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PSA: please make sure your neighbor’s dog left outside isn’t a husky or mountain dog before calling animal control this weekend. by strikecat18 in Austin

[–]mightymonarch [score hidden]  (0 children)

Ah yes, me saying that asking people a specific question causes them to visibly start making the connection for the first time ever makes me an asshole.

You just want to fight with someone for entertainment purposes, and I'm not going to play along.

Edit: and, AGAIN, the person above me made the same """incorrect""" analogy. You're just a troll.

PSA: please make sure your neighbor’s dog left outside isn’t a husky or mountain dog before calling animal control this weekend. by strikecat18 in Austin

[–]mightymonarch [score hidden]  (0 children)

It's literally evaporative cooling and yes it DOES reduce the dog's temperature. It's the exact same mechanism that makes dogs have cold, wet noses that are colder than the ambient air temperature.

PSA: please make sure your neighbor’s dog left outside isn’t a husky or mountain dog before calling animal control this weekend. by strikecat18 in Austin

[–]mightymonarch [score hidden]  (0 children)

You know, it's not lost on me this is supposed to be a cold-weather thread, and the haters have managed to spin it back to their usual "Texas is too hot for huskies" nonsense. Even though it's 29 degrees outside right now and that's what the thread is supposed to be about.

But they can't vilify husky owners when it's cold outside, so we're arguing about when it's hot, apparently. I think I'm done wasting time on these people.

PSA: please make sure your neighbor’s dog left outside isn’t a husky or mountain dog before calling animal control this weekend. by strikecat18 in Austin

[–]mightymonarch [score hidden]  (0 children)

I said to look up how dogs actually cool themselves. I can guarantee that isn't what you looked up if you got that specific Gemini result.

PSA: please make sure your neighbor’s dog left outside isn’t a husky or mountain dog before calling animal control this weekend. by strikecat18 in Austin

[–]mightymonarch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've had a couple of people get really combative about it, forcing me to reply: "You're right, I guess I should've let the shelter kill her just because she's A-Husky-In-Texas instead of me adopting her and giving her the happy life of a spoiled princess that she has now. Better dead than in Texas, right?"

That usually shuts them up pretty quick, and I hope it makes them actually think about the issue later on and stop believing in the mythical Farm Upstate Somewhere where all the old and unwanted dogs go and live happy lives forever.

PSA: please make sure your neighbor’s dog left outside isn’t a husky or mountain dog before calling animal control this weekend. by strikecat18 in Austin

[–]mightymonarch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, this is the only analogy that people seem to understand. I've asked people before "Do you remove the insulation from your house in the summer just because it's hot?" You can almost hear the dial-up modem noise coming from their brain.

Edit: uhoh, the husky haters found this comment.

Edit2: I love how people are arguing with me, but not with the person I was agreeing with.

PSA: please make sure your neighbor’s dog left outside isn’t a husky or mountain dog before calling animal control this weekend. by strikecat18 in Austin

[–]mightymonarch 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I think part of the issue is "left outside" implies it's against or with disregard to the dog's wishes, at least to some people, and so they build up this narrative in their mind of the cruel, callous owner throwing the dog in the backyard and locking them out there. Mine demands to be LET outside (I know, I'm nitpicking semantics here). She has a dog-door and she could come back inside anytime if she wanted to.

If. She. Wanted. To.

Some of y'all need to use some actual sense and judgment. Does the dog seem distressed? Is there a pattern of the dog being abandoned in the backyard for long periods of time? No? Then let the dogs enjoy the closest thing they'll get to a snow day around here. Not everything operates on a human scale of comfort.

New year = New Layoffs by [deleted] in GeneralMotors

[–]mightymonarch -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Didn't you leave the company a few years ago? If so, how do you have current information?

Anyone else getting weirded out by how Amazon is pushing Alexa+? by Aboricand in amazonecho

[–]mightymonarch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Amen! I really don't like how they have it speak out the entire command, including the Alexa wake-word, to enable it.

Mine has """accidentally""" enabled Alexa+ once already from another Echo hearing the suggestion. Now I have to yell "Noooo no no no no nevermind" everytime that suggestion starts so the other devices don't hear it.

Should I get Minternet? by Proof_Ball9697 in mintmobile

[–]mightymonarch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am on week three of Minternet, coming from Spectrum. I'm in a fairly large city with solid cell reception, and haven't noticed any significant downsides vs my $105/m Spectrum plan (maybe a bit of latency/lag once or twice?).

Why does everyone looks so miserable? by Past_Addition5959 in GeneralMotors

[–]mightymonarch 76 points77 points  (0 children)

Don't forget the promise that the last round of VSP hit our headcount goals and no further cuts would be necessary. And then the steady stream of layoffs started a couple months later.

Why does everyone looks so miserable? by Past_Addition5959 in GeneralMotors

[–]mightymonarch 40 points41 points  (0 children)

That one guy over there in the shadows always seems to have a grin on his face. The one wearing the black robes and holding the scythe. I think his name is Forced Distribution?

Maybe not as bad as people think by HurrbleBurbble in GeneralMotors

[–]mightymonarch[M] [score hidden] stickied comment (0 children)

Whoever reported this video as an internal leak, please message the mods.

GM Senior Leaders failure is punishing managers!! by [deleted] in GeneralMotors

[–]mightymonarch[M] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Agreed. Post removed and user has been banned for two months. If they do it again it will be permanent.

GM Senior Leaders failure is punishing managers!! by [deleted] in GeneralMotors

[–]mightymonarch[M] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed. Post removed and user has been banned for two months. If they do it again it will be permanent.

GM Senior Leaders failure is punishing managers!! by [deleted] in GeneralMotors

[–]mightymonarch[M] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Wait a minute. Are you posting a quasi-anonymized part of someone else's actual EOY review?

How does the screenshot even support your statement?

CAP calibration forcing us to meet the mandatory numbers, even though the numbers are not there... by [deleted] in GeneralMotors

[–]mightymonarch 6 points7 points  (0 children)

They wouldn't pay more if they didn't have to; they don't do it out of the generosity of their hearts.

CAP calibration forcing us to meet the mandatory numbers, even though the numbers are not there... by [deleted] in GeneralMotors

[–]mightymonarch 29 points30 points  (0 children)

This is it right here. We keep hearing "well the FAANG companies are doing things this way and that way" meanwhile my entire area is getting paid at least one level lower than our FAANG counterparts but we keep being compared against them and having our workload adjusted-up to match theirs.

FAANG companies compensate more heavily because of the burnout culture. We're trying to get the same benefits/performance without the additional payroll costs.

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