HaHA this is great!!! Comparative anatomy gone mad
I am not particularly good at art myself, but I do find that knowing what the Bits are, and what they correspond to, is super helpful in drawing. So I think as an exercise this is pretty legit.
Looks like the comparison animals are a canid, equid and wading bird (heron?)
I really like how one foot remains “human,” that’s such a good artistic choice
My grandmother was on one up into the ‘80s, until the phone company completely did away with the option. It wasn’t even that much cheaper by then, and I have no idea why she insisted on keeping the party line as long as she could.
By the time I came along, there was only one horrible old lady down the street on there. And she listened in on everything. Probably sad that the eavesdropping opportunities had dwindled to one other household 🙄
Meet Baldwin, a black vulture at the Dallas Zoo! He is showing off his classic “vulture walk” during a talk about positive reinforcement training.
Transcript
Zoo employee in blue shirt and tan shorts walking around mostly offscreen: “So, we feed all of our; or we train them, all of our animals here at the Dallas Zoo using positive reinforcement. That just means when Baldwin, um, does something we ask him to correctly, um, he gets a reward. So uh, when does something we didn’t really ask him to, or doesn’t really understand what we want, he doesn’t get punished or told he’s a bad vulture, he wouldn’t understand that, he just doesn’t get that extra special reward. So it’s a great way to train any animals, um especially any pets you might have at home, or children, or husbands, or whatever you want to train. That is a great way to train..”
So i’ve been debating coming on here to ask for help with this, but I can’t stand to see my cat in the pain that he’s in.
I’ve had my cat, Sunny, for around 10 years now, and he’s become a very important part of my life over that time. Currently, he has a problem with his eye that, because of lack of money, we have been unable to treat. Here he was a few years ago:
And here is him now:
As you may be able to see, his right eye has gotten very bad. It started out as what the vet thought were weird growths on his eyeball, around his pupil. We had went to a feline optometrist to learn it was glaucoma, so tried to treat it as such. But now it had progressed to a stage where he cannot see out of it at all, it sometimes starts bleeding, and had pretty much developed a huge scab over it that he sometimes tries to mess with cause it is an irritation to him, ending with him ripping it back open and causing him more pain.
The only thing we can do for him now is to have the eye removed and the lid sewn up (enucleation). The surgery is going to cost upward of $500. I have been attempting to put a bit away every now and then to pay for it, but with bills and other expenses around the house, my mother and I have had a hard time trying to procure the funds.
If anyone can help by donating to my PayPal or cashapp, it would be appreciated. I love Sunny, and hate for him to be in this kind of pain.
When someone disagrees with you online and demands you prove your point to their satisfaction by writing a complete and logically sound defense including citations, you can save a lot of time by not doing that.
Bro, I’ve known you for twelve seconds and enjoyed none of them, I’m not taking homework assignments from you.
This got a lot of responses from people pointing out that evidence is a key part of intellectual inquiry, discourse, and debate. That being able to support your beliefs is a key critical thinking skill. Which is 100% true.
Except that you don’t actually have to participate in intellectual discourse any time some fucko on the Internet tells you to.
There’s a vast difference between “this is an important thing to be able to do,” and “this is a thing that you must be continuously available to perform in public for any stranger who asks.”
To our TERF kindergartener anon, who then threw a fit in the inbox that we did NOT publish: exactly my thoughts!
Are debate and intellectual discourse good things? Sure. But you don’t have to dedicate your mental energy to it any time some asshole decides you need to prove yourself to them.
[Photo description of tweet by Ava DuVernay @ava on July 14, 2018 which reads:
By court order, migrating children are being allowed to reunite with family. But, migrating parents must pay for flights and fees to get their child back from our government. Take action if you can. Help buy a flight for a family. secure.actblue.com/donate/flightsforfamilies #FlightsForFamilies
There’s something intensely unhealthy going on when parents discourage age-appropriate independence. A 13 year old should probably be allowed to go see a film with their friends most of the time. A 16 year old should probably be allowed to drive/ride a bus/bike to a friend’s house most of the time. An 18 year old should probably be allowed to travel overnight with their friends most of the time. A 20+ year old should be allowed to come and go as they please, with some common-sense “Let’s talk this ‘move to Finland’ plan of your over before you follow through on it” exceptions.
Parents should want their children to enjoy going out and doing things on their own and with their friends. They should be delighted that their child wants to have a life of their own. A rich, fulfilling life outside the home and distinct from parents and family is important, and parents should want their child to have that.
Today on “I think a white person wrote this”
Umm…No. this isn’t a “white person” issue. I’m Black & EVERYTHING she just described in the post is 100% relevant. We gotta stop writing off discussions about unhealthy & overly strict parenting as “white people shit”. It’s so old and tired. 😒
A rich, fulfilling life outside the home and distinct from parents and family is important, and parents should want their child to have that.
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