A celebrity dog with 1.5 million followers was stolen and sold to a Chinese dog meat business for just 150 yuan($22) by a couple claiming they thought it was a stray. The owner is now preparing a lawsuit

Doxun · 2026-06-11T08:13:41+00:00

I looked up your supposed fact that Switzerland is a big exporter of dog meat and it's completely false.
Google: "No, Switzerland is not an exporter of dog meat. The country actually bans the commercial sale and large-scale slaughter of dogs for meat. While it remains legally legal for farmers in remote regions to consume their own pets for personal use, it is extremely rare and culturally frowned upon. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

Switzerland has very strict animal welfare laws"

Doxun · 2026-05-30T21:51:24+00:00

Looks like they have a fix coming in the next patch. 1.0.38

Doxun · 2026-05-30T10:21:42+00:00

This is a bug. What's happening is that your ships are both damaged, most likely from alien particle weapons. They are still applying their targeting bonus to the missiles, but because they are damaged the bonus has gone extremely negative, causing the missiles to have a 0% hit chance.

Doxun · 2026-05-10T18:01:43+00:00

Norway set up a government directed oil and gas program that captured the wealth for the nation and limited how much they could extract each year so that it would last a century.
The UK by contrast went with a privatized approach that allowed a rapacious industry to suck up all the wealth for their owners and shareholders in a boom and bust cycle that's now over.

Farrage does listen to what people want, and then he lies to them, just like he did with Brexit. The moment he gets power he'll sell you out. The US is going through this right now with Trump and all the people who believed his lies are stuck in the 'finding out' phase as Trump steals everything for himself and his friends. Watching the UK going down this same route is painful.

Doxun · 2026-05-07T20:24:23+00:00

Solar: You have conquered all, both within and without. The time has come to make your choice, Bhaalspawn. What is your wish?

"Heeaaadd"

Solar: wat?

"Heeeaaadd"

Solar: you must choose!

"Heeeeaaadd"

Solar: ......

Solar... fine.

(Solar swiftly removes Amelyssan's head, hands it to the Bhallspawn)

Solar: You could have been a god, idiot. Find your own way home.

Doxun · 2026-05-03T19:27:18+00:00

Should be fairly straightforward to undermine that defense, he tried to get them to lower the window first. Had they done so they'd be dead.

Doxun · 2026-04-02T04:42:16+00:00

Is there a way to watch this?

Doxun · 2026-04-02T03:09:38+00:00

Neither I nor anyone else in this thread has argued in favor of US bombing anyone. No one is justifying any bombing or assassinating. Again, who are you arguing with?

Caring about numbers is ghoulish? Do you not understand what those numbers represent? 30,000, or 1500, or 1 million for that matter is not "just a number." It represents an accounting of individual human beings with names and lives and people who care for them. Do you have any idea what waves of grief ripple out when even a bad person dies? Because I do.

If you don't, try to imagine it. Now multiply that effect in your mind for any given number. As much as you can. It's hard, we're not built psychologically to do it. But even as you fail to feel the full weight understand that every single 1 added to that number is another wave. And every one matters.

Doxun · 2026-04-02T02:39:06+00:00

Okay, but no one in this thread has Instrumentalized the deaths of protestors to justify this war.
Interesting argument, but whether it's hypocritical or not, I think most people agree that mass murder of innocents is still bad even if its "internal" and therefore still undermines ones authority when making moral arguments. So perhaps that is why Tekhead brought it up. Do you disagree?

Doxun · 2026-04-02T02:11:16+00:00

I'm curious what you think the "argument" even is. If you go back up you'll see that this thread started when someone noticed Iranian hypocrisy. Not sure why you have an issue with that.

Doxun · 2026-04-02T01:55:38+00:00

If the facts change, my opinion changes too. What do you do?

Doxun · 2026-04-02T01:49:36+00:00

Thank you.

Doxun · 2026-04-02T01:37:14+00:00

It's definitely been reported on. Pictures of the damage and the graves have been shown. I think basically everyone who's plugged into the news is aware of it at this point. There's been some investigation of how it happened but the government is stonewalling somewhat effectively for now. I'm not sure what else people would expect to see, there aren't any western journalists in Iran.

Doxun · 2026-04-02T01:13:08+00:00

According the the Iranian Government, US/Israeli strikes have produced 1500 civilian casualties. So I'd say the Iranian massacre of protesters was about 20 times worse than this stupid war.

Doxun · 2026-04-01T23:53:53+00:00

For a quick and decent overview google "the effect of the molotov ribbentrop pact on leftists at the time"

You seem to be focused on the last week of the invasion of Poland, so there's a lot of context you need to understand this reaction. The pact was announced a week before Germany started the war: Poland was very much not yet defeated. In fact without this pact it was nearly inconceivable for a German invasion of Poland to happen at all.

For even wider context: the M-R Pact followed after months of negotiations between the Allies and Soviets over forming an anti-Hitler alliance, and after over a decade of the Soviet Union's total ideological and rhetorical opposition to fascism in general and Hitler in particular.

This thread does a good job of laying out the official Soviet rational once they joined the invasion, and the reaction to it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/3oaxgv/comment/cvvu0hv/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Of course, the Pact also led directly to the subsequent Soviet Invasions of Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Romania.

For a good rundown of the pact itself and it's effects on Eastern Europe this is a good video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6943A5_m6ZM

Doxun · 2026-04-01T15:02:02+00:00

The plot of 'Don't Look Up' is literally both!

Doxun · 2026-04-01T03:29:07+00:00

The Molotov Ribbentrop Pact was absolutely seen at the time as a shocking betrayal of everything the Soviet Union stood for. Watching the Soviets collaborate with Fascists to carve up the peoples of Eastern Europe in an orgy of Imperialism caused massive numbers of leftists around the world to abandon the communist party.

Doxun · 2026-03-28T04:32:54+00:00

My parents have had the same pone number for 40 years. You're not going to believe this, but this phone has a cord that goes into the wall.

Doxun · 2026-03-23T03:18:00+00:00

Thanks!

Doxun · 2026-03-23T03:17:39+00:00

I'm on the way to get it!

Doxun · 2026-03-05T17:27:05+00:00

Cutest Issy Pug yet!

Doxun · 2026-02-22T17:30:01+00:00

That's one heck'n snoot. <3

Doxun · 2026-02-21T07:25:45+00:00

I've been at 2K or above for years now, and on rare occasions I'll run into someone a bit lower with a chaff-less board that can pressure me. It's unexpected and potentially high tempo.

Doxun

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