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darganon , to world in Bobi, the world's oldest dog ever, dies aged 31

I just don’t buy it as a 31 year old dog.

originalucifer ,
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yeah, no grey hair at all??

verysoft ,

That's the secret to living long, just don't go grey.

SayJess ,
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Ima try that.

ericisshort ,

Hair dye is the fountain of youth.

DagonPie ,
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Im not even 30 yet and im going gray. How fucked am i

JustAManOnAToilet ,

There’s a natural regimen to save yourself - you must cut out all gluten, eat meals consisting of horse/radish paste (that’s a paste made of horses and radishes), and drink at least 6 glasses of clam juice per day.

roguetrick ,

Where do you get your gluten free horses?

nezbyte ,

Etsy or eBay surprisingly enough. They are mildly radioactive, but worth every penny!

verysoft ,

You will be lucky to outlive Bobi.

Zoidsberg ,
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At least you have hair

medicsofanarchy ,
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(notes your comment is 5 hours old. Too late to reply.)

agent_flounder ,
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Maybe there’s some weird anti aging mechanism at play?

Kecessa ,

Yeah, old dogs get grey hair just like we do

hips.hearstapps.com/…/senior-labrador-retriever-m…:*

roguetrick ,

To be sure. A purebred dog the kids "kept secret" for several years after a culling. So only the kids knew the dog even existed. Sounds more like the kids found a puppy and justified keeping it by saying they always had it.

ryven ,
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How many years after the culling are we thinking they “found” him? Because even if you take off 10 years, he looked astonishingly good for 21!

Even if they’re a few years off, he lived to be ancient.

roguetrick ,

Of that I have no doubt.

Catoblepas ,

It doesn’t say in the article how long they kept the dog secret. They were 8 so I can’t imagine it was more than a week or two.

BassTurd ,

To confirm, they can cut off one of the legs and count the rings.

idunnololz ,
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Ohhhhhhh that makes sense. 👍

trombone , to world in Bobi, the world's oldest dog ever, dies aged 31
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Isn't it like 160-200 in human years?

ShittyBeatlesFCPres ,

169 according to the American Kennel Club’s formula. (Year 1=15 years, Year 2=9 years, more years=5 years).

Which, if you ask me, is just more proof that humans could live to 169 if we didn’t have jobs and someone took us for walks all the time.

Album , to world in Bobi, the world's oldest dog ever, dies aged 31
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Really impressive for such a large dog. Usually the larger the shorter their lifespan.

agent_flounder ,
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Yeah usually like 9-15 years. Even long-lived small dogs like mini poodles are lucky to get to 18. For a big dog, 31 must be akin to a human living to 200.

RIP doggo. :(

ClassyDave , to world in Bobi, the world's oldest dog ever, dies aged 31

Death remains undefeated!

Etterra ,

Well you’re not wrong.

JCreazy , to world in Bobi, the world's oldest dog ever, dies aged 31

Let’s not forget that Guinness World Records is known for giving out records without fact checking.

JohnDClay , (edited )

You just need to pay them thousands of dollars to ‘verify’ your record.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness_World_Records#Chan…

guinnessworldrecords.com/business-marketing-solut…

scottywh ,

TIL and GTK

Disappointing but good to know nonetheless.

Spacebar , to world in Bobi, the world's oldest dog ever, dies aged 31
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Have you ever seen an elderly dog? They have the same characteristics as an elderly person. Gray hair, lack muscle tone, eyes that just look old… that dog is not 31.

wolfpack86 ,

And as with people, the obese don’t set age records

mriormro ,
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Yeah, it’s gotta be fucking incredible living life at 108.

/s

wolfpack86 ,

Didn’t say it was or that I wanted to.

jimbolauski ,

Quality of life from 100 - 108 is much better than quality of life from 50 - 58 at 500lbs

bernieecclestoned OP ,

Bobi’s grand old age was validated by the Portuguese government’s pet database, which is managed by the National Union of Veterinarians.

bottle ,

Ah, the wonderful prevailing argument sweeping the internet the last few years: “that looks like something else, so it must be that. Let’s disregard sources and science. Everything must be what it looks like.”

verysoft ,

Critical thinking! No! It doesn't look 'old' so it can't be!

Pipoca ,

People lie about their age all the time. There’s been many elderly people with badly documented births who fudged the numbers and added a decade or five to their age.

Unless there’s good documentation, be skeptical of extreme longevity claims.

bottle ,

Did you even read the article? There is good documentation. Man you keyboard ninjas need to spend less time in the dojo and more time in the library.

Bobi's grand old age was validated by the Portuguese government's pet database, which is managed by the National Union of Veterinarians.

scottywh ,

How susceptible to bribes do you reckon the Portuguese National Union of Veterinarians could be?

wedeworps ,

Wow

bottle ,

Moronic comment made by a moron. Glad to see the bottom of the barrel is still trying. Failing, but trying. Good effort mate.

scottywh ,

Fuck you, you dumbass bitch motherfucker.

I was simply trying to engage in a civil conversation and you had to be a piece of shit.

Blocked.

bottle ,

lol. The language you chose proves you’re a moron. I suspect that you know you’re actually a moron. That’s why my comment cut so deep. You can’t buy brain cells but you can read more. There’s still a chance for you little dunce :)

autotldr Bot , to world in World shift to clean energy is unstoppable, IEA report says

This is the best summary I could come up with:


The world is on an “unstoppable” shift towards renewable energy but the phase down of fossil fuels is not happening quickly enough, a new report says.

It praised the significant progress countries had made in expanding renewable energy and supporting consumers with the shift to electric vehicles and heat pumps instead of gas boilers.

It’s not a question of ‘if’, it’s just a matter of ‘how soon’ - and the sooner the better for all of us," said International Energy Agency (IEA) Executive Director Fatih Birol.

The report recognised that oil and gas would continue to play a role in the world’s economy and that maintaining investment was “essential”.

That compares with the pledge made in 2015 when political leaders agreed on limiting temperature rises to “well below” 2C and to make every effort to keep it under 1.5C, to avoid the most dangerous impacts of climate change.

But the IEA warned that it meant further uncertainty compounding an already unsettled global economy - Middle Eastern countries, such as Iran and Saudi Arabia - account for 67% of world oil reserves.


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bob_lemon , to world in World shift to clean energy is unstoppable, IEA report says

The use of “unstoppable” is such a massively strange thing in this context. It somewhat implies that this is a bad thing, that should be stopped.

silent2k ,

It is for the fossil industry.

nicetriangle ,

Thing that drives me crazy is those assholes have had all the money in the world for decades to become global leaders in renewable tech and infrastructure. They know as well as anyone that fossil fuels are unsustainable and finite.

But nah, they'll just keep riding this thing into the dumpster fire while gaslighting regular people about how our forgetting to turn off a light bulb is the problem.

silent2k ,

Lots of people think like you do. Unfortunately half the population is below average in intelligence and not interested in solving long term problems.

galmuth ,

Their mindset is “Fossil fuels are still needed now, and if my company doesn’t grab them, someone else will” and it’s just so easy to continue getting those short term profits for their shareholders.

They may have long term plans for investment in renewables, but they won’t enact them until forced to (by government or market conditions). I imagine oil costs (and therefore profits) will skyrocket as it becomes more scarce, and they’d want to ride that all the way to the bank (and hell) before pivoting.

Basically, capitalism will be capitalism - its only moral is money. The only way is to have governments worldwide force them to change, and that ain’t gonna happen.

HeartyBeast ,
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I think what they are trying to convey is that it is inevitable- it’s going to happen, and that companies holding out need to stop hedging their bets and jump onto the bandwagon quick

Hubi ,

Swivels around in chair I’m afraid you are too late. The shift to clean energy is unstoppable!

StalksEveryone , to world in World shift to clean energy is unstoppable, IEA report says
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this is what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object

RootBeerGuy , to world in World shift to clean energy is unstoppable, IEA report says
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Unstoppable other than by climate change killing the planet and all habitable spaces. But yeah, unstoppable.

zacher_glachl ,

According to estimates, PV including battery storage will be the cheapest energy source to develop for nearly every country in the world by the 2030s. Surely even the most determined doomsayers won’t go so far as to say we’ll “kill the planet” until then.

BehindTheBarrier ,

Except global warming, even if we went net zero today, is still gonna have temps rise for a long time. We’ll have to go net negative by a ton before we can reverse the effect.

Not to mention, cheap to make doesn’t imply full on adoption. Oil, gas and coal will still be in use around then. I’d love to be wrong here, but it costs more to change than to stick with what’s working.

zacher_glachl , (edited )

The more pessimistic (already prior to this report unlikely!) projections of climate change are conditional on sustained heavy investment and development of fossil energy sources, which seems to me would make little sense if the alternative is significantly cheaper. So there’s now an even lower chance we’re in one of those truly apocalyptic timelines.

makyo , to world in World shift to clean energy is unstoppable, IEA report says

Great, so we should start reuptake now because it’s already too late. I know it’s a controversial subject and I know why but we better get used to the idea of it now because it has to happen.

guacupado , to world in World shift to clean energy is unstoppable, IEA report says

Kind of a weak statement. I feel like it’s been a given that we’re going to end up there sooner or later; even if politicians didn’t want to ever go, the resources are going to run out sooner or later.

The question isn’t whether or not we’re going to go green, the question is how many people are going to die along the way before we get there.

dasgoat , to world in World shift to clean energy is unstoppable, IEA report says

I read this as IKEA and I was like ‘well that’s a new direction I guess’

autotldr Bot , to world in Japan's top court says trans sterilisation requirement unconstitutional - BBC News

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Japan’s Supreme Court has ruled that it is unconstitutional to require citizens to be sterilised before they can officially change genders.

The woman’s lawyer had argued that her reproductive ability has already been diminished by years of hormone therapy, adding that surgery entailed physical suffering and the risk of after-effects.

“The government now needs to act quickly to remove the clause,” Kanae Doi, Japan director of Human Rights Watch told news agency Reuters after the verdict.

Recent opinion polls have shown growing support for LGBTQ-friendly laws - although there is opposition from conservative sections of society and politicians.

Earlier this month, a local family court ruled in favour of a transgender man - Gen Suzuki- who requested to have his gender legally changed without undergoing the surgery.

The family court judge, Takehiro Sekiguchi, said the current law violated Article 13 of the Constitution that stipulates all people shall be respected as individuals.


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aeternum , to world in Japan's top court says trans sterilisation requirement unconstitutional - BBC News

As it should be. What kind of moron would suggest that sterilising people is the right thing to do?

uniqueid198x ,

Its been the standard in Europe also. This has been changing, but only recently.

prole ,

Ooooh, you’re not gonna like this:

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_v._Bell

And btw, this decision has, to this date, never been overturned. So yes, according to the Supreme Court of the United States, it is ok and constitutional to forcibly sterilize people.

vanquesse ,

to the best of my knowledge even after this ruling, you would still need to be sterilized to get your gender marker changed as the requirement of having genitalia that matches your preferred gender is still in effect. You also need to be 18+, unmarried and have no children who are minors.

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