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:

Bruh why is The Boulder tweeting this lmao

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

What is this, the Oldest House?

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.

Wild picture, that reminds me, did you know that in 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through a Torpolev Tu-95?

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.

Catapult vs trebuchet. The extra rotation point makes a world of difference.

Agree that the benefits dont quite outweigh the space issue though.

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’m sorry, 3000 reviews with a 5-star average just isn’t as convincing as 1000 reviews with a 4.6-star average. Brakktor the Unforgiving just seems like a better fit

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

Absolutely. Saved a copy for when it inevitably gets censored. This summation stuck out to me:

We often talk about MAGA as if it were a political disagreement. As if it were about taxes, jobs, or policy platforms. But what the research shows, across neurology, psychology, and political science, is that MAGA is something deeper: an identity reaction to perceived loss. It is fear rebranded as freedom. It is status anxiety rebranded as tradition. It is authoritarian psychology wearing the skin of patriotism.

This isn’t just a movement of bad ideas. It’s a movement of deeply felt insecurity, fused to a political figure who offers vengeance, not vision. And in that fusion, the need for power replaces the desire for truth. The need to dominate replaces the value of liberty. The need to feel morally superior replaces the capacity for self-reflection.

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

Hell, they’ll look them straight in the eye with greasy lips smiling wide and sincerely say, “Thank you.”