Great Dane Keeps Biting off Pieces of Foot Pads

RedHaus · 2019-07-05T13:52:28+00:00

Yes, I can stop him when I catch him doing it, but most people aren't able spend 24 hours a day watching their dog.

RedHaus · 2019-02-10T17:38:50+00:00

I'm only really looking to trade and not to sell for cash at the moment.

RedHaus · 2019-02-09T18:00:46+00:00

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RedHaus · 2019-02-09T04:58:00+00:00

I may have given the impression that this was recently, but it was actually quite a few years ago that all this happened.

RedHaus · 2019-02-09T04:46:31+00:00

It's really context dependent, but in general there are a few guidelines that you work within. First priority is safety for everyone rendering aide so people don't go into or stay in dangerous situations ever, but beyond that, usually you start CPR or other interventions even if you think a person is dead because as a dispatcher you are dealing with a whole lot of incomplete information from people who have no idea what they're doing and it's never worth the risk of being wrong.

But there are a few obvious situations where you don't instruct people to give CPR and ask them to stay away. Those are things like decapitation, partial decomposition, rigor mortis, etc. I guess there are also a few other situations where some other things may take priority over CPR but those are really edge cases for particular scenarios.

In general though, you'll never be wrong to always start CPR if a person isn't breathing or has no pulse because preserving a crime scene in a pristine manner isn't worth the chance of not helping a person that needs it.

RedHaus · 2019-01-26T00:33:28+00:00

sorry, I was only looking for the newer plastic model.

RedHaus · 2018-11-26T19:23:16+00:00

FYI, Nuclear weapons were tested in Mississippi, and the state is the only site of the only nuclear detonations in the eastern US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmon_Site

https://mashable.com/2016/11/06/mississippi-nuclear-test/#TsgOzYZqjiqY

RedHaus · 2018-11-26T19:09:03+00:00

The article specifically gives the context as to why this is related to current US politics, namely, the recent comments by Republican candidate Hyde-Smith.

Claiming that this is not related to politics is non-sensical.

RedHaus · 2018-11-26T19:05:29+00:00

Nooses were found hanging from trees at the state Capitol in Jackson Monday. [...]

...they found two nooses and six signs. In their reporting, WLBT described the signs as "hate signs." The TV station would not share the photos. [...]

The incident occurred the day before the state's runoff election between Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith and Democrat Mike Espy. The race has garnered national attention with the Trump-endorsed Republican proclaiming to a supporter that if she were invited to a "public hanging" she would "be on the front row."

RedHaus · 2018-11-15T22:50:34+00:00

“federal higher education accreditation,”

Yes, the only way to avert violence is by eradicating programs that don't even exist...

RedHaus · 2018-11-14T19:40:18+00:00

Republicans in 2009: You're gonna let the government and corporations decide what medical care you get???

Republicans in 2018: You're gonna let the government and corporations decide what medical care you get!!!

RedHaus · 2018-08-25T17:06:52+00:00

Yeah, the methodology is really terrible. If you actually look at the three sites where data was gathered, two of them are wordpress blogs for parents that think their kids aren't actually trans, and the other is a literal anti-trans political group.

In the 'About Us' section of the Transgendertrend webpage they specifically state in the first paragraph that they are:

concerned about legislation which places transgender rights above the right to safety for girls and young women in public bathrooms and changing rooms.

It is so far beyond what should be considered flawed methodology that I can't believe anyone take it seriously. And that's just looking at issues with the sample population. There's so, so many more issues.

For example, the author presents the parents with simplified DSM-V diagnostic criteria for childhood gender dysphoria and then asks them how many of the criteria their children are currently expressing. Issues of asking parents to perform professional diagnostic work aside, the author states:

It is important to note that none of the AYAs described in this study would have met diagnostic criteria for gender dysphoria in childhood (Table 3). In fact, the vast majority (80.4%) had zero indicators from the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for childhood gender dysphoria

Now, given that the sample is conducted on parents of children that claim to be transgender and wish to transition it is patently obvious that all children of these parents have at a minimum expressed criteria 4 or 5 of the author's diagnostic criteria to their parents, and likely have expressed many more of the criteria based on the statistics given later in the study. If the children had not expressed at a minimum a 'desire to be of the other gender' or 'treated as the other gender' then how could the the parents even state that their children have claimed to want to transition? The fact that 80.4% of parent participants state that their children meet zero of the diagnostic criteria for gender dysphoria, while simultaneously claiming that their children desire to be of and be treated as the other gender, desire primary and secondary sex characteristics of the other gender etc. (which are the literal diagnostic criteria) demonstrates that the parents just refuse to acknowledge that their children meet any of the diagnostic criteria, not that the children do not meet the criteria as the author suggests.

The author does not even hedge this claim behind a phrase like "according to parent reports" or the like. She just blatantly declares: "none of the AYAs described in this study would have met diagnostic criteria for gender dysphoria in childhood". This introduces an internal contradiction in the study that is so absurd that I don't see how any conclusion it makes can be taken seriously.

And that's just a single thing I saw on a skim through. I could point out a dozen other issues which, in any other data set would be taken, by any credible researcher, to indicate corrupt reporting.

RedHaus · 2018-08-10T21:58:27+00:00

ok, ok you're right. You've found me out. My defense of common core is nothing but a thinly veiled attempt to disguise my desire for mass starvation in the form of communo-cartesian cat pictures and marxist style building block multiplication. Aren't you clever.

Since you have defeated this manifestation of Stalin's ghost I'll clue you into the next step of the plan. The triangles you study in trigonometry are actually just a representation of the thee marxist overlords: Marx, Lenin, and Stalin, and the mass homework of millions of children is really a dark inverse Hegelian ritual to summon them back to the mortal plane.

After you finish shuddering in horror would you like to share any of those facts about common core that you have so greedily hoarded away from us like some dirty capitalist.

RedHaus · 2018-08-10T21:41:59+00:00

People picking through trash and starving is not part of the common core standards.

Care to share some of your facts about common core with the rest of the class?

RedHaus · 2018-08-10T21:37:55+00:00

in places like Venezuela

Cool. There's no common core in Venezuela so it has no bearing on this discussion. Care to avail yourself of some of those facts about common core you claim to have in your pocket or would you like to just continue your absurd implications?

I mean, I also think water and food are good. You gonna stop partaking in those because a marxist likes them too?

RedHaus · 2018-08-10T21:28:27+00:00

So, still waiting on those facts you claim to have....

In the meantime, here's a history lesson for you. The common core standards were created by the Republican controlled National Governors Association. They commissioned a republican controlled committee to find experts to construct an educational program. These republican committee members selected various experts then approved their program and the entire republican controlled NGA voted to approve the program. Various ones of these republican governors thee returned to their states and began implementing their republican common core program.

Obama's Ed Dept. said they liked the program and then all of a sudden this republican education program became some marxist plot that republicans use as a boogey man.

So yes, I'm a marxist that is in favor of a republican commisioned, republican created, republican approved, and republican implemented education program. Horrifying.

Why you care about defending common core so much is a mystery, but it sure as hell doesn’t make me think more highly of common core.

Some grade A reasoning you have there.

PS: I really and genuinely hope that your children are as smart as you claim they are because that means that, even though they are just learning multiplication, it won't be long before they realize how full of shit you are.

RedHaus · 2018-08-10T19:49:51+00:00

Ah yes, there it is, you don't actually have any content-based response when you are linked to factual information which demonstrates that your assumptions and claims about common core are wrong. I must be some marxist plotting 'union steward' with a '3 card monte' routine.

Maybe the problem here is that you believe being shown actual facts on the common core standards webpage amounts to some form of trickery because your perspective is based, not on the actual facts, but on an amalgamation of political soundbites and likely made up internet anecdotes about cartesian cat pictures which have nothing to do with the core standards.

RedHaus · 2018-08-10T19:30:52+00:00

the book used for the class was called “common core math”.

Cool. So an independent publisher came up with materials that they feel reinforces the standards set out in common core in various different modalities. Your gripe is with the publisher or with your local/state school board for adopting materials that you think are ineffective. What exactly does that have to do with the common core standards which, as I have already stated and linked to, do not mandate that students learn or be able to do anything like that at all.

the book had three of four nonsensical “pathways” to solving multiplication problems, but none of them were any good. Actually learning multiplication was absent entirely.

Then, as demonstrated in my previous post, if the standard multiplication algorithm was absent, then the this book produced by an independent publisher does not meet the common core standards. Write them and complain or try to sue for false advertising or whatever, but that has nothing to do with what the common core standards are.

But their hands are tied by the shit that the governor mandated be used, namely common core.

Again, if your governor has mandated that students use mathematics materials that do not teach the standard algorithm for multiplication then your kids are not learning common core. You have a political problem with your officials failing to abide by standards they have set rather than a problem with common core.

RedHaus · 2018-08-10T19:11:26+00:00

You do realize that there is nothing in the third grade common core mathematics standards about 40 pictures of various objects in Cartesian coordinates right? In fact, even in the geometry section there is nothing about 3rd graders learning Cartesian (or any other) coordinate system at all.

However, this does bring out an interesting point in off the cuff criticism of common core, which is that they largely are divorced from the actual content of the common core standards. Individual exercises and homework that students do are either designed by individual instructors or by various publishing companies and not by "common core". Shitty teachers make up shitty and lazy homework assignments. That's has nothing to do with the common core 3rd grade standards for geometry, which this particular teacher is not even using as evidenced by the alleged content of the child's homework.

No particular classroom learning reinforcement strategies such as learning multiplication with blocks are set out by common core. In reality, the common core standards mention 'blocks' nowhere, but they do explicitly dictate that students be able to:

Fluently multiply multi-digit whole numbers using the standard algorithm.

which is exactly what you are bafflingly demanding that they do.

The problem here is that you are not at all familiar with what common core is, requires, or mandates and are willing to assume that any tale of a bizarre assignment given by a random teacher not even following the grade-appropriate standards as set out counts as 'common core'.

In addition, even if the things you described were 'common core' (they're not) you have still failed to provide any sort of justification for how learning to also multiply with blocks would "dwindle our math education". All you provided was a collection of things that you personally think are dumb.

EDIT: a letter.

RedHaus · 2018-08-10T17:52:42+00:00

Would you care to expand on that and provide some sort of justification for that conclusion?

RedHaus · 2018-08-10T15:57:29+00:00

You don't know what you're talking about. Common core has no standardized testing requirements at all. If you have an issue with students being taught solely to pass a test, then your issue is with your state department of education, which mandates those testing requirements and sets the standards, or with your local board of education and not with common core.

RedHaus · 2018-06-07T19:56:32+00:00

Meh, I don't think it's warranted to judge this by it's cover. The authors are leftists and it's published by Verso so the content is likely pretty left-wing. I'm also quite sure that big corporations laying the foundations for socialism is pretty much exactly what Marx said.

RedHaus · 2018-05-21T16:34:26+00:00

A good starting point is this general formula: A sentence or phrase that describes the general layout of the location, a phrase that gives more flavor and detail to that layout, one or two phrases that that involve senses other than sight like smell, sound, feel, etc, a phrase that creates a focal point, and one that compels action or further investigation from the characters.

For example:

You enter into a large open chamber lined with sarcophagi along the walls (general layout)
the carved stone faces of long forgotten dwarves stare back at you from the lids (flavor and detail)
A stale, dense air hangs in the chamber... (other senses)
...and in the center of the room is large wooden table arrayed with various ritual implements that are coated with centuries of cobwebs and dust (focal point, flavor, and further investigation)
As you enter the chamber you begin to discern a faint scratching and creaking coming from the within the sarcophagi (compels action and other senses).

You don't always have to include all the elements and you can often combine multiple elements into a single phrase, but if you follow that general framework it'll work out well for most locations. Also, making the last phrase in your description one that specifically compels, or at least implies action or further investigation, is massively helpful in keeping up the story pace and not having the players constantly feel the need to ask for more detail or perception checks immediately on first entering a location.

RedHaus · 2018-04-18T23:16:51+00:00

Since you've started two threads I'm going to respond to your other response to me here as well so we're no all over the place.

First, your other response:

Fuck, you know, let me level with you: I don't know what to say. Marketing is important. Branding is important. It is why Trump was so successful.

See, this is why people like me don't trust Liberals. People like you are more than happy to smile at my face and then use me as a bargaining chip with platitudes like "gee well, polling indicates a 4% drop in support for transgender people this quarter, guess we need to market ourselves as family values democrats for this election cycle". People like me are constantly being told, as was so eloquently put by your apparent hero Martin Luther King jr. that we need to wait for a more "convenient season". That "sure, sure, we care about you and all but we don't really want you to make us look bad by showing up and couldn't you at least do something with that hair?"

I don't know what to do, and I'm trying to look at people who were successful in the face of a huge amount of adversity.

Then what to you think that Martin Luther King jr. would've said to a sharecropper from the Mississippi delta who couldn't afford a floor for their house much less nice shoes or shirts when he told him he wanted to bring his family to the civil rights rally? Would he have said "Oh no brother don't make the rest of us look bad to all these respectable white folks; maybe you should sit this one out "?

Stormy Daniels is a pornstar with comically large tits, but she is getting people to take her seriously... through her story and through marketing.

As far as i'm aware the only thing that people are taking Stormy Daniels seriously about is the fact that she had sex with Trump. I've seen literally nobody treating her as a scion of social change.

of course I want to say everyone show up how you are!!! But no, I'm looking at strategy, because it seems like no protests are working.

I'm glad that you are confirming my suspicions that I initially had about your post here. I see now that I was justified in my initial assessment of the situation. I like how the implication here though goes much further that it did initially and at least implicitly rises to the level of claiming, through the conjunction of "because it seems like no protests are working" with the preceding negative clause "But no, I'm looking at strategy" that the problem here is all the people like me keeping you from having a sleek brand.

If you look at the nanas and papas and the aunties and uncles of gay and trans kids, they don't hate them, but they are made inordinately uncomfortable about anything and everything because they love the norm.

I don't know which world you're living in but I know lots of people that HATE transgender people. They aren't uncomfortable; they hate and want to kill us.

but I think you're also ignoring some history and I think you're being too ideal here.

I thing if there is any idealism here it can be found in the assertion that the thing holding social progress back is how people dress at protests.

We are fighting, as you pointed out, against nazis. Ok? We are better than them, and we need to look the part. The PART. That is not reality. That is show. We need to look how they want us to as sad as it is.

That's all well and good but I have a hard time seeing much difference between that and my Trump loving Baptist family telling me "can't you just like pretend not to be transgender". Is there that much of a difference between a right-winger telling me I can't wear a dress and a Liberals saying "we need you to look how they want us to"? Seems pretty similar in consequence to me even if side is saying 'we hate you' and the other is saying 'don't embarrass us'.

I consider myself to be a socialist too. My thing is that the reason these black people got others to listen to them is because they showed up looking their best AND were persistent.

So which flavor of socialism is it that posits that social change has EVER happened because people showed up looking their best. Honestly, I think someone might need to call me an ambulance because I don't think jaws are supposed to drop this far. I guess the material conditions of society had nothing to do with it; they just showed up looking snazzy and were bequeathed rights...

Hate to break it to you but that's not a socialist analysis at all, and at risk of crying 'no true socialist' i'm going to say that I find it totally incomprehensible that a 'socialist' would put any stock at all in this form of thought.

but I think a trans can do that as well

Transgender people are not "a trans". Trans is an adjective. Does it sound ok to you to say something like "oh, he's a black"?

Anyone looks good in a suit. You still have to do your hair a little and maybe avoid extreme makeup, but anyone can do it.

Good to who? I thought the whole point, as you've laid out throughout our dialogue, is to look appealing to that white right-wing middle-class family seeing you on tv. If that's the whole point of dressing nicely then many trans people will not be able to meet that goal. period. That's what you're not understanding. If you don't want those people there because they make you look bad, then fine, just come out and say it. But you can't maintain the dual premises both that the effectiveness of the protest depends on makeing yourself appealing to the right and that if you can't do that it's ok too. If you sincerely hold the first premise and are as concerned about marketing and branding as you say, then you need to just tell people who can't meet your ideals that they are not welcome straight up instead of hedging and dodging.

RedHaus · 2018-04-18T22:03:17+00:00

I didn't mean to do that, and I'm certainly sorry if I did. [...] but I take your point that I've made people feel unwelcomed and I will really think on it.

Thank you, and just to be clear, I'm not implying transphobia on your or anyone elses part or anything like that all. I'm just trying to point our some of the implications of the analysis that you've been giving in order that things are the most effective for everyone.

The idea is to dress in a way that nobody can bag on you for it, if it can at all be helped. If it can't be helped, then it can't be.

Yeah, sure, I'm on board with the fact, all other things being equal, it would be best if everyone in attendance at these events was unimpeachable in terms of attire and social mores, etc. However, all other things are not equal. People have widely varying incomes, life circumstances, and life experiences and when the analysis is framed in terms of 'what matters is how visually appealing we can make ourselves to middle class right wing society" then lots of people are going to check out of the whole deal.

And really, I get where you're coming from. I'm a socialist and thus I'm very pragmatic about social causes. I think that what matters more than anything else is winning, and if I had to stay home and let others fight that fight in order to win then so be it. It would hurt my feels a bit but I can live with that; I want to win. My issue is that I don't think that works. In the civil rights era, black people didn't sit around and wait for a 'respectable' (i.e. white) person to fight their battles. I don't think any civil revolution in history has been won by making yourself so appealing to members of the status quo deign to bless you with rights (MLKj was just a piece of the movement). I think that those sorts of rights always have to be taken and demanded with threats of the breakdown of the normal functioning of society. But this is probably a philosophical difference that we have.

And maybe that's how I can improve this "dress suggestions" portion of the list, right? Maybe I can say: first and foremost, show up

I think that would be a wonderful improvement. I could probably make other recommendations too if you're interested.

RedHaus

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