I’ll never understand why people even want pugs. They are not cute, they are ugly abominations. Maybe they were cute before people turned them into this.
They used to be very cute and were functional dogs. Altdeutscher mops and retro pugs are good examples. Here’s an 1800s painting of one.
They are fine in “original” fkrm, but current degenerated pugs are not cute or healthy.
Someone shrunk the head?
In modern pugs? Indeed, they’ve been selectively bred for brachycephaly (flattened muzzles), and poorly so, resulting in many potential health problems.
No, i meant, the whole head is disproportionally small in the picture.
Oooh, I get it. Painting issue? Maybe this one had a disproportionately small skull? My mystery mutt certainly does and he’s not a little dog.
For love of dog just stop breeding. There are so many unwanted dogs already that need homes.
Mutts are better anyway. I’m biased because the best dogs I’ve known were not pure-bred, but still. They also are more resistant to genetic disorders…
I like to call them Bitsa dogs, like a bit of this dog a bit of that dog and you get a wicked bitsa dog.
Imagine what people would do if they were allowed to selectively breed humans
The Spanish Habsburgs.
lol
That’s just called eugenics
Don’t sperm banks offer selective sperm choices based on intelligence and physical fitness?
There’s ZERO regulations in that industry, they can say whatever
One of the “most prolific” sperm donors in Britain is a neo-Nazi. His sperm has been used to bring about over 140 births, but he also spends his free time planning “lone wolf” attacks.
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People on 4chan were talking about that sort of thing at least 15 years ago. I think it was on /tg/, if I remember. They were also much more concerned with the trolling/ethical thought of breeding for the brain. What if you bred someone who only had the thought of serving a master?
I think that’s enough evidence for me that selective breeding is horribly fucked in its outcome no matter the original aims, and the closest we should come is eliminating the ‘will kill you’ diseases.
What if curing cancer resulted in the creation of a slave cast. Sounds like a pretty good star trek episode
I guess that movie is called Elysium.
At this point I’m wondering if our idiot overlords are using these fantasies as a guide rather than a warning
There are some sci fi stories about this. They are… not pretty.
I will follow the Kwisatz Haderach without hesitation.
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We as a species spent so, so long learning the painful lesson that eugenics is an awful idea. Can we please not relitigate it? That is, can we please not shift the Overton window back to the ideology that directly led to and inspired the Holocaust?
Thank you
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Sorry to necro this, but by your very own definition, you should be neutered. Wishing to neuter people or conduct eugenicist programs is causing physical and emotional harm to people.
Seeing as you want this to be a blanket policy, the intent to repeat is given. Your own definition makes your policies and your ideals not just radical, but amoral within this framework.
Edit: No, you have the right to necro as a mod! Don’t apologise. Sorry for offending you!
Not offended, just needed to air that
Oh sure, having a government body decide who’s fit or not for reproduction. Absolutely nothing that could go wrong with that. /S
True, the design I believe in would only work if people like me would be in control, due to the nature of worldviews being unique to the individual. And the moment hands change over once, is the moment the laws get skewed by the worldview of the next group. I would restrict those who threaten humanity’s progress, who would refuse to educate or vaccinate a child, who would indoctrinate from birth into their gated world. The next person would restrict queerfolk like me. And the next would try to filter humanity into an Aryan race of purebloods.
The theory is there. The practice is improbable. But the lack of practice results in the Chinese, Russian or American governments and their followers. Those who would, and do, filter us out.
Be the change you want to see in the world
Lead by example!
What will those clever tall bastards think of next?
I predict hairy sphynx cats
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Uncropped? Decropped?
Anticropped?
Bad crop?
Bro we’re gonna starve.
This seasons meme harvest? Too much chaff, bad crop.
Uncropped. Or simply extended.
OP here. I stole this from Facebook and I am simply too lazy to crop anything rather than just hitting the share button
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If you’re on windows shift + windows + s lets you drag a window that’s instantly screenshotted and in your clipboard ready to be pasted. You can rebind this function to the screenshot key too
I think Win11 automatically opens snipping tool with screenshot button now. My laptops all seem to work that way now.
I think cropping already low-res jpegs will recompress them again and make them even lower quality
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Could always encode as PNG or similar, as those aren’t lossy.
No need to do them next: “Altdeutscher Mops” is a thing already. I guess you’d call them “Old German Pugs” in English?
Still sort of grotesque in that there are probably a lot of inbetween generations that suffer. Most ethically sound idea is probably to just euthanize these breeds and end them entirely.
Retro pugs are already a thing?
Cartoon dog after running straight into a mountain painted to look like a road vs. the same dog after using a bellows to reinflate themself.
Dalmatians are prone to kidney stones. It means they can’t eat foods that are high in purine. They have the same diet as a human diagnosed with gout.
In the 60s some guy started working to breed that gene out of them and created to versions of Dalmatians. HUA have the gene that causes stones. LUA do not. He did this by mixing in Pointers.
Modern LUA Dalmatians are 99.999% Dalmatian but breeders and the Dalmatian Club of America are still salty about it and refuse to accept it.
TLDR; Dalmatians LUA breed less prone to life threatening conditions, but Kennel Clubs are mad about it.
wtf.
Reminder that kennel clubs don’t give a shit about animal welfare.
See how they reward German shepherds with the lowest hips possible, like car guys lower their cars until they drag on the ground with sparks flying. It’s horrible for their hips and backs.
Omq the bby looks so much happier and healthier! Happy and functional snout is far more cute ♡
This sounds good, but is still dumb, somewhat less incestuous inbreeding.
