It’s one thing to have other smells than what you are used to, but just because you don’t smell your own body odour doesn’t mean everyone else doesn’t. If you struggle to shower more than once pr week, or just sweat a lot, you need to realize and implement a shower when meeting other people rule.

I’m not saying you have to shower every day. I’m just saying if you struggle to shower for yourself, make it a rule to shower for others.

If you say fuck others, they can swim in my stink, then you can fuck off from these events or accept people making comments about it.

I believe a golf club is an everyday object, yet i am not sure more people have golf clubs than they have shotguns. They could. I do not know.

Regarding penis and warnings about them, I think it’s mostly about “this is a picture you should not open in a work setting”, and not “you could feel triggered by seeing this”. And it gives an excellent thought experiment - if a rape victim is triggered by a picture of a penis, flaccid or erect, should a picture of a flaccid penis have a trigger warning?

I believe it should not. But it could have NSFW marked, as many offices frown upon displaying large images of genitalia in your cubicle.

Meaning I do not believe content warnings as a whole should be abolished, but some trigger warnings should not exist.

No. We can’t have trigger warnings for everything as there is always someone who might be triggered by something. Real or fake.

Some triggers can be universally agreed upon.

It is of course horrible that you have had experiences that can cause discomfort from seeing a picture, reading a book, watching a film. I do not know your backstory.

I do however have my own experience feeling discomfort from a seemingly “normal” thing. My father died and in order to get my mind off this event I went to watch (I believe) Bad Guys 2 where there is a scene where dead bodies were used to smuggle cocaine. It was I a humorous setting as most Will Smith movies are. I didn’t care for it then and felt discomfort - even though Weekend at Bernie was hilarious when I watched it 15 years prior.

My point is right as I felt discomfort and was triggered, I simultaneously understood that everybody else in the cinema at the same time I was there did not feel this way. It was a unique experience for me at that point in time. I can’t expect everyone else to walk over eggshells around me, especially if they do not know me.

A former colleague of mine was after 10 years as a widow still triggered if someone mentioned something in the vicinity of drowning as this was his horrible death. It was obviously difficult for her, but to expect colleagues (new and old) to never mention something that could trigger her for 10 years is over the top. As horrible as it is. People die, and you have to work on it. You can’t expect the rest of the world to do the work for you.

Which circles back to you. We can’t have trigger warnings on everything because you have had a horrible experience. You have to work on it. We do not. Especially as we do not know you.

For you its guns. For someone else it could be an axe. Or powder or a large syringe. Or a bottle of whisky. Everyday objects can’t have trigger warnings.

A shotgun is an everyday object, even if the barrel in the picture is pointing towards you. I think most objects or topics should not have trigger warnings, but that’s a different topic.

But I do hope you get better and help to deal with your triggers. Best of luck!

This post meg me into a small but interesting rabbit hole of scurvy, scar tissue and collagen… Really interesting and I didn’t know scar tissue sucks so much compared to regular skin …!

I know. So the reason we are seeing this is not that the algorithm is shit, it’s because there’s laws in place to protect us.

Meaning if we stop seeing this, then we should be worried! 😄😄😵‍💫

I think this is the new section?

The winning submission came from Copper, a California-based company which designed a battery-equipped induction stove that plugs into a standard 120-volt outlet. That means the units can be used in existing NYCHA kitchens without the need for major electrical upgrades.

Has the text changed? I can’t find any reference to 240v

But that’s how languages work… I think you should try to read the Oxford Dictionary and come back with an apology when you are finished

https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/except_1

I have them all, except 5 and 12. Not from the States, so no aol. And cheques were fazed(?) out really early here, so have never seen one in use. The crossover breed of XMillenial here.

A lot of Americans on the right famiously doesnt own a passport and doesn’t leave the country. You are more or less playing into their hand…

I wonder what would happen if you opened fire against these attempts? If you are not identifying yourself as law enforcement, one would fear for ones life and could open fire and protect oneself?

If you define economics as have and have-not, they obviously had economics. Who are he to tell us that bartering didn’t happen on any scale within a tribe of cro magnom.

I think the point being is that economics is a large scale class system with fairly complex structures. There’s always been have and have-nots. Just look at a pride of lions on how they distribute the feeding based upon ranks within the pride. It’s not economics, but it’s s class based system with distributed means (i.e access to food).

So maybe all of nature is oppress or being oppressed in a way. We just industrialised it.

I like that quote, but it fails to take into account the incentives for each group. The bears wants free and easy accessible foods, which means they will spend a great deal of effort to succeed. The humans are weighing “give a shit about environment” Vs “I don’t care enough to spend two seconds here”

Place a crisp 100 dollar bill inside the trash can and you would have a dramatically different outcome…

If you think we actually invest in infrastructure, you are sorely mistaken… I mean yes, we have a decent charging infrastructure. Driven by Tesla purchase and gas stations following through in order to retain EV customers. So some infrastructure is needed to support that.

But we don’t even have good enough infrastructure to distribute an abundance of hydro electricity from North to the South, while at the same time we export electricity down to central Europe from the South, so prices fluctuates a crap ton.

Don’t get me started on train lines being neglected for the past 50 years. And as most countries we are realising that all our sewage and water lines need a massive renewal…

Maybe we should use more of the oil fund for these tasks, but I believe there would be large inflations if we tossed the oil fund around to fix everything…

Reading this thread is like a waterfall of ignorance and shitshow.

I’m no expert on animal husbandry, and in particular elephant sanctuaries, but I have recently been to one.

That being said, I’m sure there are elephant sanctuaries that treat their elephants bad, just as there are good ones. I can’t say which percentage of the sanctuaries are good/bad and I doubt any of the posters here can enlighten us on that.

What I can say is that these are NOT wild elephants. I was told there are roughly 12k wild elephants in Thailand.

These elephants are bought from farmers that are unable to sustain/feed the elephant from the work they are being used. Apparently it’s not uncommon to earn 500 Baht (ca 15 USD) a day as a farmer, and that is not enough to buy the 10% of body weight in food for the elephant. Elephants are often inhereted as they cost around 1 mill Baht (2,5 for baby).

So… Domesticated elephants can’t survive alone in the wild as they have been bred out some of the skills to manage on their own. So a mismanaged elephant is better off being sold off to a sanctuary that can care for it until it dies. Which is the purpose of sanctuaries - put an elephant out to pasture.

The sanctuary I visited only had female elephants and was but interested in breeding elephants - because they are not in it to add more domesticated elephants, but rescue elephants that need help. I’m sure other sanctuaries manage male elephants, I can’t say how they deal with mating and pregnancies in regards to rescue other elephants in need Vs “free elephant” for tourist trap.

TL;DR Post in this thread acts like domesticated elephants are a wild animal like a boar. It’s more like a cow that weighs 4-6 tonnes. Death by cow occurs every year, you don’t go screaming about that when it happens between your bites of hamburger. It’s of course horrible for the family of the poor girl being killed. Hopefully humans and elephants will get the treatment they need and deserve.

That would be glorious! But I’m seriously scared for Ukraine and Europe while Amexit happens…!

The beatings will continue until moral improves.

I think it’s important that not only are charges dropped, but she should get some push back or fine for wrongfully charges ( I’m assuming it is illegal to claim someone assaulted you when it’s obvious they did not - and I’m not a lawyer or American, so I’m sure there’s a better name for it…)

*Edited a word from autocorrect

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They are angry at Ukrainians? Shiiiiit…