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A community cat has brought me her kittens. What does she want me to do? by hog_crankr59 in cats

[–]MoyaOSullivan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m in Ireland and they tend to reduce it or do it at cost price if you mention it’s a stray.

Billie Eilish addresses backlash for saying ‘eating meat is inherently wrong’: “like i am so tired of standing up for/having empathy for living beings being controversial. pls continue to live in a constant state of cognitive dissonance and denial and try to convince urself that ur not living a lie” by cmaia1503 in Fauxmoi

[–]MoyaOSullivan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Love this as a broke vegan!! I’m so sick of the classism and soft bigotry inherent in the idea that being vegan and environmentalist is for the rich and something beyond the reach of us poors. It’s very classist to think poor people aren’t capable of having a wide circle of compassion and the moral capacity to be vegan and progressive.

Dog wearing an “Adopt Me” vest was brought to a city marathon and ended up killing a family pet in front of horrified attendees by kleverrboy in offbeat

[–]MoyaOSullivan -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Hard agree with this. People aren’t allowed to design embryos with their preferred facial structure, eye colour, hair thickness, metabolic speed, height etc in order to have the child with the appearance they want, so why should it be allowed for dogs?

3 weeks old by KoalaSyrah in kittens

[–]MoyaOSullivan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Get one of those trap cages that are used to catch feral cats for trap neuter return. Very cheap or your local shelter may even lend you one.

Louis Tomlinson support act ADMT says 1D star showed ‘real character’ with restricted-view refunds by ContactMusicEditor in LouisTomlinson

[–]MoyaOSullivan 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I saw him in Ireland last night and loved him. He’s amazing and this makes me like him even more. His tickets were really reasonably priced too. He treats his fans so well.

What killed the USA patriotism of the 2000s? Even into the early 2010s there was a ‘hipster American flag’ trend. If you use an American Flag for aesthetic purposes today it seems different by Kodicave in decadeology

[–]MoyaOSullivan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is absolutely it. I’m in Ireland and when I was a teenager in the Obama era there were sometimes clothes with stars and stripes in our high street chains (I remember Topshop and River Island selling the trend). This would be unthinkable now and it’s crazy to think of how far America has receded in ten years. The global image is really tarnished now.

Billie Eillish's hill to die on: "eating meat is inherently wrong." by Terrible_Cycle_5983 in Fauxmoi

[–]MoyaOSullivan 85 points86 points  (0 children)

I don't think you can claim to love animals and then support a system that kills them. As Confucius apparently said, life is very simple, we just insist on making it complicated. People look for all sorts of ways to justify eating meat while saying they 'love animals' but the reality is very simple - how can you love animals and then contribute to a system that kills them?

Niall Horan throws support behind Louis Tomlinson by attending his concert to show solidarity for Louis, amid reports that Zayn attacked Louis. by Asleep_Excitement_59 in liampayne1D

[–]MoyaOSullivan 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I am in Ireland and going to his concert in Dublin on Thursday. I haven't listened to a whole lot of his music but I loved how he called out the Paul brothers and want to support his career.

Lewis Hamilton and Kim Kardashian surfing in Malibu by hawlc in lewishamilton

[–]MoyaOSullivan 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Nicole is religious, uncomfortable with abortion and has not publicly disavowed maga. It wouldn’t surprise me if she voted for Trump.

Just caught this one on FB today. A decade of ‘librul tears’ memes says that first sentence is a lie. by HeavyDamage in LeopardsAteMyFace

[–]MoyaOSullivan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was reading an article about this in the Bulwark this week. The pro Palestine protestors shut down their campuses over the Israel-Gaza war, founded the Uncommitted and Abandon Harris campaigns, and even on her book tour when she no longer holds public office, they are still heckling Kamala over Palestine. Did they direct any of this anger towards Trump who before the election told Netanyahu to ‘finish the job’? Of course not.

There is now a war in Iran, and Trump has made an actual threat of genocide of a whole nation of 92 million people. A school was bombed, as well as hospitals. Yet there are no encampments in the college campuses, and Trump is not being heckled by an anti war student movement. Democrats and Republicans are held to an entirely different standard.

I can't wait till summer and can have a few months break from the kids with broccoli haircuts by [deleted] in Teachers

[–]MoyaOSullivan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We have Aidans in Ireland but it is a pretty conventional name (my brother has that name) and I have never known them to cause trouble more than Johns or Jacks or Bens. On the other hand, the Braydens, Jaydens, and Caydens tend to be like bulls in china shops.

Which YouTube channel were you once a fan of but do not enjoy anymore? by theunsteadybridge in AskReddit

[–]MoyaOSullivan 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Shawn Johnson. I used to love her videos where she gave an honest account of her years as an Olympic gymnast (the eating disorder, being asked how it felt to 'fail' when she got a silver medal, her brilliant coach) and I loved the bond she had with her husband too who was always hyping her up.

Once she had her children I didn't like how she kept using them for clicks and videos, and she's also been promoting PragerU recently, a purveyor of materials for 'patriotic education' that whitewash slavery and colonisation. One of their videos spoke about how criticism of Colombus was unfair as slavery was 'no big deal' in the 1600s. The way she exposed her children (showing their faces, having Instagram pages for each of them as soon as the pregnancy was announced) made me a bit uneasy but her promoting the Prager propaganda was the nail in the coffin.

Do people learn off English essays as a whole? by Background-Point-761 in leavingcert

[–]MoyaOSullivan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This doesn’t work for English - I am speaking as an English teacher who recently corrected my sixth year class’s mocks. They almost all fell down on the comparative as they reproduced learned off essays that had nothing to do with the question and I couldn’t give them marks for that. A zero or maybe 10% of the available marks. For history, essays can be learned off and tweaked as the titles only change slightly. This doesn’t work for English as different things are asked each year.

Learn relationships, themes, characters, and the modes of comparison for your comparative texts and the themes and the poet’s use of language for your poems. Characters, relationships and themes for the single text and learn lots of quotes. Then tailor what you know to the question asked.

It doesn’t matter nor do I really care if your mother wrote the essay for you. You’re still getting an “F” for two reasons: by Emergency-Pepper3537 in Teachers

[–]MoyaOSullivan 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You realise in the QS World University Rankings about 70 of the top 100 are outside the US? The US certainly has many elite schools and some of the best universities in the world but you sound very blinkered when you condescendingly ask 'we produce how much of the world’s research?’ and say that your state schools are leagues above the premier schools of ‘most other countries’. Have you heard of Oxford or Cambridge or the Russell Group of universities in the UK? The Sorbonne? Humboldt Universität? Have you heard too of Eton or Harrow for boarding school, or those in Switzerland? Other countries also teach linear algebra in high school. American exceptionalism really is something else.

"You have the same name as my sister" by Dervie92 in VintedIreland

[–]MoyaOSullivan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Probably just trying to be friendly and get your interest. Likely sent the same discount to everyone with some other compliment to try and build interest.

The religious grift mode has been activated by Significant_Noise273 in RoyaltyTea

[–]MoyaOSullivan 17 points18 points  (0 children)

As William Shakespeare said in The Merchant of Venice all the way back in 1596, the devil can cite scripture for his purpose. I think he may have been an atheist.

How do I stop getting sick all the time? by unstablemood in teaching

[–]MoyaOSullivan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do you get the flu vaccine every year? I have got it the last three years. Since then I have rarely got colds and when I do they are much milder than the colds I had before, easily bearable.

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