I sympathise, but the cliché is not strictly true. Nature is all about diversity. Just like humans have a certain ratio of "bad apples" born where someone is hard wired wrong, so do dogs, and likely all animals.
Psychopathology is real. It would be a mistake to deny Nature it's agency. There are people who belong in an institution. Dogs perhaps moreso.
To your point, yes most problems are attributable to bad trainers, but even here there is something missing. Bad breeders - natural reproduction would select for fitness, and truly bad dogs would be limited to a small fraction of background instances. We have lots of people actively breeding killers with outsized agression and fear and ferocity, with hair triggers, on purpose. I'm not talking about guard dogs where fierce protective instincts are balanced with loyalty and bonding and intelligence. I mean literal psychokillers.
I'm circling around Pit-Bulls and the like, but I need to be clear. The breed is fine. Some of my best friends are pit bulls. Diversity naturally makes most of them good dogs, just more context dependant and trainer demanding. I'm not talking about those. I'm only referring to a small subset that were overbred and the natural background level of freakshow.
If you've only known pets from reputable breeders, accidental litters or the shelter rescues, understand that these select for the good dogs. If that's all you know, you would have reason to doubt that bad dogs are possible.
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When will humanity go extinct?
Where are the nearest 1 billion species with near human level intelligence or greater.
How do we safely and conveniently travel faster than light.
They look super cool and I could see individuals or decks selling at gift stores, michaels, mindgames, eg bradley etc... depends on how you do them. Deck, collectables, postcards , souvenires of places where the art is a match for a local botanical rarity.
I also think there is a market for art that looks more like a realistic sketch. Something more realistic and less iconic. Still art, not a photo. But like a black and white artistic sketch with some artistic water colour splashed around.
I'd rather see a full curve on a chart from 0-100, preferably with multiple curves for outdoor temp variance. -20, -10, 0 10, 20, 30. I don't want cherry picked data. Give me the full picture, in one picture.
it'd be nice to have some idea of where might be a good place to move to, if this is as inevitable as it sounds.
Not as nice as you think. You could dodge harsher winters, an energy crunch and crop failures, just to move to somewhere with heatstress, drought and cropfailures.
We must not view climate as the thing to watch. It's one part of a larger complex system of systems. Changes in the AMOC can trigger changes elsewhere, and more importantly, elsewhere is changing on its own too. Not just because of emissions.
It's a lot to digest, especially if you don't have a background in ecology, biology, environmental sciences or systems theory. But a solid easy framework is planetary boundaries.
It's all 9 boundaries together (plus any new ones discovered) that's going to pickle us. We are exceeding 7 of the 9 identified so far and there are and will be severe consequences for having exceeded our planet's limits.
I worry about climate change A LOT. I worry about Ecological Overshoot and Collapse due to Planetary Boundaries even more.
Some people take "No Stupid Questions" to mean, it's ok to ask a genuine question in a safe space where you won't be made to feel like an idiot for the asking.
Others take it as a challenge. "Oh yeah? I'll show you a stupid question."
I just KNOW there is a record label executive with degrees in economics (math) and a side interest in quantum computing who is taking notes trying to figure the opportunity to produce the next thousand years of our greatest music.
Put aside a global network of armchair rebels egging others on from the comforts of their distant homes. Forget the real fear in your post that taking a stand has consequences. Forget that everything on the internet is manufactured for purpose and that includes foreign and domestic bot operations, all driving their own agendas. Calm your mind and think of this inspired piece of fiction from Hollywood - Andor's Rebel Manifesto.
There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. I know this already. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy. Remember this. Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they've already enlisted in the cause. Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward. And then remember this. The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that. And know this, the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empire's authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege. Remember this. Try.
Just because it's fiction, doesn't mean it's not true.
I have no idea how to even try to tackle this. Yet this is one of the best "no stupid questions" in a long while. Not only is it not stupid, it's inspired. Complex yet impractical, thus perfectly suited to this sub. Bravo!
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