And it’s far out, man.

Which one of you mf’s is ashamed to call themselves a Social Justice Warrior?

I have. I’ve also driven home people like you. “Are you afraid of dogs” he says. I say I don’t fear any dogs. He laughs, cockily. He’s thinking I haven’t seen mastiffs. I have. I’ve also trained with some. (I wouldn’t say I have trained a mastiff, because I have given one their complete training, but I’ve done training with them, even attack dogs.)

Exactly. Wolves are pack hunters. You don’t really need to fear a lone one. And even if it is aggressive, as long as you stand your ground, it’s not that likely that it would attack. Basic canine behaviour. They’re coursing predators. If you turn your back and start running, even a lone wolf might get overwhelmed by their predatory instinct and attack you, and at that point, yeah, you’ll likely more or less done.

But if it’s a lone wolf, even if it’s hungry, and you stand your ground, open your jacket, have no fear and yell and growl, it’s more than likely it’ll just slink off.

uptiered prey that is often much larger than them, and for territorial reasons.

What on Earth are you saying? That if they weren’t forced to, dogs would be cats? Wolves are very sociable animals and often only survive in the harsh winters they are because of that.

I would be more afraid of a wolf pack obviously than a single hog, but we don’t really get wolf packs here. We only get the odd loner wolves who then due to lack of a pack sometimes end up attacking domesticated animals on the outskirts of town.

Anyways back to the guy who thought his dogs were really scary; it was a good long ride, like 90km, so a nice fare, and the I had a cigarette at his yard, because he wanted to see mt reaction to his dogs.

They’re weren’t actually the most sociable mastiff, pretty rude, the older bitch even snapping at me a bit. But again, I’ve been with animals since I was a kid and I know how to behave with them.

They came out and sniffed me out and did not want pets. That’s it. Not a huge story.

With a wolf we’d skip the sniffing upclose part probably. Although I wouldn’t avoid it if it was that close and seemed curious. (Is it stupid? Very much so. Do I know I would still do it? Yeah.)

Like the story shows, I’m also a taxidriver, and am much more afraid of picking up drunks than I would be meeting a lone wolf on a walk.

They’re completely different animals ofc, but a lot of people are afraid of horses due their sheer size. I wasn’t even 10 when I was riding and taking care of absolutely huge stallions. Their hooves were larger than my face, and I went into a small stall after riding them, a stall they could barely turn around in, and lifted their hooves to my lap and scratched them clean with pick and a brush. One time one bit me when I was tightening it’s belly buckle. (idk the correct term in English I haven’t ridden in years so dk proper English terminology). Like just a little “hey boy” bite, not a real “throwing that asshole across the room” bite. Which they could’ve done, as I was like at most a bit taller than the level or their genitals.

So yeah just because you might be scared doesn’t mean everyone is

I think the kid might’ve been avoiding hardware disease

They do that by feeding cows magnets.

(no but seriously 100 small magnets on purpose is something else)

I was like, wait a minute, that’s a really fast reply. But then noticed you actually wrote that 3 min ago. Which confirms I wasn’t just making up my memorised about this in the other comment! Yayy, Thanks

It’s impressive that you could.

I agree, and am honestly worried about it. It’s mostly to due with me occasionally having seizures and blackouts as well as having literally no life, so yeah, it’s kinda worrying sometimes when I feel like I can’t remember what happened a few days before.

Iirc this is some how about the guy needing to activate the dimension hopping thing or something. After you named them movie I got a little memory where the main character is very stressed that he needs to do that, but not for like personal enjoyment, but because it triggers the weird switching thing? Something along those lines? I can sometimes rouse the memories if someone reminds me, but then again I don’t know if I’m just making up bullshit as I go along.

And as someone who used to have great intuition, this is very bad for me. It’s like when they “proved” to House in House MD that he’d gotten one wrong and then he lost all his confidence. Except I have gotten a few wrong and need to improve my memory before I can get trust in my intuition back.

Oh yeah I’ve seen it when it came out. It was good though, apparently I’ve forgotten this scene.

I watch so much media that unless I’ve watched something several times, I can’t really recall anything that’s like older than two years.

Hell I’ve started rewatching all the previous seasons of the shows I watch as well. My brain isn’t as young as it used to be, going downhill already.

I’m having a hard time seeing how you’re not seeing how.

Well at least that’s a flared base.

But, uhm… context?

The point I’m making is that I believe that people who have mac skills will need to also learn Windows skills just because it’s so much more commonplace.

Just like lefties can be more empathetic on scale, because they have to face the disappointment of things not being designed for them (us, but I’m more mixed-handed than pure lefty).

It’s not about the orientation of the hand, but the phenomena surrounding having to orient your hand / use a certain hand in a certain way.

Just like I don’t believe that Mac as an OS is inherently changing the kids significantly.

Please do apply adequate scientific rigor here!

And to be fair, I don’t really know anyone who’s only ever used a mac for those exact reasons. We had a few kids in graphic design school be like “well I mostly use Mac as my personal computer is a mac”, so they weren’t as used to using Windows, since they hadn’t done it since school.

Like if you compared the linguistic capacity of people in the US, I’m pretty sure that no matter what you choose as the primary language, those kids will still know English (as we’re talking about USA here), and if they know English, then they’re at least bilingual, which has a lot of cognitive benefits. But you wouldn’t be saying that specifically speaking some specific other language makes the kids smarter.

Some languages might give certain advantages, like say some aboriginal language which doesn’t have left/right but always uses cardinal directions. Due to them doing that it’s insanely hard to confuse their inner sense of direction, even if you chuck them if a van and drive them around blindfolded.

So I’m not saying using Macs can’t have some such small specific advantage, but I doubt it, and think it’s just general adaptation skills, which do correlate with positive cognitive development.

Except unless you’re gonna train your own models, you really can’t avoid shit being put into it.

And as a personal rule, I generally avoid any blended cocktails with noticeable amounts of excrement in them.

Where on Earth do you live that hand grenades are available to children?

Because while I have tossed a bunch, it was one of the most secure boxes I’ve seen in my life, before we cracked it open and started tossing them, that is. (The chief didn’t want the hassle of returning them to storage so after training the conscripts and there being 75% of a box left, he just told me to toss them asap as he couldn’t be arsed to do the paperwork of returning them.)

My point is that arresting them is marginally less bad than just outright disappearing them (ie murdering them “in secret”, despite the sort off open secret nature of the business).

Mitchell and Webb - Four Candles

Shran: “pink skins”

Oh I never thought about that, that the “land of the free” has to ban tourism to Cuba. LOL.

“Well the metric version is”

Oh, so you’re just reconfirming you don’t speak English. Ok. Best of luck, we can try again in a few years. I can link you some Simple English channels if you’d like?

And you’re wrong.

Just because some niche unit uses metric prefixes doesn’t mean that that unit is “in the metric system” as language is used.

Learn to use language pls.

Weird how when you open that “metric system” link your pedantry is nowhere to be seen, almost as if by and large “metric” refers to the SI-system, isn’t it? Oh I’m sorry, you can’t answer that with “yes”, because it would mean that you stop pretending like you don’t know what I mean, which you simply can’t do.

Well, if I had to say something, at least she didn’t “fall out of a window”, but idk if that’s even a positive or a negative in this case.

I assume a positive since she’s a whistleblower?