I won’t say they aren’t often euthanized with drugs, but in rural situations it is typical for wildlife agents to give the impression they will euthanize in some socially comforting way, or even give the impression animals will be taken to a refuge, then they more often take the animals to an isolated location and…

I should have known better than to feed the trolls.

This is out in rural Florida. The whole population of the county is 300,000 people. Normally they would just shoot the critter and wait for the scavengers to finish it off. Which do you think is better?

I feel like you’re using the term “rabid” to mean aggressive, because if an actual rabid animal was attacking your pets and family, you shouldn’t have been giving it multiple chances to attack your loved ones.

I guess no one here has ever had nuisance animals. If they aren’t disposed of then they just keep coming back. You can’t let them out of the cage, and you don’t want to touch them. Its a bad situation all around, but drowning is better than stabbing or shooting and a lot less messy.

American cities once used drowning as the normal method of killing stray animals. I can remember the news reporting and images of big cages of animals dunked in pools.

Your link confirmed what I was thinking, the initial shock and inhaling of water can be painful/shocking but after that it tends to be calm. I don’t know, I haven’t drowned nor would I drown a trapped animal like this but it doesn’t seem like the worst option. Granted, this whole story of doing it in front of kids is…

You have to tell that groundhog to not drive angry.

But to kill them humanely he’d have to bring a gun to school.

oh, you! it’s a nice day, why not go outside and play with your friends?

Ok, and where does the evaporation go? “Lost” doesn’t mean it’s no longer water. Does it end up in clouds that create rain outside the drainage area for the lake? Point is without ALL the facts it’s impossible to reach a rational conclusion.

“Evil industry! Evil!” she typed on her liquid crystal screen.

Just for perspective, Lake Michigan holds some 1.3 quadrillion gallons of water. Foxconn could do this for over 800,000 years before running it dry, even if none of the water was replenished by rainfall. For further comparison, Niagara Falls spills some 65 billion gallons a day from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario.

Liquid crystals. Duh.

I do this, sorry. If I’m doing 60 in a 55, and you pass me at 70, you just set a new speed limit. I will follow you at a respectful distance until such a time as I decide to go faster than you, or I need to slow down. My logic is that if you pass a cop doing 70, they will catch you, and not me 100 feet to the rear.…

Hating on Tobasco is a meme that’s at least a decade old at this point. You’re not clever.

Hot take: It’s fucking hot sauce. If you need ethically raised non-GMO free range peppers for your hot sauce, you’re a hipster yuppie.

I think it’s mainly that, while both companies collect data in exchange for a service, Facebook has on multiple occasions shown a willfulness to use that data to suit their own needs at the expense of users. While Google has always made strides to protect user data.

“Why aren’t we freaking out about this?”

Until it is shown Google compromised individual data to people guilty of treason, I am OK with Google summarizing individual data into demographics to sell ads.