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Catoblepas

@ Catoblepas @piefed.blahaj.zone

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  • Parents opt kids out of school laptops, ask for pen-and-paper

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  • Anyone that would say that to a student who turned up to learn has no business teaching. You don’t take funding problems out on students. It’s not the teacher’s obligation to self fund their classroom, but many do it because often nobody else is. Reading someone talk about that and the message you decide is important to share with them is ‘lol you’re paying your employer’ is weirdo behavior.

  • Parents opt kids out of school laptops, ask for pen-and-paper

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  • They’re pretty obviously supplying it for their students, not their employer. Weird as hell to rub someone’s nose in the fact their students are trapped in a school system that doesn’t even supply teachers with proper access to printed materials. Even Reddit used to run a donor program to help teachers out with the costs.

  • Bad kitty!

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  • When we got our current kitten, we faced the TP roll backwards, since this wasn’t our first cat rodeo. He ‘solved’ the situation by biting the roll and tearing it off the holder to shred.

    Now the TP lives in the cabinet.

  • Cruelty-free

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  • A cow eats more crops which kill more insects over its lifetime than you will by eating plants over the same period, because you eat fewer plants. There’s no way that adding entropy by eating something that ate plants somehow kills less insects, even if you want to take into account dividing up the meat between other people.

    Example: steers eat 30-40lbs of feed per day for 1-2 years. Less than half of a steer is usable beef, and will give you a little less than 500 lbs of meat from a 1200 lb steer. Assuming 1/2 lb servings, that’s a little less than 1000 servings of ~500 calories for something that took years to raise and literal tons of crops like corn to be fed to it.

  • Cruelty-free

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  • so no insects are harmed to produce that for livestock: they were harmed to make soybean oil.

    Sorry, this is an accounting trick. The cows are still eating an agricultural product that killed insects, we can’t decide ‘oh, actually that’s entirely for oil’ if the soy meal is also valuable enough to sell and export as a product (about 65% of production, per the wiki article you linked).

    There also aren’t any livestock that live entirely off soybean meal; a huge amount of corn is also fed to livestock. So even if you want to do shoddy accounting, they’re not being raised off waste and sunlight. A lot of crops are grown exclusively for livestock consumption.

  • OH GOD YES

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  • If the message they’re communicating is “no” and not the exact details of why they’re saying no, “I don’t have time” is perfectly adequate. Everyone isn’t entitled to the exact details of why someone is refusing to do something. I’m not telling you if I’m refusing because I have severe diarrhea.

  • Santa Monica’s new bike lane just opened 🥰

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  • It’s Santa Monica, there are a ton of bus stops (OP rode past one in the first 10 seconds of the video) and this isn’t every single road, or even most of them. Bike lanes that aren’t protected from traffic lead to dead cyclists, which on balance I think is probably worse than using the bus stop or getting out one block over.

  • Cruelty-free

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  • But if the answer to that is no, then by eating meat you’re responsible for the death of the animal you eat, plus all the insects that were killed to raise crops to feed it before you ate it. For something like a cow, they’re eating significantly more crops than you would because they weigh like 1000 lbs.

    If the answer is yes, then don’t eat the cow, because as far as we can tell it has more awareness and capacity for suffering than a bug.

  • Cruelty-free

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  • Is it more or less than the amount that die when you grow crops to feed to animals that you then slaughter and eat? It seems like less, but I’m not a math major.

  • What has surprised you about transitioning?

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  • That my 5’5” baby face might be intimidating to women, especially at night. I’m not after you, I’m just walking! I totally understand the wariness of male strangers, it just makes me feel the need to go ‘I’m not a creep!’ which of course would make it worse.

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    Pro-Trump CEO Left Reeling as His Dream E-Bike Company Files for Bankruptcy Under Trump Trade Policies - WTF Detective

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  • physicists make chart on how to help campus cat lose weight

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  • That’s difficulty, not quality. Professor Cheeto is a joy to have as a teacher!

    E: wait, just saw the ratings you were talking about. Get the low raters!!

  • Running defense for a pedo, but with extra steps

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  • Do Republicans?

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    Woman tried to torch warehouse after ICE detention facility sale cancelled, police say

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  • After the sale fell through? Since they haven’t caught her I guess it’s not like they can say for sure why she did it, but that’s a weird time to set it on fire if your issue is it being used to house ICE victims. Especially since I read in another article it fell through because the owner backed out.

    Not saying there aren’t people that hate ICE in Kansas, trying to set it on fire after the sale is no longer happening is just difficult for me to interpret. Was she sending a message to the owner for considering it? Trying to make sure the owner can’t change their mind? Mad that the owner backed out of the sale? Normally I wouldn’t entertain this one, but Kansas.

  • Trans Woman Swims Topless In Competition Against Men To Protest New Rule

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  • Trans men have already been assaulted and arrested for complying with those laws. The purpose was always to drive trans people out of public life.

  • AI could wipe out most white-collar jobs within 12 months, Microsoft AI chief warns

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  • OCR isn’t a large language model. That’s why sometimes with poor quality scans or damaged text you get garbled nonsense from it. It’s not determining the statistically most likely next word, it’s matching input to possible individual characters.

  • A piano made of mother-of-pearl and tortoiseshell, from 1853, New York City

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  • You reckon they still play it, or is it just decorative now?

  • NHS closed Tavistock over care complaints – there were only eight

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  • Complaints that specifically cited problems with the way treatment had been provided constituted around five per cent of all complaints made in that time. They represented 0.06 per cent of the 12,000 service users the clinic was believed to have been treating on average.

    The journalists noted that the majority of the eight complaints filed were over fears that ongoing treatment for patients could be suddenly rescinded.

  • LA28 board says Wasserman will remain head of LA Olympics amid scrutiny over close relationship with pedophiles

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  • You just (presumably) read an article about how multiple high profile, powerful people dropped him like a hot potato and how city council members and other local leaders are trying to pressure him out. This isn’t something Angelenos want or chose, we didn’t get to vote for any of this.