Huntington Beach, CA. So, so many public meltdowns in the Karen/Kevin sense get uploaded to the internet from there. Lots of drunk people and road ragers.

But it tastes so sweet!

You’ve lost the plot when you’re calling bullshit on UNICEF.

Very rude of that community to not conform to what you wanted them to do instead of just experiencing the effects of unfluoridated tap water, smh.

If you’re going to nitpick their methodology I’m sure you won’t mind sharing your own published studies on the matter, right? TIA.

Meanwhile, in communities where fluoride has already been removed from the water…

If it disagrees with experiment, it’s wrong. In that simple statement is the key to science. It doesn’t make any difference how beautiful your guess is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are who made the guess, or what his name is … If it disagrees with experiment, it’s wrong. That’s all there is to it.

-Richard Feynman

Yes, but the squirrel was kept because the owner killed their mother with a car on accident. This is not a case of “wanting a pet squirrel so badly” but trying to rectify a tragic accident.

Trying to rectify a tragic accident is getting the squirrel to a rehabber. He wanted a pet squirrel.

Professional medical care == medical care. Treating that sort of injury requires some training, but it’s a far cry from the extensive and critical medical procedure you’re trying to sell it as.

A tail is part of an animal’s spine, not an accessory. Go find a vet that thinks any exposed bone, much less an exposed tail bone, is something you can bandage at home and forget about.

A juvenile squirrel without a mother to learn from doesn’t have a way to learn those survival skills without human intervention which will result in “lost their fear of people”.

Rehabbers use techniques to keep animals from becoming habituated to humans and maintain their wild instincts, mainly keeping them away from humans as much as possible and not treating them as pets like this guy did.

What education and certifications would those be?

Varies by state, but they’re certified on the state level and it usually requires at least a few years of college.

Animals aren’t toys for people to keep and play with if they really, really want to.

The amount of errors I’ve noticed like that in articles from big name news organizations in the past year or two drives me up the wall. Spend the money on a fucking editor!

Bicolor nosie! 🥹

I feel like I’m going nuts, is nobody on lemmy actually reading this article? This dude turbo sucked.

Longo brought Peanut him home, ultimately caring for the squirrel for eight months before trying to release it back into the wild. He said Peanut returned to his porch a day and a half later with a broken bone sticking out of its tail, at which point Longo determined Peanut couldn’t survive in the wild alone and instead would move in with him.

Didn’t get him veterinary care though, because that would have resulted in his Cool Pet being taken away. What’s wrong with a little risk of sepsis and zero pain control for a serious injury if someone really, really wants to be a special boy??

I didn’t misread anything; keeping a juvenile squirrel you’re not qualified to care for and just plopping it outside after a few months is naturally going to fail.

After getting injured in a situation it was completely unequipped to handle, it returned to the only steady source of food and protection it recognized. This person then proceeded to get it zero medical care. Why should anyone who thinks it’s acceptable to leave an animal with a fucking bone sticking out of its body be trusted with the welfare of that animal?

Wildlife officials don’t resort to euthanasia every time a squirrel comes in. They want to be able to release it back into the wild, that’s the ideal resolution. Keeping that squirrel yourself because you want a quirky pet for internet attention basically guarantees they’ll get put down after they’ve lost their fear of people and have no survival skills.

Tl;dr: if you want a squirrel that badly, get the education and certification you need to actually understand how to take care of them. Otherwise you’re just going to fuck them up.

Hormones have helped me keep a baby face but have done nothing for my joints, unfortunately u_u

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in this case i think that tiktok and peanut’s rising popular was the culprit

… yeah, that’s how wildlife officials became aware of the situation. They aren’t remotely monitoring every squirrel.

And don’t feel too bad for him, he isn’t putting the squirrel’s welfare first at all:

Longo brought Peanut home and cared for him for eight months before trying to release the squirrel into the great outdoors. “A day and a half later I found him sitting on my porch missing half of his tail with his bone sticking out,” Longo said.

A fucking bone sticking out and he didn’t even try to get the squirrel veterinary care, because it would have meant the squirrel was taken away. No vet is going to let someone without a rehabilitation license walk out with a wild animal they’re not competent to care for. And having a Really Cool Pet was just more important than, again, a BONE being exposed to the air.

Oh, I don’t even mean from lost sales, I mean because this service is fundamentally going to cost more than the “theft” (lol) it’s allegedly stopping. If any one employee (or even a team) is doing this at scale and a business needs AI tracking customers to pick up on it, there is something drastically wrong.

This service is basically pure AI hype. It’s not doing anything a minimally engaged manager couldn’t already do with the salary you’re having to pay them anyway. Except the AI is also doing it worse and at a higher cost. Yay!

About a month ago, Israel-based Corsight AI began offering its global clients access to a new service aimed at rooting out what the retail industry calls “sweethearting,”—instances of store employees giving people they know discounts or free items.

Lol, I hope stores that use this lose millions on this stupid ass privacy invasion. Anyone stupid enough to believe the savings of catching a 10% employee discount used occasionally for friends or whatever is going to offset whatever the fuck this most recent torment nexus is going to cost frankly deserves to be swindled.

I voted early and my ballot drop box didn’t get set on fire! 🥳

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I figured, but man, they’re always learning weird new shit about the body, lol.

The funny thing is the dudes worried about low T don’t know T that is too high (according to your body, not according to what you want) just converts to estrogen… which you would think they would be a lot more concerned about, given their anxieties about being too feminine!

Is that even true?? You still have your balls, the sperm just doesn’t have an exit route anymore. Like, biology is weird as shit, I could see that somehow causing testosterone to drop slightly for some weird ass reason, but I’ve never heard of it.

Sorry my obvious acknowledgment that my memory of the exact tone someone (who is no longer even a politics main character) used months ago could be faulty wasn’t good enough for you.

Doesn’t change that Biden said something obviously insane and had no idea how to recover from it on stage, or the incredibly obviously tepid enthusiasm voters had for a second Biden term, even in the face of a second Trump presidency.