As a less technical user I really liked my little bit of experience with it and it is many things I want that I can’t otherwise find all together in a single distro, but I’m not really equipped for a minimal distro for the time being
Unimportant to most folks but worth knowing there is no package kit implementation for xbps, so you can’t use desktop environment provided software stores for native applications, only for flatpacks
Who are these characters, this is so cute 🥹
I dont know what a hooverville is, so probably not 😌
Oh… Thats a blatantly misleading headline then 😅
Thanks for explaining, hope you have a lovely day ☺️
Specifically for preservation breeding they’re an important part of human civilization’s history. The domestication of animals that play intimate roles in our lives and occupations is at least as worth preserving anthropologically as games/art, or artifacts
For breeds in general sometimes we forget that we domesticated dogs for specific roles in our lives, not just for friendly pets, and many of those roles are still deeply important. Having dogs that are well suited to various needs we have of them is kinda important. Dogs work as service animals, search and rescue dogs, bomb sniffing dogs, manage or protect livestock on smaller non-industrial farms, provide protection which is really helpful to people who may have suffered PTSD from past victimization, and as therapy animals. And we also selectively breed some breeds specifically for companionship, which is important because its a specific functional role that not all dogs are going to fit into in the same way.
Breeds exist because of the reason we domesticated dogs in the first place, which is to say a huge plethora of different reasons, for which we have all different kinds of dogs, that will fit different people and different needs. That system is still functionally useful, not every breed is equally well suited to every life, home/family, or job.
If ethically bred they should be doing health testing to ensure the offspring dont have health issues, and actively managing genetic diversity by “swapping studs” with other breeders, and depending on the breed, “outbreeding” where sometimes a dog from outside the breed is one of the parents to intentionally increase genetic diversity (some breed standards allow this, some dont.).
Do note, some breed standards just suck, and breeding healthy dogs within that breed may not meet breed standards to be considered pure bred. Usually there are breeders pushing to change that breed standard to fit healthier practices (I think thats a thing with like English bulldogs or pugs if I remember right…)
I hear a lot about this because my best friend’s special interests are animal genetic and animal behavioral science (she works as a dog trainer), and she’s REALLY passionate about ethical breeding as a better way for dogs to come into the world
Not everyone can afford an ethically bred dog, health testing and line management is expensive, but if all dogs were ethically bred you’d end up with a lot fewer dogs in the shelter because it produces more predictable offspring that are less likely to end up being a poor fit (if you’re picking breed based on how that breed fits you, and not just by aesthetic without thinking about what kind of enrichment they need, which sucks whether the dog is purebred or not), or have severe health/behavioral issues that make it hard to live a healthy life
So if you’re ever considering getting a dog from a breeder for whatever reason (maybe you need a dog that you can be sure fits into a particular kind of life or family, or is compatible with your disability/medical limitations) make sure to ask if they do health testing, what kind, and if you can see it. Ask if they keep in touch with owners of past litters to monitor for health issues, and ask what practices they use to make sure they have healthy litters and manage genetic diversity. The answers will help you find a breeder that has good practices :)
That shows you’re specifically in AI mode- is that the default experience for you now?
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I appreciate this being a reply that engages with the human experience folks are having there as much as the need for treatment and containment measures
Obviously its not helpful to burn treatment clinics. And also, very clearly theres a large cultural and human need that needs to be addressed in some way to manage the current crisis.
Kinda just a sad situation all around. Burial traditions and the grieving process are really important, and being denied the ability to participate in them must be deeply painful. I hope that medical and cultural practices can somehow adjust over time and find something more stable long term
That seems kinda degrading to the people its intended to support and treat with humanity
Certainly, it almost undoubtedly has pros and cons, but every source I saw explicitly describes it as an example of a regressive tax, so I do feel like its fair to put “regressive” in the cons column… 😅
I dont personally have a strong stance on the subject, I dont know a ton about taxes, I was mostly just explaining why someone might want to do away with it because folks were misunderstanding the person who wished we didn’t have it. I only know its considered regressive because hank green talked about it in a video. I was just trying to add context based on something I had learned
I think its fair to ague it still serves certain purposes or has advantages, but I get the distinct impression its considered ‘on the regressive end of the spectrum’ by every authority on the subject that I have access to, I’m not sure you’re right that it’s just “maybe” regressive 😅
What does that actually mean…? Is it hard? Is it like… An entry point to cozy games? I thought that was already stardew valley for a lot of folks? Does it mean its a big expansion on what the genre usually looks like…?
Edit: seems like the last
Okay, but like real talk- why does he look like that…? Does he like, have a medical condition? Hes not really person shaped…
I’m no tax expert but my understanding is that sales tax is classified as a regressive tax
https://taxfoundation.org/taxedu/glossary/regressive-tax/
I mean they list it as their first example of a regressive tax. I learned that it was considered regressive from hank green, who’s a well known science educator. And its always possible he got something wrong, this isnt science, but thats why I looked it up just now…
Edit: the IRS website has a reference page for teachers on educational content and exercise for school kids. It describes some taxes as “truly regressive” and the wording suggests its considered a gradient of impact relative to wealth, but it also explicitly says:
Classroom Activity
Explain to students that sales taxes are considered regressive because they take a larger percentage of income from low-income taxpayers than from high-income taxpayers
Target just had me do a weird personality test and a weird “one way interview” which is just you recording yourself awkwardly answering conversational questions about how you’d respond to various scenarios. On a time limit. With three attempts, and if you decide to rerecord, you can’t use the previous recording anymore
Meanwhile waffle house asks you like 3 questions via a chatbot and then asks you to schedule when you’d like your interview to be 😅
This is a HIGHLY nice meme. Hope you got a license for a meme this nice, this is some potent shit
I think their point may be more thay sales taxes are regressive- they disproportionately impact people with less money, as those people need to spend all or most of what they have for necessities, while folks with a large surplus of wealth or income only need to spend a small portion and much of it can go towards savings or investments
I dont think its unreasonable for someone to say they’d rather just do away with sales tax altogether. We may have more appropriate tools with which to fund the government
Edit: the IRS and also taxfoundation.org both explicitly describe sales tax as being regressive. I just checked cause I’m not an expert and someone asserted that they aren’t regressive. I dont believe thats accurate.
https://apps.irs.gov/app/understandingTaxes/teacher/whys_thm03_les02.jsp https://taxfoundation.org/taxedu/glossary/regressive-tax/
At least the moon swatch thing with omega looked nice. Though if I remember right they were really crummy workmanship and looked pretty shoddy when actually released or something
This design doesnt even look all that compelling to me 😅
Yeah, its probably not applicable to most folks, but I like browsing packages with images, icons, and descriptions, so for me its a tradeoff.
I believe there was one or more graphical package managers but they were QT based or otherwise not GTK and I was using gnome (I know, I care too much how things look lol), and I don’t know if they were actively being maintained. I know there was more than one at one time, but I wanna say one of them got abandoned, and I’m not actually sure if the other was being actively developed anymore either by the time I was playing with void