The BF1942 theme/title music is the most epic to me.

I’ve always trained dogs not to bite by firmly saying “Ow! No bite.” They have to learn that we are more delicate than other dogs. It’s also very important to provide them with an alternative.

So I make a noise like it hurt, say no bite, and then give them a toy immediately after. This promotes what I call ‘substitute biting,’ where I’ll rile one of my dogs up with a little rough housing, and they’ll grab a toy and start chomping down and shaking that while looking at me.

I fostered a stray who I basically had to train all the puppy phases out of when he was about 1 year old and as big as my wife (GSD mix/mut). Even tho he was starved of human contact, he too learned not to bite with this method. Took longer than most puppies… but when I’d say “Ow! No bite.” he’d stop and look at me trying to figure out what prompted it. If toy substitution didn’t work, I’d stop playing. He learned that if he wanted to play, he couldn’t bite the fragile humans.

Also worth noting that some dogs (common with GSD for instance) like to engage in a sort of handholding, especially as a puppy. It may seem like they’re wanting to chew on you if you don’t know better, but if they kinda just get your hand in their mouth it could be the ‘handholding.’ I break that habit because it can still scratch and I don’t want someone to claim a dog of mine ‘bit’ them by doing it.

Oh wow you are totally right… I must’ve misread the question as I was starting to pass out last night.

That’s not the first time I’ve done that…

That’s just an entirely separate matter. Definitely truth to planned obsolescence in some cases and lower quality materials used in many products.

But I have heard many people say technology in general has stagnated. Consumer tech keeps getting more powerful largely without major perceivable changes, and looking at developments in key fields is where we can most notably see developments.

When you hear people saying that technology has stagnated, that person clearly isn’t following advancements in medicine. The medical tech I see now just blow me away.

Physical buttons are a must in vehicles for me. I want to be able to operate things with muscle memory so I don’t have to avert my eyes from the road.

“But those clarifications were ignored by the media and essentially I handed a loaded gun to those who hate me and arguably to those who are antisemitic. And for that I’m quite sorry, that was not my intention.”

You hear that? He’s sorry.

Sorry that he’s facing consequences for his actions.

I witnessed delta 8 products severely fuck with some of my former clients’ meds and symptoms in a way weed does not. Also, delta 8 products are not regulated.

The FDA does not regulate delta-8 products, which means that anybody can create products and market them as containing delta-8.

This makes it tough to figure out whether you’re buying safe products. There’s no way to ensure whether your purchase is legitimate or whether it contains harmful contaminants. Source

Not trying to tell you what to do, but there’s a common misconception that delta 8 products are safe. Even if delta 8 itself is safe, it doesn’t mean the unregulated products are safe.

I can’t state strongly enough that it affects symptoms of mental illness and causes med interference on a whole different level than actual cannabis. Especially psychotic symptoms. We thought one client was overdosing on klonopin, but it turned out to solely be an interaction with delta 8. This client periodically smoked/vaped actual weed, and never experienced such a reaction. He was barely conscious, drooling on himself, ass hanging out of his drooping pants, and then collapsed unconscious in the hall. He had no recollection of about a 2 and a half day period.

This is anecdotal, but I, my team, and the various care facilities I worked with all saw this trend as delta 8 products really took off. And again, it’s unregulated and can contain harmful contaminants. Just a word of caution.

This tends to be an unpopular opinion, but I completely agree. I believe it’s unethical to do experiments like this on animals that cannot consent, but have a clear capacity for suffering, including on a conscious level.

Even lab rats show a capacity for empathy [1], and they will stop pulling a lever to feed themselves if they see the rat in the subsequent cage is electrocuted. [2]

Monkeys (and other animals) can understand the concept inequality. [3] Inequality is a moral concept, indicating that the animal has a capacity for complex social relationships and understanding.

Monkeys were taught the concept of currency (in the form of silver discs) and soon after, they unexpectedly developed prostitution on their own. [4]

Monkeys like this are the primates of lower intelligence, mind you. I’m not even saying I condone these studies even, as I’m not convinced the ends justify the cruel means with which the experiments were conducted.

I think we should be more respectful of life, rather than subjecting it to such mass exploitation and suffering. I can admit I will value my loved ones over other animals and humans on a selfish level, but when I separate emotion from my reasoning, I don’t believe it is justified for humans to exploit animals as we do for our own gains.

It’s important to note the extremely unnecessary suffering of frivolous experiments on a widespread scale. One example is the LD 50 (or median lethal dose), in which animals are essentially force-fed a product (cosmetics, cleaners, medicines, etc.) until half of the test subjects die, to determine the lethal dose. [5] Much of the time, their death isn’t because of the substance itself; it’s due to the quantity force-fed (stomach/organs rupturing, whatnot). This test is used on clearly nonessential products like cosmetics, and the results are often unreliable. [5]

I am not interested in debating this subject. I just wanted to share my thoughts. Things to watch out for in objection to animal rights arguments are common fallacies like the appeal to nature, appeal to tradition, and just blatant speciesism.

The term the racists use for other members of their race who disagree with them is race betrayer. At least I’ve been called that by neonazis when arguing with them.

Technically it’s truly a leap, but we are so far away still.

I completely agree and was trying to convey that. Not trying to downplay the significance of the development, but they are far from superintelligence and they’re going to hype it up as much as they can.

It’s not like the Catholic church exactly condones pedophilia and rampant sexual abuse, but look how extensively it permeates the institution.

When wondering “Would the Catholic church really do X?” I find the best practice is to instead ask myself: “Does the pope shit in the woods?”

I think it’s a hype move at this point. Like the guy who claimed he believed google’s chat bot was sentient.

I read another article that stated they had a computational breakthrough, in which their program can now carry out basic grade school math. No other model is able to actually carry out math equations, not even basic arithmetic.

This is a significant development, but it’s not like they’re on the cusp of developing superintelligence now. I bet they are taking this small inch towards superintelligence, and hyping it like they’ve just huddled miles forward.

I’ve worked with very nice people convicted of murder. The world is not black and white. We all live in the grey.

Any person is capable of murder if pushed beyond their threshold. There are common mitigating factors like alcohol/substance use, high danger/crime neighborhoods, and childhood abuse.

I had a forensic client who committed a particularly bad murder, and he had antisocial personality disorder (sociopathy) from extreme childhood trauma/abuse, had a schizophrenia-spectrum disorder with paranoid auditory, visual, and command hallucinations, and he was also very sleep-deprived and high on meth.

That was a recipe for disaster, and he brutally, heinously murdered his childhood best friend and roommate. He tried to call the person he murdered to bail him out of jail, not truly comprehending what he’d done. He refused the NGRI plea and told the judge “I’m guilty. I deserve the time.” He got 20 years.

Another convicted murderer I worked with was a very sweet elderly man who was a vietnam spook. He got a murder rap when he was having a psychotic episode/flashbacks and fired into a crowd.

I worked with a lot of people who were in and out of the DOC their whole lives, trapped in the revolving door. They weren’t bad people. They were victimized people who needed help. Most of these people never truly had support before in their lives.

Many murder charges and harsh criminal sentences are pegged on lower-functioning individuals who cannot properly defend themselves. Police here in the U.S. are notorious for goating false confessions from this population. I worked with many people like this who were abused, chewed up, and spit out by the criminal justice system.

I worked with the population you’re ignorantly dehumanizing. You’re not justified. You’re just demonstrating your own narrow-mindedness. Dehumanizing is a bad thing. Period.

What you are doing is lumping innocent people falsely charged with murder (including low-functioning and disabled individuals) with brutal murderers. You’re also taking potentially a single, rash, worst mistake of someone’s life, and judging their entire personhood from it.

That’s bullshit. We all have a threshold for rationality and keeping our cool. There are typically other very important mitigating factors, especially alcohol/substance use, in which the perpetrator wasn’t in their right mind.

Anyone and everyone has the capacity for violence when pushed beyond our threshold. We switch from rational thinking to emotional thinking, which makes us feel more justified in our actions.

A great example of this where you can see someone lose their rationality is the behind the scenes of Bad Grampa with the penguin guy. You can watch as Johnny Knoxville slowly erodes his cool/capacity for rationality.

Now imagine you were being raped by your step brother and beaten by your step father every night. Imagine you join the military to turn your life around and escape, you excell, and then your schizophrenia symptoms manifest, and you’re discharged. You’re left with no resources, social or support system. You can’t maintain your medication prescription because of your disability. You are destitute and have to live a rough life on the streets to survive. You turn to drugs to ‘self-medicate’ and because everyone in your group is using. You fall into an addiction and you are high on meth, sleep deprived, awake now for over 3 days. On your walk back to your apartment, you (perceive that you) are being pursued by police choppers and the police are even hiding in the trees watching you on your walk home. You are extremely paranoid, hallucinating, and in survival mode. Then your roommate and childhood best friend is in the wrong place at the wrong time. You feel like your life is endangered, and command hallucinations are demanding you kill the assailant.

That’s the reality of that former client of mine. That’s the grey we all live in. A murder charge doesn’t mean someone is despicable, sub-human waste. They are a deeply flawed human being just like you and I. And they are capable of change, like that former client of mine. He turned his life around.

You’re not justified in dehumanizing this population whatsoever. Dehumanization is a despicable tactic employed by fascists and dictators, and attempts to justify cruelty against a group of people.

https://www.healthline.com/health/vestigial-tail

Or baptizing it in the toilet…

I hate when that happens to my dick… feels forever unclean. Even worse when it touches the bowl…

My bad, definitely speaking informally. Should have said primate ancestors.

Yes, human tails are hairless. Here are photos of vestigial tails on humans.

Sometimes our body tries to include traits of our ape primate ancestors. Vestigial tails are not that uncommon. They are typically surgically removed from infants in 1st-world countries.

Years ago, I realized DBZ would be way weirder if their tails were accurately hairless…

Humans are considered hairless apes. I believe that is what OP meant.

And OP is definitely correct. Just look at these vestigial tails. (or don’t…)

Alright, everyone needs to learn to identify trolls/hateful idiots and just not engage when it’s on this level. To be crystal clear, I’m referring to the user Earthwormjim91.

If this individual truly believes the delusional bullshit they’re peddling, do you really think you are going to change their addled mind? No. Just bury hate and misinformation like this with downvotes and move on.

There’s no fruitful discussion to be had with people like this. They just spew bullshit like diarrhea in regard to any evidence or counterpoint. They argue in bad faith and are not bound by facts, logic, or the truth.

Engaging with toxic users like this just provides more comments for them to respond to and spread more hateful lies and misinformation.

Don’t feed trolls people.