(May 4, 2024 at 7:43 pm)Jackalope Wrote:

(May 4, 2024 at 5:00 pm)Ravenshire Wrote: If we needed any further evidence that Hillary's "basket of deplorables" comment was correct, ^here^ it is.

Yep, shooting your dog because you are too fucking irresponsible to control them is pretty fucking deplorable.  That dog was clearly not adequately trained to be running loose in that environment.

Well, I was talking about the 1/3 of Trump supporters that find the behavior acceptable, but I do agree with your point.

(May 4, 2024 at 9:51 pm)Ravenshire Wrote:

(May 4, 2024 at 7:43 pm)Jackalope Wrote: Yep, shooting your dog because you are too fucking irresponsible to control them is pretty fucking deplorable.  That dog was clearly not adequately trained to be running loose in that environment.

Well, I was talking about the 1/3 of Trump supporters that find the behavior acceptable, but I do agree with your point.

Think of her as an exemplar of deplorablus americanus.

You're expecting far too much from me.

If you ever fall over in public, pick yourself up, smile shyly at the closest person, and say, 'Sorry, it's been a while since I've inhabited a body.' Then just walk away.

Boru

Quote:In a February promotional video for Neom, chief development officer for The Line, Denis Hickey, said he saw the project as an "opportunity to create a better model for a city to interact with the landscape and nature and the environment."

He said developers believed "The Line is going to be an example to the rest of the world."

Plans for The Line are already architecturally challenging.

The structure is designed as twin 1,640-foot-high mirrored towers set 656 feet apart. According to Neom's website, it will also have no roads, vehicles, or emissions and run on 100% renewable energy.

Plans for the glossy city have reportedly been scaled back in recent months.

The Line was originally planned to accommodate nine million people by 2030. However, a recent report from Bloomberg said this estimate has been lowered to fewer than 300,000 people by that date.

Saudi officials have been insisting the project is on track despite reports to the contrary.

Neom planners reportedly fear its huge mirrored structure called The Line will kill a 'significant number of birds'

^^ Someone once stated it doesn't matter if a particular bird goes extinct, for there are still hundreds of variations of the same species still thriving.

Kind of has a point.

(May 7, 2024 at 1:36 pm)Foxaèr Wrote: ^^ Someone once stated it doesn't matter if a particular bird goes extinct, for there are still hundreds of variations of the same species still thriving.

Kind of has a point.

It’s a bad point. The reason there are different varieties is that they fill different ecological niches. Get rid of a particular variety and the niche alters. These things have a cascading effect.

Boru

My dogs are so weird. Harley takes her toys outside...our other dogs have never done that other than the occasional tennis ball. She had made a neat little pile of toys out on the concrete walkway. Not sure why, but whatever...for once it wasn't destructive behavior.

Early, early...husband's alarm went off and the dogs wanted to go out. I was waiting for them to come back to the door. In comes Quinn...first as usual. Then Harley. Then, out of the corner of my eye movement by Ziggy catches my eye. He checked out the neat little pile of toys and then peed on them.

A whole yard and he decided this was the place.

I may just wait for the rain that's in the forecast again and let nature wash them off. smh

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