This entire article is gold:
- The bird is called Bebe
- Bebe was fine. He was there for 15 minutes, and there was a lot of practice, safety, and care. Bebe is also used to shenanigans of all sorts
- The submarine is called the Bebosphere
- ‘Stephen Lawyer, who really is a lawyer’
- His wife is called Cher
- People do the most beautiful unhinged shit with paintball cylinders
- Bebe answers phonecalls
- Bebe’s other hobbies include indoor cycling, outdoor cycling, and skydiving
- Precisely none of this was AI
What a treasure to be the person writing this story, congratulations Mr. Moran
Kinda undermines the attempt at sounding objective. Just weirdly toss out some awful accusation as if you know everyone is guilty of that in the thread but you.
It’s a statement of facts, not an accusation. Pet owners (animal slavers) are demented (mentally-ill)–that’s an accusation I stand by. The fact that you find that statement an “accusation” and “weird” betrays your cultural-biases. Why do you think it’s acceptable to enslave animals–why do you think you have a right to do that?
The majority of people do not enslave animals. I would guess it to be a minority who actively engage in the practice. I’m curious now. I’ll edit this after I’ve found some data…
According to the American Veterinary Medical Association 43.7% of American households own a dog and 34.1% own a cat. Isolated that does indeed indicate a minority (though large) are animal-slavers. The figures as presented are probably biased (coming from a business-representative body that profits from animal-slavers) and the households that both own dogs and cats are probably represented twice.
Only 2% of American households choose to enslave birds–that is a minority. I’m not surprised as enslaving birds is particularly depressing. I would accuse bird-slavers of being sadistic as in this species it is extraordinarily cruel. My father and grandfather were bird-slavers and they were both sadistic and cruel people. My curiosity has been sated.
Stopped reading at the second sentence. This is pretty clearly an expression of mental illness itself.