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I've heard that chocolate can be deadly to dogs. Or at least, some specific chemical whose name I always forget is in chocolate and is harmless to humans, but is poisonous to dogs. However, I have never seen a dog suffer ill effects from eating chocolate, and I also have never heard of anyone else'...

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I'm with Dauric here, extremely skeptical of your claim that it's difficult to fly under the radar with undiagnosed mental illness, even in the UK. It's also not just about diagnosis, it's about treatment and continued care. I'm in the UK and if asked to count the number of people I know with under...

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That would probably only be possible if I give up hiking/climbing, because right now I can fill a pack with gear for that purpose alone, leaving no room for my function-in-civilization possessions. Maybe I'll just try to get down to two packs, and call that close enough... Yeah, I probably have wel...

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↶ I see white drug-addicts and homeless people denied rest-room keys and asked to leave establishments all the time. If they don't leave the police escort them out. Denying service isn't inherently racist. Sure, sometimes it's classist or ableist, too. But if a white person has to be high or homele...

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The whole idea of de-arresting seems very wrong to me. Theoretically, a person could be arrested 50 times for domestic abuse, but if he is de-arrested before processing then none of those incidents would go on their criminal record. You could also make a de facto stop-and-frisk policy by arresting,...

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Hopefully it's a constructive distraction, in that case, militarily. And UK/French co-ownership of the missions make me feel happier that it is - though I know it's going to stir up undesirable collateral effects there and back home, it might keep the level-headed Russians out of that equation, dep...

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Pfhorrest wrote:So glad to hear I’m not alone.

I will literally hold my breath and run past smokers in the street, I find it so unpleasant. My mum is even more sensitive - staying in an environment with tobacco smoke can ruin her entire day.

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If teachers are armed, what will happen is the gunmen will shoot the teachers first. What you need is to arm the students too, which would have the bonus of eliminating school bullying, bullies, students that might be bullies, jocks, nerds, drama geeks, Wendy who didn't want to go to Junior Prom wi...

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If teachers are armed, what will happen is the gunmen will shoot the teachers first. What you need is to arm the students too, which would have the bonus of eliminating school bullying, bullies, students that might be bullies, jocks, nerds, drama geeks, Wendy who didn't want to go to Junior Prom wi...

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That's awesome! congratulations!

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Most of what I want to do is math stuff that any language can handle, but I also want to experiment with AI. Does that effect what language I should use? I'm barely more than a layperson when it comes to AI stuff, but my gut feeling for this is unless you want to reinvent the wheel purely for learn...

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Python is really good for learning how to program, but my impression is that it is not that great for much else. No one is going to be hired to program in Python. C++, html, and Java are much more likely to be used. I figure that if am going to be messing around, then I might as well train for a jo...

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Not everyone is as paranoid as you. Fair, although I would argue that my level of mistrust in stuff like this is at least reasonable. Lower levels of mistrust are probably also reasonable. Also, it violates the terms of service, and the consent decree Facebook signed. Lastly, Cambridge analytics re...

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I don't view it as really all that big of a deal, but then, I've assumed that anything put on Facebook is not any definition of private anyways. I think this hits the nail on the head about why I'm not freaking out about this (which I was honestly a little puzzled about, so thanks for helping me ex...

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Romanian court tells man he is not alive (Constantin Reliu, 63, fails to overturn 2003 death certificate because he appealed too late) Putting the "dead" in "deadline." I wonder if Romania has a statute disallowing posthumous trials, if so this could be a "get out of jail f...

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I don't think PAstry is saying this is a bad thing to do I felt PAstry was inplying not understanding the point of doing such things in general, and that's what I was addressing. Perhaps I read too much into that. (although if you're doing it without proper preparation and training for the risk you...

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I just can’t see pitting oneself against nature as heroic in and of itself. Nature does not care, is not aware in any way of what you are attempting. Dying in a remote, barely accessible place is-what? Definitely not heroic in any way IMO, but also not pointless. I'm a lover of outdoor sports, some...

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Sableagle wrote:Of course, as I said, in context either of those two canids being that excited and that happy is kind of scary, but I still think that still image is fluffy and adorable on its own.

That's fair, I think I just have a difficult time divorcing it from its context

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For me it was a combination of teeth showing on a wolf/dog being a sign of aggression (when not combined with submissive body language), and also, anthropomorphically, it saying to me "ha! Now I can do whatever I want", when "whatever I want" might very well include destroying th...

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Adorable? I guess, once you peel your eyes away from that terror-inducing grin.

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Oh, this is bad, this is very, very bad.

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Moo wrote:
I'm already using most of my tupperware and I have literally a gallon of soup (and three other dishes) in my freezer already
I find ziploc bags super useful for this sort of thing.

*souper useful

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Since the builders have broken down one wall of my kitchen, rendering it inoperable,I have made ⋅ Roast chicken ⋅ Chicken tequitos ⋅ Crumbed kingklip (fish) with potato wedges ⋅ Cape Malay style minced beef curry with rice ⋅ Cheese & tomato...

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I should probably put off cleaning the dust out of my PC...

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Today I learned the average humidity for England is basically in the 70-90% range unless you're right next to the coast. I looked it up to put the current 54% into context, because I was wondering why we're having issues with static electricity, sinus issues and dry lips. Presumably the humidity dr...

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It's not exactly the same for me, but I get something similar - if I have to act cis male for a period of time (yay not being out to my family!) I'll start feeling more femme, and if I'm presenting more femme for a while I'll eventually feel like I want to present more neutrally again (which gets re...

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The whole defense against tyranny argument seems really odd to me, I support it in principle, but focusing it so heavily on the ownership of small arms seems to me a curiously ineffective way of actually mounting such a defense in the modern world. I suspect that it's more to do with gun ownership b...

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The majority of suicides occur while under the influence of alcohol and/or benzo...thing. Suicides themselves are more of a spur of the moment thing rather than planned, though planned ones do happen. So, do you plan to restrict alcohol and benzothingies more than they already are? No more than I p...

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There are two important parts of the trickster god trope. The first is that they are always 3 steps ahead, even when they look behind. The second is that one day, they go too far and pay the price. There's also the theme that their one blind spot is the idea that not everyone is just out for themse...

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Yep, those are my feelings too.

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No, I got the impression that he meant that Lewinsky wasn't particularly attractive, rather than sleeping with her was somehow worse than Trump sleeping with the porn star. As for the morality of it, I think sleeping with the porn star is marginally better than with the naive intern, but it also sh...

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This is the best comic in years. Well played Randell

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Sableagle wrote:where it's sold?

Long Island, presumably.

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SDK wrote:Or Balrogs, for that matter.

Nah, can't see it: Balrogs seem too competent at what they do

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It's just struck me that emojis are the ultimate retro fashion... all the way back to pictograms

Edit: huh, this is the trump thread apparently, I thought this was fleeting thoughts

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Edit: Ninja'd ... didn't spot the potential for grouping error too... good point Zamfir. That is typical of everywhere, though. https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/810853 Stats that back that up - women over 65 are the worst drivers, excepting teenagers. I think you've got th...

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I can't wait until they find out how much it costs both in time and money to maintain and run a city. If they aren't smart enough to not sink large portions of their own wealth into it, I suspect that many of them are going to go broke. Billions may sound like a lot but building proper infrastructu...

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sardia wrote:create a utopia...or just avoid income taxes.

Aren't those one and the same to a rich capitalist?

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