Nothing to add here.
Very fair point.
toynbee
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I bet he'd be friends with Coyote Peterson.
I don't understand why entire statements come after octothorpes. I get hashtagging stuff and how it might help with organization, but I don't understand why whole sentences.
I'm not trying to be pretentious or "dang young people," I just sincerely don't understand.
Other than that I enjoyed the post.
Yeah, but I don't think it works with a grinder.
However, apparently caterpillars retain memories from their caterpillar form when in butterfly form! That's pretty cool.
Oh, but since then I've made so many much more severe mistakes!
Mine was cleaning up sparklers and not realizing it mattered which end you picked up.
When I was a kid, I had a book called "Are You Normal?"
The premise of the book, at least as best as I can recall, was that the author had interviewed an extensive list of people about normally private and/or embarrassing things, such as bodily functions. They would then reveal within the book some of the statistics and you, the reader, would compare yourself to them to determine how "normal" you were.
I don't remember too much from the book, but I remember in the intro the author said something like "it amazed me how many people wouldn't open up to their wives, but would throw the bathroom door open when I asked about how they peed." (This is heavily paraphrased because I only remember the gist.)
Presumably the phenomenon you referenced here in your last line is something similar.
IKEA also has this, at least in the one I used to visit.
Given that they're for navigating indoor hallways, though, they're probably not meant for inclement weather.
I recall this being announced a decade or more ago. At the time, I wasn't so jaded and was more surprised than anything else that it was opt-out rather than opt-in.
Now I'm more annoyed than surprised.
Isn't there a theory that one reason kissing is a thing is that it was a way for neanderthals and early humans to exchange germs / bacteria / whatever and thus help to build communal immune systems?
Now it's a genre.
I'm not really sure why.
Yesterday I hurt myself sufficiently that I wasn't really able to leave my bed. As such, I did three things: work, sleep and read. I did technically eat, but I couldn't sit up long enough to finish my meal. I did not shower, sadly.
Anyway, because that's not the first time this has happened, I keep a cache of books in my bed to read when I'm immobilized. Most recently it was these two. The one on the right is the one I started last night and the one on the left is the sequel.
Out of the corner of my eye, I keep thinking they're the same book. They're both from 2019, so it's not impossible AI was involved, but it's not terribly likely.
edit: Visuals aside, it's a pretty good series. The books pictured are numbers eleven and twelve and I like the characters enough to have made it this far into the series.
But there's something about them I find distracting.
I didn't think my cats would care, but since my dog died, Maze has been ... Aggressively affectionate. To the point that I need to shoo her away if I need any alone time. She wasn't this loving any time over her past fifteen years or so of life and didn't seem like she cared about the dog, but she's been completely transformed since then.
I mean, just look at it.
edit: For anyone wondering, it's from the first few seconds of HARDY - Sold Out.
They almost blend together.
Newbie was a rescue from a dog fighting house. According to the shelter from which we got her, they couldn't get her to fight, so they used her for breeding. For her entire life with us, she had scars from where they tied her down for breeding... But despite coming from the most abusive background imaginable, she was the absolute sweetest dog. She was in my life for about a decade and, other than in her sleep, I never once heard her make an aggressive sound.
Unfortunately, she died a few years ago from a failing pancreas. She's the only dog I ever had to choose to let die. I wish she were still here.
edit: She was really stinky, though.
A while ago, Maze hurt her ear. Since then we've been giving her all kinds of medication. Obviously things aren't pristine, but she's doing way better and her wheezing has nearly disappeared!
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... I see. Thank you.