Sep 012020
 

It’s crazy enough to come off as something written by someone *pretending* to be a social justice warrior, but the website seems *kinda* legit.

Why White People Owning Dogs is Racist

The argument boils down to “since dogs were domesticated by Eurasians (evidence exists for both western Europe and southeast Asia being the point of domestication), it is cultural appropriation for white people to own dogs:

If you are white and own a canine, please consider donating them to a local POC family or non kill shelter so it can truly find the perfect home. 

The website *looks* like a legit animal welfare organization website. No obvious signs that it’s satire. However, the website has only three articles, all written by the same “person.” It *looks* good, but it’s pretty devoid of actual information about the supposed organization. Google turns up almost nothing about the “United Wildlife Union” other than their website and some people talking about how bonkers the racist anti-white opinion piece is. This might be an exercise in web design wrapped around some ham-handed satire. But given how Cuckoo-For-Cthulhu-Puffs people are these days, it wouldn’t surprise me that someone is actually this bonkers. The more I look at it, the more it seems like satire… but these days I Just Don’t Know.

 Posted by at 4:35 pm
Sep 012020
 

Seems the tundra is exploding again:

Likeliest explanation is that global warming is causing the permafrost to be less frost and a whole lot less perma. Couples with subsurface methane pockets that have been trapped for millenia, every now and the the ground gets soft enough that the methane goes “pop.” I suspect a video of such an event would be interesting, to say the least. Unfortunately Siberia is kinda big, so being on the spot with a camera is an unlikely occurrence.

Well, there’s clearly only one country to blame: that’s right, the United States.

 Posted by at 9:10 am