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fein | 2 years ago

Steam deck in the bedroom, watching starwars with the wife... in the bedroom, has a pitbull, pitbull bites your infant in the face, terrible startup ideas, and the wife airs the dirty laundry on business insider - for startup reporter clout.

Are these people a meme, is this story even real, and just what the fuck in general? This article isn't even really about a failed startup but rather a pair of messed up people on both sides who now expose their infant to their insanity.

What a pair of foul individuals.

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Toutouxc|2 years ago

I couldn’t believe the “let’s kill the dog for scratching the kid’s face” part. People will punch you in the face if you startle them enough, why should the dog be any different? And they won’t ever consider putting him up for adoption or something, it’s straight to the vet and euthanise him? What the actual fuck is wrong with the people.

edit: This is very relevant to me because the very same thing happened to me as a kid. One of our family dogs bit me in the face because I was tugging on her tail (like in a painful way). It was completely my fault, no one blamed anyone else than me and no, we didn’t kill the dog. We kept her and I have many happy memories of her.

slap_shot|2 years ago

Pitbull ownership is a contentious subject and just overall a very shitty situation. I've seen a pitbull kill another dog and two other pitbulls attack children. That lead me to look at data, and while there is conflicting data, I walked away with the impression that pitbulls are disproportionately more dangerous and should not be kept as pets.

I agree that they should explored other options to see if the dog could have been given to another owner in an environment better suited for a pitbull. I don't know that one exists, but if you choose to own a pitbull, you hold that responsibility when you decide to disown it.

fein|2 years ago

The dog didn't scratch her, it bit her in the face. And she didn't even grab the dogs tail, she just startled it.

sneed_chucker|2 years ago

Pit bulls should be summarily euthanized and it should not be legal to keep them as pets.

Look up the numbers on how many maulings of children are disproportionately done by this breed.

leptons|2 years ago

The girl is lucky to be alive, because pit bulls are a dangerous breed that often refuses to stop attacking - they are specifically known for that behavior, as they were bred to be fighting dogs. Putting down a pit bull after it bites a child is absolutely reasonable.

golergka|2 years ago

> Steam deck in the bedroom

> watching starwars with the wife... in the bedroom

What's messed up about this?

> terrible startup ideas

I mean... aren't those the vast majority of startup ideas?

Agree about pit bull though. That part was wild.

sdfghswe|2 years ago

> When I get tripped up on jargon such as "transformer" or "smart contracts" or anything Marc Andreessen blogs, Kyle is my Google Translate for tech speak.

These people are hype merchants.