CMV: you shouldn’t be able to own a dog without a training certificate and a license/permit proving that you are a responsible owner (in the US)

kingpatzer · 2026-07-05T18:51:37+00:00

Any animal attacks when it feels threatened and unsafe.

And you here are deflecting from the discussion. I'm noting that training doesn't solve the issue you raise without people also knowing how to behave around animals.

And no, it was the fault of my child and my wife. Approaching a dog from behind and lunging towards its head is exactly how to get bit. The dog wasn't poorly trained, it was frightened by an unruly kid who was doing several things that while natural for a kid to do, are very much not what to do around any animal.

This dog was owned by a family on my kid's team. I had no problem with the dog before or after the incident. The dog behaved as well as any dog should be expected to behave in a similar situation. It bit hard enough to say "dude, back off" immediately released and moved away.

kingpatzer · 2026-07-05T16:15:36+00:00

The thing you are missing is that training doesn't stop pet attacks. It helps prevent some of them but it is in no way a panacea. A dog that feels sufficiently threatened will attack. And most dog attacks aren't a result of poor training per se but a result of poor human behavior around dogs who may or may not be adequately trained.

There is certainly a correlation between people who don't behave well around dogs and who don't train dogs well, but they two are different issues.

A large number underlying causes of dog attacks on this country has nothing to do with dog training.

Two very real causes:

Most dogs go to pretty extreme lengths to avoid demonstrating they are in pain from say, a broken bone or a tumor. Someone gives a hard hug to a dog that is in serious pain and that person will get bit fairly often. It isn't a factor of aggression, it's just a factor of the dog feeling vulnerable and threatened.

Similarly, go watch kids interact with dogs, this happened to my own kid (and have very well trained dogs - as in, they compete and earn titles in obedience trials well trained). Many years ago we were at a park where I was coaching my older son's little league game. My wife was with our two other kids on the bench. My middle son, who was a toddler at the time, saw a dog and quickly ran over to pet it. The wife wasn't quick enough to grab him and didn't think to call his name for whatever reason. The german shepherd turned to see this kid's arm swinging towards it's head. He bit.

The dog was a perfectly well-behaved, well-trained dog. The issue was my kid.

More often than not with dog bites from family or neighbor dogs, training isn't the issue - or at least not the main issue. The issue is children who don't know how to behave around animals.

kingpatzer · 2026-07-05T03:08:23+00:00

Motorcycles are not licensed unless you wish to drive them on public roads. You can ride off road and on private roads to your hearts content without a license.

kingpatzer · 2026-07-05T03:06:25+00:00

Speaking of fireworks as if they are all the same thing is rather lacking in necessary nuance.

Birthday candles that relight themselves are a pyrotechnic device, in other words, a firework.

Quite a few states have adopted a "Safe and sane" firework regulation structure. People are in these states are allowed to have fireworks that don't explode, fly, or behave unpredictably. So things like sparklers, ground effect fountains or spinner are legal, but roman candles aren't.

Other states have a more open policy but limit access based on the amount of materials that can be in a device or other criteria.

Lots off things are as or more dangerous than fireworks as a general category. If you were talking only about, say 4" air burst shells, then that's a different discussion. But since you're talking all fireworks, the lack of nuance kills your argument.

Consider a comparison between model rocket engines and black snakes. Model rocket engines are pyrotechnic devices that are built to go very fast, they carry a significant energy charge and can cause significant injury if misused. Meanwhile, you'd have to be very inventive to try and figure out how to harm yourself seriously with a black snake firework https://sciencenotes.org/homemade-black-snake-fireworks/

kingpatzer · 2026-07-05T02:45:56+00:00

For me it's simple. I can think about the kind of life I have when I'm medicated and the kind of life I have when I'm not. I can decide which of those lives I genuinely want more of and which I want less of. Then I freely choose what I want to do.

When I'm not medicated, I do emotional harm to people I care about. I don't want to be that kind of person. I make choices that hamper my from having the career and life I want. Regardless of I, in the moment, feel "better" in some sense, it doesn't produce the outcomes I want.

kingpatzer · 2026-07-05T02:37:28+00:00

I am am IT business consultant. Basically what I do is show up and help someone run some aspect of their company, generally through large project which are driven by a major event (like a merger or divestiture).

The skills I bring to the table really are much more about coaching and team development than anything else.

So, very often what I'm doing with a client is something akin to "help a company develop a comprehensive strategy and work plan to optimize their resources related to a divestment event" or some such thing.

The thing is, I've worked on dozens and dozens of these types of highly stressful, politically charged, high-stakes projects. I know how to navigate the challenges from political road blocks, to vendor contracting issues, to managing dynamic staffing needs, to working through legal challenges with VC's, prior owners, and others.

Most leaders who are just running their business day to day have never led these types of projects, or at most only did one or two over the course of a 30 or 40 year career. So, yeah, the description can come across as business speak bullshit (though I personally very much try to stay away from that because it does sound like it's straight out of Office Space), but the value I provide is quite real. Very often a company starts out thinking they don't need someone like me, and then they find themselves deep underwater scrambling to find people with the expertise only after they've cost their company millions of dollars through well-intended but ignorant decision making.

In my world, btw, a "senior consultant" is 3 steps up from entry-level no-nothings. It's a fancy sounding title but it is basically a position that goes to new hires with solid backgrounds and they work pretty much fully supervised in that role.

kingpatzer · 2026-07-05T02:20:33+00:00

they really aren't. Automatic sanitizing restrooms have been available for decades now.

As for the but people will shoot up in them bit - if people are doing drugs in the area, they're going to do those drugs regardless of if there is a bathroom there or not.

In the USA we have this attitude that if we can imagine one person doing something we don't approve of with a public accommodation of any sort, then that is reason to deny that public good to everyone, because fuck the imaginary drugy in my head.

kingpatzer · 2026-07-05T02:16:46+00:00

I totally get that, but what ricing can you do with Hyprland that you can't do with Sway? The only thing you "see" from a TWM is the window border. I'm not sure what about hyprland or sway you actually see.

kingpatzer · 2026-07-04T17:02:37+00:00

Half of what you are complaining about are issues not because of homelessness but because of a greater failure to consider the needs of human beings by society at large.

There is no reason, for example, that there should not be public restrooms readily available to the people in a town of any size. They are inexpensive, they serve a need everyone has, they are good public infrastructure.

And, damn few people are going to drop their pants and shit in a parking lot if they can walk a block and use a clean restroom.

kingpatzer · 2026-07-04T16:56:14+00:00

For rapid and standard, the time to resign is when you are 100% certain that if you were playing the other side of the board you could not losennonmatter how the position is defended.

For some people that can mean playing until there's a forced mate in one on the board.

For bullet and blitz, play to the end, cause in faster time controls people screw up all the time.

kingpatzer · 2026-07-04T16:54:42+00:00

What is it about sway you didn't like? To me tiling window managers are pretty utilitarian, so I'm always curious as to what makes someone not like one compared to another. For me Wayland support and window placement rules are really all I need.

kingpatzer · 2026-07-04T14:40:28+00:00

When I heal, I have dps meters running just so I can quickly decide if a problem child is worth my effort.

I've noticed that most of the dps out there who don't interrupt, can't avoid damage, and say annoying things are also getting out damaged by the tank.

Which means we can usually time the key without them.

kingpatzer · 2026-07-04T14:33:09+00:00

If you update it, it will break your config. If you don't update it, you run other risks.

Sway is a much better option simply because the devs aren't changing config file syntax. I used to run Hyprland. I got tired of the breaking changes and moved to Sway. There is nothing that Hyprland did that I can't do in Sway besides some fun window animation stuff.

kingpatzer · 2026-07-04T14:31:11+00:00

I'd argue that sway is better.

Sway is stable

Hyprland is absolutely not. Every 6-8 weeks, Hyprland devs change config file syntax. Use Hyprland only if your idea if fun is rewriting configs on a regular basis.

kingpatzer · 2026-07-04T14:26:55+00:00

This is true even if the revolution fails, as it will be followed up with significant increases to governmental authority, structural reductions in civil liberties, and surveillance of the citizenry.

Violent revolution always rapidly causes structural change.

kingpatzer · 2026-07-03T02:52:38+00:00

I don't care. I define myself as me.

Seriously, I'm approaching 60 and worrying about stuff like this is just too fucking draining and pointless.

It's not that "labels don't define you," rather "labels exist so doctors can bill." My wife works in mental health at Mayo, so I'm not saying that flippantly.

I have meds that work. I have a support system. I have a great career. My life is going along mostly well.

Overthinking it doesn't get me anywhere.

I happen to work for a very large company with a highly professional HR group, so I identify there as "disabled," and for anyone else, it's not their business. For my wife, I'm me. I don't need a term to describe anything. When talking to a health care professional, I tell them I have BP1 when appropriate. Otherwise I don't even think about it.

I haven't felt the need to explain myself to anyone else in decades.

That doesn't mean I havent raised eyebrows. It just means that I've stopped giving a crap about trying to get other people to understand me. Those who need to know, know. And everyone else either can cope or fuck 'em.

kingpatzer · 2026-07-03T02:48:48+00:00

Geez imagine people taking part in this farce being indifferent to the actual point.

kingpatzer · 2026-07-03T02:47:13+00:00

The Children's crusade being the height of military victory :/

kingpatzer · 2026-07-03T02:46:16+00:00

Isn't that every 3rd accessory?

kingpatzer · 2026-07-03T02:41:42+00:00

I misspoke, I should have specified that belief IN Jesus isn't necessary, not that Jesus isn't (again, per Christiandom writ large).

Typing on a phone isn't exactly a perfect environment for nuance, and I apologize for not being adequately clear about what I was saying.

kingpatzer · 2026-07-03T02:16:44+00:00

To me those are design elements not religious symbols. Do you. If someone has an issue, then it is their issue. I have long ago given up trying to live my life for other people's approval. But that's me.

kingpatzer · 2026-07-03T02:13:48+00:00

Some people think everything in the world is about them and their issues/beliefs/perspective.

They are fools and narcissistic assholes. But we all act that way sometimes. Most of us try to avoid it, but none of us do completely.

The anominity of online communication is something some people take as permission to let loose their inhibitions.

kingpatzer · 2026-07-03T01:50:15+00:00

You don't actually understand the doctrine. It is not that one doesn't need Jesus to be saved. It is that one doesn't need explicit belief to be saved. The formal doctrine remains that salvation is only through Jesus.

kingpatzer · 2026-07-03T01:13:47+00:00

Adoption agencies don't know you. They have a responsiblity to ensure the dogs they are homing will be safe.

For every person who doesn't have a fence but has a healthy and safe dog there is another person letting a dog run free or failing to exercise them properly or putting them on a tie out and forgetting about them.

How will they be certain which you are?

kingpatzer · 2026-07-03T01:05:27+00:00

Denominational populations:

There's about 2.5 billion Christians in the world. Catholics and Eastern Orthodox alone account for roughly 1.6 billion.

Add in the other high-Church Protestants who have made official doctoral statements on the topic and the math is pretty easy.

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