There’s tons of friendly and well raised pitbulls. Y’all just never here about them because the news doesn’t make scary stories about them. Yall have a negativity bias
Pit bulls are the single mostly likely breed to be involved in a bite incident. Over 22% of all bite incidents are pit bulls. Not only that, they are the single most likely breed to be involved in a fatal attack.
So they bite the most, and their attacks are most often the deadliest.
Speculation, but also no shit Sherlock if it is true, if a chihuahua bites you you can punt it across the room. You can’t do the same with a stocky pitbull.
Those stats are a result of shitty reporting by cops who are likely to just list any breed they can’t immediately give two fucks to confirm as a pit.
A rather famous incident quickly dropped off the radar once it turned out that the dog that attacked the victim was actually a golden retriever.
Not to mention how these stats are most of the time introduced as dogwhistles (ignore the pun) for similar mis/disinformation about black people since pits and pit mixes are frequently considered a “black people dog breed.”
A lot of the same framing too, “they’re too dangerous to be part of white society!”, “all they know is how to be violent!”, “they’re a danger to white women and children!”
I know someone with a scar on her face and a deep seeded fear of dogs because she was attacked by…a boston terrier. I guess we should just ruthlessly slaughter any animal with teeth just to be safe.
People should be mindful not everyone wants your dog up in their face. My wife developed a severe allergy to dogs but her coworkers love to parade their doggies into her work area all the time. Welcome to Alaska I guess.
The lack of the word “and” in the number there made this parse really weirdly in my brain.
Instead of “I play with 615 giraffes”, I read it as “I play with 600 15-giraffes”. I don’t know what a 15-giraffe is, but it sounds like it might be an unstable isotope or something.
Yeah, as far as I can tell it’s normal in America to say 615 as “six hundred fifteen”, whereas the rest of the anglosphere would say “six hundred and fifteen”.
The fact that the line break happened to be right where the word “and” was missing probably made it even harder to parse correctly.
To note, we don’t say “sixhundredfifteen”, we say it more like they’re separate numbers so it’s like there’s a silent “and” in there. Sometimes its not silent and it sounds like “six hundred ‘n fifteen” with a very subtle N in there.
It may be a regional thing. I learned English while I was in the states and we learnt “six hundred and fifteen” if you’re saying the digit-place words (hundred, thousand, etc), but “six fifteen” would also be correct. “Six hundred fifteen” was acceptable, but not preferred, and “six and fifteen” is not used.
The customer wants the brand new website we are building them to be able to load data from several types of excel files and then email them an excel file with results. Please shoot me…
It can be sometimes. I do a simple import in one of my personal projects. In case for the client, for over 20 years they have used excel to make all CRUD changes and now they get to build a brand spanking new website to do all of those CRUD changes and they still want to do it in excel.
Customer wants a database, but has the MBA learning disability? Yes, literally the primary use of excel. Microsoft would go bankrupt without MBA brain rot.
American and urban? I’ve noticed that all a lot of black people in and near cities pronounce the L. I always get a chuckle and they look at me like I’m a pompous British/French general from the 1800s or an idiot that can’t pronounce Ls.
Yea I’m finding the bulk of the Vermont accent is just stressing the beginning of words and mumbling the least letter. So lie we kinn a sou liee thihs all the timee. It was pretty jarring moving to Florida after growing up around folks that talked like that.
Of all the things to criticize Reddit for, taking steps to protect people from seeing material that might cause them real trauma doesn’t feel like one of them.
Yeah, I have PTSD ans animal cruelty or harm is a major trigger and I have being forced to “deal with it”. Google keeps showing me PETA publicity that literally makes me feel like dying.
Well fun fact time I guess: in Taiwanese, bullets are sometimes refered as "peanuts." "Be my guest and have some peanuts" can actually mean "I will shoot you dead."
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