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This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
There was the guy who came up with the idea of putting lead into petrol, only to see the environmental devastation. He pledged to make something good to compensate and came up with using freons in refrigeration.
He didn't live ling enough to learn of how this blew a huge hole in the ozone layer, because he died tangled in wires of a special bed he designed.
Man really did try to fix the world. More than others could say.
He knew lead was a very dangerous neurotoxin and he just didn't care. Capitalists destroying the planet for profit is such a boring evil.
Maybe he did try, but he didn't understand his hidden desire to kill himself and everyone. It's in all of us, but we should always strive to suppress it.
According to Bryson's account, he deliberately mislead us about the dangers of tetraethyl lead by making a public demonstration of washing his hands in the chemical. As a chemical engineer he knew a single exposure was not sufficient to cause the lead poisoning that was evident in the workforce at his factory and was counting on a scientifically illiterate public not understanding how toxicity operates in organisms. He was correct on both counts and we can never let the profit motive enter these type of calculations e.g. money in healthcare, oil companies publishing climate science, etc, and expect healthy outcomes.
To be fair, refrigeration also saved lives. Just because there was a major negative side Effekt doesn't mean it wasn't a good invention.
Yet if there's a single organism that has caused the most environmental damage in all of history of the planet, it has to be him.
I always thought Labradoodles are just a meme Oo
Are they not popular where you live? I see them pretty often.
The Russian who led the tsar bomba development team
Fun fact (because there’s nothing more fun than technicality!): Technically it wasn’t his life’s work. Well before his work on nuclear fission, Oppenheimer was actually responsible for originally theorizing the existence of both antimatter and black holes. He was a more intuitive physicist than a technical one, so he didn’t follow through on these ideas, instead letting others carry the work forward.
Well, I have seen 2 Labradoodles from the same nest. Two familymembers decided to take one.
They both bark at every little fucking sound, no matter what you do, they both have random moments where they could start biting you.
One of them is just straight up agressive if a man makes a sudden move and needs to be locked up if I come to do a small job in the house.
They definitely need to be trimmed and their behavior issues are very annoying. So if this guy regrets making Labradoodles? Me too, buddy, I regret you actions too.
They both bark at every little fucking sound
Good burglar deterrent tho 😉
Not to be an asshole, but that also could be that your family are just not good dog owners, I am a bad one too and if I didn't have a calm, adorable rescue dog I'd probably have a dog with shitty behavior too.
You're not an asshole. The way you treat a dog makes a huge difference. Unfortunately these two are treated like kids. One of the family members wanted to get a husky at first, at least we managed to steer them away from that.
So yes, they are also not good dog owners. But we also had labradors and they were treated the same but never were agressive. Never. Dumb? Absolutely. Happy goofballs? Absolutely. And a lot better as doodles.
Both of the doodles have issues with allergies and skin stuff. And food. They are very peculiar about the food. Allergic to half of it, and some of what they can handle they just don't eat because they don't like it.
Both family members have racked up considerable cost at the vet. The health issues are real. Especially when we did not have the different energies figured out.
And really, what kind of dog is allergic to fucking grass? Grass, of all things??
TLTR: don't get a doodle, get a real dog. And train it properly. Cheers.
This can also be the product of a stupid breeder selecting dogs with bad traits, and not the fault of the breed.
Knowing who you are buying from is important. This is relevant for any breed. I don't have an opinion on labradoodles specifically.
That said, shelter dogs all the way.
This can also be the product of a stupid breeder selecting dogs with bad traits, and not the fault of the breed.
Labradoodles have a significant higher prevalence with this kind of problems. It's the breed. Common problems are allergies, problems with their joints (e.g. hip dysplasia) and problems with their eyes (PRA).
That said: AFAIK aggressiveness is not a typical problem with Labradoodles. Typical behavioural problems are hyperactivity and separation anxiety. Excessive barking can be an expression of both of these problems 🫣
The behavioural problems @[email protected] mentioned seem to me like problems caused by humans. No offence! It's just an opinion from some random internet dude.
Could be the poodle genetics, I don't think adding labrador would do any good for the inbreeding depression. Them and Dalmations, they're not known for their kindness.
Alfred Nobel invented dynamite by stabilizing nitroglycerin with fine sand. He regretted his contribution to the efficacy of warfare, so he created the Nobel Peace Prize.
Yeah it doesn't even make sense. Nitroglycerin was used in mining before dynamite was invented. Usually they'd just have some minority (Chinese most commonly I think) just carry it in. One little bump and boom, that person is dead. So the Invention of dynamite saved a lot of lives.
Also it's not like he invented gunpowder. A story about Mr. Gatling having deep regrets over his invention I could believe. But a guy inventing something that saved a lot of lives in the mining industry? And remember the invention of dynamite was after the US civil war, so warfare was already extremely bloody at that time without any dynamite involved. And how often is dynamite actually used in warfare as opposed to other kinds of explosives?
But doesn't it though? Stabilizing it for transport saves lives in mining, but it also means it can be carried in the throes of war. Imagine lugging grenades filled with nitroglycerin instead of something stable. I can't verify the story, but it's a stretch to say it doesn't make sense.
The better point is your last, I don't think dynamite specifically was widely used.
My man's just now verified it by typing it on the internet
I heard about it in Bill Nye
What about that bloke who started all this stuff about alpha and beta wolves?
His life’s work was attempting to get everyone to know that his initial work offered incorrect conclusions and that he had later disproved it. He’s actually a hero.
Well he made bad research, then disproved it, but couldn't bottle back all the incels who ran with that shit
Part of the irony being that even if it were true, there is no reason to make assumptions about human behavior and social structure based on other animals, especially… wild canines? Wtf? There’s a lot of different pack/grouping types throughout the animal kingdom—if anything it would make sense to compare humans to other apes, but at the end of the day it’s still a totally different species that also lacks the social complexity as well as culture and lifestyles humans are capable of because of our higher intelligence. We have some really fucking stupid cultural hang-ups
being human is about communicating and learning new behaviors. Both of those take work and practice, so there's selective pressure for a narrative that justifies not putting it in. If there hadn't been the alpha/wolf thing then we'd just be having this conversation about some other silly story that served the same function.
Inside you there are two wolves, my friend. One is society and the other is society. We live in a society.
inside you there are two wolves, they are crucial for keeping the deer population under control
I think it fits.
Here's a listicle of other inventors who grew to hate or regret their inventions. The creator of Comic Sans is on there, lolz
Anything from the inventor of the AK-47 regretting the deaths good invention caused and how it doesn't line up with his Orthodox beliefs, to the guy who decided that two slashes should follow an internet protocol saying it wasn't necessary; what a list!
What's wrong with labradoodles?
Mostly the people who own them.
We have a cavoodle, basically a smaller version of this breed.
He’s not aggressive, basically a big wuss-bag, but he gets along with our 2yo like a house on fire!
My biggest issue with the breed is that they seem to hhave no sense of self-preservation - picking fights with much larger, more serious dogs (German Shepherds, Border Collies etc.), and are one of the only breeds I have ever encountered that aren’t primarily motivated by food.. ours in particular is a ridiculously fussy eater.
Our in-house joke about him is that he’s not a dog at all, but a sentient teddy bear.
I saw a chichuaua attack my border collie once, she somehow flipped it on it's back, put a paw on it's neck, snarled at it, then let it go.
She handled that better than most humans would have.