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fart simpson posted:is this the vaccine diplomacy ive been hearing about? https://twitter.com/funkydrugmonkey/status/1404320686542262274 you just know the embassy got 1 box of 195 vials and this was the remainder after their staff and families clinic was run. so 115 vials, 4 doses per vial, thats enough for 230 people. maybe they were vaccinating some US citizens there as well as embassy staff or just left a bunch out
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:imagine how many people had to sign off on it, like at the pitch or during editing and going all yes, yes this all sounds good i assume everyone above her was just like haha oh man this is gonna get so many clicks
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hobbesmaster posted:https://twitter.com/funkydrugmonkey/status/1404320686542262274 14 staff on the dip list, plus their security teams and locally-engaged staffers yup that about lines up with my napkin math
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no more than one other person signed off on that story, there isn't a ton of overhead at online only publications about that sort of thing
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Jun 14, 2021 17:16
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US Embassay guy deciding to donate the remaining 85 vials after vaccinating his staff and the killer dog mom blogger at the exact same time: "You know what? I deserve a pat on the back for this"
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flakeloaf posted:try "lovely shelter lies about disturbed dog, adopts it out to complete novice, and tells her to gently caress off when the vet and trainer she hired can't fix their animal" The shelter is lovely about taking the dog back but at the same time she had a weird savior complex about her dog where she thought a few months of training/a masterclass worth of knowledge would help her fix her problems especially with an older dog. It's beyond lovely to write a woe is me article about how you couldn't fix your dog in a couple of months and had to put it down.
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AnimeIsTrash posted:The shelter is lovely about taking the dog back but at the same time she had a weird savior complex about her dog where she thought a few months of training/a masterclass worth of knowledge would help her fix her problems especially with an older dog. It's beyond lovely to write a woe is me article about how you couldn't fix your dog in a couple of months and had to put it down.  that was entirely the wrong tone to take and her mistake was turning it into a story about herself and her experience with the inconvenient dog survivors' mutual-affirmation party
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AnimeIsTrash posted:The article is really gross. I support prison abolition but people like this should be put into a gulag next to all the idiots that mine crypto currency.  when I’m Chairman you’ll have a spot in the glorious regime.
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fart simpson posted:after spring break in my final semester i totally forgot i was taking an elective called international relations. didn’t remember until it showed up on my final exam schedule. i barely passed and it was by far the worst grade i ever got this happened to me when i had to take a music class so i picked the online history of rock and roll and then forgot about it until i got an email from the prof about needing to turn in 3 months of work in two weeks
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What you instead should be sad about is that i'm out of loose leaf tea and had to use bagged tea like a peasant. 
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AnimeIsTrash posted:What you instead be sad about is that i'm out of loose leaf tea and had to use bagged tea like a peasant. being teabagged is never fun
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Jun 14, 2021 19:06
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flakeloaf posted:definitely don't kill that dog tho, rehome it or surrender it i don't know anything about dog adoption or surrendering, did she just not do enough work to find a place for it? because "nobody would take this dog because it kept biting people" sounds reasonable on its face to someone like me without any relevant experience (not to defend the article's tone or framing)
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raminasi posted:i don't know anything about dog adoption or surrendering, did she just not do enough work to find a place for it? because "nobody would take this dog because it kept biting people" sounds reasonable on its face to someone like me without any relevant experience We adopted our dog from a canine rescue group and one of the strictest rules they had was that if for any reason the dog was not working out, he would be returned to the organization and not put down or otherwise given away. Had to sign paperwork and everything.
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yeah but my question is what you do if you get bamboozled by a “no takebacks, sucker” shelter like this woman claims she did. or if she’s just lying.
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raminasi posted:yeah but my question is what you do if you get bamboozled by a “no takebacks, sucker” shelter like this woman claims she did. or if she’s just lying. I've adopted 4 animals through 3 different shelters, and there almost always was a we will take them back if it doesn't work out clause. Without the shelter putting out a statement I don't think it'll be possible to know.  I feel like if I was put in that position i'd go out of my way to find a shelter/new owner for the animal.
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raminasi posted:i don't know anything about dog adoption or surrendering, did she just not do enough work to find a place for it? because "nobody would take this dog because it kept biting people" sounds reasonable on its face to someone like me without any relevant experience with all the glurgey youtube videos out there featuring some agency or other turning a violent, snappy stray into a bouncy outdoor pet, i'm having trouble accepting that someone who was truly motivated to connect a dog with an alternative to death couldn't find a way she did say she tried, placed ads and contacted two shelters; i've no reason to suspect those things didn't all happen
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alsoVideo Nasty posted:We adopted our dog from a canine rescue group and one of the strictest rules they had was that if for any reason the dog was not working out, he would be returned to the organization and not put down or otherwise given away. Had to sign paperwork and everything. my dog person bias is showing but if you adopt a dog from a shelter and they do not sternly insist on this clause, run away screaming
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i'm not a dog person and it's hard to resist my animal (HEH) urge to cluck about the inevitable T+12 month conclusion to the covid dog adoption trend but i will in this case because it's really heartbreaking. cat ppl rarely have to deal with this because cats rarely become like threatening, they just get lovely and aloof and will scratch you. but you gotta deal with a bitey pup somehow speakin of which how's joe's fighting dogs doin these days
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one of my neighbors got a covid dog and the thing will bark for hours when the owners aren't around, probably because it's literally never been alone beforeJonny 290 posted:speakin of which how's joe's fighting dogs doin these days
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Jonny 290 posted:i'm not a dog person and it's hard to resist my animal (HEH) urge to cluck about the inevitable T+12 month conclusion to the covid dog adoption trend but i will in this case because it's really heartbreaking. cat ppl rarely have to deal with this because cats rarely become like threatening, they just get lovely and aloof and will scratch you. but you gotta deal with a bitey pup somehow I was super anti-cat growing up because of allergies and the two I'd ever known belonged to my grandma and were sassy curmudgeons that would swipe at us and run off. My wife's sister adopted one and realized she couldn't keep it so we became the new owner of Moose and then something like two years later we got Jameson from the same basic situation. Both of them have been absolute game-changers in my opinion of cats forever more. 
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i'd imagine cat owners don't deal with that as often just because it's so easy to dump them outside and then self-delude about their chances but yeah a friend of mine used to work for a shelter and their cat room was constantly at capacity, apparently people will surrender their cats far far more often than they adopt them, compared to dogs
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if anyone sees my posts in the cat thread I help a friend feed ferals and when a new one shows up that isn't a kitten they're almost always abandoned/escaped pets. the good news is those ones are usually chill enough to get rehomed
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Video Nasty posted:I was super anti-cat growing up because of allergies and the two I'd ever known belonged to my grandma and were sassy curmudgeons that would swipe at us and run off. same, i am pretty allergic and our neighbourhood cats were all lovely "outdoor cats" that destroyed and pissed on whatever they couldn't catch and kill and made a weekly mess outta the garbage. whatever pet cats i met were all violent dicks that'd just attack me for seemingly no reason but that's a kid memory talkin i was turned around by an ex's tuxedo cat that played fetch and didn't attack me or piss everywhere
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i took a rescue dog that was abused and abandoned during the houston floods of 2019 and was aggressive to people in the shelter and they told me that i probably wouldn't be able to handle him and to pick a dog with a calmer temperament but now i have this 100 lbs pit lab doofus that loves the crap out of me  blep
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my vaguely controversial take is that dogs are hunter killer animals that we managed to domesticate thousands of years ago by being a convenient hunting partner and many aspects of the 21st century world are really not good for them at all, as evidenced by the number of bizarre show and pocket breeds and other strange ostensibly-canine creatures that barely survive three years before spontaneously generating football-sized tumours from being so terribly inbred when taking a dog for a walk was just part of your every day survival activities (go to forest, find deer, kill deer, take deer home, feed tribe for a couple days) it made sense to have this somewhat-sentient hunting buddy who could run five times faster than you can in exchange for some meat and a bone. now we lock them in 400 square foot studio apartments and wonder why the call of the wilds causes them to tear furniture up and poo poo on your pillows
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flakeloaf posted:with all the glurgey youtube videos out there featuring some agency or other turning a violent, snappy stray into a bouncy outdoor pet, i'm having trouble accepting that someone who was truly motivated to connect a dog with an alternative to death couldn't find a way I don't mind making fun of this particular lady for being a new york times blogger about it but turning a violent dog into a productive member of society is not at all a sure thing. Youtube making it look possible in most/all cases... well, it's misleading. flakeloaf posted:my dog person bias is showing but if you adopt a dog from a shelter and they do not sternly insist on this clause, run away screaming
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qirex posted:one of my neighbors got a covid dog and the thing will bark for hours when the owners aren't around, probably because it's literally never been alone before my girlfriend's dog wasn't this way before covid but is now, it's great. i don't understand how the dog doesn't at least tire herself out, barking nonstop for three hours seems exhausting.
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Bossy posted:I don't mind making fun of this particular lady for being a new york times blogger about it but turning a violent dog into a productive member of society is not at all a sure thing. Youtube making it look possible in most/all cases... well, it's misleading. that's totally fair; these people are experts with access to a bunch of experience, gear and space she doesn't have and of course they're showing you a moment of their choice from a good day, played over some jaunty sims music "all dogs are redeemable" is a great thing to say when you're a large human with experience and drugs and a back 40 where you can let the poor creature out to do dog stuff in between feedings. For some animals that's about all you can expect and if you're not cool with that then conjure somebody who is. if you're a writer who's never owned a dog before, anyone suggesting you personally have the means to turn this violent, twitchy animal (and an adult beagle at that) into a cuddly housepet should have their own head examined
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Kazinsal posted:when taking a dog for a walk was just part of your every day survival activities (go to forest, find deer, kill deer, take deer home, feed tribe for a couple days) it made sense to have this somewhat-sentient hunting buddy who could run five times faster than you can in exchange for some meat and a bone. now we lock them in 400 square foot studio apartments and wonder why the call of the wilds causes them to tear furniture up and poo poo on your pillows people make a similar argument in defense of their "outdoor cats" and it's infuriating "but he destroys my poo poo if i keep him inside" well letting him destroying our poo poo after you let him out isn't the answer even on a world where the furry little rear end in a top hat doesn't get some weird disease, or hosed up by other wild animals, or hit by a car i will say the arctium flowers look very nice around our bird feeder though
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Abbott is clearly in a race with DeSantis to pass as many lib-owning culture war bills as possible as a lead-in to a run for the presidency, not sure why he would be expected to, you know, govern
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well, if anything can radicalize texans not being able to run the thermostat at 65 degrees all summer is that thing
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what a/c units oh oh like for people outside cause https://twitter.com/MC_Hyperbole/status/1404583048369393664
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