It’s like you put a voice to the part of my brain that gets annoyed when bloggers bring it up.

I remember first reading about it on the blogosphere and it blew up ever since then.

Seed pods give me the heebie jeebies and that’s about it. Probably an evolved aversion to bee hives and wasp nests that was useful once upon a time, just like spiders and snakes.

You don’t need to be sorry, it was still a great post ☺️

URU turned into a side project and still is one now and has been one longer than it was a main effort so technically you’re right 😅

Myst IV was made by Ubisoft Montreal. They had some heavy hitters on the team, Mary De Marle is an excellent writer and went on to do amazing things! Jack Wall, the composer that did Myst iii became a very productive video game composter.

URU wasn’t a side project, it was cyan’s big bet that nearly tanked the company. They had other side projects like a third party QA and testing department that kept them afloat. URU got cancelled before launching properly.

Myst V wasn’t meant to exist. After losing so much money on URU, Ubisoft pressured Cyan to put their unused assets from URU into a game that would sell. So they slapped it together with the Myst name that was more recognizable. The game plays and feels just like you’d expect.

Obduction was their big comeback and return to form. Myst-like game without the baggage of the old franchise.

Yeah they are relentless with their silly stuff.

I’m glad to see windscribe on this list. One of the best performing VPNs for Canadians.

Ok now I want to know where people live, if they have AC, what temperature their bedrooms are and how it effects their night water habits.

I’ve never tried keeping water by my bed at night, and chugging if I wake up in the middle of it now I’m night bottle curious 🤔

Like, will I feel magically hydrated and limber in the morning? Just another thing that I add to my routine to make me feel great in the morning?

I’ll update if I piss the bed.

Do people wake up in the middle of the night and drink a whole bottle of water? Am I missing something?

I’m usually like “don’t want to be warm under the covers and need to pee, I don’t dare hydrate past 9 pm”

Foundation is one of the few adaptations that I think benefits from it’s lack of fidelity to the source material.

I think they actually made these changes more in an attempt to make it good than poor writing or lack of respect for the source material.

I’ll be more pissed at apple not finishing the series than the writing or accuracy.

Tbh this isn’t a bad take. The books revolutionised science fiction writing and it deserves credit for that but that was 1942. They haven’t aged well. But nuclear powered everything is funny to read about from today’s perspective. I loved that the show actually mentioned nuclear powered ashtray as an Easter egg.

Asimov forgot to even acknowledge women existed until much later. So the show is less gender swap and more actually including women at all 😅

Omega mart in Las Vegas might come close?

Can’t think of large scale ones unless you include the rest of Las Vegas.

I used to think that as well.

But I took the saying “adopt and shop responsibly” to heart and looked up what a responsible breeder has to do to be considered one.

Genetic tests determine if the dogs have known genes that cause diseases. If one of the parents has a recessive gene for a disease that won’t express in the pups because the other parent doesn’t have it, you can keep dogs that have desirable traits like excellent personality, lack of anxiety and general health in the gene pool—helping to maintain genetic diversity while not passing down a disease.

The kennel clubs (CKC) have started helping to reduce inbreeding by keeping track of the lineage of dogs and avoiding inbreeding by calculating the coefficient of inbreeding. The COI is a metric used in dog breeding to measure the level of inbreeding in a dog’s pedigree. It is an excellent tool for an institution that used to inadvertently encourage inbreeding because they created standards. Can more be done? Yes, is this a step in the right direction? Yes.

It’s worth noting that genetic tests don’t know everything, they might only test for a handful of the 20,000 or so genes and we don’t know what all genes do, and some genes are benign in some breeds and dangerous in others. This is why x-rays and elbow and hip assesments of the parents are still important. It’s also why meeting the parents of you puppy is important. If you don’t like them, you won’t like their pups.

On top of that epigenetics massively impacts the behaviour of pups. This is especially true if the grandmother of a puppy had a happy stress free life. Yes, we now know that improvements from nurture not just nature can be inherited. Dogs with happy lives produce happy dogs.

A responsible breeder will have done all of this, as well as done early socialisation and desensitization for the first eight weeks of the pups and many more considerations like limiting the amount of times they use a dam. These tests and assessments would have cost them around $10,000 for the dam and sire.

I wrote this insane response because if typing this on a meme educated one person who might get a dog, then the world is just a little bit of a better place.

As cute as that sounds, for dogs, reducing separation anxiety is counterintuitive.

The more emotional both departing and returning is. The more it hurts them when you leave, the more separation anxiety develops.

In an ideal world, when you leave your dog for the day, saying nothing when going and a professionally distant “greetings puppy” when you return will reduce anxiety for a dog when left alone. This doesn’t work by itself; you have to teach them to be alone slowly and carefully.

This is like someone standing in Times Square saying, “I don’t go to New York or tourist destinations!”

Why are you here? How did you manage to get here?

“Coffee, Black.”

“Make it yourself!”

https://youtu.be/x9G2i8XWEOI?si=ff1GyBpuFJQjX0Yd

symbicort

It’s an inhaler corticosteroid and anti inflammatory often used for asthma but incredible for post infection cough.

If I’m ever sick and have a cough, this puts a stop to that symptom and recovery is so much faster. Don’t even touch any over the counter cough medicine over this imo.

Speaking of Pavlov, this exact tightening of a leash can lead to leash reactivity in a dog.

Leashes are a form of confinement for a dog, and without proper counter condition they can associate pulling or tightening a leash with negative feelings and can then apply those negative feelings to what they are seeing when pulling.

For example, you’re walking your dog on a leash and your dog sees another dog and wants to be with them therefore pulls. Pulling feels restrictive and eventually starts feeling bad when it sees other dogs while on the leash. These negative feelings can turn into aggression.

The way to avoid this is to find a high value thing that can be used to redirect the dogs attention in these situations. Usually treats. When you have training time try other exercises like pattern games: place a high value treat 20 meters away, walk with the dog on the leash towards the item they want. If they pull say “oopsie” in a happy tone and walk back to the start. They only get the treat if they walk by your side all the way to the object. The dog will quickly learn the pattern and will get a great reward for following the pattern. With enough training and exposure to new distractions with positive reinforcement they will be able to walk by your side no problem. Only do this exercise if you’re able to do it without stressing yourself or the dog. Also, don’t take internet advice, it’s best to get a trainer. Look for force free group training if your on a tight budget!

This is such a good reply! I didn’t see it before I posted despite it being older, must have been a fedi hiccup.

Just because your parents have dogs doesn’t mean they can offer a safe environment or know what to do with them. All the changes and the environment posed for your dog are incredibly stressful for the dog. Please be compassionate that your dog is going through more than you even though you literally broke your leg and probably experienced the worst pain in your life. Changes in living situations are the biggest adjustments for dogs ever.

Please don’t listen to people suggesting anything with the word dominance, pack mentality, wolf study, punishment or anything forcefull. All of that is guaranteed to make things worse.

A certified trainer (CCPDT and the various acronyms associated, the dog academy, anyone force force free) will get you on course faster than any website or book.

If you want your dog to make it out of this, your dog has to be a priority, make it your part time job.

My quick advice if you can’t afford a trainer and will only look up free internet advice from strangers:

Start with giving them something low value to chew on in a distraction free room. Have 10 minutes worth of super high value treats. When they are chewing the low value, walk up to them and give them the treat. Let them chew on the low value again. Repeat. Try for 10 minutes at a time. Adjust value of chew and treat so they don’t react when you walk up to them.

Next session, If they start wagging their tail when you approach. Try making it harder by taking the item for 1 second then, give them the treat then give it back. Ramp up duration or value of chew and items as progress is made

All of this has to be a happy and joyful affair. You are using a happy and friendly puppy voice the whole time. The dog has to feel good about this the whole time. So make sure you and the dog are in as good of a place mentally when doing it. This will all be harder if the dog doesn’t have other prerequisites like a leave it or drop it command.

There are so many ways you need to modify the above strategy for your particular dog that I can’t stress enough how valuable you’ll find a certified force free trainer to be. A vet check might also be suggested by the trainer. I think my advice is barely scratching the surface of what to do and how to do it, I haven’t even met your dog so what do I even know? Very little!

If you need proof that force free methods are a way, the AVSAB statements are quick and easy to read with tonnes of source citations: https://avsab.org/resources/position-statements/

This is incorrect.

Every reputable source and organisation recognize this pack and dominance theory as an outdated idea, especially for human animal interactions.

The American vetinary society of animal behaviour has very direct and well written statements on that and where the ideas came from and what the modern solutions are.

https://avsab.org/resources/position-statements/

God, I loved its brand of sci-fi weirdness. Season 2 was extra strange, and I was here for it.

I was sad it got cancelled, but I knew the world wasn’t ready for it