Accidentally surprising a horse can lead to sudden injury and/or hilarious internet videos. When moving around them, it’s a good idea to talk quietly to them (or to yourself) so that they can hear you and know where you are. if you have to get up close to one, gently place your hand or forearm against them as you move past.
The same advice works if you are around someone concentrating on a physical task like cooking, construction, soldering, etc, especially if they are holding something that could hurt if it poked you. You want them to know where you are without breaking their concentration.
Also good advice. There’s an area my buddy affectionately referred to as “the kill zone” which is just the right distance away that a kicking hoof can be at full velocity/force; this is precisely where you do not want to be if a kick happens.
but the best advice is to learn things like this from someone In Real Life around horses, because you can see which ones are totally chill and which ones are fucking bonkers. [Insert reference to various kinds of people here.]
Rudy G tries to evade responsibility for heinous crimes by hiding out among the near-dead in Florida, moving from place to place and regularly wearing disguises and acting semi-catatonic out of focus in the background when lawmen get near him.
well that and the tax cuts that Reagan implemented knowing full well that trickle-down economics were a fraud.
and regulatory capture of most of your institutions
and the loss of local manufacturing jobs (which are actually starting to come back) and the increased acceptance of nazism/fascism by people whose parents and grandparents fought against those very ideologies
but mostly because the increasing divide between rich and poor is not being condemned but rather celebrated by the same anxiety-inducing media that drools at the thought of the aforementioned shit-show.
America, you could do so much better. You just don’t. It’s so goddamn disappointing.
Listen: your neighbours love you, your friends love you, but you’re doing terribly. It’s really really hard to talk to you about it because when you get defensive holy fucking shit you can be difficult to deal with. You keep telling everyone that you’re the greatest (you tell yourself that most of all) and you do it so well and you believe it so intrinsically, that you’ve become blind to your own problems. You’re supposed to protect the weak and the vulnerable, and yet you’ve decided that people with no power aren’t worth your time, or your effort, or worth anything at all. That’s not a nation, it’s abuse. It’s a crying shame.
CNN learned everything they ever needed to learn during The Gulf War. They learned that if shit goes off the rails then people watch as much as they can. It’s in their financial interest to keep things off of the rails.
What's the best wax-on-wax-off-style advice you've heard that you can attest as being helpful in certain situations?
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Either way, I'm getting super drunk. (lemmy.world)
Murphy being Murphy (lemmy.world)