This sounds good, but is still dumb, somewhat less incestuous inbreeding.
this post was submitted on 30 Apr 2025
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What's with the thick white borders on lemmy lately? What's the use of adding these? I know there are people who are too lazy to crop their screenshot but in this case someone took the effort of doing the opposite of cropping the image. Why?
OP here. I stole this from Facebook and I am simply too lazy to crop anything rather than just hitting the share button
I think cropping already low-res jpegs will recompress them again and make them even lower quality
still better than unnecessarily taking up space on your screen
Uncropped? Decropped?
Anticropped?
Bad crop?
Bro we're gonna starve.
This seasons meme harvest? Too much chaff, bad crop.
Uncropped. Or simply extended.
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.
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.
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.
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.
They are fine in "original" fkrm, but current degenerated pugs are not cute or healthy.
People are drawn to vulnerable creatures; they inspire nurturing and protective instincts.
Pug breeders attempt to distill vulnerability to include overly large eyes and an inability to breathe well.
Imagine what people would do if they were allowed to selectively breed humans
That's just called eugenics
The Spanish Habsburgs.
lol
There are some sci fi stories about this. They are... not pretty.
Don’t sperm banks offer selective sperm choices based on intelligence and physical fitness?
intelligence? as if being brought up by a parent who believes this shit is gonna make you intelligent
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.
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
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What will those clever tall bastards think of next?
I predict hairy sphynx cats
No need to do them next: "Altdeutscher Mops" is a thing already. I guess you'd call them "Old German Pugs" in English?
Retro pugs are already a thing?
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