Buffalox

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come if my dog is sick and I take him to get put out of his misery its ok? On a human its not? How come human laws don't apply to animals? I think of our dog as family and he's one of us?⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes the story is sad all the way, the woman died shortly after. Some times life sucks, we were very good friends.
  At least the new neighbors also seem nice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come if my dog is sick and I take him to get put out of his misery its ok? On a human its not? How come human laws don't apply to animals? I think of our dog as family and he's one of us?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  True.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come if my dog is sick and I take him to get put out of his misery its ok? On a human its not? How come human laws don't apply to animals? I think of our dog as family and he's one of us?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  OK then you are more progressed than we are here in Denmark.

  But our neighbor did exactly what I wrote, in her defense she was dying of cancer, but we and another family she knew both offered to adopt the dog, the dog was very fond of both of us, my wife walked it daily, and when we visited, the dog would jump on the couch and lie across my lap, which it did for nobody else. But she went ahead and had the dog put down anyway. Perfectly legal as it is done humanely. My wife actually has trauma about the incident, because the vet came to her house, and my wife was there for support, and when my wife found the leash to hold him, he was so filled with joy because he thought they were going for a walk, but it was only to hold him while he was injected.

  So here you can have perfectly healthy happy good dogs put down, even when 2 families were ready to adopt it.
  Her reason for doing it was that she didn’t want the dog to miss her after she died.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come if my dog is sick and I take him to get put out of his misery its ok? On a human its not? How come human laws don't apply to animals? I think of our dog as family and he's one of us?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I had to keep convincing the vet it was a danger to have. It wasn’t an easy process.

  If it wasn’t your dog, you are not the one to decide, obviously your dad having dementia means he isn’t fit to make the decision. You did well in this case. And I think the doctor was acting according to regulation.

  But when you actually are the owner, it’s a very different story, and our neighbor did exactly what I wrote, in her defense she was dying of cancer, but we and another family she knew both offered to adopt the dog, the dog was very fond of both of us, my wife walked it daily, and when we visited, the dog would jump on the couch and lie across my lap, which it did for nobody else. But she went ahead and had the dog put down anyway. Perfectly legal as it is done humanely.
  My wife actually has trauma about the incident, because the vet came to her house, and my wife was there for support, and when my wife found the leash to hold him, he was so filled with joy because he thought they were going for a walk, but it was only to hold him while he was injected.

  So yes you can have perfectly healthy happy good dogs put down, you don’t even have to give a reason. They also do it at rescue shelters all the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come if my dog is sick and I take him to get put out of his misery its ok? On a human its not? How come human laws don't apply to animals? I think of our dog as family and he's one of us?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh for fucks sake, it is not allowed to be the decision of others, only the person that wants it, and only under certain circumstances, like being terminally ill and in pain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come if my dog is sick and I take him to get put out of his misery its ok? On a human its not? How come human laws don't apply to animals? I think of our dog as family and he's one of us?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Anymore

  Exactly, and when you could, it was also allowed to beat them to death, as long as they didn’t die immediately, but it took a day or two. Those are the rules of the bible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come if my dog is sick and I take him to get put out of his misery its ok? On a human its not? How come human laws don't apply to animals? I think of our dog as family and he's one of us?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You cannot put a person down for being sick. Even in countries where euthanasia is allowed, the person has to ask for it, under formal circumstances following formal rules.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come if my dog is sick and I take him to get put out of his misery its ok? On a human its not? How come human laws don't apply to animals? I think of our dog as family and he's one of us?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s actually way worse, because you can have a dog put down that is perfectly healthy, even when other people want to adopt the dog.
  If you have a dog you literally own it, and the only regulation that protects the dog are rules against animal cruelty.
  You cannot own a human being.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California father arrested after repainting crosswalk, adding stop signs near children’s park⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, thank you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California father arrested after repainting crosswalk, adding stop signs near children’s park⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Weird that in one photo the stop marking is in negative, and the next photo the stop marking is white?
  Seems to me like the photos aren’t trustworthy. Which again cast doubt on the whole story.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  6 months of the year, homeless people would freeze to death

  True, but that does surprisingly little to prevent homelessness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Finland has actually tried to do something about it, contrary to USA where homelessness is borderline illegal, and the main policy against it is harassment to make them go somewhere else. Finland is a civilized society, USA is a sociopathic society.

  That said, homelessness is a challenge, but Finland has a program they call “housing first” to help prevent it, that has turned out to work better than what most countries do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hypothetically, if a Black Millionaire had their home broken into by a poor White person, how much danger is there of the Black Millionaire getting shot by cops "by mistake"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Stand your ground, 3 times and you’re out, non livable wages, enormous wealth disparity, racism, death penalty.
  All these feed violence, and all these are extreme right wing policies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hypothetically, if a Black Millionaire had their home broken into by a poor White person, how much danger is there of the Black Millionaire getting shot by cops "by mistake"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Where I live (Denmark) very very near zero. A burglar (disregarding color), breaking into a rich mans house would also be near zero risk of getting shot by police.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With regards to cutlery, do you prefer a spoon or a fork for eating cake?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Weird thing to say after spending so much time and effort telling me how doing what I like is wrong and unpopular,

  I have no idea what your problem is, I never claimed in any way it is wrong, I also showed that it used to be way more popular than it is today.
  I just state the reasons I think it kind of fell out of fashion.
  I have no idea why you would be butthurt about any of this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With regards to cutlery, do you prefer a spoon or a fork for eating cake?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I suppose you mean “minus” instead of minutes.
  I suspected something of that sort. Back then using teaspoons was considered somewhat casual.
  And now you find the old ways kind of neat. Yes the old cake fork has a slight advantage in that it can be used as a fork, and it typically has an edge to “cut” if it’s a proper one. But in reality those “advantages” don’t really matter, at least not for most people.
  A cake can be cut with a teaspoon just as well, and for most cakes the fork function doesn’t really work, and in my experience the fork is used as a spoon anyway.

  But hey, have fun. Do what you like. 😀

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With regards to cutlery, do you prefer a spoon or a fork for eating cake?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I must have missed that memo

  Maybe you are not old enough, such things used to be way more important half a century ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With regards to cutlery, do you prefer a spoon or a fork for eating cake?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A small fork is generally considered the “correct” cutlery for cake in Denmark.
  Obviously a teaspoon serves the purpose just as well, and those are standard to have.
  And we are not a pretentious people, so many don’t even have the forks. Since they are pretty useless for anything else. So the small forks are basically superfluous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can to many hits to the head make a person the R word in animals? My bc loves to run around the house and hits his head constantly but shakes it off. He acts normal and everything exceept4 zoomies?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also the tiny brain will squish less under its own mass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the USA attacking Iran?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree Russia is out of resources, and can’t afford to “waste” any.
  Still if Iran was still an important supplier as you claimed earlier, taking down a few Israeli missiles would go a long way to make Trump reconsider, and possibly to create more opposition in USA against the war.
  I maintain that Putin actually wants this to help the struggling Russian economy. And if Putin didn’t want it, he could have stopped Trump with a phone call.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the USA attacking Iran?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Iran asked Russia for help,using the Russian S400 systems they have stationed in Syria, to help defend against Israeli missiles.
  The response from Russia, was to shut down the S400 systems, to prevent them from being a target.

  So very clearly no aid is coming from Russia, and I think part of the reason is that this is what Putin want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the USA attacking Iran?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, that was a bad example,because Putin has criticized Trump before, it’s the other way around,Trump never criticizes Putin.
  But remember Putin is KGB, and he constantly plays a game of deceit. Also to his own population.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the USA attacking Iran?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So did he call Trump out?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the USA attacking Iran?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because Trump is a compromat, and he is scared of Putin, and Putin wanted higher oil prices.
  Trump probably now hopes that a war will help his popularity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the optimal handle to chain length for a flail?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not an expert, but logically the shorter chain makes it easier to handle and relatively more precise.
  A longer chain however, allows for a greater swing, resulting in a heavier impact.
  That however can also be achieved using a heavier ball on the flail. But that makes it heavier to lift and carry.
  Using multiple balls however seem counterproductive, as it will make the flail harder to use compared to the impact you can achieve.
  I suppose the idea is to make it harder to defend against, but if the defender has a shield, I think multiple balls are utterly inefficient.

  So as far as I can tell there is no single optimal balance. It depends on the persons strength and agility, and I suppose it also depends on what type of enemy it should be used against. For a heavily armored opponent, a longer chain will be better to smash hard against the heavy armor, and the armor will make the opponent relatively slower to avoid attacks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would happen if a person proved in a lab they're gaining weight while in a verified calorie deficit?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He would just have proved he was drinking water with something salty.

  Your description of circumstances are lacking, but what you imply is impossible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Russia and China are democracies

  No they are not, they are authoritarian regimes that oppress any political competition through censorship, imprisonment and even death. Just like we’ve seen with Navalny and Jack Ma. Try to look up tiananmen square in China. Or just ask a Chinese AI about it, it won’t tell you anything.
  You are a complete idiot, and I really mean literal idiot for calling those 2 countries democracies, there are clearly standards for what constitute a democracy, and Russia and China are not in any way within those standards. Free press and freedom of expression without threat of persecution by the government is a requirement.
  en.wikipedia.org/…/The_Economist_Democracy_Index
  Democracy is not just about being allowed to vote for the dear leader, there has to be ability to participate in the whole political process without being oppressed.

  But human rights? You’re joking, right? Guantanamo Bay.

  Now you are just being stupid again, I said it shout be EXTENDED to human rights if we make a NATO replacement, which we obviously can’t do while USA is a member, because USA nolonger even pretend to observe human rights.

  Don’t bother responding. I have blocked you, your points are moronic, and I don’t want to ever read anything from you again.
  Get off the meth for christ sake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The standard for NATO has always been to only accept democracies.
  I see no reason why we would change that requirement for a new alliance.
  I’d even go so far as to make respect of human rights a demand too like we have in EU, so we for instance exclude countries with death penalty.

  There needs to be common values that we want to protect, with NATO it was democracy, based on our experience with USA, we need to extend that to include respect for international law and human rights as well as protecting democracy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  i propose the name na2.

  Clever, but I don’t see why it should be limited to North Atlantic countries.
  If for instance Australia and South Korea want to join, that should be an option.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has Canada's government done anything concrete to reduce dependence on the US since Trump took office? Maybe even since the first term?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  IDK what you imagine should be done instead of what the Canadian government is already doing?
  Despite the aggressive tariffs on Canada by USA, and a lot of disruption caused by USA, the Canadian government has managed to create an environment that has allowed impressive growth for the economy considering the circumstances.