“Animals don’t go to war because they’re cinnamon rolls unlike ebil humans uwu” Check-fucking-mate Linda, cephalopods are having trench warfare in the ocean.
This motherfucker survives a lightning strike and you have the gull to call them ugly?? If mother nature cant kill them what chance do you have when this mofo comes after you?!
Okay
1. This isn’t rescue, these dogs are being treated like some fad with an expected huge wait list and one hell of a backstory to pull on the heart strings
2. After the dog flu incident how is this still happening
3. Potentially interbred with wolves, just what we need
4. Also why send them to the US? Does no, closer, European, country NOT want these dogs? Why on earth not?
5. After 32 years, these dogs likely will have a lot issues from living wild that will not make them not great pets? They’ve been surviving in the wild and may be similar to pariah type dogs? Ie amazing problem solvers, escape artists, a challenge to house? Idk that much about dogs tho
Thanks for the tag on this one. I feel like this is a good example of “fad rescue.” There’s a whole lot of debate on if we should be importing rescue dogs from other countries while the American south still has a massive stray dog population, but the truth of it is that people love a sob story and animals with “social cache”, and most people don’t want the hounds that are plentiful in the south or the tons of pitties and chihuahuas needing homes in New England.
And yes, you’re right, there totally could be a worry of disease. Any time there’s an import, there’s risk: although good quarantine and veterinarian protocol can prevent that, shady rescues often circumvent those rules – especially with puppies – because they’re catering to immediate demand and because puppies grow up fast and aren’t as cute after a multiple-week quarantine. It wasn’t just the Korean meat dogs and dog flu that have been an issue lately – puppies rescued after the hurricanes last year were found to be positive for leptospirosis after being adopted out. Not all rescues mess with this protocol, but I’m still highly suspicious of any sensationalized international dog rescue until they’re proven reliable and appropriately responsible.
As to why they’re coming to the US? It’s not clear. The researcher in me says it’s likely that the founders of the project are American – this is a very American thing to do, go overseas and help / rescue feral dogs – and so it would make sense they’d “bring them home.” The skeptic in me says that America really loves these sob story dogs and it’s a great way to get more visibility and funding for their project, because social media will eat it up. It’s probably somewhere in-between those two extremes.
I wouldn’t be too worried about these puppies being potentially bred with wolves – my guess is the worry is more about protecting the wolf bloodlines in the area. I don’t know if they’d have developed a lot of the pariah-dog like behaviors in 30 years, that’s a question for @streetdogmillionaires, but since they’re being rescued as puppies they’ll at least be able to be socialized and people aren’t dealing with adult dogs that have learned more survival behavior that aren’t appropriate in a house.
It sounds like the CFF is doing good work in general, though, vaccinating the dogs against rabies and spaying / neutering them before letting them go free. What confuses me is how inconsistent the messaging about how many dogs there are in the zone. The home page of the Clean Futures Fund site says there are 250 stray dogs in Chernobyl; later in their website it says 500; in the 2018 update it says they treated 350 dog in 2017 are over 1000 animals to treat, for a total of 1350 animals in the area. Media articles about the project say 750, one article says 900. My original guess was that this is either a game of telephone or a case of well-meaning over-exaggeration by reporters, but I can’t explain why the numbers on the project’s website are so inconsistent. I know dogs breed fast, but those are all radically different populations.
The only article I can find on the actual adoption of these dogs is this one, which is Ukranian, but legible enough with Google Translate. It sounds like the plan is to bring these 12 puppies over after a two month quarantine, and then the CFF will bring them to America to find homes. No other information about how they’ll be placed – so the big media articles are really more hype than reality. It does note that they’re hoping to bring about 200 dogs over, eventually.
So (according to the concept art book) as the Fellowship travels deeper into Middle Earth, the places they pass through become inspired by progressively older periods of history. The farther along you are in the story, the more ancient the design influences
We begin in The Shire: which feels so familiar because, with its tea-kettles and cozy fireplaces, it’s inspired by the relatively recent era of rural England in the 1800s
But when we leave Hobbiton, we also leave that familiar 1800s-England aesthetic behind and start going farther back in time.
Bree is based on late 1600s English architecture
Rohan is even farther back, based on old anglo-saxon era architecture (400s-700s? ce)
Gondor is way back, and no longer the familiar English or Anglo-Saxon: its design comes from classical Greek and Roman architecture
And far far FAR back is Mordor. It’s a land of tents and huts: prehistoric, primitive, primeval. Cavemen times
And the heart of Mordor is a barren lifeless hellscape of volcanic rock…like a relic from the ages when the world was still being formed, and life didn’t yet exist
And then they finally reach Mount Doom, which one artist described as
“where the ring was made, which represents, in a sense, the moment of creation itself”
I’ve watched the movies a few times and love them so much so I can’t believe I actually missed this!
No matter what she says, that was no joke. Particularly not when Betsy DeVos has made it clear that she fully intends to accelerate the school-to-prison pipeline to incarcerate black children en masse. And Ms. Swearingen is very obviously, FULLY aware of what would likely happen to a black child if she made that false report to the police. Shanna Swearingen’s “joke” was barely more than a veiled death threat to special needs black children.
This was not just another racist educator, but a school principal. I feel sorry for the black children under her “supervision”. She obviously doesn’t think much of them, nor does she care about their safety.
poor people: housing is so expensive even when the federal government is helping out we can’t even afford food. we can’t afford transportation, we can’t afford anything necessary to live
disabled people on SSI: there isn’t any housing i can afford if the federal government isn’t helping out a great deal, being that the maximum amount of SSI money you can get in the USA is ~$750 for an individual. even when our rent is 300 dollars, something considered cheap we still aren’t having enough for gas, food, electricity, unexpected emergencies, and i can fucking go on, and it’s not like i can just stop being disabled.
elderly people: i worked all my life, and the rent is so expensive it’s forcing me out of retirement despite my continuously ailing health. the rent price will put me in an early grave.
ben carsen: alright, i hear you ok i think i get what you’re saying
this is genocide, don’t be fooled. ben carsen hates poor people so much, hates disabled people so much, hates elderly people so much, he would rather they die than use funds from the richest nation in the world to help support them.
this is a target at the most vulnerable, this is a death threat, this is him showing he is willing to kill people not because we can’t support them, but because he ideologically believes they are worth less than everyone else.
this man isn’t saving anyone money, this man is committing atrocities in the name of ideological purity in the name of class superiority. he does not view us as human.
One of Washoe’s caretakers was pregnant and missed work for many weeks after she miscarried. Roger Fouts recounts the following situation:
“People who should be there for her and aren’t are often given the cold shoulder—her way of informing them that she’s miffed at them. Washoe greeted Kat [the caretaker] in just this way when she finally returned to work with the chimps. Kat made her apologies to Washoe, then decided to tell her the truth, signing “MY BABY DIED.” Washoe stared at her, then looked down. She finally peered into Kat’s eyes again and carefully signed “CRY”, touching her cheek and drawing her finger down the path a tear would make on a human (Chimpanzees don’t shed tears). Kat later remarked that one sign told her more about Washoe and her mental capabilities than all her longer, grammatically perfect sentences.“ [23]
Washoe herself lost two children; one baby died shortly after birth of a heart defect, the other baby, Sequoyah, died of a staph infection at two months of age.
more about Washoe:
after the death of her children, researchers were determined to have Washoe raise a baby and brought in a ten month chimpanzee named Loulis. one of the caretakers went to Washoe’s enclosure and signed “i have a baby for you.” Washoe became incredibly excited, yelling and swaying from side to side, signing “baby” over and over again. then she signed “my baby.”
the caretaker came back with Loulis, and Washoe’s excitement disappeared entirely. she refused to pick Loulis up, instead signing “baby” apathetically; it was clear that the baby she thought she was getting was going to be Sequoyah. eventually Washoe did approach Loulis, and by the next day the two had bonded and from then on she was utterly devoted to him.
*information shamelessly paraphrased from When Elephants Weep by Jeffrey Masson.
Even more interestingly, after Washoe and Loulis bonded, she started teaching him American Sign Language the same way that human parents teach their children language. It only took Loulis eight days to learn his first sign from Washoe, and aside from the seven that his human handlers learned around him, he learned to speak in ASL just as fluently as Washoe and was able to communicate with humans in the same way she could.
now if y’all don’t think this is the tightest shit you can get outta my face
homophobes are not allowed to use computers because the inventor of the computer was gay
People think this is just a joke but Alan Turing was the inventor of the computer and his sexuality was illegal in his time (which was not even 100 years ago) and he was arrested. They put him on drugs that destroyed his genius brain and committed suicide a year after being covicted. He was gay and a war hero as well. He helped to break enigma which was a German code that they put all their messages through. He shorted WWII by two years and saved so many lives in the process.
Friendly reminder that if not for Alan Turing you wouldn’t be reading this post and we might be ruled by the nazis
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