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I don't do controversial here, but peta having absolutely no idea what it's talking about should be a well established fact by now so I don't see this as controversial at all.

Humanity has spent thousands and thousands of years breeding these animals to create wool and if you want to call that wrong you're welcome to do that, but this is where we're at now regardless of it was or not.

So they need to get peeled every so often, because if they don't many many bad things will happen to them including death.

You can see the animal is stressed at the start but then relaxes and stops complaining. The neck is not even being restrained at some points.

If you ever watch professional pet groomers, the cats and dogs can be a heck of a lot less chill about the experience.

Also it would be very funny, also he's a great American who loves America and the American people (as opposed to a lot of people who love what they imagine building after they dismantle America for parts), also @daisukitoo's other reply:

This would make Donald Trump's face the symbol of unethical, clandestine financial transactions.

He's really not, though, and he really doesn't.

...I don't mean this in a "check out my counterintuitive lefty definition of patriotism" way. I mean that he openly despises large sectors of the country, including traditional touchstones of American patriotic identity, in a way that has no parallel in any other US politician of comparable stature. He's the guy who flubs and flouts military ritual observances, and basically insulted John McCain to his face for his veteran status. He's the guy who makes a point of tearing down the architecture of Washington, DC. He's the guy who doesn't even bother pretending that he values Every Citizen, as opposed to valuing Those Citizens Who Support Him.

And you can say that all of this is symbolic frou-frou, which is true, and that symbols can sometimes get detached from the things they're supposed to symbolize, which is also true.

But - it's all of a piece with everything we've already known about Donald Trump forever. From way before 2016! He values money and celebrity and success and nothing else! He spits on everyone that he considers a loser, which definitely includes most Americans! He is cosmopolitan enough to think of those foreigners who swim in his circles as His People - enough to marry one! He would absolutely have been a part of hoity-toity New York sophisticate culture, if the sophisticates would have had him!

Anyhow, Donald Trump should be on the $250 bill if and only if he dies while in office, either by natural causes or by unnatural ones. In that case, putting his 1980s businessman split-term populist face on the bill is fitting, including because doing cash transactions in $250 bills is kinda shady. If Donald Trump survives his second term, then he should not be put on any U.S. currency, except for a limited-release commemorative Trump coin used for fundraising by the Federal government. This coin should be legal currency brought back periodically for sale to fans, but only if sales are profitable.

Trump is an egomaniac, unquestionably. He wants to Make America Great Again so that people will say "wow, Donald Trump made America great again, he was the best president ever and we should put his face on a bank note and build him a monument in DC and put his face on Mt. Rushmore and gush about him in our history books." To this end, he promotes policies that he thinks will genuinely strengthen America. He's doing it for his own personal ego boost, yes, but the end result is - at least hopefully - a stronger America.

Folks like Biden, Obama, Bush Jr., Clinton (both Hillary and Bill), etc., are also egomaniacs, but their focus is different. They want power and status among their elite clique of globalist technocratic government elites, and do not want a stronger America or an American population that is better off. They hold us in open contempt and often outright hatred. They get their ego boost from grinding us under their heels and convincing us to thank them for it.

Alarming pattern found Data Centers & water usage.

The smartest way to accelerate the water crisis.

Here's a slide I found comparing some of the more advanced cooling types. It talks about the different rack densities each can support:

A cabal is from kabbalah. Judas -- traitor -- means just Jew. Armenians and Catalans agree. The Dutch call dishonest people Jews. If you steal in Danish, you Jew. In English, someone greedy is a Jew, swindling is jew ("The Jew was jewing him out of his hard-earned money")

The Finns agree.

In fact, I am inventing a rule of thumb.

This debate is rolling on Twitter. Right-wingers argue that steal fortified mailboxes will teach mailbox smashers not to smash mailboxes. More lib/left users argue that the potential damage to the arm is disproportionate to the crime.

I think the answer here is pretty straightforward: ninja-armbreaker mailboxes are for when the rate of mailbox attacks is high (because the state isn't doing its job), and not for when mailbox attack rates are low.

The mailbox in question had been repeatedly vandalized, so the owner rebuilt the mailbox with an eight-inch pipe set three feet deep in concrete. An innocent party's vehicle departed the roadway, collided with the mailbox, and flipped. The vehicle's sole occupant was permanently paralyzed below the neck, and sued, saying that the proximate cause of his injury was not his loss of control of the vehicle and subsequent departure from the roadway, but the abnormally-strong mailbox.

Writing for the Court majority, Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor stated the Court has repeatedly ruled political subdivisions, landowners, and others owe a duty of care to drivers if they create hazards that “affect the safety of ordinary travel on the road.” Because Matthew and Diane Burr’s mailbox did not affect the safety of ordinary travel on the regularly traveled portion of Young Road, they are not responsible for the injuries suffered by Cletus Snay, she concluded.

By comparison, suppose that a man puts a landmine into his house. A firefighter could end up entering, and get blown up by the landmine. Life is full of unexpected outcomes.

Just like I won't put laxatives in my food to deter thieves.

Not sure how strongly enforced the rules are or if they're just guidelines or not, in the before times of 1986 when the movie Stand By Me came out there was a scene where "Mailbox Baseball" was being played and it inspired shenanigans which were made even more exciting because you could still ride in the bed of a pickup truck with no seats or seatbelts.

Homeowners got rightly fed up after a while and there were some broken arms and such as a result of that.

The mailbox is a target BECAUSE they assume the act will not result in any negative consequence TO THEMSELVES and as such think they SHOULD be allowed to cause damage with impunity.

And as a last thing? There is no comparison between putting up a reinforced mailbox to putting a mine in your house, because any given mine could kill any given person entering your house, firefighters being only one of many possible situations where you murder someone (or kill yourself) for taking the wrong step.

And the mailbox? Again, the comparison to a tree is far more apt, because the only way it becomes a hazard onto a random passerby is if a situation has already occured that puts them uncontrollably into it's path.

a mailbox is replaceable, human lives are not, and even a broken arm can be debilitating, especially if you’re in the US and the healthcare to treat it may be unaffordable

It was avoidable by the vandals, by the simple expedient of not smashing mailboxes.

Especially from a moving car, which is inherently risky even if the homeowner does nothing. They could break their own arm. And caught-in-the-act vandals are often drunk or high or both, Google says, so they're already probably a hazard to the public.

You mentioned America, right?

Here's a stories about people getting shot over messing with the mail.

Here's a story from Nebraska, from '02. Vandal used a golf club. It broke, flew into the back seat, hit one of them in the face, and killed them.

Bottom line: mailbox vandals inherently put themselves and others at serious risk, before any defensive measures.

PS: It's also a federal crime. 18 U.S.C. § 1705. Up to three years in the clink. Americans can submit a report to the post police. So can Brits, through Post Office help.

The glib phrasing of the tweet does leave some room for interpretation. My reply is because I, personally, know people who say they feel totally unlovable because in over a decade they haven't been able to find anybody. And sometimes I want to shake them by the shoulders and tell them that they aren't unlovable, they just have impossible standards for compatibility.

Guys talk a lot about women demanding men be 6 feet tall with abs — in my experience, that isn't true. Many do, however, want a guy who has most of the same opinions and hobbies that they do (and none that they personally find annoying), as well as a level of emotional availability that few guys have naturally — and glowing confidence on top of all that. It's not realistic, and they're ignoring many good people who they might be able to build very happy lives with.

The left and Islam is engaged in an unholy alliance.

Iranian man warns that Sharia law starts with unity between the left and Islam. Pay attention to what he’s saying. The same alliance between the left and Muslims that is taking place now in the West happened decades ago in Iran. That’s how Iran became an Islamic theocracy.

Sharia law starts with a smile — the same smile Zorhan Mamdani and others like him, gives the public. In Islam it is called "Taqiyya", an Islamic practice to lie and deceive as a form of preservation and concealment. It is utter and complete deception.

Leftists see Islamists as kindred spirits who share their misanthropic vision: fellow travelers. Islamists see them as useful idiots who they'll dispose of once in power. And they both see Western Civilization as the biggest impediment to imposing their will on mankind.

Educated, leftist women in Iran did welcome Khomeini in 1979. Not realizing their mistake. In 2001, London solicited support for Tehran, hailing the Mullahs as "our allies in the war on terror". Now the Shiite, Mamdani has been welcomed by leftist (mostly women and cucked-limp-wristed men) in NYC.