Skip Navigation

InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)D

Definetely weird.

@ nerv @lemmynsfw.com

Posts
0
Comments
49
Joined
12 mo. ago

  • I hope I'm understanding your angle of approach on this.

    Crowd control dogs are highly trained and don't go out on a rampage unless commanded to. It's their handler that triggers the response. Otherwise, the dogs do not exhibit arbitrary aggression behaviour. Even military trained dogs must not demonstrate aggressive tendencies; if so, they would be a danger for their handlers and other allies. The attack behaviour is developed and triggered under specific conditions and commands.

    You can train a dog in the same manner. Dog trainning is an open knowledge base and I personally think everyone should work with their dogs in order to give them the best outcome possible for their lives. It's the closest symbiotic relation our species has with another, in my understanding. And it's fun.

    From this point forward, I'm going to talk from personal experience.

    I was lucky enough to have the perfect dog in a very bad point of my life. That dog forced me out of my house, to go on long walks and think on something other than my misery. I never taught a single thing to him beyond sitting and laying down on request. I never taught him to wait for me, keep an eye out when I was foraging for something or being protective of my family.

    This was dog that, still not fully grown, took on two other, bigger than him, to protect my infant child, out of his own vollition. And that when called by name returned. This would be the same dog, that years later, would stare down another> , known for being unreliable around children, into submission, a dog the person responsible for feared and kept chained. I had a lord by my side and I was lucky for it.

    When that dog died in my arms, of old age, I lost a brother and a son. I'm crying as I write these words.

    Today I have two dogs of the same breed but I have severely failed them, by allowing another person to force me to take them to under the wrong conditions: separatly and too early. This created a vicious beggining for their lives, making them fearful and wary of everyone, which made them prone to be aggressive out of fear and aggressive towards each other. Things have been better with some measures but I feel as I failed them.

    Most dogs show aggressive behaviour out of improper care, be it by negligence or abuse.

    I've been studying and working, actively, to be a dog trainer. I have scars, from my own dogs, for mistakes I've done. I hold no anger against them. It was my mistakes that made them react to the world as they do today. I've helped other people not make the same mistakes with their dogs; it's my small contribution for a better world, I hope.

    I've only met two dogs beyond any reach. One diminished from birth causes, making the dog effectively uncapable of acquiring any modulation to his behaviour; besides eating, nothing mattered and he would attack anything he viewed as potentially edible and attack to keep others from food, even after being fed to satisfaction. The other had been severely abused, being given alcohol as a pup, which stunted his development, both physical and mental. The dog would attack out of nothing, anything, and would not calm down until passing out of exhaustion. I believe he suffered from allucinations. Both had to be put to rest, as their lives would never be happy.

    So, you can have a dog prepared to defend you. You just need to prove you can take care of the dog properly.

  • Something like this, perhaps?

    If so, perhaps a scenario of workers being caught and mangled by the machine? We can choose whatever scenario we see fit in our minds. Nonetheless, it does sound horrible.

  • OP, this should be, at least, a weekly rally, to boost the morale of the warriors. For the glory of the Empire!

  • Glory to their house, for the dedication to their cause!

  • That's a nice one!

  • I provided myself with sustenance to face the rest of my work day... FOR THE GLORY OF THE EMPIRE!

  • Glory to your house! There is force to be found seeking allies!

  • This reminds of a joke.

    You know where a 500kg gorilla sits?

    Wherever he sees fit.

    Are you willing to argue with him about it?

  • Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

    Jump
  • Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

    Jump
  • Polyamorous relation, I'd risk.

    Personally knew a situation where after having two children, the sex drive of the mother simply disappeared. The couple still loved each other and being relatively young, the woman did not want her husband to be deprived of sex for the rest of his life or, evem worst, resort to infidelity or risky intercourse with professionals.

    The solution was to find a second woman to become part of the household, to which the wife actively vetted and aproved. It worked.

    So, OP, unless you can muster up a really crazy story, I'm pretty hard to impress.

  • I can accept when it about messing with the installation but a lightbulb? Those are made to be easy to replace. It's a screw and a threaded socket, 95% of the case. Unless someone is purposefully trying to do something wrong, the risk close to none.

  • How do you rotate a cat? What does it imply? Because the first association in my mind was akin to rotating the tyres on a car, to even out the wear. And that must be wrong.

  • We will have to wait and see. And press matters against politians, if things start to go awry.

  • Or not. Thinga are getting heated and there are people losing patience with these extremists.

  • Do they realize the EU is a foreign group of countries, with separate legislation and autonomous power?

  • Hopefulltly, those experts retorted: for a large salary increase, in writing.

  • I remember reading this article on how this group of flat earthers had pooled together to buy this incredibly expensive device, that had been laser calibrated. I think I recall being some sort of gyroscope that, if the planet was truly a sphere, would record on its inclination the degrees it would shift in order to maintain perfectly balance . The group had also did the math and they had reached a value that would be expected to be measured if the Earth was truly a sphere but it was immediatly rendered impossible because the device would never record such deviation as the Earth was flat.

    Can you guess where this is going?

    The device measured the exact figure the group had calculated. With no margin of error. And repeating the experiment only returned the exact same result. They had, by their own standard, reached proof the Earth was not flat.

    Their conclusion?

    The device had been sabotaged.

  • I feel personally attacked by that. Am man and able to cook. Unfair generalization. I do still manage to leave the toilet seat up.

  • Linux has been ready for the last twenty and I am not afraid to say it. Before moving over, I used to be the biggest Window$ fanboy you could find. I would literally preach at the smallest opportunity available and make everyone in a 10 meters radius around me groan and roll their eyeball so hard they would fall off their skull.

    Then I go and buy a new laptop that I was told didn't have a pre-installed OS after paying for it. Because I had zero extra money to go and buy a copy of Window$, I ask a coworker to hook me up with something and in the time it took me to go from the store to my job, I had a SUSE Linux disk waiting for me. Back in 2005.

    I unpack the laptop, we boot it to have access to the CD drive and the damn thing starts to boot into an unannounced Window$ Vi$ta. Apparently there was a Window$, unfortunately it was the wrong version, because at this point in time, for me, it was either Window$ XP or nothing. My coworker shows me how to setup up SUSE, which took all of two hours to achieve, including mannually configuring sound and graphics card. The machine is now dual booting.

    Out of morbid curiosity, I play a bit on Vi$ta. It's slow, clunky, things are not where they should be. The machine burns through the battery in under 2 hours, under conservative energy settings, while under an OS I was previously completely unfamilliar with I feel more at ease, using GNOME as my desktop and the battery management is good enough that those two hours of battery life get stretched closer to three. This is roughly a 50% increase.

    Remember I was this big fanboy? No M$Office, no WinAmp, no WinZip, no nothing. I'm lost. Right? Wrong. With zero effort, I get all the software I require for my daily life and then some. And it comes pre-installed. No need to rely on shady websites to get software. No hassle. No headaches. It just works.

    Fast forward today.

    I have zero machines in my home with Window$. I don't use it. I still know how to but I don't. I don't recommend it. I only advise using FOSS, if the person is a terminal locked-in Window$ user.

    So... Linux is ready.