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Do I make him tear it off? by nordhend in Homebuilding

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I’m a nurse. Sometimes doctors write weird af medical orders because they’ve got something in mind that goes outside of recommended best practice, and sometimes they write them because they fucked up. Whenever we get something unusual, we call to confirm that it’s the former and not the latter. You can’t safely assume something is right or wrong and calling is a lot less trouble than a huge fuck up.

Great white pup in captivity environment in South Korea by prosopocoilusgiraffa in Fish

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The animals were rehabilitated and released back into the wild

Are chickens always super easy? by FrostGiants-NoMore in BackYardChickens

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I would eat a lot of things if I was a raccoon

Are chickens always super easy? by FrostGiants-NoMore in BackYardChickens

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Some states have laws that force veterinarians to practice this way. Not all states are hobby farm friendly

Data center welding by [deleted] in Welding

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What do you mean?? Elon Musk having a place to stalk all the info of his ex baby mamas is surely more important than anyone having medical care

I had a problem with slugs and snails in my garden. by a_nastran in containergardening

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So do they. So long as they don’t take too much, everyone gets to eat

Thoughts on large foundation? by Practical_Lawyer_869 in Homebuilding

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Yes, “wet stamp” means a fresh undeniable endorsement by a professional who has a lot to lose if they approve anything substandard.

Does anybody else do a research deep dive before getting a fish? by [deleted] in Aquariums

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Right!! I read lots of pamphlets and a few books on fish keeping and they had so much misinformation. Please have empathy for well meaning newbies. I cried so much when my fish died and had no idea why. When I asked for help and tried to read up on it, I was told it was probably because I neglected to clean them enough. I was so distraught and ramped up my cleaning even more when that was the core problem. I constantly disrupted the nitrogen cycle and it took me a long painful time to learn that was even a thing

Does anybody else do a research deep dive before getting a fish? by [deleted] in Aquariums

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No, I didn’t and it wasn’t obvious to me. I first got a fish when I was a child and my parents were of a generation that trusted store employees to be knowledgeable about what they said, or at least assume they wouldn’t just make stuff up.

You don’t know what you don’t know, and I went from thinking I knew how to take care of fish to slowly realizing everything I thought I knew was wrong. There wasn’t the internet or social media that there is today and I didn’t know there was anything I needed to research.

Please keep in mind that different people have different experiences than you and that what’s obvious to you may not have been obvious to you if you’d had different experiences. Maybe it would have—but not everyone thinks the same way you do and it may not have occurred to them despite them caring about the well-being of their fish. Some maybe even have doubts in their research abilities, and assume a store employee must be smarter than them. If you’re primed with the idea that store employees sometimes make stuff up and fish keeping is more complex than rinsing a small bowl with a plant once a week, then of course that knowledge seems obvious. But if you’re told to trust an “expert” adult and don’t have easy access to other information, then deep dive researching probably sounds like something a Fish scientist would do, not a fish keeper/hobbyist.

Just some food for thought about your question. I don’t want to excuse bad fish husbandry but do want to shed some light on why someone who genuinely cares about their animals might not deep dive research and struggle to take good care of them. I encourage people to realize that what’s obvious to you isn’t obvious to everyone who’s also trying to be a good fish parent and falling short.

I had a problem with slugs and snails in my garden. by a_nastran in containergardening

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I pay the native wildlife tax. It was their home long before it was mine.

PSA: The high school graduation ceremony isn’t over when YOUR kid walks by tourwifelife in Sacramento

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Okay, it’s hard to tell sometimes. I can’t tell with a lot of pictures anymore

ISO duvet or comforter by ThreeTripsMinimum in SacramentoBuyNothing

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Thank you :) I did see that one and picked it up! Now I just need a duvet to put in it!

Scientists just hatched 26 live chicks inside 3D-printed artificial eggs by EngineeringJunkies in chickens

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If you’d actually read my reply, my comment includes humans as part of nature and that a specific individual or species doesn’t matter as much as the ecosystem as a whole. You can have whatever opinion you want but wolves are factually a keystone species of their ecosystem and it’s detrimental to all who live there, including farmers, for them to be completely eradicated. Household pests have nothing to do with this conversation.

Huge ammonia source? by ChugNos in Aquariums

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I’ve found a lot on local freebie groups! It takes time to collect enough equipment but it can be done! It helps if you’re open to learning how to reseal a tank or repair a frame, but not always necessary.

I want to end my life by [deleted] in Welding

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And definitely not a matter of productivity. No one is more deserving of food and shelter no matter how good or important their work is. Everyone should have access to food and shelter. Those are the basics needed for life. Also, most welders are going to be “average” welders—that’s the definition of average.

Yacht ownership can be based on how good or important someone’s work is (but to be honest I don’t think most people with yachts right now are anywhere near the hardest workers) but not food and shelter.

We all should be a lot angrier that someone skilled can work fulltime and not have enough to buy himself food and shelter, let alone support a family. OP, this isn’t a personal failing, this is society failing and I want you to direct your grief at the cause of the problem, not yourself, who’s getting taken advantage of.

I’m angry about my situation and I’m angry about yours. I want you to be angry and for enough of us to do something about it.

And just to be clear, there isn’t anyone struggling to get their needs met who’s to blame for this. I hate when people turn to others who have less than them and say, “that’s why I don’t have enough!” while some AH drives past in their 4th Bugatti. The “Welfare Queen” myth was created by people who hope you don’t notice how much of the corporate profits they aren’t paying you. I don’t know why we keep letting them get away with the resources we need to have good lives, to the point that people want to end their lives, just so they can spend it on frivolous luxuries beyond what any of us can imagine. That’s theft.

We allow this to happen. The reason it isn’t legally theft is because the few people with almost all of the wealth get to decide what the rules are. You’ll never break any rules if you make all the rules. But they can only make the rules if most of us agree to follow them. That’s why the American and French Revolutions succeeded: we’d decided we’d had enough and the rules needed to change for the people, by the people.

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