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knox_harrington posted:Same, got a new dog last year but she is resistant to training so far! Any tips? Yes, that's a cat.
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knox_harrington posted:Same, got a new dog last year but she is resistant to training so far! Any tips? This is the worst hippo I've ever seen.
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Aug 29, 2021 11:05
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This is like the pro-lifer poo poo of pretending they value a fetus as much as a real child but in reality if they were in a burning building and had to choose between a fridge full of embryos and a 5 year old they'll either pick the 5 year old or are a psychopath. Just replace embryo with nematode or something here. Or even chicken. Or pig if they're hungry enough.knox_harrington posted:Same, got a new dog last year but she is resistant to training so far! Any tips?
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Aug 29, 2021 11:20
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knox_harrington posted:Same, got a new dog last year but she is resistant to training so far! Any tips? Nope, looks like you've got it figured out 
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Aug 29, 2021 11:29
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Guavanaut posted:Short easy behavioural steps repeated about 20 times with reward. Use the traditional dog call 'pspspspsps'. It is impressive how bad my mother is at this because in attempting to stop the dog from dragging its blanket around, or eating rocks, she has instead managed to teach it that if it eats rocks or drags the blanket around then it gets biscuits, so obviously it does this constantly and she screams at it and then gives it more biscuits to make it drop the things, which I think the dog finds hilarious.
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Aug 29, 2021 11:37
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Wanna pet that doggo so much
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Aug 29, 2021 11:42
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I accidentally left a catnip ball out last night and we were rudely woken up at 3am by a high-as-gently caress cat racing around the flat batting the ball around like a madman
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Aug 29, 2021 11:44
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mrpwase posted:YouGov asked me whether human lives should be valued more highly than animal lives. I thought it was just an off hand question cos I hadn't heard the news, I should have known it was tied to some heinous poo poo. I always suspect (and feel free to correct me on this) that people who don't have children of their own and more likely to value animal lives over human lives. They also tend to be ones who demand harsher penalties for animal-cruelty based crimes, even over penalties for human-cruelties based crimes.
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Aug 29, 2021 11:47
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knox_harrington posted:Same, got a new dog last year but she is resistant to training so far! Any tips? Apply Dreamies
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Aug 29, 2021 11:50
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feedmegin posted:Apply Dreamies It's the most Krusty Brand name imaginable, but Pets at Home's "Semi-moist treat sticks" are somehow even more appealing to cats than Dreamies, to the point where I've sort-of (and mostly accidentally) trained my cat to bring me stuff in order to get one.
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Aug 29, 2021 12:04
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The Question IRL posted:They also tend to be ones who demand harsher penalties for animal-cruelty based crimes, even over penalties for human-cruelties based crimes.
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Aug 29, 2021 12:09
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Remember that notorious r/childfree thing where they were talking about how they would rescue their own cat from a burning apartment rather than the neighbour’s baby because they had a personal emotional attachment to the cat and the baby was new so the parents hadn’t had time to get attached to it yet, and how they would always rescue a elderly person before a baby because “a baby hasn’t lived and doesn’t have the same value in knowledge as an old person”
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Aug 29, 2021 12:27
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I doubt there's anything good in r/childfree no matter how you look at it. Anyone who makes that party of their identity likely wants other people to make it part of their identity too even if it's too late
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Aug 29, 2021 12:29
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Guavanaut posted:This is like the pro-lifer poo poo of pretending they value a fetus as much as a real child but in reality if they were in a burning building and had to choose between a fridge full of embryos and a 5 year old they'll either pick the 5 year old or are a psychopath. Just replace embryo with nematode or something here. Or even chicken. Or pig if they're hungry enough. I used to share a flat with a vegan. She was always ranting on about 'unborn baby chickens' (commonly known as eggs) while supporting abortion. Hm. (This is not a comment on whether abortion is good, bad or 'sometimes necessary' for various reasons.)
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Aug 29, 2021 12:37
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I once had a discussion with a vegan in university who thought keeping bees was slavery
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Aug 29, 2021 12:39
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The Question IRL posted:I always suspect (and feel free to correct me on this) that people who don't have children of their own and more likely to value animal lives over human lives. I suppose my positions on children and human/animal relations are related in that I value human life which is why I both will not create it and also give it primacy over animal life.
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Aug 29, 2021 12:43
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The usual vegan argument against eggs is that the mass market for eggs relies on huge numbers of birds kept in terrible conditions, male chicks being fed into macerators because they're nonproductive, hens selectively bred to lay masses of nonviable eggs, etc. rather than any hypothetical future chickens that stop existing when you fry the egg. It's possible to get eggs without any of that (e.g. by having pet chickens) but hard to buy eggs without supporting the externalities of that.
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Aug 29, 2021 12:46
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:I once had a discussion with a vegan in university who thought keeping bees was slavery This seems weirdly common which is bizzare given that as far as I understand it, bees are about as close to a symbiotic relationship as you get in animal keeping, like they can and will gently caress off if they aren't happy living where they are. And I don't know of any animals that adding bees to an area will annoy, except for humans.
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Aug 29, 2021 12:47
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There's a reason that the Manchester Workers' movement adopted the honeybee as an emblem. They're busy and industrious but they also regard an injury to one as an injury to all and it's best not to piss them off.
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Aug 29, 2021 12:51
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Guavanaut posted:There's a reason that the Manchester Workers' movement adopted the honeybee as an emblem. They're busy and industrious but they also regard an injury to one as an injury to all and it's best not to piss them off. Also they make the old bees do all the most dangerous work because they're worth less to the colony, a lesson humanity should be looking at carefully.
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Aug 29, 2021 12:53
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I remember I think it was a twitter thread by someone who was apparently convinced that to get the honey out they run a big knife along it to decapitate all the bees and then stuff it into a giant blender and then centrifuge out the pureed bees at the end.
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Aug 29, 2021 12:53
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QI (I think) said that commercial farms in some places for stuff like avocados or cherries don't have a good local insect population and have to bus in mobile hives on a temporary basis to pollinate everything, which counts as unnatural use of animals or exploitation or something which is why some people consider those foods not vegan
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Aug 29, 2021 12:53
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OwlFancier posted:I remember I think it was a twitter thread by someone who was apparently convinced that to get the honey out they run a big knife along it to decapitate all the bees and then stuff it into a giant blender and then centrifuge out the pureed bees at the end. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbfiJHW-LP4 I assume they watched this and got a bit confused about the details, because there is a big knife and a centrifuge involved.
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Aug 29, 2021 12:56
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Billions of bees get shipped around America every year, it's quite incredible really
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Aug 29, 2021 12:56
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Nobody tell musk about it or we'll have loving vaccum tubes full of dead bees crisscrossing the country.
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Aug 29, 2021 13:03
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https://twitter.com/JackDunc1/status/1431892459135635462 Unite with Europe, you say? Perhaps in some kind of...Union?
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Aug 29, 2021 13:10
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Brendan Rodgers posted:Parathas are breakfast foods and like all good breakfast foods, not very good for you. I recommend them too, especially the radish and potato filled versions if you're vegetarian, but watch out for the insane amount of butter, ghee, oil, etc if you're bothered by that.
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Aug 29, 2021 13:10
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The Pen Farthing outrage is deliberately being stoked to hide the fact that the British Government had two months to plan the evacuation but instead the Foreign Sec planned a holiday and left the evacuation until the last moment; ignored 5000 emails from people asking for help; gave out the phone number of a washing machine repair company instead of the Foreign Office helpline; left the names and addresses of Afghans who'd worked for the British Army in the Embassy where the Taliban could find them; let planes leave with empty seats; and then stopped the evacuation 48 hours early. Every single one of the rescue's staff, and their families, had approval to come to Britain. The Government chose to argue over this because now they can scapegoat someone for 'diverting resources' and 'wasting time', when in reality it was their own incompetence. It would have 'wasted' less time if the charter flight had been allowed to depart as scheduled instead of creating a massive row. Call me cynical, but I think they deliberately blocked the 250 Afghans from getting on that private charter whilst accepting the animals because they knew this is the result that would make people angriest. And it has! The Government has chosen to throw those 250 people under the bus to salvage a tiny bit of their reputation. And the claims about disease smacks of desperation, as if qualified veterinary staff are incapable of understanding Rabies Bad. All the animal rescues trying to evacuate the animals (yes, rescues plural) euthanised any sick animals before attempting to depart. It's another dead cat in an pile of deceased felines. Lady Demelza fucked around with this message at 13:13 on Aug 29, 2021 |
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Aug 29, 2021 13:11
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Which one pairs well with breakfast whiskey? Probably meat filled parathas.
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Aug 29, 2021 13:12
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Yvonmukluk posted:https://twitter.com/JackDunc1/status/1431892459135635462
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Aug 29, 2021 13:13
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Bees are definitely exploited in commercial honey production, the poor fuckers work all summer and then the product of their labour is taken and replaced with inferior sugar water to keep a bare minimum of them alive through the winter. Slightly better is the practice of only taking the "excess" honey that remains in the hive by springtime.
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Aug 29, 2021 13:23
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I feel like there was a movie about this
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Aug 29, 2021 13:30
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Azza Bamboo posted:I feel like there was a movie about this ...Antz?
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Aug 29, 2021 13:34
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:I once had a discussion with a vegan in university who thought keeping bees was slavery Where is animalslaves.png when I need it
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Aug 29, 2021 13:35
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goddamnedtwisto posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbfiJHW-LP4 I remember when Discovery started a stream on Youtube and it was just this video on loop
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Aug 29, 2021 13:40
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sebzilla posted:Bees are definitely exploited in commercial honey production, the poor fuckers work all summer and then the product of their labour is taken and replaced with inferior sugar water to keep a bare minimum of them alive through the winter. And there's a bunch of weird poo poo around clipping queen's wings to stop her flying off to start a new colony etc. It's definitely not "we just take the excess honey that bees don't need or want, we're doing them a favour really!" as it's portrayed, but it's nowhere near as awful as basically every meat/dairy production bullshit.
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Aug 29, 2021 13:50
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Azza Bamboo posted:I feel like there was a movie about this More than Honey
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Aug 29, 2021 14:11
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Michael Gove has decided to show everyone how he is an expert in big fish and little fish in a video of him out on the lash on his own in an Aberdonian nightclub https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/michael-gove-raves-aberdeen-club-24862871
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Aug 29, 2021 14:44
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Big fash little fash landlord cops
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Aug 29, 2021 14:47
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He is related to fish so I would expect him to be knowledgeable.
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