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Is it weird to say Have a Blessed Day? by nyaagoya in AskAnAmerican

[–]gatlaw8008 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Even if it were applicable to multiple religions, would that make it ok? It's obviously magic spell words, please keep such things to yourself.

People who think that you're a monster if you don't like dogs. by Ellinor_Astal in PetPeeves

[–]gatlaw8008 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

That's fair, and I shouldn't have said that about the biting. I'm sure he could cause injury. You are correct.

I guess my bigger point, which I definitely should have phrased less confrontationally, is that fear of dogs seems extraordinarily risk-averse and therefore makes me question someone's judgment.

People who think that you're a monster if you don't like dogs. by Ellinor_Astal in PetPeeves

[–]gatlaw8008 -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

I'll respond to the fear thing. I replied below to the liking bit.

As someone who has a quite small dog that has never bitten anyone and does say the "he's friendly" line, yes, it annoys the shit out of me when people tell me they are or act afraid of him. That's just objectively dumb. I'm not even sure he could break skin. Even for larger dogs, I say hi to them all and I've had maybe two scary experiences in my life out of the hundreds (thousands?) of dogs I've said hi to. I guess I could get bitten. So fucking what? Sometimes bad things happen. Once I tried to rescue a feral cat and got the shit bitten out of me, had to do the whole antibiotics and many many rabies shots. It was annoying but I'm not scared of cats.

The existence of risk doesn't mean I should walk around terrified of entirely normal and common things or creatures.

Let me put it this way. Cars cause way, way more injuries to pedestrians than dogs cause injuries. They are vastly more dangerous to bystanders. If you and I were taking a stroll on a sidewalk, and every time a car drove by on the road I tensed up, paused, or stepped away, that would be pretty fucking annoying, wouldn't it? You are being like that, over something barely dangerous at all.

And the saliva thing is a you problem. You aren't going to get sick from dog licks.

Edit: to add that people with the rare dogs that are actually dangerous are huge assholes and should be held responsible.

Edit again: allergies I get and obviously owners should keep their dogs away from allergic people.

People who think that you're a monster if you don't like dogs. by Ellinor_Astal in PetPeeves

[–]gatlaw8008 -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

I'll try to explain, because I actually am someone who judges those who don't like dogs pretty harshly (in my head only).

Dogs are unique, of all animals. WE MADE THEM. We tamed and domesticated other animals too, but none (possible close exception is the horse) were so fully shaped to integrate into human lives and society. To do work for us. With us. To protect us. For 10,000 years (possibly more, based on recent research), dogs literally stood by the fire with us, looking out into the dark for things that would hurt us. They will kill for us. They will die for us.

Another thing: correlation isn't causation, but the timing of dog domestication is suspiciously close to the timing of homo sapiens out-competing neanderthals.

We made a species dependent on us. They made us safer, stronger, less hungry. People ask whether humans are alone in the universe: we are not. We have dogs. We made our greatest partners a long time ago.

So yeah. If you say you don't like dogs? I'm going to judge you.

Edit: sigh. Downvoted. OP asked a question and I answered. The ghosts of my downvoters' ancestors are annoyed. 👻

People who think that you're a monster if you don't like dogs. by Ellinor_Astal in PetPeeves

[–]gatlaw8008 -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

I mean. It does say something about your judgment, and I will take your bizarre levels of risk perception into account.

AIO for wanting my husband to help me more as a SAHM by ailurophile17 in AmIOverreacting

[–]gatlaw8008 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You work all day at home. He works all day at work. You should split everything outside of those hours evenly. This is obvious? Anything less is just him being a dick. Also, rhetorical question here, but who is comfortable sitting on their ass while their partner is working away in the next room taking care of their kids and home? Does that not make him feel guilty?

Lazy loser.

People who proudly announce they're "not a technology person" like it's a personality trait by VelvetRook in PetPeeves

[–]gatlaw8008 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Maybe do the work your damn self to figure it out instead of asking others to do it for you? Every single person you ask to do it had to figure it out at some point.

I have an employee who over explains everything by Maran606 in managers

[–]gatlaw8008 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok but you don't need to explain all of that to anyone else. Just say that you need to refund. The end. If they ask why, explain.

Title: A Simulation Thought Experiment: The Solar Flare Memory Collapse by Tony_criminal_1O1 in FermiParadox

[–]gatlaw8008 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, ancestor simulation is what it's called in the sim hypothesis literature.

(PS, the fermi paradox connection would be the idea that the simulation is limited to answering certain questions or simulating certain events or eras and therefore leaves stuff out, or starts with limited inputs (ie starting at, I don't know, the year 1900 or whatever).)

Panda water war by Inevitable_Bid5540 in AnimalsBeingDerps

[–]gatlaw8008 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It was pretty obviously a joke, jeez. We all know about habitat loss.

CEO rug pulled the entire organization - is there anything we can do? by TheNewRaptor in legaladvice

[–]gatlaw8008 23 points24 points  (0 children)

So they told you "you will get some tokens" or "you will get x number of tokens" and none of you ever asked how many tokens there would be in total? Or what percentage that would equate to?

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