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  1. I am! You’re so close to getting it! No dog breed (or type, which is what a pitbull is) would exist without continual active human management and selection for the traits that mark a breed. I am indeed suggesting that active selection for “sitting on laps” or “retrieving birds” or “heeding sheep traits is fine.” And that we shouldn’t allow active selection for the “strong prey aggression, strength, and not letting go after biting,” because it’s harmful and dangerous and there’s not really an upside now that we don’t allow dogfights or catch sports. The UK has recently done basically this with the Bully XL, a pitbull type bred to be even bigger, stronger, and more unpredictable. The pitbull types of today are different from those of earlier generations, mostly because of active selection of undesirable traits by generations of cruel and irresponsible people. Lots of breeds are like this; I love bulldogs but they have to be born via c-section and live short and uncomfortable lives. It’s quite inhumane to keep breeding them and we don’t need to, you can have a goofy, lazy, farty house dog without all the bad parts. The dogs themselves don’t know or care what breed they are. Left to their own devices they’d all have generic yellow-tan dog offspring within a few dog generations. Breed extinction is an anxiety we project onto them that is meaningless.
  2. Pitbulls aren’t a species and they can’t go extinct like a species. Something almost identical to them in every way but tiny bits of genetic code could easily be recreated within a lifetime if it turned out we are wrong and needed them back. Every dog is just canis familiaris. Breeds truly are an artificial construct we made up.
  3. She appears to likely have some kind of real mental disorder. I think I also read that she has a history of substance-related arrests, which is why she’s in her 40s and job options are limited to working entry-level at Cinnabon. The two probably overlap. Clearly Cinnnabon cannot and shouldn’t retain her as employee. It is likely that this episode will knock her out of what was already a very precarious position and will lead to more intense and regular inappropriate outbursts and conflicts with people she encounters, this time from the absolute margins of American society. Strong possibility she will end up both victim and victimizer in more serious crimes, part of the endless churn of anti-social types we are too compassionate to confine, and not compassionate enough to treat and so we just let them do their thing until something goes really wrong or they disappear. Some people are judgment proof and someone unemployable at fast food with a history of substance arrests and recorded racist outbursts just became stigma-proof, there are really no meaningful consequences left or lessons to learn.
  4. We should start with pitbulls and worry about an imaginary future where we’re banning goldens or poodles and bichons later. All of the other dogs you mentioned could also disappear forever with no real ill effects, these are not endangered species occupying an ecological niche, they are domestic animals bred to do things no one really needs anymore, and plenty of other breeds can fill the pet role equally well. It is not an enumerated right to keep certain breeds of animals. There’s really not a reason to tiptoe around this; if Kias randomly blew up on the street, and we live in a world with Hyundais and Toyotas, we wouldn’t try to find ways to let “responsible” Kia owners keep buying them and parking them around town. The urge to constantly reach for the complicated, overlay wonky perfect regulatory solutions at the expense of the clear and implementable good enough solution is the tyranny of process thinking. And the very stupid regularly manage to acquire things that are prohibitively expensive. Sometimes that makes the stupid things they want even more attractive. Good enough solution here is fine.
  5. Tl; Dr: One year old mauled in Manhattan, owner walks away and will face no charges. Pitbulls are an excellent metaphor for so much of our problems: the solution is staring us in the face, has almost no downside, and could be easily done with minimal cruelty. Simply ban breeding, mandate neutering, and destroy any animal that isn’t fixed past a cutoff date and make the owner pay for the procedure. We just can’t do it because a handful of the types of people who cause many other solvable problems think that owning a dangerous animal with no unique counter-purpose is cool. Then a second group that believes that it’s wrong to fix any problem that stupid people enjoy causing. https://nypost.com/2025/12/23/us-news/pit-bull-attacks-baby-on-nyc-street-and-refuses-to-let-go/
  6. Animal trainer: We taught this parrot to talk, it’s really cool! Everyone: Wow, really? That’s amazing. Animal trainer: Well, it can’t really talk. It doesn’t know what it’s saying. It’s really good at listening to things people say and how they talk, then repeating them as discrete sounds that seem like it’s engaging in human conversation. CEOs: When can I put it in charge of my business? Parrot: The government is spying on you through transmitters in your teeth fillings. Your mom told the dentist to put them in there when you were a kid.
  7. Animal trainer: We taught this parrot to talk, it’s really cool! Everyone: Wow, really? That’s amazing. Animal trainer: Well, it can’t really talk. It doesn’t know what it’s saying. It’s really good at listening to things people say and how they talk, then repeating them as discrete sounds that seem like it’s engaging in human conversation. CEOs: When can I put it in charge of my business? Parrot: The government is spying on you through transmitters in your teeth fillings. Your mom told the dentist to put them in there when you were a kid.
  8. I mean damn. We really are just endlessly psyopping ourselves aren’t we.
  9. Same shit with the Brown U. shooter, they outed this Brown Palestinian LGBT faculty member and then it was a Portuguese guy who didn’t get good enough grades twenty years ago.
  10. Young men are not at all unique in creating and suffering from a widespread obsessive Internet subculture to discuss unrealistic physical standards; elevate mendacious influencers who encourage useless or harmful treatments, procedures, and behaviors; or engage in relentless and brutal intrasex competition and status signaling based on attractiveness ideals only loosely related to actual sexual desirability. (It’s not even really new to men now, bodybuilding is basically this disguised as something like sports). I’ll admit the weird and nerdy pseudoscientific lingo and theorizing; this is very much in line with “not dolls, action figures” surface-level distinctions. People like this dude get broader attention precisely because it’s been so unusual to see this type of behavior among men and absolutely unremarkable for women and girls; most men have engaged in other forms of unhealthy competitive and neurotic self-harm. It’s a man bites dog story. Been seeing a lot of criminal skull shapes recently.
  11. I have argued before on this board that America’s Puritan origins are a thick veneer over a more relaxed English common sense. This is revealed over and over and constantly so in a tendency of the elite class to talk about human failings, foibles, and sufferings basically in terms of Original Sin or the Unconditional Election of the Saints; and a constitutional horror of admitting that you are doing things simply because they work and not because of firm and unfailing moral conviction. And a pretty dualistic view of everything. One did not need to announce that being fat is beautiful and maybe healthy even in order to course correct from harmful beauty standards and slenderness as a moral virtue. And yet we did.
  12. He’s a really good back who has a seriously violent running style, and he wasn’t even as much of a workhorse this year. They tried to protect him more, it didn’t work out. I also think with his absence we leaned a bit too much on RB by committee and I never saw a rusher have time to establish a rhythm and sync with the OL. In addition to the aforementioned red zone issues, there were quite a few inopportune short 3-5 play drives at times when A&M needed to settle Marcel down and let the defense sit a bit in the last three games. Again a spot we missed the ability to hand off twice and be confident we’d get 6-8 yards. No coincidence last year’s total collapse happened after he went down. I’d like to see them settle on a back who will get fed next year between Owens, Morrow, and Edwards. Edwards has it in him to be a Moss-like back.
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  14. I tell myself that people pay good money for roller coasters.
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