I wish I could say this is the least bit surprising.
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I wish I could say this is the least bit surprising.
I feel like if you’re too lazy to write a medical note you shouldn’t be a doctor.
Saw an app try exactly this. It was run by terfs and they wanted to lock out anyone who wasn’t a cis woman. Instead it labelled almost every black woman a man and many trans women got through the filter anyway.
Wow that’s way better than I expected. Guess it makes sense Germany would take that sort of thing more seriously.
I’d hope they work but I’ve seen too many “former” nazis get criticized for still holding some terrible views then immediately throw a tantrum and run back to the far-right because they don’t actually want to take accountability they want to get coddled by the same minorities they hurt and be told how clever and brave they are for no longer being bigots.
A huge annoyance was that there was already subs for asking sex questions but people found it easier to karma farm in the main ones so they were barely used. Hopefully without karma here that will be avoided.
Its so frustrating when I see other minorities use that argument because their suicide statistics are also typically higher! That’s the nature of oppression.
If he ever goes to prison we should let him keep a connection to the internet so he can continue to embarrass himself for our amusement, sorta like Andrew Tate when he got people from the outside to compose increasingly unhinged tweets for him (shout out to when he claimed he was fighting ghosts in his cell, because he was being haunted???).
I know its not the main point of the article but I really want to bring attention to
“A lot of people don’t realise that you don’t need a fancy coffin, you don’t need to have embalming, you don’t really need a service,” she said.
The funeral industry itself, insurance aside is SO predatory and will try to guilt grieving people into paying more. It’s a total rip, please talk to your loved ones about death and how they would want to be remembered so some dipshit funeral director can’t con you into an extravagant affair by claiming it’s what your loved ones would have wanted.
I’ve played it, it’s very fun. I wanna also recommend the game “webbed”. It was made in QLD by an indie team and I love it so much, it’s a platformer where you play as a jumping spider swinging spider-man style around the bush.
I’m disabled and never used NDIS despite it being something that could’ve really helped me, especially growing up, because it was so much more trouble and stress than it should be. I really hope this improves but I have little faith in the government in regards to anything disability related at this point.
taxing them wont remove their massive blind spots that make them so dangerous. Even fwds have some use cases but these don’t, to my knowledge there isn’t any thing these stupid things can do that another vehicle cant do better besides maybe running over children, no one needs one of these.
Don’t threaten us with a good time.
admittedly that’s an issue with the study and I’m glad you brought it up. This runs into the issue of how else could you collect the data? If you just go off reports or surrendered dogs you will miss out on smaller breeds like chihuahuas whose aggressive behaviour isn’t seen as serious enough to do anything about, as well as bias in the form of being more likely to label an aggressive dog a pit.
I think the more important thing to put forward here is that many of the participants didn’t actually know their dogs genetics. Like pointed out in the video if you have a mutt you really have no idea of it’s dna without testing. If aggression was a genetic issue you might expect the owners of smaller dogs like chihuahuas to admit to aggression, since doing so would not put their pet at risk, then the dna testing could show a commonality between their genes and the genes of more maligned breeds. Unless aggression if specifically linked to traits like a big muscular head, this seems like the smoking gun that this is a cultural issue.
I also haven’t seen any studies with different methodology find a link between aggression in certain breeds with genetics in any statistically significant way. This was just the largest study I’ve seen.
The breed bans are so misguided and wont fix anything. We know now, with scientific evidence, that breed is NOT the cause of aggression. Also while some dogs like pitbulls have stronger bite forces that may contribute to worse injuries, that bite force is roughly matched by german shepherds (which are suspiciously absent from the proposed banned breed list despite this, I’m sure it has nothing to do with their use by the police surely). In fact there are dogs with higher bite forces than both these breeds that don’t even make the list.
Also without DNA testing you cannot know what is an isn’t a pitbull. You may think you know a pit when you see one but this just isn’t the case. If you have ANY rescue mutt regardless of appearance it may have a higher content than many dogs that are labelled pits on sight alone.
The issue of breeds being over-represented in attacks is not one of biology, it’s one of culture. The more fear mongering about these animals there is the more attractive they are to dipshits who want a dangerous dog, the same dipshits that generally know nothing about canine behaviour or training and think beating an animal will make it behave. Laws like this may actually make the issue WORSE by making the breed more tantalizing to edge-lords.
source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7F4OfDSvPU
I was going to just link the articles and studies individually but I think this video is more accessible. If anyone wants to do a deep dive you can check out the literature mentioned in your own time.
Do not get me wrong, the dog attacks are a serious issue and owners need to be better held to accountable. However banning breeds is a distraction and makes the issue needlessly divisive. They risk losing support from owners of banned breeds for the actually good legislation proposed.
INB4 someone doesn’t read any of this unhinged screed I’ve written and calls me a salty pit owner, I have never owned a pit I’m just passionate about animals and the associated science.
Thanks for sharing, hopefully this will help counteract some of the disinformation we’ve seen spread.
A good example of an amazing tech hampered by the capitalist system, and very good argument for open source and right to repair.
I really wish there was a properly private digital currency that wasn’t crypto. I hate using physical money ever since covid hit, it’s just so dirty.
bringing you a ladder rn, we’ll get you down from there!
All this trouble and they didn’t even make the scanner shaped like a hand so you can high five it. Waste of potential.