Holy moly. Good luck with that. 
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Thatâs for Visas. Most people on this forum probably wouldnât require a visa for a tourist stay.
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I had to read this twice before I was sure I hadnât misunderstood.
This zoo is asking people to donate their pet guinea pigs, rabbits, chickens and horses - so they can be fed to lions and tigers.
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âTheyâre donating the cats, theyâre donating the dogs!â - The POTUS
Sorry, couldnât help myself.
They are in fact not accepting canines or the other one. Fearlions I think theyâre called.
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It makes a lot of sense. Zoos need a fair amount of small prey animals (though I never heard of one feeding horses) to feed predators, thatâs pretty normal. Thereâs also a fair amount of unwanted pets going around (people keep giving them as presents for some wild reason, and of course thereâs the occasional unwanted pregnancy because someone didnât get the gender right) that often just get put out into the wild where theyâll die anyways. Seems a sensible step to give them to a zoo instead.
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If ypu approach the subject in an entirely logical, unemotional way, I suppose it does. However, most people who keep pets form an emotional bond with them, and expect others to do llikewise. If you tried this in England, someone would burn your zoo down - and public opinion would support the arsonists.
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I guess itâs much better then theyâre quietly getting drowned in a barrel without anybody noticingâŚ
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By and large, that doesnât happen here for any more. Every town has an animal rescue charity, and most have several. If someone canât (or wonât) look after a pet, there are places that will shelter and feed them until they can be rehomed. Most have now adopted the policy âNo healthy animal is ever euthenisedâ
Added to that, we have criminal sanctions to prevent animal cruelty. You do occasionally hear of people breeding fighting dogs, or drowning kittens in a sack, but they face jail if they get caught.
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Huh, honestly, I thought they would use them for live feeding. I guess itâs just as well that most predators will also eat their food when itâs already dead.
No such luck for the mice. Most snakes wonât eat them if theyâre already dead. But then, it could be argued that at least some of them will euthanise them themselves before eating⌠
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Thereâs something off about the top photo. Either itâs a composite, with the mushroom cloud pasted in from another shot, or itâs telephoto foreshortening, making the mushroom cloud appear closer than it actually was. Given that thereâs a fair amount of depth in the foreground composition, and that doesnât show telephoto distortion, Iâd favour the first option.
Image manipulation did not begin with Photoshop.
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According to the Atomic Archive, it is real. Perhaps we are seeing the upper parts of the cloud from a higher elevation
From Wikipedia
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You canât even get away with spontaneously pushing a cat into a wheelie bin without the entire nation and the world noticing, thatâs progress in action 
Sometimes a composite is the only thing you can do to get a photo to appear as how the human eyes perceived it.
That or the man was right, there is a tiny goblin shrinking the moon every time I take a photo of the night sky. I always knew he was right even if he does live in a bus.
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The Moon? Pah!
In the 1950s, the United States were seriously considering using nuclear explosives to excavate roads, canals, and similar civil engineering projects.
Yes, it would have exposed US citizens to massive amounts of fallout, but hey, it would have made nuclear weapons cheap.
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This one blows the mind in hindsight. Will the fittings to the gas supplies remain intact?
Our biggest problem will be the lack of electricity.
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Today, young people ask, âwhy did people in the past paint wristwatches with radioactive paint and build houses out of asbestos?!??â Maybe in a decade we will be asked with the same exasperation, âwhy did people burn fossil fuels, and store food and drinks in plastic bottles?!?!â
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Trump visited Switzerland and gave them 39% of a tariff as punishment for exporting medical and luxury goods, but not importing as many things of equal value. He also complained that he didnât know that woman he was talking to⌠Switzerland never had a head of state, it has a council of seven members, and the âSwiss presidentâ is literally the one of the seven who organises (âpresidesâ) the council meetings, with not more or less powers than the others. 
After he left, two council members jumped on a plane and flew to the US to talk to someone else (grovelling is unpopular, but they hoped they could resolve it). Guess Switzerland isnât good at the blackmailing game, and doesnât let itself be blackmailed, after talking to Rubio, the tariff was left at still 39%. And Trump chose the Swiss National day to announce the extra tariff. 
Now (Jedidia, correct me if I misrepresent something) a group of industrialists uses this opportunity to demand that Switzerland can only recover from that by dropping environmental restrictions, by selling more weapons, and by imposing less bureaucracy on foreigners who want to invest (plus several other demands).
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I think Donald Trump is one of those few presidents that doesnât understand a president is more of a figurehead and representation of the people and has very little to do with legislation etc in most countries that switched to parliaments, etc.
Heâs also one of those few presidents that envys not being a dictator 
Heâs also the same guy that thought letters put on a manâs fingers in Photoshop to point out his symbolic tattooes meant ms13, were actually tattooed on his hands and not just ICE pulling straws out of thin air. And argued his point about it on national television when challenged.
Marco Rubio is the devil. And it turns out thereâs more than one devil, cos letâs not forget Jamien The Omen Vance.
He has his sights set on huge tarriffs for Ireland too because all the pharmaceutical companies we lured over.
Which will only make the already insanely expensive American medicine system even more expensive in the long run. If the tarriffs force those companies home to a place that capitalises on the sick as best it can, could be bad news for the price of medicine in Europe as a result.
I donât see that happening, I just canât see everyone being that in cahoots with making the world worse but that might be denial and wishful thinking on my end, money can make the most sensible person spew absolute gutter trash.
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and store food and drinks in *plastic* bottles?!?!â
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I think about those future people being surprised by us at this sort of stuff every day 
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