southsamurai

You hear about the dwarf psychic that escaped prison?

He's a small medium at large

Tintinabulation!

It's not as direct an onomatopoeia as your example, but it so perfectly encapsulates the experience of hearing the bells, bells, bells, that it counts imo

I mean, dude does seem pretty rapey. I wouldn't leave my chickens alone with him.

Nah, it's only gay if you like it

I think the app ecosystem of Smart Cats is good enough to make up for the loss in simplicity from Stupid Cats

One problem

Batteries.

I've used old devices as many things: security cameras, a form of intercom, digital picture frames, etc. The real problem is that the batteries eventually go bad, and become dangerous.

For the few devices that have realistically replaceable batteries, that's no big deal, but how many of those are left now?

No thanks to the potential fire, I'll pass. The few devices I have left that I can swap batteries out are becoming harder to find new batteries for as well, so that's an issue beyond their anemic hardware (I'm talking really old tablets at this point)

Oh boy! Dogging in the park at night! Can't wait to get into some of that!

You've already gotten the formal and, thus, best answer.

However, formal writing isn't the only writing the same way formal speaking isn't the only speaking.

A semicolon can serve to break up sentences into segments when it's really long and contains commas out the wazoo already. It makes such things more readable.

I've also seen them used informally to indicate a longer pause in speech than a comma, but not as long as that indicated by a period.

Think of a period as when someone would pause, take a breath, then start again. A comma is just the pause; a semicolon would be the kind of quick breath you use when commanding, singing, or otherwise using your voice for an extended span where stopping for a full breath isn't desired.

Again those are informal uses, but they do exist and can become a formal use given enough time and adoption. The problem is that until that happens, it's confusing for anyone that reads them that is more familiar with formal writing. So, as a communication tool, using them informally can be ineffective. Kind of a tossup tbh.

Yeah, if you ever run across the theories of how dogs became so close to us, it started with wolves being willing to take the risks of scavenging near us, and eventually co-evolving (until selective breeding started).

Actively, intentionally domesticating a species is a slow process overall, and it wasn't something that I've seen any specialists suggest would have been the case with dogs, or cats.

You assume it's a one-way street.

Humans having a proclivity towards "cute" animals is as much an evolved trait as animals becoming "cuter" to better adapt to presence.

Hell, for that matter, it isn't just us that have a proclivity towards "cuteness". It exists in plenty of species, we just tend to be the ones most prone to it outside of very similar species.

It is absolutely evolution because it isn't selective.

My thing is that if I'm outside relaxing, I want the birds and bugs and wind. If I can't have those, headphones aren't an acceptable replacement, so I'll fuck off back inside.

If I'm outside as in going about town, I don't want my hearing compromised. It's a fate safety issue. Even bone conduction gear is a distraction that I'm not okay with. Like, it isn't even about being hit by a car or whatever, it could be something as simple as a shopping cart that's loose banging into me. My crippled ass would be in the floor.

My brain is enough stimulation for me. If I'm out in the world, my brain is going to be going a mile a minute scoping everything out. Doesn't matter how many times I've been in a given location.

That's true, but I would argue that the player owned definition of it came so quickly on the heels of the typo that both could count as valid, with the caveat that the first usage being a typo would have to be considered a mistake, rather than the coining of the slang term itself.

Which is stretching things a bit, but still fun to think about.