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really and truly honored that my post about a simple little slurp one can have has made it this far
“I have two literature degrees and no words”
Rating: Cute
This mother rat is “protecting” her babies by making sure they stay close to her. She’s doing her best even if she is struggling a bit!
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this conveys sample bias better than any statistics course
“You know what would be really fucking sick? A fight scene, but instead of weapons they have fish and ladders.” -Jesse Gordon, probably.
there are people out there who genuinely think this show has bad animation
Every room at the Trixie Motel
Tumblrina sleepover at the trixie motel…. What room are u taking? I call oh honeymoon
snorting and sipping with you all in the atomic bombshell room
Idk I'm getting tired of emails that say "OMG THIS PRODUCT IS SO CHEAP!!!" Instead of "this product is so well made and it will last you several years to come!!"
Preach!!
Clothes are so flimsy now-a-days they’re practically see-through and they can’t handle washing more than like 20 times before they’re ruined. Same with vehicles, same with phones, same with basically everything now. Everything is flimsier and more breakable...
Everything is made as cheaply as possible so that the company can save 1/8 of a penny producing it. That pads the profit margin numbers and buys the CEO a new yacht because stock prices go up slightly for a few days, which makes millionaires buying stocks happy. And that’s all a company cares about. Fuck 30, 10, or even 2 years down the road! They can make a fast buck today.
Longevity, both in products and in corporate thinking, is a critically endangered idea.
You're 100% correct on all of this. Tbh when I made this post I should have added these, but I want to add them now at least to curb some despair. Because some manufacturers are just as fed up as we are!!
Buy Me Once is a website that sells products that, uh, you only have to buy once. They have razors, duvets, kitchenwear, hosiery, gardening tools—all that are designed to last as long as physically possible. Hell, they have a smartphone ($200, 4 year warranty) and a VACUUM, both made to never be replaced. A lot of these things are also self-serviceable (looking at you Apple).
There are other sites out there like this, but this is the one I know is reputable. There are also some clothing companies like Eddie Bauer, Uniqlo, LandsEnd, and Duluth Trading Post that all sell durable, reliable clothing. In Uniqlo's case, they're also recycling materials and creating innovative new ways to sew clothes, including just not sewing them at all.
So yes, the mainstream stores you see in the mall are USUALLY bad. But there are some out there that're still working on improving and doing better all the time. The next issue we have to hurdle is money. Because how many of us can afford to buy an actual wool coat vs a synthetic something or other that'll last two years?
I think it's so funny how we bred JOBS into dogs. I have two shih tzus and they were bred to be lap dogs. All they care about is looking cute and cuddling with people. Meanwhile my grandma has a border collie and that dog needs to feel so useful all the time, he acts like he will pass away if he doesn't have a job to do constantly
On one hand this is extremely fucking funny, but on the other hand, it really boggles my mind how many people punish their dogs for just… doing the thing they were bred to do.
Your husky isn’t “hyperactive”, it’s bred to pull sleds for 8 hours straight and you have it in a 400 sq ft yard.
Your English sheepdog isn’t “pushy”, it’s bred to herd sheep, and you have neither to space nor the herd to allow it.
Your terrier isn’t “nippy”, it’s bred to kill rats and your hamster looks a hell of a lot like one.
Your Catahoula isn’t “mean to animals”, it’s bred to hunt any and all animals smaller than it, and you didn’t acclimate it to your cat.
Your Lhasa Apso isn’t “yappy”, it’s bred to bark at any tiny noise and alert watchmen to intruders
Like Jesus Christ, if you can’t provide an environment where your dog can’t fulfill its literal life purpose, maybe?? Don’t get that dog??? And if you do, maybe know the breed characteristics so you can redirect those traits into more constructive outlets????
Both your most common doodle's parts (labra and golden) want to hunt and retrieve water birds so the best suggestion I can give y'all is congratulations on your new duck hunting hobby.
This was gonna go in the tags but it got long: the number of lab owners that have come up to me at dog parks to bemoan that their year-old male lab is too hyper and wants to eat and destroy everything and gets obsessed with fetching anything that flies, is just. Wow. Congrats, you got an energetic retriever that was bred to be food-motivated, so it would be easy to train, and its job is to fetch stuff! You also got a male, so that was A Choice (these people always say they went with a boy because they “don’t want to deal with heat twice a year”; ma’am you now have a dog that goes mental every singly time it smells a bitch, so congrats, you’re dealing with other dogs’ heat 365 days a year).
Idk if people research dog breeds more if they’re getting a less popular one, but I swear people get labs just because “they’re so happy and good with kids”. Ma’am, I know (of) too many labs that have eaten their way through literal walls, destroyed entire bedrooms, dug up whole-ass gardens and emptied fridges and kitchen cabinets. They may be funny, goofy dogs but they are ridiculously intelligent, and often apply that intelligence through Chaos & Mayhem, if they’re not given anything else to do.
Labs don’t “calm down with age”, either. They’re always one Awesome Thing away from going from 0 to 900. I’ve been pals with 15 and 16-year old labs who still got the zoomies because they saw a tennis ball.
And oh my lord don’t even get me started on how people don’t seem to know and/or care about the fact that labs have an insane amount of genetic joint issues AND will eat anything, so when people over-feed their dogs and then seem surprised when their hips/back/legs give out... jfc. Labs will get overweight super easily because they do not stop eating. It’s up to the human to stop feeding them. Fat dogs are not cute.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk!
(My 9-year-old 35 kg/77 lb lab that’s mostly made of muscle and love is currently snoring behind me on my bed, on her very own pillow, in a sun spot. She is a spoiled princess who still gets super excited about... everything, really.)
