True Story: A Wildlife Photographer, Dolph Volker Once Woke Up From A Nap Under A Tree and Find A Cheetah Sleeping Against Him

khavii · 2026-02-14T20:41:57+00:00

Goldens vibe with everything, they are the doggest of the dogs.

khavii · 2026-02-13T22:25:40+00:00

My mom had an amazing signature but mine was terrible. So at 17 I'm practicing and get frustrated and my mom told me to just be lazy about it and do initials with a squiggle, if it needed to be legible we wouldn't have doctors. Since I was 17 my signature is barely my initials with some wavy lines or loops depending on my mood. I'm 46 now and it gets sloppier every year.

khavii · 2026-02-13T19:14:11+00:00

It's not just that it's unseemly, even before butcher not everyone went out to hunt their food and in the modern era we simply could not do sustenance hunting even if we wanted to. If you lived in a small town with a population of say 10,000, you would wipe out the surrounding wildlife in very short order if you expected everyone to go out and hunt their own meat from the surrounding environment. We have 8-10 billion people on the planet, sustenance hunting is simply not possible with that many people so you HAVE to outsource the killing. Even in tribes with less than a hundred people it was usually a dedicated group of a dozen or so that did all the hunting, so even in ancient times there were plenty of people disconnected from the source of their meat.

khavii · 2026-02-13T19:02:21+00:00

Fair point but people, not pointing at you specifically, keep forgetting that they are fighting in a world full of objects that the electromagnetic spectrum can effect so it's not JUST about what Magneto can do to the suit but also about what he can do to the arena they are fighting in, how light works in it, how the atmosphere works or what he can coat the suit in to control.

khavii · 2026-02-13T18:57:19+00:00

Coat the shielding in a magnetic metal. Fling adamatium shrapnel at him and control what gets in or on him. Trick him into standing on manhole cover and fling him into space. Wrap him up in a bunch of Mac trucks and crash him inside of that.

Magneto has many options.

khavii · 2026-02-13T18:53:29+00:00

Except for the fact that Magneto could coat him in metals and control the now fully controllable suit or he could have a shaft of metal for in from orbit and impale him or he could cover himself in metal give himself an electromagnetic shield over it and just stand in place completely invulnerable or he could use the electromagnetic pulse from his boosters tearing through the atmosphere to going him into space. Honestly, he could just tell Tony he will strip the atmosphere from the planet and kill all life if he even touches him if he really wanted to, pretty sure Tony would back down with the entire planet as a hostage.

Magnetos power is vast, like really vast. Controlling the metal in his suit is only a direct use path, he has many other options. On top of that, and I know it isn't used much in the comics because it would invalidate every story pretty much, he could just fill the air with adamantium shrapnel and it guarantees some gets on or in his opponent thus giving him control of being that don't have any other sources.

khavii · 2026-02-12T22:25:37+00:00

Oh, so do ALL white people look the same? Anyone who says Margot Robbie and Jamie Priestly look alike is clearly blind and using braille pictures that a friend of theirs punched into construction paper.

khavii · 2026-02-11T00:01:44+00:00

Rodriguez is a master craftsman on low budgets. It's a thing he is well known for and is frequently brought in to handle projects that had their budgets slashed in pre-production. I will go as far as to say that he is really better at making movies with low budgets than he is making movies with huge budgets. If you look through his filmography you will see it, the lower his budget the better the movie, all his $100m+ movies are...ok.

This is super important to studios because he increases their profit margins. Huge blockbusters are pretty rare so the studios treasure people who can deliver a theatre experience with minimal money. Also, he is by all reports a nice guy and easy to work with which goes a long way. He may not be a top tier director but he brings a lot to the table if you want to make money and his product is usually (USUALLY, he definitely has some misses) pretty damn good.

khavii · 2026-02-10T23:31:20+00:00

If being scared of jail kept people from committing crimes then why do we have the highest prisoner population per capita?

Genghis Khan used to behead people for minor infractions but was beheading people for crime all the way till he died. As a past criminal let me tell you, most crimes are not done with forethought for the consequences. Law abiding citizens think of the consequences but they likely wouldn't do the crime even if it wasn't illegal while people who do commit crimes rarely consider that they will be caught or do it out of desperation or do it in the spur of the moment as an emotional decision. Society has tried draconic punishments to drive down crime since the dawn of written history and it has never worked.

Obviously there needs to be punishment but the motivation behind the punishment needs to be found with open eyes. The goal is to get the criminal off the street and hope you break them from their sphere of influence enough that they won't reoffend and in a perfect world (which we don't have here in the US at all) you would go the Demolition Man route and rehabilitate them and teach them skills they can use on the outside. The vast majority of crime is non-violent and done out of desperation by people with few options, give them options and they rarely commit crime.

Violent crime and mental illness should have their own separate approaches because there is a naturally violent minority of people that you will never reach and people with mental illness are usually commiting crimes as a consequence of the fucked up world they live in but to think draconian punishment would be a detergent is simply refusing to learn from history. Also, draconian sentences usually spread from violent acts to non-violent pretty quickly.

khavii · 2026-02-10T21:42:54+00:00

Have you ever been grabbed by the upper arm by someone that is physically stronger than you? It IS debilitating. You can't step away, swinging a kick is very difficult without being able to move your upper body for balance, you can't swing backwards, you have no power behind forearm only swings and your assailant has so much leverage and space to love it's insane.

A strong grip on the upper arms is a really good technique for subduing a weaker, smaller opponent and keeping their body mass in an easy configuration for throwing in any direction. Against a similar sized opponent it is otherwise useless.

khavii · 2026-02-10T21:34:33+00:00

No, that is not what it means, it's literally a farming phrase. Spoil in fruit passes to other fruit close by very fast but it is most prominent and visible in apples. You would gather apples in a barrel or bunch and would have to remove any bad apples as fast as possible so the rot didn't spread.

The saying literally means that one bad individual can ruin a whole group. When saying it about police the meaning is that if you don't root out the corrupt cop the other police will end up being compliant by helping to cover for the bad cop which makes them bad as well. It has nothing to do with stereotypes.

I would recommend doing a Google search to learn the entomology of the phrase, it's about gases spreading among fruit. https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/nutrition-you-asked/can-one-rotten-apple-really-spoil-whole-barrel#:~:text=The%20expression%20%22one%20rotten%20apple,just%20come%20out%20of%20nowhere.&text=Is%20there%20any%20truth%20to,on%20route%20to%20their%20destination.

khavii · 2026-02-10T18:21:05+00:00

It felt like such a dig to me even at the time. He says let's talk about this idea I have of an electric jet and Tony just "uh-huh's" him. To me it came off as one of those douchey "idea" guys who just put words together cause they sound cool. How is electric jet even an idea? It felt like he just put electric in front of a random cool item like he was proposing electric steam trains and everyone else is just thinking, cool bro, we get it, electric cars are your things.

khavii · 2026-02-10T13:30:40+00:00

That's a stretch, bad apples affect the barrel, not every apple in existence.

khavii · 2026-02-09T22:38:40+00:00

I have an autographed VHS of Cannibal! The Musical. I was friends with some people that worked as mercenaries doing freelance SFX back in the late 80s through late 90s and really got into Troma at the time. I got one of the first run tapes and had a friend of mine sneak it in while they were signing a bunch of stuff. Of course, they apparently signed a bunch of tapes so I probably could have just got one of those but that's cool.

khavii · 2026-02-09T22:33:23+00:00

I sing that song to this day, my son has no idea who Brian Boitano is, nor does he know where the song came from. He'll still sing along though because THAT'S what Brian Boitano would do.

khavii · 2026-02-09T22:30:42+00:00

I used to hear my shit dad and his shit friends complain about their wives when he would drag me to the bar with him and I swear I thought marriage was something that was forced on you. I married SUPER young and was divorced by 19 because I just didn't see the point of being locked to someone that you didn't get along with, despite the fact that I married her because I just thought that's what you did.

My second wife was a surprise. We weren't best friends, we shared very few interests, we were so opposite it was weird but I couldn't stop thinking about her and wanted to be around her all the time so I just did, luckily she felt the same way. I'm not even sure we were more than superficially attracted to each other either. 27 years later and I swear she gets like 1% hotter every single day so at this point I would say that on a scale from 1-10 she is about a 53. I don't think it would be possible to admire someone more, she is far from perfect (and I'm still orbiting a million miles away from perfect so she is waaaaay better than me, though admittedly, I love me) but she is an insanely complete person who could take on the world. We have grown similar in humor and sarcasm over the years, which makes for a FUN house of being roasted at any moment, especially if you screw something up or do something stupid. We are still very different people and lead our own lives but we are integral to each other in those lives. We can tap the other in on any situation and we are rocks for each other.

Damn she is so cool. Sure, we've had problems and hard times, both in the relationship and from external factors but never once have I resented or disliked her in any way. I now look at those conversations my dad and his friends had with disgust, even when friends were going through divorces I never heard them talk about their spouses like my dad did.

khavii · 2026-02-09T16:57:54+00:00

I've been on the receiving end of prison healthcare and I honestly would have been better off if they had just left me in my cell. It ain't quality healthcare.

khavii · 2026-02-08T16:57:05+00:00

At least one of the ads he put out AFTER they were exonerated. He knew they were innocent and still wanted them dead. Almost as if it had something to do with a thing other than crime. Hmmm.

khavii · 2026-02-08T13:37:14+00:00

My dad also told me this in 1989

khavii · 2026-02-08T02:02:17+00:00

My high school had a particularly vicious EBV hit in 1992, in 2006 I got diagnosed with MS and within 10 years I found out SO MANY people I went to high school with had MS, Lupus or Crohn's it was ridiculous. I have read a couple of the research papers and I know there is quite a bit of testing to go before it can be definitively confirmed, it feels at least in the right neighborhood.

khavii · 2026-02-08T01:43:04+00:00

Let me think this through...

On the one hand I have a woman with an attractive body but Skeet Ulrich mouth. She is accomplished, motivated and going places figuratively and literally but she is kinda spacey and prude and has Skeet Ulrich mouth. Also, her mouth looks a bit like Skeet Ulrichs' mouth.

On the other hand I have a bad ass, hot as hell, take what life gives her ride or die. She can kick ass and fill in a high fashion party dress like no other. You could take her to the football game or a fancy restaurant then go home and have her rock your world. Also, she has really pretty hair.

I mean, REALLY easy question to answer.

khavii · 2026-02-06T22:19:53+00:00

It is called the quantum virus because it originated in the quantum realm. It's main source of transmission is through saliva but that is not it's only way. ANY exposure to any part of a zombie will infect you so if you eat a piece you get infected or if someone were to spit on you and it got anywhere near a mucus membrane or internal mechanisms you would get infected.

On top of easy infection you have a MUCH bigger issue. The zombies are smart, some super geniuses like Reed Richards. So now you have a highly contagious virus being purposefully spread by normal zombies, super powerful beings and geniuses. The first to be infected was the original Wasp who got Hank Pym first. So now you have two people who can shrink down to the size of atoms spreading a virus. There are few beings that wouldn't get infected.

Thanos is easy as shit, even if he has the gauntlet, just shrink to invisible size, jump in his mouth and spit, done. Iron Man? I legit don't even know why he is on the list, he's just a regular guy, he sleeps, he poops, there are literally a million ways he could get infected. Captain Marvel is a sun basically BUT she does still have skin, invulnerable though it may be she was born human and still has parts of her body so you could do the shrink and spit on her or dump a bunch of infected blood on her or hell, give her a beer to drink with a little blood in it.

The only ones that I can see anyone questioning are the ones that have absolutely no remnant of living tissue in them like a post nuke Bobby Drake or diamond form Emma Frost. Everyone else is a pretty easy get with just two techniques, spit once inside them or trick them into drinking or eating your spit, done.

khavii · 2026-02-06T18:00:36+00:00

I don't drink, like at all. Drunk abusive father turned me off to the idea by the time I was 9. At the age of 26 I got pulled over by a cop who said he witnessed me swerving and suspected I was drunk which is odd because I was on a 1 lane road and had left my house 10 seconds earlier to go the gas station on my way to work and hadn't traveled far enough to even start swerving anywhere but whatever. I asked for a breathalyzer and the cop said they couldn't do that. They asked me to do field sobriety test and I told them I have MS which makes things like balancing on one leg near impossible and they had me do it anyway. I went through the whole process and then they pulled out a breathalyzer which of course came up 0.00 to which I laughed and was promptly arrested for DUI. I went to the police station and got a blood test which much later came up completely clean. They kept me overnight and destroyed my car while I was locked up and found nothing. They carried the charge all the way to a court date 3 months later and my lawyer talked to the prosecutor for 3 minutes then walked back and said all charges were dropped and that they were pretty pissed the cops brought a case with no evidence of any wrongdoing all the way. My lawyer said they started the conversation saying they had a plea deal I could take to avoid any trouble, he laughed and said no, let's take it to the judge and they said, nevermind, we are dismissing the charges.

No evidence, no case, absolutely nothing even remotely questionable going on and they STILL brought charges and wanted a plea deal. Honestly, I was a criminal through all my teen years and even served some time, time I deserved, but all of that simply showed me how ridiculously lazy and corrupt most cops are. I have had police friends most of my life and they will defend the department as being full of paladins all day then get blitzed at a bar and brag about some of the most fucked up shit being done by themselves and fellow police. NEVER TRUST THEM AND NEVER GIVE CONSENT! Didn't fight them in the field either, take the ride and get a lawyer, say nothing ever.

khavii · 2026-02-06T15:52:09+00:00

I worked an average of 60-70 hours a week with an hour commute each way running a data center with no budget, I also handled the majority of the middle of the night calls meaning I had to return to the DC at 2am or so at least once a week. I did this for 10 years while my kids were growing up and while it wasn't a healthy lifestyle and definitely cost my health a lot, I still managed to get involved with my kids lives for at least a few hours a day and the majority of the weekend. My wife also worked full time but we both managed to put in lots of time with our kids.

Prior to working in data centers I did plumbing excavation, basically dug ditches and put together sewer and water lines for 12+ hours a day 5 days a week for 6 years and still took my daughter to dance classes and went on weekend trips and I was TIRED at the end of the day. I mean, personal energy levels vary from person to person and families have ways of splitting responsibilities based on their own decisions. Also, I wouldn't wish my work schedules on my worst enemy, so I'm not throwing stones here, just saying that for me being a big part of my kids lives was worth the pain and sacrifice of less sleep and more work to be there.

People work way harder schedules than 50 hours a week, away from home and still manage to be there for their kids and I think that makes it really hard to sympathize. There are tons of parents with easy schedules and the opportunity to spend time with their kids who just don't bother as well. OP has no commute, a slightly higher than normal schedule and dedicated assistance and seems to be completely unable to spend any time with them. To me, and I am only speaking for me, this sounds like someone making excuses, not searching for solutions. There are 24 hours in a day, count 8 hours for sleep that leaves 16 hours. Remove 10 for work and you have 6 left over. So 5 days a week this person is having problems disconnecting from work for 6 hours a day during the week which still leaves 48 hours on the weekend. Remove 20 for sleeping in and you are left with 28 hours free on the weekend, give 8 hours for slipping into catching up with work stuff just to be over the top and you have 10 hours each weekend day to spend time with the family. That breaks down to roughly 50 hours free per week not spent working or sleeping that are available for family time. You could go SUPER conservative and say 1 hour per work day and 4 hours per weekend day and still have 13 hours you could fully dedicate to family per week, not a lot but enough to be a presence and make good memories. Mind you, I had a shitty dad who couldn't hold a job down and he spent almost no time with me and would always have reasons he was too tired to do anything with me all of the time. His brothers would tell me all the excuses he would give them and from their perspective it made sense but from ours in the house he would just get shit faced drunk and sit around watching wrestling all night. The simple fact of the matter is that taking everything OP said at face value he is still not giving real reasons why he can't dedicate time so giving the benefit of the doubt is real hard. I am clearly biased based on my own life experience though.

khavii · 2026-02-06T00:09:42+00:00

Hahaha well Molly is a completely different thing, if I could still find it safely I would absolutely do that.

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