Was there any damage to the supermarkets? It’s a pretty big cupcake, i guess, just doesn’t seem like that bag a deal?

Does it count if it’s in the morning but only while I absolutely need to get ready for work? Every morning, I find myself tidying up and doing small chores when I should have hopped in the shower 20 minutes ago.

FYI, a lot of times the gear in the first photo is for the plants’ sake, not the worker. Plant cultivation facilities can be like a house of cards, where one little bit of mold, fungus, etc can ruin an entire harvest. Depends on the plants in question, though

Is it possible to learn this power?

Not from a butterfly…

She doesn’t do the stompy stomps when she gets scratches, she does it in protest when we stop. Usually accompanied by vocal protest as well. She’s gotten very pushy about being the one who dictates the end of scritches. Her butt and back are her favorite spots. She immediately turns around after the petting starts, even when shes just been groomed.

The name is just because being named after a warrior queen seemed badass.

Oddly enough, I had another dog many years ago who also looked almost identical, Callie. One of her ears flopped down after adolescence but the other never did. I always lovingly made fun of her for being lopsided. The resemblance was a complete coincidence, no relation or anything.

Callie:

Looks almost exactly like my Boudicca, they could be siblings! Paco is amazing

I could have gone the rest of my life without seeing the name Jostens again, goddamn scam

“Hookwoorms, get in my feet please!”

Understood. Don’t do anything apart from stop him entering the room.

Nope. At that point, you’re new money with no way to sustain it. You’re part of The Poors but with the added step of funneling that money into “better, more capable” hands, and a poor investment for a pardon.

As far as I know, everyone who has been cryogenically frozen and thawed out has had to have their soup-ified remains be scraped out of the vat into a barrel. I cannot imagine voluntarily paying to sign my child up for that fate.

I think they mean that back then, elaborate marketing campaigns (yes, for money) were a bit more commonplace, while today, the fun veneer over the greed has worn thin and most companies scrape by with the widest but shallowest marketing strategies that are even more transparent in their greed. We all know companies want our money, so any time we forget that momentarily is kind of like suspension of disbelief when watching a movie. The bar for the suspension of disbelief in corporate greed is simply getting lower. They realized they don’t need to try that hard to still make money hand over fist. Doing this again would be pretty expensive. You know what’s cheaper? Slapping some canned images and animations over existing logos and stuff.

It seems stupid to be annoyed by the fact that the ever-hungry jaws of capitalism “aren’t as fun as they used to be” but i think it’s getting upset over the fact that companies think they don’t even need to disguise their avarice to get away with it. And to a growing extent, they’re right. The showmanship being romanticized was meant to dazzle and distract the masses from the uglier parts of business, but now we just accept them instead. There is no shame in greed, no reason to hide malice when it’s an accepted tool of your trade.

This. I was sure I had mine completely clean 3 times and was pretty resigned to wireless charging only before a hardened sliver of detritus dropped out. Back to working like new.

You know why

Well, I kinda had the impression peristalsis loads the cannon, so to speak, while pneumatics fire it.

I think the idea is one of them is convincing someone to not do something they still have the power to do, while the other would be taking that power away completely. There may be a truly foolproof way to disarm a weapon, but there will never be a foolproof way to convince someone of anything due to the unpredictability of people.

I guess a better analogy would be a guy with his beaten and bloody wife who is pleading for help from the officer, who just shrugs and says “Sorry, ma’am” before leaving. But the general idea remains the same.

That’s my reading as well. I have no idea what is actually in Article IX but it sounds like UAE snuck in “except us” when it came to defining the ICJ’s jurisdiction. It’s giving SovCit vibes, only instead of a sovereign citizen unbeholden to their government and declaring their house a nation state, it’s a country unbeholden to the world and declaring themselves outside of its purview. And the ICJ is just shrugging their shoulders saying the same thing.

Imagine someone shooting up heroin while driving, getting pulled over on a highway on-ramp, then telling the cop who is looking at the needle in their arm that technically this is a highway, so highway patrol are the only ones who could pull them over. In what world does the cop shrug and say “Aw shucks, you’re right” before getting back in their squad car and driving off? Because it seems like the international equivalent of that just happened but with genocide instead of addiction.

Finally, a meme here i can read. English may be Germanic but it does not feel like it when you look at a lot of German