Had an English mastiff growing up and the only thing that made it manageable was that we lived in the country at the time. She was a lovely sweet dog that took dumps the size of a smaller dog.

I like to imagine that they’re both completely covered on the outside because that raises far more questions.

Good article. Between growing up on a farm with access to guns, having an interest in military history and being into tabletop RPGs I’ve amassed a near encyclopedic knowledge of guns, and I’m struggling with the same issues you are.

You could always apply to your canadian equivalent and enter the exciting world of sitting at a crossing in the middle of nowhere waiting for one of the 25 or so cars a day that use the crossing.

Thing is that this has been a problem for decades with law enforcement officers as well as civilians. The FBI had a number of lost guns and finally had to put out a “best practises” memo stating that agents should set their holstered weapon in the crotch of their pants when on the toilet so they wouldn’t forget it.

“Nooo, my hand! The doctor said I wasn’t supposed to let objects impact it at high velocity!”

Ah yes, pretending you’re an actual company with employees, then subcontracting work out to randos and dodging all responsibility when said randos screw the pooch, AKA the american way.

Exactly, OJ did the crime, but the fact that he walked is 100% on the LAPD and their hard-on for framing black guys.

All the laurels and awards the rest of the world can heap on you pale in comparison.

A writing tip that everyone should take to heart. “Every villain is the hero of their own story.”

Please don’t resort to body shaming when the first name “Timothée” is right in front of you to be shamed, we have to be better than that. 

I and my wife have discovered one of the advantages of wearing a C-PAP machine (apart from better sleep) is that you can completely cover your head with the blankets and just leave your air tube sticking out like a snorkel while still breathing comfortably. Very useful during a Midwest cold snap.

It’s also worth noting that “traditional” anti-seizure meds are no picnic to be on. Even the newest and best have noticeable cognitive and physical side effects, and with the older ones it was often literally the case that you were choosing between seizures that could kill you now and a drug that would eventually kill…

At the library where I work we have compact shelving in our stacks that runs on tracks and has sensors to prevent the shelving units from closing if there’s someone in the aisle. Our freaking automated book returns have similar sensors to detect when a book is placed in them. It’s relatively trivial tech at this point…

No everything needed is in the box including a small ziplock bag of hair taken from an authentic Red Lobster prep cook.

Quiverfull is creepy af. It’s gotten to the point where I cast serious side-eye when I’m watching HGTV and a couple has more than 2 kids and mentions “space to homeschool” among their wish list for a new home.

There’s a picture opposite me
Of my primitive ancestry
Which stood on rocky shores and kept the beaches shipwreck free
Though I respect that a lot
I’d be fired if that were my job

Or if the automaker does a bunch of real world testing in different weather conditions to iron out the kinks before they actually release each model.

My suburb doesn’t allow HOAs, like there’s a law on the books that prevents them from being formed. The city council decided “No, enforcing rules about what you can and can’t do on your property is our job as a city, if there’s an issue we’ll deal with it.” and they do, nobody has dead cars in their yards, none of the…

Just think of how much chicken you could fit in one of those cat-in-the-hat hats.