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lol calling a highly trained malinois friendly is a contradiction in terms. more like, a force of great destruction imbued with impulse control.
I don’t get how discord is supposed to replace forums… it’s a chat room. It’s incredibly hard to use it as a comprehensive info resource. You have to read everything backwards, as part of some never ending conversation… it’s great for real time coordination, and as a chat room/community hub, by my god the notifications alone And the settings to get them to stop are mind boggling.
try out tarkov. It’s made by a Russian Dev, so the UN and the American PMCs/corporation are “sorta” the bad guys, though its a lot more grey area than that. It’s in beta though and the story isn’t super fleshed out yet. The Raid series of mini movies on youtube can give you an idea about lore though, pretty interesting.
Achilles was into dudes
Is this fairly unprecedented? What I mean is sure many leaders in last 20 years have threatened conflict and stuff, but like directly posting on social media that they’ll utterly destroy a country and murder civilians as punishment if they don’t get what they want?
I’m sure Bush said some stuff in the 9/11 GWOT years and Russia does its veiled threat thing here and there, Iran talks vaguely of destroying great satans once and a while but this is like a specific threat of annihilation to a civilian population.
Like usually the threats are couched in metaphors, I guess, and this is clearly non-metaphorical.
yeah SAR dogs get really depressed and get PTSD just like other first responders. If they’ve had a bad day, like only finding dead people in rubble after a building collapse, the handler will often stage a find with a friend so that the dog can find someone alive, because they will seriously get depressed and start to burn out. There’s nothing naturally evil in dogs, it’s just what we do to them that’s evil. Kinda like kids, I guess… I suppose you can have a few natural psychopaths in both kids and dogs, but usually, it’s abuse or mistreatment that results in the real bad stuff.
the dog above is a malinois, a super high drive dog that can do just about anything. they excel at nosework, any kind of work task you can train them, and protection work (running, biting and detaining). They’re not naturally mean or aggressive, but really really high drive with an amped prey drive, so it’s all about what you train them to do. nosework dogs can be trained to sniff for bombs, drugs, corpses, and now even diseases like covid or cancer for instance. You could take a bomb dog and retrain them to smell for drugs, because they understand the basic mecanism, but obviously, the dog will perform better on the task if it has a lot of experience. you can use a large variety of dogs for nosework, so you’ll see TSA bomb dogs that are like cute cuddly labs and hounds, but if you want to use the dog for law enforcement or military functions, you need something like a malinois, dutch shepherd, german shepherd that have high prey drives and lowered fear reaction. I have a dutchie, and she’s an amazing dog, but is nothing like my parent’s standard poodles for instance–she requires a lot of training and management. We do not use her for protection (other than barking at anything that makes a noise on our porch I guess). Anyway, they’re perfectly loving and friendly dogs, but they require you to build a relationship with them, they do not approach situations with strangers with an open heart like a nice golden retriever does.
they’re mad that even in their engineered moment, Bernie somehow still steals the show… no one is making biden memes except a few paid budigeg clones
He totally didn’t do any of this.