Because your competitors are paying up to $5-10 per click for your brand name.

guess what im an off grid bush retreat alaskan, and i hunt and hit and cull, all the time, but i dont brag about it, or posture that willingness to kill contributed to entry to a government organization.

what many people call a useless dog, is actually the case of a useless person, with no skills at all regarding husbandry or behavior management.

gloating, feeling powerful as a result of causing death or discomfort, yes those actually are the making of serial killers.

It is. Until you start bragging about it. That changes the perspective completely. I've never heard a farmer or a vet brag about when they had to put down an animal.

I doubt anyone enjoys putting an animal down and there are those who are psychologically unable to do it. They usually ask a neighbor or family member to do the necessary.

I disagree that she was bragging about it. I think she was illustrating that she can do what needs done, even the unpleasant parts. I believe it resonated well with anyone who's had to do similar tasks.

All it showed me is a dog owner without empathy or ability.

>I disagree that she was bragging about it

It was bragging because it's meant to be a story about how she's capable of doing the "hard" things, which is the perspective that reality is tough, and you need to be willing to hurt some people to do "the right" thing.

It's literally Call of Duty's philosophy, that only the "hardest" people, who can do literally cruel and awful things, like illegal torture, because they must be done, and those bleeding heart liberals can't kill a dog if it's the "right" thing.

> Putting useless or malicious animals down is merciful and common place

Maybe that's part of the problem? You kill what you consider "useless" or "malicious". Noem killed a puppy.

That's the way farms have always worked.

The sheep herder kills the wolf. The farmer kills the bugs that eat the crop. The rancher kills the coyote that kills his calves.

What exactly was the alternative? She should have let the dog continue to kill her chickens?

You're comparing a domesticated animal to wild ones. You really can't think of any alternatives to shooting a dog?

Glad I don't live in a rural community then. Sounds like a heartless practice, if such a thing is common in communities like that.

In a wooded mountain region I frequent (not sure if it's "rural" by colloquial terms, though the USPS classifies it that way), most people try to avoid dangerous wildlife. Killing them is a last resort, and represents a failure to respect nature.

I don't get the "useless" bit. Why would you kill a "useless" animal? Just let it be.

We're not talking about wild animals here. We're talking about farm animals, which are intended to produce or work.

If your dog is killing your chickens, he's impacting your production.

If a goat is too old to reproduce, they're just costing money to feed and care.

Margins are thin on a farm and there's little room for such liabilities.

Thus it has been for thousands of years in agriculture.

we dont just kill anything that moves, but if your in the back country you better have a plan that will let you live, or else you roll up in a ball and hope its quick

Usually there are quite a few "Hey bear"'s before you resort to blowing its brains out.

making your presence well known ahead of time by being noisy can help, but it doesnt always, and thats when you can have a 3/4 ton animal suddenly bolting at you from thick bush in about 2 seconds, because its decided to lay in ambush to kill or wound you rather than give ground.

and really the moose are a lot more likely than bears to go after you.

more qualifiers as well such as with calf or cubs, hunting and predation engagement being interrupted ect.

Killing a dog for acting like a dog is merciful?

It is from a farmer's point of view.

The chickens are an investment and produce. A dog that kills chickens is a liability and it's nearly impossible to change that behavior once they get a taste for it. It will never be a good work dog.

Why not rehome it instead of killing it?

I'm sure some are able to rehome them but very few.

When you live in a rural area, nobody wants a chicken-killing dog cause most them have chickens - and those that don't - have neighbors that have chickens and you don't want to be that neighbor.

If there are reasonable alternatives, please do avail yourself. When there are none, putting an animal down is best and is common practice.

Any way to move songs up and down the playlist?

Can't move tracks, but can clear the playlist or remove individual tracks to then add in the desired order. Agreed that would be more convenient to reorder.

I wonder if they're confusing the cause and effect.

Do people who live above 8k feet not die of heart disease or do people with heart disease find it too difficult to live above 8k feet so only people without heart disease live above 8k feet?

I live at 7200 feet and I know several people who have moved to lower altitudes because it's "too hard to breath" here.

I visited Mexico City a couple weeks ago and it is at 7200 feet. As I got off the plane I was gasping a bit and I woke up 3 or 4 times the first night gasping for air. I didn't have any problems visiting Denver at 5000 feet in years past but I was absolutely feeling it at 7200. I didn't stay long enough to see if I would acclimate as I continued to feel bad and returned home early.

My dad visited Machu Picchu. He was doing poorly and the guides put him on oxygen. They were well prepared for it, as it happens a lot and is not very predictable.

It's at 8,000 feet.

I remember staying overnight at Estes Park, 7500 feet. I got a headache. I didn't try anything strenuous.

I recall reading about Mt Everest climbs. Even on supplemental oxygen, your brain measurably dies a little. No thanks. People who climb it repeatedly are, in my not-so-humble opinion, idiots.

Yes people who climb Everest (in this time) are touristic idiots, even people who climb it "~alpine style".

However people who climb more interesting (for example Gasherbrum IV 8000m, Muztagh Tower 7200m, Thalay Sagar 7000m or Trango Towers 6200m) Mountains (in alpine style) would call people who sit 8 hours a day in front of a screen "idiots" ;)

I’ve spent quite a bit of time in Mexico City and SMA, and the first time was definitely the worst; lots of shortness of breath and walking seemed much harder there than other places. My 75 year-old mother had no issues at all when she came to visit tho

There are reasons to be gasping for air in Mexico City that don't have to do with the altitude.. has terrible air quality

I think the truth is we have too many farmers and instead of letting the market decide which ones continue and which ones fold, we subsidise to keep them all going. It's been happening for decades and needs to change. It'll be a painful change but necessary for a healthy farm market where the farmers that remain can produce plenty and get good prices for their crops.

I did some computer work for a large family farm in north east Colorado. A letter from the state was framed and hanging next to the desk. It showed a list of family-owned farms in the state and how many sections (640 acre lots - 1 mile square) each farm had in CRP (Conservation Reserve Program), which is the state of Colorado paying farmers not to farm, and how much money they received. This family farm was at the top of the list, receiving millions of dollars each year to not farm.

I have no pity for the American farmer.

"child care available to all New Mexicans"

Does this mean a stay-at-home mom or dad can get a daycare license and get paid by the state to take care of their own children?

I'm surprised it took this long. It is/was inevitable.

From my experience, 6 years is about right, maybe a slighty longer than normal.

When IBM purchased Lotus, they pretty left it alone left it alone for 5 years. In 2000 changes started to be forced on Lotus and in a year or two, it was gone.

So, IBM bought RH in 2019, it is now 2025, that seems to have followed their play book almost exactly. I also think other large acquisition proceeded the same way.

Well, luckily there are other distros out there should IBM/RHEL stumble during this "assimilation".

There are not many distros investing so much in the ecosystem - really, there is none. This would be a big, big loss.

I can only assume you are correct since my experience with RHEL is limited.

But I believe SUSE should be an OK alternative for some companies.

Yes. Copper (major component of brass) is seeing all-time highs at around $4.60 lb.

$4.60 is not an all time high for copper. Copper has been around this price for a while. It’s traded within about a 10% band for the last year. It had some fluctuations prior to that, but there hasn’t been any kind of long extended run up in price.

I had assumed it was much higher. How many pounds of copper could be in the wiring of a street lamp? 5 pounds?

Enough to get high, in Dallas the drug houses take copper and other metal as payment. No need to make the trip to the junk yard.

Source? I can't find any.

It would seem like sitting on a large inventory of scrap metal would be a dumb way to run a "drug house".

Some local plugs are closer to fences as they will take pretty much anything of value. Recently heard of someone taking a high end bottle of cologne or expensive bottles of wine. Whether the plug enjoys the product themselves or is able to turn them around somewhere else is more information than I want to know.

If you get lucky you can pull out hundreds of feet of wire, the wire is in conduit that goes from pole to pole and it’s usually decent sized wire to account for voltage drop. The city where I live is using aluminum wire for streetlights now after having miles and miles of copper stolen.

That camera bump is huge. I guess that's how you get the great zoom?

Phone cases are doing heavy lifting to smooth out the back of this phone.

On the other hand I much prefer the full-width bump than a corner bump. It helps when holding your phone (a ledge for your fingers) and means that the phone doesn't rock around when used on a table.

I made a leather pouch with a belt loop for my Pixel 6. Great when travelling or hiking. The camera band sits above the edge of the front of the pouch with the 'lid' covering that when the pouch is closed with a tuck lock.

The full-width band is just perfect for grabbing the phone and lifting it out of the form-fitting pouch, and doubles as a sort of safety preventing it from slipping from your grip.

Atleast these type of bumps don't cause the phones to wobble.

I'd be curious to know if they did any surveys/research on how many people use a case or not. If the vast majority do (my anecdata-based hunch), why not just thicken the phone to add battery and use a thinner case rather than just having the case space the back of the phone out to be flat?

My partner got a Pixel 9a and it's nice that they went completely flat on that one, though it's obviously almost a straight rip-off of the recent non-pro iPhones aesthetically (not a bad thing imo).

> why not just thicken the phone to add battery

Weight. Many people already don't like how heavy their phones are.

Good point. Even my regular iPhone 13 is the heaviest phone I've ever owned and it's kind of annoying in that it actually hurts to drop on your face if you're vegging out watching a video while laying down.

Too bad it can't be smoothed out (with more battery or something) to start with.

That bump is more than 1/4 of the phone's total thickness. This is becoming comical.

The camera bump (rather than a full-size thickness increase) makes the phone feel less massive, especially in your pocket.

I don't need it to "feel" less massive. Most wallets are thicker and I don't hear anyone complain.

not sure if you mean clip-on cell phone wallets (I assume that people that don't want a thick cell phone don't add a wallet since it makes their cell phone too thick), or actual wallets... plenty of people complain about those:

https://lifehacker.com/how-can-i-downsize-my-ridiculously-la... https://veryexcellenthabits.com/downsize-ridiculously-enormo... https://www.reddit.com/r/onebag/comments/5blfkt/my_wallet_is...

And a thick wallet causes enough health problems for it to be called "Fat Wallet Syndrome".

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fat_Wallet_Syndro...

If you ran a saas, you'd know how much more supporting SSO costs and sing a different tune.

Why do some sites require SSO, without an option for a local (better term?) account?

I prefer to have a unique username and password for each service. KeepassXC is my SSO provider.

keepassxc is not a good SSO provider for 100 employees.

This is a real problem of misaligned incentives.