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ArbitraryC
Jan 28, 2009
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I feel like the Venn diagram of pet owners that never clean up after their poorly trained animals is a 100% overlap with the ones that get upset about fireworks on nye and the 4th.

They’re the kind of person that adopts an animal and brings it home to the shared living situation without running it by anyone else because they think their pet is inherently a we problem and not a me problem.

If your dog freaks out at fireworks in a manner beyond their normal freaking out at people walking in front of a window because they’re poorly trained and largely don’t have their needs met, you can fairly readily get meds from your vet that are safe to use the two times a year this would be an issue, the vet you probably don’t go to because putting effort into your animal outside of getting mad at everyone else is too much to ask of you.

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ArbitraryC
Jan 28, 2009
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Fluffy Bunnies posted:



this sounds really specific. who hurt you

Pet owners everywhere. Spent too many years working in a vet hospital and volunteering in shelters, most people shouldn’t have animals they suck at taking care of them.

ArbitraryC
Jan 28, 2009
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I’m sure this has been answered on a YouTube channel before but are falling bullets really that dangerous? People with a very rudimentary physics analysis might come to the conclusion of parabolic arcs, which is to say an object will have roughly the same speed when it hits the ground as when it left it, but that ignores cases when what was launched is going faster than it’s terminal velocity. Because the bullet has to come to a brief but complete stop if it’s fired vertically before heading back down, the fastest it should be going when it lands is whatever speed balances the force of gravity vs wind residence.

Considering individual bullets are fairy light, I wonder how much damage it’d really cause. Iirc myth busters did an episode of flinging coins off tall buildings and the verdict was it’d hurt obviously but not really wound you outside of incredibly fluke scenarios.

ArbitraryC
Jan 28, 2009
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Klyith posted:

that was a lot of words to ask a 15 second google search that would immediately tell you that yes people are not infrequently killed by falling bullets

Hey the whole fun of it is thinking it through before you consult google but I did google after posting and found that yeah it p much doesn't happen when people shoot mostly up. If they shoot too far sideways though it does happen, which is fair, because at that point you're just shooting at people and correcting for distance.

ArbitraryC
Jan 28, 2009
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We're talking high school dance rules here, keep it above 45 degrees.

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