Weren't we supposed to die from our contaminated blood a couple years ago? Wonder when that'll come around...
Theharpyeagle
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Either this person has never had to deal with parvo, or they have and don't give a shit about their dogs.
Or they're just lying b because no reputable groomer, kennel, or vet would see them without at least rabies, parvo, and kennel cough vaccines.
Lol as if these generations are doing anything different than they were doing before. Kids have always lied about their age to do adult things. Not saying it's healthy, just like it wasn't healthy for kids to get their older brother to buy cigs, but it's not a unique problem and these generations are far from a "lost cause".
As unenforcable as they've always been, and honestly I prefer it that way. Really don't want to give my ID to random websites.
Just learned a new word! Gonna find new and exciting ways to use it.
"This lasagna is perfectly scrofulous, darling"
I was looking around at rental houses a few years back because the owner of our current rental was kicking us out to sell. I visited a house that the owner was "flipping" for rental and noticed there was no stove/oven. I asked the owner about it and he said "oh, tenants usually bring their own."
Place was sketchy as hell in other areas, too; tons of those cheapo plastic panel walls propped up at odd angles hiding god knows what, bare hardwood floors that had clearly had the carpet ripped up without refinishing or even removing all the staples, and slanted floors that really made me feel like I was about to fall into the basement. Luckily we were able to find another place, but it was a low CoL area and I'm sure some desperate family got stuck in that heap.
I'd like to add that a lot of these people work in the oil or coal industry or have family members who do. The work, as dangerous and comparatively ill paying as it may be, may be the only thing that puts their town on the map and keeps food on the table. Not seeing a way out for those who can't or won't be retained for another job can be pretty scary, a fear that is very much preyed a upon by conservatives.
This is weird, I've already made a down payment and thus won't benefit from it, but I still want it to happen for the benefit of my peers. Strange how that happens.
It's insane to me that they would try to pull this shit and then try to sell us on the evils of piracy.
I was a reddit Sync user and was super bummed when (large scale) API access was shut off, so I jumped on the chance to use Sync for Lemmy. It defaulted to world for signups, presumably for ease of use for migrating reddit users. Knowing that Sync already had a loyal audience that was willing to put in a little effort to migrate, it seems the dev opted to make everything as similar to the reddit UX as possible, including registration.
Now that I'm more familiar with the fediverse, I've been considering migrating to a more specialized instance that matches my interests. Truthfully, though, it seems unlikely that much of anything would change if I did since I'm going to keep using the same app, so I've been slow to move.
To compare this with my experience with Mastodon, I was absolutely overwhelmed by the idea of instances and really had no idea which to join, nor did I have a familiar app to work with. I figured it out eventually, but a lot of the artists I follow didn't or didn't have time to, so overall I haven't spent much time on it. I've spent way too much time on Lemmy so far.
I didn't want to take this at face value without context so I found when they discussed this. Check around 1:17:00 in this video.
https://youtu.be/lfBQoWxQaEM?si=6Ev6rx62KESH-HgR
And yeah, he did say exactly what the OP states. So... yeah.
To give the absolute benefit of the doubt, I could say they were referring specifically to nuclear fallout rather than the initial explosion, as a full on explosion is less likely in a nuclear plant emergency. But even assuming it was just an incredibly distasteful way to reference that, there are still thousands of deaths and even more injuries/illnesses associated principally with radiation poisoning.
This is not to say I'm against nuclear energy, but by god we've got to have more careful consideration than this.
Edit: As a bonus, Musk talks about his views on global warming around the 1:10 mark. The issue with greenhouse gasses is, uh... making it hard to breathe?
To be fair, there's some stuff that was bred into the gene pool near the inception of the breed that can't be easily removed now. You can reduce the risk by avoiding incest and thorough genetic testing where possible, but there's some health issues that would plague purebreds for a long time even if every breeder in the world was responsible.