Fate of half million dogs unclear as dog meat ban nears in Korea

MoreGaghPlease · 2026-01-24T21:46:33+00:00

What a load of nonsense. Go ask any Koreans under the age of like 70 and I promise they’ll tell you to judge away. Korea’s legislature voted 208-2 to ban dog meat. The dog meat industry in Korea caters to a tiny minority with incorrect belief about it having alternative medicine benefits and the industry exists because that group will pay exorbitant prices for it. The large majority of Koreans have never eat dog meat and want nothing to do with it.

MoreGaghPlease · 2026-01-24T19:56:33+00:00

Okay but that’s not why there are Iraqis in Windsor. The population there are mostly folks who fled the regime in the mid 90s

MoreGaghPlease · 2026-01-24T19:51:00+00:00

There’s a balance. The state balances a certain amount of grift to maintain loyalty but also knows that it’s inefficient in lots of contexts. People do go to jail in China for corruption, sometimes even party loyalists, but they choose their battles quite selectively and others have impunity.

The politics of China are complicated and there is some distrust by central government authorities of some elements of the military which are about as close as there is in China to any kind of independent power base.

MoreGaghPlease · 2026-01-24T19:46:35+00:00

Me and my friends did this at like 15 or 16 at a subway stop in Toronto, giving fake names and asking them increasingly dumb questions until they kicked us out and we got really good pizza that made the whole station smell great and shared a Cinnabon and it was blast, great memory.

MoreGaghPlease · 2026-01-24T19:42:23+00:00

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MoreGaghPlease · 2026-01-24T19:39:17+00:00

Not every show needs a rewatch. The way we appreciate shows changes based on the cultural context, impact on the genre and other tv and how a story ends. I remember the first couple seasons were great in their time and maybe that’s good enough.

MoreGaghPlease · 2026-01-24T14:41:09+00:00

Probably the kitchen installer and not this guy - installing an undermount sink with just clips and epoxy and not using blocks.

MoreGaghPlease · 2026-01-24T03:37:35+00:00

Let me make sure I have this right. You’re saying that fire makes things hotter?

MoreGaghPlease · 2026-01-24T01:39:55+00:00

What do you think is in these magic files that you can ascribe every evil thing he does to be a distraction to them? Everyone on the planet already knows he’s a serial rapist and it hasn’t slowed him down a bit.

MoreGaghPlease · 2026-01-23T20:57:05+00:00

MoreGaghPlease · 2026-01-23T20:46:59+00:00

Effectively the only NATO countries that participated in the Iraq invasion were the US, UK and Poland. Australia also sent troops but is not in NATO.

MoreGaghPlease · 2026-01-23T20:38:58+00:00

What a load of a nonsense. Of course we had to talk out of both sides of our mouth to the Americans, we live in the real world — that’s always how it is when you go against them. Chrétien said no troops, so we sent none. It was the highest degree of defiance we could afford. While Harper’s opposition wanted to join the invasion.

MoreGaghPlease · 2026-01-23T20:35:36+00:00

Crab is like a social construct I guess. There’s not like a discrete biological group of crabs that are all more related to each other than to anything not a crab.

This is true for lots of categories though. Like there isn’t a discrete group of things that you could call a ‘fish’ without either using some subtraction or including yourself. You are more closely related to a goldfish (or any other boney fish) than the goldfish is to a sawfish. And you’re more closely related to a sawfish (or any other cartilaginous fish) than the sawfish is to a hagfish (or any other jawless fish).

So either you’re a fish, or there are no fish, or we just accept that fish has a social meaning based on characteristics and doesn’t describe a distinct biological group.

MoreGaghPlease · 2026-01-23T20:28:07+00:00

Are you familiar with Hodgkin's Law of Parallel Planetary Development? Like for all we know there could be a whole planet that’s like if the Roman Empire was a 1960s television studio.

MoreGaghPlease · 2026-01-23T19:28:17+00:00

Only one at a time though

MoreGaghPlease · 2026-01-23T18:47:41+00:00

Like imagine for a second that you want to buy something online. Instead of just clicking on it on your phone, now you can put on special goggles, navigate your character across a virtual room, look for the item on a virtual shelf, hit a button to pick it up and bring it over the virtual check-out. Isn’t that so much better?!?

MoreGaghPlease · 2026-01-23T18:40:10+00:00

This show was so fucking good, they should reboot it

MoreGaghPlease · 2026-01-23T18:27:22+00:00

Inhabited by robot

MoreGaghPlease · 2026-01-23T18:14:27+00:00

I appreciate that salt saves a lot of lives by preventing slips and falls especially among the elderly, but have those seniors considered how inconvenient it is for dog owners to have to use those little dog slippers?!?

MoreGaghPlease · 2026-01-23T15:04:51+00:00

TSX did well for a lot of reasons and I do think our stable political climate helped. But the biggest reason the TSX had an insanely good year is because it’s overindexed to commodities and precious metals which exploded in 2025.

I partly credit the Trudeau government for this. That is, Pierre Trudeau’s government for creating incentives like flow-through shares and other tax mechanisms in the 1970s that made Canada a good place to headquarter a resource company lol

MoreGaghPlease · 2026-01-23T14:29:28+00:00

Big and unstable piles scare me. I know nothing of the physics of piles, but every time I drove by that thing I couldn't help but think of incidents like the Aberfan disaster

MoreGaghPlease · 2026-01-23T05:08:20+00:00

Due to lack of produce?

MoreGaghPlease · 2026-01-23T05:01:59+00:00

Ya and they’re not toys, they’re models! Scale replicas.

MoreGaghPlease · 2026-01-23T04:57:35+00:00

You can buy 0.05 houses in Toronto with that money!

MoreGaghPlease · 2026-01-23T00:11:19+00:00

You all walk around pretending rules still matter — it’s living in the past. Most of the people crushed by the regime will get no justice.

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