Naturally, they arm wrestled

It would appear you’ve not fed him enough. The poor thing is reduced to a single back leg.

Adopt it

WW3 started two years ago

It’s not a proxy war between Russia and the US. It’s a proxy war between China and the US.

Russia and Ukraine are the pawns

I’m not an expert either and I could have predicted the invasion based on:

• huge buildup of troops in preparation for invasion
• 8 years prior they had invaded after saying they wouldn’t

So basically, any time a company lets people go that’s stealing, and you want there to be a court thing that judges whether any particular loss was due to mismanagement or “genuine misfortune”?

That seems like a pretty extreme response to high delivery fees don’t you think?

Making money by facilitating deals and delivery. Sounds to me like everybody wins.

They need access to a better place. I suppose they just get financially stuck in S Korea? Or do the move on to other countries too, more willing to give them a chance?

Every picture of Putin and Kim together just looks like an adult tricking a kid.

I take my consent from the dog. You’re its caretaker, friend, and family. None of that means the dog’s incompetent to decide and communicate desire to be touched.

edit: I should be more clear. I ask for permission from the owner. I say “Can I say hi to your dog?”

Then I say hi by putting my hand out to smell. Then if the dog wants a pet, I’ll pet the dog.

Permission to approach from the owner, but consent to pet from the dog.

What if I’ve frozen the dog in carbonite, and he fits in my carry-on?

Oh I thought yeast was a bacteria, huh.

Bonko me $20 and I’ll send you some

They named it after gazelle, which is a herd prey animal. That causes it to slip away from attention when it’s mentioned.

If they’d called in Bonko or something it would stand out in people’s memories more. Bonko, bright orange icon, it would spread by wildfire. Nobody would forget that name.

There are no hard consonants in the word. Synaesthetically, it’s a blue-purple word. Cool, muted. It’s a word that, even before the “gazelle” reference, is hiding there. Your mind slips over it without friction. It enters and leaves your mouth and your mind like a fish passing under the sparkling water, nearly unnoticed.

Terrible brand name. I mean, it does convey a little more safety than “Bonko” but the whole point with the unsafe sounding name is it causes the person to consciously ask “How safe is it?” and if you can answer that immediately with “Safer than Ft Knox” then it becomes part of the brand consciously.

Zelle is non-threatening, but that’s not the same thing as safe when it comes to business or finances.

What’s a good safe, energetic, competent, orange word for this service? Hmm. Bonus points if it’s intuitively self-descriptive.

How about “Paytag”. It’s yellow but whatever. Still might not be better than Bonko.

I got locked out of paypal for no reason I could discern from like 2007 to 2015. Can’t remember the exact dates but for years it was “I can’t use paypal any more because my account broke” and then finally after years if that one day it was “oh shit it work look at that”.

As far as I know, some alcoholic drinks have certain alcohol levels because those levels are the lethal levels for the fermenting bacteria used.

But there are different alcohol levels in brewed drinks, so either it’s not true or bacteria have a range of lethal temperatures.

90 time

People have the right to do as they please, even if it means choosing a path toward their own demise.

People aren’t unaware of climate change. Everyone knows about it. What you’re seeing is a manifestation of the average human’s ranking of climate change in their own list of things to be concerned about.

You have no right to tell someone that climate change is more important than the things they choose to focus on instead.

If you think they’re mistaken about what’s on the table, like they underestimate the danger or something like that, then the right move is to inform them. All this protest activity is implicitly based on the assumption people just sort of … forgot about climate change.

They didn’t. They just don’t prioritize it over the other problems in their lives. Which is their right.

Yeah as a result of this stunt, I googled the term “climate change” and holy shit! Why hasn’t I heard of this!

So glad they raised my awareness of climate change, which I hadn’t heard of before.