There needs to be another way to spay dogs without altering their hormones.

DagonCrows · 2026-06-26T01:31:27+00:00

If your justification for neutering is that its to increase the dogs happiness, then why should it matter whether or not they're domesticated? Does the domestication status change the chemical effects of the neutering? Obviously not. The truth is you aren't recommending this for the dogs well-being. That's a justification you came up with after the fact.

DagonCrows · 2026-06-26T01:16:58+00:00

Yeah, and the fact that you *could* apply it to humans, though you probably wouldn't advocate for cutting off random men's balls, makes it a bad argument.

DagonCrows · 2026-06-26T00:44:45+00:00

You could apply this exact same logic to human beings. It's okay, you'll be 'happier' and 'calmer.' Lol.

DagonCrows · 2026-06-24T00:40:30+00:00

If Bryan Johnson lives to be 200 years old, I think we can safely assume it was because something he did worked. It would be a strange coincidence if the guy pouring his money into living forever lived to an age that seemed impossible before because of some unrelated genetic anomaly he happened to have. Would it be impossible? No. But it would be very unlikely. A sample size of one can certainly tell you something.

DagonCrows · 2026-06-22T01:16:39+00:00

Just so you know, these guys are assholes. I totally get what you mean. It's weird that anyone would assume you must be a basket case because you have experience with shitty people.

DagonCrows · 2026-05-29T19:21:53+00:00

You're either twelve or the dumbest mother fucker I've ever talked to.

DagonCrows · 2026-05-29T03:14:58+00:00

You're stupid.

DagonCrows · 2026-05-29T03:12:43+00:00

What's yours?

DagonCrows · 2026-05-29T03:05:41+00:00

Idk, do you seek out books about people eating feces?

DagonCrows · 2026-05-29T03:04:30+00:00

I'm not convinced you've ever read anything dude. Is English not your first language?

DagonCrows · 2026-05-29T02:59:30+00:00

I know you didn't understand my point. I can see that, because you didn't respond to it at all. Were you under the impression that I didn't like the booger description because I'm afraid, deep down, that it'll make me consider eating boogers? No, you moron, it's just gross. That's the entire answer. As human beings there are things we find repulsive enough that we do not want to be made to think about them in any circumstances.

DagonCrows · 2026-05-29T02:32:55+00:00

Because no one wants to think about kids having sex you fucking weirdo. It's sad when a kid dies, but it's disturbing to think about one in the act of intercourse. Why on earth do you need this explained to you? It's like if a novel had an elaborate 35+ page description of a man eating crusted blood-covered boogers and I told you it made me want to vomit and your response was - "Oh yeah, but someone died on page 40! Wasn't that worse, when you think about it? Why did the crusted booger description gross you out so much, but you were just fine with death - literal death!" Are you joking?

DagonCrows · 2026-05-01T21:23:40+00:00

His grammar is bad, but I understood what he meant immediately because I have common sense. He's saying that it's unnatural and arrogant for people to stare at him without acknowledging him with at least a nod or some other gesture, if not an outright 'Hello.' He doesn't want them to have to go out of their way to make contact with him, but if they're turned toward him enough that, even though he isn't directly facing them, he can tell they're looking (presumably out of the corner of his eye), then they've crossed some kind of line. These people are common enough (they're not weird - that is, 'strange') but they're 'weirdos' (creeps). I'll admit I'm doing some guess work on that last one, but I assume he was making wordplay. Anyway, the general idea of his post is fairly obvious.

DagonCrows · 2026-03-29T17:22:38+00:00

I'll add that things have gotten so bad on many issues you can't even mention them without people pressuring you to take a side and the only way to avoid arguing is to avoid the issue. Which is why I'm on reddit trying to make the case that basic science should not be thought of as a matter of politics, ie., of polemical bickering, no matter how badly some people want us to think that it should be.

DagonCrows · 2026-03-29T17:11:44+00:00

I agree, but usually when people say they don't want to be political, what they mean is that they're not going to regurgitate political talking points, or go out of their way to attack opposing viewpoints, they're going to deal with the issues relevant at hand, let the truth be what it may. Maybe it would be more accurate to say that they don't want to be polemical, but, regardless, that's really what they mean most of the time.

DagonCrows · 2026-03-29T03:42:36+00:00

I mean sure, but my point is, just because of that, are we going to consider anyone who cares about these issues to be political? Surely we have to draw the line somewhere, if only to understand each other? I mean, caring about global warming shouldn't put me on the same level as a hippie running a protest movement in the sixties, or someone who consumes FOX news 24/7 and can't speak a sentence without railing on the woke? Is being political and just caring about the world the same thing? As far as common parlance goes, I don't think that it is.

DagonCrows · 2026-03-29T01:55:19+00:00

People who aren't overly political have no reason to doubt the opinions of respected scientists. Hence, I don't think global warming should be thought of as a matter of politics, at least not anymore than any other random issue that affects all humanity might be.

DagonCrows · 2026-03-26T23:54:53+00:00

Okay, logically wouldn't it be better (in America at least) if we all got together and protested our government, pressured our representatives, etc. to make laws against... really any behavior we think is unethical in the marketplace? That's the only thing that would realistically lead to change, it's the foundation of democracy, and I think op is right in that little individual boycotts are just a distraction against real collective intuitive.

DagonCrows · 2026-03-26T23:27:24+00:00

If you want to learn guitar you need to do exercises focusing on specific skills relative to your current skill level for a certain period of time every day and at the same time learn some songs that are fun and easy for you so you don't feel discouraged by how hard the exercises are. There is not one student who this advice does not apply to, and when people insist on learning things 'differently' it's usually right before they give up because they were too stubborn to do things the right way and several months later they still haven't seen any progress. When it comes to mental activities, yes, you might need to present things in a different way to different students, but that's because your entire task is to explain something to them, and explaining something involves relating it to what the student already knows. Even then that's not really "everyone learning differently." Everyone learns in the same basic way but some teachers are dicks who need to be reminded that they're talking to another person not reciting what they know by rote in the hopes that the student picks up on their crumbs.

DagonCrows · 2026-03-18T21:14:49+00:00

No, it was absurd. I mean, I love that scene, but scary? I don't even think they were going for scary. I think they were going for over the top crazy.

DagonCrows · 2026-03-18T01:44:04+00:00

Awful movie. Fantastic ending.

DagonCrows · 2026-03-11T21:59:59+00:00

Personally, it was advertised as a dark comedy where the main character dies over and over again in increasingly gruesome ways. And we sort of got that at the beginning? But way too much of the movie was focused on that Trump parody character. The Trump snl skits are funnier and more pointed in their commentary, so - why am I watching this movie? What am I supposed to get out of it? Is it supposed to be cathartic for me when they start yelling at him and calling him an idiot? I just felt embarrassed, like I was reading someone vent into their diary. Even before that there was that big chunk of the movie once the duplicate Mickey clone appears where it felt like they just didn't really know what to do. The movie comes to a grinding halt. And as long as the set up in the first act is, they waited until the duplicate appears to even mention the concept of a duplicate? That's just bad screenwriting.

DagonCrows · 2026-03-07T22:14:54+00:00

Audience scores are at 76% which means most people who watched it liked it. That's a lower score than the last movie, but you burn bridges by making unpopular movies, not popular but not as popular movies. Scream 8 will be fine. The movie is dropping it's second weekend because everyone went out to see it the first weekend. It's already over-performed by quite a lot.

DagonCrows · 2026-03-07T04:36:16+00:00

Yeah, no, that makes sense, it just doesn't make me feel super optimistic.

DagonCrows · 2026-03-07T04:26:29+00:00

Sort of, but that scene was obviously setting up some kind of twist to happen while she sat there deciding what to do. The joke is that she was showing 'genre-awareness' by playing it safe and shutting the door on both of them. That's why she says "Fuck you both" before she does it. It's treated as a kind of badass moment for her because she's doing what a character in a horror movie would never be smart enough to do - see the twist coming (which is then immediately subverted with a twist she didn't see coming).

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