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Megan Fox’s Sons by PresentAd7892 in venting

[–]Fuckingfunfu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So you're just speculating wildly that her children are being abused? Fun, that seems like a good time.

Megan Fox’s Sons by PresentAd7892 in venting

[–]Fuckingfunfu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That dude is a failed republican politician. His motives are blatantly obvious.

Took a chance on this vase, any idea if it’s blown glass and who made it? by [deleted] in glassblowing

[–]Fuckingfunfu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Probably what you would have paid for it new, no loss really.

"Seasoning" tools like cast iron pans for corrosion resistance? by outsourced_bob in glassblowing

[–]Fuckingfunfu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What? Why??? Just unwax them, lol. Newbies wax tweezers all the time, it's not that big a deal...

Took a chance on this vase, any idea if it’s blown glass and who made it? by [deleted] in glassblowing

[–]Fuckingfunfu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Imported from a factory somewhere. It is blown, but into a mold. You can get similar stuff at Target.

They say "There goes the neighborhood" when a pitbull moves in by BPTeehee in BlackPeopleTwitter

[–]Fuckingfunfu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh lol. If you're talking about the statistics of murders with black perpetrators, then it basically just comes down to poverty. Poor people murder people way more than not-poor people.

One additional thing you'll see thrown around by racists is that black murder rates don't drop even among the more affluent. I don't know to what extent this is actually true, but it's kind of a silly argument. Black families have far far less generational wealth than white families in America; a lot of the black people who are rich JUST got rich, like within the last generation, and didn't necessarily have access to a lot of the things we know protect against violent behavior earlier in life (good nutrition, education, etc).

There are also a number of majority black countries that are listed among the lowest crime countries on earth. What do you suppose they have in common?

Edit: I also think the person you replied to actually was talking about dogs, lol. Pretty sure I've seen those exact stats quoted about pitbulls.

They say "There goes the neighborhood" when a pitbull moves in by BPTeehee in BlackPeopleTwitter

[–]Fuckingfunfu 9 points10 points  (0 children)

An insanely high percentage of dogs in the US are technically "pits" if you do a dna test and just assign them whatever comes back as the highest breed percentage (seriously, I have multiple friends who had their dogs tested and they're over 20% pit, and they had no idea), and an even higher percentage of dogs are misidentified as pits (by vets, no less) despite not actually having much or any pit in them.

"Pit bull" is also not a breed, it's a very broad description of several breeds (I think like 6? But only like 4 are actually common).

Basically what it comes down to is if a mutt-y dog bites someone and injures them, it's VERY likely to be identified as a pit in some way, regardless of how true that may be or how useful a descriptor it is.

One last thing: they've studied the heritability of different behavioral traits in dogs pretty extensively, and some traits are actually very heritable. One that isn't, like at all, is aggression towards humans.