I was specifically referring to horse colic, which among the many manymany causes are things like refusing to exercise after eating (because it is cold out and they don't wanna), eating at a time they don't normally eat, and the ever popular eating something they do not usually eat. Colic, even things like gas colic, can lead to death shockingly quickly. This is part of the reason that a break to the horse's leg at or below the cannon is fatal: because exercise is critical to a horse's digestion, the lack of any muscles to immobilize or support an injury means that a breakage will never be able to heal and a horse is faced with dying from colic or torturous pain as they die from an infection and internal injuries resulting from walking on a broken limb. It's a horrible way to die.
Riding a horse is a complex topic and there are studies for days about it's impact to a horse's overall health. I don't really wanna get into that because it's extremely complex, there is no one exact right answer and I'm generally of the opinion that there's absolutely no point to horses (let alone riding one of the damn things) so why spend more time than needed thinking about the fuckers... However I will point out that I think you're confusing horse anatomy with elephant anatomy - unless you're riding bareback, the force of a rider is not carried on the horse's spine (nor is the force of a harness) it is carried on their shoulders, and due to the shape of horse gaits their spines are much more able to support vertical loads than many other herbivores (horses just moving put absolutely insane dynamic loads on their bodies, the addition of a static load in the form of a rider is extremely small in comparison. This doesn't address jumping which... is it's own complex topic and I just flat don't think it's okay to do high jumps on a horse).
(The most common injury to a horse's back, Baastrup’s Disease ("Kissing Spines"), doesn't have a known definite cause but ill-fitting tack is known to exacerbate it (by shifting the weight off the shoulders and onto the mid/lower spine). An unridden horse can develop it, and it affects wild horses just as severely as domestic ones (though I cannot find a source on the rate, I suspect because studying the spines of a wild horse is a pretty tricky operation))
In general, exercise in horses is the same thing as in humans - we can carry weights, even uncomfortably large weights, and as long as we're not doing that all the time our bodies will not suffer unduely. Some of us flat shouldn't do that, some of us absolutely live for that (hikers, runners, gym nerds, Belgians) and when we do do it, the most important aspects are to make sure we do it with good ergonomics, don't exercise over an injury and don't spend all of our time doing it.
Maybe if they weren't such divas that they'll die because dinner was late and they were a bit cold, they'd be doing better in the ol' favoritism race...
Perhaps strain would be a better word than drain - it would still be a short-mid term financial burden to take even a tiny fraction of the sane population from the US, it's a big country. Sure would be nice if it could be arranged though...
Yeah it gets a little bit... psychotically dystopian at that point. Most likely the child will be assigned a caseworker who will then enroll them in medicaid (or CHIP or similar state programs, assuming we still have any of those I haven't checked today...), and regardless they will receive necessary care until they're discharged. But hey, it's the US, none of this shit is actually guaranteed!
At least in the US, the mother's health insurance policy (assuming she has one) will automatically extend to cover children born while the mother is under coverage.
Gary Plauche is another person who took justice into his own hands
He did what needed to be done.
Hero
100% justified
I can’t remember a thing, but i do remember at one point we all gave a standing ovation.
Yep would done the same or worse to that fucker.
No, people are absolutely condoning this. In some cases they're even celebrating it. "Most people" might not, but the people being criticized, the ones in this thread, absolutely exist and are doing exactly what they're being criticized for.
Jesus fucking christ no he didn't - a big reason we don't do vigilante executions is the same reason we shouldn't be doing the government sponsored kind:
COPS ARE BAD AT THEIR JOB
At the time there was every chance that Doucet was innocent because the cops had arrested the wrong person - the evidence was not available, and Gary Plauche unilaterally carried out a death sentence on a man on a rumor. In this case it probably worked out, although the investigation into Doucet was stopped after his death and the case was considered closed so we still don't know for sure: testimony of a traumatized 10 year old and Doucet's presence in the hotel room are the primary evidence, but there was no further investigation to find out if he was even the only person involved. At the time, Plauche didn't even know for sure that Doucet was in the hotel room, he had just been given rumors.
From your post history, you're a decent person, you're not some bootlicker, so why are you affording the police enough credibility that you believe their initial investigations are so well conducted that they can unilaterally be used as grounds for summary execution?
"Black box" usually refers to both the Flight Data Recorder and the Cockpit Voice Recorder as a nebulous whole - some FDRs are also configured to record pilot mics as well but that's not standard.
Cyclopean walls (haphazard stacks of boulders) are what most Europeans think of as "stone walls" so ones that aren't just loose piles of rocks are pretty impressive by that standard.
The coolest part is really that they're so complexly fitted without mortar - which allows for stone constructions to survive in an earthquake prone region. The stones can slip past each other without losing their place relative to each other when jostled, which is why Incan stoneworks like this are still standing when all the stuff the murdering bastards Spaniards built have long since collapsed.
Making the word bigger doesn't mean there's more threads per, it just reduces the number of calls to complete some kinds of ops (and something about RAMing busses into each other and... cache locations? idk I'm sleepy)
They get dismissed as a natural rock formation and somehow people claim that only in modern times have people considered them slides and it drives me nuts. They're so obviously slides, the biggest ones have been worn smooth by centuries of asses going down them (a geologist I met while down there was working on proving it was centuries of asses that had polished them), any child ever will go "fuck yeah I'm gonna go slide down that", and yet people constantly either ignore or dismiss them. Just argh.
Never had raccoon, have had opossum and it was... passable. Not something I'd seek out but not bad in a stew.
I can see not liking sea urchin, personally I'm not big on it but it's not, like, bad bad. Just not my thing.
I've had sea cucumber several times and no, man, I encourage you to try it just so that you can share my pain. Cat was deeply eeh, don't recommend, but sea cucumber is "I have dreams about how bad it is" levels of bad - and whats worse, people really do claim it's a delicacy! So you can't just duck under the table and hoark it all out onto your shoes without being rude.
I'd rather snort lines of raw durian than eat sea cucumber again. Seriously if you ever get a chance go for it, it's spectacularly horrible. You gotta try it.
"Sacks-uh-wha-man" is pretty close, iirc it's originally an aymara name so it's a little "borderline impossible" to get the pronunciation 100% right if you're not a native speaker. Beautiful place, but nobody ever, EVER talks about the fucking slides and it drives me nuts.
I was specifically referring to horse colic, which among the many many many causes are things like refusing to exercise after eating (because it is cold out and they don't wanna), eating at a time they don't normally eat, and the ever popular eating something they do not usually eat. Colic, even things like gas colic, can lead to death shockingly quickly. This is part of the reason that a break to the horse's leg at or below the cannon is fatal: because exercise is critical to a horse's digestion, the lack of any muscles to immobilize or support an injury means that a breakage will never be able to heal and a horse is faced with dying from colic or torturous pain as they die from an infection and internal injuries resulting from walking on a broken limb. It's a horrible way to die.
Riding a horse is a complex topic and there are studies for days about it's impact to a horse's overall health. I don't really wanna get into that because it's extremely complex, there is no one exact right answer and I'm generally of the opinion that there's absolutely no point to horses (let alone riding one of the damn things) so why spend more time than needed thinking about the fuckers... However I will point out that I think you're confusing horse anatomy with elephant anatomy - unless you're riding bareback, the force of a rider is not carried on the horse's spine (nor is the force of a harness) it is carried on their shoulders, and due to the shape of horse gaits their spines are much more able to support vertical loads than many other herbivores (horses just moving put absolutely insane dynamic loads on their bodies, the addition of a static load in the form of a rider is extremely small in comparison. This doesn't address jumping which... is it's own complex topic and I just flat don't think it's okay to do high jumps on a horse).
(The most common injury to a horse's back, Baastrup’s Disease ("Kissing Spines"), doesn't have a known definite cause but ill-fitting tack is known to exacerbate it (by shifting the weight off the shoulders and onto the mid/lower spine). An unridden horse can develop it, and it affects wild horses just as severely as domestic ones (though I cannot find a source on the rate, I suspect because studying the spines of a wild horse is a pretty tricky operation))
In general, exercise in horses is the same thing as in humans - we can carry weights, even uncomfortably large weights, and as long as we're not doing that all the time our bodies will not suffer unduely. Some of us flat shouldn't do that, some of us absolutely live for that (hikers, runners, gym nerds, Belgians) and when we do do it, the most important aspects are to make sure we do it with good ergonomics, don't exercise over an injury and don't spend all of our time doing it.
And also I hate horses.