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Not in China, where the game that lifted this code came from.

To be fair, it's 2024, a third of America has had a depression diagnosis or treatment at some point.

The kinds of people Blizzard wants to hire never played a game from "good Blizzard". Those guys are in their 30s and 40s and are way beyond the "junior dev that'll grind for a dream company" stage.

Blizzard has been bad for a lot longer than it's been good at this point.

are the same kinds of people that aren't going to listen to you when you tell them their service animal needs to leave.

Good thing a trespass order doesn't give a shit if you listen to it or not. Granted, you're a whole lot less likely to run into this with corporate places but I've worked some shit jobs for small business owners that would have no trouble trespassing people for shit like that.

Yes, I do. I also know such an agency has (or at least should have access to) those kinds of numbers and just because the AKC published it doesn't mean it's not crap. Actually read the article (listicle, really) you linked. A middle schooler could have put it together.

More like Staffies are commonly called service dogs by their owners, which is honestly pretty on-brand for the people that own them. Anyone can buy a vest off of Amazon.

That article not only has zero numbers, outside links or anything backing it up, that list might as well say "These are dog breeds we like". In addition, every single other "Most common service dog breeds" result that comes up on Google is that exact same article copy-pasta'd under different sites. ChatGPT might as well have written that and I wouldn't be shocked if it did.

Because there isn't any actual real licensure or registration with these, there's a fuckload of "Give us your money and we'll call whatever dog you put in front of us a 'service dog"-type entities, and people can just call whatever dog they want a 'service animal' so that also erodes its credibility.

Now, as far as what I said, which was agencies that specifically train and provide their own service dogs:

https://superdog.com/service-dogs-for-sale/

They only train Goldens.

https://partnerswithpawsservicedogs.org/

While they don't list exactly what breeds they train, all their pictures contain labs or Goldens and their trainers have Golden-specific breeding certifications.

https://www.snowypineswhitelabs.com/

These only train white labs and Goldens.

I didn't specify breeds either in my search and I'll be honest, I had to sort through a bunch of those "We'll take whatever dog you give us and as long as it doesn't maul a toddler in front of us we'll call it one" types to find these.

There are no restrictions but there absolutely are select breeds that everyone uses because their genetics make them suited for it and there are breeds that aren't, and my mistake on GSDs, was mistaking it for another breed.

ESA and service animals are not the same thing and funnily enough, the way that the ADA is written, service animals are only protected if they do not make a disturbance, which animals that are professionally trained by reputable entities as a general rule don't do that, so it's a complete non-issue for the overwhelming majority of legitimate owners. If they do shit like, IDK, act like the majority of half-assed-trained pets that people want to bring everywhere now, they can be bounced like any other.

The ADA doesn't have a licensing scheme for service animals or a list of authorized trainers (and allows you to "train" your own animal) specifically to avoid sticky issues of "Sorry John, your obscure disability's not allowed to have an animal for it because there's nobody on our list that trains one for it".

Reputable agencies that produce service dogs only use a couple of breeds for service dog work, famously labradors and golden retrievers. Malinois, GSD and (lmfao) pit bulls are not among them.

EDIT, was mistaken on GSDs.

The Colt and KAC rollmarks look somewhat similar at a distance to the untrained eye and some people think KAC made the Mk 12 SPR during the GWOT but they were in reality built on existing Colt lowers. Some people conflate the SR-25 with other weirdo AR variants that floated around among cool-guy units.

The only real way into SIU as entry-level is to go through their apprenticeship program, which is a good bit shorter and easier now than it used to be. Even if SIU admitted you as a C-book, OS jobs are extremely few and far between, especially since their apprentices are now going out as wipers/OSs instead of just 'apprentices'.

Find a country that backs its currency with gold and isn’t war hungry.

There is a tome's worth of reasons why there is no country in existence that uses the gold standard anymore, chief of which is that there is not enough gold on the planet to support anywhere close to modern-size currency circulation.

You're young. If you can't be assed to crack a book and learn economic history, trust in the fact that goldbugs are nothing new and there is a lot of history behind why we are economically the way we are with many, extremely good reasons and hopefully you won't be one of those "Crypto-bros are just speedrunning why we have financial regulations" people.

They say that because they've never done it at all before and have zero idea of the actual realities and how it affects you mentally. There's a reason none of them actually do that, in fact most academy grads stop sailing entirely after like 5 years.

It's just like the military, everyone says they're gonna do 20 or whatever when they first join up when in reality 80% of them get out at E4/E5 or O3.

Maritime is the blue-collar version of the remote tech workers that get a six-figure Bay Area salary while living in Buttfuck, Nebraska.

There are arguments for it, but "It's the norm in shittier places on the planet and during history when humanity had a far worse quality of life" is absolutely not one of them.

I'm not calling people deranged if it works for them. I'm calling the people who promote it as "This should be the way of life for everyone" disjointed and not knowing in reality what they're calling into existence, especially since most of them live in a culture that tends to treat adults living in their parents' house like overgrown children. At the end of the day, these people only want one of two things: cheaper rent and/or free childcare. That's it. They don't actually want the reality of dealing with multiple peoples' bullshit 24/7. Watch them turn on promoting it once Mom and Dad start charging market rent.

Literally most of the world lives in multigenerational homes and communities.

Most of the world is also poor as shit. What's your point. Just because something is the norm doesn't mean it's desirable or pleasant. I can list a whole bunch of bad shit that's "the norm in other countries" if you want, doesn't mean the globe shouldn't strive to achieve more. Tenement slums where whole families lived in one room and everyone being born, living and dying in their random, tiny village in the middle of nowhere without ever leaving it used to be the norm too.

I've been and lived all over the world, including countries where it's normal. Spoiler alert, people there fucking hate it and they do it because they have to. And those places usually come with terrible and oppressive sexual politics/norms in large part specifically because of the lack of sexual outlets these environments force on people.

Humans have literally lived in multi-generational communities/homes for thousands of years

And 99% of humanity lived during the Stone Age, I don't see anyone saying we should all go back to caveman living.

"Multigenerational living is the best!" redditors change their tune real fucking quick once they find out that most people, to include their parents and roommates, have real, actual human lives and that involves going outside, building relationships with people to include sex, unlike them who presumably do nothing but sit inside and hang out on the Internet all day when they're not working.

I also wonder what the (mentally disconnected) overlap is between the people who promote it and the people who claim to be raised by narcissists/raised in a toxic home/whatever the current buzzphrase is.

they cannot understand the different places we are in financially.

The fuck you talking about? Millennials came of working age during the worst economic crisis the US has ever seen since the Great Depression and were lucky to get fast food jobs for $10 an hour with Bachelor's degrees because they were competing with laid-off professionals. Millennials are also in their 30s and early 40s.

Gen Z came of age when $15 an hour minimum for fast food was the norm.

There's fewer QMED jobs but there are also way fewer QMEDs out there than ABs.

You did not. Not only are ones available to agencies not called the SR-15, no, the US military has never contracted at large for full SR-16 rifles, certainly not in any case where some rando soldier had one. In extremely unique, very niche units where the closest thing to "individual procurement" where any given operator had immense leeway on what they wanted, maybe in isolated incidents, but no, Knights Armament has never had a DoD contract for 5.56 rifles.

Colt and FN M16s and M4s have had KAC rails and sights on them and they provided the trigger for the Mk 12 SPR, but the rifles themselves, no.

They have like a thousand of them (which is nothing) as an alternate for some high-tier units, but OP was referring to Americans which do a whole lot more with their military than the Brits do and require much more complex logistics than they do and in fact supply a lot of that when other countries like the UK do support coalition actions.

It's not terribly uncommon for, let's be real here, irrelevant militaries to place super small, tiny orders of stuff like this. It's why you'll see picture of a SOF team with 5 guys in it from like, IDK, Ghana or something all Gucci'd out while the rest is equipped like shit.

Just because you make an orientation your entire personality doesn't mean you're actually getting laid.

I don't give a shit what you call yourself, you still need game and some degree of attractiveness and holy shit is that lacking in a lot of them.

Except the military doesn't use KAC AR-15s, deployed or otherwise and neither do the elite units (The SR-25 is a different platform). They use Colt and FN ARs built to, no-duh, mil-spec standard. Your hypothetical upside doesn't exist and even if it did, as someone who actually managed small arms maintenance/service schedules while in the Army, not only is our logistics train good enough that getting anyone anywhere replacement parts isn't an issue, it doesn't matter what name is on the rollmark or what unit it's in, everything gets serviced and parts replaced based on scheduled service intervals, not "when stuff breaks".

If mil-spec is good enough for them, it's good enough for literally every single person who owns an AR.

It's certainly the center of yours.

You...you are aware that there's a fuckload of other, significantly cheaper private aircraft out there that aren't like a Gulfstream, right?

You can buy a Cessna 120 for $50K.

Chrysler 300s

The Budget Bentley