Absolutely.
My cat regularly draws blood. Cats are much less human bred than dogs, but, in any case he can’t really maul a child. Same with chihuahuas and plenty of other small dogs.
Your last paragraph seems pretty extreme to me. I agree in principle and do advocate for trying to remove these genes from the gene pool, which may involve careful breeding and/or letting them go extinct.
I’m curious if there’s a story behind that paragraph?
It’s more complicated than that. If your can’t stop your lab from licking a stranger to death, that’s completely different from not being able to stop your pitbull or doberman from mauling a toddler.
Yes, people should be responsible dog owners, but only certain breeds regularly snap and kill or maim.
If you don’t think that dog breed is a good predictor of behavior, you have not spent enough time around dogs.
For thousands of years dogs have been bred for specific purposes. These behaviors are innate. They do not need to be taught. Sure, you can train them to be better, but the behaviors are written all over their genes
My grandparents had shepherds. The dogs had never seen sheep or been taught anything about herding, but they would attempt to herd all my cousins when they were children, then get agitated when the children wouldn’t herd. Here’s some puppies doing it
Here’s some pointers pointing. They have not been taught this (and frankly I can’t imagine even training most dog breeds to do that)
Here’s a boxer dog boxing. Here’s one spinning. They aren’t taught this, and they all do it.
There’s hounds rolling in stink. There’s sight hounds and smell hounds. There’s retrievers retrieving, being irresistibly drawn to water, and carrying around things very gently. There’s huskies being extremely energetic and vocal.
I could go on.
Do you really think that dogs that have been bred to fight other dogs to the death and bear enormous amounts of pain (game) before giving up are not dangerous? You’re mental.
Sure they’re sweet to their owners. That’s because people who breed animals for blood sports are not the kind of people who would have trouble immediately removing from the gene pool any of their animals that are disloyal.
It’s not like it’s just pitbulls. Dobermans are implicated too. They’re guard dogs but for humans rather than predator animals.
People with agendas can play all kinds of statistical games to show what they want to show. In the scientific world, these kinds of tricks stand out. That’s why any non-trivial summary statistic is useless without a large text explaining the methodology.
This is one of those things that is so obvious it boggles my mind that people even question it.
Of course dogs that are bred to murder are dangerous.
Most people suck at software engineering.
Plus, there’s always the temptation to do it the shitty way and “fix it later” (which never happens).
You pay your technical debt. One way or another.
It’s way worse than any gangster.
I very much don’t disagree, but one of the reasons we hear about these issues in the US is that we have a much larger “minority” (meaning not the people in power, even if there is a plurality) population.
In places like South America, the Middle East, Asia, and Europe, there’s either a homogenous population where this doesn’t make sense as a criticism or it’s just not being reported on. There’s huge amounts of racism all over the world.
The US and Canada have problems, but there are going to be pains as we identify and try to correct these racial injustices.
Remember: while colonialism and triangle trade slavery were the worst examples of racism, and the West invented that, it did not invent racism.
What it did invent was feeling bad about racism and trying to improve things.
This is not to defend or deflect anything. It’s more that I find “consciousness raising” to be effective.
Of course not. Their media is controlled by them. It may be worse than fox now.
Honestly, Lemmy is probably worse than Reddit at challenging a comment like this, but it’s better than the shit my father in law turns on when he drives my child around. Challenge it.
Ah. That explains it. Mini split?
Yeah. Our duct system is absolutely awful. We looked into mini splits to solve the problem before the geothermal. The ones with multiple heads were just ridiculous.
We did later finish our attic and put one up there. It’s awesome.
We’ve programmed a robot to be treated like shit.
Why so expensive? That’s the price of our geothermal system with its really expensive well.
Exactly. This is what you’re supposed to do.
It’s like covering your mouth when you cough or shitting in the toilet rather than the living room floor.
I don’t know what I mean. That’s what I’m asking.
I want to know more about how first responders do things.
If they’re following a protocol even when something as odd as this happens, I’d like to know what the protocols are
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There was a show on NPR (this American life I think) about Americans who flee to Mexico.
Apparently it’s really hard to not stick out like a sore thumb, even if you’re Mexican.
Yeah. I’m used to all the scientific stuff being metric, and only conventional for stuff that doesn’t matter. I saw -270 when I looked it up and thought “that’s about 3 K, I guess that’s feasible”.
I do think unit fights are stupid, though. Units are about communicating and understanding.
I learned that DC fast chargers are around 250 kW. I can tell you how fast that could boil a cubic meter of water or all kinds of science things, but that’s not meaningful to me.
I can then tell you that that’s enough to trip the big breaker on five houses. That’s a bit more meaningful to me, but how much is a house.
Now, how many ovens set to max is that? I know how hot an oven is. It’s more than 80 ovens. That’s a much better unit, but I still can’t really understand 80 ovens.
Where could I find more information about this? Like actual scripts and responses for different scenarios.
I never thought about this before, but of course it’s the correct way to manage emergencies.
Quite fascinating.
Edit: here’s something neat
Whoops. You’re right…F and C confusion.
Mars has an atmosphere and a more typical day length. It doesn’t get that cold there.
The length of a day on the moon is 29.5 earth days, and there’s no atmosphere.
The rover spent 14 days *in total darkness and cold
Electronics don’t survive that. Weird shit happens when it gets that cold. Not to mention something simple like thermal expansion breaking a trace.
Right? It was planned.
14 days in really cold and dark is really harsh for any electronics. Unless it had a radio isotopes generator, I can’t imagine much of anything electronics surviving.
Seriously. I have no idea how you could be non-white and vote for these people.
I know the white working class has been fed a steady diet of fox propaganda for 30 years, but bipoc and lgptq? You’re not the target audience for the propaganda, and it should be pretty obvious how much they hate you.
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