That's actually not why. Both my cats are rescues. My point was that kneejerk "ban this one breed" takes aren't helpful and don't address the core issues.
Requiring by law genetic tests on pedigree cats and veterinary sign-off that the lines are healthy would go a long way to solving these issues.
Israeli politicians are openly talking about solving the "Gaza problem" once and for all. Of course, Israelis aren't a hive mind, but there are Israelis who do want to wipe out Gaza.
I'm no expert, please take this with a massive chunk of salt, but as far as I understand it China is trying to balance their relationship with Russia with their relationship with the US. I'd expect the reaction to a rail bombing like this to be muted and cautious.
Which is why I said mostly FUD. Dwarfism can cause arthritis depending on the line, but it isn't guaranteed like the Scottish Fold. Maine Coons actually get arthritis far more often than Munchkins. Good breeders have outcrossed Munchkins with a wide variety of other breeds to get a huge amount of genetic diversity, more than most other modern breeds.
I've seen a lot of the stuff that happens with cat breeding first-hand. Overall, I hope people rescue cats from shelters instead of buying from breeders. All I'm saying here is that Munchkins are nowhere near the worst offenders and it sounds more and more like EU legislators want to ban certain breeds and call it a day rather than actually understanding the core issues and making more thoughtful legislation.
Munchkins are fine. I've seen them jump and play in person. They're happy, healthy, active cats and most of this "make them illegal" crap is FUD.
If you want to go after real breeder-related cat cruelty, about half of Persians (depending on specific line) have nasal cavities too small to breathe through, going through life wheezing and apathetic as they can't breathe normally enough to do any physical activity.
There's also Maine Coone breeders (thankfully rare) who take the size of their cats to such insane excess that the spine literally isn't strong enough to support the cat anymore, and it bends to the point the cat can't jump.
EDIT: Oh! I can't believe I forgot the absolute worst offender, the Scottish Fold. Those cute flappy ears? That's caused by intentionally breeding cartilage deficiency genes that cause arthritis and joint pain as the gene effects more cartilage than just in the ears.
What's a "real" accent? Plenty of people have multiple accents that they code-switch between depending on who they're talking to.
An Englishman from Newcastle might talk to his childhood friends in Geordie, talk to his colleagues in RP, and meet some family from Leeds and talk to them in a Yorkshire accent.
When it comes to distros, I am a boring man with a boring POV: I just want the thing to work with as little fuss as possible. Consequently, I'm on Kubuntu. KDE is rock solid, and Ubuntu is what I'm used to.
If/when my OS ever breaks down hard enough to reinstall, I'll probably install Fedora Workstation.
Ok, great, we've gone from "Where's the evidence?" to "Israel is justified doing those things".
I don't think anybody outside the Hamas command structure or the IDF command structure can conclusively and unequivocally claim they know whether these strikes were or were not justified, it all comes down to which sources you believe.
I'm glad we've made progress though and you acknowledge that these things happened.
Israel also publicly acknowledged they bombed an ambulance convoy, they claim the ambulances were used to transport Hamas militia.
You can choose to believe or disbelieve them on their motivations (I am very skeptical, personally), but these aren't unsubstantiated claims. These are publicly acknowledged strikes.
And with that many bombs flying around, so many buildings levelled, of course there's going to be journalists around the place getting hit.
I hate that so much. I hate having to justify myself because of my ethnicity. Just because of who my parents are, I have to explain every time that no, I'm not Israeli, I don't condone their actions.
I do truly sympathize with Palestinians in interviews who get hit with "Do you condemn Hamas?" at the beginning of every single one as a purity test. I get hit with "Do you condemn Israel?" in any conversation on this topic recently.
I do get that for some situations and regions, cars are immensely valuable. I also could not agree more about the difference in environmental impact between dense, populous cities where everyone has a car and small rural towns where everyone has a car. That should be pretty self-evident.
All I was trying to say is that here in Bucharest you have some idiots that talk about cars and their necessity as if we're in the Australian outback, where no alternative could ever be possible.
Sure. I get that. Where I get kinda confused by some people (not blaming you for this!) is when the extrapolation comes out. "We need cars to cross this massive gap between cities, and that's why we shouldn't build this tram line in the middle of this densely populated city". Similarly, just because I think we should (talking about the EU here) make big investments into rail and ban short-haul flights, that doesn't mean I don't see the value in transatlantic flights.
Sorry for venting, Romania's a shithole when it comes to cars compared to the rest of the EU.
Paradox as a publisher seems to pull this shit a lot. Was really looking forward to Lamplighter's League, but the buggy mess that it released in shows very clearly that Paradox shoved it out the door before QA had some serious time with it.
They don't do this shit with their in-house games, seems to be an issue with them as a publisher.
For context, the numbers I've seen suggest it's around 57% of Gazans have at least a "somewhat positive" view of Hamas. However, 62% of Gazans supported Hamas maintaining the ceasefire (ofc this was before the attack).
The crazy part is, that had Israel had a calm and measured approach, using targeted munitions on confirmed targets only, minimizing civilian casualties, kept the food+water+electricity flowing during the military action, and kept firm rule of law vs settler reprisal attacks in the west bank, they would have moved the needle on Hamas support.
Now they've all but guaranteed the radicalization of a new wave of terrorists for the foreseeable future. This unjustified violence is truly self-defeating.
That's actually not why. Both my cats are rescues. My point was that kneejerk "ban this one breed" takes aren't helpful and don't address the core issues.
Requiring by law genetic tests on pedigree cats and veterinary sign-off that the lines are healthy would go a long way to solving these issues.