All efforts, great and small.

If you truly know something which you are not allowed to speak publicly about, you may be in a position to “do something” with that information.

Godspeed, and I hope I never hear about your exploits.

How could I not?

https://fedia.io/m/dogs@lemmy.world/t/1842011/CHICKEN-LEG

Nobody tell Little t that NORAD is a joint Canada-US operation.

Yes.

My experience with this one dog says that simplicity, consistency, and immediate reinforcement with rewards are absolutely necessary. We watched a whole lot of puppy training videos before bringing him home, they all said essentially the same thing.

I have also come to know that in the early training process, if the dog even barely does what you want, treat shower. You’re not only training them “how to do the thing,” but that “this is how training works.”

Arlo knows lots of words now, and lots of body language. Most of his communication to us is in the form of body language, and it can be very subtle. On the super obvious side, he has a mat/blanket in his crate, and he wants it to be straight in there. If it’s not, he’ll turn circles inside the crate for “fix it.” Or if we say “fix it” first, he’ll turn circles in response. That didn’t require any treat training, because he’s already self-motivated to have the straightening out of his blanket as the “reward.”

The only thing which has changed is the medium.

Ours has dogtism. He likes everything to be exactly the same every day. “Other people” are outside of that routine. I’m pretty sure that’s why he likes to do tricks for treats so much: because he knows what is expected and he knows what’s going to happen. I think that “packages” have become part of the “routine,” and that “barking until someone comes” is, too.

I’m really glad that I immediately set the rule “don’t lie to the dog.” He gets confused and frustrated when you tell him something (by words or action), he responds how he should to that thing, and then you don’t follow that with your expected behavior.

We’ve got a few different words for “things that go on outside the window.”

• Packages means someone has delivered something to the front door. Barking is desired until a human is present.
• Neighbors means it’s just someone walking on the sidewalk in front of the house, or across the street, or across the block. Barking is not acceptable.
• Are you tired? Because he loves his crate for a midday nap and going to bed at night (he gets to be off duty), this also works when we have visitors coming into the house. Being in the crate for a bit gives people time to come in and get ready for him to greet them. Adding some “do tricks for treats” after opening the crate gives him “good boy” things to do, which seems to keep him from being quite so jumpy on people. Then he gets to greet, and he’s pretty fine after that.

These mostly work, though he does still occasionally need help with “neighbors.”

Last Thursdayism is a philosophical idea that the universe was created last Thursday, but appears to be much older.

Next Thursdayism is a philosophical idea that the universe will be created next Thursday, appearing to be much older.

There was that woman who refused Little t’s J6 pardon, she’s redeemed. It’s not impossible.

Point being, if you want to take that path to redemption, it’s going to mean swallowing your pride, admitting your mistake, and demonstrating that you can do better.

… but you do have to give them “an out”.

There is a path to redemption. It’s there for anyone who wants to take it.

So far, “how was I supposed to know?” is the closest thing I’ve seen to a way to avoid embarrassment, so I think we’re going to have to let them have that one.

Nope. That’s not it. “You were supposed to know” because it was fucking obvious to anyone who paid even a little attention. Be embarrassed about that.

She’s not wrong. They will live like the 1800s. For a while.

“I’m totally fine with being hurt, as long as I think you’re hurting them more.”

Patch cables are stranded, spool cable is solid. Spool is good for between jacks and patch panels, less good for crimping RJ45 ends onto.

I love International Harvest.

So do I!

Not published to production yet, but if you have a github account, you can download the nightly which works.

https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube/actions/runs/13468043295

Nazis didn’t come around all of a sudden, either. People have always, on the whole, been horrible. What changes is what is culturally acceptable to talk about.

The fix for Freetube is in the works, should be available soon.

She took to TikTok and Facebook to share an old photo of her battered face and a screenshot of Schwartz’s sentencing, with the caption, “whether you agree with the J6 prisoners or not, myself and all the other women he beat on finally got some justice.”

Oh god why am I creating an entire super-racist holiday with even more racist traditions in my head