Natural immunity in response to ebola would not be a choice i would predict people making in this country, but they’re doing it with measeles, so fuck me I guess.

DNC treated David Hogg like shit after he was elected to the DNC on the getting rid of geriatric incumbents. He’s working outside of them now because he realizes it’s rotten.

Good.

100%, this the right way to treat a history channel reference. Fact checking is a requirement and trust should be withheld by default.

Yeah, that’s fair. I guess maybe extremely common compared to the harvesting of penises that don’t have a baculum?

They’re just kinda cool! It’s a Marge Simpson thing. You find them at oddity and reptile shows used as part of crafts all the time.

I saw this watching moonshiners on the history channel, so take it with a grain of salt, but the moonshiners were obsessed with them. Since they bend down at the end, you stick the bone into the spigot where the liquid comes out of the worm bucket (where the alcohol vapor condenses into liquid). It directs the flow into a jar. You can also use a stick, but these dudes were always just carrying raccoon dick bones that I’m sure they harvested themselves.

I really don’t mean to defend this dude, so don’t take this as that. Those Os penises (animal penis bones, baculum) are very collectable. I wouldn’t want to be the person collecting and cleaning them, but this is extremely common to see people harvest baculum.

Some people need it, fuck.

This is a you’re not wrong, just an asshole situation. There was actually a cluster of free solo deaths in 2024 in Colorado cause this shit was getting popular.

Free solo climbers used to be an incredibly small group with a death rate that rival people who use those gliding suits and thread the needle under bridges. It’s a community of people like cave divers, they understand death is a likely part, the people attracted to this (no matter what they personally say) are either ok with dying or have disassociated the risk so much that they don’t take it seriously enough.

Alex Honold will get more people killed by getting them interested in free soloing, traditional rock climbing by comparison is like tennis level safe.

That’s fair, this is gonna be long, this is a particularly interesting tpoic to me. Although Japan has been very much removed from the world through much of its history, isolated. Even pre-Sakoku the nation rarely showed an interest outside of the islands around it, and Korea a couple times. Japan is a fascinating country when you look at the education and militarism.

It’s helpful to understand the Japan of the period around the world wars to understand Japan now. Japan had their arms forcibly removed from them after a period of extreme imperialism, which lasted from the period post the Sakoku policy beginning in the 1850’s until the post ww2 period.

Japan went from a nearly pre-industrialized fuedal style system to a fully industrial nation with a modern military during the Meiji Restoration over a period of like 40 years. After the first Sino-Japanese war they attained an incredible amount of power, resources and reputation. What followed was a period of colonial effort with a sort of Japanese supremacy bent to it that was notable in it’s cruelty and effectivness.

The last 20 years Japan has been re-militarizing. They started on the 1950s, but truly didn’t start building real capacity until mid 2010’s. Since 2022 they’ve been building a full military in earnest, to the point where China is treating them like the US is trying to treat other countries, not selling them the really good stuff for aggression and defense.

Much like the US, Japan doesn’t exactly see itself as the bad guy in all of that, they teach that aggression had consequences, but the amount they omit about what Japan DID over there during from 1890-1940 is vast. They are still a resource poor country that relies on trade, but unlike the Japan of the past, the current Japan seems terrified of conflict, with a youth who seem unwilling to die for the country.

But again, even at the heights of their aggression and colonialism, they were a drop in the bucket compared to the West (including the US), or China, or Russia (in all it’s forms). It’s not even a comparison to the US, the US is still and has not stopped being bloodhungry imperialists.

Check out what they did to China and Korea and for how long (first and second sino-Japanese wars). The Japan of the late 1800 and early 1900’s were bloodyhungry imperialists. But they were a lot smaller and had a much smaller imperialist footprint than any western country by a country mile.

They started late and were actively thwarted by western nations to keep and exploit military conquests. Can’t even compare them to the vast imperial footprint of the west.

Sometimes for the Japanese, the person you are replying to is right. America had a super sketchy relationship with Japanese POWs, the largest sea rescue was like Midway, I think America saved maybe 2 Japanese pilots who would end up being POWs and like a few dozen Japanese ship engineers.

That’s with us really looking for Americans in the water, because the according to reports (you gotta take these with a grain of salt, maybe a whole silo sometimes) the Japanese got ahold of 3 Americans, tortured and killed them.

Americans were absolutely going out of their way to capture nazi POWs, and other axis groups. Not the Japanese tho.

I’m sorry, that’s totally fair, I don’t mean to sound dickish. They can’t hit zero. Australia is a model for how bad invasive cats can get, and the cat is already out of the bag, so to speak. They either target aggressive goals, which are primarily culling mixed with chemical and some limited physical spay/neutering programs. But when you are talking bang for buck, it’s really easy to look to culling primarily.

Spay nueter programs are much more expensive and usually donor funded. You gotta do a lot to an animal to even modestly safely remove it’s sex organs, especially females. I wouldn’t be surprised if they pop up in NZ, privately funded, in addition to the other programs. Desexing is still is the best way to deal with an active colony with a food source, you are right.

That’s when you are trying to control the population. These are invasive species, worse than that, invasive predators. Eradication and control are two different things.

Neither of those solves the problem entirely, but an eradication aims to keep the population of invasive species much lower than control. Any amount of invasive predators, especially as effective as feral cats, needs to be controlled.

Feral cats and pet cats are just two different things, like feral pigs and wild pigs. Even pet cats need to be tightly controlled, every bird a pet cat kills is multiplied in aggregate, these things we love are absolutely brutal.

I found those reports sus af as well. I think covid should have been a wake up call that couples don’t even communicate when they are trapped in a house together.

It’s purely anecdotal, but my relationship was healthy going into covid and covid didn’t change it, so I actually consistently communicated my interests and frustrations, as did my partner.

The idea that someone could make screaming neo nazi videos in the same vicinity as me, or that I wouldn’t ask about what my partner is spending all their time doing, that’s insane to me.

I don’t understand how your spouse can become a neo nazi influencer under your nose like he’s hiding a Christmas present.

I don’t want to be uncharitable here, but if she knew and didn’t talk about it I seriously question her judgment and if she didn’t know she’s a fucking idiot, both of these feel disqualifying. The other option is she’s ok with it, she just wishes it were more private.

Right, this is a bit too little too late. I’m glad they’re approaching the correct stance, but damn where we’re you.

Lmao, ok tough guy.

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