if you care, it makes you sad. if you don’t…

Mar 22, 2024

Facebook removes posts that they determine are offensive. What they don’t remove are all the videos and images of maimed and starving animals that I simply can’t scroll fast enough not to notice. People who love animals are heartbroken by these posts — and those who don’t love animals don’t care. So what’s the point, really?

Facebook’s policies allow these photos/videos to raise awareness.

That’s what they claim anyway. I can’t adopt every dog from the foreign countries where they live. I already think humans that mistreat pets are monsters. Those monsters aren’t going to be persuaded to change just because of something they saw on Facebook. So again, what’s the point?

Dharma has a great life.

Dharma might look sad in the photo above, but I can promise you she isn’t. (That’s her “Merida is annoying” look — I have one of those too.) She’s not allowed to browse social media so she’s not seen those awful offerings.

Now you know: The inventor of the Keurig coffee pod system, John Sylvan, sold his ownership of the product for $50,000 in 1997.