Tonava
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- Comment on Anon pets a dog 1 week ago:
Oh the genetic confirmation for dingoes to have arrived in Australia is about 8000 years ago these days. So it’s about when did the extra muscles evolve and in which genetic lines? Dingoes and the new guinea singing dog are traced to have come from the wolves domesticated in Asia, so I guess they wouldn’t have them unless they evolved independently or the genes spread before they got separated in Guinea and Australia? But then do japanese breeds also not have them since they’re from the same lines probably? I don’t know, there’s just too little information online. Or if there’s more, I can’t find it
- Comment on Anon pets a dog 1 week ago:
I wonder do dingoes have them. I haven’t been able to find any information on that yet
- Comment on Anon pets a dog 1 week ago:
Interestingly some dog breeds also still lack those muscles, like huskies
- Comment on I still can't get over Skyrim. Are there any games that can replace it? 1 week ago:
Minecraft is actually really good for this, you can pretty much hoard everything the world has in it. I always end up just doing nothing but building hoards full of food and means to produce it everywhere like some small mammal preparing for a long winter lmao. I guess you should rather try the other games that mimic it though since microslop, but I haven’t tried those
- Comment on Meow meow meow 1 week ago:
Yeah, they’ve spread across cities quite successfully, especially the ringnecks, they have breeding colonies in cities all around the world. These species adapt well in the city life apparently
- Comment on Meow meow meow 1 week ago:
The parrots are likely either indian ringnecks or monk parakeets, they’re the most common invasives, I think former the most - they’re also very common as pets. I know there’s some alexandrine parrots as well (they look like big ringnecks) and even amazon colony at least in one city, but they’re a lot rarer.
Ringnecks are really fast and skittish, and since they’re so intelligent it really is difficult to catch them. You likely have to change the method or at least the placement of the trap if you fail the first time. And if they see you do it, they’ll learn to avoid you as well - Comment on why is it never the 'close friend' who gets shit on? 2 weeks ago:
And some breeds (like dobermans) do the stupid little smile when they’re happy, which includes showing their front teeth and usually a lot of wiggling. But I’ve never seen them doing it other than upright position, and I think they tend to squint their eyes too doing that, so whatever is going on the op picture does not look like that. But dogs showing teeth really has multiple meanings, the context and body language tell the rest
- Comment on We produce more resources than we could ever consume in the least sustainable ways possible. 4 weeks ago:
I see no problem with farming as long as the animals are kept (and killed) well, since having a safe life, with no parasites and fell fed, and then a quick death, is a lot better than most animals ever get in the wild. There’s absolutely no need to keep and treat them as horridly as we do now for profit, you can just let them graze and be pretty naturally depending of the climate and all that, though in many places you have to have livestock guardian dogs at least with them so they don’t get eaten by the wildlife.
That kangaroo hunting is very comparable to hunting in many places, since a lot of it is done because humans have erased natural predators and their numbers need to be controlled to prevent overpopulation. Killing for sport is not the reason for hunting everything everywhere else, though even trophy hunting can be done relatively ethically, since the locals can use the money to protect the species and the trophy hunters get to cull the ones that would be killed to keep the population healthy anyway.
And reindeer herding has some similarities to that aboriginal style, though the siberian nomad tribes don’t stay in one place but herd the flock around in certain places depending on the time of the year, and the more stationary way is done for example up in Lapland. They release the reindeer in the nature and then herd some of them in one place only on certain times of the year. But on that more stationary way they lasso them and put markings to their ears, so I don’t know would you be okay with that. And a lot of them get eaten by the wolvesI’ll also add that “no white tradition” is a pretty vague assumption, since I do not know what does “white” include to you. For example the traditional way of keeping cows around here was pretty good since you’d keep them for milk foremost, and mostly the excess bulls and old cows only for meat. You’d just let them go graze in the morning and call them back for milking for the night, though they did have to stay inside all winter since it’s so cold here, so maybe that alone would mean it doesn’t count. And we finns weren’t considered white in USA before 1908 so that way of keeping was done by “whites” only for some decades before the modernization took over anyway.
It’s been done in a similar way in many places in Europe (especially the remote mountain areas), with sheep and milk cows at least. But maybe those require more herding than just calling them back, I haven’t looked deeply into it - Comment on We produce more resources than we could ever consume in the least sustainable ways possible. 4 weeks ago:
Most people in “civilized” nations might also have forgot it, but cows for example can be incredibly important in places with bad conditions for growing food. You get two years of bad crop yields and everyone is dying of hunger, unless you have that cow that can eat the grass that still grows, and gives you milk that keeps you and your family alive until you get a better yield
- Comment on We produce more resources than we could ever consume in the least sustainable ways possible. 4 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t, but I wouldn’t farm and eat whales, apes, crows, parrots or elephants for example either. Where’s the threshold for what’s intelligent enough to eat? I don’t know, but it’s not a cuteness factor, I would farm and eat rabbits and I’ve kept pet rabbits and love them. Or I would eat a beloved horse that had to be put down, that’s just the respectful thing to do. Would you require that the random siberian nomad leaves their lifestyle and gives up their culture, just because you’d deem them keeping and eating their reindeer worse than you eating crops that are killing millions of birds, insects and rodents? Considering all animals equal, they’re still killing way less than we are
Though I also wouldn’t eat humans because it increases the risk for prion diseases. Especially the brains should not be eaten
- Comment on We produce more resources than we could ever consume in the least sustainable ways possible. 4 weeks ago:
Animal husbandry is not an unique thing to humans only. I think it’s incredibly arrogant to think we’re so above nature we aren’t part of it just like ants, rodents, deer or tigers or whatever are. We should strive for eating as few animal products we can since we’re killing the planet with our over-consumption - and factory farming is a grotesque crime against nature. But some random siberian nomad with their reindeer is living way more sustainably than any vegan that’s sitting on a computer and writing here is.
Farming always requires killing, even if it’s just growing crops. Just controlling the rodent populations alone means either poison or cats. And the bigger the operations, the more you need to kill
- Comment on We produce more resources than we could ever consume in the least sustainable ways possible. 4 weeks ago:
I think we should also ban animal agriculture.
I’d ban animal agriculture only in places where the land can be used to grow crops, but not in places where only grass grows and you can’t really produce enough food without animals. This would also focus on banning factory farming, since now many animals are just fed with feed that’s grown elsewhere and transported into places, which allows to sustain massive populations that wouldn’t be possible without it. But mountain range with sheep and goats? Northern nomads with their reindeer? Homesteading with couple pigs and cows? I see no problem as long as those are sustained by the land (and kept lovingly).
I also would absolutely not ban stuff like keeping chickens (except the factory farming situations of course) since having them on your backyard is good - it produces cheap animal protein that doesn’t really require much killing (eggs) and chickens can eat a lot of food waste that would just be tossed
- Comment on Accepting Cookies 4 weeks ago:
Some sites do those blocks very haphazardly and you can get past just removing couple html-lines, they don’t really care since most people won’t bother to look (or don’t know you can do it). At minimum it might just be “overflow: hidden” added on the top somewhere lmao. It’s a pain to do but if it’s something specific you need only once, might be worth to check
- Comment on An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars 4 weeks ago:
Yes it’s less dangerous (not dangerless obviously), in Europe the swat teams tend to be better trained and way less trigger happy than in USA. Had they busted in there they likely would not have shot an elderly woman found inside, whereas in USA that’s more likely to happen. They don’t just go in and start shooting, otherwise we would have “random kids and women accidentally murdered in a police bust” headlines all the time as well
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 4 weeks ago:
Or did I just say it wasn’t considered a genocide?
If part of (be it sixth or less) a cultural minority is put into internment camps, such a big portion of one ethnicity to be criminals in any common means is so unlikely it’s clearly a state approved genocide. You denying it to be one is intentionally downplaying to make the issue seem less important and direct the discussion towards something else. I do not care what is the government structure or whatever it prefers to be called if they’re putting minorities into camps. There’s nothing to be defended in that, be it USA, China, or whoever.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 4 weeks ago:
Also, I do not think temporarily holding a percent of an ethnicity in an internment camp is enough to call something a genocide.
Do you really want to defend holding any percentage of people in an internment camp based on their ethnicity? And this applies to USA too. Holding anyone on an internment camp is bad enough, but because of ethnicity?! That’s not only racism, that’s fast track to genocide if it’s not already happening
- Comment on My shitty frog effigy for cursing the tyrants, ultra-rich and genociders 2 months ago:
Oh, and if someone happens to be interested in the actual history, frog coffins were a real thing in Finnish folklore, though they were usually good luck charms. You’d bury them under the church floor, the closer the altar, the better. I also used juniper wood, which was considered the most pure and beautiful wood, so I’m taking creative liberties here! But the people of old are gone and forgotten, and so is their magic. I’d say magic is meant to change and grow as people do anyway, so if I can borrow even a bit from the old to create new, I think that’s enough to keep the spirit of it.
And a lot of the magic was indeed used for curses, so I’m keeping that tradition alive for sure - Comment on My shitty frog effigy for cursing the tyrants, ultra-rich and genociders 2 months ago:
The traditional way would require an actual frog corpse, so this was the most ethical way I could make it (and it’s not like I have plentiful access to frog corpses). If it helps, I made the frog look very mean on purpose
- Comment on My shitty frog effigy for cursing the tyrants, ultra-rich and genociders 2 months ago:
Here’s a quick translation of the spell I cast on it, it’s a curse of rotting. I left out the most secret part and I won’t reveal the actual ritual either, but the curse itself should tell what it contained. Next I’m going to bury the effigy in it’s coffin in the old graveyard after the sun sets, to finish the curse.
Now, do I believe in this stuff? Well, no. This is more of a play for me, to keep some magic in the world, and old traditions alive. Or maybe I’m lying, and just covering my tracks so nobody can blame me of anything. Who knows, the internet is full of weirdos. But hey we all have our ways to deal with all of this shit, some get drunk, others turn to witchcraft
Women oozing hate, rancid men,
half-wit enablers, genociders,
filthy rich acting like pigs, those that have raped even children,
every greedy fucker that’s robbing the eco-sphere;(I command) meat melt away, guts rot,
(become) full of pus heads mean and stupid,
gnaw those bones, bad cancer,
every one of you fascists, putrefy alive;in behalf of the weakest, I become hateful,
I curse with blood, I curse with iron,
I curse with spit and salt,
I cover (them) with ash too,
like this, cruelly in revenge I chastise the ones destroying(/shitting on) the world. - Comment on My shitty frog effigy for cursing the tyrants, ultra-rich and genociders 2 months ago:
- Comment on My shitty frog effigy for cursing the tyrants, ultra-rich and genociders 2 months ago:
Hey etsy witches got Charlie Kirk, so might as well
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- Comment on 5 months ago:
That’s animal cruelty. If you don’t want to toss it, just eat it like any proper predator would
- Comment on 5 months ago:
In that moment you stop eating and stare them down, birds don’t like you staring at them because that’s predator behavior. And if the bastards try to lunge at you, you just swiftly try to grab them. In my experience you need only one grab attempt and they don’t dare to come close anymore. Also if you actually manage to yoink them, just throw them away lmao
- Comment on Statistically, probably with the beetles. 🪲 6 months ago:
Hell yeah!
- Comment on Turtle Wax 7 months ago:
Thank you! I’m relatively good at written english, but the spoken one always gets me…
