Exactly.

Authoritarians of all stripes love to lay claim to eternity.

We don’t have to believe them though.

I teach philosophy for a living these days.

I’d probably keep doing that, but less of it.

I’d also do a lot of writing.

Do you mean the ears?

I don’t think they’ve been cut, she just looks to be holding them in a back facing position.

No need to be snarky here. It’s just good practice to provide a source when making claims to statistics. “Just Google it” doesn’t validate a position.

Now that you’ve provided a source, we can talk about the information at hand instead of talking out of our asses.

With the source you’re quoting, and in fact the specific sentence in this Wikipedia article, the sources provided for that claim are 3 news articles and a UK government webpage.

That government web page details the way someone can safely and legally have a dog of these breeds.

With the news reporting, even a cursory glance at those news articles show that there could be reasons other than the biology of the breed in play here.

Stats without a reliable source aren’t stats.

Me.

Make your a salami sandwich with the following steps.

1. Toast the bread.
2. pan fry the salami slices til their a little crispy on the edges.
3. spread hummus on the bread once it’s toasted.
4. add the crispy salami, some lettuce, and seasoned tomato to your sandwich and enjoy.

People look at me sideways for using hummus as a sandwich spread, but it’s delicious.

He ain’t leaving unless it’s in a casket.

Bets on how long it will take before WWE’s racist caricature of a luchador ends up with a belt in AAA?

Academia, USA.

You’re getting the exact same quality of education for introductory classes at a community college, state school, and private school.

I know because I teach the same suite of classes at all 3 as an adjunct. Same book, same syllabus, same schedule, same assignments. The only difference is the price tag, and I’m hardly alone in that.

Actually, scratch that. You’re getting a better education at the community college because the people in charge there bother to remember that I exist and treat me as an equal.

You gotta block the bots that post news stories to communities named after the publication.

Really clears up the feed.

Once a month to the shelter I got my dog from.

It’s not much, but they do good work and believe in what they do.

Hmmm.

Will calling this “footnotes” make it easier or even harder to get the average college student to learn how to properly use footnotes in papers?

Decades ago I was cook #2 at a retreat center. My boss, cook #1, was a quiet, but kind and competent kinda guy.

He’d show me how to do something, and then give me space to get the job done while he took care of other things.

After a while, we just sort of naturally settled into a rhythm of work. We’d both come in around 5am, get breakfast prepped, and then serve breakfast without needing to say much to each other at all. Then we’d do the dishes, again without needing to talk.

Sometime after that we’d eat, and the two of us would have a good conversation. Rinse and repeat for lunch prep, leaving once the PM crew came in to serve that meal.

The mix of being taught skills, trusted to get things done, and both of us appreciating when to be quiet and when to chat… that was everything. I’ve never had a better boss.

I’m absolutely convinced that there’s a certain threshold of money/power/privilege that just destroys a person’s humanity.

Stereotypes ain’t cool, dawg.

I don’t recall saying that “everyone on the planet” should or could adopt any kind of belief.

Pacifism isn’t aimed at victory.

Just buy a tent and camp like us poors.

I think it’s fair to say that, for a person to be consistent in their pacifism, they probably also need to adopt:

1. Anarchism (because government lives by its capacity for violence.)
2. Religious convictions of some kind.

Or some combination of the two, as was the case for the Diggers.

Pacifism.

The overwhelming majority of people, no matter where they sit in terms of culture, religion, and politics, see total nonviolence as a naive position.

But it’s among my most deeply held beliefs.