I don’t know, I’ve never known a dog to bark for 20 minutes if they were eating or playing with their human, or having their tummy scratched. Dogs can absolutely and normally and humanely be quiet. Barking has a purpose and if they’re barking incessantly, it means their humans aren’t paying attention to what they’re…

Exactly. It’s not that they’re trying to ban barking. They’re making sure that they’ve got legal recourse to persuade neglectful dog owners to take better care of and/or train their dogs. I wish we had something like this where I live for half the year. The guy across the street and two doors down has a yappy dog with…

This reminds me of my uncle and aunt, because they are rich assholes with a bad dog. She gets training at the doggy day care she attends several days a week, which of course they pay tons of money for. But when they get home, they let her jump up on people, bark, beg, tear shit up, etc because they don’t keep up with…

THIS. My neighbor is a good dog owner who has a lovely and sweet doberman that started experiencing crazy anxiety when his schedule changed. We’re talking howling and howling and howling and howling and howling for 8-10 hours straight. I work from home and I couldn’t get a damn thing done. I started to feel very real…

This is not about just barking at a squirrel for a minute or two. This is excessive barking for a long time. That is not what healthy happy dogs do. And nobody should have to listen to it. My mother’s neighbor’s dog would bark for hours and hours at a time and even though it was indoors with the windows closed, could…

This headline pisses me off. No one is banning barking dogs. The ordinance gets on the owners ass if their dog barks for 20 minutes or longer. FFS - that’s way friggin fair. These people are rich obnoxious fucks. I have a feeling Saddle River NJ is loaded with them. 

It’s not “what dogs do,” it’s “what abused and/or neglected dogs do.”

Basically, the dogs are being abused or at least neglected already. Dogs don’t bark constantly unless they are not being paid attention. That means training, playing with them, walking them and being there for them. These poor things are miserable. the owner shouldn’t have them, but they probably aren’t doing anything …

Happy, healthy, and well treated dogs don’t constantly bark.

This issue is NOT the dog’s fault, it is the owner’s fault and if it can’t be resolved neighbor to neighbor and calling the police doesn’t help, this is the result. People are inconsiderate assholes and most inconsiderate assholes have horrible animals that they don’t try to train and control. I happen to live next…

One of the things that I realized watching the doc last night is that pretty much everything she says is a lie to manipulate people into thinking she’s credible, and most people are gullible enough to eat it up. The only remarkable thing she has ever accomplished is that ability, being able to lie and not to have a…

Not only should this bug-eyed crazy witch be in jail but ** ALL ** of her enablers and useless board of directors should be in jail too and they should also be sued for every cent they own. It doesn’t matter if she started out with good intentions, it quickly became an intentional scam and they all need to pay for…

Long-time tech worker.  Can confirm.  Still happening today.

I recall years (decades) ago news anchor Jane Pauley described how she once answered the phone and the caller asked “Is your mother at home?” She had accidentally answered with her normal voice rather than her ‘announcer’ voice.

Liz Holmes and I were freshman dormmates at Stanford in 02-03 (Junipero, in Wilbur Hall) and she was totally unremarkable. Obviously the voice is fake but she never talked about biotech or starting a company or anything like that. She was a Human Biology major, but that was more a pre-med track than research science.…

The big difference here is that 1 million people took the fake blood tests and made sometimes major medical decisions off of it

Change that to she DID end lives, at least one, the guy that committed suicide while under threat from her goon squad to no expose her web of bullshit. That’s not counting the thousands of fucked up false results that you can pretty much guarantee shortened more than a few lives and reduced quality of life from issues…

well it seemed to be 100% intentional and purposeful? I would hope she makes most people uncomfortable since she is clearly a sociopath.

OMG I ate this up last night! Now I’m just waiting for the Jennifer Lawrence movie. I also recommend The Dropout podcast on Holmes, which is incredibly thorough and engrossing (there’s also a 20/20 documentary based on The Dropout, which I’ll be watching as soon as I can.)

I listened to all of The Dropout and just finished the documentary. I preferred the podcast. Every time she was on screen in the doc, I had to look away. She’s fucking creepy. She would probably stab someone with that blank look her face and then lie about how they ran into the knife. All with that fake, deadpan bro…