An even greater amount of cropland is being used for animal feed, something ethanol crops double dip in because they use byproduct from that process in feed. Eliminating ethanol and the luxury of cheap meat would go a long way in reclaiming our crop lands.

That’s why I referenced plants, not animals. Also, don’t fool yourself. The bulk of your meat is not grazing in a field even if the packaging label makes it look that way. It’s knee deep in shit-mud and shoulder to shoulder with it’s kin in a CAFO or tearing up the native vegetation on the public lands out west.

From the agricultural perspective- we’ve got billions to feed and that isn’t going to go away. Better ways to use the land we’ve turned into fields is a different subject, but between plant’s need for solar and how they’re harvested it’s a no go. Wind capture is an option though.

For what’s left of our wild spaces- we’ve already fucked so many. Solar may be a lower impact on what remains but there’s millions of acres that have already been converted for our “needs”. We should focus on generating our power in the areas already developed before talking about dropping more manmade structures in the wild.

This one was meh oberall, but Punk bringing back Miseria Cantare for his walkout and honoring Bo (and Larry) will be a highlight my punk heart long remembers.

Defendant: “Your honor, ChatGPT agreed I was totally good to drive. If you indict me, you’re indicting Silicon Valley.”

Judge: “Well… Yeah, nevermind. Dismissed.”

Families of the middle school marching band that died in an inescapable inferno: “😐”

Getting heavily tattooed, not having kids, not getting married/“settling down”. I grew up in an extremely conservative Christian home that pushed the standard “American Dream” plan but never embraced it. I’m aware there’s experiences that I’ll never have that are a source of joy and life defining for others, but I knew very early on those things weren’t calling me. Decades later I have zero regrets about what I didn’t do and what I did do.

The modern dog food industry in the US was built on the rapid collapse of horses as a necessity when the assembly line made automobiles attainable. Once again, our best friend comes in to save the day!

Conan the Bardbarian? Unfortunately this version doesn’t actually kill, only solicits murder for hire.

Given the replies in here, I’m pretty sure the odds she could walk up to a random stranger, leash them without saying a word, and have 100% compliance is high.

Somewhere an emo band has just found their new album title.

TBF, we’ve established that Pa perpetually had perfectly coifed hair, a clean shave, and the right amount of sweat/dirt to look ruggedly sexy rather than haggardly dirty.

If there are going to be multiple humans in the dog’s life giving commands and setting boundaries, make sure everyone is on the same page about what those commands and boundaries are. Everyone uses the same word for the same command, everyone has the same boundaries.

Single word command. It’s “sit” and the dog sits, not “sitsitsitsit”. They read body language as much as they listen to your vocalizations, and posture is more important in their own dog to dog language. Use your body to your advantage. You shouldn’t intimidate your dog but posture with calm confidence that projects control of the situation. This works great for shy/fearful dogs who appreciate someone they trust making decisions for them about whether or not to panic, as well as with headstrong dogs who are debating whether or not they actually have to comply.

Reward compliance swiftly, under 3 seconds. “Sit”, dog sits, “good” + treat. As the response becomes normalized you can begin to wean out the treat and just say “good”. In the mid treat intermittently, then eventually just as an occasional reward. In high stress or temptation scenarios you can jackpot good obedience. For example, if your dog loves to bolt after squirrels but sits and waits patiently for the squirrel to run by, reward the hell out of that.

Dogs and humans are both keyed to pattern recognition. Some behavior issues can arise due to humans being creatures of habit. If you leave for work the same time every morning, after filling your travel mug, grabbing your keys off the table- they’ll know those signs mean “you’re leaving”. If you have an anxious dog those will cue the anxiety to start. Sometimes correcting that requires intervention, and is case by case, but know that your dog is always watching and your idiosyncratic behaviors become triggers whether you want them to or not.

Dog parks are shit for early socialization, whether it’s a puppy or a rescue. You have no idea how well behaved the other dogs are going to be nor how decent of a person they have. Try and find local puppy or established pack play groups to ease your dog into it. If a dog park is your only option, go without your dog at different times to see what the people/dogs are like (a lot of folks go the same time every day), then avoid the times where the dude with the unneutered beast that terrorizes everyone while dad vicariously lives out his dominance fantasy of “he’s just an alpha” isn’t there.

Even the best socialized dogs deliver corrections to one another in a manner that can look harsh to humans. But that’s their language, we choose not to use force/harshness. It is acceptable for them to do so when they do it correctly because dogs “speak” two languages, dog/dog and dog/human. A proper harsh correction from one dog to another should come after the dog being pushed uses body language to set a boundary, continues to be pushed, and sets a hard boundary swiftly but does not escalate or pursue after the other dog has disengaged. If you get a puppy, being able to socialize with confident older dogs who recognize “puppy” but will define their limits with appropriate force is great. You will often see that a puppy who gets “told” they went to far will take the correction, sulk, then seek approval from the dog that corrected them, and a well balanced older dog will reward the toned down behavior by playing with them when their energy is right.

Training is not programming. It’s never a one-and-done, “I taught you to sit at 6mo and that’s good enough for the next 15yrs”. It is a perpetual process throughout their lives, both maintenance of the trained behavior and adjusting to performing it in every new circumstance. It’s not difficult to master “sit/stay” when you’re in the comfort of your home, but that doesn’t mean it’ll automatically work as well when they’re over-stimulated by people/dogs/smells in the pet store.

Finally- you’re the human, use your brain. We should always strive to give our dogs the best life and set training/socialization goals, but we can recognize when they’ve hit their limit. Dogs have their own individual personalities, quirks, and varying levels of drive/intelligence. With rescues you might not know what trauma or bad conditioning they’ve had, and some can leave scars where managing their environment rather than training it out of them is the solution. Not every dog enjoys the pack play of daycare or a dog park, or a house full of screaming 10yos for a birthday party. Don’t give up before you try and work through issues, but at some point if you can see that your dog has reached it’s limit, then you as the human make the call about what situations to put your dog in and which to avoid.

Bad Religion, Propaghandi, Dropkick Murphys, Good Riddance, Thought Riot, Regan Youth, Crass, T.S.O.L., MDC, The Nerve Agents, Earth Crisis, Dead Kennedys, NOFX, Body Count, Pussy Riot, Death By Stereo, and Cattle Decapitation are all social-politically outspoken punk/hXc/metal bands that have plenty of songs that would fit your list.

Dropkick, Billy Bragg, Tom Morello, Eyes of Salt, and the Boss all have anti-ICE specific songs out recently.

Luna moth?

Donnie threatening the Pope, Bennie threatening Spain; Polymarket taking bets on if we get a sequel to the Thirty Years War or 2 Spanish, 2 Inquisition first?

I don’t know that the masses can go toe to toe with the US police forces, ICE, and all the Rittenhouse wannabes that come out lookin’ to kill and be acquitted. Maybe, but it’ll be a bloodbath because the violence of ICE has normalized that even unarmed protestors simply protesting (or not) are executable. There’s also the issue that even if you’re not killed, everyone’s a “terrorist” and any act of resistance can be “terrorism”. It would be a lot of John Browns until someone already in power withdrew from federal compliance and used their authority to protect their citizens and city/state. Even then, I don’t think local police forces would comply. Their power is now tied to maintaining conservative power, they’d go rogue before they broke with MAGA. I’d also point out that MAGAts use civil disruption as cover to loot, burn, and cover their own violence both for personal gain and to make the cause look bad.

Until we are united and coordinated enough to make sure we’re not getting slaughtered and played, there’s always malicious compliance, weaponized inefficiency, and some others.

I mean, Motörhead was about as English as it gets. Do you have beef with them too?

Eh, yeah, well. Such is the current status of living in the US until we get our shit together and get rid of the voting base that elects these people and empowers their industries. It’d take a rocket to knock them off their tower, but start knocking bricks out of their foundation and you might you might topple it.

They are. Mama/dada/papa/nana or similar sounds made with the lips or tongue against the gums are near universal terms for parents across languages because that’s just easy sounds for babies to make early on. We just roll with it and adopted their “words” as the foundation of assigning meanings to a specific sound.