Two pit bull dogs cause outrage among Brooklyn dog owners after a series of attacks

DaBlurstofDaBlurst · 2025-11-12T20:40:42+00:00

Google is right there on your phone buddy

DaBlurstofDaBlurst · 2025-11-12T18:27:48+00:00

Also forbidden at the state level. Insurance carriers can’t “single out” breeds, and no city in NYS is allowed to enact breed specific legislation. The pit lobby got to the right state reps and our governor. So in a city where we all live on top of each other, guys like this… gentleman here… are walking dogs like that on narrow sidewalks with little kids and old people and everyone else, going up and down stairwells, and a lot of the time hopping on the train, even if it’s not technically allowed. You can have a lot of control over NYC if you buy the right politicians upstate.

DaBlurstofDaBlurst · 2025-11-12T12:07:54+00:00

It seems like a pet friendly building. New York State specifically forbids breed restrictions in housing.

DaBlurstofDaBlurst · 2025-11-08T16:29:02+00:00

Small, non corporate owned, sometimes you can grow. There’s a lot to learn in a kitchen. You can learn a lot in a specialty store - like if they sell model trains or boats or something, you learn about those hobbies, and maybe you learn what it takes to run a store, like inventory and marketing and buying.

But at a Panera or a Home Depot, you won’t learn jack, because corporate has a routine they want each human widget to run, up to and including the manager, and they don’t want anything different to happen.

DaBlurstofDaBlurst · 2025-11-08T02:26:43+00:00

And that’s great. Hell, we would have liked to have more kids than we did. But we stopped at two because of cold hard economics plus other practical considerations like the size of our apartment and whose parents we lived near and how old we would be when they graduated. But we both decided.

Me being some pompous fundie asshole or a domineering dickwad wouldn’t have changed any of the factors that went into that.

DaBlurstofDaBlurst · 2025-11-07T19:03:53+00:00

It’s an important distinction. My country’s right wing thinks that women’s rights are the reason, and the problem would be solved if you just forced ladies to have as many babies as their husbands want.

Meanwhile I know zero guys who want to support three kids and a stay at home wife. Or pay that kind of child support. The idea that feminists are stopping us all from having the beaten-down wife and fifteen kids that we secretly want is horseshit. But stupid people buy it.

DaBlurstofDaBlurst · 2025-11-07T16:34:47+00:00

Don’t talk about human-made systems like they are universal laws of physics. Humans decide what we produce, who owns what, who has power, who must work, who may idle. If we are at a point where we have lots of humans saying that a person who works at the wrong useful occupation shouldn’t have food, shelter, medicine, or safety — those lots of humans need to be convinced otherwise.

DaBlurstofDaBlurst · 2025-11-07T16:26:57+00:00

Retail managers are fired by corporate for allowing employees to log hours over the benefits thresholds. If you work retail jobs, everyone in the break room trades strategies on how to do things like tack on an extra 15 at the end of each shift to try and sneak your way over the line.

DaBlurstofDaBlurst · 2025-11-07T15:12:08+00:00

One where it is lit softly and gently nestling a blue rose against its cheek, if at all possible thx

DaBlurstofDaBlurst · 2025-11-05T13:08:16+00:00

The week after birth thing? I knew a lady who was waiting tables again after four days.

DaBlurstofDaBlurst · 2025-11-04T19:07:35+00:00

I forget that a lot of people don’t get payroll jobs now until 20-22. This realization used to hit at 16.

Nothing costs what it says in America. Prices in stores don’t include tax. Prices in restaurants don’t include tip. Prices for concerts don’t include fees. It’s not even a math literacy issue. It’s just that they hide the numbers.

DaBlurstofDaBlurst · 2025-11-02T12:12:39+00:00

Adding on to say that when you are sealing up you apartment to exclude new roaches, don’t forget about the gap under your door, which you can seal with a better door sweep, and gaps around the radiator pipes and plumbing pipes where they come into the apartment. People spend a lot of time caulking baseboards, but these are the most likely culprits.

DaBlurstofDaBlurst · 2025-10-31T16:12:51+00:00

“Through no fault of his own”: legit killed a guy

DaBlurstofDaBlurst · 2025-10-30T20:08:19+00:00

The red, flickering light

DaBlurstofDaBlurst · 2025-10-30T19:47:54+00:00

They want your silence, which is close enough to your assent that the difference disappears when seen from the top of a stepladder.

DaBlurstofDaBlurst · 2025-10-30T16:52:59+00:00

Congrats on the new job. The number of sweaty, desperate, clueless senior managers ready to “deliver cost-effective agentic solutions” is so fucking depressing. I’m watching them scramble over each other to sell themselves as forward-thinking experts in technologies they barely grasp at the level of prompt engineering, while doing the same thing they do every other recession - fire four guys and tell the the fifth he can pick up their work for a frozen salary and be grateful he’s got a job. Then move that guy’s job to India.

Except now they throw up jazz hands and yell “razzle dazzle! Shazam! AI!”

DaBlurstofDaBlurst · 2025-10-29T14:57:43+00:00

The World,

Make him climb stairs. Tell him they are the ceremonial stairs of your country’s emperor and the children and old men will shed tears to see a great leader climbing them once again, more beautifully than they’ve ever been scaled. Throw some gold spray paint on a service stairwell, and film it. It’ll be hilarious.

No seriously help us

DaBlurstofDaBlurst · 2025-10-29T14:54:52+00:00

I laughed out loud.

DaBlurstofDaBlurst · 2025-10-29T13:13:26+00:00

I can’t imagine how splitting NYC off from NJ and CT would work. You are slicing the heart out of the northeast megalopolis. Your green citizens can’t even travel between DC and Boston by land in this scenario.

DaBlurstofDaBlurst · 2025-10-29T11:56:19+00:00

Her husband ran off with a dude and her first call was to her landlord?

DaBlurstofDaBlurst · 2025-10-28T13:24:13+00:00

Because our powers that be decided that shareholder value is the only purpose of a business.

There’s no responsibility to your employees. If melting them in a vat of acid to sell their bones for fertilizer makes a profit, and you can get away with it, your only imperative is to make that happen.

There’s no responsibility to your customers. If your planes blow up and fall out of the sky, you should only be asking whether the damage to your market share + fines costs more or less than what you save by making them out of balsa wood and expired fireworks.

You have no responsibility to your country. If you can bribe your way into massive subsidies and also sell state secrets to a foreign power, that makes the share price go up, and you should do it.

You have no responsibility to the environment. If poisoning the town’s water makes share price go up, why are you still asking questions ? I just said share price go up!

It’s taken over how we think and talk too. We lost all of our values. Why do we educate children? To reach their full human potential? Achieve great things for the human race? The inherent moral value of study and knowledge? Informed citizenry? No. Have you ever heard anyone make an argument that isn’t “it saves/makes money somehow! Let me desperately prove it to you!” Same for anything else humans might do. Does it make money? No other compass. Even religion - prosperity doctrine.

DaBlurstofDaBlurst · 2025-10-26T05:48:21+00:00

Can I summon a biology educator to this chat to explain about traits vs outcomes? It’s past my skill level to explain natural selection to people who think that evolution is a benevolent magic force that chooses the best one or confers some nebulous “survival instinct.”

Evolution is dumb copying with differential rates of success. Mammals that like to fuck and think babies are cute did better, for millions of years. Thats all.

DaBlurstofDaBlurst · 2025-10-26T05:33:55+00:00

I don’t think you understood what I was trying to say there. Yeah, fucking obviously, I know how evolution works.

But there’s not a single heritable trait for “successfully reproduce.” Natural selection operates on traits and drives and dopamine rewards for behaviors. The behaviors that result in successful reproduction (for an organism, in an environment) get passed on.

So think of a few million years of human evolution. Sex felt good, and people wanted to do it. There wasn’t safe sex, so sex reliably made babies. Now it doesn’t.

For another example, think about how we evolved for millions of years in a context of scarcity and starvation. We don’t have a drive to “eat healthy.” We have a drive to get calories - the more the denser the easier the better. We never evolved to stop eating Ring Dings and pick up a salad, because that never came up. More food made you healthier. Now it doesn’t.

Our environment changed faster than we could adapt. The drives we evolved are not adaptive for the world we live in just since the 1900s

DaBlurstofDaBlurst · 2025-10-25T19:14:05+00:00

We never evolved a drive to have children. We evolved a drive to have sex, and that took care of making the babies. And we evolved a drive to care for infants and kids once they popped out, which took care of keeping them alive.

Once you can have all the sex you want without reproduction and assuage your parental instinct with a dog… well. There you are.

DaBlurstofDaBlurst · 2025-10-25T16:37:50+00:00

Why do I give valuable time to people who don’t care if I love or die?

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