You need more urban foxes to prevent the spread of rodents and wolves to prevent the spread of deer. Both of those predators can curb or slow the spread of ticks and tick-borne diseases. A lot of rodents serve as tick highways to spread into new areas, which is how the lone star ticks are starting to really make their way into new regions.

CWD, a prion disease, is spreading through deer and elk out here in the west, but wolves are immune to it and other diseases.

I just store mine behind the front door. It really doesn’t get in the way!

Nobody really follows the Bible to the letter, especially with things like clothing worn, foods ate and all that. At the time, religions in general were a great way to teach people how to wash poop off their hands before eating, how to avoid foods with parasites, and not treat the lowest in society like absolute dogshit.

The real takeaways from the Bible are:

• Treat others with respect, humility and love

• A lifetime of goodwill can be squandered with one act of cruelty.

• You can be screwed up your entire life, but still be redeemed in the end by admitting that you screwed up and genuinely making amends where possible.

• If having gay sex was sinful, God wouldn’t have made it so fun. He put the prostate and clitoris there for a reason, after all. He made us in his image.

Growing up, everyone felt pity for them, as they grew up sheltered and not very well educated. In modern times, I feel like this has been magnified significantly.

I’d only do it if your kid was getting the absolute shit kicked out of them at school(s). Social media makes it extremely easy to get chain-bullied at multiple schools even with a transfer or two.

Modern glassholes

It’s always a safer move to wear protection. If you’re monogamous and your partner hasn’t had any illness recently, it’s probably safe to do raw if they do a good clean out first.

4.15, PNW, today. Typical range is 3.80 - 5.30

We’re a car-light household, so it doesn’t affect us too much. I still want better mass transit options, though.

Grey

It really depends. Can they see my flings and hookups and everything in real time over the course of my life? If so, I’ll need 30+ post-death years to get over the embarrassment.

You and me both. It’s especially fun when you work in multiple timezones and some also have standard or daylight time on top of that. Really adds a layer to that shit sandwich of 12 hour time with 12am/pm confusion too

Install some solar panels!

Fwiw, you can’t see the sunrise from a windowless cubicle anyways. You now get a bit more daylight after work!

Nice! And yes.

Definitely a tough situation. I hope things work out well for all of you. I’m also extremely curious about what animal John has for his fursona.

FWIW, I’m not too worried about John’s dating life. The furry community is pretty strong and cross-functional, and there’s a ton of hobby overlap with furries and other hobbies and sports. Especially if he’s bi, there will be others that he will meet, and he’s young. Hopefully his depression gets better.

I want to grab mgsv when it drops below $20. $20 for a 2015 title feels a bit steep.

I just don’t really know how it’s really going to work. Couldn’t you just design your own parts with one weird bit of geometry and the computer wouldn’t recognize it?

Like, I get you don’t want ghost guns, but it seems like the bigger prize is going after illegal and currently legal guns that are actually used in mass shootings. 3D printed stuff seems like small potatoes compared to the daily casualty rates.

I think the Valve era was pretty incredible.

Left 4 Dead, Team Fortress 2, Half Life + HL2, and Portal + 2 all pushed the genres forward or were utterly unique for their time.

I can’t think of any other dev ATM that was doing what valve was doing in the 00s and early 10s.

Definitely fine. I fill up my car like…once a month, if that.

Mine failed that way, yeah. Though I think it was user error after trying to repair a mouse that wasn’t designed to be serviced officially. All the rubber wore off the wing, so I had to disassemble and replace it with a generic part. The left and right clicks are a bit spongy now, and middle click only intermittently works now, but the mouse is grippy again. I wish more mice were actually repairable.

It’s annoying to have mice that break down and need to be repurchased instead of a few replacement parts. 90% of the mouse was fine.

I’d take my chances if I was 100% boned in a failing shuttle or space station. But yes, that would be a bleak re-entry.