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similar_observation t1_jdgv3iv wrote

Mel and Carl were not just frequent collaborators, but also lifelong best friends. Rob Reiner recalls much of his childhood watching his dad and "Uncle Mel" trying to write material and laughing their asses off at what they could come up with. It's one of the reasons he was inspired to get into directing. And he gave us The Princess Bride and This is Spinal Tap. Likewise Mel Brooks kids referred to Carl Reiner as "Uncle Carl."

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neverbeenwrongb4 t1_jdggx6c wrote

The horses live on protected federal land, and the horses themselves are protected wildlife. The federal hunt and slaughter is a cull to keep their numbers in check so they don't devastate the landscape eating every last bit of vegetation and then all starve to death. They want some horses to live there safely and happily. They just can't let all of them live. The horses don't have any natural predators because wolves have been extirpated from most of the US.

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SuretyBringsRuin t1_jdg9hu8 wrote

Was it a dream where you were where you see yourself standing in sort of sun-god robes on a pyramid, with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you?

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Ladranix t1_jdg57cn wrote

Tetanus fun fact! It functions as a precision set of molecular "scissors" and cleaves the synaptobrevin2/VAMP protein complex SNARE in inhibitory interneurons. The SNARE complex is responsible for the exocytosis of neurotransmitters, and the inhibitor neurons basically send the "off" signal to the rests of your neurons and tells them to stop firing. The degradation of the synaptobrevin protein prevents these signals from being sent causing massive overreactions in muscles to any and all stimuli. The really cool part is because the toxin is so specifically targeted to this specific type of cell, parts of it are being co-opted to deliver medications in a targeted fashion!

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Amadacius t1_jdg4f2x wrote

The crux of your argument seems to be that it free-range meat is more cruel than factory farmed meat. That if an animal lived a good life before slaughter it is more tragic than if we birthed them in a cage, deprived and abused them consistently from start to finish.

We round them up because they are an invasive species that disrupts the local ecology. We slaughter them because nobody else wants them. But every ounce of meat produced this way seems infinitely more ethical than the more systemic methods.

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