That’s been my approach, although it means my wishlist far exceeds any reasonable opportunity to buy them all 😂

Not me jealously coveting your collection over here

Oh wow I did not realise it was “collard greens”. I’ve been writing “collared greens” 🤦🏻

The food looks delicious!

Oooh that’s similar to one I was taught:

Look around and try identify 5 different objects

Close your eyes and try to identify 4 different sounds

Run your fingers over your clothes and try to identify 3 different textures

Breathe in through your nose and try to identify 2 different smells

Run your tongue around your teeth and try to identify a taste

(Adjust as needed for your body and sense perceptions).

bullies are innately more likely to attack when poorly trained, or;

Unfortunately I can’t find statistics for the UK, but these statistics for the USA show that pitbulls account for 22 lethal attacks a year. That’s out of roughly 4.5 million pitbulls (source). That is an incredibly low percentage, even if it is higher than the percentage of lethal attacks by other types of dog breed, to the point where we’re comparing differences of fractions of a percent.

To give that figure of number of fatalities some perspective, roughly the same number of people (21) are killed per year by cattle.

But taking either of your points to be true, both these cases can be resolved without banning (and putting down or destroying) particular breeds, for example:

• provide education on training and dog handling
• better controls and standards for dog breeding
• licensing/training as part of a condition of dog ownership

There are existing organisations and dog clubs that already offer some of these services, and would be well-placed to tie in as providers if these things were legislated.

I’m curious, do you have any experience with training and handling dogs? Because breeding really doesn’t work in the way you are implying or assuming.

Describing these dogs as bred for fighting implies that these dogs are pre-programmed to attack and fight. That’s not how dogs work. Breeding for traits is about selecting for particular behavioural and physical attributes. “Fighting” isn’t an isolated behaviour, it’s a collection of traits like defensiveness, aggression, threat identification and so on, and to “fight” dogs need training on these.

As previous commenters have said, in the tragic cases where bully breeds have been involved in lethal attacks there are indications that the dogs were not handled/trained/socialized correctly.

Nice! I’ve got this on my wishlist.

The use of the term “gothic” in the Victorian era initially meant “barbaric”, but people ran with the description and it came to define what you mentioned: the interest in death and the occult, tragedy and darkness.

From what I understand, “gothic” was used initially as a kind of insult when describing art or an aesthetic style. It meant “uncivilized” and “barbaric”.

Then there’s the apocryphal story of Bauhaus describing their music as “gothic” when compared to other contemporary bands, deliberately embracing that meaning of barbaric and uncultured.

From then on the music press ran with the term, but as with most genres it’s a blunt tool for describing a sound or a style. A lot of bands from the same era who had some crossover or shared elements with goth bands were pigeon-holed as goth themselves, which they felt was restrictive and didn’t accurately describe their sound.

For example, listen to The Cure’s “Hanging Garden” and Bauhaus’ “Bela Lugosi’s Dead”. Both songs share a similar claustrophobic atmosphere but beyond that they sound very different.

No, you were clear. That’s what I understood you to mean.

Same!

Fantastic pictures as usual!

I’ve actually see some yellow wagtails near where I live in the south west. I can confirm they’re more yellow than the grey wagtails 😂

They also are rarely serious bites so I’m not sure what point you’re making

The point I’m making is that the framing of bully type dogs being more naturally aggressive or violent than other breeds is not the case.

they care if a dog mauls their toddler to death - which happens with far too much regularity

These deaths are tragedies, but are not regular. The reason they’re newsworthy is because of how rare these events are.

I think a large problem with the narrative around dog breeds, and their associated traits, comes from a lack of education and understanding about breeds and traits. You’re right, certain breeds have been selectively bred for certain activities: what this means is that collectively, dogs of this breed respond positively to being trained for that particular activity, as well as having physical characteristics to advantage them for that activity. It’s not that all dogs in the breed are predetermined to show those breed’s traits.

For example: border collies were bred as working dogs, specifically for herding sheep. Some have an innate herding instinct but generally they need to be specifically trained. A friend of mine had a border collie and it was the laziest dog in the world: it had no interest in herding or doing trial training. You can’t assume a dog from a certain breed will display the generalized behaviours the breed is bred for.

It’s telling that the biggest dog charities in the UK oppose measures for banning specific breeds of dog, because it does not work and takes attention away from measures that do improve safety, like responsible dog ownership and training.

To achieve this you need to use a gate effect that supports sidechain on the music track, and then feed the morse code output into the sidechain input on the gate.

This tutorial I found with a quick search looks fairly comprehensive: https://www.practical-music-production.com/sidechain/

If you’re getting gcc errors it sounds like the package you’re trying to install contains some c/c++ stuff that needs compiling.

A lot of python packages that rely on things written in c/c++ ship those precompiled, which might account for why it feels easier for you.

Selection bias is running rampant here when interpreting the (partial) statistics around dog attacks and their seriousness.

For example: the dog breed most statistically likely to bite in the UK is the labrador (source). Jack Russels, chihuahas and dachshunds also rate highly in aggression but attacks are mostly unreported because they are rarely serious.

So saying some breeds are more aggressive than others may be true, but that’s only half the picture and the narrative around this discussion misses out that there are more aggressive breeds than bully types.

Bully breeds are strong, and if they attack, the damage can be serious. But the likelihood of them attacking is relatively small, they aren’t more predisposed to attack than the other breeds I’ve mentioned, and their attack response is heavily dependent on how they are trained, socialized and treated. The cases where a well-trained, well-treated and well-socialized bully breed dog is involved in an attack are pretty rare. Where attacks have happened, digging into the background often shows that the dog’s owners had not properly trained or controlled the dog. It is always the owner’s responsibility to care for and keep these dogs safe around others.

Finally, I’d like to say that this community is for appreciating dogs. Not some dogs. It shouldn’t be for berating people about pictures of particular breeds.

Ah right thank you both for clarifying. I genuinely didn’t get it.

Sometimes listening to the song gives me some relief from it, but not all the time.

Yep. I’ve learned that this happening is a good indicator that I’m not doing well mentally and there’s a thing I’m avoiding confronting.

Then I have to play brain detective until I figure out what it is.

Yeah 🫠