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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • O %100 agree with that. I ran a private rescue with my own money for over a decade, and I have seen shit that makes me think humanity is better off going extinct, but I have also seen the good side of it as well. It’s the extremes that unfortunately ruin it. Euthanasia of an animal should always be an option vs trying to put something through hell for months only have it die anyways. We’re supposed to their caretakers and guardians, yet so many will choose their own selfishness because they don’t want to do the right thing and help the animal pass peacefully. Conservation at least does this and helps the animals…but a lot of people see just some rich dude killing a lion…not that they killed a lion that literally was going to starve in the next year, not that the 100k+ to hunt the animal paid for keeping the sanctuary running and pochers at bay, not that it helps a poverished village that exists on the reservation access to food and water…they just see some rich dentist posing on Facebook…





  • Not really, lot of this is hyped up sales bullshit. The reality is that security software has been getting better and better. It’s not this ecosystem of “that matches this hash or IP” anymore. For the last decade ML has been used heavily. It doesn’t look for just the stuff it knows is bad, it looks for things that are out of place.

    End of the day…you can’t fix everything and you can’t fix your users…but the script kiddies aren’t what to worry about, it’s the large gov backed groups. Those have always been the problem.






  • Holy shit really? That’s crazy. I live in a rural area and still can get an HVAC guy out in about a day usually it’s same day. We even have after hours guys. Don’t let that make it sound like it’s a flooded trade here, as that’s completely wrong, most of these guys are literally busy 24/7/365 but that sounds like an untapped industry.

    I do understand that a lot of the new generation has been sold desk jobs making 6 figures though, at least here…and not enough people want to take the outdoors and labor intensive style jobs anymore. Welders are a good one around my area, you’d think we’d be crawling in them, but nope they’re a trade that has a lot of openings, as the older generation(boomers) are retired, then Gen x is hitting retirement and there is even less millennials that picked up the trade and even less Gen z…times gonna get rough soon.





  • Go on Facebook marketplace and get a bigger cage. People basically give them away all the time. When we had rescued two conures and a cockatoo, I ended up building an aviary in a spare side of the house. Used 12g 1/2" x1/2" welded wire, it was 12x20 and even that wasn’t enough to make me feel good about having birds in captivity. We would let them out and fly around the house when we were home but it’s not a good life for these guys. I really wish exotics would be banned.


  • India the country is not poor as fuck. It’s a nuclear power. Even after the west stripped it for profit, it still has absurds amount of wealth and resources.

    So does pretty much every middle east country…and it’s consolidated at the top.

    The other big difference is that while the power and money is consolidated to a segment of the population, that segment is very large compared to most countries.

    Ratio wise, it’s probably less than you think. Remember India has 1.4 billion people.

    And overall, you have the direction wrong. The middle east doesn’t export these people. The west accepts them as refugees. But because of the wealth of india, their refugees rarely get accepted. So the religous nutjobs still exist (I’ve worked with some), they just stay in country. They stone their own people for being gay, or refusing to marry their rapist and all that.

    There are a good number of people from India all over the west though. I do agree that a lot of the EU takes in refugees at the expense of their own people though.