social situations well enough to cover for their incompetence to management? Those are the worst coworkers in the world.
Hoo-boy, your professor is a complete idiot who has apparently never worked a single job outside of the one they somehow landed to get paid for handing out shitty advice.
Your coworkers absolutely WILL work with weird. If you're even halfway competent, they will accommodate weird. No seriously--because if you're really competent, your coworkers will put up with raging assholes and miserable bitches because the bosses will love them enough to keep them no matter how terrible they are to work with, so in comparison? Weird but competent is nothing. We would pick you any day over the Queen Bee who you can't even say "good morning" to because implying anything about the goodness or badness of the day was fighting words.
What your coworkers will NOT put up with is incompetence. People who refuse to be trained. Who make other people's work more difficult by being so bad at doing their own. Who take the wrong kind of shortcuts or leave a task half-finished or try to wiggle out of doing what they've been assigned. It may not get them fired--some bosses really do believe that a warm body doing subpar work for ten years is better than taking the time to train one halfway intelligent person for one month--but your coworkers? Yeah, they're going to notice that. You being weird? As long as you're not making my workday more difficult, I could care less.
Take it from An Old Weirdo: Weird and Competent is just fine. Weird, Competent, and Not An Asshole is an even better trifecta.
If masking in public all the time is exhausting, don't go into sales and try to avoid customer service.
But if you like logic puzzles or how weird facts tie in together, try database management.
Databases are all logic puzzles, and if you can figure out the combo of filters, data points, and data limits to get the report upper management needs, THEY WILL LOVE YOU.
If you combine that with a basic project management program like Smartsheet, and start making the excel grid turn pretty colors when linked to a report, THEY WILL REALLY LOVE YOU. I've done in an hour what has taken my VP 3 days to do manually in the past. SHE LOVES ME.
And I work from home with all of my dogs, my cats, and my chickens, and if I don't shower for a few days, it's fine, and if I feel the need to work nights instead of days because of being overwhelmed, it's also fine, because I'M COMPETENT.
Ralph Stanley sang āO Deathā on that soundtrack. (He also has recorded his own version of Constant Sorrow.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMHB40N3ejc
Back about 10 years ago, he and his grandsons were touring and had a show at a local winery. Great concert, and I got drunk off of cheap, good wine.
Got so drunk that I bought a banjo his band was selling at the merch table, and got Dr Ralph Stanley himself to sign it.
Sunmao (ChineseĀ šØš³: ꦫåÆ, pinyin: sĒn mĒo), also known as Chinese joinery, or Mortise and tenon joint structure, is an ancient Chinese wooden architecture employing Chinese woodworking/carpentry and joinery methods that uses primarily wood, bricks, and tiles as the main building materials, with the wooden frame structure as the main structure, and columns, beams, and purlins as the main components.
āSunā refers to āSuntouā (ę¦«å¤“, or ē¬å¤“, tenon), which is a wooden component that is designed for insertion, typically with a protruding or projecting part, and āMaoā comes from āMaoyanā (åÆē¼, or åÆå£, or ꦫē¼, mortise), which is a wooden component that is designed for receiving a corresponding projection, typically with a hole or recessed cut.Ā The joints between the various components are joined and connected by mortise and tenon, and fit together to form a flexible frame.
Sunmao is the most common structuring approach in ancient Chinese architecture and furniture.Ā Sunmao structures, as a part of the āChinese traditional architectural craftsmanship for timber-framed structuresā, is a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage inscribed in 2009 on the UN Representative list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
āThe Neolithic period (6000 ā 2000 b.c.e.) marks the true emergence of the wooden frames so characteristic of Chinese architecture. As early as seven thousand years ago, Neolithic peoples knew how to use mortise and tenon ā a method of joinery that employs notches and inserts ā to build wood-beamed houses. (The worldās oldest examples are at the Hemudu site in Zhejiang.) By the end of the era these techniques were well developed, and such homes were made in circular, square, or oblong shapes, depending on their function.ā - Chinese Architecture ā The Origins of Chinese Architecture (English ed.). Yale University Press. pp. 5ā15.Ā
People will often refer to the masses as if theyāre gullible and stupid, which on the one hand is just terrible politics. But on the other hand, itās actually stupid. I mean, people arenāt stupid. A term thatās just as important as loneliness is cynicism. Totalitarianism works through cynicism. Itās crucial because it allows people to say, āTheyāre all the same, itās all bullshit, isnāt it? Itās just politics, isnāt it?ā What cynicism allows you to do is be gullible and disbelieving at the same time.
What cynicism allows you to do is be gullible and disbelieving at the same time.
From an interview with Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge. https://www.vox.com/vox-conversations-podcast/23048597/vox-conversations-hannah-arendt-totalitarianism-the-philosophers
all of your feelings are valid as in āworth acknowledgment and internal considerationā but some of your feelings are also stupid and mean, and you need to deal with that shit without making it anyone elseās problem
like we are all beings of light, namaste, but also every single one of us has an ugly, dumb, selfish, lazy goblin living inside of us which can never be silenced or destroyed. and being a decent person means keeping that little fuck in his special little playpen hidden away in your heart, with his colorful enrichment rattles and his favorite pieces of raw meat, where he can pipe up with his wretched little opinions and you can nod sagaciously at him and pat him on the head and tell him you understand why he feels that way and never, ever let anybody else get their feelings hurt by him, because he sucks shit and nothing he has to say is worthy of notice by anyone but you. you should pay attention to him, but only because itās important to understand your own worst impulses, and because trying to ignore him will make him break down a wall and run out into the street where he can show passerbys his privates and eat cigarette butts right off the ground. your goblin is valid: that doesnāt mean heās fit for company.
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