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If you deadname someone in the death note it kills you
In one of the Death Note live action movies (I think it was Light Up the New World), a man changes his name after harboring guilt about past crimes and trying to atone (not even answering to that name). He's only killed after his new name gets put in the book, since he shed his old name.
Man wasn't trans, but if the logic applied to him, logic should apply to trans people too!
This rule implies that birth names are not necessarily the names given to you at birth.
That means you can change your name or consider yourself to have a new name and the death note recognizes it.
Death Note is an ally.
Diversity win! this Death Note kills trans people but doesnāt deadname them!
Mr. Love: Queen Is Not Allowed To Make That Choice
On Twitter I've been RTing a lot about the situation re: the firing of Jonah Scott (a voice actor) by Mr. Love: Queen's Choice's dev/localizer because of his Tweeting "Taiwan is a country."
Short summary of the issue:
Jonah Scott tweeted "Taiwan is a country" on June 3rd as part of the backlash against John Cena
almost immediately some Chinese fans screencapped and complained to Elex/Paper Games
in less than 24 hours from Jonah Scott's Tweet, on June 4th, the official MLQC Twitter and Facebook accounts announced that he was not only being fired but that all his content would be scrubbed from the game, meaning that Victor (one of 4 main love interests) would be voiceless
about 12 hours after that, Joe Zieja and Sean Chiplock, who voiced two of the other three main characters, announced that they would not voice their characters in protest at Scott's firing, because Scott did not violate anything in his contract
The official accounts of MLQC deleted their Tweet about firing Jonah Scott. However they did nothing else until June 7th, where they began Tweeting again, including the following: "Dear producers, Mr Love has just completed the update. Step into Loveland and check what's new in Mr Love! Don't forget to claim the maintenance compensation in your mailbox (ą¹ā¢Ģć ā¢Ģ)Łā§ New Chap 33-34 [Tracks of Light] is open now!!!! Use your power to open the curtain of the future. Please note that the voices for Victor, Gavin and Kiro are only available in text. New voice materials will be added in the future. Contact the CS team if you got any problem. Thank you for your understanding and support. MLQC Team" (emphasis mine) And that was all!
From then until now, the MLQC official accounts have continued to act like nothing unusual is happening even though 3/4ths of the love interests are now silent.
I uninstalled the game as soon as I learned about Jonah Scott's firing, in solidarity, much like Joe Zieja and Sean Chiplock.
Some people are saying that the Chinese government requires MLQC to do this (debatable, and in my opinion far more likely that Paper Games is motivated primarily by Chinese public opinion which can be very high on this issue). Regardless of whether it does or not, I am unwilling to cooperate with this behaviour. This is not just a matter of free speech but of labour rights. Moreover, the product itself that they are selling me had most of its value from the amazing voice performances of these actors. The unprofessional way that they were dispensed with is grotesque.
I won't be deleting any of my MLQC fics, but I will not be making anymore content for the fandom except for finishing For Your Own and the Greater Good which is a novel about overthrowing a despot. Make of that what you will.
Also if anyone wants to interact with this post to whine about how "you're going to kill the server uwu", fuck all the way off. If PG and Elex can't play by international cultural norms, then they can't expect to get money from international customers. Too bad for them. Stop simping for a company, it's embarrassing.
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My father has been getting on my ass about my cats. They're both clawed and despite many toys, 2 cat trees and 6 cardboard scratchers their claws tend to be rough on furniture and my skin. My father says I'm wasting money by putting soft paws nail caps on them & that they should be declawed. He even said that soft paws are damaging! Am I doing the right thing?
Hell yes youāre doing the right thing. Declawing is mutilation (because itās literally amputating a joint on each toe) and cats are often in pain their entire lives. Soft paw nail caps are expensive and a pain and the cats might think theyāre annoying, but theyāre by far the better choice. Props to you for standing up to him about it.Ā
oh God, just do a little research on declawing and see the horror stories! Most vets these days wonāt even do that anymore! My jerk co-workers son took his doberman in and said he wanted his tail docked and ears clipped and the vet was like, we donāt do that anymore. Itās unnecessary and mutilation.
I am pro-declawing as long as the vet is good. I have three healthy, lovable fur babies and they are all fixed and they donāt have front claws (Their back claws are still in tact) they are all indoor cats with no danger of getting out doors (If they were out door cats hell yeah theyād have all their claws)
My eldest cat is almost 15, she has had NO health problems for a cat her age, her paws are perfect she has had no pain in them. Same with my other two babies.
My vet did stitches and we used the special litter. Contrary to what youād be led to believe declawing is a common surgical procedure done under anesthesia and if done correctly, there will not be any lasting effects. It is just like any other surgery: there are some risks from the anesthesia and blood loss, but most of the times and if done by a competent veterinarian, there are no lasting effects from the surgery. Contrary to some opinions, declawing is not likely to drastically change their behavior or personality, nor does it necessarily predispose him to future behavioral problems. On the other hand, it creates a more rewarding experience between cat and owner because you donāt have to scold kitty all the time for clawing inappropriately.
Another pro-declawing is when rough-housing between kitty and another pet results in a scratched cornea and the risk of the other pet (my dog) losing an eye. The choice for the owner then becomes either to declaw or give up a cherished and loved pet, so it is pretty obvious here what the most humane choice would be. A person that decides to declaw his/her cat should not be vilified, instead encouraged to give the cat a home and love as long as the cat lives.Ā
If you check the internet, you can find one of those sites about the āhorrorsā of declawing a cat. They have pictures of an actual surgery of declawing a black cat. I have two things to sayā¦ Despite many warnings of how graphic the pictures are, there is not much blood to see. This proves that the declawing surgery is not as bloody as described, and even when the pictures where taken by an anti-declaw vet tech which most likely attempted to make the surgery look a gory as possible. Second, I can see where all the horror stories come from. This surgery was done very poorly. Using a nail clipper to remove the claws is a procedure that is not done very often anymore. It can leave bone splinters behind and the possibility of nail regrowth. The procedure done most often involves an incision behind the claw and continuing against the bony structure until the last digit falls away from the paw using a scalpel (called disarticulation method). This method does not break any bone and insures that no bone splinters are left behind and that there is no possibility of nail regrowth.Ā You can seeĀ that the claw is removed carefully and would only remove the claw along with the distal phalanx (the bone where the claw is attached to) as shown on the picture below. In the pictures presented in the anti-declaw website part of the middle phalanx is being crushed.
The above is an image of what actually declawing looks like.
Declawing is also recommended to be done to cats before they turn 2 years of age and to be done the same time as spay/neuter. Some vets also put an anesthetic block in their paws so they wonāt feel pain when they wake up. And they heal very quickly! It is recommended also by vets that you only remove their front claws because the back ones are important in their grooming and god forbid if they did get outside.
So yes, declaw your kitty @lepetitselkie just make sure you research your vet first to find out what kind of procedure they do. Just like with any surgical choice the doctor is key.
It is NOT hard to do some damn googling people!!!!
It takes a hell of a lot to piss me off to where I respond to it in public, but this, this actually makes it hard to engage a civil fashion. Especially because you also had the gall to send a pretty condescending note about how I should do research before I consider myself an expert. Hereās the thing about academic and practical knowledge - itās often far more complex than what people find on a google search. So, letās break this down for you because I know a hell of a lot more about this than what comes from ājust googleā. In fact, if you actually took the time to do a couple google searches, the first thing youād find is that declawing is considered animal cruelty and banned in at least 22 countries.
Okay, so thereās two different topics to dig into here: the science and the ethics. Letās start with the science, because thatās easier to break down while I try to stop raging internally.
Hereās a much more detailed image of what the inside of a catās paw actually looks like, because the one embedded above leaves out some rather important details.
Okay, so what youāre looking at here is the cross-section of a toe with the claw retracted. Cats walk digitigrade, meaning that their weight is borne entirely on the toes rather than on the internal bones of the foot. The last bone that the claw is attached to is called the distal phalanx (plural: phalanges). Youāll notice that there are two tendons and an elastic ligament attached to it. For a cat to be declawed, that bone must be removed, which means all three of those connective tissues must be severed. Ā Thatās going to impair mobility even after it heals (tendons work because of their attachments) and thatās incredibly painful.
Hereās an image of a catās paw actually bearing weight. Notice how, because cats walk digitigrade, literally all of itās weight is on the distal phalanx? Cats walk with all of their weight on the bone that declawing removes. Look at the position of the middle phalanx - itās perpendicular to the ground and not in an orientation to bear weight comfortably in the slightest. When you declaw a cat, thatās the bone theyāre left to put all their weight on and itās understandably uncomfortable. Itās possible to help cats adjust by leaving part of the distal phalanx in the paw, but that a) means cutting the bone in half and having it heal and b) risks claw regrowth out of the bone and through the extant soft tissues.
At one teaching hospital, between 50%-80% of cats had post-surgery complications. Numbers from other studies vary - the ones cited on the declawing wikipedia article provide a decent sample range, and the complication rates were: 24%, 53%, 1.4%, 82.5%, 51.5%, 80%. All over the place. Reported medical complications include: pain, hemorrhage, laceration of paw pads, swelling, reluctance to bear weight on affected limb, neuropraxia (transient motor paralysis), radial nerve damage, lameness, infection, abscess, tissue necrosis, wound dehiscence, incomplete healing, protrusion of 2nd (middle) phalanx, claw regrowth, scurs (growth of deformed claw segments), retention of flexor process of third phalanx, chronic draining tracts, self-mutilation, dermatitis, lethargy, palmigrade stance (walking on wrists), chronic intermittent lameness, chronic pain syndrome, flexor tendon contracture, and cystitis (stress-associated bladder inflammation).
Long-term lameness is common, but also understudied. One review of related studies reported long-term lameness in 1% of cats, but another with a different sample size and source found that 13.6% of cats showed at least mild lameness long after healing (source).
Chronic pain in declawed cats is incredibly hard to assess. It hasnāt been well studied, cats are cryptic (quiet) when in pain, and most owners are notoriously bad at accurately identifying or reporting behavior in cats that indicates pain. That doesnāt meant that we have evidence that most declawed cats arenāt in pain - thereās just literally no data. We do know that there are frequently observed avoidance/pain behaviors such as walking oddly, not stepping on litter or similar surfaces, paw shaking, and paw biting that correlate highly with cats who have been declawed. Claw growth and arthritis from being declawed are obviously painful chronically.
Okay, so thereās your science. Now letās talk ethics. In fact, hereās an anecdote for you.
My fatherās toenails destroy bedding like little demons. No matter what he does, how much he clips them, how short they are, his toenails will inevitably shred the bottoms of sheets pretty quickly. Itās annoying as hell and my mother keeps mending the sheets or buying new ones when it gets too bad. Now, tell me, should she have the last joints of his toes amputated because itās an inconvenience she doesnāt want to deal with? Of course not. She knew when she married my father that it would be something that came with the territory and she accepts that fact. Sounds stupid, right?
Voluntary onychectomy is, when simply put, the amputation of a catās weight-bearing digits for the convenience of the owner. Most people cite the reasons they declaw cats as behavior problems (scratching furniture) or aggression towards humans. Both of these problems are entirely resolvable through management and/or appropriate training with a little bit of effort on the part of the owner(s).
When you declaw a cat, not only do you put it through an entirely unnecessary, painful, and potentially traumatizing procedure, you forever remove from it the ability to engage in all of itās natural behaviors. The simplest natural behavior is just walking on itās feet correctly. Evolution creates certain physical structures for their specific efficacy and when you lop off your catās toes for your own convenience you forever force it to walk in a way that is unnatural for it. You also remove itās ability to scratch, climb and stretch.
I do not believe that people should be allowed to have pets if they are not prepared to handle what comes with them. Scratching and using their claws for communication are natural behavior for a cat and therefore should be assumed as part of the price to pay for the luxury of cohabitating with one. If youāve accidentially encouraged claws-out aggressive play or if youāre pushing your cat so far past itās comfort zone that it keeps scratching you, that problem is entirely on you. If youāre declawing your cat because you prioritize the state of your furniture over the cat then you donāt deserve the luxury of getting to own a cat. If you need to mutilate an animal to make it fit into your life, donāt get the goddamn animal.
I have said this a million times and I will say it again: Ā If you want a pet whose welfare you are willing to sacrifice for your own ease of care, you are not responsible enough to own any living creature. As sentient beings who make the conscious choice to take on the care and welfare of a living creature (or six), itās an ethical imperative that we provide the highest quality of welfare possible even no matter what the expense or time investment required.
Itās entirely possible, as weāve shown numerous times on this blog, to use planning and appropriate management to eliminate the irritations that come with a cat having and using claws. Cats can be trained to play without hurting, humans can learn to read cat body language, claws can be clipped or dremeled as an entirely positive experience, and soft-caps can be applied. All it takes is time, dedication and forethought.
So, @fat-and-nerdygirl, it is for all of the above that I am appalled that you are actively advocating for unnecessary declawing procedures. This girl does not appear to have any of the severe medical conditions that would make it vaguely acceptable to consider declawing for her safety. Itās simply that her cats are being cats - thatās the only problem. Youāre advocating she put her pet through an unnecessary surgery for basically no reason when sheās already found a much more appropriate solution and is implementing it correctly.
More importantly, I am pissed that you are spreading misinformation while advocating for accurate research. Many of your āfactsā are flat out wrong. Nail-clipper declaws are still incredibly common, awfully enough. Declaws do not always heal fast - most studies report lameness still present after 8 days and sometimes even up until two weeks after surgery. Just because a voluntary procedure is common does not mean it is good for the animals or ethically okay.
Now, look, I understand. You have four cats who have been declawed and at the moment they donāt appear to be having any issues. It sounds like you did do your research to find someone to do the surgery whose skills and techniques would provide the highest rate of success for your cats. Iām not going to attack your choice to declaw them because at this point it would be moot and I donāt know what your reasons were for making the choice at the time you did. I understand how, after putting four animals through that procedure, it can be incredibly hard to hear newer research come out that indicates that declawing isnāt great for them and questions the ethics of doing so. Thatās rough on any pet owner, wondering if you made the right choice for the animals whose care youāre entrusted with. Thatās enough to cause anyone to defend their choices more heavily - itās a pretty common type of cognitive dissonance. But please, please stop spreading misinformation and backing it up with phony requests for ābetter researchā and misleading diagrams. Iām glad your cats are doing well post-surgery, and I sincerely hope they reach the ends of their lives without any complications surfacing.
Not all cats will be as lucky as your four cats.
Some cats will be declawed and forever live walking on bones that were never meant to be in contact with the ground or support weight that way. Some cats will develop claw shards or infections or arthritis. Some cat owners will be devastated to find out that they caused their babies to suffer by choosing what has been touted by peers as a āsimple, safe, elective surgeryā.
Help me stop that from happening to more animals and their humans. Stop spreading misinformation and defending an archaeic solution to the problems that arise when humans are lazy about caring for the animals they take into their homes.
sometimes i think about what i was physically capable of as a child and teen, running jumping climbing ect, and i feel FURIOUS at the physical education i received because no matter how much i enjoyed any given activity the competitive aspect and assessment factor made me feel AWFUL for not being good enough
and now i canāt do ANYTHING except walk a bit and iām angry because i never got shown the tools to keep me invested in continued physical activity beyond maybe dance?Ā
gyms, rock climbing, most sports culture for adults is the same brand of aggressive motivation that i always found off-putting so itās really like??? guess iāll get really into walking and destroy some shoes because i find every other exercise environment so inhospitable (and to be clear: home exercise requires a whole other level of motivation and gets pretty monotonous without the right resources)
i just want a jungle gym for adults thatās free like it is for kids is what iām saying
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Actually yeah. I just reblogged this silently without any acknowledgement of it, but this is hones to god one of the best explanations Iāve seen.
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these people are so far divorced from the best interests of humanity itās insane
An intruder breaks into my home and tries to use my smart toilet but they fail the anal print scan which switches the smart toilet into attack mode
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A lot of people are genuinely terrified about what will happen if Donald Trump wins reelection and it's really weird how some of y'all are acting like everyone begging you to vote for Biden is some privileged, rich, out of touch, neo-liberal when a lot of them are just vulnerable people who don't want to like...die in a brutal civil war or watch all their remaining rights get stripped away by an increasingly authoritarian Republican Party.
I do not know how to express to you how much worse it can get.
NonAmerican perspective here, but like....... do some of you really not see how bad it already is? Look back at 2016 and picture what you thought Trump's America would look like, four years into the future.
Did the 2020 that you predicted back in 2016 look like 197 thousand Americans dead of a virus that your leader deliberately downplayed the severity of for months? Did it look like your entire eastern coast in flames, the air across half the country unbreathable, the skies a hazy orange from the smoke and the glow of the fires, and your president saying "climate change has nothing to do with this"? Did it look like over two thousand missing children, who were taken from their parents by "the authorities" and then lost by those same authorities? Two thousand children in the care of a government agency have gone missing, and has your bossman even commented on it, or has he just continued extolling the dangers of immigrants?
Did the 2020 you imagined look like months of civil unrest, because police murdered yet another black man, and instead of condemning the act, your leader said "the answer to this problem is worse police violence, and to beat the protestors into submission."
Like, fuck me. Do you not see how bad it already is? This is what's happened under Trump in four years, and some of you are really out there going "hm yeah but Biden has weak policies tho." Would Biden take a global pandemic seriously? I suspect he would. Would Biden be open to working to stop climate change? He's already said loads about what he'll do to combat climate change. Would Biden completely fail to address the fact that women are being forcibly sterilised in ICE and children are being assaulted and going missing? I would be really surprised if he did nothing about that. Would Biden react to public outrage over cops murdering a civilian by sending in the national guard to attack peaceful protesters, assault journalists, permanently blind innocent civilians, and pepperspray children in the face? I really doubt it.
But Trump has done all that shit; is still actively doing all that shit, right at this very fucking moment. And some of you won't vote for Biden because you're not really a fan of his????
"Oh, Biden's too moderate for me" BIDEN IS TOO MODERATE, SO YOULL GO WITH DONALD "THERES NO VIRUS," "ITS BECAUSE THEY DIDNT MANAGE THE FORESTS WELL ENOUGH," "IMMIGRANTS ARE CRIMINALS," "SEND IN THE TROOPS" TRUMP INSTEAD?? You wanna let that guy win by default, to get another four fucking years, when he's already done this much damage?? WHAT THE FUCK, GUYS
This is genuinely what I donāt understand. How do you have such a fucking warped perspective on the world that you think not voting is somehow better than voting for Biden. Like, its actually boggles the mind.
Actually, you know what, I know what it is. Its fucking privilege. Its the privilege of every fucking middle class white person on here who thinks they somehow are taking the high horse because, well, both sides are really as as bad as one another. I mean, Biden is 100% a sexual predatory.Ā
Like this is some fucking cult of personality. Like this is some contest about whose side is the most morally high. Maybe yāall are too fucking close to the issue to see the impact Trump has had, so let me spell it out for you.
Trump has opened genuine concentration camps, which have left babies alone in cells for days and forcibly castrated people.
The Trump administration has openly admitted to collusion and tampering with the previous election with no negative side effect.Ā
There has been a steep rise in the number of Nazi/White Nationalist movements in the last four years, to the point where its actually normalised.
The Trump administration has had bleed on effects into other countries such as Australia whose government seems to revere Trump and, by extension, enabled a number of alt-right movements.
The murdock press has had almost unrestrained freedom to tear apart anyone they want because extreme right winged beliefs are now so normal
People are simultaneously doubting the press more than ever, and yet believing it more than ever
Flat Earth and QAnon conspiracy theories exist as a directly result of Trump. WTF.Ā
There are more extreme cases of police brutality, egged on by self righteous cops who feel empowered by Trump and the rise of the alt-right.
Trump defunding the CDC, completely bungling COVID, resulting in America remaining the largest country effected by COVID and, as other countries are coming down from it, America is still in full force resulting in the highest death toll so far
Thatās also ignoring all the people who feel as though they can justify this decision on the grounds that the economy would suffer a bit or the belief that people dying isnāt so bad, as long as its not the worst thing killing people (re: COVID & Flu Deathtoll).Ā
The fucking wall.Ā
The continuation of the belief that unemployment is good regardless of whether or not the money provided is enough to live on. By extension, he introduced a new tax cut, promises to help the middle/lower class. It didnt, and actually made their tax worse while cutting it for the upper class.
He just fucking lies, constantly. not even shitty politician lies, but outright, fabrications with no weight behind him.
Heās taken more leave than any other American president in history
Trump ought to have been kicked out several times over and still hasnāt been
He has used his presidency to promote and sell products
He has used his presidency to avoid conviction. In fact, two weeks after his election he settled three fraud lawsuits related to his university. And thatās among many, many others
He called African countriesĀ āshitholesā, Mexican peopleĀ āRacistsā, and NazisĀ āVery fine peopleā.
Heās paid people off
Heās incited violence against several groups
Nepotism
And thatās, legit, not everything because his reign of hot fucking nonsense is so thick that we beginning to mistake it for the air we breath.Ā
I actually donāt care why you donāt like Biden. I donāt care if you think that Obama isnāt actually that good because he was directly involved in the killing of hundred of people during the Iraq War. I donāt care if you think voting means being an active agent in choosing. Trump is among the worst presidents the world has ever faced. Such to the point where the world is beginning to believe his BS, and the only way to cope is to turn a blind eye to it. But fuck that, and fuck you. Iām pulling you out of your ignorance to tell you this. Passivity is a privilege that those who are directly affected by his actions canāt afford to that, and by not voting you are putting lives in danger.Ā
Get off your thumb, and go fucking vote. Vote because your life depends on it.Ā
This is the /an/ post that keeps on giving.
This is better than anything Iāve ever made.
