Scent is how dogs (generally) primarily experience the world.

They don’t do this with other dog faces.

Because dogs don’t use their faces the same way that humans do

These same regions don’t activate in dogs to anything like the same degree when they see other dogs.

Probably because they use scent more than sight for being in tune with their own species.

LMAO

As someone who spends more free time with electronics and other more expensive stuff than newspapers, this would cause a big rift between me and my dog.

I grew up in Canada.

My high school English teacher let us choose books to write essays on from a selection of a dozen or so that he was intimately familiar with and could tell whether someone was BSing or not.

I don’t remember all of them, but I chose The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. I also remember reading 1984 in his class.

Napster programmers demographic, it seems at times! Lol

That, and the “banned from Reddit” demographic. Two major demographics.

What is grey, then?

40% of eligible voters stay home and cry about our unfair election system in the U.S . While feeling smug about letting unchecked fascism take over as a consequence.

Thankfully, they saved Palestine by not voting for Kamala Harris!

You can have social media accounts without explicitly sharing your personal information.

Yes, they can infer a lot of info about you. But you don’t need to use those accounts for sharing pictures of yourself, for example.

Not in the US, but my mom works for a really bad union whose greatest accomplishment seems to be giving employees paid 15-minute breaks every 4 hours or so.

The union talks big about protecting employees, but really only protects them the way that an HR department would.

That has nothing to do with what I said.

Along those lines, Kim’s Convenience! Except the last season when the writers gave up or something

If it were the only option, I’d gladly take it.

I rely on robots to do a lot of other things in my life, directly and indirectly.

Well, not many directly. But machines, definitely.

Definitely needed the /s there. I’m sure you saw the 3 or so other comments who were explaining why Valve are good guys, lol

Our fast food isn’t really fast, either. I’m not sure what the appeal is aside from known consistency, I guess.

I meant just making a spreadsheet and doing it manually. But if you have technical skills, you really just need to make a script that sticks data from your bank’s CSV files into a spreadsheet.

“impacts” has been in my vocabulary for as long as I remember, and it’s common to use it that way. The dictionaries even have that definition.

I’m not afraid of language evolving.

There are tools for nailing things and tools for killing things.

If it’s making you so angry, it might be better to just do it yourself.

It’ll also help you spend less because you won’t want to log all those little transactions

In Canada, our fast food obsession is making fast food as expensive as sit-down restaurants.

But it’s still cheaper because you aren’t expected to tip.

But the people at fast food restaurants and at sit-down restaurants are paid the same amount hourly, so it doesn’t really make sense. But we tip like Americans because culture and habit are hard to change.

But the fast food payment terminal still “gives you the opportunity” to tip

If media can say “slammed” to mean “said something about”, I can use “impacted” to mean “affected”. Especially when we have the word “impactful”.