Confused_Emus @ Confused_Emus @lemmy.world

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My name is Uncle Ruckus, no relation.

You seem nice.

Oh man that little jingle hasn’t gone through my head in ages. Think I just sprouted a couple new grey hairs in the beard.

share the load

Sorry. I’m a child.

Where’d you dig up this pop psych bullshit?

Requiring at least 50GBs of free space! Yeah, Microsoft’s spyware is exactly what I want to spend my storage on.

Lackadaisical.

Round abouts are showing up in US cities. Unfortunately we’re too dumb to know how to drive in a circle, so they just end up causing confusion.

Again, that is literally in the headline. “The first out LGBTQ+…”

Scorpions are arachnids, so still works.

Thanks. I was misinterpreting the previous comment.

Did someone edit a comment? Or the post itself? Where does Japan come into an article about an airman killed by police in Florida?

EDIT: I put the em-PHASIS on the wrong syl-LABLE when reading the comment. Never mind.

I mean if you go with the whole Adam and Eve junk, we’ve all got the genetics of a royal anyway.

I don’t perform my own surgeries or diagnose my own illnesses. Doesn’t mean doctors are wizards.

I and others who follow science don’t trust by blind faith, we trust based on the training and expertise of those doing the research. I am not qualified to make decisions about chemicals or engineering or stuff like that, so I trust those who are. And one or two assholes willing to falsify data for their own agendas will not survive peer review of the rest of the scientific community.

Unless you’re convinced the entire scientific community is in cahoots to pull off some grand conspiracy. In which case you’re a hopeless fucking nutjob and we’re all just wasting our breath until you get on your meds.

You know one of the key differences between science and religion? Theories are changed/developed in the face of empirical, experimentally reproducible evidence. If we learn we were wrong about something, we change our practices to match our new knowledge of reality. That’s why smoking is discouraged and even outlawed in some places. That’s why we limit lead exposure now. The people who don’t have their heads buried in their own asses are very much aware fossil fuels are contributing to climate change.

There was never a consensus that lobotomies were an appropriate treatment for anything. I don’t know whose crusty asshole you pulled that shit out of. (Source: my psych degree, I actually studied this shit.)

You seem to be under this blatantly wrong assumption that “scientific consensus” means anyone in a white coat is an infallible member of the priestly caste.

I'm sure PETA shelters would have more capacity if they didn't prefer to see an animal dead than a pet. They have significantly higher kill rates than any other shelters, and have made their stance pretty clear that they're against animals being pets. No wonder they just keep killing them.

I'm no fan of Fox News in general myself, but just because we don't like them doesn't make everything they publish false. And yeah, the PETA kills site clearly has an agenda, but their agenda is to try and save animals from PETA's "love." There's sensationalism on that site, but there are also numbers, many of which come from PETA themselves.

I linked the Snopes article knowing that it supported points from both sides. The point in linking that article is that it's despicable that any of those reports of PETA's disgusting behavior are true at all.

You know what no-kill shelters try to do when they don't have space? Coordinate with local foster programs, coordinate with other shelters to see if they have space. There are other alternatives besides taking in a perfectly healthy animal and dropping it in the euthanasia queue.

I'm quite sure there are quite a few things PETA has been accused but not convicted of. When you're a group of assholes as big as that, you get pretty good at skirting the fine lines of what's legal and what's not. They're hardly the first example of groups like that.

PETA has a lot more fucked up behavior under its belt than the one time they “accidentally” euthanized a dog they stole from someone, and much of their bad behavior has been very much maliciously intentional. Here just a small sample.

• https://www.ranker.com/list/messed-up-peta-facts/laura-allan

ETA: A few more, because why the hell not? Fuck PETA.

• https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/03/petas-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-history-of-killing-animals/254130/
• https://www.boredpanda.com/anti-peta-hate-rant-dear-tumb1r/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic
• https://speakingofresearch.com/2013/02/08/a-lesson-in-hypocrisy-as-peta-cries-foul-over-one-cats-death-while-secretly-killing-hundreds-more/
• https://www.foxnews.com/us/peta-shelter-was-a-slaughterhouse-group-claims
• https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/peta-taking-pets/
• https://petakillsanimals.com/

Hilarious when people want to resort to “I WASN’T WRITING FORMALLY” in these situations. Just take the L and acknowledge it was a flub. Much less cringe that way.

I’m not even a fan of HR departments and even I recognize there’s more to their job than sorting through every resume they get every day.