PetDinosaurs @ PetDinosaurs @lemmy.world

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Absolutely.

My cat regularly draws blood. Cats are much less human bred than dogs, but, in any case he can't really maul a child. Same with chihuahuas and plenty of other small dogs.

Your last paragraph seems pretty extreme to me. I agree in principle and do advocate for trying to remove these genes from the gene pool, which may involve careful breeding and/or letting them go extinct.

I'm curious if there's a story behind that paragraph?

That's quite the non sequitur.

It's more complicated than that. If your can't stop your lab from licking a stranger to death, that's completely different from not being able to stop your pitbull or doberman from mauling a toddler.

Yes, people should be responsible dog owners, but only certain breeds regularly snap and kill or maim.

If you don't think that dog breed is a good predictor of behavior, you have not spent enough time around dogs.

For thousands of years dogs have been bred for specific purposes. These behaviors are innate. They do not need to be taught. Sure, you can train them to be better, but the behaviors are written all over their genes

My grandparents had shepherds. The dogs had never seen sheep or been taught anything about herding, but they would attempt to herd all my cousins when they were children, then get agitated when the children wouldn't herd. Here's some puppies doing it

Here's some pointers pointing. They have not been taught this (and frankly I can't imagine even training most dog breeds to do that)

Here's a boxer dog boxing. Here's one spinning. They aren't taught this, and they all do it.

There's hounds rolling in stink. There's sight hounds and smell hounds. There's retrievers retrieving, being irresistibly drawn to water, and carrying around things very gently. There's huskies being extremely energetic and vocal.

I could go on.

Do you really think that dogs that have been bred to fight other dogs to the death and bear enormous amounts of pain (game) before giving up are not dangerous? You're mental.

Sure they're sweet to their owners. That's because people who breed animals for blood sports are not the kind of people who would have trouble immediately removing from the gene pool any of their animals that are disloyal.

It's not like it's just pitbulls. Dobermans are implicated too. They're guard dogs but for humans rather than predator animals.

People with agendas can play all kinds of statistical games to show what they want to show. In the scientific world, these kinds of tricks stand out. That's why any non-trivial summary statistic is useless without a large text explaining the methodology.

This is one of those things that is so obvious it boggles my mind that people even question it.

Of course dogs that are bred to murder are dangerous.

We had three before we brought my son to term.

What the fuck is wrong with you people?

Why am I actually responding to a comment that is saying muslims don't want to exterminate Jews.

Sure the liberal ones don't, but wtf?

Google scholar is fine. There's little opportunity for them to enshittify since it's quite easy to construct a journal crawler and there really can't be that much revenue from people searching for these highly esoteric topics.

And, the people you'd be pissing off would be the ones that are capable of creating a competitor, and there's already competitors.

Also, their own employees.

A simple Google search will show that not only are there calls, it's actually happened.

I didn't express an opinion. I said that morality is complex.

The ancestors of the Jews first settled there. It was then the Romans and the Muslims that did the oppression and genocide.

I'm not sure why you think a geologic time scale matters here. These are human issues that only exist on human time scales.

Your abolishment of boundaries and countries is also a very simplistic world view. You assume that there are no bad actors, but there always will be.

Without countries there would be no government. Without government, you can't stop the strong from obliterating the weak.

Oh yeah, and you know the justification for indigenous peoples being granted their land back because their ancestors used to live there, and they were removed?

That's the exact same situation for Israel. The Jews used to live in Israel until they were kicked out.

Let that complicate your morality.

Also please remember that Europe purchased nearly the entirety of products produced by slaves in the Americas.

If there were no European market there would have been little incentive for American slavery.

I guess the slave free northern states also purchased their fair share, but nothing compared to Europe.

Oh. I hate it here. I'll never be back. My wife is here for work and convinced me to fly out for a long weekend.

It's awful. I don't party or gamble or smoke or really do much but outdoor and educational, and I particularly hate people trying to extract more money from me.

I'm fine with paying what it costs, even if that's a lot, but once I've paid, you don't talk to me about money again.

Plus everyone's smoking inside and smoking weed and driving and lower class than even Myrtle or Daytona Beach.

The airport was bad, then we realized that the Lyft driver ran up the meter on us by going the long, more trafficy way. I didn't even know that was possible.

Plus I now am away from home without a pair of glasses and with a case of pinkeye (bilateral, which I've never had before) that I must've picked up at the optometrist on Wednesday. Plus I can't seem to trick Google or this new kagi thing into telling me how common this is. It keeps telling me that optometrists can diagnose but not treat pinkeye in most jurisdictions. Of course it must be common.

👍. I like science.

You wouldn't just drop mass along side you in space. It would just continue to float along beside you.

You definitely have to throw it behind you, like you said, but that's what rockets do. They throw mass behind them to make them move forward. That's a rocket.

When you throw mass behind you at one point in your orbit, you raise the height of your orbit on the opposite side of the orbited object (this is simplified).

So you're basically right, it's partially about the mass of the object, but it's mostly the firing of the rocket.

You've got some pretty good intuition though. That's basic orbital mechanics.

I intend to. Provided I don't get trapped in the desert for days. We're bringing extra food, water, and eclipse glasses to auction to the highest bidder, though.

We didn't even plan this. The opportunity came up before I even knew that I could take a tour and see this.

That's a pretty good answer. I was definitely overthinking it.

A little correction. They would be slingshotting around either Venus, Mercury, or both to lose energy.

Going around the sun is like just bouncing a perfectly elastic ball.

Close enough for this mental model, though.

Edit: in my own defense I am in Vegas doing minor Vegas things.

While I'd really rather be talking about orbital mechanics or some other geek shit, I do get to see an annular eclipse in totality in a beautiful national park. That's certainly a once in a lifetime event.

So, it doesn't work the way you think.

It's only going that fast because it's near the sun. The same way a satellite close to Earth needs to move faster than one farther away. You can't really use that velocity to go elsewhere. It had to lose a lot of energy to get as close to the sun as it is. It would need to gain that back to get to earth.

I'm really blanking on a way to explain this concisely and I can't explain orbital mechanics in a Lemmy post.

If you play Kerbal space program, you can definitely use that to get a very intuitive understanding of this concept.

It's just so hard to resist. Everything is wrong. It's like it's designed to make everyone angry.

Well... That drives engagement.

It was vectron, and you all only started talking about it when I was out sick last Thursday afternoon.