Jerkface (any/all)

We only have one house rule: anyone who suggests Uno gets beaten.

okay. now what? If you have a point to make, I suggest you just come out and make it and stop talking around your point. Otherwise you waste both of our time. “Animal abuse” isn’t the name of a specific crime and most forms of animal abuse ARE NOT CRIMES.

Canada has some of the weakest animal protection laws in the Western world. Animals are property with no rights. The protections that exist are mere lip-service. Prosecutions are extremely rare and most forms of cruelty that people commonly practice are perfectly legal.

You can place an animal in the open back of a truck in -30C weather and ship them 1,000km, knowing the whole time that the animal will arrive dead, and it is not a crime. No one will bat an eye because it happens THOUSANDS of times a year here in Canada.

You can take a perfectly healthy and happy animal, and stab it right in the throat, because you want the meat, or because you like stabbing animals, and it is not a crime. This also happens many thousands of times a year here in Canada.

Certain animals (mainly pets) have very limited protection against abuse, but those laws do not protect the life of the animal or protect the animal from needless suffering, cruelty, or violence. Factory farming exceeds these protections routinely, but the law is set up in many provinces to make reporting these crimes effectively itself a crime.

You can do whatever you want.

ha ha okay

Because while euthanasia is generally a good thing, there are also big potentials for abuse and unnecessary tragedy. We maintain a pretense of caring about these things with humans and so most governments err on the side of caution while others think they’re such hot shit they can dance their way through the quagmire. Meanwhile, we openly don’t give a single fuck what happens to non-human animals, and our culture is predicated on treating them like objects, so you’re allowed to do whatever you want with them. Kill them because they’re suffering, kill them because they bark too loud, it’s all the same. It’s your dog-shaped object, go nuts.

I haven’t had anyone to take care of me since the 90s and honestly, most stuff just doesn’t get done.

Pretty cool.

Is it.

In 2 years, I’ll be older than my oldest known ancestor made it. I’m not that old. I think about it every day. The point of life isn’t being happy or comfortable, it’s finding and creating meaning.

PRAISE THE DAWNING SINGULARITY, UNWORTHY FLESHLINGS

http://www.nncpgo.org/

Pedophile is to child molester as heterosexual is to rapist. They’re not the same thing, one’s not even a superset of the other. People don’t commit sexual assault just because they are attracted to someone. People often sexually assault victims they are not even attracted to.

Satisfying the borrow checker.

If you need a new something because Fieri was your old anything, you suck.

if “feeling valued” is a human emotion, it’s not one I’m familiar with

The USA is a second-world country. There are no first-world countries.

Feels like this should have been expressed the other way, “firms without women in leadership roles cover up more abuse.”

“What are old books” is not an intelligible question.

I know there is a question mark at the end, but this is not an intelligible question.

Ohh I had that first edition, was one of my first steps outside Gary Gygax’s domain, along with the Marvel RPG rule set. I still remember the distinct way each of those books smelled.

you hunt a deer all morning and nobody bats an eye.

how do you know when someone is cruel and violent don’t worry they never ever ever stop telling you